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Communications giant BT Group on Monday announced the commercial launch of BT Vision, its new IPTV service. The company is spending about US$198 million to roll out the service with high hopes to attract up to 3 million users and post a profit by the end of 2010. BT Vision combines more than 40 DTT-...
Whether for business or family fun, everybody takes road trips. When traveling to unfamiliar turf, nothing can make the trip more enjoyable than not getting lost. Traditional Global Positioning Software has come a long way. A modern GPS device is something no traveler should leave home -- or office ...
Samsung Electronics and Microsoft will be offering the Samsung Ultra Messaging i600, a full-keyboard phone from Samsung's ultra slim product line powered by Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, in Europe and Asia early next year. The i600 is the first phone to offer High Speed Downlink Packet Access suppor...
As we roll to the end of the year, events continue to take place that are changing dramatically the technologies and environments we live in. Last week, Microsoft had a coming-out party for Vista -- but only for the business market. While most feel it can't ramp up in business until 2008, there is c...
Downloading movies from the Internet may be easier than ever to do, but it isn't necessarily advisable, according to McAfee, which sees trouble ahead with this technology and Internet security. It cites the growing number of video-sharing sites on the Web as a prime target for hackers next year. To ...
How safe is stored e-mail from the prying eyes of government authorities? Not very. It would be a whole lot safer if a decision by a federal judge in Ohio were left standing, according to a trio of civil rights groups. The decision by District Court Judge Susan J. Dlott declared unconstitutional pro...
The U.S. government on Thursday issued a warning to American private financial services of a possible cyber attack by an Islamist militant group against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday. The group, reportedly associated with al-Qaeda, is seeking to hack and destroy the ...
New scientific studies showing that it is possible to slow down the aging process are important for those interested in life extension, but also key for those who want to see greater economic growth. That's because life-extending treatments generate what some call the "longevity dividend" -- an idea...
Just two weeks after the debut of Intel's quad-core chips, AMD on Thursday announced its Quad FX Platform with Dual Socket Direct Connect architecture. AMD is touting the Quad FX as the first dual-socket, multi-core desktop PC platform designed to work with Windows Vista Ultimate. Intel has been acc...
Microsoft on Thursday launched its Windows Vista operating system for businesses, along with Office 2007 suite and Exchange Server 2007. Microsoft made the introduction at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York City. The software giant is also celebrating 20 years as a publicly traded company. After ...
By the end of 2006, Google will stop accepting questions for its Google Answers Web site, one of the many experimental projects launched by the company a few years ago. The service allows anyone to pose a question online and receive an answer for a price. The announcement, made via a blog posting by...
There are programs for creating to-do lists. There are programs for managing projects. Rarely, however, do the twain meet as they do in Priorganizer. The program, by John Wood at Riaform, is priced at US$29.95 like a simple to-do list application -- which is certainly how it can be used -- but it co...
File-sharing vendor BitTorrent on Wednesday announced a slew of partnerships with film and television companies, as it slowly boosts its sullied reputation as a tool for media pirates. The company has reached agreements with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa Pictures USA, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm ...
Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices heard arguments concerning a basic tenet of patent law. In addition to being new, any invention for patent must be deemed "nonobvious" over what is already known; i.e., the innovation must represent some technological advance -- even if slight. The cas...
A bragging Nintendo has declared an early victory over rival Sony in the video console wars. Of the more than 600,000 Nintendo Wii systems sold in the Americas since Nov. 19, 400,000 were sold in the U.S. -- at a rate of nearly one unit sold per second since its launch. Including just first-party so...
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