David Needle

Wi-Fi is so 2005. Lenovo said it joined Cingular to expand the connectivity options for mobile notebook computer users. Upcoming versions of Lenovo’s ThinkPad notebook line will integrate wireless wide area network (WWAN) technology from Cingular providing high-speed Internet access to Cingular’s BroadbandConnect service without a separate PC card or additional hardware. The first of […]

Notebook computer users don’t lack for pointing device options, but the latest offering has to rank among the most innovative. Unlike other solutions, the MoGo Mouse BT doesn’t need a connecting cable, as it uses Bluetooth technology to communicate wirelessly with a notebook. Also, the MoGo stores conveniently inside a notebook’s PC card slot, where […]

The Apollo reservation system used by United Airlines was down worldwide for at least four hours Tuesday. A call to a reservation agent at the airline’s Premier Executive reservation line confirmed the outage. internetnews.com was unable to confirm details of the cause of the outage at press time. At 5:45 P.M. Pacific time the agent […]

In a coup for technology licensing firm Rambus , AMD has signed a five-year patent license covering technology owned by Los Altos, Calif.-based Rambus. Specifically, the patents include designs related to the DDR2, DDR3 , FB-DIMM, PCI Express and XDR controllers, as well as other current and future high-speed memory and logic controller interfaces Rambus […]

With the giant Consumer Electronics Show set to start Wednesday, data released today underscores the strength of the industry based on chip sales. Worldwide sales of computer chips continued on a record pace, reaching $20.4 billion in November, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). “The main story of 2005 is the one of growing […]

As if there weren’t enough problems with the recent onset of new virus and spyware attacks. Mobile workers face an additional set of problems all their own. Fiberlink Communications has released a free on demand video at its Web site that details what it calls ongoing security risks and vulnerabilities that threaten mobile workers. The […]

Video-to-go, or, more accurately, video for those on-the-go, is getting less expensive — and still legal. Handheld Entertainment announced today that its ZVUE 1.2 portable video media player, priced at under $100, now supports Microsoft’s secure digital rights management (DRM) software. With the announcement, the San Francisco-based company says it’s the first to offer a […]

Technology companies ranked among the highest rated brands in a survey of consumers nationwide released this week. The 2005 ImagePower Newsmaker Brands Survey, by branding and design consultancy Landor Associates, and research firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, was conducted earlier this month. “This survey highlights the importance that brands play within many aspects of our […]

Radio meets cell phone. This unlikely pair is finding support in Turkey, where Turkcell, the country’s leading GSM operator, announced this week it has signed an agreement with Nokia and HP to roll out “visual radio” service. Turkcell subscribers will be able to download visual content related to the radio broadcast, receive detailed information and […]

IT consolidation is on a fast track, and HP wants to hitch a ride. In a briefing with internetnews.com, HP’s director of IT consolidation solutions said IT consolidation has changed from simply meaning fewer “boxes” of hardware to a realigning of IT and business objectives. “There was a period, after the dot-com debacle, of belt-tightening, […]

Blu-ray is getting closer to reality. Pioneer Electronics announced today it expects to ship one of the first Blu-ray drives in the first quarter of 2006. Blue- ray is a new high capacity storage media that can store up to 25 gigabytes of information on a single disc. Pioneer is not yet saying what the […]

If the avian flu became an epidemic here, or worse, a worldwide pandemic, is your company prepared? Most likely the answer is no, and that’s a big problem according to Basex, a New York-based research firm that specializes in collaborative business environments. In a report released this week, Basex says eighty percent of large companies […]