Profile of Laurie Sullivan
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Articles by Laurie Sullivan
posted in September 2006
9/29/2006
What the industry needs is a podcast aggregator in Zune and Vista, some say, but there are no plans for one at the moment.
9/29/2006
Listeners can leave audio and video messages on virtually any blog using their microphone and Webcam.
9/29/2006
The batteries, which recharge by plugging into a USB port, are already for sale in the United Kingdom and will be available soon in the United States.
9/29/2006
Users can find parts on foreign language sites without needing to type in text queries, though text can be used to refine searches.
9/28/2006
One way Tele Atlas is expanding how it updates geographic mapping data is by asking people to provide feedback online.
9/28/2006
Time Warner Cable subscribers in Hawaii are the first to test the service, with other states, such as New York and California, to roll out soon.
9/28/2006
The service aggregates multiple incoming phone lines into one number that customers can access through a Web interface.
9/27/2006
A panel at DEMOfall 2006 asks: Would consumers pay $5 for a router to create a free Internet access hotspot if they in turn got free access at other hotspots around the world?
9/27/2006
Document scanning and photo personalization are among the new wares being pushed at this week's show.
9/27/2006
The company allows developers to build applications on one platform for use on multiple cell phones and operating systems.
9/27/2006
The software inserts ads into downloadable music to make content free for consumers.
9/26/2006
Unlike other social networking sites, Wallop is invitation-only and Flash-based to make the design appealing.
9/26/2006
Induslogic, a provider of outsourced software product development services, is merging with outsourcer Bonus Technology to build a global company. The combined firm will be called GlobalLogic, the companies said Monday. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
9/25/2006
RealNetworks works with browsers to enable one-click subscription to stocks, weather, news feeds, and blogs, with information pushed back to the desktop.
9/25/2006
Want to text a group of people about setting up a meeting or maybe just meeting for margaritas? 3jam's new technology will let you message up to 15 people at once.
9/22/2006
People will purchase online property in real U.S. dollars, paying taxes to the mayor of the town, the governor of the state, and the United Nation of Weblo.
9/22/2006
Nearly 20 of the top 50 richest billionaires this year are in technology, telecommunications, music, movies, or publishing, estimates Forbes.
9/21/2006
The deal will allow Nokia users to access Live Search directly from their Nokia multimedia computers and other compatible Nokia S60 devices.
9/19/2006
The inventors plan to take the video-saga experiment in social networking much further by building a Web site community around the show, which could offer an active forum, an interface allowing users to link video streams, and a wiki to create an encyclopedia to track characters.
9/19/2006
The $3.9 billion matchup is seen as a good fit, especially in terms of integrating mobile computing and sensing technologies like RFID and wireless communications.
9/18/2006
HP intends to invest $500 million to build three centers where customers can test SOA platforms. IBM has agreed to finance customers deploying RFID projects.
9/18/2006
The deal allows millions of people who upload their homemade videos to YouTube to license an array of Warner Music's songs.
9/15/2006
Ads begin running in podcast programs dubbed "This Week in Tech," "Security Now," and "Inside the Net" on Los Angeles' TWiT.tv network.
9/14/2006
Cyriac Roeding's plan for a more interactive experience for consumers includes creating cross-media content and tying together TV and movies on cell phones and the Internet, where viewers can interact.
9/14/2006
One thing is for sure: Microsoft is looking for new growth engines in consumer electronics, and Zune is a big part of that push. Still, catching up to Apple won't be easy.
9/13/2006
The digital media company known for its Rhapsody music service agreed to pay $350 million to acquire a South Korean provider of ringtones and other mobile services. This was followed on Wednesday by the launch of the RealArcade Web site, which offers ringtones and mobile video games.
9/13/2006
MapQuest Navigator provides audible turn-by-turn voice directions from the phone handset using GPS. Users download a Java application to the phone and type in the destination.
9/12/2006
The Mobilcast service lets consumers search and listen to thousands of podcasts by either streaming or downloading the content to a mobile phone.
9/12/2006
Surviving members of the 1960s iconic rock group are targeting today's youth with digital tools, products, and promotional material, as well as the promise of never-before-released content.
9/8/2006
More than 15 years in development, Metrics Element, a tool to collect, analyze, and distribute game data within a Web-based user interface, will ship around the first of the year.
9/8/2006
Growing in popularity, massive multiplayer online games have become targets of organized crime rings and hackers.
9/7/2006
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, if passed, will require U.S. citizens to carry a passport or other accepted document that may include an RFID chip.
9/7/2006
The text ads appear when a user searches on a mobile device using Google's search engine, and they can contain up to two lines of text.
9/6/2006
The goal is to dust off the Tesseract optical character recognition software with the help of the open-source community and improve it to make it multilingual, among other things, the project's technical lead says in his blog.
9/6/2006
Downloading software to cellular phones gives consumers access to 45 titles, including Spider-Man 2 and Scarface.
9/5/2006
The acquisition will make it easier for Nokia to offer customers maps, routing, and navigation software on mobile phones.