Formerly bitter rivals Palm and Microsoft announced an alliance this week in hopes of strengthening both companies in smartphone technology, devices that combine mobile phone functionality and Internet connectivity. And what makes two enemies that have fought fiercely over the mobile handset space c...
Last week's column covered much of the breadth of software inside Windows Vista. The piece addressed some of the features that probably were not widely known and covered likely competitive threats to Apple and Linux. To refresh, Apple is going into the Vista launch weaker and much less differentiat...
Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry. At a press conference held in Seoul, Dr. Chang-Gyu Hwang, Samsung's semiconductor business president and CEO, introduced a 16 Gb NAND flash memory, a 7.2 Megapixel CMOS image sens...
Verizon is moving forward aggressively with plans to expand its broadband offerings, throughout the U.S. But experts tell TechNewsWorld that the moves are necessary, and timely, because broadband competition is rapidly accelerating, especially in the wireless market. Last week, Verizon began offeri...
Consortia led by Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink are the finalists for a proposed city-wide WiFi network in Philadelphia that government officials hope to have online within two months. While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is making headlines in the west, back east, the city WiFi network is close to...
Amid an apparent struggling market over the last two and a half years, personal digital assistants (PDAs) are growing in popularity and moving the handheld segment market positively toward a record year in 2005, research firm Gartner said this week. In its recent report on PDAs -- defined to include...
In a move to compete against search rivals in the mobile phone market, AOL yesterday said it is testing a suite of new services in the United States that will allow cell phone users to scour the Web. The new beta services include AOL Search Service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. The...
In a move to compete against search rivals in the mobile phone market, AOL today said it is testing a suite of new services in the United States that will allow cell phone users to scour the Web. The new beta services include AOL Search Service, Pinpoint Shopping Search and AOL Yellow Pages. The fea...
Yahoo today added the ability to query its search engine through a short text message on a mobile phone in the United States. Yahoo SMS Search can be used to get weather, local listings, stock quotes and other short bits of information, which analysts say is the way we will gather much data in the f...
Communication security experts do not all agree that cell phone and mobile device viruses pose imminent threats to U.S. consumers. Whether virus attacks become a problem in six months or five years might depend on how cell phone carriers react now to the threat potential. A Gartner report by securit...
XM Satellite Radio today announced an exclusive strategic relationship with Audible through which it will introduce portable, handheld satellite radio devices capable of providing content from both companies in 2006. XM offers more than 150 digital radio channels of commercial-free music and talk ra...
In the comic book series X-Men, Magneto is a supervillain bent on world domination. Microsoft is associating its Magneto with world domination, too -- domination of the global mobile operating system market. Magneto, the code name for version five of the Redmond, Wash., software maker's mobile opera...
Fuel cell technology for big-ticket consumer items like automobiles is still many years away, based on numerous industry reports. However, the day when portable devices like laptop computers, PDAs and cell phones can run for extended time periods without refueling is indeed much closer. High-demand ...
Qualcomm plans to support Linux in its next-generation mobile phone chips in a move that will allow handset manufacturers to design new high-end 3G devices using the open-source platform and the CDMA digital wireless technology it created. A Gartner report issued this week said a demand for devices ...
Buoyed by a significant increase in the number of RIM Blackberry's, the PDA market is showing surprising growth, according to sales figures from research firm Gartner. Gartner, which breaks the market into data-centric or voice-centric devices, said that worldwide data-centric PDA shipments increase...
Yes, communities and infrastructure can't keep up
Some projects are moving too fast
No, expansion is needed to meet demand
The pace seems about right
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AI’s Real Bottleneck Is Power, Not Compute
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Experity AI Care Agent Helps Cut Admin Workload in Urgent Care
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Calix in 2026: A Quiet AI Power Play for Smaller Broadband Providers
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Law Firms Grapple With Hallucinated Legal Logic, Shadow AI
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Malicious Traffic Surges 245% Since Iran War Began
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AI Apps Generate Revenue but Struggle With Retention
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Google and MediaTek Move to Challenge the PC Status Quo
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Meta Enlists AI to Enforce Age Restrictions
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Robotics Framework Aims to Prevent Conflicts in Shared Spaces
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Favored Google Search Results Can Cost Consumers Cash
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Australia Bans Social Media Accounts for Minors
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