PC World weighs in on all the rumors about the new features and a release date for the updated iPhone. They believe that with the SDK (Software Development Kit) and support for enterprise emails (multiple email deletes at last!) the lack of 3G coverage in the US is going to quickly become an issue. [...]

According to Boy Genius, Sony has announced a new addition to the Playstation 3 which will let users record TV shows and wirelessly transfer them to their PSP. Bound for Europe as early as July 2008, the PlayTV should cost about $120. The unit will support HDTV and will have a built-in program [...]

Just ask Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs.
In a Wireless Week interview earlier this month, Jacobs affirmed that the wireless telecommunications industry is making a fundamental shift into new, media-saturated territory. (You can check out the complete article here.) It’s no secret that as mobile users, we’re demanding more and more broadband (or “broadband-like”) capabilities from [...]

The Far East continues to lead the way in terms of robotic innovation, with a host of major companies investing in R&D and investigating potential applications.

This video on YouTube features a series of robot prototypes, including a violin-playing humanoid robot made by Toyota.

There is much to marvel over in this emerging industry, and we hope [...]

Last month, the European Union took a major step in the development of Mobile TV by adding the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld standard (DVB-H) to its List of Standards for telecommunications across the EU.
According to Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society and Media, “For Mobile TV to take off in Europe, [...]

While SMS has been slow to take off in the US, it has been growing at incredible rates across the globe for many years now. According to some sources, it is estimated that over two trillion messages will be sent worldwide this year.
Aside from drawing attention to this awesome statistic, the overview of the 2008 [...]

The 3 Skypephone is available in the following countries.

Australia
Austria
Denmark
Hong Kong

Ireland
Italy
Sweden
United Kingdom

Purchase a phone in any of these countries and you will be able to use it to make free Skype-to-Skype calls. You can also use it to make calls to non-Skype users if you set-up an account for billing.

According to Popular Science a German industrial design studio is working on walking robots that will either bury themselves until they detect heat or roam around scouting for trouble. With a brother who is a firefighter out West I’d be happy to know these creatures are detecting and extinguishing fires before they get out [...]

Wouldn’t it be great to see an announcement like this headline that applied to NYC, LA, Chicago or Washington, DC?  Hong Kong’s government shows remarkable foresight by investing in free wi-fi in all of its 30 government buildings and expanding it to over 2,000 hotspots by 2009.  This is exactly the kind of action that [...]

This is exactly the kind of story that made me start TECHwishes.  Skype petitioned the FCC to open cell networks to all devices citing the 1968 Carterfone decision. That decision freed consumers from having to lease a phone from AT&T by allowing them to attach any lawful device that didn’t harm the network. It [...]