Articles by Renay San Miguel

All together now: The Beatles are getting their own video game If you're of a certain age, then the idea of playing a "Rock Band"-esque game featuring the Fab Four's music will almost certainly make you twist and shout. The big question for Harmonix and MTV Networks -- the makers of "Rock Band," which on Thursday announced a partnership with Apple ...

The scenarios jump right out of a Brad Thor or Vince Flynn technothriller novel: Terrorists, using the microblogging service Twitter in conjunction with Google Maps, cell phone video and global positioning system technology, stage an ambush on troops in Iraq or coordinate an attack in an American city. Another terrorist uses Twitter and cell phone video to help remotely detonate a bomb. Yet another terrorist strikes up a Twitter conversation with a U.S. soldier to elicit valuable information...

The vote is set for Nov. 4, and the activism is approaching historic -- some say hysteric -- levels. Phone calls, e-mails and press releases are flying in attempts to sway opinions; there are charges and countercharges of questionable political tactics and quotes taken out of context, along with a little name-calling McCain vs. Obama? Try the Natio...

The to-do list for the modern family: E-mail grocery list to hubby....

The Federal Communications Commission continues to receive plenty of static from both sides of the television white space debate Last month it was Google cofounder Larry Page raising allegations of rigged FCC testing of white spaces prototype devices....

One of the books that had a big impact on me during my larval stage as a journalist was Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks. The memoir was of Rather's experiences as a truly trailblazing and courageous TV reporter, not Rather the lightning-rod anchor with the southern-fried election night phraseology Here is local Houston reporter Rather clinging...

The new film "Flash of Genius" may be based on a 1960s case of patent infringement, but its David-vs.-Goliath story involving independent inventors going up against monolithic corporations continues to spin off sequels well into the 21st Century, says a Minneapolis-based patent attorney. And while the movie uses the automotive industry to tell its tale of innovation, obsession and redemption, the new dramas are being played out on the e-commerce and Internet search stages...

While the communications industry waits for the FCC to fill in the blanks on a white spaces policy, the commissioners are going forward with another plan that would provide free wireless Internet access throughout the U.S Late last Friday, the commission released a report showing test results on claims that opening up a narrow part of the spectrum ...

A research report is throwing more fuel on the prerelease fire surrounding T-Mobile's G1 phone using Google's Android open source operating system. "Success for Android has Little to Do with User Acceptance," claims the ABI Research headline, and director Kevin Burden writes that Android can help sell a lot of smartphones only if carriers and manufacturers "recognize the value to their own business models of using standard platforms."

When does an iReport give CNN's credibility a black eye? When its citizen "journalism" about a Steve Jobs heart attack turns out to be phony It takes a lot during this Autumn of the Economic Meltdown for an individual company's stock woes to break out from the pack, but an Oct. 3 iReport on CNN.com claiming that Apple's CEO had been rushed to a hos...

"No scripts, no teleprompter here, no real structure and no Britney Spears," says anchor Heather Nauert on a Sept. 25 edition of Fox News Channel's "Strategy Room." Then again, who needs Spears when you've got five stunning examples of Fox's now-famous efforts to recruit attractive females, all sitting around a table chatting with much energy about Congressional efforts to bail out the country's economy...

Companies hoping to dial up international business with China may have yet another reason to think twice about privacy concerns, following new revelations that the Communist country has been spying on Skype-based phone calls and text messages Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto-based security and human rights research group, partnered with several...

The weekend media spotlight was on the heated Congressional negotiations that produced a financial bailout bill, which promptly went nowhere. But hidden somewhere in the static of dealmaking, rhetoric and counteroffers was a strong signal of support for Internet radio The Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 passed the House on Saturday and was schedul...

Maybe everybody involved in the debate over wireless spectrum white spaces should give each other a little, well, space, if the acrimonious comments broadcasting from Washington, D.C., this week are any indication Google cofounder Larry Page contributed to the high-stakes static during a speech Wednesday sponsored by the Wireless Innovation Allianc...

I was a technology reporter for CNBC during the boom years of 1997-2000, when the only inflation that was going on was the air being pumped into the tech bubble by day traders I lost count of the times when I would start my workday at the old network headquarters in Fort Lee, N.J., only to watch the Nasdaq jump by 100 points within the first half-h...

She wasn't the first person to be sued by the music industry for illegally sharing digital music files, but Jammie Thomas was the first to go to court in the ongoing battle over copyrights, consumers and charges of piracy The 30-year-old single mother from Minnesota lost the first round last October, but Wednesday a federal judge threw out her conv...

What do Metallica and SanDisk have in common? For both, the memory remains. The metal band was singing about faded rock stars trapped in their glory days. The data storage company, however, is hoping that music-filled 1 GB microSD memory cards will lure in consumers who fondly remember when their favorite songs were purchased on albums preloaded o...

Sergey Brin had his own genetic code Googled by his wife's DNA testing company. The results, revealed in the first posting of the Google cofounder's new blog, show that he carries a gene mutation that predisposes him to Parkinson's disease "This leaves me in a rather unique position," Brin writes in his blog, Too. "I know early in my life something...

Amazon pioneered the magic in e-commerce by allowing people to shop for books and music online. Its latest business moves, however, have involved building an infrastructure that allows companies to weave their own Internet spells for customers via online storage, Web services and cloud computing Thursday's announcement of a new Amazon content deliv...

It reads like another Hollywood sequel. In fact, please try to imagine the late, great movie trailer voice-over artist Don LaFontaine intoning the following copy: In a world gone digital, now comes another tale of big companies joining forces to take on media pirates and a giant named Apple. From some of the same people who brought you the Digital ...