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AfterIntel announced its new "Leap Ahead" branding effort to go along with its Viiv technology, it was inevitable that chip contenderAMD would soon parade its own digital entertainment initiative. AMD did so at this week's Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, touting its "Live" offering, which already has the support of STMicroelectronics and other technology partners, including Alienware, ATI, Broadcom, Motorola, Nvidia and VIA...
Radio super personality Howard Stern's move to Sirius satellite radio may be a barometer of the new entertainment medium's likelihood to gain mainstream acceptance. While the move is inarguably significant, satellite radio still faces stiff challenges -- including the popularity of Apple's iPods and an upsurge in entertainment programming for mobile phones...
Motorola clearly intends to try again at a cell phone music device, this time turning to its own new iRadio service and parting ways withApple, its partner last year on the largely unsuccessful ROKR phone-MP3 player handset. Motorola also has partnered with Oakley on a pair of ROKR shades ...
It is one of those technologies that has been predicted to explode in popularity, only to be relegated to moderate growth, and while there are still doubts, some indicate that mobile CRM may finally make its move in 2006 ...
France's parliamentary lower house has approved a law that would make the downloading of unlicensed music and movies from peer-to-peer (P2P) services legal with a monthly royalty fee of about US$8 per user ...
The U.S. Congress is plotting out the transition from today's over-the-air analog broadcast television to digital television -- setting a 2009 date and the basic structure for assisting consumers who do not have satellite or cable TV service ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week claimed the CAN-SPAM Act has cut down on the number of unsolicited spam e-mails reaching consumers, indicating the legislation and improved anti-spam technology have resulted in less spam this year compared to 2003 ...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones ...
Security giant McAfee says 2006 may be the year that malicious software takes off on increasingly connected and unprotected smartphones ...
Predictions for the future and realities of the past are being fused together via Internet technology. Increasingly, Web sites and services are popping up that save e-mails for a pre-determined amount of time that a user can send to him or herself in the near or distant future ...
Digital cinema projection and distribution moved one step closer to the mainstream this week as three major theater companies announced their collaboration on a digital cinema business plan ...
Intel will sponsor automobile maker BMW's Sauber F1 racing team and also will partner with the car maker to get more Intel technology into BMW automobiles, the chip giant said this week ...
The HD-DVD next-generation video disc format may be losing one of its biggest advantages over the competing Blu-ray format. Toshiba admitted this week that the Japanese launch of its HD-DVD player has been postponed in the latest of a continuing string of delays. With this news, the technology has lost what could have been at least a six-month head start over Blu-ray...
Mobile phone giant Sprint Nextel is reportedly set to offer movies for its cell phone subscribers through a subscription service, a strategy analysts said will likely struggle against limited demand for small-screen content. The company's mobile devices will accommodate downloads of full-length feature films ...
At long last, the mobile WiMAX specification, a wide-area wireless solution that extends bandwidth and connectivity, has been ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), clearing the way for standard equipment that uses the technology ...
The only figure that is larger than the 81 percent of home PCs that lack critical security applications such as anti-virus, anti-spyware or firewall software is the 83 percent of home PC users who falsely believe they are safe from online theft of information and identity, according to AOL's latest Online Safety study ...
Media giant News Corp. is looking to weigh in bigger online, telling investors this week that it intends to build on the success of its MySpace.com site, will show some of its television programming exclusively on the Internet, and will try its hand at Web search ...
IBM announced its latest "self-healing" software, touting a sidestep to IT staff-stealing glitches and other outages through managed monitoring, application manager, and multi-platform system automation software ...
Microsoft is testing its new comprehensive security software and service, dubbed OneCare Live, promising a simpler solution to anti-virus, firewall and backup, but has not released pricing for the new product due out in final form next year ...
Just as it helped spawn a movement toward its wireless technology with Centrino, Intel is looking to put the PC in the pole position for home entertainment with its Viiv platform that is now supported by more than 40 software, content and service companies, including TiVo ...
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