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Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset. The software, dubbed "Ubiquitous Viewer," provides access to Windows computers and in...
Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project. Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwar...
Google added to its big picture today with the release of Picasa 2 photo management software. The search engine company is giving away the new release, a major upgrade from the first version, which it acquired when it purchased its developer, also named Picasa, in July. It offers tools for searching...
Facing competition from the more widely available and less expensive DSL broadband Internet connections, Comcast has announced a speed increase in its residential cable broadband service. The cable giant said the speed bump -- which increases Comcast's high-speed Internet service from 3 megabits-per...
A group that defends civil liberties on the Internet has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the government is secretly gathering information on the surfing habits of citizens. In a copy of the FOIA obtained by TechNewsWorld, th...
It was rather hard to find true convergence products at CES. Most vendors are still too enamored with technology and not excited enough about building a truly consumer-oriented, appliance-like offering. I wasn't particularly excited about Apple's announcements either, but I'll leave that to another ...
The saying "Don't mess with Texas" took on new meaning this week as the Lone Star State's attorney general sued a college student and his alleged accomplice, accusing them of being among the world's most prolific senders of unsolicited e-mail. The lawsuit is an application of the federal Controllin...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's two appointees to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will soon be sworn in. Many hope these winds of change will lift California's stagnant telecom policy out of its slump, making 2005 a pivotal year for communications jobs and technology. One of the ...
After eight years at the helm, TiVo co-founder Mike Ramsey has decided to relinquish the CEO's chair when a successor is named. Ramsey will continue in his role as chairman. TiVo's struggles to gain market share in the digital video recorder (DVR) market that it pioneered are well documented. Last w...
Google responded yesterday to a bug that would allow users of the company's Gmail beta software to e-mail themselves a message which would then drag other information from other e-mails transmitted with the service. While a Unix community group known as HBX Networks detailed the quirk and provided e...
In a forward-thinking move to gain ground in the browser battle, Opera has said it would offer free software licenses for the product to universities. That means students can use its fee-based browser at no cost to schools. Pointing the finger squarely at its competitors, Opera yesterday said the of...
A new phone from Samsung Electronics has the ability to recognize and respond to the motion of its user, opening the door to a host of new mobile phone features. The SCH-S310, to be released in Korea in March, allows callers to perform such functions as speed-dial by gesture, such as "writing" a num...
You spent the time and money to balance productivity and security. You installed antivirus software at the firewall, at the e-mail gateway, and on all your endpoint devices -- workstations, PCs and laptops. And your new headquarters' wireless LAN is protected with encryption keys, providing a secure...
It is a sight that one sees seemingly everywhere, from neighborhood streets to busy highways to bumper-to-bumper traffic jams: drivers taking their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel to use their cell phones. This dangerous activity has become commonplace, but attempts to address the issue re...
As I was working up my impressions of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, one thing became painfully clear: The most important vendor, from the standpoint of interest, wasn't even there. Not since the beginning of the PC era has Apple had this much attention. While much of th...
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