Calling a cellphone a mere phone seems a little silly these days. The little pocket wonders now do so much they are really handheld computers. With extras. The process of mashing one or more gadgets together in the same box used to be called convergence, but that approach quietly died as the mobile phone ate up any and every rival device.
J.D. Power and Associates' "2008 Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study" ranked the iPhone overall best of class, easily beating out Research In Motion and Samsung, which ranked well above average. The report was released today.
While Windows 7 has gotten plenty of attention over the past two weeks, there are some features in there that haven't gotten as much attention. I wrote on Friday about a new programming interface for location-based services. Here are seven more features that caught my eye.
Dell (Dell), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), and Toshiba have once again recalled Sony notebook batteries following reports of them causing fires that have resulted in people suffering minor burns.
While most of the excitement around Windows and Office is around the next full versions of the products, Microsoft is also working on the next service pack updates for each product.
The first day of sales for Google's Android phone hasn't quite echoed the frenzy surrounding initial iPhone sales, but a few hardy souls across the country got up early to buy the first devices available in stores.
MLB's last place team, became the first to go wireless, turning to Meru Network and an 802.11n deployment throughout Washington Nationals' new ballpark. The 802.11n wireless LAN will serve be the network backbone for stadium operations, fan services and Internet access. Wi-Fi's latest power iteration provides Internet access, mobile ticket-scanning and concession point-of-sale transactions throughout 100 percent of the stadium.
Google has enhanced its Google Gears Geolocation API so that developers can build applications that can track the location of laptop users within 200 meters.
For hundreds of U.S. companies, the federal bailout may be too little, too late. Bankers, lawyers and credit analysts say the government's plan to invest billions into the nation's banks is doing little to ease the credit crunch for U.S. businesses. The result, they say, is that many companies now struggling to get financing may soon be out of business. "In the past few weeks, lending has been getting tighter, not looser," says Larry Flick, a partner at law firm Blank Rome, which helps companies get financing. "All the moves the government is making to end the credit crisis may have a trickle-down effect, but I am not seeing it yet."
This should be a vendor's first rule when inviting 1,200 IT pros to a seminar about securing data and protecting personal information: Make sure you protect the personal information of the 1,200 professionals you're trying to impress.
Windows Vista hasn't fared so well since its debut. Its generally low reputation among customers has led one Forrester analyst to dub Microsoft's latest OS "the New Coke of tech," while some studies have suggested that nearly a third of customers who buy a PC with Vista pre-installed may actually be downgrading those machines to XP.
Thirty-one percent of customers -- nearly one-third of a company's client base and revenue source -- are terminating their relationship with organizations following a data breach, according to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute.
Numerous behavioral risks taken by employees in increasingly distributed and remote locations can lead to the loss of corporate information, according to a study commissioned by Cisco
Bowing to continued demand, Microsoft has again extended the life of Windows XP. Although the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are "factory downgraded" to Windows XP.
SAN FRANCISCO--The United States government has been unable to fix the country's energy problems, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said, but the Internet giant on Wednesday proposed its own 22-year solution.
T-Mobile, Google, and HTC finally officially launched the first Android-enabled mobile device to hit the market. As expected, the first Android phone will be the HTC Dream (also known as the T-Mobile G1), a device with a large touchscreen and a slide-out physical keypad that will run Google's new mobile platform. The Dream will be available through T-Mobile and will launch "simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic."
SACRAMENTO -- California drivers chafing at the ban on holding cellphones can soon forget about texting, too: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has banned motorists from sending, writing or reading messages on electronic devices starting Jan. 1.
Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 won't include built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing, and movie making, as was done with Windows Vista, CNET News.com has learned.
The question: Are the current browsers good enough to keep up with the user’s online needs? Apparently, Google thinks that the answer is no. Unlike ten years ago, the time spent online by each and every one of us has increased and nowadays we use the Internet for various activities, from playing games to order our food.
The new Intel Xeon processors include a low-power quad-core processor called the Intel Xeon L5430, which uses 50 watts of power. The other new Intel processors are the Intel Xeon X5470, Xeon X5492 and Xeon X5270. All four of these Intel Xeon processors are manufactured at 45 nm. The release of these four Intel processors is the run-up to the debut of Intel's Dunnington processor, which will have six processing cores.
The storage market is thriving despite a tough economy, as exploding digital information growth has forced customers to add more capacity and upgrade to newer storage systems that are faster and more efficient, analysts say.
Microsoft Friday said that it made a mistake when it tagged one of its own programs as incompatible with Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the browser preview it unveiled Wednesday.
Microsoft says it will deliver a dozen security updates next week to fix critical vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer (IE) and the media player bundled with Vista. (w/o 8/11)
Apple's iPhone 3G is about to be challenged by RIM's new BlackBerry Bold, the mobile and wireless device maker's first 3G offering. While solidly holding on to its traditional business market share, RIM hopes to slice into Apple's iPhone 3G sales by offering the new BlackBerry Bold with a set of consumer-oriented features including a 2-megapixel camera with video recording capability, a music player, GPS and Wi-Fi.
The best password is a long, nonsensical string of letters and numbers and punctuation marks, a combination never put together before. Some admirable people actually do memorize random strings of characters for their passwords — and replace them with other random strings every couple of months.
A vulnerability in as-yet unpatched Microsoft software poses a more severe threat to Internet Explorer 6 users than those on the next version of the browser, security vendor Symantec has warned.
All evidence points to the fact that smartphone viruses will be a threat to your network even though they aren't at this moment. After all, the latest mobile devices are packed with more and more applications and corporate data, are enabled for real Web browsing and online collaboration, and can access corporate servers. What's more, they live outside your firewall and often make use of three wireless networks (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular).
Microsoft Corp. today patched nine vulnerabilities in Windows, Exchange, SQL Server and the company's Domain Name System (DNS) server and client software.
A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
It takes less than five minutes for hackers to find and compromise an unpatched Windows PC after it's connected to the Internet, a security researcher said today.
Apple’s iPhone 3G is coming today and there are folks flying to New Zealand, people waiting in line, some conflict in Canada courtesy of Rogers Communications, strong reviews, lots of apps to play with and expectations that border on the ridiculous. It’s a real circus, but before everyone piles onto the iPhone bandwagon there are a few wild cards to consider.
Nearly three weeks after security vendor Symantec Corp. released a free tool to clean up PCs crippled by the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) update, Microsoft Corp. issued a fix that should reestablish lost Internet and wireless connections.
Companies with less than 1,000 employees are weathering the economic downturn better than their larger counterparts, according to a study from AMI Partners
Bill Gates said a teary goodbye on Friday to Microsoft Corp, the software maker he built into the world's most valuable technology company based on the ambitious goal of placing a computer on every desk and in every home.
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