Articles by Jennifer LeClaire

If Henry Ford were alive today, his jaw might very well drop to the floor Though Ford's cars were innovative for the time, the automaker probably never could have imagined that the company that bears his name would one day ink a deal with Microsoft for hands-free Bluetooth technology in-vehicle operating systems. Ten years from now, it may be diffi...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...

In the first major move since its acquisition of BellSouth, AT&T is folding the 6-year-old Cingular Wireless brand name into its 100-plus-year-old telecommunications brand AT&T purchased all rights to Cingular with its US$86 billion acquisition of BellSouth last month. Beginning Jan. 15, the company will launch a new multimedia campaign to transiti...

In a testimony to the subscription-based video game model, Blizzard Entertainment on Thursday announced that "World of Warcraft," its massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), has reached the 8 million subscriber mark "World of Warcraft" has also achieved new regional subscriber milestones, with more than 2 million players in North A...

Sony Computer Entertainment is backpedaling on a Monday announcement that claimed award-winning status for its Sixaxis wireless controller for the PlayStation 3 As it turns out, the video game maker did not win a Technology and Engineering Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) for Sixaxis....

In the latest development in the Hewlett-Packard boardroom spying scandal, U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan on Wednesday filed criminal charges in San Jose, Calif., federal court against a private investigator accused of illegally accessing a reporter's private phone records Bryan Wagner was charged with federal identity theft and conspiracy charges. Pr...

Eons, the media company launched by Monster.com creator Jeff Taylor, on Tuesday unveiled a search engine aimed at baby boomers and seniors Dubbed "Cranky.com," the age-relevant search engine is designed to deliver targeted search results to users who are over 50 years old. It combines expert reviews with user ratings and rankings to come up with re...

The average person spends nearly an hour a day driving to and from work, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So-called "extreme commuters" spend four hours or more -- that's the equivalent of spending over a month per year sitting in a car Long commute times are one factor driving the demand for technology-based accessories, and accessory manufact...

Visa and Nokia on Tuesday launched a mobile payment platform that aims to turn digital devices into digital wallets The system allows consumers to swipe a phone across a credit card scanner, which then reads the credit card information on a microchip that is embedded in the handset. Customers authorize the purchase by pushing a button on the handse...

In the midst of a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that has featured a slew of high-definition (HD) products and announcements, Warner Home Video unveiled its "Total Hi Def" disc late Tuesday The company boasts support from major retailers for its innovation, which it hopes will alleviate consumer confusion over whether to purchase DVDs and players ...

Eons, the media company launched by Monster.com creator Jeff Taylor, on Tuesday unveiled a search engine aimed at baby boomers and seniors Dubbed "Cranky.com," the age-relevant search engine is designed to deliver targeted search results to users who are over 50 years old. It combines expert reviews with user ratings and rankings to come up with re...

Appearing to hedge it search bets, electronics giant Samsung on Monday announced partnerships with competing search engines Google and Yahoo Samsung will preinstall mobile search software and services from the two leading search engines on millions of its mobile phones....

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took center stage at International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Sunday night in Las Vegas, kicking off the computer industry's largest annual convention with a keynote speech that described what he called the "Digital Decade." Gates was quick to cite plenty of stats to back up his assertions: more than 2 billion dig...

Apple may well unveil a set-top box bearing the name "iTV" at this week's Macworld Conference and Expo. However, Netgear beat Apple to the punch with its Sunday debut of a new hardware media receiver and a content partnership with BitTorrent At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Netgear Monday announced its Digital Entertainer HD media rec...

Hitachi on Friday announced a pair of 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives and a new software technology targeted at digital video recording (DVR) applications. The one-two disk drive punch aims to tap into what the company sees as users' insatiable desire for storage Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive targets consumers who want to create, share and store...

SanDisk on Thursday took the latest swing in its memory match against Samsung with the introduction of a 32 GB, 1.8-inch solid state drive drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive SanDisk's latest NAND flash-based SSD counters Samsung's Wednesday announcement that promised 16 GB memory and advanced 50-nanometer process techn...

In another move toward digital movie distribution, Hollywood studios on Thursday announced they are backing a new technology that will make more movie titles available for consumers to download from the Internet and burn to DVD Sonic Solutions' industry-approved system, a licensing and certification solution called Qflix, aims to overcome a major o...

The Blu-ray versus HD DVD battle is headed to Las Vegas, with new high-definition products rolling out at International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) next week. However, at least two manufacturers are extending an olive branch, of sorts, in the form of hybrid products LG Electronics on Wednesday said it plans to sell a DVD player that will play b...

An online movie distributor on Friday filed suit against Apple, Google and Napster for alleged patent infringement. The plaintiff, Intertainer, claims the companies are treading on its intellectual property by infringing on a patented method for distributing digital entertainment over the Internet The trio of technology titans are tapping the tech...