XM Satellite Radio today announced the introduction of an online, commercial-free radio service, to premier in October, the company said in a statement. The Washington, D.C.-based company will charge a monthly fee of $7.99 for the service, called XM Radio Online. Customers who already subscribe to X...

Nokia Upgrades Communicator

September 8, 2004

Nokia announced the Nokia 9300, a new version of the company's Communicator. On the outside, the Nokia 9300 looks like a slim mobile phone. When opened, the device reveals a full keyboard and color screen. The 9300 is designed to appeal to professionals who want powerful functionality from a data-en...

Samsung Debuts First Mobile Phone with Hard Drive

September 7, 2004

Samsung Electronics unveiled what the company is calling the "first-ever mobile phone with an internal hard drive." The company's latest phone, the V5400, is currently being exhibited at the ITU Telecom Asia 2004 conference. The V5400 is equipped with a 1-inch, 1.5-GB hard drive designed to expand t...

Nokia Ships One Million N-Gage Game Decks

September 1, 2004

Nokia announced that it has shipped its one millionth game deck globally since the sales of the N-Gage platform started eleven months ago. According to Nokia, the sale of one million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks marks a significant milestone in the world of portable gaming. "We're proud to have r...

Blu-ray Adds Microsoft's VC-1 Codec

September 1, 2004

The Blu-ray Disc Association and Microsoft have agreed to include the VC-1 advanced compression video codec, the proposed SMPTE standard based on Windows Media 9, as a mandatory codec in Blu-ray Disc's BD-ROM specification for video playback equipment. Video codecs are used to compress video images ...

Skype Beta Version Released for Mac OS X

August 31, 2004

Skype Technologies today launched the beta version of Skype for Mac OS X. The software can be downloaded for free and is available immediately. "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennstrom, Skype...

Opera Browser Goes Mobile

August 31, 2004

Opera Software announced that its Opera smartphone browser will soon become available for Microsoft Windows Mobile software

IT Managers Plan Imminent Move to XP SP2

August 24, 2004

Nearly three-quarters of IT managers are planning to deploy the Windows XP Service Pack 2 update to their systems, research shows. Some 63 percent of UK IT managers are looking to install SP2 before the end of the year, according to a survey conducted by LanDesk Software. The much-delayed SP2 finall...

Vonage Teams With Netgear on VoIP Tech

August 24, 2004

Vonage, a broadband phone company, has teamed with Netgear to develop a suite of broadband telephony devices. These devices will incorporate the latest version of Texas Instruments' Voice over IP (VoIP) and wireless LAN chipsets. First available will be a VoIP-enabled 802.11g wireless router followe...

Study Reveals Cisco's Strengths and Weaknesses

August 19, 2004

A study on enterprise routers released today by Infonetics Research shows Cisco Systems rates better than the competition when it comes to pricing, security, technology, management features, product roadmap, financial stability and service and support. The study, "User Plans for Routers, North Ameri...

Telstra, Hutchison Partner on Infrastructure

August 5, 2004

Telstra gained a head start on Australian rival entrants to the third generation mobile phone market with a US$450 million deal to share Hutchison Telecommunications' third generation infrastructure. The agreement ends speculation about whether Australia's biggest telco would build its own infrastru...

Fujitsu and TDK Plan Strategic Alliance

July 29, 2004

Fujitsu and TDK have agreed to form a strategic alliance in the magnetic hard disk drive head business. The agreement covers collaboration in drive head technology. It also covers a joint venture for drive-head manufacture, the companies will launch a new joint venture in the Philippines, where they...

Disk Drive Leader Seagate Introduces Five-Year Warranty

July 26, 2004

Seagate Technology today announced it has introduced a five-year warranty, effective immediately, on every Seagate internal PC, notebook and enterprise hard drive shipped through its distribution and retail channels throughout the world

Infineon and Rosner Partner on Wireless Jacket

July 26, 2004

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...

Prince Charles Attacked for Opinions on Nanotech

July 12, 2004

The British scientific establishment responded with anger Monday to an attack by Prince Charles on nanotechnology -- applied science involving tiny particles. Fertility expert Robert Winston described as "very unfortunate" Charles' renewed attack over the weekend in which he suggested using the tech...

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