HANDS-FREE CALLING I always try to get my wife Lisa off the phone when she calls me from the highway on her commute home from Providence. (Rhode Island drivers make their Massachusetts counterparts seem downright cautious on the road.) "It's OK," she alwayssays. "I've got my headphone in."
Wearable displays Myvu's new headset for video iPods makes you feel as if you are sitting in front of a large TV, in a darkened room, rather than staring at a tiny screen in the palm of your hand.
Technology giant IBM Corp. , in its largest acquisition ever, yesterday said it agreed to pay nearly $5 billion to buy Cognos Inc. , a Canadian software company with US headquarters in Burlington.
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular Internet search engine, plans to offer $10 million in prizes to developers who create applications for its mobile phone operating system, known as Android.
Oracle Corp. made a move yesterday to take on VMware Inc. in the market for virtualization software, unveiling a product that it says is three times more efficient than competitors' offerings.
SAN FRANCISCO - Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark, she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google, then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job, which started out at $450 a week but included a pile ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel plans to announce a family of microprocessor chips today that it says will speed the availability of high-definition video via the Internet.
Microsoft <MSFT.O> and the DAISY digital talking books consortium are to work together on a tool for the blind and otherwise print-disabled that translates Microsoft Word documents into a digital audio standard.
China Mobile Ltd. is in talks with Apple Inc. about bringing the iPhone to China, but no agreement has been reached yet, the telecom's chief executive said Tuesday.
Microsoft Corp.'s campus expansion is expanding. The world's largest software maker said Monday it will add a total of 5.5 million square feet of office space to its Puget Sound-area headquarters, to accommodate 19,000 more employees.
Oracle Corp <ORCL.O> made a move on Monday to take on VMWare Inc <VMW.N> in the market for virtualization software, unveiling a product that it says is three times more efficient than competitors' offerings.
