One’s a PC brain, the other’s a Mac-head—two PC World editors strongly disagree about owning this week’s must-have gadget.
Two experienced PC World staffers, two very different takes on the iPhone. Chip is eager to pick up a sexy device that will finally bring his Apple world all together, while Alan has no desire to buy [...]
Apple will release one of the most highly touted cell phones in history this week. And by next year, those first iPhones will likely be woefully outdated.
Chipmaker Texas Instruments is in the middle of ramping up for the release of its third-generation OMAP processor, a platform for cell phones. Cell phones containing OMAP 3 will [...]
The threat of cameras combined with artificial intelligence.
Privacy activists have been lamenting increasing surveillance by cameras and warn of abuse by the authorities who have access to them. But two additional trends portend a disturbing new direction.
The first trend: Cameras are increasingly monitoring non-criminals engaged in technically legal behavior. The second trend: Special new artificial [...]
As the flood of data across the internet continues to increase, there are those that say sometime soon it is going to collapse under its own weight. But that is what they said last year.
Back in the early 90s, those of us that were online were just sending text e-mails of a few bytes each, [...]
The “remixer,” which is branded with an Adobe logo, enables users to create more professional-looking videos by splicing together media such as video clips, photos, music, graphics and other effects, according to information found on the site.
Sony Ericsson MBW-150 is the new watch of the manufacturer, featuring Bluetooth technology to connect with your mobile phone and act as a remote control for it. Featuring an OLED display that hides when inactive, the phone displays the name/number on an incoming call or the track’s name if you are listening to music. [...]
A team of researchers at MIT is designing the CityCar, a tiny urban-assault vehicle with electric motors in all four wheels.
Photo: Courtesy of MIT Media Lab/Franco Vairani
Where will the car of the future come from? Detroit, which fumbled the electric automobile and let Japan grab the lead in hybrids?
Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.
Stacks
These screens from Apple’s new Leopard preview illustrate the many new features revealed at today’s WWDC. Leopard’s new system for eliminating desktop clutter is called “Stacks.” Click any [...]
New alpha release is the first to include the much-anticipated, database-driven revamp of the bookmarks feature called Places.
Mozilla made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks.
According to Mike Connor, director of Firefox [...]
Movable Type just announced Movable Type 4.0 beta. The big news about this announcement is that Movable Type 4.0 will be open-source. TMC’s blogs run on the Movable Type platform, so I am very excited over this news. First, a brief history lesson… A few years ago, Movable Type became the fastest growing and most [...]
