The president of China’s top handset maker, MediaTek, said today that the company’s Q1 outlook remained “conservative” considering of the US subprime mortgage crisis and “the WINTER STORMS IN CHINA that were preventing folks from traveling home to visit their families, thus depressing sales of mobil…

When Casio demonstrated the camera at CES, the gadget press “oooh’ed” and “aaah’ed” about the camera’s high-speed image capture, but nobody seemed to realize that the EX-F1 isn’t just some prosumer camera with a parlor trick, but technology that represents the FUTURE OF ALL CAMERAS! The EX-F1 is the…

Marketing Week claims “senior industry sources” have told them Google and Dell will announce plans at next month’s 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona to partner on a CELL PHONE. Here’s why I believe THE RUMOR IS FALSE.

An under-the-Mediterranean cable was damaged today — they don’t know how — and much of the Middle East has LOST World Wide Web ACCESS. Some 70 percent of Egyptian users can’t connect, and widespread outages are reported in Dubai (including Web City and Knowledge Village), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. …

A company called Custom Phones made that TURKEY DINNER CONCEPT PHONE for an Indianapolis TV personality. It’s just wrong, OK?

MIT researchers created special “badges” for attendees at a recent Media Lab event. The badges “use an infrared sensor to gather info about FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS, a wireless radio to gather goods regarding proximity to other badges and send it to a central computer, an accelerometer to track mot…

Umeå University, Sweden, doctorate student Hung-Son Le and Head of the Digital Media Lab there, Haibo Li, have created software algorithms that can enable a computer to recognize a human face after being shown JUST ONE PHOTO. Previously, computers needed many photos from different angles and with d…