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There are increasing signs of weakness in the U.S. wireless voice market, with the average revenue per user (ARPU) for voice services dropping 8 percent during the last year -- and data services failing to make up the gap, according to a new report. The study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, "Wir...
As the first of my three-part report on this year's Consumer Electronics Show, I'll focus on the big companies and a number of the cool products that were announced early in the show. Next week, Part Two will loop in the late announcements and contrast what happened at MacWorld the following week. I...
Microsoft has pulled a well-known Chinese blogger's site off the Internet -- a dramatic reminder that doing business in the booming Chinese economy comes with significant strings attached. Microsoft removed the blog of Chinese journalist Zhao Jing from its MSN Spaces service at the end of December, ...
Sure, it will be great to have another alternative to iTunes. Urge -- Microsoft's answer to Apple's music store behemoth -- looks ready to go head-to-head with more than 2 million tracks for purchase and an all-you-can-download subscription option. The Xbox 360 also promises to entertain gadget junk...
After Intel announced its new "Leap Ahead" branding effort to go along with its Viiv technology, it was inevitable that chip contender AMD would soon parade its own digital entertainment initiative. AMD did so at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, touting its "Live" offering, which a...
Next year's holiday season will be different in at least one small way than it was in 2005: The U.S. government recently mandated that financial institutions enhance their online security systems by supplementing the traditional technique of passwords and user IDs with another form of user authentic...
Consumers will no longer have to fiddle with headphones and a microphone to make free Internet telephone calls, experts tell TechNewsWorld. Skype, the global Internet communications company, this week introduced a new USB phone adapter that allows regular consumers to use their existing corded or co...
Intel may still be "inside" but the chipmaker is taking a leap ahead in the New Year with a new branding strategy. That is, Intel is adding to its ubiquitous brand "Intel Inside" with a new tagline: "Leap ahead." Intel is expected to formally announce the changes on Tuesday as part of a move to mark...
You've come a long way, baby, at least according to a study released yesterday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, "How Women and Men Use the Internet," reveals women are catching up to men in overall Internet use and framing their online experience with a greater emphasis o...
Adding another page to the growing list of TV shows debuting in new formats, Yahoo announced yesterday that it is teaming up with CBS Television to air free episodes of two of its popular prime-time comedies. Yahoo TV began presenting the network sitcoms, "Two And A Half Men" and "How I Met Your Mo...
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed three major music labels as yet another controversy in the digital-music industry unfolds. The subpoenas are in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital-music downloads. Werner Music Group on Friday confirme...
With a spate of headlines that demonstrate the importance of the Internet as a lever for political and social issues, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Austrian birthplace of Graz is making a name for itself in a new way: political critic. It started when Schwarzenegger asked that his name be removed from a s...
A Christian evangelical group is suing Google for allegedly infringing on its trademark. Jews for Jesus, which publishes several evangelistic Web sites in its mission to reach Jews, is claiming that a Web log hosted through the search giant's Blogspot service is harming its reputation. Google's Blo...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week claimed the CAN-SPAM Act has cut down on the number of unsolicited spam e-mails reaching consumers, indicating the legislation and improved anti-spam technology have resulted in less spam this year compared to 2003. The FTC also announced a cross-border s...
Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking. But, as any savvy technologist...
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