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Cellular carriers have spent more than a decade and billions of dollars building out their networks so customers can use their services wherever they may roam. Coverage has improved along and on many city streets, but in-building reception has remained spotty in many cases. Companies such as Andrew ...
In a move to compete against search rivals in the mobile phone market, AOL today said it is testing a suite of new services in the United States that will allow cell phone users to scour the Web. The new beta services include AOL Search Service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. The fea...
XM Radio and Napster today announced a service that links listening to music to purchasing it, which one analyst said should be welcomed by consumers. "In the new world of digital music, portability is the holy grail and anything that you can do in service of portability will be appreciated by consu...
Electronic Arts announced this week that it has been granted the rights to develop games based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." EA has been developing games based on New Line Cinema's theatrical productions of "The Lord of the Rings" since 2001. The new deal expands EA's rights to the bo...
Cisco Systems yesterday announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Sheer Networks in a US$97 million cash and assumed options deal. Sheer Networks develops intelligent network and service management products for service providers and large enterprises. Cliff Meltzer, senior vice pres...
The past several weeks have seen an onslaught of articles regarding privacy, identity and security. Most of them bemoan the fact that we all have too many passwords, they are difficult and costly to manage, and that "there must be a better way!" Suggestions have ranged from password-reset and passw...
Motorola showed off a sleek, new smartphone equipped with a QWERTY keyboard and announced it had designed, in partnership with fashion sunglass maker Oakley, eyewear that includes a Bluetooth-enabled headset. The new products were revealed this week at Motorola's analyst conference, dubbed Motonow, ...
Mobile phones are supposed to make it easy for individuals to move from place to place while staying connected to important people and information. Sometimes, however, cellular networks do not deliver on that promise, especially when a user walks inside a building. Alleviating that problem is one re...
HP said its latest technologies -- improved printhead construction and other ehnancements aimed at lowering cost per page -- have been incorporated into the Photosmart 8250, which will be selling for about US$200 in U.S. stores soon and is available online now. HP suggested that the new scalable pri...
Microsoft, following in Google's footsteps, is now offering a bird's-eye view of the United States with MSN Virtual Earth. Virtual Earth marries mapping and online local searches, showing results in an aerial view using satellite images. Users can find a specific address or search for business categ...
It's the recording industry's dream -- or at the very least, it's not another nightmare: Illegal music file-sharing is being kept in check, with the number of legal tracks downloaded internationally tripling in the first half of 2005, according to new figures released by the International Federation...
Last week HP laid off 14,500 people and most determined that this was actually a good thing. In a way I think most of us have forgotten how hard a layoff of this size can be on any organization and how disruptive a drawn out process can be. At the same time, however, my heart goes out to the HP empl...
Supporters of e911 think that the work going into the system now will prove to be worthwhile because the new services will be able to take advantage of new multimedia capabilities. In the future, callers may have the ability to send video from emergency scenes -- picture a cameraphone sending pictur...
Wireless provider T-Mobile announced it will deliver High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HDSPA) connectivity to mobile phone users in Germany, delivering the DSL-type speed and bandwidth required for content including video television on mobile phones. While the service will not be launched for comme...
Sony yesterday announced new tools to allow software companies to develop games for its PlayStation 3 video game console. The electronics maker said yesterday morning that it will acquire Britain's SN Systems and has formed alliances with U.S.-based Ageia Technologies, Havok and Epic Games to make m...
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