If Battery Fails, iPad Will Be Replaced Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Laptops Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Focus AT&T Extends Data To Feature Phones VeriSign Plans $300M Tech Upgrade Online Censorship Is Getting Craftier When your iPod battery dies, it's time to get a new iPod. Never a popular strategy, Apple is moving to avoid the backlash of potential battery failures with its self-described "magical" tablet device. Intel has previewed platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the processor is aimed at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications. Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said. AT&T's lower-end feature phones are becoming smarter. The carrier has announced that it will offer "smartphone-like experiences" with data services on four of its new, less-expensive models. VeriSign, whose technology is key to allowing Internet users to access web sites with names ending in ".com" and ".net," plans to spend more than $300 million over the next decade to upgrade systems. Repressive regimes, including China, Iran and Tunisia, have stepped up their efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a new study of censorship practices. FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
Cybercriminals Steal Virtual Objects Get Rid of Graffiti with Your iPhone Fighting Flood of Bogus Tech Products Recession Recovery: One-Hit Wonder Remove 'Bloatware' from a Win 7 PC Tiny Laptops Offer Fancy Features Computer gamers are increasingly finding that there's a serious side to their virtual fun: their hard-earned virtual objects are being stolen from them, and in some cases their entire game as well. Graffiti? There's an app for that. The old-school practice of American graffiti may have met its match in some high-tech programs designed to report and remove the blight from city and private property. In the past five years, counterfeit computer chips, routers, and other electronic products have become an epidemic, with fake gear costing the IT industry an estimated $100 billion a year. The recovery is losing steam, with the U.S. economy growing at half the brisk 5.9 percent pace at which the government estimated it grew last quarter. Was the year-end growth spurt a one-hit wonder? Buy a new Win 7 computer, and you'll likely be in for some surprises -- both pleasant and unpleasant. On the unpleasant side will be the many applications PC makers preinstall on their computers. A rash of new laptops set for display at the CeBIT computing trade show underlines the growing shift in the market to tinier machines with fancier features such as 3-D graphics and touch screens. FULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORYFULL STORY
If iPad Battery Fails, Apple Will Replace the iPad for $99 When your iPod battery dies, it's time to get a new iPod. Never a popular strategy, Apple is moving to avoid the backlash of potential battery failures with its self-described "magical" tablet device.
iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format Along with accepting advance orders for its iPad, Apple has revealed a details about how e-books will be handled. The iPad will read the contents of pages and use the open EPUB format.
HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet.
Mobile Enterprise Spotlight
Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Business Focus Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said.
Palm Teeters in Crowded Smartphone Market Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smartphone called the Pre and fresh, intuitive operating software.
Legal System Catches Up To Texting Jurors Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches. That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices cause chaos.
Enterprise Technology Spotlight
Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Portable Workstations Intel has previewed platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the processor is aimed at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications.
New Google Feature Will Hunt for Products Nearby Google can tell you if a product you want to buy is in a nearby store. Among the Google search results, click on the "in stock nearby" link to find out which retailers have the product in stock.
Could New Cisco High-Speed Router Save the Internet? Cisco says its new generation of high-speed routing equipment -- unveiled to much fanfare -- is able to handle the rising tide of video and mobile data transmissions threatening to flood the Internet.
IE 6 and 7 Vulnerability Being Exploited
Long Haul for FCC's Broadband Plan
Google-China Resolution Coming Soon
Verizon Expects 4G To Arrive Early
If iPad Battery Fails, Apple Will Replace the iPad for $99
iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format
HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad
Lenovo Plans Mobile-Internet Business Focus
Palm Teeters in Crowded Smartphone Market
Legal System Catches Up To Texting Jurors
Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Portable Workstations
New Google Feature Will Hunt for Products Nearby
Could New Cisco High-Speed Router Save the Internet?
