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Sony is telling its robotic dog Aibo, as well as the rest of its robotics program, to lie down and play dead as the electronics giant continues to cut projects and products in search of profitability. Although the robot dog and Sony's bi-pedal Qrio robots gained some traction among consumers, mostly...
Yahoo and Linksys on Thursday said they have developed a new plug-in that allows people to stream music from Yahoo Music on a PC to their home stereo. The transfer is made possible using Linksys' Wireless-G Music Bridge. The software is integrated into both the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge and th...
EMC on Thursday introduced a new suite of storage and virtualization solutions for the enterprise. EMC hopes its new product lineup will help customers bring more of their information together for improved economics and management. The new solutions are designed to extend the benefits of information...
Google recently created a public-relations firestorm when it unveiled a new search site in China that censors data on behalf of the Chinese government. Though the search giant's success stems from its birth in a free country, that doesn't mean the company is strong enough to enforce freedom around t...
Microsoft has formed Live Labs, a new research partnership meant to jump-start its Windows Live initiative by investigating new Internet-centric technologies and products that offer commercial possibilities. Windows Live is a free ad-supported service that helps users develop their own online deskto...
The world's biggest chip company is taking its technology smaller, announcing this week it has hit the 45-nanometer (nm) milestone with its "next-generation, high-volume" semiconductor manufacturing process. Intel is on track to create chips smaller than the current 65-nm and 90-nm variety by next y...
The Internet and e-mail help to expand and strengthen the social ties that people maintain in the offline world, according to a new report released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, "The Strength of Internet Ties," highlights how e-mail supplements, rather than repla...
The global market for high-definition televisions (HDTV) and their ancillary products -- personal video recorders, DVD players, game consoles and set-top boxes -- will eclipse US$25 billion this year, according to a report released Wednesday by ABI Research, of Oyster Bay, N.Y. As the HDTV market gr...
New research indicates that the number of mobile phone subscribers will increase by upwards of 50 percent in the next four years. According to the latest research from the wireless network strategies service of Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the mobile industry is on course for 2.5 billion subscri...
Academic officials from Oxford University and Harvard Law School announced Wednesday a plan to publish the names of "badware" senders in an attempt to thwart makers of malicious software such as viruses, worms, deceptive adware and spyware. The new initiative, StopBadware.org will also involve promi...
Ask Jeeves this week announced the launch of its first proprietary image search technology. The company also unveiled plans to move into Germany with a locally targeted search site. Ask Jeeves' new technology includes its first internally created index of Web images, further improvements to its imag...
Looking for a new cellular service? If so, there are more choices available now than just those from traditional carriers, such as Cingular and T-Mobile USA. Increasingly companies like ESPN and its parent, the Walt Disney Co., are entering the cellular services market, too. "Many firms view offerin...
IBM introduced the next version of its corporate messaging software, Lotus Sametime 7.5, at the Lotusphere show in Orlando, Florida, along with several new partner-enabled applications for the Lotus platform -- such as video conferencing, VoIP and compliance technology. What is catching the eye of m...
News programming channel Times Now will put video news content on Reliance India Mobile cell phones in India, a potentially huge marketplace that has shown early demand for mobile video. The companies announced Tuesday that English-language Indian news programming for mobile phones will soon be offe...
Opera Software is going smaller in order to get bigger. The Norwegian browser maker on Tuesday announced the worldwide release of Opera Mini, a full Web browser that runs on a wide variety of mobile phones, including low- and mid-end handsets. "With Opera Mini most people can start surfing the Web w...
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