Following Google’s insistence that media outlets shouldn’t be using the term “Googling,” Apple Computer has become similarly protective over the word “pod.” The Cupertino, Calif.-based company has sent cease-and-desist letters to at least two companies that include the word “pod” in their product titles, in connection with its iPod digital-music players. Mach5products.com, which sells a [...]

You may think your new shampoo is “the bomb,” but to an airport security guard looking at it under an X-ray machine, it may very well look like an actual bomb. However, a Herndon, Va.-based company has technology that can help airport security screeners determine whether a container of liquid is an explosive as it [...]

A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. On Tuesday, Berners-Lee, the father of the Web and the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium, gave the keynote on artificial intelligence and the Semantic Web at a conference sponsored [...]

Microsoft continues to tweak the user interface for Office 2007, and has added a new silver theme to go along with the current blue and black color schemes. Office UI head Jensen Harris posted

The first IBM PC, model number 5150, went on sale 25 years ago on Saturday. Desktop computers had been around for several years prior to August 1981 but what made this one different, and the reason you’re probably reading this on a Windows PCs, was the groundbreaking decision by IBM to use an open architecture, [...]

In what appears to be a futile attempt to stop the name Google becoming a verb the search giant has been writing to media organisations asking them to avoid confusing the name Google with the act of searching the Internet. Clearly mindful of what happened to brand names like Hoover, Xerox and so on they [...]

Another day, another survey and prediction about the continually rising popularity of online shopping. This time it’s PayPal, who presumably hope they have a lot to gain from people buying online (maybe with their new credit card). They’re predicting that by 2010, annual spend online will be

Millions of people head to the beaches, mountains and lakes to enjoy the last few weeks of summer, many will want crisp, clear pictures to remember their adventures. But many hesitate to use a more expensive camera during rugged activities or at the beach. According to a recent survey by Eastman Kodak Company, 90 percent [...]

Identity Systems will soon roll out software that lets media companies from music to movies search through unstructured text on the Internet to identify piracy. As TechWeb reports, the software called “Unstructured Data Module” applies analytics and algorithms to scan for hidden relationships in streams of digital data. Beyond information found in traditional databases and [...]

With the summer holidays in full effect, there’s a good chance your digital camera’s memory card is crammed with snaps of exotic locations, over-friendly waiters and red-faced relations. You could hide them away in an album (it’s usually the best thing to do – trust me), or if you’re not too ashamed, get them on [...]

The younger generation – the 16-24s – are placing less significance on the TV and other traditional media for their entertainment and information, and instead using the Internet. Maybe not that surprising. The figures aren’t hugely different: 1 hour per day less TV than the average TV viewer, and 15 minutes less radio. The Ofcom [...]

After the AOL mishap where individually identifiable search terms were released into the wild (one woman from Georgia has already been identified by those hard-hitting journos at the New York Times) – Google has insisted that such a catastrophe couldn’t happen to its users’ data. “We have systems in place that won’t allow it to [...]

Samsung has taken the wraps off what they claim to to be the world’s first 3-inch VGA LCD that meets industry standards for use in digital cameras. With a 300nit brightness and 350:1 contrast ration, the 640 x 480 LCD also promises to consume less power than displays currently used in digital cameras, operating on [...]

If you’ve ever needed any super sensitive documents destroyed, everything is fine and dandy if you’re two cubicles down from the office shredder, but things get a bit trickier when on the go. Japanese company Aihou has developed a not-so-complicated approach to shredding documents while out and about — by connecting 9 pairs of scissor [...]

Apple on Thursday said it has teamed up with three major automakers to link its popular iPod music player with car stereos, laying down a new challenge to a fragmented radio industry. Ford Motor Co. , General Motors Corp. and Japan’s Mazda Motor Corp. will offer an easy iPod connection in the majority of their [...]