Erin Joyce

Roam where you want to, across a WiFi network, and onto a cellular one. You won’t be able to notice the difference and it’s all with one number, one mailbox and with good quality voice calls, too. That’s part of the pitch German networking giant Siemens  is making for HiPath MobileConnect, its latest product for […]

Google  proved why it’s called the search king with fourth quarter and year-end results. Profits almost tripled and revenues jumped by 67 percent. For the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 2006, Google’s net profit was $1.03 billion, about 2.7 times more than its net profit of $372 million during the same quarter in 2005. Earnings […]

Microsoft   posted robust earnings results for its fiscal second quarter, helped by healthy sales of xBox gaming devices and some server lines. But investors looked at a glaring drop in net income compared to the same time last year and saw the cost of delays with Vista, its next operating system poised for consumer […]

IBM’s  software division continued surging in the fourth quarter of 2006, helping the tech bellwether post a profit of $3.5 billion (diluted earnings per share of $2.26), up by 12 percent over the same time last year. Revenues were $26.3 billion, up by 7 percent from the same time last year. Standout awards went to […]

With the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas and the world of gadgetry and fun sloshing into the gadget-obsessed marketplace, it’s pure tech catnip these days. If all that media overload isn’t enough, the Mac faithful will be gathering in San Francisco to hear the oracle of cool, Steve Jobs, talk about […]

Call it the wireless industry’s scramble “up the stack,” to borrow an analogy from operating systems. A new research report is calling for double-digit growth in managed services in the mobile communications sector, as more carrier companies outsource the basics of their network operations to third-party providers. ABI Research says managed services are a major […]

UPDATED: AT&T’s  $85 billion merger with BellSouth got its long-awaited blessing from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today after the two sides hammered out new concessions on network neutrality, cuts in broadband rates and divesting some of its spectrum allocation. The approval puts to end the delays over the FCC’s vote on the merger that […]

Dell  cast its lot with Blu-ray in the format battles over next-generation optical DVD a few years ago. Now, it’s following through on that commitment by rolling out support for the optical disc format on its high-end XPSTM M1710 consumer notebook computer. The Blu-ray option on the notebook lines signals that Dell is not just […]

Katherine Albrecht’s work as a humanities researcher led to her discovery of the growth and use of RFID, Radio Frequency ID tags . She didn’t like what she found out about the use of the radio-frequency emitting tags that transmit data about your whereabouts, or what you purchased. Her concerns then led her to form […]

Lenovo’s latest ThinkPad notebook is lighter, loaded up for Intel-flavored 802.11n connections and Vista-ready. Wider screens on laptop computers are popular with consumers, especially gamers; Lenovo is betting that business users will buy into its first-ever 15.4-inch screen on the latest ThinkPad T60. At 5.1 pounds, the ThinkPad T60 widescreen’s dimensions sport an upgraded display […]

Who’s the hardware king? IBM sits atop the heap in most categories, according to results tallied by Gartner for the third quarter 2006. In other categories, Sun Microsystems continued to come on strong while Hewlett-Packard  held its crown. Overall, worldwide server shipments grew by 9 percent in the third quarter of 2006 compared to the […]

Eclipse is now for embedded developers too. The Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project this week unleashed three milestone releases, Target Management 1.0, Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP, release version 1.0 and Mobile Tools for the Java Platform (MTJ) release version 0.7. DSDP was founded as a top-level Eclipse project in 2005 as an […]