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Just in time for the start of the holiday shopping season, HP has introduced a slew of new products, including a PC specially designed for gaming. Called the HP Blackbird 002, it is the first HP personal computer bearing VoodooPC's distinctive stamp after HP purchased the high-end gaming PC maker la...
Vudu, a California company that will sell or rent movies to customers with high-speed Internet access, began selling its $399 units Thursday and expects the downloads will begin in about three weeks. The company has agreements with major and independent film distributors and can offer its customers ...
Look closely next time you stop at a traffic light -- it could contain an access point for a wireless mesh network. Multiple applications are being developed for wireless mesh networks to enable users in the vicinity to bounce video, audio, text and other signals among their devices. Public utilitie...
Social network site Facebook began informing its members Wednesday that it will open users' basic profiles to non-members searching the site. In addition, over the next few weeks, the site will begin allowing search engines access to the public profiles in its database. The social networking site ha...
As the iPod world held its breath Tuesday in anticipation of Apple's mysterious press event scheduled for Wednesday, a Microsoft executive indicated that the competing Zune platform could soon include a phone. Speaking at a Citigroup global technology conference, Mindy Mount, chief financial officer...
Palm has decided to cancel the current iteration of its Foleo product, an ultralight Linux-based "mobile companion" device that had analysts scratching their heads when it was first announced. In a post on the Palm blog, CEO Ed Colligan told readers that he has decided to cancel Foleo mobile "in its...
A group of New York City taxicab drivers kept their cars parked Wednesday to protest the forced installation in their vehicles of devices that use GPS positioning and allow credit card payments. The 48-hour strike, urged by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, began at 5 a.m. Reports varied about the...
Search engines like Google and Yahoo troll the Web constantly, categorizing and ranking sites so users can find what they're looking for. Why should you care? For starters, it's free. You don't have to pay Google, Yahoo and the other search engines to rank your Web site. It's like a free listing in ...
With outlets like Flickr, Shutterfly and Photobucket, there's been a considerable decrease in demand for programs for creating photo albums that can be uploaded to personal Web space. Still, if you have an account with an Internet Service Provider, you likely have megabytes of Web space begging to b...
Hackers associated with the Chinese government broke into the Pentagon's computer systems earlier this summer, according to a report in the Financial Times. The London-based paper, which cited anonymous sources in the current and previous administrations in its article, said officials believe the Pe...
A new service from AT&T aims to give parents more control over their children's cell phone usage, the company announced Tuesday. AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless is a Web-based service that allows a parent to set usage limits on a child's talk time, text messages, instant messages and download...
Electronic Arts -- the largest video game publisher, by sales, in the world -- made a statement in June when it announced it was forming a casual gaming division. Last month, the Redwood, Calif., company punctuated that statement with an exclamation mark by cutting a licensing deal with Hasbro, whos...
There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events. One of the largest is that Acer moved around Lenovo and Apple -- which is also coming up fast -- to become the No. 3 PC manufacturer by buying Gateway. For those who wanted an iPhone but couldn't af...
EarthLink has bowed out of its agreement to build a network that would provide free WiFi in San Francisco. The news follows the company's announcement this week that it is eliminating 900 jobs -- half its workforce -- and closing offices in four cities, including San Francisco. The beleaguered WiFi ...
Making use of distributed computing, such as service-oriented architecture and integrated Web application services, means greater complexity and security design challenges for organizations and IT managers. Open standards play a big role in developing and making better use of efficient and effective...
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