http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Technology 60 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:54:40 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349909.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:48 EST U.S. senators are pressuring European antitrust regulators to hurry their investigation of Oracle Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing Sun's "precarious" financial condition and fears about more layoffs at the struggling computing company. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349891.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:58 EST Barnes & Noble Inc. and Borders Group Inc., the nation's two largest brick-and-mortar book sellers, both posted quarterly losses Thursday and forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition from discount chains and online retailers is stiffening. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349995.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:43 EST Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give existing shareholders control over the company. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349425.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28 EST Barnes & Noble on Tuesday posted a larger second-quarter loss than last year and lowered its profit forecast for this quarter in anticipation of weak holiday sales and high costs of launching its electronic book reader, the Nook. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349114.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349114.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:33 EST Google is documenting Iraq's national museum and will post photographs of its ancient treasures on the Internet early next year, Google chief Eric Schmidt announced Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349062.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Product: Doro PhoneEasy, sold by Consumer Cellular.<p/>Features: This super-basic cellphone is marketed to seniors. Model 410 is a flip phone, and 345 is bar-shaped. Can send a plain text message (no multimedia messages), and menu has FM radio, alarm, calculator, calendar and games. There's a back button that can be programmed to call any number you want for an emergency. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349061.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349061.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00 EST It seems like we have a hard time forgetting about the ``I'' in Twitter.<p/> That was the conclusion by two Rutgers professors who studied the content of 3,000 tweets sent by 350 Twitter users. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348737.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348737.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:53 EST One area where Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding aggressively is computer networking, the home turf of market leader Cisco Systems Inc. Earlier this month HP announced plans to buy Cisco competitor 3Com Corp. for $2.7 billion to supplement HP's own line of networking gear. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348717.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:38 EST Networking gear maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said Monday its fourth-quarter profit fell 6 percent as hefty costs offset a surge in revenue, but reiterated its guidance for fiscal 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348654.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348654.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:43 EST Independent label artists Bjork and Tom Waits are coming to MySpace Music. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348333.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348333.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25 EST Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday - a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving - and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348329.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348329.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:25 EST Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348187.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348187.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:03 EST Patent holding company Klausner Technologies Inc. on Monday said it's suing Motorola Inc. and the maker of BlackBerry smartphones for allegedly violating its patent for visual voicemail. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348174.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1348174.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58 EST Micros Systems Inc., which makes software for the restaurant and hospitality industries, said Monday Chief Financial Officer Gary Kaufman will retire on March 31, 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1349062.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1349062.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Product: Doro PhoneEasy, sold by Consumer Cellular.<p/>Features: This super-basic cellphone is marketed to seniors. Model 410 is a flip phone, and 345 is bar-shaped. Can send a plain text message (no multimedia messages), and menu has FM radio, alarm, calculator, calendar and games. There's a back button that can be programmed to call any number you want for an emergency. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1347910.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1347910.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:52 EST Product: Doro PhoneEasy, sold by Consumer Cellular<p/>Features: This super-basic cellphone is marketed to seniors. Model 410 is a flip phone, and 345 is bar-shaped. Can send a plain text message (no multimedia messages), and menu has FM radio, alarm, calculator, calendar and games. There's a back button that can be programmed to call any number you want for an emergency. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1337340.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1337340.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Product: Jabra Stone Bluetooth headset.<p/>Features: Comes in one size and fits in the right ear. Weighs only 0.25 ounces. The headset has two hours of talk time, but the stone-shaped charger holds three full charges for when you need power on the go. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1325454.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1325454.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST WHAT: Motorola Droid, sold by Verizon.<p/>FEATURES: Runs on Google's Android 2.0 mobile operating system. Has 16 gigabytes of memory, a 5-megapixel camera with flash and options for photo effects, and slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1324124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1324124.