Congressman, Peter King (R), of New York State’s Third Congressional District, introduced a bill to congress earlier this month that some might call the “Anti-Upskirt Bill.” The actual name of the bill is the “Camera Phone Predator Alert Act” (HR 414), and its aim is to make it into law that all camera phones must “make a sound when a photograph is taken.” The primary motivation for this bill is to protect children. The bill’s finding states, “Congress finds that children and adolescents have been exploited

Save, transfer and export 16BG of data. It’s plug and play and are compatible with both Mac and PCs. This deal ends Tuesday at 12:00pm ET.

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. This year, the 15-day Chinese New Year begins today, ushering in the Year of the Ox. According to Chinese belief, the Ox is a symbol of wealth and success through hard work and resilience — a welcome sign considering the entire World's economic difficulties.

Global crisis or not, Chinese retained their enthusiasm for celebrating the Lunar New Year, which officially began Monday. More than 68 tonnes of fireworks debris were collected on the eve of the Spring Festival in Beijing alone. Beijingers also went on a 639 million yuan (about 85.2 million U.S. dollars) shopping spree, spending 13.4 percent more than last year.

The global credit crisis may have caused the decline in consumer and business spending that is assaulting the giants of high tech. But as the dominant technology companies try to emerge from this slump, they may find themselves blaming people like David Title just as much as they blame Wall Street. Mr. Title, a 35-year-old new-media manager at a film production company in New York, has dropped his cable subscription and moved to watching most of his television online free. While shopping for a new laptop for his girlfriend recently, he sidestepped more expensive full-featured computers and picked a bare-bones, $200 Asus EeePC laptop, also known as a netbook.

Weve reached one of those moments in tech history when there are low-priced and free alternatives that are both user-friendly and reliable enough to make the switch, Mr. Title said. Then theres the extra bonus of saving some cash. Silicon Valley has been gripped by a growing sense that the economic retreat might do more than depress earnings. There is too much ingrained optimism here to think that the tech sector will not bounce back, stronger than before.

According to a document obtained by MobilityToday, release of the Sprint Treo Pro has been pushed back until February 15.  The new Windows Mobile smartphone was supposed to have launched yesterday.

Apparently, nearly 2000 Treo Pros were sent out for the scheduled January 25 launch, but they’re to be locked up until the new February release date.  The document, which was directed to Best Buy stores, doesn’t give a reason for the delay.

Why would Sprint delay the release of a handheld that’s already in hand?  Software glitches?  Some OS update coming between now and February 15 that Sprint and Palm want applied in-store at sale?  Sun spots?  Who knows…

Intel Corp Chairman Craig Barrett, the courtly former academic credited with building the company into the world's foremost chip maker, will retire in May after 35 years at the company. Barrett, who turned Intel into one of the technology sector's powerhouses and a global household name, is leaving just when the company is slashing jobs, mothballing factories and struggling to sustain growth with IT spending crumbling.

Barrett joined the Santa Clara, California-based company in 1974 as a technology development manager. A former Stanford University professor, Barrett was known for formulating Intel's “copy exactly” strategy, meaning every chip-making plant was the mirror image of every other one. Intel would not say what Barrett planned to do upon retirement, but the executive is involved in international educational projects and chairs the U.N. Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Development.

Perhaps one of the oldest forms of entertainment is that of witnessing other people’s problems. The Greek playwright, Aeschylus, may have given us the tragedy as a parable, but radio and TV have given us first-hand insights into people’s real-life, self-destructive behavior from the likes of the Lovline call-in radio show to the Dr. Phil TV talk show. Now airing your love problems for the world to see is about to invade the most ubiquitous medium of them all–the Internet–with the Webcam-centric, live, “call-in”

The terms “Intel” and “Mobile Internet Device” have long since been spoken together, but the chip maker is reportedly gearing up to make another substantial push in the still-growing handheld market. The company is purportedly readying an undisclosed amount of new chips alongside a tweaked version of Linux designed with one goal in mind: to run well on future MIDs. It’s anticipated that Intel will aim the handheld computing devices — which are generally larger and more capable than the average smartphone

We’ve certainly seen AMD’s power-sipping Opteron CPUs find their way into big name servers before, but Advanced Micro Devices seems particularly proud of this launch. The Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker today proclaimed that five of its newest low-power 45nm quad-core Opteron HE processors were now widely available, with the whole lot aiming to “meet the industry’s rising demand for low power, cost-saving data center technology.”All five of the CPUs operate at 55-watt ACP (Average CPU Power) and tout

Innovation seems to be sporadic at best in the PC case market. We tend to see many more copycats and trend followers than trendsetters. Several true innovators come to mind, though, when we think about cases, and one of those innovative companies is Cooler Master. Sure, not every case designed by Cooler Master is a massive success or appealing to everyone, but it is one of the companies that the copycats watch and imitate. As a result of its innovation and success, Cooler Master is a proven and trusted brand