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Overall holiday sales for 2006 -- including both online transactions and sales at brick-and-mortar stores -- showed an increase of 4.4 percent over 2005, according to the National Retail Federation. Quarterly growth in 2006 online sales ran in the double digits, and Internet sales are expected to co...
Microsoft's much-anticipated Vista operating system became available to consumers this week, and, as with many new technologies, the excitement was tempered by an atmosphere of caution. So, Vista is finally here. Now what? Because Vista is the first major upgrade to Microsoft's operating system sinc...
Sony's profits are down, while Nintendo's sales are way up. The Wii video game console is selling faster than Nintendo can keep up with. Following Sony's announcement of its disappointing results Tuesday, which it partly blamed on huge costs for the PS3 launch, speculation is running rampant about ...
Sony Ericsson announced on Wednesday it will begin manufacturing low-end color screen and music playing mobile handsets in India through an agreement with its global outsourcing manufacturing partners, Flextronics and Foxconn. The phones, intended for local distribution, will not only offer a compet...
Google has added new security and search features to its smallest search appliance, the Mini, which is designed for the small and medium-size business market. The latest Mini, version 2.2, now has some features previously available only on the company's Search Appliance, Kevin Gough, enterprise prod...
Some bloggers amaze me -- not by what they say, but by how much they say. It seems to me sometimes that a lot of these guys must be sitting in front of their keyboard 18 hours a day filling screen after screen with their prose. Maybe the moles of electrons they produce every day is better described...
Want to put the pedal to the metal? Or maybe teleport to the year 2636 and battle a bevy of aliens bent on dominating Earth? All that and more is possible following the release of four new classic games on Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console. "Mario Kart 64," "Contra III: The Alien Wars," "Bonanza Bros.,...
A problem that arose in NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend means that many of the orbiting telescope's key capabilities may be permanently lost, officials announced Monday. The observatory entered protective "safe mode" on Saturday as a result of a power malfunction in its Advanced Camer...
Consumers got their first official look Tuesday at Microsoft's new operating system Vista. Businesses, though, have been able to eyeball the software since November of last year, and eyeballing seems to be all they're doing with the new OS. "Among my colleagues, none have installed Vista, which is u...
With the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone, smartphones are becoming one of the most hyped categories of consumer technology today. The combination of telephone technology with e-mail, Internet access and multimedia -- among other features -- serves many consumer needs in one tidy, sleek little pa...
Worries over the imminent death of Moore's Law have apparently been greatly exaggerated. At least that is the word following announcements on Saturday from both IBM and Intel that each has developed a new energy-saving microchip design. According to the two chip makers, the advance is the biggest br...
Adobe Systems is moving to have its PDF Version 1.7 specification certified by the global standards setting body -- the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO. As the first step in what typically is a long process, Adobe will release the specs to the AIIM international document manag...
Microsoft is set to begin consumer sales of its new Vista operating system at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, and the software giant is putting considerable marketing muscle behind the long-awaited launch. Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer are expected to kick off U.S. sales of the Windows OS just after...
As Vista launches, I'm in New York thinking back to 1995 when I was attending the Windows 95 launch and imagining what could have been. 1995 was an amazing year. From day one, people were excited about Windows. I remember meeting with Apple and suggesting it really needed to step up its game -- only...
High-tech employment made a strong showing in 2006. Average salaries were on the rise and demand for IT professionals was robust, according to a salary survey released Wednesday by Dice.com, a Web site for high-tech employment opportunities. "2006 has been our first full year of strong demand," John...
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