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The U.S. government has finalized plans to implant RFID tags in all newly issued or renewed passports beginning October 2006. The State Department issued new regulations earlier this week, despite concerns from privacy advocates that the chips will pose threats on several different fronts, including...
Revolutionary innovation and competition have shaken up the telecommunications sector, prompting at least three important mergers. Government officials who set the rules of the game are now faced with key decisions that will affect the future of communications in America. Federal regulators may app...
Stanford University researchers claimed a major step toward optical computing, which speeds data delivery -- by using light instead of electricity -- through materials already common in the semiconductor industry. The research, detailed in the latest version of the science journal Nature, involved t...
Gamers who dream of developing products for Sony's soon-to-be-released PlayStation 3 and its PlayStation Portable handheld will soon get their chance. The electronics giant will launch its latest Sony Game Yaroze! -- which means "Let's Play Games" -- on Nov. 15 and accept entries from amateur and pr...
Zi Corporation yesterday said it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo to provide the video game giant's developers the ability to employ its handwriting recognition technology. Zi Corp., a Canadian intelligent interface software provider, said Nintendo plans to use its Decuma technology to...
Ease of use and design -- not features -- are critical components to consumers' satisfaction with their cell phones, according to a study released yesterday. In fact, as handset makers continue to wedge more and more bells and whistles into their diminutive devices, those aspects of a mobile phone b...
Lurking behind that spooky haunted house -- whether it be next door or at the local amusement park -- are embedded computing devices and other bits of engineering magic that, while not the highest tech gadgets on the market, sure come in handy when the Jedis, ninjas, princesses and witches come arou...
Going where Google has stumbled, Microsoft said this week its MSN Search will include a Book Search tool, beginning with public domain and non-copyrighted materials in beta software, and scheduled for next year. The software giant also announced its intention for MSN to join the Open Content Allianc...
The U.S. government has finalized plans to implant RFID tags in all newly issued or renewed passports beginning October 2006. The State Department issued new regulations yesterday, despite concerns from privacy advocates that the chips will pose threats on several different fronts, including the abi...
Hong Kong officials have successfully prosecuted a BitTorrent user for sharing three copyrighted movies on the file-sharing network. The user faces up to four years in jail and a fine of up to about US$6,400. He had pleaded not guilty to copyright infringement for sharing movies "Miss Congeniality,"...
The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still s...
The fastest-growing technology companies in North America are still growing at a rapid rate, but a maturation of tech sub-industries and health of the bigger players has apparently slowed the growth rate, according to the latest Fast 500 Ranking from Deloitte & Touche. Naming mostly software and...
Intel this week signaled changes and delays in its road map for its Xeon and Itanium processors, stirring some speculation that rival AMD is forcing the server chip adjustments with its own success in the space. Industry analysts, however, said the alterations are too long term to have much impact, ...
Yahoo continued to raise the ante for content portals on the Net with the launch yesterday of a new original multimedia series by the pasha of adventure travel Richard Bangs. Bangs' initial package for the content aggregator chronicles a climb of the Eiger by John Harlin III whose father died scali...
The Recording Industry Association of America may be feeding judges inaccurate technical "evidence" which is being believed as though it comes from a reliable source, according to Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer who's representing victims being sued by the Big Four music cartel-owned organization. ...
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