UPI Hi-Tech articles from September 2005

UPI Hi-Tech archives from September 2005

France Telecom upbeat despite corruption charges.
September 1, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Even as the French government continues its investigation of its largest phone company on allegations of corruption, many industry analysts both within and outside France remain upbeat...

Hurricane still keeping telecoms down.
September 1, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Just days after Hurricane Katrina made communication nearly impossible in the Gulf Coast region, national wireless phone companies said they did everything they could to prevent loss of...

Carriers struggling to restore service.
September 2, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Wireless carriers are struggling to restore -- and in some cases, maintain -- networks in the Gulf Coast and New Orleans regions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the most deadly natural...

Nano World: Energy from nanotech chips.
September 2, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Power generators based on nanotechnology that can fit on a microchip could help drive military and medical devices or cell phones and laptops in the future, experts told UPI's Nano World....

Information Suitor Highway goes mobile.
September 2, 2005... Byline: STOKELY BAKSH WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- More online-dating businesses are shifting gears to keep up with the latest technological trend in eDating by going mobile. Turning to mobile devices as a new source of attracting...

Branding is another headache for SBC, AT&T.
September 2, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- As rumors fly that SBC plans to drop its brand and adopt AT&T's name when the two companies complete their merger, experts are mixed on whether or not they are doing the right thing....

IT hiring increasing in the United States.
September 6, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Information-technology employment is increasing, and the greatest expansion appears to be coming from computer-network design and related services, with Internet companies, software...

TOM Online, Skype form JV in China.
September 6, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Chinese wireless Internet company TOM Online and Skype, a popular Web site enabling free phone calls, announced the formation of a joint venture in China. The announcement made on...

Kazaa hit by file-sharing crackdown.
September 6, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Following in the footsteps of the U.S. courts, an Australian federal judge Monday ruled against the file-swapping network Kazaa for making it easier for Web users to download copyrighted...

Nano World: Diamond-nanotube composites.
September 6, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A novel hybrid material composed of diamond and carbon nanotubes could find use in everything from biological-weapons detectors to flat-panel displays, experts told UPI's Nano World. ...

The Web: Searching for survivors online.
September 7, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The New Orleans Police and the Louisiana National Guard have an electronic ally in their search for survivors of Hurricane Katrina: the Internet, experts tell UPI's The Web. ...

Tech cos offer goods and services for relief.
September 7, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- As donations flood in from across the United States and abroad to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, corporate America is joining the bandwagon to help those surviving the aftermath of the...

Sirius, XM Radio continue to grow, compete.
September 7, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- This month's two biggest news stories have provided XM Satellite Radio a chance to show off its programming versatility. XM has joined forces with the American Red Cross to launch...

Nano World: Nano for artificial kidneys.
September 8, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Nanotechnological filters could lead to wearable or implantable artificial kidneys, experts told UPI's Nano World. Animal studies for artificial-kidney prototypes should begin one or...

Google says 'Cerf's Up'.
September 8, 2005... Byline: T.K. MALOY WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Behemoth search engine Google signaled an even further climb to the top of the Internet mountain Thursday with its announcement that Vint Cerf, one of the founders of the Internet, is joining...

Wireless World: Rehnquist's legacy.
September 9, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died last Saturday at age 80, may be known to the public as a conservative intellectual, but his rulings influenced much more than just the...

The China Yahoo! welcome: You've got Jail!
September 9, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- This week's revelations involving a Chinese journalist sentenced to 10 years in jail for revealing state secrets indicates the weaknesses of human rights and corporate behavior in the...

eBay's bid for Skype may backfire.
September 9, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Rumors abound that eBay, the world's biggest and most successful online auction house, will buy out Skype Technologies, an Internet-based telecommunications group. Both companies have...

Author interview: Podcasting biz.
September 9, 2005... Byline: STOKELY BAKSH WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- The growing popularity of the Internet-based broadcast medium known as podcasting is finding its way into businesses that are looking for new methods to reach consumers. In her new...

Networks secure subways, transit systems.
September 12, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A new surveillance network being built for the New York City subway system may serve as a model in the coming years for other metropolitan transit authorities, experts tell UPI's...

Is it RIP for VoIP in China?
September 12, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP development is posing a threat to state-protected telecom carriers, calling into question China's willingness to let technology advances into the...

