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Every year, the RSA security conference convenes in San Francisco to discuss the latest technology and issues involved in information security. The event still feels a bit like pre-tech-bubble days, with free gizmos galore, but the topics, such as identity management, looked to the future. One of th...
When it comes to high-speed data networks, users tend to focus on cable modems or digital subscriber lines, but they do have a third option: satellite services. Though not nearly as popular as the others alternatives, satellite systems have found a growing number of fans. Approximately 100,000 consu...
Microsoft and Flextronics announced today that the Windows Mobile operating system will power a new GSM/GPRS smartphone the companies have dubbed "Peabody." Microsoft is looking to capitalize on its connection to the corporate back office, where users are already familiar with Microsoft applications...
Mark Menarik, CEO of Chicago-based TanCher, believes that a new PDA designed for students can foster a revolution in teaching with technology. His innovation could herald a breakthrough in mobile computing platforms if his plan succeeds. According to Menarik, the shapes of the BlackBerry and Treo ar...
In IBM's Global Business Security Index Report for 2004, the company warns that malware and spam attacks on mobile devices such as smartphones and wireless-enabled PDAs are on the rise. As Big Blue joins a growing list of high-tech companies and researchers warning of the increasing danger of mobile...
Although a study released today found that 8 of 10 respondents had received unsolicited mobile phone messages and warned that the intrusions will only worsen, one analyst questioned whether the problem was as significant as the study made it seem. "Every form of communication, old and new, gets spam...
Technology researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies used for automobile locks and easy-pay gasoline systems are sorely lacking in protection, warning that opportunists could easily exploit the weakness for ill deeds. The researchers, ...
In the never-ending march of new search engine features, Yahoo Local this week added a "send to phone" option to its search results. Now customers who have mobile phone service from Cingular/AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint or Nextel will be able to send text messages with the address and phone n...
Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones. Delivering on a promise to provide a single processor with digital baseband, memory, logic, radio frequency, power management and analog...
Wireless access to the Internet through WiFi hot spots is widening to include more public places, but users of the often free wireless networks are being warned that security risks are also growing. The most recent cautionary advice came from UK researchers at Cranfield University who indicated "evi...
Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset. The software, dubbed "Ubiquitous Viewer," provides access to Windows computers and in...
A new phone from Samsung Electronics has the ability to recognize and respond to the motion of its user, opening the door to a host of new mobile phone features. The SCH-S310, to be released in Korea in March, allows callers to perform such functions as speed-dial by gesture, such as "writing" a num...
It is a sight that one sees seemingly everywhere, from neighborhood streets to busy highways to bumper-to-bumper traffic jams: drivers taking their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel to use their cell phones. This dangerous activity has become commonplace, but attempts to address the issue re...
Samsung has found a way to increase memory while allowing for the ever-thinner profile of mobile devices, the company announced today. Its eight-die multichip package (MCP) creates an eight-layer chip stack 1.4 mm thick, the space normally taken up by four chips. The chips have a capacity of 3.2 GB....
AMD is poised to announce its new mobile processor, dubbed Turion, to take on the increasingly significant mobile PC market and to shorten Intel's head start in the thinner and lighter PCs that are currently popular. Although it has aggressively challenged and won market share from Intel with its se...
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