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The iPhone continues to do well for a device of its price and class, but the product that is likely to really break open the segment for Apple is the anticipated lower cost, more limited, smaller nano offering. The product in the market that is most similar to what the nano is likely to be is the Ne...
Not content to win the hearts and minds of gamers, Sony is apparently aiming to take over living rooms around the world by adding digital TV tuner functionality to its currently underperforming PlayStation 3 game console. The revelation came in an interview with Warwick Light, sales and marketing ma...
Some laser printers release minute particles into the air that can become lodged into the deepest parts of the lung, possibly causing serious illnesses, according to scientists studying indoor air pollutants at offices. The findings were reported in a study published in the American Chemical Society...
Summer is typically a quiet time, as the industry takes a breath prior to the back-to-school rush. This year was a bit of an exception, with the launch of the Apple iPhone, which may get credit for revolutionizing much of the tech and consumer electronics industry. While sales are well below expecta...
You don't need Microsoft's high-powered marketing staff or sophisticated statistics to know where the power currently lies in the portable media player market. Very simply, the score reads something like this: Apple's iPod, 100 million units shipped; Microsoft's Zune, 1 million. Yes, the iPod entere...
This last week, I was introduced to a Linux-based PC that has the potential to out Apple by using a combination of open source software, Linux and Web 2.0 concepts. I revisited another product that I think could free us from image management and enable us to use whatever PC we want, at work or home,...
Get ready for easy-to-use home servers. With Monday's release to manufacturers of the long-awaited Windows Home Server software, vendors will be putting the devices on the market this fall. There once was a time when homes with more than one PC were rare. However, now a modern household can have mul...
EMC, a maker of information infrastructure technology, launched a new lineup of storage systems and software designed to aid business users of all sizes securely and intelligently store information in a more cost-effective manner. The new systems range from entry-level devices to high-end. EMC has k...
Ever pushing the computing speed limit, Intel says its new Core 2 Extreme mobile dual-core processor is the world's highest-performing notebook chip. The company, in announcing the new processor, said there is a big demand for high-performance processors for notebooks being used by "hardcore gamers,...
Last week should have been a bigger week than it was with E3, but that show is now a shadow of what it once was, and many of us struggled to pull anything meaningful out of the event. There are simply way too many lazy game developers right now, and I think that could kill this market. Sony continue...
Boldly claiming "the future of PC navigation starts now," peripheral vendor Logitech has unveiled a laser mouse that uses motion-control and wireless technology so users can click, scroll and perform other control functions while holding the unit in the air from across a room. The new Logitech MX Ai...
Cisco Systems, EMC and Microsoft have formed an alliance to facilitate the protection and sharing of sensitive government information. The Secure Information Sharing Architecture Alliance, which also includes Liquid Machines, Swan Island Networks and Titus Labs, aims to develop IT architectures that...
Let's just say the iPhone is the best generation-one product I can recall in the tech market -- ever -- in terms of hardware design and execution. But, much as Japan did in World War II, Apple merely stung the heck out of a number of big companies -- and most of Asia as a geographical region. It was...
Years ago, endurance athletes spent a big chunk of their training energy mapping routes, measuring distances and figuring paces. That's because the only way to determine how long and fast they were running or cycling was to drive the distance in the car to establish mileage and then time the workout...
Amazon.com and Microsoft have come together to launch the 1,000 Indies Project, in which the online retailer will sell independent films in the HD DVD format via its CustomFlix DVD on Demand service. The venture, according to Microsoft, is designed to lower the barriers to entry for filmmakers to pr...