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Increasingly, users are working with cell phones and PDAs to access data. Because finding desired information can be a challenge, companies such as America Online, Google and Yahoo developed search services specifically geared to mobile users. "Mobile search is an area of keen interest to both users...
The last time Microsoft introduced a security service pack -- Windows Service Pack 2 in mid-2004 -- the market could hardly wait. Viruses, worms and other Internet malware were disrupting companies' and individuals' computer use on a regular basis. When Microsoft finally unveiled the long-awaited fi...
Mobile PCs are becoming more competitive with their desktop cousins, thanks to larger hard-drive capacities. New perpendicular recording technology has allowed Seagate to sink a 160-GB drive, dubbed "Momentus," into the notebook form factor. Seagate's 2.5-inch disc drive is closing the capacity and ...
Buzz continues to grow around the prospect of watching television, movies and other valuable video programming on mobile phones and personal handheld devices, but it is still too soon to tell whether a solid marketplace will emerge for these services, considering the small screen size, bandwidth nee...
Motorola on Tuesday announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire a Swedish developer of Internet protocol-based digital set-top boxes. Motorola will purchase open-source technology vendor Kreatel Communications, which provides a combination of set-top boxes, software and professional servic...
Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development. The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasona...
Wireless carriers including Sprint and Verizon and a slew of enthusiastic advertisers are poised to boost their efforts to market to mobile phone users later this quarter, prompting many to contemplate the annoyance factor of what could result in more ringing, banner ads on handsets and targeted tex...
A bill to place copying controls on the conversion of analog signals into digital form is coming under fire from technologists and civil libertarians. The measure, filed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and his colleague John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), is aimed at ...
If corporate managers have Sarbanes-Oxley compliance to blame for late nights and lost sleep, those in the livestock and poultry industries have plenty of compliance worries of their own, triggered by NAIS, which stands for the National Animal Identification System. NAIS is a multi-year, phased-in p...
European leaders' call for European competition to U.S. search and software giants such as Google, MSN and Yahoo is now being answered by some of the continent's largest media and technology companies, which are reportedly collaborating on a multinational, multimedia search project. French President...
New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months. Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrus...
Nikon on Wednesday said it would stop making most of its film camera products in favor of its digital line. Nikon's digital lineup has become an increasingly successful part of its business over the past seven years. In fact, digital cameras make up more than 95 percent of Nikon's UK business. "This...
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to auction wireless spectrum to allow in-flight voice and data high-speed Internet connectivity services on U.S. airlines for the first time. While Verizon has already been providing in-flight phone services via its FCC-allocated wireless spectrum, t...
Anyone who purchased clear sunscreen or wore stain-resistant pants during the holidays was probably enjoying the benefits of commercialized nanotechnology. While nanotech advances are exciting, some observers dangerously press for greater government oversight in the sector. Nanotechnology, the mani...
China is now the nation with the second largest number of Internet users -- with 20 million new users going online last year -- and is coming close to the U.S. in terms of total broadband users too, according to a new research report. The total number of Chinese Internet users reached almost 120 mil...
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