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Verizon Wireless said it has reached an agreement to buy all the spectrum licenses held by NextWave Telecom for US$3 billion in cash, just the latest instance of consolidation in the wireless industry and one that ends a years-old legal dispute with regulators. Verizon, the second-largest wireless c...
U.S. supercomputing efforts are making up for the country's earlier loss of the speed title to the Japanese Earth Simulator, with two new systems poised to garner top spots on the Top500 Supercomputer list due out next week. The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced that the IBM BlueGene/L ...
Nokia is betting on device convergence with three new gadgets with multiple functions. The announcements were tied to the annual Nokia Mobility Conference in Monaco and Destination Nokia in Bangkok. The company announced the 7710, a smartphone PDA; the 3230 camera and video recorder smartphone; and ...
Gadget geeks got a rush today when PalmOne officially announced its latest smartphone, the Treo 650, a year after its Treo 600 debuted and a week after it accidentally leaked its own press release on the product. Despite the interest in the new device -- rumors of its features began popping up on W...
Biometric identification is no longer something found only in science fiction. The technology, such as fingerprint identification and face recognition, is starting to be used on a regular basis on everything from personal computers to airport security systems. Clain Anderson, a program director for ...
There are many "what if" stories surrounding Apple, and one of them is this: What if, when Microsoft asked Apple to license its OS, Apple had done so, becoming the core technology in Windows instead of a closed platform. If that had happened, it is widely believed, Apple would be larger than Dell no...
Biometric technology has been around for more than a decade with little fanfare. However, interest is heating up for biometric security devices in communications. Iris scanners, voice recognition modules and fingerprint readers promise to raise the bar on locking down access to computers, networks, ...
A Japanese company is heralding its new fuel cell technology, claiming that it may be ready for mobile PCs within the next two years. Industry analysts, however, point to several major hurdles for the technology, which has already been heralded several times before. Materials and Energy Research Ins...
This month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a microchip that can be implanted in humans to provide access to medical records. Privacy regulation advocates were predictably horrified, but the chip does not create the privacy crisis some might imagine. The VeriChip, made by Applied Dig...
While its 20 clustered Linux systems joining more than 10,000 Intel Itanium 2 processors may put it at the top of the speed list, the scientists who have access to the new "Columbia" supercomputer at the NASA Ames Advanced Supercomputing facilities tout the amazing research abilities of the super sy...
The holiday gaming season officially opened Tuesday with the release of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." The third in the immensely popular line of video games -- all of which have been both praised for innovative play environments and vilified for violence and their portrayal of minorities and wome...
Intel plans to use novel materials and manufacturing processes in order to continue to develop smaller and faster computer chips once current technologies no longer do the trick. The leading chipmaker, which has been stung recently by some near-term product retreats and operational hiccups, laid out...
When I first started college I bought a calculator. It was from Radio Shack, and it was hand-held, did basic math functions, had an LED display and cost, if you adjust for inflation, about what a laptop computer costs today. There are pre-kindergarten children today using technology that is vastly ...
Most rural carriers have been offering high-speed wireless Internet access (HSI) in their service areas for quite some time. Wireless Internet is advantageous in rural areas, where dense forestry often makes it expensive and technically difficult for telcos to provide conventional wireline broadband...
Scientists have found direct evidence that massive objects in space do pull the space surrounding them, a phenomenon called "frame-dragging" that was first predicted in 1918 using Einstein's theory of general relativity. The findings were reported in the journal Nature. Einstein believed that massiv...
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