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As the iPod world held its breath Tuesday in anticipation of Apple's mysterious press event scheduled for Wednesday, a Microsoft executive indicated that the competing Zune platform could soon include a phone. Speaking at a Citigroup global technology conference, Mindy Mount, chief financial officer...
Palm has decided to cancel the current iteration of its Foleo product, an ultralight Linux-based "mobile companion" device that had analysts scratching their heads when it was first announced. In a post on the Palm blog, CEO Ed Colligan told readers that he has decided to cancel Foleo mobile "in its...
A group of New York City taxicab drivers kept their cars parked Wednesday to protest the forced installation in their vehicles of devices that use GPS positioning and allow credit card payments. The 48-hour strike, urged by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, began at 5 a.m. Reports varied about the...
A new service from AT&T aims to give parents more control over their children's cell phone usage, the company announced Tuesday. AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless is a Web-based service that allows a parent to set usage limits on a child's talk time, text messages, instant messages and download...
There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events. One of the largest is that Acer moved around Lenovo and Apple -- which is also coming up fast -- to become the No. 3 PC manufacturer by buying Gateway. For those who wanted an iPhone but couldn't af...
EarthLink has bowed out of its agreement to build a network that would provide free WiFi in San Francisco. The news follows the company's announcement this week that it is eliminating 900 jobs -- half its workforce -- and closing offices in four cities, including San Francisco. The beleaguered WiFi ...
TomTom unveiled a new top of the line in its GPS product set Thursday featuring the addition of voice recognition. The TomTom GO 920 T global positioning system comes preinstalled with complete maps of Europe, the United States and Canada on 4 GB of internal memory, and it includes new enhanced posi...
In what's likely an effort to defend itself against the wildly hyped iPhone phenomenon, cell phone giant Nokia on Wednesday unveiled several new wireless devices and services, including a music-download offering to rival iTunes. Signaling a shift in focus away from hardware and toward software and s...
Would you like a portable power source that could run your laptop five times longer than your current batteries? How about 10 times longer? Those kinds of run times are being dangled by the fuel cell industry before a public parched for longer-lasting power for an ever-expanding assortment of small...
I think that, for all of us, the battle for the next generation of DVD technology has gotten really old. This week, we'll look at why DreamWorks and Paramount backed HD-DVD, effectively assuring that Blu-ray will lose whether HD-DVD wins or not -- and it may still not win either. Rhapsody picked up ...
A group of New York City taxi drivers say they are going to strike for at least two days in September to protest a regulation calling for all city cabs to be equipped with GPS tracking technology. Starting on Oct. 1, all 13,000 taxis must have touch-screens and GPS when they come up for inspection....
The Los Angeles Police Department has come a long way from relying on walkie-talkies to hear descriptions of suspects on the run -- now they can watch video of crimes in progress in real time. Last year, the department installed 10 surveillance cameras and a multi-radio wireless broadband network, a...
PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable owners in Europe will have something to look forward to in 2008 -- the addition of PlayTV, a TV tuner and personal video recorder for the PS3, as well as a whole slew of additional functionality for the PSP such as a video download service for users in the U.K ...
Nokia users in 11 countries can now access Windows Live services on their mobile devices, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia. The pairing of the king of software and the world's largest mobile device manufacturer is a move toward "empowering the 'mobile lifestyle,'" according to the...
Although Google didn't get everything it wanted regarding rules for the FCC's upcoming auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum, it will likely participate in the auction anyway, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Asked by a T-Mobile executive at a conference if Google would still participate, Schmid...
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