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A federal judge in Houston and the U.S. Attorney's office for that region are wrangling over just how much information the government can garner from a phone call without a warrant for a wiretap The case involves a request by U.S. Attorney Donald J. DeGabrielle Jr. for a pen register and a trap and trace device to "record or decode dialing, routing...
Remember the effort it took to put together a photo slideshow? First, you had to load slides into carousels "Now let me see, should the printing on the slide face me or face away from me? How did that slide get in there upside down?...
You can't get much lower on the tech chain than a trailer, right? It's not much more than a box on wheels. However, a growing interest by the transportation industry to bring the lowly trailer into the wired world is firing a hot market in tracking hardware and services According to a report released Wednesday by ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y., i...
Reaching the Millennial Generation -- a label nailed to nine- to 28-year-olds, a group which, at some 79 million in the United States, is larger than the Baby Boomers -- poses some real challenges for marketers, especially marketers entrenched in their mass media ways "The key thing to recognize when marketing to this generation is that it has seen...
Sony built its reputation in the electronics field on the premium thesis. Sure, there may be lower priced competitors in the market, but they couldn't beat Sony for quality, design and sheer wow factor. Consumers recognized that, and they have been willing to pay a premium for it With Sony's new "W" line of Cybershot cameras, though, the company ha...
When China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 it was thought the move would induce the nation to toe the line on the theft of intellectual property within its borders, but that hasn't been the case -- and it won't be until the Asian giant steps up its efforts at innovation, according to one IP attorney "Until China becomes more of a produc...
Everywhere you turn these days in the digital world you'll run into touts about sharing. Share files. Share photos. Share video That's fine, but someone forgot to tell the e-mail providers about this sharing craze. They're still putting limits on attachments to e-mail messages that put a grave crimp in any serious sharing to be done over the Net....
With floor space at large retailers at a premium these days, you'd think the allure of reducing all the aisles occupied by DVD movies to the footprint of a kiosk would be compelling, but that's not the case According to a studio executive who agreed to talk to the E-Commerce Times on terms of anonymity, there hasn't been any push on the movie indus...
By creating a synergistic relationship between online music downloads and its iPod hardware, Apple Computer has made it very difficult for competitors to pry market share from the Cupertino, Calif.-based company. A growing shift in the music buying habits of consumers could give those coveting a bigger slice of Apple's pie a chance to outflank the king...
The announcement by Seiko Epson on Monday of a new electronic "paper" display with the highest resolution seen in the technology to date appears to be another sign that the newspaper of the future is close at hand The 7.1-inch prototype revealed by Epson and which incorporates technology developed by E Ink, of Cambridge, Mass., has a resolution of ...
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web....
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web....
Many commercial Web sites fail to pass even basic tests for usefulness and usability largely because their architects use faulty reasoning to justify defective decisions That's one of the conclusions in a report released by Forrester Research, of Cambridge, Mass....
An alarming failure rate for new products has corporations looking to consumers to drive innovation in their markets, according to report released by Forrester Research "In the consumer products industry, upwards of 85 percent of new products fail after a couple of years in the market," the report's chief author, analyst Christine Spivey Overby, to...
As Windows computers get long in the tooth, they require special attention to keep running at an optimal level. Hard disks and registries need to be cleaned and defragmented. Settings need to be tweaked All those things can be done manually, or individual programs can be obtained to make the tasks less of a chore, but there's something to be said f...
Microsoft is like the earth. When it moves, people notice Among the Redmond, Wash., softzilla's recent maneuvers are its purchase of Massive Inc., of New York City, and its imminent -- if The Wall Street Journal is to be believed -- acquisition of Third Screen Media, of Boston....
Digital convergence -- the marrying of computer, communications and entertainment technologies -- is driving mergers and acquisitions among technology companies, according to a report released Tuesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) The report, part of a series of surveys being conducted by the accounting and consulting firm with leaders of technol...
Being branded illegal by federal government authorities hasn't stunted the growth of online gambling, which will become a US$20 billion worldwide industry by 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Gaming Association, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying arm of the commercial casino entertainment industry "Despite the officia...
Small may be snazzy when it comes to gadgets, but for displays, bigger is better, especially when it comes to digital cameras. Those two-inch LCDs that used to be considered spacious now seem like postage stamps compared to the three- and 3.5-inch murals adorning the latest gallery of byte shootersentering the market Just because a camera has a lar...
It used to be called digital radio before the marketers decided to exploit the high definition craze in broadcasting and recast it as HD Radio, but whatever it's called, it could be just the weapon airwave floggers need to fend off a growing threat for their audience from satellite radio Satellite radio has gained more than nine million paying subs...
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