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Online video is eating into the market share of traditional television viewing time, according to a recent ICM survey conducted for the BBC. Forty-three percent of Brits who viewed video on the Internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they spent less time watching traditional TV as a...
Holiday gift buying has never been more exciting. Portability has gone wild this year, and a stunning array of innovative audio and video devices have appeared that let us carry our music, movies and television programs anywhere. After reviewing dozens of the hottest products, we settled on seven of...
Palm on Wednesday introduced its Treo 680 smartphone amid plenty of fanfare and even more partnerships. The phone is available in four colors -- crimson, copper, arctic and graphite -- and retails for US$399. Cingular subscribers, however, can get the device for $199 through an exclusive deal with ...
A startup launching this week is aiming to bring mobile e-mail -- now mainly ensconced in the enterprise with technology such as the Research In Motion BlackBerry -- to the average consumer by promising to deliver e-mail and instant messages to traditional mobile phones. Berggi has been operating in...
Virtual reality has been a rich vein of computer science for fiction writers and movie makers, but its less heralded cousin, augmented reality, may have a greater influence over how we lead our daily lives in the future. What's AR? It's overlaying the virtual world on the real world in real time. Wh...
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has explained how the batteries of portable electronic devices could be wirelessly -- and safely -- recharged. Such a technological feat could be accomplished by matching the source and receiver in frequency, similar to radio, MIT Assistant Professo...
Microsoft is flexing its muscles this week with strong moves against its rivals. The software giant on Monday released the Zune digital media player hoping to take a bite out of Apple. Three days later, the company inked a mobile search deal with Sprint Nextel, leaving Google out in the cold. Micros...
When it comes to gadgets, thin is in. From the latest nano from Apple to the recent crop of slim bar-phones, chunky is strictly L7 for the electronic hipster. Among the trimmest of the new cell phones is the Samsung Trace, distributed exclusively through T-Mobile. The Trace has everything you'd expe...
Microsoft is beating the WiFi drum in a pilot project designed to push MSN content and services to wireless users -- and to generate advertising revenue. Following in search rival Google's footsteps, the software giant on Wednesday inked a deal with MetroFi to publish its content over MetroFi's WiFi...
Tired of lugging around both an out-of-date cell phone and a wireless-impaired PDA? Haven't found a smartphone that is classy enough to do both jobs? Check out the Nokia E62, which is available exclusively in the U.S. from Cingular Wireless. The Nokia E62's e-mail, Web-surfing and document-reading f...
Cingular, Samsung and Microsoft have launched a new smartphone that leverages the latest functionality in Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system and takes advantage of consumer demand for the ultra slim form factor. Called "BlackJack," this is Samsung's first full-keyboard phone in its ult...
The use of cell phones at school has generated conflict between school officials, who view cell phones as a nuisance that distracts students from school activities, and parents, who say the devices let them stay in touch with their children more easily. Widespread cell phone use at schools clearly i...
The scourge of the wired world -- spam -- is making its presence felt in the wireless realm, but carriers hope they can stunt the problem in its formative stage. "Spam isn't a problem; however, it's an evolving threat that carriers are constantly working to combat," Joe Farren, a spokesperson for CT...
Check Point has announced the availability of SecureClient Mobile, software that provides VPN security for Windows-based handheld devices. SecureClient Mobile offers uninterrupted connectivity and security between cellular and WiFi networks, even when the mobile link is temporarily lost by roaming b...
Google on Thursday released an enhanced version of Gmail for Mobile Devices, a free Java-based application that allows users to access their Gmail via a cell phone. The interface looks and feels like Web-based Gmail, but with features that are optimized for handheld devices. "We realize the role mo...
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