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Apple archrival Creative introduced its answer to Apple's iPod Shuffle Thursday. The Zen Stone offers the same 1 GB storage capacity of the Shuffle, but at half the price. The player, which will hit store shelves May 14, comes in six glossy colors: black, white, red, blue, pink and green, and is jus...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary Friday of its latest report on global warming. The report, which was gleaned from the help of 2,000 scientists, calls for the world to cut emissions of CO2 and shift energy sources to renewable fuels. The report also calls for the stab...
Yahoo Photos' days were numbered once Yahoo purchased Web-based digital photo storage site Flickr in 2005. Now, Yahoo Photos' number has come up. Yahoo has decided to close the increasingly unpopular Yahoo Photos this summer, and it is urging users to transfer their pictures to Flickr. Yahoo said it...
Some things never change -- in our memories, that is. We pump quarters into the jukebox in a crowded bar, waiting for our favorite singles to play and create just the right mood for the evening. We hold up wooden paddles at an estate auction, hoping to score that prized painting for a sweet price. T...
On the surface, the recent brouhaha with Digg and the HD DVD encryption key posted on the site seems to be about cracking the code to let people copy movies. While most people may think digital rights management is a pain in the butt and a waste of time in the effort to fight illegal copying for com...
Graphics technology leader Nvidia has released details of a new graphics card it describes as "the world's fastest." The Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra is expected to give gamers a boost in their never-ending quest to cram more state-of-the-art graphics onto PCs. In fact, the graphics kingpin claims the ...
A virtual equivalent of fisticuffs has broken out online, and this time it's between a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and a once-ardent supporter. Joe Anthony, a Los Angeles paralegal who set up an unofficial MySpace page for Senator Barack Obama in 2004, has been pushed out ...
LucasArts and Day 1 Studios on Wednesday unveiled "Fracture," a new shooter game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in which environmental devastation has split the United States into two warring halves. Set in the year 2161, "Fracture" puts players in the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert figh...
Research In Motion has introduced a new model to its popular BlackBerry line -- the third addition in less then a year. The new mid-sized smartphone, dubbed "Curve," is geared toward consumers who prefer a full keyboard for typing text rather than the abridged version on the popular Pearl. AT&T ...
Yahoo has introduced a new version of its popular Yahoo Messenger instant messaging service that eliminates the need to download and install software. Still in the beta phase, the new "Yahoo Messenger for the Web" is browser-based. That means Yahoo Messenger users can log in to chat on any computer ...
IBM has developed a method of assembling microchips using nanotechnology, the company stated Thursday, a potentially revolutionary process for insulating tiny wires by allowing them to assemble themselves around air gaps. This advance could make next-generation chips dramatically faster and more ene...
Ask any journalist today how the Internet has changed journalism, and the most likely reply will be, "how hasn't it?" "The question is so basic now, it's like asking how the telephone changed the world," Sreenath Sreenivasan, associate professor of professional practice at the Columbia University Sc...
Just days before a May 9 congressional oversight hearing into the Bush administration's violations of the Endangered Species Act and censorship of science, a top-ranking Interior Department official resigned Monday. Julie MacDonald, who was the assistant secretary of fish, wildlife and parks, respon...
The rules of the road were fairly clear to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, until this week. Users generally were given free rein, except when they violated the site's terms of use -- for example, by linking to porn or racial hate sites, or to illegal downloads. Recent events have thrown Rose off his st...
Adobe Systems created a media tsunami earlier this month when it released its Creative Suite 3, a two-year project designed to roll all the company's formidable software packages for creative types into an integrated monolith. Needless to say, since the package costs more than $1,000, it isn't somet...
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