Even More Gphone News: Google in Advanced Talks with Verizon & Sprint
The latest info from our good friends those “people familiar with the matter” is that Google is in advanced talks with two U.S. cellphone operatorRead More…
Month: November 2006
U.S. Passports with Computer Chips
The Bush Administration has announced that starting in October 2006 all U.S. passports will be implanted with computer chips. These chips will allow gRead More…
How Often Should I Turn Off My Computer?
News.com has an article about a recent study which claims that $217 million is wasted each year in the United Kingdom alone due to computers that are Read More…
Intel New Technology Speeding Up Computer Startup
Intel has a new technology called “Robson,” which it showed off in Taipei on Monday. The idea is for add-in flash memory cards to hold the informationRead More…
Windows XP Media Center Upgrade
The Wall Street Journal Reports that Microsoft has released a free update for Windows XP Media Center that allows computers with this operating systemRead More…
European Union Unified Music License in the Works?
According to Engadget, the European Commission has just announced plans for a unified music license to be used across all member countries. The hope iRead More…
Data Privacy Standards & Escalating Spyware Threats
News.com released two articles within a few hours of each other that focus on the lack of American data privacy standards and the rising threat of spyRead More…
New Video iPod Details
The new video iPod is here and will ship as early as next week. It includes a 2.5-inch wide color screen, which is larger than the screens of previousRead More…
New Wireless Technology Proposed
A group called the Enhanced Wireless Consortium has recently proposed new wireless technology capable of transmission rates up to 600Mbps. This is oveRead More…
TC News: Google’s Cellphone Again, New Blu-ray Discs Don’t Work, Social News to Come to MSNBC
TechConsumer News is a feature we started out of a hobby of tracking the latest happenings within the consumer related technology sphere. The goal is Read More…