By Sinead Carew
Skype has been pushing to make its service work on the most popular advanced phones with an aim to expending its more than 400 million users who were mostly lured by the promise of cheap and sometimes free calls made using its computer application.
by Kyle Monson
For iPhone users like me, the iPhone home screen is one of the most-used resources in my life. There’s room on the home screen for 16 apps, and any additional apps are sloughed off onto additional screens, so I select and lay out my home screen apps carefully.
by Steven Musil
Google has launched a venture capital arm to invest in a diverse array of industries, including the consumer Internet, software, clean tech, and health care.
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service
The research wing of Honda Motor has co-developed a brain machine interface (BMI) system that allows a person to control a robot through thought alone.
By Dominique Levin
March 19, 2009 (Network World) Though Security Information and Event Management and log management tools have been complementary for years, the technologies are expected to merge. Here’s a look at what you can expect in second-generation log management and SIEM solutions.
John Ribeiro, IDG News Service
The number of people subscribing to mobile phone services in India dropped in February after a growth spurt caused by an aggressive rollout of GSM services by one operator wound down.
by Brian Heater
Mozilla this week finally released a limited beta of its long-awaited Fennec mobile browser–or as some have preemptively deemed it, Firefox Mobile. The scope of this early beta testing is extremely limited. At the moment, only users with Nokia N810s will be able to try the app out.
LONDON (Reuters) - Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd launched a service allowing its customers to buy or rent movies and TV series to download to their mobile phones.
By Eric Lai
March 18, 2009 (Computerworld) When Lenovo Group Ltd. showed off its concept mini-netbook PC the “Pocket Yoga” earlier this week it drew excitement from viewers for its elegant, leather-bound design — and disappointment when Lenovo said it had no plans to build the 2-year-old design.