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Motorola, Nokia and other handset developers are generating plenty of kudos for the designs of sleek, new clamshell mobile phones, but there is less innovation, and more marketing flash, there than meets the eye, experts tell TechNewsWorld A new report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strategy Analytics examined the secrets of the Motorola ...
Research from two separate messaging consultancies indicates that e-mail and instant messaging attacks continued apace in the month of March, but the number of viruses detected surprisingly declined San Carlos, Calif.-based messaging management firm Postini processed more than 23 billion messages and discovered that "unwanted" e-mail messages accou...
Are you addicted to using your mobile phone? Many people are these days. A recent AOL-Pew Research Center Mobile Lifestyle Survey revealed that 52 percent of American adults surveyed keep their cell phone turned on all the time while 40 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 are saying that they are increasingly likely to drop their landline once and for all...
Profit margins for American and Canadian mobile phone carriers are soaring -- having reached the highest point this decade during the fourth quarter of last year EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) margins among North American cellular carriers jumped four percentage points during the fourth quarter of 2005, reac...
His name is Jack Bauer. He's a federal agent, and he has almost no time left to complete his urgent assignment for the President of the United States. So, he's going to have to kill you if you don't cooperate That's a typical, weekly scenario from the smash hit Fox TV drama, "24," starring Kiefer Sutherland....
Call it messaging, multiplied. As the number of modes of delivering messages increases to include e-mail, IM, VoIP, text messaging and voicemail, so do the volumes and different types of messages that companies must manage "Messaging is not just for kids anymore," Brian Hicks, co-director of Independent Mobile, a reseller of mobile technologies bas...
The hype surrounding machine-to-machine communications -- known by the acronym M2M -- is surpassed only by the expense of network transport and the "exorbitant process" of integrating M2M modules into the machines they will monitor Cellular networks are the most likely the M2M enabler, according to a new report from Boston-based Strategy Analytics ...
Former Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) banker Frank Quattrone -- who became a poster boy for all of the excesses of the dot-com era on Wall Street -- recently had his conviction for obstruction of justice overturned by a U.S. Appeals Court in New York City Now, speculation is growing that Quattrone, famed for allegedly inflating the prices of cer...
Is it time to completely replace cable regulation -- rules as dated as black and white televisions? That's the argument being made by economists before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) The comments to the FCC -- based on a study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. -- identify US$8.4 billion in annual costs p...
Back in 1996, I was fortunate enough to be one of the first journalists to cover a national political convention online. This was the Democrat National Convention (DNC) in Chicago -- where Bill Clinton was nominated for President for a second time. I covered the event for HotWired.com, a site published by Wired magazine. In those days, not so long ago, really, we were excited to be reporting about politics, in real-time, on the Internet...
As states and other government jurisdictions continue to enact -- and enforce -- restrictions on the use of cell phones while driving, consumers are suddenly demanding more, easy ways to access their mobile phones and improve their safety A new survey demonstrates that more than 75 percent of cell phone users would like to use speech commands while...
As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is making news this week with the debut of new industry- and country-specific Top Level Domain extensions, the overall market for domain names continues to burgeon dramatically, pointing to continual, solid growth in the global Internet economy Last year saw significant growth across the do...
Unlimited, uncensored access to video featuring Howard Stern may or may not be the epitome of the new era of digital television. Nevertheless the pay television service "Howard TV" and similar offerings are emerging rapidly as the government's deadline requiring conversion from analog to digital TV broadcasting approaches The deadline -- three year...
For more than a decade, marketers have promised that the Internet was going to be a key way that consumers would experience their brands -- someday Someday has finally arrived. The potential of Internet advertising is truly starting to be realized....
A new chip material -- silicon-on-sapphire -- is starting to make an impact on the way mobile phone handsets are produced, helping to fuel a technological "arms race" in the mobile industry, recent research suggests A report by the Boston-based research consultancy Strategy Analytics examined whether silicon-on-sapphire technology was a stop-gap me...
Child pornography on the Internet is a growing problem for countries around the world, new research suggests The Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland reported that consumers served by its members have expressed that they are fed up with the availability of child pornography online. The group said complaints from consumers about illegal...
You're likely to visit the doctor when you have an infection, but what if the e-health records in her office were infected themselves -- with viruses, worms and other malware? That could be detrimental to your health, and depending on the severity of the computer problems, could even change the course of your life. That's not the prognosis you want to hear when you're ill...
Silicon Valley -- the sprawling suburbs of San Francisco and San Jose -- first emerged during the 1960s as a prime location for the Pentagon to conduct research and development work during the Cold War. Will the Silicon Prairie -- the stretch of land between Chicago and downstate Champaign-Urbana -- serve the same function for the War on Terror? Th...
The aging workforce is becoming a significant concern for technology employers in the U.S., where a third of employees will be aged 50 or older in just four years. Ten years ago, the story was the "graying of Japan," where aging workers were expected to be less productive in their golden years as well That prediction turned out to be true -- and a...
Police in Chicago -- and elsewhere in the state of Illinois -- are dramatically expanding the deployment of stealth cameras to catch alleged speeders. The cameras may be a massive invasion of privacy, however, according to some legal experts who are calling for precautions to be taken with the surveillance data Recent moves to install such technolo...
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