EBay to Acquire VoIP provider Skype.
September 12, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Online auction site eBay has agreed to acquire Internet-telephone provider Skype for at least $2.6 billion, in a move that could change the way buyers and sellers interact. In a...

View from the Top: Banks and security.
September 13, 2005... Byline: CHRIS FEDDE The world's leading banking executives gathered last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the SIBOS tradeshow, a slick and well-attended annual meeting sponsored by banking network provider Swift. While most businesspeople...

Oracle's Siebel buyout might stifle creativity.
September 13, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Software group Oracle's bid for Siebel Systems for a cool $5.85 billion Monday was greeted by many Wall Street analysts as a signal of the return of mega-mergers and better still --...

Nano World: Public attitudes toward nano.
September 13, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- When it comes to nanotechnology, the U.S. public apparently looks forward most to advanced medical applications that save lives and improved consumer goods that enhance quality of life,...

The Web: eBay looks to become phone giant.
September 14, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The motivation for eBay Inc.'s acquisition of Internet telephony upstart Skype may be a mystery to most. Technology analysts first speculated that eBay's $2.6 billion purchase of...

Debit card may lighten migrants' burden.
September 14, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Tapping into the ever-growing Hispanic market is a must for U.S. businesses, from food manufacturers to entertainers, and catering to their financial needs is no exception. MasterCard...

Nano World: Nano radios for microchips.
September 15, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Radios the size of bacteria employing nano-magnets could help microchips wirelessly communicate with one another, experts told UPI's Nano World. "Wireless connections between...

Spyware poses identity-theft risk.
September 15, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A new study finds that a growing amount of Internet spyware -- programs downloaded to users' computers without their knowledge -- is designed specifically to steal personal information...

Online bettors add Supreme Court to wagers.
September 15, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Though it's unclear whether the American public cares about the Supreme Court as much as it does about reality TV or the NFL, it shares one thing with those two pop-culture phenomena:...

Google's winning streak woos investors.
September 15, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- So far as Google is concerned, this could be the glory days of the Internet boom, before the high-tech bubble burst in 2001. The much-anticipated official announcement by the Internet...

Wireless World: Stopping wireless ID theft.
September 16, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A New Jersey State Superior Court judge this week ordered a company that had acquired customer names from a major wireless carrier without its permission to refrain from selling those...

China 3G rollout delayed until 2006.
September 17, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Chinese telecom officials said this week its version of 3G cellular technology had overcome feasibility problems, opening the door for issuing licenses next year. Wei Guiming, a...

Nano World: Slashing quantum-dot costs.
September 17, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Nanotech devices known as quantum dots are growing ever more popular in the electronics and biotech industries, but typically cost more than $2,000 per gram, limiting their large-scale...

Japan technology's focus shift to dreams.
September 19, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- A dog that can sniff out whether his owner is feeling under the weather or not? A T-shirt that allows the wearer's intestines to be in full view so that an X-ray is no longer necessary? ...

Networking: Managing assets -- digitally.
September 19, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The networking of digital asset management (DAM) systems is the latest technology trend for the creative industries -- publishing, advertising and entertainment -- and is improving...

Tokyo Game Show's soaring allure.
September 20, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Long gone are the days when computer games were seen as a bastion for awkward teenagers. From the commuter eagerly playing a game on his cellular phone on the train to tiny tots playing games...

Nano World: Nano-tool markets rising.
September 20, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- The market for tools used to fabricate emerging nanotechnology could grow from less than $20 million in 2004 to nearly $235 million by 2010, experts told UPI's Nano World. At the same...

The Web: Tools that manage app access.
September 21, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Oracle Corp. last week debuted new software that can be used to help grant -- or deny -- users access to information on PCs, and industry insiders told UPI's The Web the company's moves...

Cramming for exams on cell phones.
September 22, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Cramming for exams is never fun, but it's a fact of life for students everywhere, especially in Japan. But forget using flash cards or using a textbook to learn all the needed information....

Analysis: Baidu's legal woes in China.
September 22, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The legal problems of Wall Street darling Baidu.com, dubbed the "Google of China," worsened Tuesday after state-run media reported an unfavorable court ruling. The highest law court...

