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The worldwide market for handheld devices experienced its seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2005, according to IDC's Worldwide Handheld QView IDC reports device shipments decreased 16.9 percent year over year and fell 8.8 percent sequentially in third quarter of 2005 to 1.6 million units....

Riding strong demand for personal computers, Microsoft managed to beat analysts expectations for earnings, with income rising 24 percent, but analysts say the software giant's results had some weak spots, including in the online arena Microsoft said revenue in its first fiscal quarter rose 6 percent to US$9.74 billion compared to $9.19 billion a ye...

The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) yesterday announced several breakthroughs in the fight against its nemesis The alliance of technology companies and public interest groups has decided on a definition for the unwanted and often dangerous spyware infesting computers, and has created a risk modeling document that outlines objective criteria for anti-s...

The latest gold rush is on. It's the Chinese broadband market, and just like the award-winning film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" the market is a labyrinth made up of many plots and lessons, accented with plenty of action Why This One Counts...

One might not associate sophisticated crimes such as mass spamming, dedicated denial of service (DDOS) attacks, or identity theft with a mindless zombie, but the computer variety of the monsters in compromised PC form are doing all of that and more In response to the threat, Microsoft, the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Action have unveiled ...

The U.S. government has finalized plans to implant RFID tags in all newly issued or renewed passports beginning October 2006. The State Department issued new regulations earlier this week, despite concerns from privacy advocates that the chips will pose threats on several different fronts, including the ability to track citizens' movements via the chip in their passports...

Are you or your company considering a business acquisition? If so, there is no escaping the need to perform thorough and competent due diligence on your acquisition target Due diligence, in the context of this article, can be defined as a complete investigation of an intended acquisition. This investigation of the prospect must include all of its i...

The boy who hacked celebrity heiress and vixen Paris Hilton's mobile phone received a sentence of 11 months of detention in a juvenile facility in Massachusetts last month In another, separate hacking case this fall, involving juvenile defendants in Florida, the Bay County school administration, in Panama City, Fla., recommended that three students...

Revolutionary innovation and competition have shaken up the telecommunications sector, prompting at least three important mergers. Government officials who set the rules of the game are now faced with key decisions that will affect the future of communications in America Federal regulators may approve the mergers of SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI as soo...

Stanford University researchers claimed a major step toward optical computing, which speeds data delivery -- by using light instead of electricity -- through materials already common in the semiconductor industry The research, detailed in the latest version of the science journal Nature, involved the use of germanium to create a light switch that t...

Gamers who dream of developing products for Sony's soon-to-be-released PlayStation 3 (PS3) and its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld will soon get their chance. The electronics giant will launch Sony Game Yaroze! -- which means "Let's Play Games" -- 2006 on Nov. 15 and accept entries from amateur and professional gamers through February Sony will...

The office of U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman initiated a special process under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules today to obtain information on China's intellectual property (IP) enforcement efforts The United States is exercising a process established under WTO Agreement provisions on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

AT&T lives. While the company itself is about to be swallowed up by a one-time subsidiary, the AT&T name, long synonymous with phone service in the U.S., will survive SBC Communications, which is on the verge of closing its US$16 billion deal to buy the legendary telecommunications giant, announced it would keep the AT&T name in place for the combi...

Research in Motion suffered a potentially damaging setback when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt lower court proceedings that could result in the BlackBerry maker being barred from selling its hugely popular hand-held e-mail device in the U.S NTP, a firm that first accused RIM of patent infringement in 2001, had won an injunction barring sale...

Zi Corporation yesterday said it has signed a licensing agreement with Nintendo to provide the video game giant's developers the ability to employ its handwriting recognition technology Zi Corporation, a Canadian intelligent interface software provider, said Nintendo plans to use its Decuma technology to create software for the DS handheld video ga...

Ease of use and design -- not features -- are critical components to consumers' satisfaction with their cell phones, according to a study released yesterday In fact, as handset makers continue to wedge more and more bells and whistles into their diminutive devices, those aspects of a mobile phone become even more important, according to the study b...

Boo! Lurking behind that spooky haunted house -- whether it be next door or at the local amusement park -- are embedded computing devices and other bits of engineering magic that, while not the highest tech gadgets on the market, sure come in handy when the Jedis, ninjas, princesses and witches come around on All Hallow's Eve, a.k.a. Halloween....

Going where Google has stumbled, Microsoft said this week its MSN Search will include a Book Search tool, beginning with public domain and non-copyrighted materials in beta software, and scheduled for next year Microsoft also announced its intention for MSN to join the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to work on scanning and digitizing publicly availabl...