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If there's one thing Windows users share -- other than their conflicted emotions toward Microsoft -- it's an insatiable yearning to boost the performance of their computers. Windows, despite all its warts, gives them a dizzying number of ways to to do that -- with the right tools. Such a tool is Cac...
HTC has launched a Windows Mobile smartphone with a touch screen interface strikingly similar in concept to Apple's upcoming iPhone. The new phone, dubbed the "HTC Touch," is a multimedia handheld system with an animated 3-D user interface called "TouchFLO" that allows users to move through on-scree...
Intel unveiled its 3 Series chipset family designed for playing high-definition media and for supporting the company's 45nm Penryn processors due later this year. The highly anticipated chipsets, formerly codenamed "Bearlake," were presented at the Computex Taipei trade show in Taiwan. The first chi...
A Congressional committee last month gave universities with high volumes of student piracy violations 30 days to return a survey on Internet piracy and network practices. The committee is scheduled to resume its meetings Tuesday in Washington. The letter hints that Congress is stepping up its crackd...
A Chicago man faces the possibility of three years in prison for leaking four episodes of the Fox show "24" onto the Internet before they had aired on prime-time TV. Jorge Romero, 24, is accused of uploading the first two episodes of this season's "24" onto LiveDigital.com on Jan. 6, and doing the s...
The high-def DVD format wars took a turn Monday when Sony, backer of Blu-ray DVD technology, announced it has cut the price of a Blu-ray disc player by $100. The company's latest model, the second-generation BDP-S300 available next week, will now sell for $499. "The BD format gained great momentum i...
The latest search engine safety report by McAfee SiteAdvisor states that Web search results are slowly getting safer, but it also asserts that search providers can do more to weed out sponsored links from scammers, malware spewers and other "bad actors." Search engine companies have the ability to c...
Last week, history was made. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners...
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stirred up a maelstrom Thursday when he said he's not convinced global warming is a problem humans should try to solve. On the very same day that President Bush announced his widely disparaged proposal for tackling global warming -- a plan many have called a delay ...
Nokia unveiled three new mobile phones this week and aimed for the skies with the most expensive of the trio: a dark, smoked-glass and soft-touch stainless steel creation called the "8600 Luna" that features a pulsing "heartbeat" of a keyboard. Taking a backseat to the high-end Luna, but still fairl...
Online search giant Google and EMI Music agreed to let users of Google's YouTube video-sharing site access music and clips produced by EMI artists. The London-based publisher contracts popular recording artists including Coldplay, Norah Jones and David Bowie. EMI will now work with Google to develop...
Businesses and large institutions dreaming of enforcing consistent security policies are finding solace in network access control -- programs that establish authentic users, identify network devices, perform integrity checks, take remedial actions and authorize access to information system resources...
Just a week ahead of the Group of Eight summit to be held in Germany next week, President Bush Thursday outlined his own proposal to combat global warming. A group of 15 or so nations will be invited to a meeting in the United States this fall as part of a plan to agree upon a global target for redu...
Many technology analysts and gadget lovers found themselves this week scratching their heads, rubbing their chins, squinting their eyes and exhibiting other signs of uncertainty about the need for, and future of Palm's latest device, the Foleo. Billed by Palm as a "smartphone companion product," the...
At $30 million a ticket for orbital space travel and about $200,000 for suborbital trips, demand can only go so far. Before space tourism can really take off -- so to speak -- prices are going to have to come down, and that may require a new business model. While many early efforts have been single-...
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