AOL goes for reality programming.
September 22, 2005... Byline: LIZZIE WOZOBSKI WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Reality television may soon need to be renamed Internet reality. Both Internet providers and small production studios across the globe are moving their ideas for reality programming...

Japan Internet execs shy away from politics.
September 22, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Internet entrepreneurs are downright sexy in the United States, as glossy magazines such as Vanity Fair will testify. Yet while the founders of Google and eBay's chief executives are lauded by...

Nano World: Magnetic diamonds for medicine.
September 22, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- Magnetic diamonds roughly five nanometers across might find use in everything from medicine to computers, experts told UPI's Nano World. Magnetic nanoparticles are routinely used to...

Text messaging for businesses climbs.
September 23, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Customer-service technicians at Kodak photo developing units glance at their mobile phones when they receive a text message from their dispatcher. They get reminders, directions and...

High hopes for Sony's cut-throat plans.
September 23, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- When Howard Stringer took over the helm of Japanese electronics giant Sony in June, many expected the Welsh national to be merciless in sacking people and closing down factories in an effort to...

Displaced students to contine work online.
September 23, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- When Desiree Cook's family realized Hurricane Katrina was headed right for their home, they packed up their belongings and took a 14-hour drive west to Houston. Though the storm wrecked...

Networking: Virus writing for profit.
September 26, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- Unscrupulous e-mail marketers are collaborating with criminal virus writers to combine selling questionable goods and services online with attempting to steal information from consumers,...

Analysis: China's futile Web clampdown.
September 26, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- An axiom of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong goes, "a single spark can start a prairie fire." Today, the country's leaders fear this is only an Internet click away. China's...

Illegal-drug sales boom from Internet.
September 26, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The Internet's speed, efficiency and convenience has drastically changed the way people work and play over the past decade, but it also has changed the way the underground world works -- or so...

Nano World: Two-faced Janus nanoparticles.
September 27, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Janus particles -- two-faced particles named after the Roman god of doorways -- could find use in everything from novel anti-cancer therapies and solar cells to paper-thin flexible video...

Japan looks to unify phone service.
September 27, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- More and more Japanese have forsaken their landline phone service and are using their mobile handsets even at home, particularly as reception continues to improve and pricing plans grow more...

China's tech commissars target SMS porn.
September 27, 2005... Byline: EDWARD LANFRANCO BEIJING, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- China's Ministry of Information Industry, the regulator of telecom, Internet and information-technology development, said it is targeting cell-phone smut. Shen Yongtao, the MII's...

Japan carriers brace for VoIP competition.
September 28, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Having the hottest mobile-phone model remains a status symbol among Japan's glitterati and school children alike, but some of the biggest changes in the telecommunications market are coming...

The Web: Internet voting still a long way off?
September 28, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Some of the recommendations to improve electronic voting technology made by the election reform commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James...

Students connect on Web with Facebook.
September 29, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- Along with beer, sleeping late and last-second paper writing, you can add one more item to the list of things that connect all college students: Facebook.com. Facebook is a...

Sony continues DVD battle with Toshiba.
September 29, 2005... Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO TOKYO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- The beginning of the end of the global DVD war may be looming, but Sony is far from conceding defeat. What's more, its business allies have remained loyal to the Japanese electronics giant...

Nano World: Nanowires help spot cancer.
September 30, 2005... Byline: CHARLES Q. CHOI NEW YORK, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Arrays of silicon nanowires with biomolecular coatings can spot molecular traces of cancer far more accurately, quickly and specifically than technology currently available to doctors,...

Wireless World: Standards of the future.
September 30, 2005... Byline: GENE J. KOPROWSKI CHICAGO, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The future of wireless network standards -- conventions that will gird the next generation of technologies for business mobility -- is being debated by industry leaders, and new mobile...

Growth of broadband is good news to many.
September 30, 2005... Byline: RYAN HOLEYWELL WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Publishers, advertisers and retailers should be pleased to know that since January, more than 17 million Americans have signed up for broadband Internet access, bringing the total number...

U.S. against U.N. Internet control.
September 30, 2005... Byline: ELLIOT SMILOWITZ WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- The United States rejected a European Union proposal Thursday that called for Internet control to go to the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance. Though various...