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Upscale gizmo retailer The Sharper Image has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection blaming three straight years of losses on declining sales and problems stemming from its much-derided Ionic Breeze air purifiers. According to court papers, the chain has been facing declining sales since 2004, and has posted losses during the last three fiscal years. As of January 31, the company claimed to have $251 million in assets and $1999… Read More

Anti-phishing group PhishTank, which is a service of openDNS and tracks phishing attempts on the Internet, offers information about phishing and ongoing scams, and offers an open API to developers looking to build phishing protection into applications, has released its phishing statistics for October 2006. Overall, the PhishTank community noted more than 7,000 suspected phishing attempts, of which almost 3,700 were verified and just under… Read More

IBM has a new podcast up which might interest those who are into DNA. Called “IBM and the Future of our Past”, it is part of a new series of IBM podcasts called “IBM and the Future of…”, which focuses on both general technology trends and IBM contributions in a variety of businessand technology areas.   "IBM and the Future of our Past" introduces the Genographic Project, a landmark five-year study… Read More

KiSS Technology, Inc. today announced that they will work with DivXNetworks, Inc., to develop a DivX Certified DVD Player optimized for the high-resolution HDTV playback of DivX video files. KiSS Technologies will demonstrate DivX Certified DVD players to major retailers at RetailVision North America, where DivXNetworks is an event sponsor. RetailVision is held April 26-29 at the Hyatt Grand Champion in Indian Wells, California. The… Read More

Providing North American retailers with a first-hand look at the most popular video technology since the introduction of DVDs, DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the revolutionary,patent-pending DivX video compression technology, will demonstrate a range of DivX video software and consumer electronics solutions at RetailVision North America, held April 26-29 at the Hyatt GrandChampion in Indian Wells, California. DivXNetworks will… Read More

The request came in an amended counterclaim filed last week striking back at SCO claims that IBM gave proprietary Unix code to Linux developers. Twice in a 47-page filing IBM asked federal magistrate Brooke Wells to issue a declaratory judgment absolving it of SCO accusations and calling off a trial set for April 11, 2005. Read more at USA Today.

These processors set a new precedent for world-class performance and breadth and scale of systems. This builds on the broad choice of software and operating systems and architectural strengths that have made Intel processors the choice for the majority of server deployments. “The combination of our two enterprise architectures has addressed the diverse needs of enterprise computing from top to bottom,” said Paul Otellini, Intel… Read More

Safari has become the browser of choice for millions of Mac® users and will be the default browser for all newly introduced Macintosh® computers, starting with the Power Mac® G5 announced today.Apple also released a software development kit that allows developers to embed the Safari HTML rendering engine directly into their applications. The fastest web browser ever created for the Mac, Safari re-energizes the browser category through… Read More

Nvidia has reached a broad agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that in return for agreeing to be a good boy in future, the stocks and shares regulator will not fine the company this time. The agreement, revealed in Nvidia's annual report, filed with the SEC on Friday, was tabled earlier this month. It is not a formal arrangement, and negotiations to finalise its terms could take weeks or months, Nvidia warned.… Read More