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Many analysts believe Apple is set to unveil a set-top box that could bear the name "iTV" at this week's Macworld Conference and Expo. Netgear, however, beat Apple to the punch Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where the company debuted its Digital Entertainer HD media receiver, ...
Yesterday, Bill Gates was supposed to give the best keynote talk in his history, but given I write this column the week before it is published I have no idea whether he actually delivered the goods. Steve Jobs doesn't do his thing until after the column publishes and most of you are still in the dar...
Are you already breaking some of your New Year's resolutions? Don't fret -- just go to the Internet. You'll find a multitude of Web sites available to help people who have promised themselves that this is the year they will lose weight, quit smoking, adopt a greener lifestyle, get their finances in ...
Hitachi on Friday announced a pair of 1 terabyte hard drives and a new software technology targeted at digital video recording applications. The one-two disk drive punch aims to tap into what the company sees as users' insatiable desire for storage. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 and CinemaStar hard driv...
Indications are that 2007 will be a bumper year for the solar power and renewable energy industry, as was noted in Part 1 of this two-part series. As an increasing number of state governments are introducing renewable power and energy standards and incentives, Washington, D.C., lawmakers at the clos...
In another move toward digital movie distribution, Hollywood studios on Thursday announced they are backing a new technology that will make more movie titles available for consumers to download from the Internet and burn to DVD. Sonic Solutions' industry-approved system, a licensing and certificatio...
The Blu-ray versus HD DVD battle is headed to Las Vegas, with new high-definition products rolling out at International CES next week. However, at least two manufacturers are extending an olive branch, of sorts, in the form of hybrid products. LG Electronics on Wednesday said it plans to sell a DVD ...
The proverb "he who hesitates is lost" may be true if you're a member of the Danish aristocracy, but if you've been sitting on the fence about making a move from a point-and-shoot digital camera to a digital SLR, your hesitation may be rewarded. Nikon has introduced a sweet DSLR, the Model D40, aime...
Autonet Mobile hopes to turn the car into the next WiFi hotspot. The San Francisco-based start-up plans to unveil its Internet service provider for cars at International CES next week in Las Vegas. Its first product is a US$399 box that plugs into a cigarette lighter or standard wall plug. The box u...
Missing its self-proclaimed deadline to implement its audio anti-piracy software won't immediately hurt YouTube's goodwill with the entertainment industry. As New Year's Eve approached last weekend, YouTube, which was purchased in October by Google for US$1.65 billion in stock, acknowledged it would...
For this last column of 2006, I thought it would be interesting to look ahead to 2007 and explore the battles that are to come. The three big ones are the Battle for the Digital Home, the Battle for your Pocket, and the Battle for Your Lap. The fighters include Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, HP, Dell, G...
The renewable energy snowball is gaining momentum, spurring the evolution of a full-blown economic ecosystem -- from small local businesses selling and installing solar PV systems for the residential retrofit market to large-scale commercial and residential installations that involve public and priv...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced that he will propose nearly US$95 million in the state budget to create the Governor's Research and Innovation Initiative. The initiative would provide funding for major projects aimed at growing California's economic strength in key innov...
An application that Microsoft filed last year with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could be interpreted to give the software giant broad rights to RSS, or really simple syndication, technology. The possibility that Microsoft might wind up charging license fees for any RSS-type application has c...
Samsung Electronics has developed a docking station complete with a fuel cell that can power a laptop computer for up to a month. Samsung plans to launch the product at the end of 2007. A fuel cell is an electronic device similar to a battery that produces electricity from an external fuel supply as...
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