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Advocates of net neutrality suffered a blow to their cause Thursday, when the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division issued a filing cautioning against regulations that could hamper development of the Internet. Prohibiting broadband Internet service providers from charging content providers...
Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming. Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker la...
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...
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...
Hackers associated with the Chinese government broke into the Pentagon's computer systems earlier this summer, according to a report in the Financial Times. The London-based paper, which cited anonymous sources in the current and previous administrations in its article, said officials believe the Pe...
Electronic Arts -- the largest video game publisher, by sales, in the world -- made a statement in June when it announced it was forming a casual gaming division. Last month, the Redwood, Calif., company punctuated that statement with an exclamation mark by cutting a licensing deal with Hasbro, whos...
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...
Sony unveiled two new Walkman music players Thursday, the NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610. The two new players bring video storage and playblack capabilities to the iconic Walkman brand in the U.S. and are the first in the digital players from the company not tied down to Sony's ATRAC audio format. "Our Walkm...
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...
When ripping and playing digitized music was a novelty, media players basked in the hot software limelight. There were articles about the merits of one over another, about "wars" among vendors and lots of noise when a new version of a player arrived in the market. Today, though, new releases of medi...
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...
It appears that Sony could have another rootkit scandal on its hands if a recent report from Finnish security firm F-Secure proves true. The problem concerns a hidden directory contained in software for Sony's MicroVault USM-F thumb drive. The files, according to F-Secure, could be accessed by hacke...
Sony has created a personal computer that can work as the core of a high-definition, multimedia system. The Sony Vaio LT HD PC/TV is designed to serve as a "computer entertainment center," said Sony. In addition to powerful computing capability, the new unit can serve as a high-definition television...
This Halloween, something once thought dead will return from the grave. Video game maker Rockstar, the creator of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, said it has revised its much-maligned "Manhunt 2" game -- this time with a Mature rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The game's initial Adu...
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