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Japanese electronics giant Sharp is now selling its 3D-viewable Actius RD3D notebook computer capable of delivering three-dimensional images on its 15-inch screen -- without special glasses or additional software. The notebook, on sale for $3,299, is the first 3D LCD laptop on the market. While the ...
New growth in scorched earth might be the best metaphor to describe the state of the high-end router market at present. When the Internet was booming, a bevy of startup suppliers rushed to build the top-of-the-line network devices called core routers. It was thought that products operating at gigabi...
Sierra Wireless has announced a new line of phones that will use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The first of the Voq line of phones, which will include a flip-open computer-style thumbpad for text entry, is expected to become available in 2004, providing "compelling voice and data func...
PDAs are getting more and more powerful. But will superpowered PDAs eventually lead to the death of laptop computers? That's highly unlikely, at least according to many tech users who use both PDAs and laptops regularly. TechNewsWorld interviewed several people in the industry to get a feel for wher...
The rugged-computing industry -- which seeks to make computers compatible with environments that are at odds with delicate electronics -- is one of the fastest-growing segments of the mobile-computing marketplace. It is in this context that IBM has announced a line of ThinkPad notebook computers, in...
Microsoft's recent deal with Phoenix Technologies is aimed at "radical simplification to the PC and digital service industry" through enhancements to the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) -- the software that connects operating systems with hardware. Industry observers agreed that the next generation...
While fans of the Psion series of PDAs and palmtop computers have hailed the devices as the future of handheld computing, the Psion systems have caught on mainly in Europe, with the European market favoring a clamshell design and a thumb keyboard for its PDAs. However, Psion Teklogix -- a division o...
The iBOT mobility system, called the Ferrari of wheelchairs, is now helping disabled users break through physical barriers. The iBOT can climb stairs, bump up curbs, glide through gravel and even elevate a seated passenger to reach the top shelf at a grocery store. To help get the iBOT out on the ma...
Adding value to the original Zire handheld while still keeping its $99 price steady, Palm has introduced the Palm Zire 21, which has more software and a faster processor than the first version of the PDA. With four times more memory than the original Zire, the Zire 21 handheld's 8 MB of RAM adds roo...
In the ever-expanding arena of large-display technology, is plasma here to stay? "Plasma displays, I think, are a very awkward technology," James Jaskie, chief scientist at Motorola's Microelectronics and Physical Sciences Laboratory, told TechNewsWorld. Plasma display panels use emissive technology...
Apple did it. Gateway did it. Even HP did it. Now Dell is finally doing it. What's it doing? Getting into consumer electronics. Long viewed with skepticism by PC makers that wanted to cater to the business crowd, consumer electronics is poised to become a life buoy for companies with sagging compute...
Microsoft has announced it is releasing a beta version of Windows XP for AMD's new 64-bit processor. That's both good news and bad news for AMD. The good news is that Microsoft is showing significant support for the new processor by making a version of XP for it. The bad news is that Microsoft won't...
Linux remains overmatched in the 32-bit world on the desktop. There is just too large a base of Windows users and related applications for Linux to dominate the market in a reasonable period of time. However, transitions breed change, and the industry is about to take a big step into the 64-bit worl...
Technology's global impact is hardly limited to Internet communication and speedier business cycles. One uncelebrated truth about the information age is that hundreds of thousands of electronic items are disposed of daily -- and not always properly. Unfortunately, in spite of growing awareness regar...
Similar to the action toys of two decades ago, prototype ThinkPad notebooks from IBM can be transformed from the traditional notebook form factor to a disconnected desktop with a more comfortable keyboard and separate monitor. While the models, which Big Blue showed off at a trade show this week, ar...
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