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In what appears to be clear evidence that the digital revolution is ready for takeoff, results from a commercial mobile TV pilot in Helsinki, Finland, reveal consumers are willing to pay for services. Specifically, 41 percent of pilot participants said they would be willing to purchase mobile TV ser...
Apple has done what it does best once again. Fans and the media alike are abuzz trying to guess at what the company will reveal Sept. 7 at a "special event" in San Francisco. Because Apple is notoriously tight-lipped about new products and because its iPod is still the portable music player to have,...
Will camera phones replace digital cameras for the average consumer? Not by a long shot, according to a new study from IDC. The study refutes what it refers to as a myth about the digital technologies and affirms the notion of peaceful co-existence between the two. According to IDC's Mobile Imaging ...
Universal Pictures has already started touting its US$150 million re-hash of "King Kong," due out around Christmas. But how will the mighty ape be kept safe from the Evil File Sharing Villains? High-speed Internet connections can mean huge, extremely fast downloads and, as a result, movie studios ar...
The consumer electronics industry has had a hard time with standards. Each manufacturer has its own specialty and few components work well with products from other companies. CE products have a mixed ease-of-use record. The most famous problem is probably the VCR which had the ability to time-shif...
It has kept domain disputes involving huge companies and small profiteers known as "cybersquatters," as well as other Internet address disputes, out of court, but is the domain arbitration that is mandatory for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) domain registrants fair? Lega...
Sirius Satellite is looking to get a jump on its satellite radio competition -- mainly XM -- and leverage the increasing popularity of the medium via its new portable player, touted as a wearable satellite radio that allows users to capture and store Sirius content as well as MP3 and WMA files. Siri...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...
This week, a group of legal scholars, high government officials, Nobel prize recipients, and economic experts gathered for the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, to discuss e-government, telecommunications, and intellectual property, among other issues. One of the more colorfu...
The U.S. Copyright Office is facing harsh criticism after proposing a rule for pre-registration of copyrights over the Internet that would require Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to guarantee a successful application. The move leaves a significant swath of Web users excluded and triggered obje...
In a move to capitalize on opportunities and challenges in the emerging digital entertainment industry, Intel yesterday said it is developing a broad family of PC, consumer electronics and mobile platforms and technologies. Dubbed Intel Viiv, the technology is designed to enrich consumers' enjoyment...
Korean telecommunications provider KT Corp. announced yesterday it has selected Siemens Communications and Sycamore Networks to deliver an optical switching solution. Analysts said this is a major win for the duo as the world watches broadband development in Korea. KT will deploy the intelligent opt...
Personal computer shipments this year and next will grow by double digits, but that won't translate into the big revenue gains for PC makers, according to a preliminary forecast released yesterday by Gartner, of Stamford, Conn. Compared on a year-to-year basis, Gartner predicted worldwide PC shipmen...
With the Zotob virus allegedly being spread by improperly patched notebook computers and bringing down an impressive number of news sites last week, the future of the notebook computer, at least as we now know it, may be changing dramatically. As far as direction, strangely enough, it is once again ...
Computer industry firms are struggling to cope with the dearth of IT talent -- especially now that the economy is heating up again. Microsoft founder and chief software architect Bill Gates in July decried the decline in American college students who desire careers in computer science and said somet...
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