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23.10.2006 06:35
Headphones get smarter; New stand lets iPod and viewers kick back; This is a pet rock for the 21st Century Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Seductively lighted music players may be hogging retail shelf space, but their overshadowed cousin, the portable media player, is looking increasingly attractive. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
The gulf between mobile phone and personal computer narrowed a bit more on Wednesday when Microsoft's chief executive, Steven Ballmer, announced an "instant messaging" product to be offered by Orange, a European cellphone carrier. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
EBay on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected profit for the third quarter after online payment services spurred revenue growth. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Three times a second, day and night, a copy of VLC gets downloaded from the servers based in Paris of a group called the VideoLAN Project. There is one central reason its popularity: It is the program to get if you are having trouble playing some video or audio format on your personal computer. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Also: BenQ's German unit to eliminate 2,000 jobs; Polish telecom to open network to Tele2; Russian price-fixing case dismissed; Verizon proposes the Web for a day Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
An online service called Second Life that allows computer users to create a new and improved digital version of themselves, began in 1999 as a kind of online video game. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
The young founders of YouTube may have been the biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65 billion deal with Google, but they have some unexpected bedfellows - old-line media companies that had been considered YouTube's biggest legal threat. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Apple Computer shares have surged as a result of 27 percent growth in quarterly profit on strong Macintosh and iPod sales. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Ericsson, the largest maker of mobile phone networks, said that its third-quarter profit grew 17 percent, the first increase this year, bolstered by strong results at its co-owned cellphone maker Sony Ericsson. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
NBC Universal said Thursday that it would cut 700 jobs and streamline its news operations as part of an overhaul aimed at exploiting new forms of electronic distribution. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, reported disappointing third-quarter results Thursday as it sold more inexpensive models in markets like China and India, hurting its profit margin. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
In yet another setback, Sony postponed the introduction of a television technology device promised for next week to do more tests. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Cellphones have changed the way we talk to each other, revolutionized our jobs and democratized the news media by enabling passers-by to photograph extraordinary events. But in most cases, their design has been sorely lacking. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Google reaped international attention for its purchase of the top video- sharing Web site, YouTube. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
Workers installing a high-performance glass fiber network in Cologne to connect residents to the world's fastest broadband Internet network, NetCologne, a competitor of Deutsche Telekom. Alternative carriers are gradually becoming significant contenders in Europe. Read more…
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23.10.2006 06:35
When Ken Crangle, a Hewlett-Packard executive in Corvallis, Oregon, wants to meet with colleagues in farflung corners of the world, he avoids the airport and instead walks down the hall to a room equipped with $425,000 worth of communications gear. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
Word arrives that Google, the "don't be evil" search engine company that may yet take over all our computer desktops, Mac and Windows alike, is retaining high-powered lobbyists to represent its interests in this most political of towns. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
Last week's announcement that the consumer version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista drew more than a little speculation about what's wrong in Redmond, Washington and why. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
This morning, while trying to avoid committing a felony in the District - i.e., holding a cell phone to the side of my head - I had yet another reminder of what is just about the only frustration of my Cingular Wireless service. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
The death announcement came via press release: America Online is now simply AOL, effective immediately. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
From a news release by The Seniors Coalition, we learn that grandma and grandpa aren't hep to the idea of a new telephone tax shift. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
...So a friend and I were chatting today; their next big purchase, they said, was a notebook to replace an older, last-century model. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
How important is it to have good digital photographs? For me, it's a big part of my day job, but also a big part of my life. Read more…
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23.10.2006 09:00
Imagine the best of both worlds, where you can boot up a computer and choose the operating system you want to use - Microsoft's Windows XP or Apple's Mac OS X. Read more…
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