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The image of teens, businessmen and virtually all kinds of consumers talking on cell phones has become common, if not ubiquitous in recent years. As the number of cell phone users in the United States has reached and passed the hundred-million mark, carriers have been hard pressed to find ways to co...
MIT researchers are forging ahead with plans to put US$100 laptops into the hands of the world's children. A prototype of the low-cost laptop is due in November, but Negroponte showed off blueprints at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT this week. MIT Media Lab leader Nicholas Negroponte sa...
The 9th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecom Conference took place this week at Lake Tahoe. Officially, the theme was "the Singularity," an artificial intelligence term denoting the emergence of transformative technological change. But the main meme revolved around a slightly less sexy idea: kiosks. Kiosks...
Google took a giant step today, announcing with NASA's Ames Research Center that the two will combine efforts on technology research ranging from the microscopic to the massive. The search engine company and the space agency have signed a memorandum of understanding, but say that discussions have no...
Internet technology is unquestionably poised to transform home entertainment. A quick scan at technology news headlines reveals companies like SBC, Alcatel, Microsoft -- and a host of ancillary service providers -- are gearing up for what some are calling an Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) revolution. T...
High-definition television has become a staple in a growing number of households. More than 10 million homes worldwide now have HDTVs and that number will reach 52 million in 2009, according to market research firm In-Stat. HDTV's growing acceptance has created a ripple effect resulting in the emerg...
Toshiba on Friday announced that it has developed two prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) units and begun tests to validate their operation with MP3 players. A fuel cell is an electronic device similar to a battery. It produces electricity from an external fuel supply as opposed to the limite...
Toshiba announced a 1.8-inch, 40 gigabyte hard disk drive today, hailing the device -- the cutting edge of disk drives under development in different sizes among competitors such as Seagate and Hitachi -- as a "first" that would enable consumer electronics devices to store as many as 10,000 songs or...
In announcing its new anti-piracy protections, the Blu-ray Disc Association indicated it had adopted the same content management system used in the HD-DVD format, known as Advanced Access Content System. Blu-ray backers said they had also included a "Blu-ray specific" enhancement for content protect...
Television and other applications for video over the Internet got a boost this week with the announcement that telecom provider Alcatel and customer management software maker Amdocs were joining forces on services for Internet protocol-based TV, or IPTV. The companies said they were collaborating on...
Wireless provider T-Mobile announced it will deliver High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HDSPA) connectivity to mobile phone users in Germany, delivering the DSL-type speed and bandwidth required for content including video television on mobile phones. While the service will not be launched for comme...
Teleste, a Finnish maker of cable broadband components, has announced technology that it says relies on existing TV networks to boost cable broadband speeds more than 10 times, to as high as 100 Mbps and at least 30 Mbps. The company's CEO reportedly said the company will be testing the technology -...
Teleste, a Finnish maker of cable broadband components, has announced technology that it says relies on existing TV networks to boost cable broadband speeds more than 10 times, to as high as 100 Mbps and at least 30 Mbps. The company's CEO reportedly said the company will be testing the technology -...
An array of state legislatures are moving forward with measures this year to regulate automobile event data recorders -- the so-called "black boxes" that monitor vehicle speed, seat belt use and other safety data, according to experts. According to a report by Pam Greenberg, an analyst with the legi...
Backers of a narrow-band wireless technology claim better reach than next-generation WiMax wireless. Florida-based xGTM Technology said that the latest wireless services have been limited to higher frequencies, which carry a price/performance penalty. However, their technology, xMax, requires only a...
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