MADISON, Wis. — In hopes of getting U.S. consumers to connect to live digital TV on their mobile phones, Philips Semiconductors is rolling out a TV-on-mobile device on Monday (Dec. 12), complete with a TV tuner and a demodulator that complies with the DVB-H standard and specifically designed for us in a U.S. frequency

SAP AG has co-developed a product with Intel Corp. to speed search capabilities. Separately, SAP is working with Cisco Systems to ease application installation and networking, SAP confirmed Thursday.

The project with Intel, code-name Euclid, is being tested with several customers. Intel is contributing its 64-bit processor technology, which lets software keep

Internet advertising is expected to account for 10 percent of the overall U.S. market by 2010, a twofold increase over last year, a market research firm said Thursday.

In five years, revenues from online advertising will reach $23.5 billion out of the estimated $235 billion companies are expected to spend, Park Associates

DivX 6 for Mac is now available — a new version of the digital video compression technology that’s become increasingly widespread on PCs and on consumer DVD players. It’s available for download — a component that allows DivX movies to be encoded on the Mac is free, although the encoding software cost US$19.99 to

The Wi-Fi Alliance trade group this week launched a program to decrease Wi-Fi power requirements in an attempt to encourage use of the technology in cell phones and other mobile devices.

The company said it will certify an extension to its existing Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) program called WMM Power Save. WMM was

The U.S. government aims to develop open-source software to improve the performance of software-defined radios in urban environments.
 
The advantage of software-defined radio (SDR) is that it shifts many of the functions of hardware into software, which can be more easily reconfigured to achieve a desired result. For example, a

VitalSource Technologies Inc. is making 'A Christmas Carol,' the classic Dickens tale of penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge available as a free download to anyone who visits the company's Web site and downloads its VitalSource Bookshelf software, the company said Thursday.
 
VitalSource Bookshelf is a software platform publishers use to make books

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seeking to accelerate nanoelectronics research in the United States, a consortium of companies has announced its first research grants under the Semiconductor Industry Association's new Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI).

The grants will fund the creation of two new university-based nanoelectronics research centers — one in California and the

A statement that cybercrime proceeds amounted to more than $105 billion in 2004, made Nov. 28 during a banking security conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by U.S. Treasury advisor Valerie McNevin, is sparking push-back from experts who aren't sure it's on the mark.

McNevin's claim was reported by Reuters and widely circulated.

SAP AG has co-developed a product with Intel Corp. to speed search capabilities. Separately, SAP is working with Cisco Systems to ease application installation and networking, SAP confirmed Thursday.
 
The project with Intel, code-name Euclid, is being tested with several customers. Intel is contributing its 64-bit processor technology, which lets