Technology
AT&T Mobile TV Now Showing in New Cities Around the Country
Couch potatoes just lost another excuse. AT&T* announced today the expanded availability of AT&T Mobile TV to roughly 20 new markets around the country, giving more TV lovers on-the-go access to high-quality TV programming from top news and entert...
Move Over Twitter. Step Aside Facebook. Nixle is for Real.
Nixle, the latest entrant into the field of instantaneous communications, is making rapid strides with police and municipal agencies nationwide - not to mention the thousands of citizens who have signed up to receive vital public safety messages.
Get a Hold of the Coolest Summer Catch: LG Tritan(TM) From U.S. Cellular
LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A., Inc. (LG Mobile Phones) and U.S. Cellular today announced the all new LG Tritan(TM). Customers can now enjoy a 3" full touch-screen and sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3.0 mega-pixel camera and camcorder and 3G network s...
New Sony Notebook Delivers Stunning Blu-ray Entertainment at Entry-Level Price
Sony today unveiled the VAIO(R) NW notebook -- a new line of PCs that provide a powerful high-definition experience while starting at just $800 for the standard model and $880 equipped with Blu-ray Disc(TM) technology.
Turmoil in Tehran: Citizens Turn on Livestream.com Channel to Provide As-it-Happens News Coverage
Iranian demonstrators are using Livestream's video streaming service to report in realtime and capture content in the turbulent wake of a contested presidential election from the scene.
Enhancing Online Citizen Participation Through Policy
Last week, Vivek Kundra and Katie Stanton talked about the efforts underway to introduce more Web 2.0 technologies to the federal government sites and to open more back-and-forth communication between the American people and the government.
iPhone 3G S Available at AT&T Tomorrow
AT&T* begins selling iPhone 3G S nationwide tomorrow morning in its more than 2,200 company-owned retail locations. In addition, AT&T today will begin shipping devices to customers who preordered online for arrival beginning tomorrow. iPhone 3G S ...
Disney Adds Kids' Netbook, Camcorders
Burbank, Calif. — The summer and fall lineup from Disney Consumer Products includes the marketers’ first netbook and first camcorders, all designed for kids.
Twitter responds on Iranian role
Twitter has distanced itself from State Department revelations that it asked the company to delay maintenance so Iranians could continue to communicate.
A California company alleged that the Chinese "Green Dam-Youth Escort"filtering software that must be packaged with all computers sold in China from July 1, contains stolen portions of the company's Internet-filtering software designed for parents.
A new privacy study conducted by a group of graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, was released late Monday. The students at the School of Information — Joshua Gomez, Travis Pinnick and Ashkan Soltani — studied consumer expec...
Panasonic Introduces the World's Lightest* High Definition Camcorders
Panasonic today announced the release of two of the world's lightest*, High Definition (HD) camcorders -- the HDC-SD10, which uses an SDHC/SD Memory Card as recording media, and the Twin Memory Type HDC-TM10, which records onto both an 8 GB** Buil...
Livekick Announces Official Launch of its Live Concerts Recommendation and Tickets Search Engine
Livekick, the live concerts recommendation and tickets search engine, announced today the official launch of its platform at http://livekick.com. The site, which is free to use, helps music fans easily discover local live concerts based on artists...
NASA Launches Human Space Flight Review Web Site for Public Use
WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting the public to make its voice heard as a panel of experts undertakes an independent review of planned U.S. human space flight activities.
China's government ratcheted up its censorship of the Internet on Tuesday by blocking blogs, Internet forums, and social media sites, two days before the 20th anniversary of the military's attack on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square.
A new website, 64 for Suu, launched with the backing of major celebrities and a coalition of NGOs, has become the global hub of the international campaign to release Burma’s imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and all of Burma's poli...
Obama setting up better security for computers
WASHINGTON (AP) — America has failed for too long to protect the security of its computer networks, President Barack Obama said Friday, announcing he will name a new cyber czar to press for action.
Microsoft unveils Bing, its new search engine
Microsoft's new Bing "decision engine," unveiled Thursday by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, is being positioned as an alternative to the busy, confusing search engines of today.
Wired South Korea mourns ex-president online
SEOUL (Reuters) - Many South Koreans are mourning a former president who was popular among youth in cyberspace, with an online gaming company even halt playing for several hours for the funeral on Friday.
Pope 2.0: Vatican launches Facebook application
VATICAN CITY -- Web surfers can now send virtual postcards of Pope Benedict XVI to their Facebook friends or follow the pontiff's travel on their iPhones.