Articles by Gene J. Koprowski

For millions of consumers, the wireless home is not just an ideal -- it is an actuality. According to a new research report, based on interviews with 2,000 Internet users, approximately 20 percent of broadband users in the U.S. and in Europe are now sharing their online connection with PCs, TVs and other electronic devices. They are using wireless fidelity (WiFi) to wirelessly network their homes, the new report, "Home Network Adoption: WiFi Emerges As Mass Market Phenomenon," by the Boston-based research firm, Strategy Analytics, indicates...

Broadband connectivity is helping France Telecom gain ground -- while AOL is slipping -- in the European Internet Service Provider (ISP) market With 7.6 million broadband subscribers at the end of last year, France Telecom is the largest broadband service provider in Europe, and holds a tenuous lead over its American and European rivals, according ...

Which mobile marketing technology is most effective? Is it short message service (SMS), or instant dialing? Evidence is now emerging that can help advertising agencies -- and brand marketers -- determine which direct marketing technology is best for persuading consumers It may be too early to tell whether SMS or IM will win consumers' and marketers...

President Bush this week created an "ID theft prevention" task force by executive order, and Internet security executives are reacting positively, if cautiously, to the new federal initiative "This task force should help improve coordination among federal, state and local authorities. It's a positive step toward addressing the problem of identity t...

The market for gallium-arsenide (GaAs) technology -- spurred by the mobile phone industry and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- could ascend to US$3 billion this year Research by the Boston-based consultancy, Strategy Analytics, forecasts that GaAs device revenues will grow by 36 percent over 2005 to 2010, breaking...

Demand for noise reduction is the latest trend shaping the design of new mobile phones, this time leading not only to simplified phones, but to new layout and assembly methods According to findings in the recent Strategy Analytics report, "Filter Market: BAWs Enable Modules for Multi-band Handsets," the filters used in multi-band modules, including...

The U.S. economy is continuing a five-year growth streak -- one largely unheralded until of late. The reason for the decided lack of enthusiasm may be, simply put, that this economic boom is a lot less widespread than the technology-based boom of the late 1990s Last month, the Department of Labor announced that the economy grew at a rate of 4.8 per...

The consumer electronics industry is enthusiastic about President Bush's new United States Trade Representative (USTR) appointee, formerMotorola executive Susan Schwab, but other industries aren't as keen on his pick Bush elevated Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Schwab to the department's top post on April 25. She succeeds Ambassador Rob Portman, ...

The green technology investment movement is gaining ground. Investors, like AOL founder Steve Case, venture capitalist John Doerr, and Microsoft's Bill Gates, among other luminaries, are pouring millions of dollars into environmentally friendly, or environmentally sound, technologies "Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st...

A new mode of movie ownership is briskly emerging -- one which someday may challenge the hegemony of the digital videodisc (DVD). During the last few weeks, Hollywood debuted two films, "King Kong," and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," via a new media, broadband, Internet-based "download-to-own" service, as well as on DVD The market could be ...

In the art house film, "Wit," Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to the hospital, as the film demonstrates, quite ably...

The White House and the Pentagon aren't the only government agencies embracing public key infrastructure (PKI) -- encryption -- for Internet security. State agencies in Illinois, and other states, like Virginia, are as well, and, in a twist, they are now farming out the management of the services to third parties More than 100 government agencies i...

Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasonable prices....

New research indicates that more than 200,000 computers were commandeered and turned into "zombies" each day last month, and that the amount of virus messaging on the Internet has increased by 50 percent during the last two months Experts tell TechNewsWorld that over the last six months, CipherTrust's "global threat correlation engine" had been ide...

China is now the nation with the second largest number of Internet users -- with 20 million new users going online last year -- and is coming close to the U.S. in terms of total broadband users too, according to a new research report The total number of Chinese Internet users reached almost 120 million last year, according to a report from the rese...

New research released this week indicates that counterfeit drug sales over the Internet are threatening to cause a major, global crisis, one that may harm the health of all The study is by the Irish Patients' Association, based in Dublin, Ireland, and examines the worldwide trend toward the sale and purchase of prescription and non-prescription dru...

There are increasing signs of weakness in the U.S. wireless voice market, with the average revenue per user (ARPU) for voice services dropping 8 percent during the last year -- and data services failing to make up the gap, according to a new report The study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, "Wireless Operator Performance Benchmarking Third Quart...

New research indicates that many brand-name computer companies perform poorly when it comes to online customer service. The study by the Ipswich, Mass.-based Customer Respect Group, an international consulting company, demonstrates that only six companies included in the report received an "excellent" rating, including EDS, eBay, Xerox, Intuit, Microsoft and Linksys...

What is the most important factor that will influence executive pay and hiring in the technology industry this coming year? Is it globalization? Data management? Business process improvement? No. None of the above. It's Google. Failure of a company to factor in how Google will influence its own bottom line could well lead to its premature demise, according to a new survey just released by New York City-based headhunting firm Christian & Timbers...

Nanotechnology is being developed that can read brain waves, communicate them to a computer, and, quite literally, take those thoughts and transform them into actions, experts tell TechNewsWorld There are a number of technology development firms involved in this field, including Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, and privately held NorthStar Ne...