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:37 EST WHAT: Motorola Droid, sold by Verizon<p/>FEATURES: Runs on Google's Android 2.0 mobile operating system. Has 16 gigabytes of memory, a 5-megapixel camera with flash and options for photo effects, and slides open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1314213.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1314213.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:52 EST The software and equipment lets users insert themselves into short movie clips -- such as Forrest Gump, The Godfather and Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- with the original actor removed from the scene. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1301813.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1301813.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT PRODUCT: Garmin Nüvifone G60, sold by AT&T<p/>FEATURES: GPS navigation with preloaded maps, e-mail and texting, 3-megapixel camera, Internet browser. It comes with a car mount, but no car charger. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1290973.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1290973.html Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:07 EDT Product: Windows 7 operating system<p/>Features: Several new features, including libraries, taskbar icons instead of tabs, jump lists instead of recent documents, and XP Mode, which allows users to run a virtual version of Windows XP in the background. If you have other Windows 7 computers, you can set up Homegroups to share whatever documents you want between computers without having to move files into public folders. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1245269.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1245269.html Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Instead of typing in your credit card information when shopping online, swipe a credit card through the SmartSwipe while at the payment screen, and the forms for credit card information will be filled out and encrypted. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1244541.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1244541.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:27 EDT Product: NetSecure SmartSwipe, a personal USB credit card reader for online shopping<p/>Features: Instead of typing in your credit card information when shopping online, swipe a credit card through the SmartSwipe while at the payment screen, and the forms for credit card information will be filled out and encrypted. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1211756.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/reviews/story/1211756.html Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT This is the ideal gadget for parents wanting to monitor teen drivers . . . or good for spying on anyone, for that matter. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/1071234.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/1071234.html Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01 EDT The video-game store looks more like a multiplex during the summer months, with just about every blockbuster action movie getting an interactive tie-in. More than half of the films on last week's box-office top 10 list have related games. Next weekend, you'll be able to watch Pixar's Up on the big screen, then grab the game on your way home. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/540387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/540387.html Tue, 20 May 2008 16:29 EDT The Nintendo Wii has already done what video game naysayers said couldn't be done -- get children and adults off the couch with active games such as Wii Sports. The innovative Wii Fit takes it a step farther by creating a virtual gym in your living room that helps families incorporate fitness, as well as the escapist fun of video games, into their daily routine. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/516647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/516647.html Fri, 02 May 2008 03:01 EDT Grand Theft Auto IV is all about the American Dream. An immigrant comes to this country with dreams of escaping his past and building his fortunes. But instead of finding streets paved in gold, he finds a city where hookers and hustlers work the streets and crime is a way of life and the only way to survive. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/249801.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/249801.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:05 EDT The gamers stood in line for hours, from Los Angeles to Miami. Three years without a Halo fix and the day finally arrived. At 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, thousands of fans rushed inside stores across the nation to reach the holy grail of video games - a copy of Halo 3. Was it worth the wait? http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/248649.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/248649.html Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:00 EDT The week belongs to Halo 3. Does it really matter what else is out in stores? For those few gamers without the Halo fever, CSI 4: Hard Evidence is also debuting. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/241194.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/241194.html Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:10 EDT This week the Sims franchise comes to the Wii, street racing gets Juiced and composer Frederic Chopin stars in Eternal Sonata. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/232885.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/video-games/story/232885.html Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:35 EDT Gamers are in for a tough choice this week: competing NHL titles, a promising action-adventure game for the Playstation 3 and a skateboarding simulator. Decisions, decisions, decisions. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349868.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:18 EST Two men accused of the rare charge of economic espionage against the U.S. have been acquitted on two counts, but they could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349667.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349667.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28 EST European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349665.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349665.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28 EST Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it is axing 220 jobs at research and development units in Japan as the world's largest mobile phone maker continues to cut costs. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349654.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349654.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:23 EST The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349654.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/technology/story/1349654.html Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:23 EST The struggling online video startup Joost, begun with much fanfare by the creators of Skype and Kazaa, has been sold to an online advertising company.