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Sprint PCS and Samsung have jointly announced a new gaming accessory that will convert certain Samsung mobile phones into gaming devices. Called the PCS Game Pad, the add-on works only with Samsung's new A600 mobile phone, which was also released today in conjunction with the announcement. The phone retails for about US$350, while the Game Pad costs about $40.

Microsoft has revealed portions of its Windows source code to a dozen foreign governments as part of its Government Security Program Initiative, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) spokesperson Alex Mercer told the E-Commerce Times ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann told TechNewsWorld that ISPs must respond to the subpoenas under current DMCA law. The courts recently sided with the RIAA when Verizon challenged the subpoenas, but that case has been appealed Von Lohmann e...

IBM has announced that Japan's largest national research agency, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has commissioned the company to build what will be the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer ...

Part 1 of this article discussed the relative advantages and disadvantages of IBM's DB2 and Oracle's 9i software. However, IBM and Oracle, with their combined 70 percent market share, are not the only RDBMS vendors in the database race. Microsoft, the number three vendor, has seen tremendous growth in the last few years for its Windows-only SQL Server. In fact, a recent Gartner Dataquest survey reported that SQL Server captured 18 percent of new worldwide RDBMS software license revenue in 2002 -- nearly 17 percent more than in 2001...

A group of companies in the mobile technologies and devices industry has established a new standards body for mobile processor interfaces ...

Although databases have been a fundamental component of the enterprise IT stable for decades, they now seem to be multiplying faster than ever before, both in number and importance ...

For many businesses, the allure of no-name PCs, called "white boxes" in industry parlance, can seem almost irresistible. Today's typical white boxes are equipped with industry-standard Intel motherboards and processors, avoid the software incompatibility that used to plague even makers of name-brand PCs, and are usually cheaper than their branded counterparts...

Microsoft has released a security bulletin warning that a flaw in the DirectX graphic interface in a majority of Windows computers leaves users vulnerable to buffer overruns ...

Macromedia Flash technology garnered a somewhat shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively served as brick walls barring users from accessing a site's useful content ...

Sprint (NYSE: PCS) on Monday announced plans to offer PCS WiFi Access, a broad-based service that will let customers connect wirelessly to the Internet via either WiFi hot spots or its own Nationwide PCS Network ...

Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann told TechNewsWorld that almost 1,000 subpoenas already have been issued, and more are hitting ISPs daily. In addition, von Lohmann said, there are likely ISPs that are cooperating with the RIAA and supplying user names without being forced to do so by a subpoena...

PeopleSoft has completed its tender offer for ERP vendor J.D. Edwards. Both companies noted that PeopleSoft now owns 88 percent of J.D. Edwards' outstanding shares and will buy the remaining 12 percent by the end of August ...

Apple's new server OS, known as Panther, is slated to launch before year's end with new capabilities that will be "awesome solutions for an awful lot of customers," according to Apple server software director Tom Goguen ...

Bailey said that with almost all of the board's staff now gone and several key positions unfilled, the federal government has failed to implement its own strategy to secure the Net He did note that work by security associations and standards organizations is bolstering infrast...

In a sign that one of the main combatants in the browser wars is ready to lay down its arms, AOL has cut workers from its already shrunken Netscape division and has cut loose the Mozilla open source browser project ...

Many companies have scaled back staffing levels and instituted mandatory hiring freezes in the past few years, but these cutbacks have exacted a steep cost. In many cases, businesses now are facing skill gaps that hurt their IT departments. Even worse -- and somewhat surprisingly, considering the number of IT workers seeking jobs -- there is sometimes a shortage of qualified individuals to fill the gaps, even when money is budgeted for hiring...

Recently, for example, Intel announced plans to invest US$100 million in India, set up a software development center in Bangalore and expand its number of India-based staff members to 3,000. The company also said it will establish new development centers close to the fastest-growing markets for its products, in China, Russia, Eastern Europe and South America...

Here's an ad I'd like to see in the online personals. "Established $118 billion networker seeks respected microcomputer company for technology integration, product fusion, customer rollup. Must have own intellectual property, stable income, smart staff and a desire to conquer the enterprise networking market. Startups need not apply." ...

For many years, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have collaborated to make their products work together. Recently, for example, Microsoft chose HP ProLiant Servers as the development platform for Windows Server 2003 and the bulk of Microsoft's enterprise applications ...