Articles by Gene Koprowski

The era of the networked home has finally arrived, as sales are soaring for Internet-Protocol-enabled multimedia devices According to a new study by Boston-based Strategy Analytics, sales in the U.S. of IP-enabled devices rose by more than 500 percent to 16 million units in 2005, as consumers rushed to purchase digital video recorders, entertainmen...

Back in the 1950s, Elvis Presley and other recording artists put out plenty of hit singles like "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Hound Dog," and consumers clamored for the tunes. By the 1960s, with the success of "The Beatles (The White Album)" and blockbusters from other big groups, the album became the main medium of music sales Now, because of digital d...

Can reviewing the path of a cab ride shared by quarrelling inventors be a better solution to a patent dispute than years-long litigation that could otherwise reach up to the U.S. Supreme Court? Jorge Goldstein, managing director at the firm of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox, based in Washington, D.C., thinks so. And this is not just an imaginative thought experiment. It's been done...

Results of a new study dramatically challenge the conventional wisdom on the benefits of the Internet, and indicate that the Web may actually "inhibit" productivity for some workers The study, undertaken by Lieberman Research Worldwide for San Mateo, Calif.-based Rearden Commerce, an online marketplace, demonstrates that the Web harms productivity ...

Many cases centered around document management, retention and disposition could be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court in the next year, as companies run into challenges resulting from a disorganized or inadequate document management strategy, experts tell TechNewsWorld The Supreme Court has, in past rulings, provided guidance for companies' document...

Significant concentrations of the Blackworm virus remain in Peru, India and the United States -- currently infecting about five percent of the world's PCs overall -- though the coordinated "disinfection" of most enterprise PCs was successful, according to new research provided to TechNewsWorld The research, by CiperTrust, Inc., indicates that the B...

Mark Twain once said that the rumors of his death had been "greatly exaggerated." The same can be said for the desktop PC. Sleek laptops are certainly sexier than bulky desktops, but recent research proves that small businesses need both to create a more efficient and productive office With the explosive growth of wireless hot spots and coffee shop...

IT employees are starting to gain back some of the clout they had during the 1990s, as hiring in the technology field has accelerated during the last six quarters "A key component of the technology economy is IT employment, and it's going through a major transition," Joel Dibble, a spokesman for Menlo Park, Calif.-based Robert Half Technology, an ...

More and more consumers -- not just twenty-somethings -- are interested in giving up their conventional landline telephone for a mobile phone According to the latest research from Boston-based Strategy Analytics, one in five mobile phone users in Western Europe would consider disconnecting their landline because they also own a mobile phone....

A patent dispute has erupted betweenVisto, a provider of secure push e-mail services for mobile phones, and Good Technology The lawsuit, which alleges that Good's products and services infringe on multiple patents held by Visto, was filed in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas. The court is known by local patent lawyers as the ...

A new report indicates that worldwide mobile phone shipments grew 19 percent year-to-year in the fourth quarter of 2005, reaching a record 810 million units for the year. What is more, this sales boom happened despite "moderate" industry-wide component shortages Fourth-quarter volume reached an "impressive" 245 million units, according to the "Four...

New research by the Arlington, Mass.-based Cutter Consortium indicates that business requirements for IT and even management trends appear to be increasingly driven by IT innovations in the marketplace, not the other way around, as traditionally believed A copy of the research from Cutter's senior consultant Helen Pukszta was provided to TechNewsWo...

New research indicates that the number of mobile phone subscribers will increase by upwards of 50 percent in the next four years According to the latest research from the wireless network strategies service of Boston-based Strategy Analytics, the mobile industry is on course for 2.5 billion subscribers by the end of 2006, and 3.5 billion by the end...

Demand for automotive blindspot monitoring technologies -- which can dramatically improve safety for drivers -- is poised to grow explosively, according to new market forecasts Boston-based Strategy Analytics said manufacturers are beginning to compete by offering different, compelling products and that this niche market will grow to nearly four m...

The Christmas shopping season may be officially over -- but online shopping continues to flourish with consumers still scrambling to buy iPods, XBox 360s, DVDs and baby cribs and strollers. Cribs and strollers? The Shopping.com Consumer Demand Index (CDI) for the period of December 26, 2005 to January 8, 2006 indicates that indeed, online searches ...

A new era of faster computing for consumers soon may be in the offing, as Intel has gone public with plans to produce a new line of 64-bit microprocessors as soon as the supporting software is commercially available Adding 64-bit features to consumer-grade processors would let x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon and Pentium overcome today's 4-GB memory ...