Loading ...Spurred on by, no doubt, by the iPhone’s imminent European release, Nokia yesterday unveiled its latest set of multimedia-ready handsets, including a version of the high-end N95 optimized for the high-speed 3G networks of the U.S. We got an early hands-on look, and were, for the most part, impressed. Here’s the gist of ‘ the [...]
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SanDisk announced its latest shuffle-competing media player today, the “Clip.” The 1GB black model costs $40, has an FM tuner, support for Mp3, WMA, securei WMA, a microphone, and a fifteen hour battery life. The more expensive 2GB model comes in blue, red, pink, and black and has a 30 hour battery life.
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George Hotz, a New Jersey teenager, got most of the attention last week for hacking the iPhone, but at least one other group claims to have come up with a way of liberating Apple’s popular gadget from AT&T’s wireless network. A group calling itself iPhoneSimFree, which first demonstrated its technique to Engadget’s editor, Ryan Block, [...]
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iPhone battery target of yet another class action lawsuit
A class action lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that Apple and AT&T mislead iPhone customers by not warning of the fees required to replace the iPhone battery and maintain service.
The suit, filed by Sydney Leung on behalf [...]
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HP has unveiled a free service designed to make it possible to print documents on any printer almost anywhere in the world, The New York Times reported on its Web site late Sunday.
Cloudprint, which was developed over a period of several months by a small group of H.P. Labs researchers, makes it possible to share, [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO: Tilera, a Silicon Valley semiconductor start-up, is unveiling a single microchip with 64 processing units, or cores, in a technological jump generations ahead of the mainstream.
In recent years, microprocessor makers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have had to grapple with ever-increasing amounts of power consumed as they cranked up the basic clock [...]
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The SCO Group frightened potential business users away from Linux with lawsuits demanding billions in royalties. But the litigious company’s claims were shot down in a ruling that will likely boost uptake of the operating system.
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled late Friday that Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ) owns copyrights covering [...]
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Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are stepping up pressure on cities to foot more of the bill for muni Wi-Fi projects
The static crackling around municipal wireless networks is getting worse.
San Francisco Wi-Fi, perhaps the highest-profile project among the hundreds announced over the past few years, is in limbo. Milwaukee is delaying [...]
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Microsoft patched several Windows Vista gadgets this week, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications.
Microsoft Corp. Tuesday patched several Windows Vista gadgets, the first time it’s had to fix the small applications, prompting one researcher to mark the date as the real “arrival of the next-generation of vulnerabilities.”
The three bugs detailed in [...]
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