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More than half of American high school students say they have at least one symptom of hearing loss, and many of their problems are directly attributable to the use of iPods and other portable music players, says a new study. Teenagers aren't the only ones at risk, however. Technology that provides a...
Let me set the record straight. I've never been a fan of tablet computers. If the urge to write on an LCD strikes me, I've always found my Palm Tungsten handheld sufficient for that desire. Nevertheless, when Motion Computing of Austin, Texas, introduced the LS800 tablet, it tantalized me. For one t...
South Korean electronics giant Samsung announced that it will mass produce DDR2 DRAM memory using the smaller-scale, 80-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process. The move promises to boost efficiency both for Samsung and its DDR2 customers, who use the computer memory mainly in PCs. The shift comes as ...
Last week, Intel held its Developer Conference, an annual event where the company showcases the changes it plans to make in its next-gen products. With Microsoft's new operating system due to hit the market in a few short months, Intel planned more dramatic changes this year than would typically be ...
Intel used its Developer Forum event in San Francisco this week to debut new computer chip technology that the company said boasts energy efficiency alongside performance gains. Intel also unveiled a quad-core processor configuration that some have referred to as a processor with two dual-cores. The...
Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors. Although the companies do not yet have prod...
Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled the world's first 8GB hard-disk embedded smartphone. Dubbed the SGH-i310, the model breaks the storage limit in mobile phones. As such, Samsung believes the new handset will change the way people manage and use mobile phones. Its three new models that come equi...
Tech giant Cisco is looking to serve up what could be the holy grail of today's enterprise communications, announcing on Monday its Unified Communications System, a suite of voice, data and video applications aimed at wrangling Internet Protocol (IP) communications. Cisco said the new suite is built...
With Apple adding video to its iPod line of digital media players, the scramble is on to provide watchers with content to occupy their eyeballs. One way to obtain content is to pay for it. Since the introduction of its "vidpod," Apple has been steadily adding to the video library at its iTunes store...
Is it a digital music player? A smartphone? A new PDA? For some time, Microsoft has been seeding expectations of a new device, code-named Project Origami, that would combine some or all of the functionality of these popular products. Now, the emergence of a video clip purporting to shed light on th...
Chinese PC giant Lenovo has made its first set of self-branded computers for sale worldwide, promising worry-free computing in new desktops and notebooks intended for small and medium-sized businesses. The Lenovo 3000 family will feature built-in virus recovery, simplified network connectivity and a...
Microsoft this week released the latest beta version of its Vista operating system, allowing large enterprises to test drive all of its new features and provide technical feedback prior to deployment. The Community Technology Preview is the fourth in a series of early Windows Vista builds being prov...
Big Blue is heading off the tiniest transistor boundaries with a new way of extending today's chip-manufacturing technology to generate smaller chip circuits, the company said this week. Indicating its technology may postpone a "high-risk" conversion to difficult and expensive alternatives for the s...
Mobile brand Helio on Thursday announced plans to target the lucrative U.S. youth market with two South Korean-made cell phones and a content deal with popular social networking site MySpace. Helio's Hero and Kickflip multimedia handsets are set to debut this spring. "Helio is for those of us who wa...
Few people hold the status of "visionary" in the computer processor field, but Sun Microsystems' Marc Tremblay fits the bill. Sun fellow, vice president, and chief architect for the firm's Scalable Systems Group, Tremblay foresaw the advent of "throughput computing" and the jump in performance affor...
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