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Cellular data services have spawned an array of acronyms, including W-CDMA, WiFi, WiMax, and CDMA2000 1x EvDO. For those enamored by abbreviations, one more is about to emerge -- WiBro -- which stands for wireless broadband. South Korean government officials, network equipment companies, and cellula...
Universities and digital freedom organizations are filing appeals to the Federal Communications Commission's call for phone-system wiretapping on the Internet, complaining of the expense of compliance and negative effect on innovation. A requirement that universities, carriers and other Internet ser...
Last week was another interesting week. So far, this month the biggest announcements have largely been about Apple. As expected, Apple refreshed some of its product offerings. This should be the last significant release of many of these products before the Intel-based replacements start to arrive in...
A number of non-profit alliances are actively promoting home networking technologies, perhaps providing the momentum to make the "smart home" a reality in the coming years. Eventually, home networks will become reliable enough to be managed from a distance -- when the homeowner is at work or on the ...
New product introductions, portfolio refreshes, and exciting new form factors helped spur growth in the worldwide mobile phone market during the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC, with Nokia continuing to dominate the market. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker reports worldwide mob...
OpenOffice.org 2.0, the first release of the open-source productivity suite in two years, made its debut today, complete with major renovations. The OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors banded together to support and promote OpenOffice.org, is behind the soft...
The next time you print a summary of your favorite James Bond film, you should consider that there might be more than one spy on the page. That's because printer manufacturers and the U.S. Secret Service have been quietly collaborating to track documents -- a worrisome revelation. An announcement by...
IBM said it had created a computerized approach to help the National Football League organize, store and retrieve a massive catalog of game footage, a project Big Blue hopes can become a model for others with similar expanses of data to store. The company said the solution, known as Digital Foundati...
Microsoft is streamlining its Shared Source Initiative, cutting seven of its 10 templates in an effort to simplify its licenses governing source code releases. The software giant said the Microsoft Permissive License, Microsoft Community License, and Microsoft Reference License are short and easy to...
Pressure to make more consumer friendly a standard for the next generation of DVDs continued to mount yesterday. Boston-based Forrester Research predicted a victory for that standard, Blu-ray, over its rival, HD-DVD, but only a Pyrrhic one if the tough digital rights management (DRM) scheme incorpor...
Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys to their creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand a...
Hewlett-Packard and Cingular are touting their collaboration on the new iPaq 6500 series, heralding the Pocket PC handhelds as the first in the U.S. capable of connecting via Cingular's high-speed EDGE wireless network. The companies said they would cram digital wireless voice and data capability, g...
On the heels of the release of its new lineup of advanced LCD monitor displays tailored to the Pro A/V and corporate communities, Samsung Electronics today said it aims to double its annual sales of LCD panels to US$20 billion by 2010. The Korean electronics giant predicts the worldwide market for f...
IBM announced yesterday that it has bought DataPower, a private maker of devices that speed the processing of XML (extensible markup language). The move is a good one for IBM, because "it's one of those acquisitions that stretches across the breadth of the company," Frank Dzubeck, president, Communi...
Clandestine codes used to track the output of some color laser printers have been cracked by a research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). According to the organization, the codes are part of a deal cut by the U.S. Secret Service with some printer makers to help curb the counterfe...
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