The gigabyte storage capacity and long memory of Google' planned Web-based e-mail service are making it a big target for privacy campaigners -- and the name, Gmail, could soon be the subject of a trademark dispute, too.
A Panasonic-branded 1G-byte SD (Secure Digital) memory card was the smallest of the new products announced Thursday by Matsushita Electric Industrial in a news conference at the Cebit trade show. The largest: a 52-inch PDP (plasma display panel) HDTV...
TDK has joined efforts to develop a 25G-byte rewritable optical disc format. It is the first recording media manufacturer to join the Blu-ray Disc Founders group. The announcement came Thursday at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany.
SanDisk and Motorola have created a smaller removable flash memory card format for use in mobile phones. The first cards will go on sale in the third quarter to coincide with the launch of a 3G (third generation) Motorola phone designed to use them, ...
Hot on the heels of an initiative by network operators to discourage mobile phone theft, six phone manufacturers publicly pledged their support Tuesday for an industry plan to prevent the reprogramming of stolen phones.
MSN Messenger and Hotmail users will soon have access to a slicker mobile version of those services, as new mobile phones incorporating clients for the two messaging services appear on the market, but other messaging services are not yet supported.
With several mobile phone manufacturers recently launching "designer" models, it's little wonder that the organizers of the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, have included a fashion show in this year's event.
The Oslo Court of Appeals heard closing arguments Wednesday and Thursday in the trial of Jon Lech Johansen, also known as "DVD Jon." A verdict is expected on Dec. 22.
A new version of the Web browser Opera released Friday closes two security holes which could allow someone to remotely take control of a computer, and incorporates a patch for the OpenSSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol, according to developer Opera ...
The Mozilla Foundation updated its Mozilla open source Internet suite and added services to its Web site Wednesday, including an option to obtain telephone support.
Microsoft Corp. has won a patent lawsuit brought against it by Hyperphrase Technologies LLC and Hyperphrase Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin. The case, due to go to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Oct. 6, was decid...
Intel and Xerox have co-developed a range of microprocessors which will allow digital imaging product manufacturers to bring products to market more quickly, and with a broader range of features, the companies announced Wednesday.
Romanian researchers claim to have discovered a variant of the Sobig.F virus that looks to mail and domain name servers at Time Warner Telecomfor information about how to modify its behavior.
Shipments of handheld devices running Symbian's operating system software totalled 2.68 million in the first half of 2003, compared to 230,000 in the first half of last year, the company announced Thursday.
Microsoft released a patch for a number of flaws in its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser Wednesday, including two it rated critical for some versions of the browser, which could enable an attacker to take control of a user's computer.
