IT IS hard to stand out from the crowd in the highly competitive flatscreen television market. While companies attempt to give their products a point of difference with styling and design, under-the-hood specs such as full high definition and decent picture quality are all now quite common. But...

Samsung is apparently embracing the Windows Mobile development community with a new virtual device laboratory, appropriately dubbed Lab.dev, through the company’s Samsung Mobile Innovator development portal. Lab.dev’s goal is to give Windows Mobile developers a virtual testing environment where they can...

Instead of a bloody price war between cable operators and phone companies in the TV market, battle lines are now being drawn over who has the most compelling new features. Digital video recorders, on-demand services, and more recently Web sites such as Hulu.com have taught people that they don’t have...

HOW realistic are science fiction films showing humanoid robots running amok? Seamus Byrne finds out. For centuries humans have tinkered with the idea of making things in our own image. Robots are just the latest version of that concept. Blockbuster films like Terminator and Transformers depict robots as...

Today about 1700 television stations across the United States will make the switch from analog to digital signals. The switch follows a year of heavy advertising, exhaustive reporting, local programs to help elderly residents deal with the switch, and a converter box coupon shortage that delayed the whole...