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Logitech unveiled and demonstrated its Logitech Revue Google TV controller in New York on Wednesday. The device is a box that plugs into a TV sets via an HDMI port, along with a keyboard controller that appears to be about the size of a full-sized PC keyboard. Logitech also offers several accessorie...
Being tethered to a computer all day is bad for employees' health and for employers' profits, considering healthcare insurance premiums climb and productivity declines with every worker malady. The latest scientific evidence finds that productivity is reduced even when it appears to be unimpeded. Wo...
Defying expectations that it would announce a complete site redesign, a new integration agreement with Skype or even a phone of its very own, Facebook instead unveiled a revamped groups feature on Wednesday, along with new tools to audit how apps are using personal data and to download all of a user...
Motorola announced six new smartphones running the Android operating system on Tuesday at the CTIA conference and show in San Francisco. These include the Droid Pro, an Android-based business smartphone that will run on Verizon's network. Verizon will also carry the basic Citrus smartphone, which is...
Those guiding a major IT transformation will find their jobs easier -- and be rewarded with better results -- if they adhere to 10 best practices, or "commandments," along the way. The first five: 1) The program management office must be independent and empowered; 2) Methodology must be clearly defi...
Facebook is holding an invitation-only press event on Wednesday. The brief announcement -- that is, the prelude to the actual event -- has thrown the social media and blogosphere rumor mills into overdrive. What, the burning question is, will Facebook announce? Much of the speculation has centered ...
Google has announced more content providers for Google TV, which it introduced in May. While many of Google TV's content partners are major names -- HBO, TNT, CNN -- the three major networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, are so far not part of the mix. Turner Broadcasting is optimizing websites for viewing on ...
Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for what the committee described as "groundbreaking experiments" on graphene. A sheet of graphene is just one atom thick, works as a superb conductor of electri...
Web 2.0 -- everyone's favorite 2007 buzz word -- heralded the age of social networks and powered a fundamental shift in the Web: filtering out excessive noise while building connections to friends, organizations and communities. Creating a Facebook profile became a way of passage to keep up with fri...
Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional images without the need for glasses. The new Glasses-less 3D Regza GL1 series was unveiled at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Tokyo. They use technology similar to that employed...
Microsoft has taken Windows Live Essentials 2011 out of beta, and the online suite is now available for download. The suite works only on Windows 7 and Vista; it is not available on Windows XP. Dell will be the first global PC manufacturer to ship PCs with Windows Live Essentials 2011 and Windows 7 ...
The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly th...
Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced "weppy") reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims. Images make up 65 percent of the bytes transmitted per Web page, according to Google. WebP was designed to improve the c...
The very nature of humanity has been changed by the nature of modern work. Where once workers were lean, muscled and tan, now they are pudgy, stooped and wrist-warped. The problem comes from restricted movement over long stretches in the day. Computers have chained employees to one spot, effectively...
Planet Gliese 581g, the so-called Goldilocks planet whose discovery was announced earlier this week, may help prove Earth is not the only habitable planet in the universe. One reason for that is because it was so readily discovered -- scientists found it after looking at only nine nearby stars. "Pla...
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