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The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself...
This week, federal regulators unleashed yet another telecommunications decision that will slow down progress, costing American jobs and economic growth. Technology's mantra of "faster, better, smaller and cheaper" is constantly running up against a bureaucratic mantra of "slower, mediocre, fumbling ...
IT managers tend to look at wireless local area networks, or WLANs, much like adults view groups of loud teenagers -- with at least a little bit of trepidation and sometimes some fear as well. That's because while the wireless technology potentially offers companies the ability to enhance productivi...
The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on file sharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stop defendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracy operations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." Monday,...
Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year. Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) went on sale in Japan this week a...
IBM said grid computing is moving beyond the early adopter phase and announced today a series of "Think Grid" workshops to help its business partners learn more about creating, selling and using enterprise grids. The three-day workshops will be held in IBM Innovation Centers in the UK, California an...
Google's quest to aggregate all content on the Web has expanded to encompass whole libraries. The search engine company announced it would be scanning all or parts of the collections of the New York Public Library, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and the University of Michigan, which will then be searchab...
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, video game publishers are seeing brisk sales and offering only a few surprises. Since December accounts for a major percentage of the industry's annual revenues, most video game publishers are playing it safe by promoting sequels to already succes...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a $42.6 million grant to the Institute for OneWorld Health to create a cure for malaria. OneWorld, America's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, will work with the University of California, Berkeley, and Amyris Biotechnologies, according to a st...
2005 will see the next big battle for the home. The concept of the digital hub is slowly becoming reality, and both TiVo and Microsoft are making a run for the gold. ReplayTV is all but gone. Apple seems to have taken a pass on the entire concept. Sony is a player but has never been able to gain t...
With Yahoo's announcement of a free desktop search tool to be available early next year, and other search engine and software companies such as AOL, Ask Jeeves, Microsoft and others delivering similar technology, the feature is becoming a standard part of search. All of the companies lag behind Goog...
Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. The company, however, took a step closer to NEC and Toshiba's HD DVD ...
The holiday season has arrived, and with it will come higher mortality rates. For a number of reasons, including stress and cold weather, more people die around this time of year. While many accept death as a natural certainty, there is a growing movement that aims to do away with it. In The Scien...
Men who have been balancing laptops on their knees as they work during rush hour on the train or wait in the airport for flights may be at risk of more than aches and pains from hunching over that little keyboard. They could also be prone to another major side effect: infertility. Dr. Yefim R. Sheyn...
Disney and its Buena Vista Home Entertainment Division have thrown their considerable weight behind the Blu-ray standard for next-generation DVDs, escalating the battle between this format and HD DVDs. Sony, Samsung, Dell and Hewlett-Packard are among the other companies that are promoting Blu-ray.
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