TiVo gets TV Guide license for international market
TiVo has announced its deal with Gemstar-TV Guide to allow international TiVo deployments to offer Gemstar's interactive program guide.
Gemstar's TV Guide channel and interactive programming guides have found a home in set top boxes from Comcast, Time Warner, DISH Network, Cox, and more. In fact, it's an onerous task to find a place where the new Macrovision subsidiary hasn't licensed one of its properties.
Should kids be taught 'Internet safety' in schools?
Can kids be taught to avoid dangers on the Internet while also taking full advantage of all of the good things available online? The State of Virginia, for one, thinks that classroom instruction will work.
In one of the first efforts of its kind in the US, Virginia has launched a program for "Internet safety" in schools.
New Korean Samsung HSUPA phones will upload at 2 Mbps
Samsung today unveiled its new HSUPA slider, the M470, in the company's Korean homeland.
Having blazed the way with its first High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) device, the W200 -- which promised download speeds 1.8 Mbps -- as early as May 2006, Samsung showed off today the M470, its first device to use HSUPA...and in so doing, claimed upload speeds of 2 Mbps.
Motorola bus tour brings some good news for WiMAX
A live demo of mobile WiMAX was successfully presented by Motorola at a sold out trade show in Singapore this week, not long after it announced completion of a successful trial of the technology in Thailand.
Show-goers taking a bus tour at the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia reportedly experienced Web browsing, video conferencing, and other wireless applications while moving past Motorola 400 access points (APs) along the route, with mobile hand-off between the APs. Motorola provided backhaul to its facility in Singapore over its wireless IP equipment.
H-1B limits met after just one week of petitions
As the debate continues over foreign-born students educated in America taking their skills to other countries, the US continues to limit the number of non-citizen students working here to a number that can be met in under one week's time.
Last Tuesday was the first day for the US Citizenship and Immigration Service to receive employers' petitions for foreign workers to obtain H-1B visas, to perform bachelor's and master's degree-level work in the US during its fiscal year 2009, beginning this October. Yesterday morning, the first scheduled filing period ended, and USCIS reports the number of petitions already well exceeded its annual quota of 65,000 for the bachelor's category, and 20,000 for the "advanced degree" category.
CyberLink adds BD-Live support to PowerDVD
The top-of-the-line version of the company's disc playback software will now support Blu-ray's advanced interactivity platform, the company said Tuesday.
PowerDVD 'Ultra' has already been certified for several HD formats, including Blu-ray Profile 1.1. It also supports BD+, AVCHD, and BD-RE 3.0. With Profile 2.0 support now under its belt, it becomes one of the most-feature rich disc playback applications available.
HP enters the low-cost student PC market, but is $499 too much?
Hewlett-Packard today announced a new low-priced $499 mini-notebook aimed at school students and business professionals wanting a small, low-cost system capable of withstanding the kinds of punishment that only a school can dish out.
The HP 2133 Mini-Note is the latest effort by the world's #1 PC maker to approach a market with still very little competition, though with very high growth potential.
With 4G ahead, AT&T names a wireless veteran as its CTO
Now that AT&T is starting to crystalize its strategy for the 4G wireless era, wireless industry veteran John Donovan has been named its chief technology officer.
Although AT&T announced the appointment just today, Donovan has actually been on the job at AT&T since at least Thursday of last week, when AT&T broke its silence about plans for its future LTE network. The company won a major chunk of B-Block spectrum in the FCC's recent 700 MHz auction, and boasted of that victory immediately after the FCC lifted its gag order around the auction.
EU mandates Web sites delete personal data after six months
Can a fair compromise be obtained on the matter of how long search engines should be allowed to retain personally identifiable data? Last week, a key European advisory group moved the goalposts on that issue yet again.
The European Union's key advisory panel on governing policy for Internet services issued an opinion last Friday stating that search engines and Web sites that retain personally identifiable data delete that data from their servers after six months. Member states would then be free to specify an even tighter timeframe.
Sprint affiliate offers VoIP phones with visual voicemail
Embarq, formerly the local division of Sprint Nextel, has introduced its eGo home phone, a DECT 6.0 IP handset manufactured by Vtech that looks to challenge VoIP leaders Comcast and Vonage.
The company was formed under the leadership of Dan Hesse, who saw the future in converged communications, and was escalated to Sprint Nextel's CEO position late last year. The company offers triple (and quadruple) play service bundles in 19 US states, maintaining its alliance with Sprint and partnering with DirecTV.
MySpace targets Latin American userbase
MySpace says its Spanish-language site will feature "culturally relevant content" aimed at this quick-growing segment of the internet population.
MySpace has signed on partners that produce content for the market to support its effort, including the Spanish Broadcasting System, Billboard en Espanol, and Remezcla.com.
Wal-Mart focuses on MP3, but without Sony BMG and Warner
Sony BMG and Warner's music is missing from Wal-Mart's online store, which has been recently redesigned to feature its catalog of DRM-free music.
With the apparent full switch to MP3, it marks yet another former customer of Microsoft's PlaysForSure who let the DRM technology fall by the wayside. However, it appears that with the embrace of DRM-free music, some artists are not available, at least temporarily.
Google opens its Web application engine to 10,000 developers
The engine that powers the company's online applications suite will soon be accessible by a select number of developers, for testing their own Web services at their own pace...on Google's servers.
In a highly anticipated move given the fact that it had publicized that something would emerge today for a company retreat billed as "Campfire One," Google this morning announced it is granting developmental access to its application servers, to the first 10,000 developers who apply.
Newest Blu-ray recorders include transfer to PSP
Sony will release Blu-ray recorders April 30 in Japan that allow for one-touch transfer to the PSP, Walkman, and select mobile phones.
The BDZ-A70 will carry a hefty price tag, coming in at ¥170,000 ($1,658). At the same time, it shows a willingness by Sony to embrace the growing consumer desire for media portability.
People-search startup Spock.com seeks partners, maybe with Google
New search engine venture Spock.com is using a Linux-based software architecture to save money on development. But it's also showing some ingenuity with its business model, focusing on partnership rather than competition.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) - Now in beta since August of last year, Spock.com specializes in "people searches" across the names of both "ordinary people" and celebrities, said Jay Bhatti, the company's VP for marketing, services, and user experience, during a press briefing last week.
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