Datamation Staff

A new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp’s dominant Internet Explorer. The program’s creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company’s trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to […]

You’re addicted to your iPhone – you have to check the e-mail, see how your stocks are doing, find out if it’s raining back home, and of course, read the hometown paper on the web. Naturally, it’s going with you on your overseas vacation. But using your iPhone outside can be expensive; there are stories […]

PodWorks, from Sci-Fi Hi-Fi, is an application that allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod (going all the way back to the original 5GB model) or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher. Since Apple only allows you to copy songs to an iPod or iPhone, this utility is […]

SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows. The world’s largest software maker said it plans to lower retail prices for Vista in 70 countries […]

Speed is important in all aspects of computing, especially with databases. The latest 8.3 release of the open source PostgreSQL database has speed and a kind of heat of its own in mind. It’s HOT, literally. HOT is an acronym for Heap Organized Tuples (HOT),but according to PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus HOT in […]

As the realization of a recession begins to sink in, we’re all faced with the reality that we are simply going to have to do more with less again this year. Clearly 2008 will be a challenging environment for corporate America. And while sustained top- and bottom-line growth will remain the main objectives for most […]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – More than a quarter of people who bought Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) iPhone are using them on wireless networks other than AT&T’s, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the U.S., a “stunning” number that will pressure the company’s business model, an analyst said on Monday. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A small Norwegian maker of Web browsers, backed by an industry coalition, has filed the first complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission since the software giant lost a landmark antitrust case earlier this year. Opera Software said it has complained that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) illegally ties its Web […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – IBM (IBM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday that it would buy Canadian business intelligence software company Cognos Inc (CSN.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) (COGN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) for $5 billion, following a wave of acquisitions in the industry. Investors had expected the deal, which represents a 9.5 percent premium to Cognos’s […]

By Scott Hillis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the world’s biggest microchip maker, unveiled fast new processors on Sunday made with new techniques that can etch circuitry nearly 200 times smaller than a red blood cell. The chips are the first in the world to be mass-produced with a 45-nanometer […]