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Texas Instruments and Nokia announced today that a new single-chip mobile phone solution will take cutting-edge chips to the volume market of simple mobile phones. Delivering on a promise to provide a single processor with digital baseband, memory, logic, radio frequency, power management and analog...
Frustrated by the modest pace of grid computing, four of the world's top enterprise technology companies have joined to form a new trade group aimed at speeding up enterprise use of grid computing. The Globus Consortium, which is backed by IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun and Intel as well as some smaller ...
This month we've seen a number of vendors present their views of the next generation of the personal computer, starting with the traditional PC vendors at CES and ending with Apple at MacWorld. Let's spend this week talking a bit about the different camps. While it goes without saying that each is ...
Imagine being able to have complete access to your hard drive and the corporate LAN in a device no bigger than a cell phone. No, Realm Systems isn't developing the next generation of the super small PDA. It just completed more than two years of research and development for a concept for the first ge...
In a clever twist on mass-mailed malware, a new worm masquerades as a CNN breaking news bulletin complete with updated headlines to mimic the stories appearing on CNN.com. The content of the e-mail also comes directly from the news site. Astute e-mail users will note, however, that the bogus e-mail ...
Sony seems to be finding success for its portable PlayStation, or PSP, with nearly a million units shipped in less than two months, but that is not stopping the electronics giant from planning new features for the device. In a recent talk, Sony executive Ken Kutaragi boasted of 800,000 PSP units shi...
While American soldiers risk their lives overseas to protect freedom, broadcasters at home are cowering in the shadows of government censors. The latest story involves Fox Network's decision to electronically blur a cartoon character's posterior for fear of being fined by the Federal Communications...
Microsoft today upped the ante on Web-based consumer services, announcing Microsoft Office Outlook Live, which synchronizes Outlook and Hotmail content. The service will cost $59.95 a year but is being offered through April 19 for $44.95. For that price, consumers get the downloadable Outlook 2003 f...
Wireless access to the Internet through WiFi hot spots is widening to include more public places, but users of the often free wireless networks are being warned that security risks are also growing. The most recent cautionary advice came from UK researchers at Cranfield University who indicated "evi...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the me...
NASA's rovers keep rolling toward fresh discoveries. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite ever identified on another planet, according to officials with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. Spectrometers on Opportunity determined that th...
In October, IBM released its first ThinkPad with a built-in thumb print reader that tied a scanner device to a security chip for added security. Company officials heralded the new product amid high hopes that this first of its kind biometrics security subsystem will set a new standard for computer m...
Electronics giant Toshiba this week announced new software that turns mobile phones into remote access controllers for PCs, allowing users to access the Internet and e-mail with a PC desktop displayed on a handset. The software, dubbed "Ubiquitous Viewer," provides access to Windows computers and in...
Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet are still trying to come up with ways to make money out of their TrueNames DRM project. Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise, almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwar...
Google added to its big picture today with the release of Picasa 2 photo management software. The search engine company is giving away the new release, a major upgrade from the first version, which it acquired when it purchased its developer, also named Picasa, in July. It offers tools for searching...
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