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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...
Dell yesterday announced six personal technology products, including a tiny new music player aimed at grabbing market share from Apple's iPod Shuffle. Weighing a little more than an ounce, the Dell DJ Ditty music player is the latest addition to Dell's Digital Jukebox lineup. It holds up to 220 song...
Darknets, Greynets. Dark traffic. The words are frightening. The reality behind them is even more frightening. Increasingly clever hackers, thieves and scoundrels are using the Internet, peer-to-peer products, instant messaging and e-mail to wreak havoc, in ways and for purposes never before seen. ...
Competitors lusting for a slice of Apple's iPod market need to rethink their current strategy, according to an analyst at Forrester Research. Ted Schadler, who authored a report released last week on youth and online music, told TechNewsWorld that iPod competitors have been ignoring a key attitude u...
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...
The latest addition to cell phone services allows Sprint customers to listen to radio over their handsets. Sprint today announced a deal with RealNetworks to broadcast Rhapsody Radio over its cellular network. Seven cell phone models will be able to access the streaming radio for a monthly service f...
Windows Vista is the biggest release for Microsoft since Windows 95. With that release, Apple was tested -- and they failed miserably. I was at Dataquest at the time and not only did I warn Apple to take 95 more seriously, I also accurately forecast the massive decline that would happen to them if...
Having won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against peer-to-peer (P2P) operators running unlicensed file-sharing networks, namely the once-popular Grokster, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sent cease-and-desist letters to seven more P2P outfits in the U.S. However, online music i...
The world's oldest person is 115 years old, and while that might seem impressive, it's only the beginning. Advances in technology are poised to usher in longer and better life spans, a reality the general public has been slow to notice and the subject of a conference this weekend at Stanford Univers...
Microsoft announced today that it would release the Xbox 360 in the United States on Nov. 22, just in time for the holiday shopping season. The European launch will follow on Dec. 2 and the Japanese launch on Dec. 10. The dates came as no surprise, as the company had been saying all along the next g...
College has always represented a degree of independence -- free from parents, free from the constraints of childhood, and sometimes free from the "real world" of work, but U.S. campuses are also increasingly representing independence from wires, with mobile phones and notebook computers becoming as ...
If the mainstream media are feeling the pressure from infonews sites and blogs, B-b-b-baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet, to quote the words of rock group BTO. I'm talking about indie 'Net journalists taking over from the scribes of yesteryear with straight-up reporting, untainted by corporate self-in...
Sunglasses and cool have always had an intimate relationship so it's not surprising that gadget makers have started grafting the coolest way to listen to music to the fashionable accoutrement. Until recently, though, you had to pay a pretty penny for haut hip. Oakley -- the king of shades for tony a...
As we watch the disaster relief effort play out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina we seem to be falling into the same old pattern of focusing on finding the right scapegoat rather than trying to make sure we can deal with similar future problems. Even after 9-11, the tsunami, and a variety of o...
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