At the Expo Comm Korea 2006, Hopeskorea has announced a new scan mouse which has a micro camera at the bottom. Though the resolution is not mentioned it might be a VGA res (640 x 480). The optical mouse connects via USB to the host. Other than taking still photos you can record videos and [...]

Windows Vista delivers some pretty snazzy new graphics, but all that “wow” can be a real drain. With the new version of Windows, Microsoft has created an operating system that offers advances in many areas, but laptop battery life is not one of them. Going by internal tests at one hardware maker, which declined to [...]

For those who cannot wait to get on the Blu-ray train, Pioneer’s BDR-101A PC Blu-ray recorder is starting to trickle into the retail channel. Tiger Direct has just listed the BDR-101A for sale at a mere $999.99. Many analysts had speculated that Pioneer would drop the price of the BDR-101A significantly after NEC and Toshiba [...]

Google is set to launch a Web-based spreadsheet program that will allow people to view and simultaneously edit data while conducting “in-document” chat, a company product manager said on Monday. The launch of Google Spreadsheets puts the search engine in even more heated competition with Microsoft, whose desktop-based Excel spreadsheet program is a standard office [...]

The major changes are: 1. Added support for MS Visual Studio .NET (2003) based on customer requests. 2. Added 6 new wizards for Visual Studio .NET (2003) for creating Source, Trans, Render, MultiSource, MultiTrans and MultiRender filters. 3. Enhanced classes and functions.

Joe Friend, a lead program manager (Microsoft’s term for a person who creates the specifications for software that programmers implement) has posted an entry on his blog regarding an interesting new feature being implemented for Word 2007: direct publishing of blogs to the web from within the program. Those of you who have used Word’s [...]

The One Laptop per Child project will make Linux as popular on the desktop as it is on the server today, according to Nicholas Negroponte, head of the project and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory. Speaking on the final day of Red Hat’s annual user summit in Nashville, Tennessee, Negroponte told an audience of [...]

Nice video review on how to connect an iPod to the new Honda. Is iPod becoming a standard in the U.S.?

Rhapzode, a PowerPoint enhancement product from Alta Vente, UK will now support QuickTime as one of the media formats that can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation. The DirectShow component was developed by MediaLooks as part of a custom project and was based on the MediaLooks QuickTime DirectShow Source filter.

Korean-based company NAVIsis is already known to some for their line of handwriting recognition hardware that doesn_t require a special tablet or writing surface to work. Using the same technology the company has now developed the EZ-Canvas which will essentially allow any monitor to function like a touch-screen tablet. Simply attach the EZ-Canvas sensors to [...]

Google on Monday unveiled Google Spreadsheets, an addition to its roster of Web-based productivity applications that includes Google Calendar, launched in April, and Gmail, launched two years ago. In March, Google acquired Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a browser. The company hasn’t made clear its plans for that product and it remains [...]

Billboard magazine recently published an article on the future of digital music pricing, examining how the industry arrived at the current 99-cent price point for digital songs. While major labels have recently said publicly they’d like to charge more than 99 cents for new releases and less for library titles, the Justice Dept. and N.Y. [...]

The one thing I wish my digital camera had was wifi so that I could auto-upload photos without the extra hassle of connecting the camera or memory card to a computer. There are cameras being released now that have this capability. However, the vast majority of cameras sold, plus the 100 million digital cameras already [...]

A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million e-mails per day has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft and the state of Texas. The settlement has cost Ryan Pitylak US$1 million, as well as the seizure of many of the assets he accumulated during a short-lived career as one of the world’s [...]

Verizon on Thursday introduced FiOS TV Widgets, a selection of add-on applications that work with its FiOS TV Internet TV service. The first widgets allow users to access interactive weather and traffic data on their televisions. Later this year, Verizon plans to add a multi-room digital video recorder, and a feature that lets customers access [...]