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The cavernous halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center during any Consumer Electronics Show, and the endless rows of exhibitor's booths hawking edgy technology products, can remind you of the final shot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- which is itself, of course, an homage to the last sequence from "Citizen Kane." We're talking boxes and crates stretching out into infinity, and somewhere within is the secret to a super-powerful weapon straight from God, or a childhood toy forever lost to an unhappy billionaire...

Despite long-standing concerns about the health effects of cellphones, a new study suggests that radiation from the devices may actually have a beneficial effect when it comes to Alzheimer's disease Specifically, long-term exposure to the electromagnetic waves associated with cellphone use may actually protect against -- and even reverse -- Alzheim...

During its glory days in the 1990s, Motorola was the No. 1 mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Then Nokia overtook it, and ever since, Motorola has been trying to regain its lost footing. There was a glimmer of hope that it might be headed for a comeback in the mid-2000s with the success of the Razr. However, Motorola did not follow up with another winner, and its fortunes sank...

Three-dimensional television has been hot this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, JVC Kenwood and Samsung were among the consumer electronics companies announcing new products in this line. ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday took the stage to deliver a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Ballmer showcased products from several partners at the event, including a tablet device made by HP. He also announced a tie-in with HP to promote the Bing search engine. ...

Neuroscientists at MIT have figured out how to use colored lights to temporarily quiet activity in the brain. By shining a light on a set of neurons affected by a gene-enhanced virus tool, they were able to shut those neurons down. When they turned off the lights, the neurons started right back up again. No harm, no foul ...

The stock market has had a remarkable ride in 2009. Presently, it has substantially recovered from its low point of March, 2009. Many of us are wondering where it is now heading, given that so many people have their retirement savings tied up in the market. In fact, I am often asked to prognosticate about the direction of the stock market. Though ...

Coverity cut its startup teeth seven years agotrying to figure out how to commercialize static analysis and softwarecode integrity. The company, whose software developer tools are usedby some of the biggest firms in the industry, released in NovemberCoverity 5, a completely reengineered software analysis solution Many companies are still looking fo...

Everything's going digital. Why not handwriting? A new generation of digital pens and smartpens is bridging the divide between handwriting on paper and writing on the computer.

AT&T and T-Mobile both announced on Tuesday that they have upgraded their 3G networks with technology enabling faster speeds Specifically, the carriers have both deployed HSPA 7.2 technology at their cell sites across the United States....

HP became the latest vendor to unveil brightly colored netbooks in its lineup with its announcement of several new products Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. ...

Amazon plans to start selling an international version of the Kindle DX -- its larger-sized e-reader device -- in more than 100 countries. The e-tailer began offering an international version of its standard Kindle last October.

The company that made its billions selling ads for Web searches is now officially in the telecommunications business, as Google demonstrated Tuesday with the launch of its branded Nexus One smartphone. However, can the same success that saw "Google" become a verb be translated to the burgeoning mobile market? Is there anything in Google's unusual retail strategy that will have consumers saying "Nexus me" when asked what smartphone they want next?...

Sometime within the next two years, you'll feel like ducking for cover the next time the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" team blows something to smithereens. Yet you'll be in the comfort of your living room, wearing oversize glasses while watching a new 3-D television channel whose very existence was first announced Tuesday Discovery, Sony and Im...

Recently, I was involved with the implementation of a replication solution at an electric utility company. This implementation was the center piece of a disaster recovery (DR) implementation for one of their power plants. Normally, when a replication solution is implemented, data recoverability at the remote site is mandatory. After all, what good is the replication solution if it cannot be used to recover data at the remote location? ...

A new year! Blank screen! OK, let's talk! I think sustainability will be a big theme for me from this year onward. If your idea of sustainability is mostly about rain forest preservation and similar topics, I hope you will read on and think new....

MIPS Technologies announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday its plan to develop a new line of set-top boxes with Android inside ...

"Throw more money at it." That's an old suggestion for trying to solve problems big and small, but it's a solution that rarely works, because it doesn't address the root cause of the problem in question. Despite knowing that it's bad advice, the FCC has recently come up with a corollary to it: Throw more spectrum at it....

Apple is acquiring mobile ad company Quattro Wireless for an undisclosed amount, Andy Miller, Quattro's vice president, mobile advertising, said in a statement on the company's Web site Apple and Quattro did not return calls from the E-Commerce Times by this article's deadline.

Unveiling its much-anticipated Nexus One smartphone on Tuesday, Google put it in a new class of devices it dubs "superphones." ...