- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
- Welcome Guest
- Sign In
IBM researchers are touting a new tiny optical transceiver chipset that can move data at speeds up to 160 GB per second, which is eight times faster than previous optical components. The new chipset generates fast data transfer rates because it uses light pulses to move data instead of sending elect...
Helio, the mobile communication joint venture of SK Telecom and Earthlink, has introduced a new device called "Ocean," asserting it is the world's first dual-slider with both a numeric keypad and a separate full QWERTY keyboard. The unit is being billed by Helio as "the ultimate social networking to...
Last week Apple TV launched, and it appears Apple is following a similar script to what made the iPod a success -- but will it work this time? With the U.S. primaries coming up, and the incredibly well done remake of the famous 1984 Apple Ad playing a big role, I thought it would be good to remind y...
Nokia has started shipping its first phone with built-in GPS capabilities and a host of other applications. The Finnish company said the N95 mobile phone, now available in Europe and Asia, is a slider-type device with a 5 megapixel camera for shooting photos and 30 frames-per-second video. However, ...
The less-than-stellar sales for Sony's next-generation video game console PlayStation 3 continued Thursday as the platform was made available in Europe. According to reports from around Europe, the scene bore little resemblance to the frenzy that greeted the release of the PlayStation 2 console in 2...
The industry-rocking news that NBC and News Corp. plan to start their own video broadcasting Internet site -- which will include partnerships with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo, not to mention Fox, which is owned by News Corp. -- has the potential to radically reshape the online video world. The yet-t...
The popularity of social networking sites like MySpace and user-generated content sites like YouTube are inducing traditional news organizations to rethink their approach to the Web. Outfits like Fox News, CNN, USA Today and MSNBC have begun to incorporate social networking tools into their sites, a...
Telecommunications giant AT&T is betting $4.6 billion that there is a big future in selling video services over the Internet. The San Antonio-based company will offer its own version of cable television and high-speed Internet services under its "U-verse" brand. U-verse OnTheGo is a premium serv...
Ill-willed players on the Microsoft Xbox Live system managed to gain access to other players' accounts by using pretexting and other forms of social engineering to trick customer service staffers into revealing private information. By making numerous calls to the Xbox Live customer support center, t...
Roughly two weeks and 2 million viewings since the controversial "Hillary 1984" video was posted on YouTube, its maker has stepped forward: It's Phil de Vellis, an Internet professional, and he's "proud of it." In a post on the Huffington Post Web site on Wednesday afternoon, de Vellis -- a strategi...
Rumors have been circulating for months about a black Xbox 360, and now they appear to be confirmed: The Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite, due at the end of April, will reportedly be shipped in black -- but just for a limited time. With HDMI output and a 120 GB hard drive, the $479 Xbox 360 Elite will inclu...
Bill Gates is not used to finishing in second place but the Microsoft chairman did just that this week, losing a virtual soccer match on penalty kicks to star Mexican player Rafael Marquez 2-1. Commemorating Microsoft's 20th anniversary in Mexico, Gates dropped the match to the international soccer ...
Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increas...
Vowing to play a "powerful role" in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, MySpace.com has introduced a portal featuring candidate-created profiles as well as voter-registration tools, job listings, videos, "friends" pages and other political content. MySpace expects the new portal, dubbed "The Impact...
There are two utilities that I've found essential in my day-to-day operations with Windows. One is a clipboard extender -- a program that archives anything cut or copied to the Windows clipboard. The other is a screen capture application. Screen capture programs allow you to create images from whate...
Loading ...
