Roy Mark

When taxpayers bailed out General Motors, demanding that the automaker restructure for the future, President Obama may not have had this in mind: GM and Segway teaming to showcase an electrically powered, two-seat prototype vehicle that has only two wheels. They are calling it Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), which debuted April 7 […]

The British Identity and Passport Service has selected Computer Sciences Corp. and IBM to build and run core elements of the country’s National Identity Service that aims to ramp up a large-scale deployment of U.K. passports and biometric ID cards.CSC won the lion’s share of the 10-year, $971 million IT services deal with a $570 […]

When Congress passed the CAN-SPAM Act in 2003, it included cell phones by banning the sending of spam e-mail to cell phones. At the time, no one contemplated the phenomenal growth of Short Message Service text messaging, or SMS. By 2007, more than 1.1 million wireless spam text messages were delivered in the United States.Hoping […]

Skype’s introduction of its VOIP service for the iPhone may well be the tipping point for wireless network neutrality. While the right of hardwired Internet users to use the applications and services of their choice has been established by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), network neutrality for wireless networks is still an unresolved issue.Then came […]

Patent reform moved closer to reality April 2 as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 15-4 for a compromise bill that seeks to bridge the longstanding dispute between technology companies and the pharmaceutical industry over patent infringement damages.Through six years of debate in the Senate and the House of Representatives, high-tech firms have fought to more […]

Touting a familiar theme while still playing to his audience April 3, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore told a crowd at the annual CTIA wireless show in Las Vegas that the wireless industry should be a major player in solving climate change. In particular, Gore said, the wireless industry would play a central role […]

The headlines were all about creating a national cyber-security czar reporting directly to the president, but the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced April 1 in the U.S. Senate would also give the president unprecedented authority over private-sector Internet services, applications and software.According to the bill’s language, the president would have broad authority to designate various […]

Clearwire plans to launch a beta WiMax network in Silicon Valley this summer for 4G developers. The wireless 4G service will be provided free to a limited number of developers-including Clearwire investors Google and Intel-in the one-year runup to Clearwire’s planned Bay area debut in 2010.Clearwire said last month it plans to roll out 4G […]

HTCs Latest Smartphone Is a Snap by Roy Mark No Title The Snap comes with the usual smartphone package: 3G connectivity, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS. Running on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, the Snap allows users to remotely synchronize e-mail, calendar and contacts with Exchange. No Title The Snap’s full QWERTY keyboard features a jog ball […]

HTC’s latest smartphone, dubbed the Snap, focuses on users who want to simplify their mobile e-mail, featuring a dedicated key to bring up e-mail from a preselected group of users. The Snap, boasting a QWERTY keyboard, made its debut April 1 at CTIA’s annual wireless conference in Las Vegas.Employing the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 platform, […]