Paul Mah

Gizmodo has a piece which alleges that a new multi-touch device (aka a multi-touch mouse) that extends the iPhone concept into desktop computers might be on the horizon. Extrapolating from a recently filed patent at the U.S. patent office, it seems to have a transparent shell with a light source that will illuminate it from the …

Hot from Bloomberg, SAP AG, the world’s largest maker of business-management software, has came clean and admitted it made “inappropriate” downloads of Oracle’s documents, in response to a lawsuit that claims it stole files belonging to Oracle. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter Catch up on the latest tech innovations that are changing the world, …

ZeroPaid has a new report on an alleged attempt by MediaDefender Inc, self-touted as the “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention industry,” of launching a new Web site that attempts to what amounts to an entrapment operation. After being Slashdotted, the site in question, “MiiVi,” has apparently been taken down. A simple …

According to a report by Techworld, it appears that Sony has filed for a U.S. patent on a liquid airbag technology for electronics, in particular, hard disks. While the use of liquids to absorb shock has been suggested before, Sony’s engineers are confident that their version is more effective and will be able to absorb …

Even though Microsoft’s Windows platform is still the dominant platform for application developers, it is losing traction as far as North America is concerned, according to the results of an Evans Data survey released on Tuesday. In a survey involving more than 400 developers and IT managers in the United States, it was found that …

It looks like Intel is working on an anti-cheat technology, although this is only a research project at the moment and hardly ready for prime time. The concept is simple: A chipset records all input from the keyboard and mouse at the hardware level — the game also does the same. If the two doesn’t …

Microsoft is current beta testing free data storage for end users as part of its new Windows Live hosted services. Assuming all goes well with the 5,000 beta testers currently trying it out, Windows users could well be receiving the invitation to sign up for this free service by this fall. Subscribe to the Cloud …

TechRepublic blogger Paul Mah takes you on a tour of CommunicAsia.

Sun Microsystems president and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at a company event, said that Sun’s ZFS file system will be “the” file system for Apple’s upcoming Leopard version of Mac OS X. This has stirred up some debate over whether he misspoke about whether ZFS will be made into the default file system as opposed …

Oracle has just released its newest installment of the Oracle Lite 10g product line in the form of Release 3. The key features added in this iteration are automatic synchronization, as well as a broader range of platform support. In terms of platforms, support has been added for client database on Windows Mobile 5, Windows …

Intel has teamed up with Asustek Computer, the Taiwanese circuitboard maker, to mass market a $199 notebook computer. This competes squarely with the “XO” made by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child Foundation), which runs on Linux and uses an AMD processor. You can read more about the XO here. Subscribe to the Innovation Insider Newsletter …

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name “Orcas,” will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will become available later this summer and will include a new feature known as the Visual Studio Shell. Subscribe to the Developer Insider …