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This last week I spent some quality time at HP, and I'm frankly amazed at what the PC team has been able to accomplish in terms of overcoming what I've termed the "Big Company Disease." However, as I watched them struggle to create the best user experience on the planet, one that exceeded what Apple...
If you think the Apple iPhone is cool, wait till you see the Nuvifone that Garmin announced Wednesday in New York. It combines GPS, mobile phone, still and video camera, and MP3 and video player functionality with Internet access capability. Or it will, anyway, if Garmin can stick to its announced l...
YouTube has amped up its catalog of videos accessible by mobile phones around the world. Now users of more than 100 million devices can access tens of millions of YouTube videos on what YouTube is calling the "largest repository of mobile video content available." YouTube for Mobile, which is access...
Microsoft recently announced RFID enablement for its BizTalk Server software and numerous supporting RFID partner companies. These announcements and the use cases and solutions resulting from them reflect Aberdeen Group research, which shows that 62 percent of survey respondents now cite data integr...
Polymer Vision, a Philips spin-off, announced Tuesday the upcoming availability of a combination mobile phone and e-reader with a with a five-inch rollable display. Dubbed "Readius," the device provides users with the functionality of an e-reader in a highly mobile cell phone-sized package, the comp...
I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop. I personally think the impact of the improvements to Apple TV and seemingly Apple-led m...
A new technology using silicon nanowires boosts the ability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to store a charge by as much as a factor of 10, according to research conducted at Stanford University. The findings are published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The technology cou...
The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD may be settling down at last, but in the mobile TV arena another competition is just getting under way. Two different mobile digital television technologies will enter testing this year, each backed by a different set of vendors. In one camp, there's the A-VSB p...
Having unwillingly ceded Web search leadership to Google, Yahoo is not about to also let the growing world of mobile services slip through its fingers. The Internet veteran chose the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show to announce a number of mobile initiatives, including a decision to open...
Meraki, a wireless mesh network startup with dreams of bringing Internet access to developing countries, announced Friday that it will expand its "Free the Net" program, currently available in a few San Francisco neighborhoods, to cover the entire city and create a free municipal WiFi network. The M...
Change may no longer be the only constant; danger is proving omnipresent and therefore a constant variable in enterprise IT planning. "In today's world where a shooter can walk in the front door of a church and open fire, there is really no place that is safe," Henry Dewing, analyst at Forrester Res...
At least two studies have shown that cell phone use while driving quadruples the risk of an accident. Now, a new study reveals the negative impact cell phones have on traffic -- even when no accident occurs. Drivers chatting on cell phones move about two miles per hour slower than those who give the...
Tomorrow we start the New Year, and for those of you who aren't still in line to buy a Nintendo Wii, it is looking to be a good one. I'm having my doubts about Apple though, as it would seem success is going to their head as they put Think Secret out of business, and I and a lot of others were trick...
It's Christmas Eve, and you're probably thinking more about what you are going to open tomorrow than anything else, so I was tempted to keep this light. However, I was pulled onto a TV news program to talk about what may be the most dangerous prank of the year and I want to make sure you and your fa...
Online content creation is an increasingly popular pastime among American teens, but there are sharp differences in the media preferred by boys and girls, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. A full 64 percent of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engage in at lea...
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