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Apple and Motorola announced Monday that they will allow iTunes music store customers to transfer songs onto MP3-enabled Motorola phones. The Motorola phones will be part of Motorola's next generation of phones due early next year. Users will be able to download iTunes music through or Bluetooth wir...
College students across the U.S. are majoring in a new technology: wireless connectivity. It is a subject they are learning hands-on and using everywhere they go on campus. Of course, wireless connectivity is not a credit-bearing subject on a long list of prerequisites to earn their degrees. Instead...
Computer virus companies spent yesterday scampering to develop defenses for the newest strain of the MyDoom virus, dubbed MyDoom.O. By mid morning yesterday, thousands of e-mail inboxes were filling up with headers designed to encourage opening. This latest worm variant of the MyDoom family was spre...
A new jacket from Rosner GmbH, a German clothing firm, combines a 128 MB MP3 player that is controlled through cloth buttons on the left sleeve. Headphones are built into the collar. The jacket also has a hands-free cell phone microphone tucked into the collar, which works with phones on the Bluetoo...
The reports about the worm, a variant of a Web attack called MyDoom, came as outages on the search site Google.com hit in the United States, France and Great Britain. In many places the site was said to be working normally.
As we move into market recovery, marketing budgets once again are being funded, and I thought it would be good to look at the mistakes made by technology companies in the past. While this is a painful trip down memory lane for many, my hope is that this will keep the firms from making the same mista...
In just a few short months, Americans will decide who they want to be president. Speculation abounds, but a better read on who is more likely to win -- a futures market in politics -- may be found at sites like Tradesports.com. Futures markets, where people bet on results of various outcomes, can of...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has taken its first steps towards implementing the next generation of internet protocol (IP), by adding IPv6 addresses to the DNS root server system. IPv6 can provide trillions more addresses than the IPv4 standard currently in use toda...
Morpheus owner StreamCast Networks has signed a deal with Sovereign Artists and SML under which tracks from the rock band Heart's "Jupiter's Darling" album are being offered on Morpheus in SML's Weed format. Each track is in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format and comes wrapped with Microsoft's d...
I am honored to be invited to write for MacNewsWorld. As one who is daily entrenched in Linux and high performance computing, it may be expected that I would write about the battle between Linux and Windows, PowerPC and Intel. But I do that for a living. I need a break, a creative outlet for those t...
Two of the world's largest computer and software companies have been sued by UK-based BTG International for patent infringement over Web-enabled software update and other technologies. BTG, a UK-based intellectual property and technology development company, along with New York-based Teleshuttle, fi...
Thanks to the combined powers of music and the Internet, anywhere between 8 million and 9.5 million people around the world are logged on to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at any given moment. At a conservative estimate, some 1 billion files are being swapped online between and among music lover...
The WiFi Alliance, a global nonprofit organizatin made up of 200 member companies that support the IEEE 802.11, or WiFi, wireless standard, has announced a new, more stringent policy on interoperability for products to obtain its WiFi certification. The policy is effective immediately and threatens ...
Intel today expanded the Intel Pentium M processor and Intel Celeron M processor families with products aimed at the notebook, subnotebook and tablet PC segments that represent small mobile PCs typically weighing around three pounds. Intel's new offerings include the Intel Pentium M processor Low Vo...
3GSM makes its debut in the United States today as AT&T Wireless announces the rollout of its initial third-generation broadband mobile communications offering in Seattle, Phoenix, Detroit and San Francisco. The new U.S. service, launched ahead of schedule, brings the number of live 3GSM network...
