IDG News Service Color e-reader screens that can imitate video playback were on show Thursday from the company that makes the Kindle for Amazon. com, as similar technologies move closer to debuting in finished products. Taiwan-based Prime View International, which last year acquired E-Ink, a top vendor of electronic paper displays, displayed 6-inch and 9.7-inch [...]

IDG News Service The wifi model of Apples highly anticipated iPad multimedia device will be released in the U. S. on April 3, with 3G-enabled devices available later in the month, Apple announced Friday. All iPad models are set for availability in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the U. K. in [...]

IDG News Service its China-based search engine, Chinese state-controlled media cited a government official as saying early Tuesday. The remarks stopped short of saying whether China might take any punitive action against Google. But the criticism was Chinas first official reaction after the U. S. company started redirecting users of Google. cn to the companys [...]

Network World EMC CEO Joe Tucci was awarded a compensation package valued at $9 million in 2009, according to documents filed this week with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His total compensation declined 23% compared to 2008, when his pay package was valued at $11.7 million. CEO payday How much tech chiefs made [...]

Apple continues to reserve a loyal customer base in the smartphone sector, with 77 percent of iPhone owners effective the Yankee Group in a recent survey that they plan to pervert with money another device from Apple when it comes time to replace their handset. While that mensuration was conducted before the flare-up over the [...]

It seems a opportune age for the smartphone. According to a new survey from emporium-researcher ChangeWave, 16 percent of consumers plan to buy a just discovered device in just the next 90 days. Thats up from 10 percent in a similar survey conducted three months ago. But those gains wont subsist felt evenly across the [...]

Computerworld One day after Google Inc. started selling unlocked Android-based Nexus One smartphones for AT&Ts network for the full price for $529, Sprint Nextel announced that it plans to offer the device for what an executive called a “simple” pricing scheme that will be explained later. Google Inc. began selling the Nexus One device for [...]

PC World GoldMail Free is a useful program and Web service the two are inextricably linked which allows you to create, and then share, slideshow-style messages complete with voice-over. Creating, posting, and sharing messages is easy, surprisingly so, and there are many situations in which creating messages this way can add a great deal of [...]

The government organisation charged with implementing the universal service commitment USC and next generation fibre networks proposed in Lord Carters Digital Britain report was unveiled today. The launch of Broadband Delivery UK BDUK coincided with the publication of a report entitled An Assessment and Practical Guidance on Next Generation Access NGA Risk in the UK. [...]

A recent organisation, the National Crime Agency, is to replace the Serious and Organised Crime Agency Soca, created happy four years ago, the Home Office has announced. The creation of the National Crime Agency is rustic forward in a consultation document entitled Policing in the 21st Century Reconnecting police and the the vulgar. The new [...]