Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel plans to proclaim Wednesday in Shanghai that the next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the “Internet in your pocket.” — The challenge for the giant chip maker will be to p...
Children flock to social networks
More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows. — Most sites, such as Bebo, MySpace and Facebook, set a minimum age of between 13 and 14 to...
ISO/IEC DIS 29500 receives necessary votes for approval as an International Standard
ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology - Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard. — Approval required at least 2...
Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service
Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message. — To use the service, customers text the name of a product, its descript...
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing
Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. — This is the bleak forecast of the Society of Authors...
The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry
Quick Facts — The Apple iPhone is easily the most publicized new mobile device in recent memory. But despite all the discussion about the product, there's relatively little hard information availab...
Is sharing a folder copyright infringement?
$10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — A US Judge on Monday upheld the view that sharing copyrighted music is infringement. It's a defeat for defendant Denise Barker and the Electron...
Blinkx Launches Yet Another Online TV Service
After Joost, Babelgum, iPlayer, Livestation, Vuze et al comes yet another online TV platform. Web video search index Blinkx is branching farther out in to distribution by launching its own version - ...