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Wii owner wannabes hoping for a dip in pricing for the holidays will have to wait a while for the Nintendo console to drop below it $249 retail price, the company said Thursday. George Harrison, Nintendo's U.S. marketing chief, quashed any hopes for a lower price citing the continued strong demand f...
Governments, international development organizations and transnational corporations are looking to technology transfers and the growing number of budding green IT initiatives to address economic and social development, as well as concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and environmen...
Last weekend, 150 people attended the Alcor life extension conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. The main subject was cryonics, the use of technology to cool and preserve the human body with the aim of future revival. The technology, still speculative, raises many present-world issues. In 2003, a daughte...
Half a year after its first rollout of a passenger imaging security scanner in the Phoenix airport, the Transportation Security Administration is testing another form of this technology there. Its latest security machine is based on millimeter-wave technology, which is similar in function to the X-r...
The House Judiciary Committee has approved a four-year extension on a ban on taxing Internet services, endorsing what would be a mixed blessing to cable, telephone and Internet service companies that want Congress to make the ban permanent. The current moratorium, which is nearly a decade old, will ...
Mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel announced plans Wednesday to offer the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, the latest Pearl from smartphone maker Research In Motion, in November. It is one of four handsets from Sprint that will make their debut in the coming weeks. The addition of the Pearl will give Sprint u...
Gaming fans may find that life in "SimCity" suddenly gets a lot more realistic this fall with the release of "SimCity Societies," which has been designed to incorporate some of the harsh realities of global warming. Through a partnership between Electronic Arts and energy giant BP, the next-generati...
Vendors and developers have invested large sums in RFID (radio frequency identification) and heavily promoted its use, especially in the retail, credit card and transportation industries, as well as across sectors for supply chain and inventory management. Retailers, among others -- small and medium...
Microsoft kept to its schedule in rolling out its October "Patch Tuesday" updates, which included four "critical" fixes -- two deemed "important" -- that in total address nine flaws. The security updates range from crucial patches for the Kodak Image Viewer to Microsoft's Outlook Express and Windows...
Japanese auto manufacturers will show off their hottest, quirkiest and most environmentally friendly automobiles at the upcoming 2007 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. While Honda, Nissan and Toyota have all unveiled boxy, bubbly and undeniably cute exterior designs, the companies are also bringing...
BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels. The ser...
The day has come. Fingerprint biometrics is real technology for real people. Spurred by the size and cost advantages of fingerprint sensors and a growing need for security, biometric fingerprint technology is being integrated into more and more devices, including laptop PCs from the leading manufact...
Sony's PlayStation 3 price shakeout spread to its home territory in Japan Tuesday with a price cut on its 20 GB and 60 GB PS3 models, the company announced. In addition, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan said it will make the latest 40 GB model available to Japanese gamers. The announcement comes le...
Skype hardware maker Ipevo announced on Tuesday the U.S. launch of the Solo, a desktop Skype phone that makes phone calls over the Internet without being tethered to a computer. Ipevo officials hope the stand-alone device will catch the fancy of users who shy away from computers. The always-on phone...
IBM and Google disclosed on an initiative the two technology heavyweights hope will help computer science students and researchers learn more about and gain experience in what has come to be known as "cloud computing." Ultimately, the goal is to create a new generation of software developers able to...
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