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It is sometimes interesting what people get excited about, and the Apple loyalists evidently got really excited about a question, which some thought I had asked, surrounding why there is no "Intel Inside" sticker on Apple Notebooks. I think the real answer to that question is actually kind of intere...
WiFi has became pervasive. Not just laptops, but an arsenal of palmed-sized devices including smartphones, PDAs and mobile media players, now connect to the Internet using Wireless Fidelity technology. However, many users are clueless about security and connect to password-protected accounts and fin...
Portable hard disk drives aren't the sexiest computer peripherals in the world. They're pretty much a small box with an LED or two on them. Most disk makers have been content staying inside that box when they design their drives, but not SimpleTech. The company, which was purchased in February by Fa...
Finnish cell phone giant Nokia will replace for free 46 million batteries due to an overheating problem, even though incidents of the batteries malfunctioning have been "very rare." The company will replace any Nokia-branded BL-5C battery made by Matsushita Battery Industrial between December 2005 a...
After a suffering a setback last month when the Federal Communications Commission found flaws in a new Microsoft-produced wireless broadband device that could enable the use of the so-called white spaces in radio spectrum airwaves for high-speed Internet traffic, the Redmond-based software giant is ...
WiFi is not just for laptops anymore. All sorts of devices now connect to the Internet via Wireless Fidelity technology. Smartphones -- think Apple's iPhone, among others -- mobile media players and even gaming machines often come with WiFi features to enhance usability. At the same time, more and m...
The casual gaming industry appears to be passing "Go" and preparing to collect its figurative $200 with a new partnership announced Friday by Electronic Arts and Hasbro to create digital versions of many of the classic board games generations have grown up on. The agreement grants EA the exclusive w...
Microsoft, Google and other members of the White Spaces Coalition received a blow last week when the Federal Communications Commission rejected the device they proposed to allow wireless Internet transmissions over unused TV spectrum. Known as a "white space device," the technology is intended to ta...
It's now a well-known fact that on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog, but when it comes to Internet telephony, the bigger concern is that no one might know where you are either. Dial 911 for emergency assistance, and you could be out of luck, as some well-publicized lawsuits have shown. Voice ...
Recent events have raised questions as to whether San Francisco's municipal WiFi project will ever reach completion. Indications both from the city and from EarthLink, which is developing the project, point to the sudden uncertainty. EarthLink Chief Executive Rolla Huff recently suggested the compan...
We live in an a golden age for portable gizmos. Wherever we go we can take our computers, telephones, personal organizer, digital cameras, video camcorders and satellite radios with us. However, along with those gadgets, we also take along -- if we're away from an electrical outlet for any length of...
The risk of getting into an auto accident while reading or writing text messages is 50 percent higher than talking on a phone while driving, according to new research. A person talking on a cell phone when driving is four times more likely to get into an accident than someone driving without distrac...
Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, will add support of Microsoft's latest copyright protection software, PlayReady digital rights management technology, to its line of Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms beginning in 2008, the two companies announced Monday. The move, accordi...
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...
The persistent rumors surrounding a Google "Gphone" have been stoked again, this time by a Wall Street Journal article that reports that Google is courting wireless operators to provide an ad-supported mobile phone service to Google-customized handsets. The Journal article does not directly identify...
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