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Microsoft has again decided to let Windows XP operating system live a little longer. This time, the software maker has given the OS a reprieve in order to sell preloaded versions of Windows XP Home Edition in ultra-low cost PCs. A relatively new and increasingly popular class of mobile computers, ul...
Adding another bump in the road on the way to WiMax, Sprint has delayed the nationwide launch of its Xohm WiMax network. The launch had been expected to happen this month, but now "it's not looking like it will be April," company spokesperson John Polivka told TechNewsWorld. "We have been working on...
At last week's Aging in America conference in Washington, attendees were greeted with multiple displays of technology aiming to help older people live better. A technological divide exists between the "oldest old" and the "recently old" baby boomers, but technologies developed for both groups may a...
Comcast is now delivering super high-speed Internet services to households in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. -- up to 50 Mbps, significantly faster than typical low-end broadband, which comes in at 1.5 Mbps or less. The new speeds come courtesy of the company's next-generation Data Over Cable Servi...
MySpace announced Thursday a joint venture with three of the world's four largest record companies -- Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music -- to launch a new online music service. The service will add new features to the social network's existing music portal, MySpace Music. MySpace Music will begin...
Yahoo has launched its next-generation mobile search service and also appears determined to get a jump on competitors by making it readily available to third-party developers. Yahoo's oneSearch 2.0, the new iteration of the company's year-old mobile search service, will deliver a number of improveme...
Using mobile devices running Windows Mobile operating system may become a little easier with the upcoming release of Windows 6.1 and a few changes to Internet Explorer Mobile that Microsoft plans to make. The software maker unveiled new versions of its mobile OS and Web browser this week at the CTIA...
Companies evaluating iSCSI are driven primarily by the need to lower the cost of their storage infrastructure. However, adoption of iSCSI storage solutions by large enterprises has been slow. A recent study by Aberdeen, surveying more than 140 organizations, provides evidence that iSCSI is now repla...
Intel on Wednesday unveiled the Centrino Atom family of low-power processors for mobile Internet devices. It also announced a new class of inexpensive, simple Internet-centric computers, called "netbooks," which will hit the market later this year, and new developments in other chip families. The ce...
Surface, Microsoft's newly developed touch-screen interactive tabletop display, will be available beginning April 17 in select AT&T stores, including those in New York, Atlanta, San Francisco and San Antonio The success of the initial appearance of the technology will determine how many of AT&am...
Early adopters are typically characterized as progressive risk-takers who have little to lose and much to gain. Following this logic, it makes perfect sense that within this crowd we find bot herders -- hackers who control a large number of compromised PCs for malicious purposes. Yet it's unsettling...
Google announced Monday it plans to take its Google Docs word processing application into unchartered territory -- offline. "We've taken another small step toward making Web applications accessible anywhere and everywhere. We're rolling out a way for you to edit documents in Google Docs even without...
The business use of e-mail worldwide has become so critical that the ever-increasing number of spam attacks containing malware are placing corporate and customer information at the highest levels of risk yet, according to an industry-wide survey Internet security firm Webroot conducted last month. W...
About 90 million people in the U.S. suffer from one or multiple chronic conditions, with diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory conditions having the highest prevalence. These conditions are also the most suitable for medical monitoring devices. Glucose meters and test strips are a multi...
The dangers associated with cell phones could far outweigh those tied to asbestos and smoking, an Australian doctor recently warned in a new report. In his paper, "Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors -- A Public Health Concern," Vini G. Khurana, a staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital an...
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