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For more than a year, the issue of network neutrality has taken up a tremendous amount of time and attention in both Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley. In fact, it may be the single most engrossing subject currently tying together policy interests in these two distinct parts of the country. Unfor...
Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home. PS3 Home is an immersive, virtual 3D world for PS3 gamers where they can create th...
A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a $400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology un...
Hewlett-Packard has redesigned three versions of its desktop PC line to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy standards. The EPA's Energy Star 4.0 regulations, which take effect on July 20, 2007, require PC manufacturers to convert 80 percent of incoming electricity into usable comput...
Colorblind people represent a significant but often neglected talent pool and consumer segment. Identifying opportunities to make products usable by as many people as possible, without degrading overall quality or performance, is a quality assurance function that is not always well understood or pra...
Don't you get a sense that we are on the edge of some big changes? Whether it is the PC market, the consumer electronics market, the server market -- anyone notice Sun is actually getting stronger? -- the network market, or the world in general, we seem to be seeing a lot of change all of a sudden.
Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water. The "Salamandra Robotica," built by the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, ...
For some, it may seem like a dream come true. For others, it may feel like an April Fools' Day joke come early, but make no mistake about it: The beer-launching fridge has arrived. John Cornwell, who graduated last year from Duke University with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, is th...
Last week's first annual Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, Calif., turned out smaller than expected, but did feature some big names and key insights into tech issues. The biggest surprise was Google's apparent flip-flop on the issue of net neutrality. "None of us want any kind of heavy-handed regulat...
Forget Nintendo Wii's motion-sensing controller. After less than six months on the market, Nintendo's groundbreaking video game controller technology may be on the way out following the unveiling of a game platform that controls gameplay using a player's thoughts and emotions. Emotiv Systems gave at...
Connecticut lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require social networking sites to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors who want to post profiles. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal urged adoption of the legislation Wednesday, a day after a Connecticut man was sentenced to ...
Consumer reaction to downloading movies and TV programming from the Internet has been less than enthusiastic. Some say one of the major reasons for that is people find that moving entertainment content from their PCs to their living rooms is a hassle. In recent months, the gadget industry has focuse...
Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison took the wrapper off his company's long-awaited online components for the PlayStation 3 video game console Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Styling the new user communities as part of its "Game 3.0," Sony's offerings ar...
Customers of AT&T's Homezone service will now be able to control their digital video recorders with their Web-enabled cell phones. The company, based in San Antonio, first promised the feature in January. Similar services are also being developed by other communication companies -- as they striv...
Comedy Central's Emmy award-winning cartoon series "South Park" is getting its first-ever high-definition episode, "Good Times With Weapons," and Microsoft's Xbox Live service will distribute it free for two weeks. "South Park" is the raunchy and irreverent comedy about the misadventures of four fou...
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