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Remember the effort it took to put together a photo slideshow? First, you had to load slides into carousels. "Now let me see, should the printing on the slide face me or face away from me? How did that slide get in there upside down? Now it's time to lug the projection screen from the closet." That ...
It used to be that every few years, the business media would report on the latest "slump" in sales of flash memory semiconductors. This was a decades-long trend -- demand would "hot up," as the Brits say, when new PC sales soared, and drop as they dropped. The chipmakers' fortunes no longer parallel...
Hewlett-Packard, like other leading server vendors IBM and Dell, sees a server future that is thin, cool and efficient as the blade server market continues to grow at a steady pace. Thanks to cost-savings, scalability and manageability, thin blade servers are appealing not only to typical, larger hi...
Microsoft on Thursday said it would delay its latest Office suite of software programs. The announcement could be the precursor to further delays of its Windows Vista operating system. Microsoft said it needed to improve the product's performance and design in the wake of feedback from business user...
Endlessly hyped for years, 3G, or third generation, mobile phone technology is today truly taking off. A new research report, by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, demonstrates that more than 100 million people around the globe are now using WCDMA and CDMA2000 1x EV-DO 3G technology on their mobile ph...
Last week, I attended the Dell advisory council meeting and the week before, a similar Hewlett-Packard event. These gave me a chance to look at how both companies are approaching similar problems and to observe that both are demonstrating improving capabilities. Of course, Apple doesn't do adviso...
Military and high power electronic applications are driving the development of new wireless technologies, especially those using Gallium Nitride devices. The growth rate of the market for these GaN devices -- used in the infrastructure of wireless telephony -- is expected to be at an annual rate of ...
In a move that could further accelerate the adoption of mobile video, MobiTV said Thursday it would make available a version of its software designed for smartphones and handheld devices running Windows Mobile 5.0. Windows Mobile devices join the list of gadgets that can be loaded with MobiTV softwa...
The U.S. Senate on Thursday reached a landmark agreement to vote on controversial legislation that would allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The bill, which passed the House a year ago, is expected to gain broad bipartisan support in the Senate when it comes to a vote, likely in ...
Despite lingering concerns and objections from two top safety officials, the crew of the space shuttle Discovery continued with preparations for Saturday's planned launch. NASA reports a 60 percent chance that weather will delay the mission. The Discovery crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Cape...
This week, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved the Communications, Consumer Choice and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006, sponsored by Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). If passed by the full Congress, this massive telecom bill will bring consumers significant benefits, espe...
Voice over Internet Protocol vendor Vonage announced Thursday that it will begin selling a portable VoIP phone that plugs into any PC for voice communications. The new V-Phone, US$39.99 with a $9 activation fee and $15 to $35 service plan for varying numbers of minutes, works wherever users have USB...
The newest hot property in the wireless communications race is the "electronic leash." Employees often joke that their offices keep them on a leash by providing BlackBerries, cell phones and laptops for anytime, anywhere communication. Now the concept has spread to parenting: Parents now have severa...
The World Wide Web Consortium has released guidelines for Web developers to make Internet browsing more mobile-friendly. The powerful industry and standards group said the "important milestone," its Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, would advance its objective of making mobile browsing as easy as deskt...
Five major Internet service companies on Tuesday announced that they are joining with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to launch a US$1 million campaign against child exploitation on the Internet. AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, EarthLink and United Online will fund a new Technology C...
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