IBM, Cisco team up to kick start corporate VoIP

IBM, IT supplier to the world's biggest corporations and Cisco, the manufacturers of much of the internet's infrastructure has signed a deal to develop corporate grade VoIP. The companies say that they will introduce new services and products aimed at kick starting the market for corporate VoIP. IBM also says it will be offering its consultation services to support Cisco's voice, video and conferencing products. ...more

Bertelsmann called to stop Nazis on Napster

The media giant Bertelsmann has been urged by Germany's internal security agency to stop the dissemination of Nazi-related material. It's the music of extreme right-wing bands being swapped via online partner Napster that is now in the spotlight. There has been a mixed response from Bertelsmann. ...more

AltaVista, MSN beef up search sites

Two of the Internet's leading search sites have been upgraded this week. AltaVista has improved its multimedia search while MSN has streamlined the beta of the next version of MSN Search. AltaVista has expanded its multimedia index to include 240 million still images, video clips and audio files. ...more

IDF Fall 2006: Intel confirms November quad-core release

At the first full day of the Intel Developer Forum Fall 2006, Intel has completely taken the wraps off its first quad-core chip and announced availability in November. The chip, previously codenamed Kentsfield, is now officially called the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Being composed of two separate dual-core dies in one physical package, the new offering will run at 2. ...more

NVidia to design new GPU for Sony

Graphics chip specialist NVidia has revealed that it has received a contract from electronics giant Sony to come up with a new graphics processor. Marv Burkett, NVidia's chief financial officer told financial analysts. 'We have new contracts with Sony to do some further designs'. ...more