A group of technology companies is creating a set of industry standards that could help put digital piracy protections directly into disk drives: a daunting prospect for Napster or Gnutella users.
Two tech legends adopt different strategies in the race to digitise your home. But truly reinventing the consumer electronics market may require a combination of their approaches.
The world remains full of possibilities. And technology, with its pervasive influence on our lives, can sometimes overwhelm us.
Someone's going to figure out how to build tiny portable devices that run a long time and fit easily into a corporate network, but until then, you'll have to assemble the pieces by yourself.
Tired of the confusing mess of copy protection tools that keep some songs and videos from playing on your iPod or Napster player? So is Leonardo Chiariglione.
Consumer-electronics giant Philips is demonstrating a prototype miniature disc drive that uses a coin-size disc capable of storing nearly twice as much data as a standard-sized CD.
Cisco Systems, a multibillion-dollar player in security tools for businesses, is planning to move into the consumer market.
IBM has bolstered its WebSphere lineup with tools for building applications with a voice interface and has shipped a series of development tools for non-PC devices.
Intel is adding to its arsenal of processors for portable devices by developing an XScale-based processor, code-named Bulverde, for handheld computers.
Microsoft's chairman looks ahead to how the music player might morph and tells why changes in Office 2007 are "such a big deal."
iTunes 7 includes some great updates, like gapless playback, games downloads and a better interface, but Australian users so far miss out on the movie downloads available to American users.
Kodak's LS633 boasts a highly impressive OLED display along with a host of other features that should endear it to most consumers. What's more, it's available in Australia before anywhere else on the planet. Check out our Australian review.
The Brother MFC-990CW is a speedy, fully capable all-in-one device that earns our recommendation for an individual or a family that will make use of its touchscreen and telephone/answering machine.
Since when did vendor battery claims actually represent the truth? Acer's Timeline notebook just keeps going and going and going, but it's a pity that it's otherwise underpowered and hampered by Windows Vista.
Microsoft's Technical Beta release of Windows Media Player 10 features a redesigned interface that provides easy access to online media stores. It also syncs better with portable devices.
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