The U.K. Department of Health appears to have been wrong-footed by a member of parliament who called for an investigation into whether Wi-Fi networks pose a danger to health.
Ian Gibson, former chairman of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, last week called for the Health Department to set up an inquiry into the [...]
Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent will begin distributing movies and TV shows for top entertainment companies starting this spring, the company is expected to announce Wednesday.
In February, BitTorrent will launch a video store where customers can download movies from Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox, as well as TV shows from [...]
Nintendo announced on Tuesday that 600,000 units of its Wii video game console sold in the first eight days after its release in North America. Including sales of accessories and games, Wii-related revenue hit $190 million since the machine’s Nov. 19 debut, the company said. At $250, the Wii console costs half as much as [...]
New types of mobile phones, like this model from Belkin, can locate and tap in to the growing number of wireless access points to the Internet, just as laptops with Wi-Fi do. Once connected, the user can make phone calls as usual, but signal strength can vary.
The phone, made by Belkin, is one of several [...]
Open source search projects like Hadoop, Lucene, and Nutch, combined with affordable, on-demand computing through Amazon Web Services, is putting scalable search infrastructure within the reach of most startups.One of the first questions online startups typically face these days from potential investors is “Why couldn’t Google build this?” Entrepreneurs are beginning to respond, “Why couldn’t [...]
While I remain disgruntled over how PlaysForSure was transformed into Plays for Suckers, I like my new Zune. For a lot of us with Windows computers and a love of music and movies already acquired as MP3 and Windows Media Audio files, the Zune is absolutely first rate.
Today’s tune is Zune, and it’s being written [...]
The dreams of electrical power pioneers like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla could be realized through the wireless transfer of electrical energy as envisioned by a team of researchers at MIT. In theory, the technology could be developed to recharge the batteries of radios, cell phones, laptops, robots and other mobile devices without the need [...]
Rock out with Pyramat’s Sound Rockers acoustical chairs, which let gamers feel all the action in surround sound. The Pinnacle HD Pro Stick is an ultra compact USB 2.0-powered TV tuner in a stick form factor, while the pocket-sized mobile media player RoverTV records directly from television, DVR, VCR, CD or computers—both Macs and PCs—for [...]
HBO, a U.S. cable network owned by media conglomerate Time Warner, is considering offering a broadband Internet channel that would be available to customers who also subscribe to its cable television service, the Financial Times reported on its Web site.
HBO Chief Executive Chris Albrecht said the company was talking to cable operators about an “HBO-like [...]
Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla’s Firefox 2 and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.
Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin, the flaw lets hackers compromise users’ passwords and usernames by presenting them with a fake login form. [...]
