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HP and Infinity Broadcasting today announced they will work together to deploy Visual Radio to U.S. listeners. But analysts are skeptical that carriers will grab hold of the concept. Developed by Nokia and offered by HP, Visual Radio allows listeners to tune in to local FM radio via their mobile pho...
I've been looking back this week and recalling almost a decade ago when a little company called Netscape prematurely slapped Microsoft upside the head and by so doing better positioned Microsoft for the future. Granted, I'm sure Microsoft would have loved to avoid the related litigation that contin...
Making telephone calls over the Internet is nothing new. Once the arena for hobbyists and techies, Internet telephony is now a proven technology. Internet phone calls are so reliable and popular that Ma Bell and her competitors use the digital superhighway to carry much of their own hard-wired long ...
Microsoft is rounding up some attention for its next-generation operating system known as Longhorn, with Microsoft veteran and platform vice president Jim Allchin touting security and simplicity improvements and signaling another beta release of the next Windows, set for a conference later this mont...
Intel yesterday announced a new notebook platform designed specifically for Chinese university students. Dubbed Tanggula, Intel said the platform offers enhanced security, wireless capability, and high quality sound and audio for multi-media enabled interactive learning and entertainment.
A worm that made its way into Reuters private instant messaging system, causing the company to temporarily shut it down, is a warning to enterprises, one IM security company told TechNewsWorld. "This is a wakeup call for the entire enterprise market," Francis deSouza, CEO of IMLogic, which offers IM...
Today is tax day, but those who think this expensive event only comes once a year should examine monthly phone bills and beware of recent actions by greedy bureaucrats. Anyone who's ever taken the time to inspect their landline or wireless phone bill will know that, on top of the price of service, t...
After suffering a string of multi-million dollar court settlements with rivals large and small -- including Sun Microsystems last year and more recently Gateway -- Microsoft may now face setbacks for its next-generation Windows operating system known as Longhorn. A court injunction was issued agains...
Cisco Systems announced today it will buy Topspin Communications, a maker of programmable server switches, for US$250 million in cash and options. The acquisition gives Cisco, which now has only Ethernet offerings, an entry into the InfiniBand data transition architecture market. Topspin's switches ...
How small can a full-feature consumer camcorder get? Sony is certainly pushing the limits with its latest entry in its digital Handycam family of products. The new unit, the DCR-PC55, not only fits in the palm of your hand, but you can practically hide it there. At 1.1-by-4.0-by-2.9 inches, it's sma...
PalmOne today announced Tungsten E2, an update to its popular Tungsten E. E2 adds Bluetooth wireless capability, longer battery life, a better display and flash memory to the PDA standby, which has been on the market since October 2003. The flash memory ensures that even if the batteries drain compl...
It is designed to increase network speed, bandwidth, and the ability to share vast amounts of data quickly and easily, but according to copyright owners, the next-generation Internet known as Internet2 has also been facilitating illegal, unlicensed trading of copyrighted music and movie files. The R...
In a victory for mobile operators, MPEG LA, which includes electronics giants Sony and Philips Electronics, said today it will cut its proposed antipiracy software royalties by one-third per electronic device. The decision marks the group's response to feedback that high tariffs could stifle the gro...
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have developed a super-fast transistor, the building block of computer chips, that they say could have applications ranging from aiding in medical diagnoses to reducing the power consumption of cell phones. The microscopic transistor can ...
Consumers around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about the trustworthiness of e-commerce. They may have good reason: Cases of identity theft appear in the daily headlines, and we are only now starting to understand exactly how difficult it can be to restore one's name and credit rating...
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