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Wikipedia's wild popularity has been matched recently by the amount of controversy surrounding the site, a Web-based encyclopedia that is open to anyone who wants to contribute and add to any of the information. That is, almost anyone, and almost any of Wikipedia's information. The site has come und...
The video game industry is feeling the strain of slower summer sales and console transitions, with stock prices of several of the top publicly traded game publishers taking a big hit this June. With talk of options backdating becoming the next major Wall Street scandal -- more than 30 companies are ...
In a bid to stay ahead of the competitive pack, Nokia has unveiled five new mobile phones. The new models are scheduled to hit the market later this year. The Nokia 6151, 6080, 1110i, 6275 and 2875 are the newest phones in Nokia's lineup. The phones leverage 3G networks and Bluetooth technologies t...
Last week was a busy one for some big tech players. AOL is funding Netscape again, and strangely enough the company seems to have Slashdot on its mind as it moves to rebuild its portal business. Also, Creative Labs evidently didn't realize that Apple was going to fight back when it sued the firm, an...
Nearly every e-mail consumers receive -- some 86 percent -- is considered spam, either malicious or simply "unwanted content" today, a new study provided to TechNewsWorld demonstrates. "Of the 25 billion messages we processed in May, an astounding 86 percent were malicious or spam," said Andrew Loch...
In another step to woo customers away from cable and satellite TV providers, Verizon Communications on Friday announced an agreement to carry PBS and the nation's local public television stations. The deal will bring high-definition, educational and children's programming to Verizon's fiber-optic Fi...
The fight for DVD viewer hearts and minds is getting underway as Samsung readies the first high-definition Blu-ray DVD player, the BD-P1000, to go on sale in the U.S. next week. The other high-definition DVD format, HD DVD, is available from Toshiba in the recently released HD-A1 player. The latest ...
The announcement by Seiko Epson on Monday of a new electronic "paper" display with the highest resolution seen in the technology to date appears to be another sign that the newspaper of the future is close at hand. The 7.1-inch prototype revealed by Epson and which incorporates technology developed ...
Computing heavyweight Hewlett-Packard is touting new blade server technology that it hopes will serve to ease management of more modular blades, which are also more energy-efficient and cooler thanks to new technology. HP said the BladeSystem c-Class took three years to develop, and centers on the t...
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it. Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web. What's Web 2.0? Best I can tell, it's, in part, about creating a deskto...
Google on Thursday announced a new search product designed to make it easier to find U.S. government information and keep up to date on government news. Dubbed Google U.S. Government Search, the engine primarily caters to government employees in an effort to replicate its mainstream consumer success...
While I must confess I've never been a fan of online backup solutions, there was something about Mozy that tempted me to use it. Mozy is one of those new breed applications mushrooming under the umbrella Web 2.0, or the New Web. What's Web 2.0? Best I can tell, it's, in part, about creating a deskto...
Microsoft made the most of this month's regular Patch Tuesday, putting out a dozen patches highlighted by a fix for the serious, zero-day Word vulnerability that has been the basis for targeted attacks since it was uncovered last month. Microsoft also patched seven other "critical" vulnerabilities, ...
Google on Tuesday launched a new feature in its Picasa photo management application, Picasa Web Albums. The tool is designed to help users post and share their photos on the Web. The invitation-only service comes with the latest version of Picasa and features one-click Web upload using the tool's ne...
The Recording Industry Association of America is claiming victory over illegal file swapping. The vehement opposer of sites like BitTorrent and eDonkey reported this week that it now considers illegal file trading "contained." Legal digital downloads are up 77 percent, the RIAA said. Album sales, m...
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