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In the never-ending march of new search engine features, Yahoo Local this week added a "send to phone" option to its search results. Now customers who have mobile phone service from Cingular/AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint or Nextel will be able to send text messages with the address and phone n...
William Safire bid farewell to his column at the New York Times this week, but not because he's retiring. Instead, this Pulitzer Prize-winning, former presidential speech writer is moving on to lead an organization concerned with what some call transhumanism. Transhumanism is the advocacy of using ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released what it described as three key recommendations, or pre-standard specifications, that will address performance and reliability issues for Web services, the joining of software applications inside and among different organizations' IT architecture...
As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should be held liable for the illegal file sharing that occurs over their networks. The tech industry, me...
Searching for video content online may be a hard nut to crack, but that hasn't stopped fierce competitors Google and Yahoo from entering the fray, albeit in different fashions. Search engines must consider both the difficulty of searching video using a written medium and the intellectual property ri...
During his daily commute into Manhattan from Long Island, George Miller's notebook computer can connect to dozens of networks without his even realizing it. Indeed, as Miller's train weaves and winds its way into the city, his notebook computer discovers dozens of unsecured wireless networks emittin...
Every day, vendors are working to deliver faster microprocessors that work with more memory. Meanwhile, software suppliers are designing more sophisticated applications that work with data, voice, and recently even video information. As higher volumes of data are generated, a need for faster local a...
Frustrated by the modest pace of grid computing, four of the world's top enterprise technology companies have joined to form a new trade group aimed at speeding up enterprise use of grid computing. The Globus Consortium, which is backed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Intel as well as some smaller ...
This month we've seen a number of vendors present their views of the next generation of the personal computer, starting with the traditional PC vendors at CES and ending with Apple at MacWorld. Let's spend this week talking a bit about the different camps. While it goes without saying that each is ...
Imagine being able to have complete access to your hard drive and the corporate LAN in a device no bigger than a cell phone. No, Realm Systems isn't developing the next generation of the super small PDA. It just completed more than two years of research and development for a concept for the first ge...
Sony seems to be finding success for its portable PlayStation, or PSP, with nearly a million units shipped in less than two months, but that is not stopping the electronics giant from planning new features for the device. In a recent talk, Sony executive Ken Kutaragi boasted of 800,000 PSP units shi...
While American soldiers risk their lives overseas to protect freedom, broadcasters at home are cowering in the shadows of government censors. The latest story involves Fox Network's decision to electronically blur a cartoon character's posterior for fear of being fined by the Federal Communications...
Microsoft today upped the ante on Web-based consumer services, announcing Microsoft Office Outlook Live, which synchronizes Outlook and Hotmail content. The service will cost $59.95 a year but is being offered through April 19 for $44.95. For that price, consumers get the downloadable Outlook 2003 f...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the me...
NASA's rovers keep rolling toward fresh discoveries. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite ever identified on another planet, according to officials with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. Spectrometers on Opportunity determined that th...
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