Two of this season’s hottest portable entertainment systems are Apple’s new video-capable iPod and Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). While they’re fundamentally different — the iPod’s strength is in its music playing capability and the PSP is primarily a gaming system — both can play video. Let’s take a look at how they compare specifically

More than nine percent of U.S. wireless subscribers currently use their mobile phone as their only phone and that number will increase to as many as 37 percent by 2009, according to a study released Friday by Research and Markets.

In addition, the study found that about half of wireless subscribers are

Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton, whose Bentley was damaged in a videotaped crash that spawned an Internet sensation and a police investigation, was the "only victim" of the incident, her spokesman said on Thursday.
 
The videotape released by celebrity Web site TMZ.com shows Hilton's companion, Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, slamming

Internet giant Google is offering to cloak its home city in Silicon Valley with free wireless "Wi-Fi" computer service, the company confirmed.
 
Google's proposal to "unwire the city" will be considered by the Mountain View city council on Tuesday, according to Ellis Berns, manager of economic development in the town

RealNetworks patched its Real Player yet again on Thursday to fix multiple critical flaws in the popular media software.

According to eEye Digital Security, which uncovered the bugs and reported them to RealNetworks, two separate vulnerabilities affect multiple versions of RealPlayer for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Both were classified as

IBM claims it has crushed the competition and broken records with its WebSphere Application Server software.
At least one other company made a similar claim.

IBM announced Thursday that the software performed 64 percent better than others on Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s SPECjAppServer 2004, an industry standard benchmark measuring real-world

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), armed with an injunction from a U.S. District Court, has shut down Enternet Media, Inc., and filed a lawsuit against that company and its affiliates for running an operation that used the lure of free browser upgrades and other free computer software to download spyware and adware on consumers'

MANHASSET, N.Y. — With the all-important holiday buying season fast approaching, will electronics companies reap the gifts of bulging year-end quarterly profits?

The recent barrage of quarterly earnings reports paints a mixed picture. Suppliers of consumer electronics continue to face price erosion and pockets of slow growth, dampening earnings forecasts. Semiconductor suppliers are

IBM claims it has crushed the competition and broken records with its WebSphere Application Server software.
 
At least one other company made a similar claim.

IBM announced Thursday that the software performed 64 percent better than others on Standard Performance Evaluation Corp.'s SPECjAppServer 2004, an industry standard benchmark measuring

Earnings declined in part because of the cost of replacing defective PCs, but the company sees plenty of opportunity for growth in storage, printers, and software and periperhals.

Growth opportunities for Dell remain strong despite an earnings setback in the third quarter, due in part to charges related to replacing faulty