Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, today announces the official launch of the MaXSSIMM program, aimed at establishing and promoting a new industrial standard for mobile multimedia services. The program is supported by France’s AII (industrial innovation agency), and is intended to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of personalized and secure Internet services for [...]

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Friday would create a national database of child pornography images — both real and “cartoon” — and require Internet service providers to monitor traffic and report such images to authorities. Under the bill, ISPs that find such images on their networks would have to make a detailed [...]

New attacks against 3 of the 13 core “root servers” (backbone of the Internet) went on as long as 12 hours. But the attacks “passed largely unnoticed by most computer users.” Wired AP is also saying this is “one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.” As TechDirt tells us, “Nearly five [...]

A cassette playing iPod, now that’s a serious old vs. new school mix. Sony has conceded defeat in the gadget wars, so to recoup some of their recent losses they have teamed up with Apple to create the amazing WalkPod.

Vodafone customers in key European markets will get YouTube content directly from Vodafone live! on their mobile phones. The agreement states that YouTube will provide a selection of new videos on a daily basis especially for Vodafone customers. But that’s not the best part; users can upload their own videos from their mobile phones onto [...]

Microsoft is developing a new version of its Zune portable music and media player that doubles as a cell phone — in direct competition to Apple’s recently announced iPhone — according to CrunchGear, a TechCrunch Network blog. It will be a smart phone that will work with the Zune marketplace. Further, it will likely not [...]

Disney has seen its films downloaded over 1.3 million times since placing some of them for sale on Apple’s iTunes Store in October, chief executive Bob Iger said in an interview on FT.com, the website of the Financial Times. Other studios have been reluctant to follow, as retailers including Target have expressed concerns about the [...]

Today at the DEMO 07 conference, TeleFlip introduced its technology that allows all mobile phones to receive e-mails, calendar alerts and online content feeds without any new software or application downloads. TeleFlip uses a patent-pending technology to allow all mobile phones to receive emails, calendar alerts, and online content such as news, weather, and sports. [...]

New multimedia Ultra Smart F700 with touch screen and QWERTY keyboard. Samsung today announced its Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone, aimed to compete against Apple’s iPhone. Showcased at 3GSM World Congress, the F700 features a 2.78-inch touch screen as well as a QWERTY key pad. A “Drag and drop” method of touch screen was adopted [...]

The tech-savvy country of Sweden on Tuesday revealed plans to be the first country to open an embassy in the much talked about virtual world Second Life. “It will have answers to questions on all aspects of Sweden,” Olle Wastberg, general director of the Swedish Institute, an organization which promotes the country’s image abroad. The [...]

Apple may begin replacing hard drive based iPods with solid state NAND flash memory. The move in using an all Flash based iPod would make way for smaller and thinner iPods, and improvement in battery life, according to a report from Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora. “We believe that the video iPod transition from [...]

Fifty-seven percent of U.S. teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom, while only 28% use daily newspapers, according to a survey conducted by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force on the Future of Journalism Education. The fall 2006 survey of 1,262 teachers of grades 5-12 also noted that 31% of teachers are using national TV news, and [...]

Never worry where your kids are again, thanks to new shoes with GPS built-in. A new line of sneakers priced at $325 to $350 will allow users to locate the wearer anywhere in the world with a press of a button. The wearer must activate the GPS by pushing a button. A wireless alert gives [...]

Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision have reached an agreement to manufacture a rollable display device for the mobile market in 2007. The device uses the unique Polymer Vision rollable display technology which enables mobile devices to incorporate a display larger than the handset itself and offers a readability similar to printed paper. While smaller than [...]