An Audio-Quality Arms Race?
As digital audio matures, companies are touting improvements in sound quality to be heard above the din.Brad Blackwood, a Memphis recording engineer, is as serious about sound quality as they come.
View ArticleFirefox 2.0: The Honda Civic of Web Browsers
Updated and improved, Firefox remains excellent but breaks little new ground.
View ArticleA Smarter Web
New technologies will make online search more intelligent–and may even lead to a “Web 3.0.”This article appears in the March/April 2007 issue of Technology Review.
View ArticleDigg Labs' Fascinating, Confusing Tools
Data visualization is changing behavior on the popular bookmarking site.Stick figures enter buildings that grow a notch taller with each visit. Blocks fall from the sky into stacks. Dots cluster one by...
View ArticleKeeping Drunks off the Road
Nissan unveils new technologies that can identify drunk or drowsy drivers.For all their good intentions, drunk-driving rules worldwide have a single, tragic flaw: the drunk drivers they’re meant to...
View ArticleIBM's Symphony for the Office Worker
Could the new productivity suite from IBM threaten Microsoft’s popular Office software?Like the Web-browser world before Firefox, the market for so-called productivity software–word processors,...
View ArticleGibson's Self-Tuning Guitar
A new line features advanced electronics that automatically tune the instrument.It’s every guitar player’s nightmare: you step onstage, strike your rock-god pose, triumphantly strum the first chord of...
View ArticleSkype Goes Mobile
Long seen as a threat to cellular carriers’ revenues, Internet phone calling will be the basis of a new service from 3 Mobile.For all its popularity among computer users, Skype, a service that lets...
View ArticleWi-Fi Memory Card Connects Cameras to the Internet
Eye-Fi’s two-gigabyte secure-digital (SD) memory card can wirelessly send photos to a PC or a photo-sharing website.A closely watched Silicon Valley startup is releasing its first product today: the...
View ArticleOnline Autobahn Promises to Sharpen Net Video
A new product from Swarmcast monitors data flow to optimize video quality.With network television shows widely available online, and with YouTube showing presidential debates, the Web is undeniably a...
View ArticleAnalyzing the Internet Collapse
Multiple fiber cuts to undersea cables show the fragility of the Internet at its choke points.When the Internet suddenly collapsed early last Wednesday across the Middle East and into India, it...
View ArticleMobile Carriers See Gold in Femtocells
If consumers buy in to private wireless phone networks, the industry could save money.On its face, it sounds like a company’s technological fantasy: a product sold to customers that will also save the...
View ArticleThe Technology That Toppled Eliot Spitzer
Anti-money-laundering software scrutinizes bank customers’ every move, no matter how small.If there is a lesson from former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s scandal-driven fall (aside from the most...
View ArticleDigital Sound Separator
New software can modify the individual notes of a recorded chord.Peter Neubäcker, a former German guitar maker turned programmer, has done what many in the computer-music business believed impossible.
View ArticleCrossover Camera
Will a new low-price, high-def video camera make traditional still cameras obsolete?A culture war is brewing in the world of digital photography, with a handful of enthusiasts arguing that...
View ArticleAcrobat Gets Multimedia Makeover
Adobe adds Flash, video, and Web services to its venerable Acrobat software.Adobe is reinventing its venerable Acrobat software for the multimedia-heavy Web 2.0 age.
View Article3-D Viewing without Goofy Glasses
Philips’s new displays bring high-quality, 3-D images a step closer to your living room.
View ArticleTwitter's Growing Pains
Plagued by service outages, the microblogging site rebuilds its infrastructure.As every Twitter addict knows, the popular messaging system has suffered long and frustrating service outages, measured in...
View ArticleCloud Computing's Perfect Storm?
An Intel, Yahoo, and HP initiative will use large-scale research projects to test a new Internet-based computing infrastructure.Last week, Intel, Yahoo, HP, and an international trio of research...
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