News and video from Gartner's Symposium event, which is being held in Sydney this week.
Plans to hard-wire copy protection into popular digital music and video devices are being shelved as the consumer-electronics industry grapples interminably with antipiracy policies, standards and consumer rights.
In the war between two of the world's biggest mobile platforms, a weakness in one J2ME spec could give Microsoft an opportunity to gain preference with developers.
As the European Union considers restrictions aimed at preventing Microsoft from unfairly using its dominance in PC operating systems to gain control of the market for multimedia software, some say the war has already moved on.
A fight over control of computer hardware, fanned by music trading posts such as Napster and Gnutella, is pitting free-speech advocates against some of Silicon Valley's largest companies.
silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.
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