Format Wars: A History of What-Could-Have-Been, From Betamax to Dvorak
Other than the frenzied anticipation for the coming breed of tablet PCs, the one topic that dominates the mindspace of the technorati these days is the world of e-readers. More specifically, a great debate is brewing; each of the e-readers and their associated online book stores favor differing standards and file formats, and we may have another good ole fashioned format war on our hands. ...
Part of being a good user and consumer is understanding how technology works, why we use it the way we do, and what that barrage of acronyms and PR jargon means. We're here to help you make sense of it all, and to give you a better appreciation of how those transistors, pixels, and antennae work together to deliver the conveniences of the modern world to your living room or office.
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No surprises here, but according to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is hard at work on the fourth generation iPhone. The paper also claimed that Cupertino was prepping a CDMA-based iPhone that could be used on either Verizon or Sprint, another oft-rumored move that would compensate for issues with the AT&T network.
Inside sources told our friends at Engadget that the fourth-gen iPhone, ...
Well, they're a little late to the party, but AT&T is finally warming up to Google's phone OS, Android. T-Mobile and Sprint and members of the Open Handset Alliance, which champions Google's new Linux-based platform, and Verizon has promised to make its network open to any device, a move that likely had Android devices specifically in mind. At the CTIA wireless show in Vegas AT&T Mobility ...








