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Less than a year after its much-ballyhooed rollout of Vista, Microsoft is giving in to the demands of manufacturers and business users who want to switch back to the XP operating system. Some manufacturers, such as Dell, are already offering customers a choice of OSes in response to a groundswell of...
Users of Pudding Media's free, new Internet phone service might want to watch what they say, because the system listens for keywords in their phone conversations and displays related ads on their computer screens. A consumer talking about movies, for example, may see links to trailers, reviews and s...
Microsoft's "Halo 3" video game for the Xbox 360 console will blast its way into the world Monday at midnight when it goes on sale for the first time. The first two games in the "Halo" trilogy, a series of first-person shooter games that lets friends cooperate as well as play against one another onl...
Hoping to ride the rising mobile Web wave, Fox Interactive Media is offering free mobile access to MySpace and several other sites. The free mobile Web versions of the sites will be supported by advertising instead of user subscription fees. However, the fee-based versions of the sites will remain a...
Looking back at last week, it was a combination of news from the past and news from the future. Starting out the week, we had the EU ruling come down against Microsoft. I think if the company is smart, it can play this to its advantage and actually benefit from the ruling. What took up most of my we...
As the world watched the progress of the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to the international space station and back last month, it was hard not to suffer from flashbacks to past space disasters. The presence of Mission Specialist Barbara Morgan, for one, evoked memories of the 1986 space shuttle ...
When NASA sends astronauts back to the moon, they will likely have pressurized rovers to drive and large-capacity habitation modules to live in, NASA officials reportedly said Thursday. Speaking at the Space 2007 Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Long Beach, Cal...
MTV, the teen-centric network focused on reality TV, the luxurious lifestyles of the rich and famous, and the occasional music video, announced the beta launch of Think.MTV.com Thursday. The network called the site an effort to give teens and young adults a community through which they can do good w...
Mayors and city governments around the U.S. bought into citywide WiFi project plans, which often included unsupportable performance claims and grossly inflated forecasts for the numbers of users they would attract. Those decisions have come back to haunt them and have led to some abrupt reversals of...
Transit Wireless, a joint venture that includes Nab Construction, Q-Wireless, Dianet Communications and Transit Technologies, won the right to wire for cell phone use New York City Transit's 277 subway stations in a 10-year contract valued at $46.8 million, according to news accounts of the closely ...
AT&T is now selling the first cellular and WiFi BlackBerry handset, the BlackBerry 8820, which is an upgrade of the already popular 8800 series model. AT&T enterprise customers can use the BlackBerry 8820 with their corporate WiFi networks for additional data coverage, the device's manufactu...
It will be long, cold winter for PlayStation 3 owners hoping to take part in Home, an online 3-D virtual world that will double as a social network and gaming site for Sony. They'll have to wait until next spring before the system is up and running. News of the delay came from Kauo Hirai, president ...
Intel, which wants to be at the forefront of a trend toward more powerful mobile devices capable of full Internet capability, said its new Menlow platform will be a big part of that future. Discussed at this year's Intel Developer's Forum by Anand Chandrasekher, the senior vice president and general...
In their eagerness to bring the benefits of wireless internetworking to their cities, mayors in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and other U.S. cities have bought into untested, inflated claims. Now, they are revising their plans to roll out municipal WiFi networks. Last month, Chicago began backing ...
DigitalGlobe successfully launched a sophisticated new satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Tuesday. The satellite, WorldView-1, has the potential to provide a raft of new imagery for geographical databases such as Google Earth. The company launched WorldView-1 -- which it says is ...
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