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Cell phone manufacturers are placing their bets and crossing their fingers as they use every trick up their sleeves to keep their market from becoming commodified the way the PC market was in the late 80's with the advent of the PC clone. Countless companies are scrambling to develop and patent new...

Anyone in electronics markets can tell you that the US is almost exactly one year behind the Japanese in consumer electronics trends. So for instance, the penetration of mini-dv camcorders in the US is expected to take off soon as it did in Japan a year ago. Another vision from the Asian crystal...

Microsoft has decided that if it wants to be relevant to the future market, it has to make software that speaks to the needs of the Net Generation, even if that software doesn't make sense to the aging executives producing it.One result is their new messenger software called Three Degrees which...

Certainly new technologies will continue to help city-dwellers create more perfect homes. But taking a step beyond convenient appliances, security systems and home theaters, researchers are moving toward creating a more perfect location, or at least the illusion of location. Some time in the next...

An interesting upshot of the electronic age is that musical instruments can be invented in millions more permutations than were previously thinkable. First there were acoustic instruments, then "electric" ones which were pretty much acoustic with pickups, then came the simulated acoustic...

People have been fixing up their cars for decades, adding spoilers, accessories and shiny hubcaps. But in a movement called 'case-mod,' people are modifying and sexifying their PC cases with everything from souped up fans and windows to neon lights. Strongly resembling the hot-rod craze, case-mod...