The iPhone 3G dominated the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, but attendees also got a glimpse of new software coming for all iPhones.
The iPhone 3G dominated the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, but attendees also got a glimpse of new software coming for all iPhones.
The fictional story behind the Telectroscope says there is an undersea tunnel that connects New York and London and allows viewers in the two cities to see each other.
We've posted our first user-submitted video! Bill Walsh sent in a clip demonstrating how the Twinkle Twitter client for the iPhone works:
Thanks, Bill! More terrific Twitter tools can be found here.
Video footage from Microsoft's TechEd conference showing Bill Gates interacting with the Ballmer Bot, as part of his TechEd speech on the future of robotics. Note how uncomfortable Gates seems during this.
What do Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and the "Wizard of Oz" have to do with unified communications? Peter Greco of Siemens Communications explains in this primer on UC technology:
The multimedia staff was busy at Interop, filming some 41 videos during the show:
Google Maps' extensibility help put mashups on the map, but how can you harness the power of mashups for business applications? John Crupi, CTO of JackBe, explains how enterprise mashups work and who can benefit.
Sony has started making plastic components for new TVs that are partially recycled from old television sets.
Keith tries out the GPS Snitch, a device that can transmit its location over a GSM cell connection, making it easy to follow someone (as long as they're in the GSM coverage area.)
Advancements in electronic paper, Google Maps host videos, a woman airs her pre-nup grievances online, NEC premieres Lui PC, Apple iPhone price drop, Willcom creates the first device based on Intel's Atom, the Library of Congress offers a digital experience and Sony recycles televisions.
Think of it as a digital video recorder and PC packed together into a single, large case. NEC's Lui is intended to sit in the living room next to a television as a central server for multimedia content.
John Michelsen, co-founder and chief scientist at iTKO, explains the challenges of testing applications in a virtual environment.
The Willcom D4 is a slider type with the 5-inch widescreen display moving away to reveal a 64-key QWERTY keyboard. Inside is a 1.33GHz Atom processor, 1G byte of RAM, a 40G-byte hard disk and a 2-megapixel camera.
The new Windows Mobile 6.1 offers a full HTML browser and support for Flash among other features.
IBM's developing a new type of solid-state memory that combines the best characteristics of flash, like having no moving parts, and the low cost of hard drives.
The EC approves cell phones for airplanes, HP's 2133 competes with the Eee PC, computer viruses make art, US Homeland Security Secretary keynotes at RSA, Europe's Galileo is moving forward and you can now send smells.
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff delivered a keynote at San Francisco's RSA Security Conference and talked about what advances the government is making in handling cyber threats.
If you're tired of Windows Vista's sluggish performance, follow these tips and techniques to speed up your operating system's responsiveness.
PC World Associate Editor Danny Allen visits the Computer History Museum and talks PC World staff members about their earliest recollections of DOS and the IBM Personal Computer.
Europe is moving forward with their own satellite navigation system after years of setbacks and delays threatened to derail the ambitious project, which is the continent’s answer to US-run GPS.
The head of Intel's mobility group, Dadi Perlmutter, outlined on Wednesday innovations the chip maker plans over the next few years to deliver faster and higher performance processors.
In a rather chilling demo with Bluefire Security Technologies, Keith finds out how easy it is for someone to attack a mobile device.
Having trouble with your phone? LogMeIn's Rescue + Mobile enables tech support reps to control your phone remotely to diagnose problems and reset various settings.
Thumbplays media discovery subscription service is an early look at what open access will do for wireless networks and applications.
In addition to launching two sleek-looking consumer phones, Nokia added Wimax capabilities to its N810 tablet. To demonstrate the wireless Internet technology, CTIA attendees were hoisted 180 feet in the air.
Nuance is showing off a new technology - based on its Dragon Naturally Speaking offering - that will transcribe voice mail into text for e-mail and/or SMS delivery.
Keith gets a look at Alcatel-Lucent's new Femtocell-capable broadband router, which the company hopes will improve your cell coverage at home.
Social media is all the rage and Utterz is trying to capture that with a platform that merges audio captured through a phone call with video and images captured on the go. Keith gets the lowdown on the company and its technology.
On the eve of the RSA Conference a San Francisco gallery unveiled an exhibit called Infected Art. It's a collection of images created from the code of various viruses, worms, spam, and other malware.
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its Compaq 2133 ultraportable laptop, which uses a C7-M microprocessor from Taiwan's Via Technologies instead of a chip from Intel.
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