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U.S. wireless carrier Sprint announced it was pumping US$3 billion into high-speed wireless network partnerships with Motorola, Lucent and Nortel, hoping that more bandwidth and speed will let it generate more revenue from users. The deal was a must for Motorola, which won extension of its agreement...
If you're already confused by the proliferation of digital media types and don't know the difference between a DVD-R, DVD+R, or DVD-RW, get ready for the next assault. The good news is that digital television and the resulting high-definition DVD technology will be a vast improvement over the images...
As an Australian court considers whether Kazaa's parent company should be forced to pay damages for the file sharing that goes on over its peer-to-peer (P2P) network, questions persist about the effectiveness of the music industry's enforcement efforts. Today, the Federal Court in Sydney heard from ...
Up to now there hasn't been a connection between cellular and WiFi networks, but that situation is expected to change soon. Cell phone vendors are getting ready to deliver new handsets, and carriers are rolling out new services that support the two wireless options. "There is no doubt that there wil...
Cisco today outlined a strategy for its new Internet protocol (IP) networks and gained technical and Japanese market support by striking a deal with Fujitsu. The company announced that its "IP NGN" -- IP Next-Generation Networks -- architecture was pushing network convergence to provide various vo...
Once again we are on countdown for Christmas, and many of you will take the easy way out and give cash, checks or one of those pre-paid cards that allow recipients to buy what they want at an after-Christmas sale. But for me there is something of a letdown in getting cash for Christmas, and I tend...
Dan Rather delivered Henry Copeland a Christmas gift three months early. On Sept. 20, the CBS news anchor was forced to admit that his network no longer had confidence in documents used to support a now-infamous 60 Minutes piece about President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. It was ...
Working in the video-game industry is a dream job for those raised on "Super Mario" and "The Sims." Thousands of programmers and artists have flocked to companies such as Electronic Arts for the chance to create popular games like "James Bond" or "Madden NFL 2005." Living the Silicon Valley stereoty...
Shawn Fanning's latest peer-to-peer (P2P) venture, Snocap, may have a long way to go to prove its success in the current online music landscape. The practice of file sharing, which has grown on free services such as Kazaa and Morpheus inspired by Fanning's earlier Napster venture, has also gone leg...
The issue of government-provided broadband was in the news again this week as Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell signed a bill restricting the ability of cities to offer telecommunications services. This was a good move for a number of reasons. At any level, government-provided broadband -- what s...
Microsoft today handed aspiring bloggers a simple, free tool to get started, releasing a public beta version of MSN Spaces. The tool is integrated into Microsoft's other Internet services, which the company has also upgraded. The latest version of its instant messaging service, MSN Messenger 7.0, is...
The group Reporters Without Borders is blasting search engine leader Google for its supposed complicity in government censorship, requesting that the popular Web tool provider pull its news service that excludes content not approved by the Chinese government. The group, which has been critical of co...
"'Regardless of what people found in the early days of lawsuits, says Eric Garland, head of research firm BigChampagne LLC, which tracks Internet activity, 'the consensus now is that file sharing is hitting all-time highs.'" That's Garland quoted in Canada's MacLeans, and he's referring to the fact ...
Although it is poised to bring some competition to the mobile gaming world with the PlayStation Portable (PSP), Sony seems more intensely focused on its PlayStation console and the silicon for the next-generation PlayStation3. With IBM and Toshiba, Sony announced a new electronics chip codenamed "Ce...
The proliferation of video servers was amazing at the EHX show, as was the cost of some of these devices. The norm seemed to be about what PCs sold for in the early 1980s -- $2,000 and up -- and you certainly could see strong margins even if you couldn't see strong volumes at these prices. I rea...
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