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MTI Micro and NeoSolar, a portable device manufacturer known in some markets as "Wibrain," announced a deal Thursday to develop fuel cells for NeoSolar's portable devices including its ultra mobile personal computers (UMPC). The two companies will use MTI Micro's Mobion fuel cell technology to ultimately build external Mobion power sources such as...
Yahoo-owned Flickr and Getty Images have inked a deal that could help photographers with pictures posted on the photo sharing site hook their work up with the largest media licensing company in the world. The effort, dubbed "The Flickr Collection on Getty Images" is the culmination of a longterm desire to create a way for consumers in the digital...
Microsoft issued a warning Monday about targeted attacks attempting to exploit a bug in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in its Access database management application. The ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access enables users to view a snapshot of an Access report without having the standard or run-time versions of ...
Electronic Arts (EA) and Hasbro have announced the release of a legit version of Scrabble for Facebook. The iconic word game will launch in mid-July for Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada. A version can currently be played through the gaming site Pogo.com The release sets up a showdown between the Hasbro-sanctioned Scrabble and the unauthorized ...
Pioneer unveiled a new optical disc Monday that could theoretically hold the entire contents of the average consumer's hard drive plus some -- if it were rewritable The Japanese electronics manufacturer has created the world's first 16-layer disc that squeezes 25GB on each level. The disc, however, is read-only, meaning the information on it cannot...
Sony's 2.40 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 video game console ran into problems less than an hour after the company made it available for download Wednesday. Owners began reporting problems as a result of the download on the PS3 Forum, leading Sony to pull the update from availability "A limited number of PS3 users have reported that the XMB...
Microsoft on Wednesday took the wrapper off its new subscription service, formerly code-named "Albany." The company had previously been operating a beta version of the service The service, Microsoft Equipt, combines applications from the software maker's Office productivity suite and its Live OneCare, an all-in-one security and PC management servic...
Following its failed effort to curb youngsters' access to video games with "Mature" or "Adults Only" ratings by fining kids for obtaining them, the state of Minnesota on Monday was the one paying The state paid the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) US$65,000, reimbursing the organization for attorney fees and expenses that resulted from the ...
Adobe, Google and Yahoo have joined forces to add dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs) to search results. The two search companies will use an optimized version of Adobe's Flash Player technology to improve their engines' abilities to index the Flash file format (SWF) and scan information contained within the files This, accord...
Sony announced a crop of new features and functionalities for the PlayStation 3 Monday Additions in the 2.40 firmware update include in-game XrossMediaBar (XMB) access that will enable players to communicate with other gamers on their PlayStation Network (PSN) friends list -- now doubled in size to hold 100 contacts -- as well as access other featu...
New research has suggested that technology-based, non-invasive and drug-free techniques may be effective at relieving pain for some migraine sufferers, according to a study presented at the annual American Headache Society meeting in Boston. The treatment used in clinical trials conducted by Dr. Richard B. Lipton, a researcher in the cause and tre...
Google and Microsoft have teamed with Intuit, WebMD and a consortium of more than 100 healthcare providers, insurers and consumer and privacy groups to develop a framework of practices governing online personal health record (PHR) services. Under the leadership of the Markle Foundation, the Connecting for Health guidelines are an effort by PHR ser...
Publicis Groupe announced a new initiative Wednesday with which the French media holding company aims to boost the performance of advertisers' marketing investments. It's a move made to enhance Publicis' profile in the continually expanding global digital and new media markets Dubbed the "VivaKi Nerve Center," the new platform will leverage Publici...
T-Mobile is adding Voice over IP (VoIP) to its list of offerings, the wireless carrier announced Wednesday. The new service, T-Mobile @Home, will enable subscribers to switch from traditional wireline plans but continue using their current telephone, the service for which can be rolled into another T-Mobile service plan, the company said The cell p...
Microsoft announced Tuesday that while it will move forward with its plans to discontinue sales of its Windows XP operating system, it will continue to provide support for the software for another six years Microsoft announced in 2007 that it would extend the sales period for Windows XP until June 30, 2008. With that deadline set to expire in less ...
Fifty-one of the country's 60 largest metropolitan areas made gains in tech employment in 2006, the most recent year from which data was available, according to the American Electronics Association, a technology trade group The report is the first comprehensive survey on the state of high-tech jobs in cities by the AeA since 2000 -- just prior to t...
In the run-up to the launch of "Spore," the latest creation from "The Sims" creator Will Wright, Electronic Arts has released "Spore Creature Creator," a sort of prequel to the full game, which is set for release in September "Spore" is a massively single-player online game that puts the power of biological evolution in the hands of its players.
The WiMax Forum on Tuesday announced that 10 mobile WiMax products have received the organization's seal of approval for the 2.5 GHz frequency Tuesday. The designation, according to the group, indicates that each product has met the forum's interoperability and conformance standards The four base stations and six mobile station modules, or terminal...
IBM claimed bragging rights Wednesday as its Roadrunner supercomputer earned the title of the world's most powerful supercomputer. The ranking, bestowed during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, is a biannual event that ranks the 500 most powerful computers around the world The Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Departmen...
The race for the thinnest, lightest notebook in the land continued Tuesday with the debut of Toshiba's Portege R500-S5007V. The latest model adds a 128 GB solid-state drive (SSD) -- the only one available on the market, according to the computer maker. "From a product perspective it is a stellar product," J.P. Gownder, principal analyst at Forrest...
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