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Poll: MP3 player king of commuter gadgets
News The MP3 player has been named the most popular gadget for passing the time on the daily commute by silicon.com readers. Perhaps surprisingly, the next most popular answer (30 per cent) was from people saying they don't use any gadget when they... [08 Feb 2008]
Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time
News This year, Gates' most notable gadget is a "mobile navigator" that can be used to point at a person or place and get more information. The annual event is Microsoft's opportunity to lay out its vision of where technology is headed and make the case... [07 Jan 2008]
Vegas baby: Cisco seeks consumer buddies
News Some people might be scratching their heads at the idea of the leader of Cisco showing up at a consumer gadget trade show. But instead of Sony and Disney, back then it was IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers is to deliver a... [09 Jan 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: Stories of the year
News We're talking about the codename for the Apple mobile phone/MP3 player hybrid which despite persistent rumours failed to appear, making the gadget the biggest non-story of 2006. It all began in August when Dell issued a recall of 4.1 million... [20 Dec 2006]
CIO Essentials: Luke Mellors' picks of the week
News Steve Ranger's Notebook: The oldest gadget still wows Instead of banning laptops in the rare event that it happens, put procedures in place to manage risk and events just in case it happens to a Sony Vaio that hasn't been recalled - and please let... [19 Sep 2006]
Hackers crack and kill the PSP
News The first hackers to crack Sony's must-have gadget, the PSP, have created code that will kill the handheld console and render it unusable. The Trojan application which exploits a picture file vulnerability is the result of lengthy attempts to break... [06 Oct 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.01.05
Round-Up It looks like the insides of almost any other electronic gadget.as one might expect. It turns out the gadget is actually not a gadget but is in fact a living, breathing organism - a genetically modified creature, which bleeds when cut. [21 Jan 2005]
Virgin MP3 player no match for iPod in storage
News The circular, half-ounce gadget has a capacity of 128MB, meaning that it can hold about 40 songs. That puts it in an increasingly crowded field against heavyweights such as Sony, Dell and soon Hewlett-Packard. [20 Jul 2004]
Sony settles with German inventor of Walkman
News In 1986, the manufacturer paid out royalties but Sony always rejected Pavel's claim that he had invented the gadget. The biography of Sony founder Akio Morita credits him with the concept of the portable music player, a device better known to Sony... [07 Jun 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Symbian's future, US regulatory demands and spam strategy
Comment Sony Ericsson has had business user success with its Symbian-based flagship, the P800, and its recently launched successor, the P900, looks like it will be a success with enterprise gadget gatherers too. [22 Feb 2004]
RealNetworks to launch digital song store
News For a song to play on a digital device, the gadget must both be able to play the underlying music format and to decode any proprietary content locks that protect against unauthorised copying. Along with Real, Apple, Microsoft and Sony all offer or... [06 Jan 2004]
Has N-Gage been hacked?
News At least 400,000 N-Gage units have been shipped to retailers since the gadget debuted in early October. Sony this summer announced plans for the PlayStation Portable, a handheld adjunct to its market-leading home console that will include an... [12 Nov 2003]
Microsoft pulls out the stops for Media Center upgrade launch
News After years of playing the nerd, the PC is hoping to land the role of the cool gadget in the living room - a part Microsoft desperately wants to see the computer play. Dell and Sony joined the list of computer makers that offer Media Center models... [01 Oct 2003]
Sony Ericsson launches 3G handset
News Among its arsenal of gadget-fan-friendly features it boasts a video camera to enable live handset-to-handset video conferencing. Mobile phone giant Sony Ericsson has unveiled its first 3G handset at the 3GSM show being held in Cannes this week. [18 Feb 2003]
Mobile Java ringing in the changes
News Gadget designers say the newer Java will require about 100K more memory than the previous version, a sizable jump for cell phones. A Sun representative said that the company expects rapid adoption of MIDP 2.0 by all of the major cell phone makers... [19 Dec 2002]
