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Dell chose Macy's flagship Herald Square store in New York as the location to introduce its new line of laptops Tuesday. Models strutted down the catwalk sporting the line's eight different colors, including what the company calls "flamingo pink," "sunshine yellow," "alpine white," "ruby red," "jet ...
A team of Israeli researchers have created a new map of the Internet that reveals the worldwide network in more detail than ever before. "The Internet evolves in a distributed manner, and therefore its structure is unknown," Shai Carmi, a physicist at Bar-Ilan University who participated in the rese...
T-Mobile on Wednesday launched its HotSpot @Home converged cellular and WiFi service that lets cell phone users switch seamlessly between T-Mobile hotspots and their own wireless routers. Cellular phones often don't work as well inside as they do outside, which is frustrating for many given that an ...
Continuing to expand its portfolio of services under the Windows Live roof, Microsoft's newest beta offerings allow users to store and share photos and files online. The Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft said, is an upgrade of the Windows Photo Gallery that comes with the Windows Vista operating...
For four years now, IBM's Blue Gene/L has remained king of the hill as far as supercomputers are concerned, according to listings from TOP500 Supercomputer Sites, an organization that ranks the world's most powerful systems. On Wednesday, Blue Gene/L again appeared at the top of the TOP500 list. IBM...
If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap. There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media...
Since they hit the Web in the mid-1990s, Web logs, more commonly known as "blogs," have matured from simple journal entries cataloging the day-to-day goings-on in the lives of Net dwellers to, in some cases, serious enterprises. Today, corporations, political parties and their partisans, the media a...
Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook may seem fairly similar from the outside, but the two sites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to a new report. In a nutshell, MySpace tends to be populated by teens who are younger and from lower-income families with less education, ...
Google launched a new program Tuesday that's designed to help nonprofit organizations around the world illustrate and share the work they do. Called "Google Earth Outreach," the program helps organizations get the resources, software and training they need to create compelling stories through Google...
Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said. In ...
International business travelers will be able to access the Internet for a flat monthly fee through more than 100,000 wireless hotspots around the world under a new service announced Monday by Boingo Wireless. Boingo, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based aggregator of WiFi networks, said its new service wil...
With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local...
Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz. Although the increased speed does not affect games currently being sold, those under development could afford players an i...
Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and add...
Samsung Electronics is now mass-producing the industry's first 1.8-inch solid state drives at a whopping 64 gigabytes, making the high-density flash-memory-based drives suitable for widespread ultra-portable laptop use. "Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market," Rob Ender...