Warner Music’s chief executive Edgar Bronfman said the mobile industry is not doing enough to exploit the vast potential of downloading music to handsets. Speaking at the 3GSM World Congress, Bronfman said the market for mobile music is being held back by ‘cumbersome’ systems for transferring songs to phones. ‘It’s expensive, complicated and slow and […]

Vienna is the old code name. According to Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft’s Windows Core Operating System Division, Microsoft insiders are not allowed to use the new name publicly. But this is Microsoft not Apple so expect it to leak out sometime soon. Another piece of rhetoric is that the new […]

Powerset, a San Francisco-based start-up, said it has signed an exclusive, open-ended license to use Internet search technology touted as a potential challenger to Google Inc. The 40-employee start-up based in San Francisco licensed the technology from the developer, Xerox Corporation’s Palo Alto Research Center. Financial terms of the arrangement weren’t disclosed. Powerset will start […]

Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz has started his own record label. Duritz said he had no plans to start a label but came across a pair of acts on MySpace that he found irresistible: Chicago-based punk-pop band Blacktop Mourning and a New York rapper known as Notar. “The talent of Notar and Blacktop Mourning just […]

Multinational computer technology corporation IBM currently has a prototype software that will give birth to future speech-to-speech translation engines. Dubbed as MASTOR, Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Technology aims to provide users speech translations in real time. Here’s how the software works: With the help of MASTOR, the words spoken in a foreign language by someone on […]

Yahoo says they have now integrated Yahoo! Mail with Yahoo! Messenger. Internet giant Yahoo! happens to be the operator of the web’s most popular webmail service. The company has now said that it has now embedded instant messaging features inside its e-mail program. The company said that the web users can now run both these […]

Google plans to open up Gmail, its free e-mail service, to everyone worldwide. Initially, Gmail was an exclusive club — an invitation from another Gmail user was required. In August 2005, Google opened Gmail up to those willing to submit a mobile phone number as a means of identity verification and as a way to […]

Samsung has announced the introduction of a new and improved SIM card solution, dubbed the S-SIM. The new SIM card technology will support present day MMC standard interface along with the USB 2.0 and InterChip-USB interfaces. It is based on the original SIM standard to ensure compatibility with conventional systems and support high-speed host […]

According to “two sources in the online music biz,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs might have been influenced by EMI to release his anti-DRM “Thoughts on Music” open letter. “Last year, RealNetworks (the company behind the Rhapsody subscription service) came up with a proposal for switching to MP3s and circulated it among the major labels. In […]

The 2-VU DC15 just can’t be mistaken as a regular notebook at first sight. The notebook’s USP is the dual touchscreen displays as can be seen in the picture. The dual displays would leaves no space for a included keyboard and touchpad for navigation. While the laptop may rise to new heights on the novelty […]

Mexican airline now serves peanuts, drinks, and iPods for $5. Airline Volaris is the first airline to offer 30GB iPods for free but will soon start charging 50 persos per flight. The iPods are pre-loaded with Mexican TV shows and popular music. American TV shoes and music will soon be loaded as well. American airliners […]

Samsung introduced the Mobile WiMAX USB Dongle SPH-H1200, a device that easily enables PCs to connect to WiMAX or 3G. The device measures 9.6 x 4.6 x 1.5cm - not much smaller than a mobile phone, in fact. Samsung said it will ship with connection manager, SMS and phonebook software. Samsung also showed off the […]

After months of planning to kill off the Hotmail name, Microsoft has decided to keep the venerable brand, as it works to overhaul its free Web e-mail service. Microsoft said that the revamped service, still in beta testing phase, is being renamed “Windows Live Hotmail” rather than the originally planned “Windows Live Mail.” In a […]

Following the success of initial trials, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project plans to roll out a total of 2,500 units later this month for the next stage of testing. Recipients of the upcoming test units include Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uruguay, and Thailand. Yes, Thailand. Although Thailand was initially a supporter of […]

New Internet TV services such as Joost and YouTube may bring the global network to its knees, Internet companies said, adding they are already investing heavily just to keep data flowing. Google, which acquired online video sharing site YouTube last year, said the Internet was not designed for TV. It even issued a warning to […]