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by Stan Beer
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Imagine getting into your car one day with your mobile phone and visiting a web page which can give you directions to practically any place you want to go and, what's more, advise you on the best route based on current traffic conditions. For 30 cities in the US, Google Maps for Mobile does this right now.
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by Stan Beer
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The first Blu-ray burning software for Macintosh has arrived from Roxio, a division of digital media software company Sonic Solutions. The software Toast 7 will enable Mac users who buy external Blu-ray drives, due to hit the market within two months, to store up to 50 GB of data on recordable discs.
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by Stan Beer
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The agreement between Symantec and Yahoo, which will see the Norton range of consumer security products offered to Yahoo users at a heavily discounted rate is more than simply an expansion of their previous collaborations. It heralds the beginning of a war in the software security space.
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by Stan Beer
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After the phenomenal success of its slim line Razr, Motorola has an even slimmer range of phones in an attempt to keep the sales ticking over.
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by Stan Beer
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 Less than 24 hours after gadget sites prematurely unveiled pictures of its prototype, Apple has lifted the covers off its new wireless Mighty Mouse.
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by Stan Beer
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Search engine leader Google has released a new mapping product for US cellphones which allows users to check live traffic conditions across 30 cities. Like most Google products announced these days, Google Maps for Mobile is still in beta stage.
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by Stan Beer
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Information Technology spending in the public sector is growing strongly across Asia but there is still a wide gulf between the more mature countries in the region, such as Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, and the emerging countries.
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by Stan Beer
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The US and China are vying for the title as the world's largest spamming nation, according to a new report.
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by Stan Beer
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The misfortunes of MySpace have continued with the news that the site was hit by a massive power outage that took it off the air for nearly 12 hours last Sunday and Monday.
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by Stan Beer
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The debate is already raging about the dangers of using hands free mobile telephones in cars. Soon the debate may shift to drivers using hands free emails.
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by Stan Beer
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Internet content and services provider Yahoo and security market leader Symantec have teamed up to offer Yahoo customers a security offering designed to blunt Microsoft's entry into the security space.
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by Stan Beer
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When you become the tall poppy in the field, everyone tries to cut you down to size. It seems the prestige of being perceived by many as the number one website in the US comes attached with certain unavoidable baggage that goes with fame for social networking site MySpace.
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by Stan Beer
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Obviously something slipped up somewhere at Apple because word has got out that a Blue Tooth wireless version of its multi-button Mighty Mouse is on its way.
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by Stan Beer
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The court battle that has been raging since 2003 since SCO Group and IBM over the alleged misappropriation of SCO's Unix code took another twist recently. SCO has accused IBM of ordering its Linux developers to deliberately destroy evidence.
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by Stan Beer
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Whenever something innovative and different hits the market, the IT industry changes ever so slightly and the change is permanent. With the JotSpot 2.0 wiki building product, you get the feeling that something innovative and different has arrived. However, it's going to cost you.
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by Stan Beer
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Microsoft's new generation groupware product Exchange Server 2007 is reported to be on track, with the company announcing availability of beta 2 for download.
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