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High-tech employment made a strong showing in 2006. Average salaries were on the rise and demand for IT professionals was robust, according to a salary survey released Wednesday by Dice.com, a Web site for high-tech employment opportunities. "2006 has been our first full year of strong demand," John...

Researchers say they've created the world's densest memory circuit, about 100 times denser than today's standard memory unit and as small as a human white blood cell. Although mass production could still be a decade away and the chip contains only a modest capacity of 160,000 bits of information, th...

IBM has donated code to the Higgins Trust Framework Project that it could potentially develop into a tool to allow users to hide or make anonymous their personal information as they conduct business on the Web. Although a product release is about a year or more away, its potential is intriguing, esp...

A month after a miffed hacker told the world he had figured out how to copy a supposedly copy-protected high-definition movie disc, the consortium backing the encryption system admitted all was not well in its world. The Advanced Access Content System Licensing Authority on its Web site stated that ...

Internet search kingpin Google is the most important brand in the universe, according to a new survey. The search giant edged out Apple for the honor of "most significant brand" for the second consecutive year. Researchers asked 3,625 industry professionals and students to name the brands that had t...

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BackOnTrack Eases Pain of Computer Crashes

As many users of Windows XP know, it's not that difficult to bring your computer system to its knees. Even Microsoft recognized that fact when it added its Restore feature to Windows XP. As someone constantly installing and uninstalling software on their computer, as well as connecting and disconnec...

Most people have heard about the Nintendo Wii Remote, which some avid gamers have allowed to slip out of their sweaty hands and fly into their high-priced big-screen televisions, cracking glass and becoming the catalyst for news stories around the world. In addition to making the news with its Wii v...

In an attempt to capitalize on the PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine computer chip technology, Sony announced Wednesday that it has joined with Namco Bandai Holdings to form a new company to develop games for the console. The new company, dubbed "Cellius," will have Ken Kutaragi, widely consider...

In a move sure to bring joy to the hearts of many consumers, Microsoft yesterday announced that it is extending the availability of support for users of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition by an additional five years over what it had previously announced. Since the unveiling ...

Gamers in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia have two months to save their money for a PlayStation 3 as Sony Computer Entertainment plans to launch the new console in those regions on March 23. While consumers might still be upset about the debt they accumulated during the holidays, Son...

Secure Computing has been delivering solutions for Internet security for 20 years. With more than 11,000 global customers, the company offers support by a worldwide network of partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has sales offices worldwide. Secure Computing has gone throu...

Internet Use in China Soars

The number of Internet users in China increased more than 23 percent in 2006, topping out at 137 million with an estimated 104 million of those having some level of access to a broadband connection. The China Internet Network Information Center, a government agency that has been tracking online usag...

In the ever-intensifying race to deliver the most memory in the tiniest chip, SanDisk on Tuesday rolled out its 8-gigabit, 56 nanometer NAND flash technology and promised to deliver a 16-gigabit version in the second quarter. Both versions of the 56 nm chip use multilevel cell technology to pack mor...

Internet security firm Check Point Software Technologies announced that it has completed the acquisition of NFR Security and is nearing completion of it purchase of Protect Data and Pointsec Mobile Technologies. Company officials said the acquisitions will help Check Point expand its reach into the ...

Intel has unveiled the next generation of wireless chips for its Centrino Duo mobile line used in many Intel-based laptops, which are designed to improve their ability to download music and stream high-definition video. The Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection, an upgrade to the wireless com...


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