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Late last month, the British House of Lords approved a so-called "designer baby," escalating the debate over genetic engineering and other body enhancements. Fortunately, the new book More Than Human helps to calm hysterics and explain the issues. Zain Hashmi is a six-year-old boy born with beta th...
Linking a wireless technology of today with the higher data rates and reach of tomorrow's wireless, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) and Ultra-wideband (UWB) group announced plans to collaborate and combine their technologies for the betterment of both. The wireless groups said details hav...
Cisco released at the Interop networking conference in Las Vegas this week details of its new family of multi-function, "single device, many services" appliances, which are designed to provide both small to medium and larger enterprises secure network and application management. The networking giant...
Sun Microsystems is set to unveil a host of connection services today designed to automatically download new software updates and make it easier for customers to monitor the health of their computer systems. Dubbed Sun Connection, the new services are being marketed as risk reduction, preventative m...
The move to wireless technology is evident just about everywhere today. Users now carry laptops from meeting to meeting, executives pull out their cell phones to make quick calls while on the road, and one can even access the Internet at a local coffee shop. While there has been a lot of progress in...
Industry analysts gave their blessing to Lenovo's deal for IBM's PC business, finalized this week, indicating that the Chinese company will gain access to the U.S. market while IBM trades a low-profit business division for its own access to China, heralded as the world's fastest growing IT market. L...
On Friday Apple released its "Tiger" operating system into the marketplace. Borrowing heavily from what we had seen in Longhorn (Microsoft's next version of Windows) last year, Tiger is an impressive piece of work. I'm not one of those who thinks that using a competitor is a bad idea, particularly i...
Perhaps one of the most effective and efficient methods for getting into college is no further from students than the palms of their hands. Using PDAs and cell phones, students now can study for the PSAT, the SAT or the ACT wherever they are, whenever they want. Students don't have to leave behind h...
Mobile handset giant Nokia this week officially joined the music phone race whereby technology companies are hoping to produce hits by combining mobile phones with iPod-type music players. Nokia, which enters the fray with its N91 handset featuring a 4 GB hard drive and room for 3,000 songs, said it...
Microsoft has partnered with Samsung Electronics in a high-definition technology alliance intended to take gaming to the next level. Microsoft announced Samsung as its worldwide marketing partner for the next-generation Xbox yesterday. The Xbox/Samsung HDTV combination is designed to deliver the mo...
It's not a bird or plane, it's the "stratellite," a huge broadband blimp announced this month. It will make high-speed Internet junkies gleeful, leave broadband competitors fearful, and tell policymakers to ignore warnings of an imminent broadband monopoly. Some might be surprised to learn that any...
Nokia has launched its N90 multimedia phone, one in a line of new N series phones introduced by the company this week. The phones target the top-end business user market with features ranting from music playing to Web browsing to camera and video capabilities. Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President,...
Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) figures if people like to watch classic movies and old "Seinfeld" episodes, they will also be interested in discontinued, out-of-date video games, including arcade and classic console hits. The media giant, a division of Time Warner, said its GameTap games-on-demand ...
For a long time, while Apple computer users enjoyed the advantages of an integrated multimedia software suite, Windows users who wished to experience the i-life had to be satisfied with standalone applications or meek integrated products. Then Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 entered the picture. EMC 7 is...
Despite recent announcements from major telecom companies such as Verizon and SBC to ensure emergency 911 calling capability on Internet-enabled voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin indicated this week the regulatory body will deve...
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