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You may have relied on the portable iWay 350C, from Lowrance Electronics, to navigate your latest road trip. In the future, you will probably be able to use your mobile phone from Nokia or Motorola, or another wireless technology developer, for that same task. A research study indicates that at the ...
If you're a woman, you are 25 times more likely to hear filthy come-on lines while online than if you are a man, according to a new study. The research by the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering demonstrates that chat room participants with female user names received 25 ti...
Broadband connectivity is helping France Telecom gain ground -- while AOL is slipping -- in the European Internet Service Provider (ISP) market. With 7.6 million broadband subscribers at the end of last year, France Telecom is the largest broadband service provider in Europe, and holds a tenuous lea...
The market for gallium-arsenide technology -- spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- could ascend to US$3 billion this year. Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will gr...
Demand for noise reduction is the latest trend shaping the design of new mobile phones, this time leading not only to simplified phones, but to new layout and assembly methods. According to findings in the recent Strategy Analytics report, "Filter Market: BAWs Enable Modules for Multi-band Handsets,...
The green technology investment movement is gaining ground. Investors, like AOL founder Steve Case, venture capitalist John Doerr, and Microsoft's Bill Gates, among other luminaries, are pouring millions of dollars into environmentally friendly, or environmentally sound, technologies. "Green-tech co...
In the art house film, "Wit," Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to ...
Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development. The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasona...
New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months. Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrus...
China is now the nation with the second largest number of Internet users -- with 20 million new users going online last year -- and is coming close to the U.S. in terms of total broadband users too, according to a new research report. The total number of Chinese Internet users reached almost 120 mil...
New research released this week indicates that counterfeit drug sales over the Internet are threatening to cause a major, global crisis, one that may harm the health of all. The report, "Counterfeit Drugs: Towards an Irish Response to a Global Crisis," was produced for the IPA by Dublin City Univers...
There are increasing signs of weakness in the U.S. wireless voice market, with the average revenue per user (ARPU) for voice services dropping 8 percent during the last year -- and data services failing to make up the gap, according to a new report. The study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, "Wir...
A recent study by Neurotech Reports said the market for neurotechnology products is poised to become one of the most dramatic growth areas of the 21st century. Encouraged by medical developments and discoveries that cure disease, alleviate suffering, and greatly improve quality of life, many leading...
Consumers focus more on style of the mobile phone, rather than technical functionality, when making purchase decisions, experts tell TechNewsWorld. A report from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the global consulting company, analyzes the reasons for U.S. and Western Europe wireless device purchases...
New wireless video processing chipsets that let consumers capture, store and transfer video between various display devices in the home -- TVs or PCs -- debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The chips were developed by ViXS Systems, a Toronto-based developer of video proce...
Consumers will no longer have to fiddle with headphones and a microphone to make free Internet telephone calls, experts tell TechNewsWorld. Skype, the global Internet communications company, this week introduced a new USB phone adapter that allows regular consumers to use their existing corded or co...
A new survey sponsored by the WiFi Alliance shows that 65 percent of respondents indicate wireless fidelity (WiFi) technology helps them stay in touch with friends and family via tools such as instant messaging and e-mail -- not just business associates or customers. About 1,000 Americans from all ...
A new study released this month at the Frankfurt Motor Show demonstrates that Internet access -- and other high-end digital applications -- will soon drive consumer purchases of automobiles. A copy of the study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics entitled "Frankfurt Motor Show 2005 Introduces Entert...
A new survey indicates that "catastrophic data loss" and network vulnerabilities are the security issues of greatest concern for computer industry leaders today. A copy of the survey, conducted by Milpitas, Calif.-based Phoenix Technologies Ltd., was provided to TechNewsWorld. The opinions were gath...
The U.S. technology economy continues to rebound from the recession of 2001-2003, according to a new Forrester/ITAA U.S. Tech Sector Index. The new "quarterly benchmark" is the most comprehensive measure of the tech economy available and is based on 11 measures of IT demand, supply, and the strength...
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