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At first blush, the recent Podcast and New Media Expo held in Ontario, Calif., might have looked a bit frivolous -- there was a guy with bright blue hair, a woman in a burlesque getup posing for pictures, and someone in a pickle suit handing out promotional buttons -- but doesn't every trade show ha...
Australian renewable energy firm Epuron, a division of German Conergy, plans to build what may be the world's largest wind farm in the outback of Australia, the company announced Monday. With plans for between 400 and 500 turbines, the $1.8 billion project in Australia's New South Wales state could ...
Using digitally descrambled images of a suspected pedophile, Interpol issued a global alert Monday, asking for the public's help in identifying the man. The man in the images had posted online about 200 images of himself sexually abusing 12 young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia, but every photo of him ...
Rather than focusing on the relatively expensive and storage-shy all-flash hard drive movement, Seagate Technology is taking an intermediary step to mass produce a new line of hybrid hard drives -- the Momentus 5400 PSD. The new drives combine both flash-based memory with traditional disc drives to ...
It was trouble enough when Sony released "Resistance: Fall of Man," a video game that includes shoot-outs between people and aliens that take place within Manchester Cathedral. To give the game an award is salt in the wound, says the dean of the cathedral. The Very Rev. Rogers Govender is upset that...
Gateway upped the ante for plus-sized computer monitors with the Thursday rollout of its latest flat screen, which offers users resolutions at more than four times the level of a standard 720p high definition. Billing it as "the world's first 'Quad-HD' display," Gateway said the XHD3000 is perfect f...
It is hard to get around the fact that smartphones are incredibly hot right now, and while the iPhone appears to be suffering from vendor-induced trauma, Research In Motion's financials were impressively good. However, the whole enterprise phone market is about to go through the most massive change ...
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe announced Friday that it will launch a new 40 GB model of the PlayStation 3 in the UK, Europe, in the Middle East, Africa and Australasia. It will also drop the price of its 60 GB model of the video game console. The move, just in time for the 2007 holiday season, ...
Microsoft confirmed Friday that Bungie Studios, the developer behind the "Halo" franchise, will begin a transition to become an independent company, verifying rumors that had been circulating for a week. Microsoft will retain its rights to all things "Halo" and will continue to publish any games fro...
A compromised Marin County, Calif., Web site apparently prompted U.S. officials to temporarily shut down all of the state government's Internet sites this week. Last month, the Marin County transportation authority Web site was reportedly hacked to redirect traffic to a porn site. Following several ...
BT Group has teamed up with FON to blanket the UK with free WiFi, the companies announced Thursday. Under the agreement, UK-based BT's roughly 3 million broadband customers can join the FON WiFi-sharing network, which has 500,000 users and 190,000 hotspots worldwide, for free. The result, the compan...
The sharing of new technology -- particularly in the high-tech sector -- is taking place faster than ever before, yet economics, political and socio-cultural differences, vested interests and national agendas remain obstacles constraining the potential benefits. To a greater degree than in previous ...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it will open up its .Net source code for developers to view, but not change. The source code will be available later this year when Visual Studio 2008 and the .Net Framework 3.5 are released to manufacturing, Scott Guthrie, a general manager in Microsoft's devel...
The hit video game "Halo 3" has raked in more than $300 million and drawn some 3 million gamers to play online on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft. However, the part about "Halo" that really has the Web rumor mill working overtime is whether or not Microsoft and Bungie Studios, the developer behind...
Toshiba chose the CEATEC electronics show in Japan this week to demonstrate the capabilities of a notebook supercharged with the new "SpursEngine" processor. Journalists attending the event seemed particularly impressed with the way the Cell Broadband Engine technology enabled a laptop to sense hand...
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