Gene Hirschel

Adobe Systems is rolling out a new version of Flash 9 player software, and it’s loaded up with codecs to make movies, audio and other forms of Web content even smoother. With a code-name called Moviestar, the company’s latest release signals an eye on Hollywood — at least, on Hollywood’s compression standards. Version 9 now […]

Of the many Holy Grails in computing, the perfect form factor remains the most evasive, especially with Tablet PCs. Call it the never-ending quest to balance more portable devices with power and functionality in the category called the Ultra Mobile PC. Samsung’s latest entry is the Q1 Ultra Mobile PC, billed (yet again) as the […]

We all have heard the warnings that follow the blue screen of death. Did you back up? With storage getting cheaper by the gigabyte, storage makers are making it all too easy for consumers to back up their data with a sophistication once reserved for businesses. Amid the explosion of digital media — photos, video […]

Such an innocent desire. I needed to send out an important story, all written and ready for a trip into cyberspace, spinning around hard drives, skipping over microwaves and bouncing through router after router to its destination. Since I was out of the office and too rural for broadband, I subscribed to MSN’s dialer service […]

NEW YORK — The rumors were right about another Treo on its way. Palm today announced a more “consumer-friendly” Treo 680 smartphone based on the Palm OS. The screen is larger, but Palm managed to decrease the size and weight a little, mostly by decreasing the size of the battery, according to Ed Colligan, Palm’s […]