Articles by Jay Lyman

Yahoo is providing full travel planning functionality by uniting its air and hotel search, price comparison, and maps online in a new service called FareChase. Made available this week, it allows users to plan and purchase trips, as well as to share their travel experiences with an online community through its Trip Planner tool The online giant is ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a blind bidding process for wireless spectrum auctions, a move that is both supported and opposed by major wireless carriers, depending on their own spectrum situations The FCC votes Wednesday on whether to change the wireless auction process to prevent participants from knowing who else is...

IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto the chip. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," was relatively simple, and may even be used with other manufact...

IBM has reportedly come up with a hardware-secured processor design that incorporates encryption onto the chip. The technology could be used to lock down PCs and mobile devices Big Blue made no official announcement, but company executives indicated the technology, dubbed "SecureBlue," was relatively simple, and may even be used with other manufact...

Discovery Communications will be adding clips of its video to Google Earth so users can view the footage while surveying national and global sites on the Internet The streaming video will accompany Google's 3D, satellite mapping solution and will feature major world attractions such as natural wonders and historic sites....

Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millimeters thick....

Looking to slice into the hot slim phone market, electronics giant Samsung announced new ultra-thin handset models it hopes will win it more U.S. market share The South Korean giant will be shipping what it calls the slimmest mobile phones in America with its t509 model that is less than 10 millimeters thick....

IBM and Power.org member Rapport unveiled a new energy-efficient processor dubbed Kilocore that features more than 1,000 processing elements around a Power chip architecture Kilocore -- with parallel processing similar to that of the new Cell processor, Sun's Niagara, and Azul's multi-core chip -- has the ability to join hundreds or even thousands ...

The European recording industry announced a wave of new lawsuits against alleged illegal music file traders this week, but the move was seen as more of a ripple in the vast ocean of peer to peer (P2P) activity The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the European equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America (...

Japanese hipsters are about to gain access to TV to go with mobile handsets capable of displaying digital television broadcasts. One Seg, a service that launched in South Korea last year, will supply regular broadcast TV offerings Backers of the service -- which includeNTT DoCoMo, rivalKDDI and Japanese television companies -- say it will become mo...

Germany-based chipmakerInfineon has announced that its memory chip spinoff, dubbed Qimonda, will officially launch May 1, ahead of the original schedule for the strategic move Qimonda -- conceived in response to the challenges of running two very different kinds of semiconductor businesses -- will remain under Infineon's umbrella until its Initial ...

Hardware and electronics makers are carrying on what has become a heated format fight as they ready new, high-definition DVD players for the market, choosing to build hardware for either the Sony-backed Blu-ray discs or rival Toshiba-supported HD DVD format While there have been some demonstrations of players that can play both types of new DVDs, t...

Dell has unveiled its latest notebook computers, boasting a lighter, slimmer design that incorporates wider screens and built-in cellular wireless capability that will work with Cingular, Verizon and Vodafone services for mobile connectivity The new Dell Latitude D620 and D820, aimed at the business market, also feature Intel Core Duo processors. T...

Backers ofBluetooth wireless technology this week announced their selection of the WiMedia Alliance ultra-wideband specification, which promises to increase the speed and capability of the close-in wireless solution The move will not only extend Bluetooth capabilities for current low-power uses such as in mice, keyboards and headsets, said the Blue...

Intel is readying a plan to aim its processors and computing platform at the business world, hinting at a Centrino-style campaign similar to the one the chip giant employed to push wireless technology into mainstream use The enterprise market brings a variety of challenges for the company, but Intel's typical platform approach, which assembles the ...

In yet another experiment to leverage legal, digital distribution of Hollywood movies, Universal Pictures and online rental service LoveFilm announced they will begin offering a download-to-own Internet movie service in the UK next month The service will kick off with the release of the feature film "King Kong," which will be available when the DVD...

Sony disclosed more about its next-generation Playstation 3 console, due at the end of the year, by outlining the company's vision for the product, which includes live, multi-player online play and even digital distribution of games through downloads However, much of Sony's strategy still lies in what will be. Meanwhile competitor Microsoft is alr...

Samsung says it has begun offering a 32 gigabyte NAND flash solid state disk (SSD) drive, a development the South Korean company calls a "historic milestone" for flash memory as it enters the mass market for notebook PCs, which today rely on hard disk drive (HDD) technology Samsung announced the new flash-based solid state drive at the Mobile Solut...

Internet giant Google is teaming with athletic shoe titan Nike to prepare the field for soccer fans worldwide with a new multi-language site that coincides with this summer's World Cup competition in Germany Dubbed "joga.com," joga being Portuguese for "play," the new site will allow players and fans of soccer -- or football, as the sport is known ...

Looking to expand itsenterprise reach, Microsoft laid out its latest software and marketing drive late last week, trumpeting its "People-Ready" strategy of software-driven efficiency and collaboration for workers In announcing details of the plan, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also jabbed at software and services rival IBM, indicating the company's c...