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On Feb. 2, leading presidential candidates will have one last chance to make their pitches to young voters before Super Tuesday with the final installment of "Closing Arguments: A Presidential Super Dialogue," a presidential candidate discussion hosted by MySpace and MTV. Democratic contender Hillar...
At the DEMO exhibition in Palm Desert, Calif., Livescribe on Monday debuted its much-anticipated Pulse smartpen. Technically a computer within a pen, the Pulse smartpen simultaneously captures handwriting and audio, and synchronizes them together. The device is also a general purpose computer with r...
AMD announced the release of its Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card Monday. The company's latest offering, courtesy of its 2006 ATI acquisition, combines two ATI Radeon 3870 chips on a single graphics board, connected via an integrated CrossFire technology. The double-barreled approach makes AMD the fi...
Typically I pick two or three things that I think were interesting, chat about them briefly and then make my product of the week selection. I'll still do my product of the week thing but, on doing the background work on Dell and Microsoft joining the (Product) Red campaign, I started to get really u...
At this week's Digital Life Design conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a number of interesting issues. "G...
YouTube has amped up its catalog of videos accessible by mobile phones around the world. Now users of more than 100 million devices can access tens of millions of YouTube videos on what YouTube is calling the "largest repository of mobile video content available." YouTube for Mobile, which is access...
As the television-watching world continues to suffer through re-runs and a new crop of hastily concocted reality shows, Hollywood screenwriters and producers continue their standoff. The writers say they deserve additional payments for their work. The producers say they can't afford to make those pa...
Broadband television provider Revision3 has launched "The Digg Reel," a show dedicated to user-generated content. Digg, a social networking Web site where users share and submit content, will take the top-rated user-submitted videos and produce a weekly show, which will be hosted by Jessica Corbin.
I kind of felt sorry for Steve Jobs last week because he got a raw deal. Folks seemed to be expecting an iPhone-like announcement and instead got nice improvements on existing products and a wonderful new laptop. I personally think the impact of the improvements to Apple TV and seemingly Apple-led m...
Step aside, boob tube. Online videos are becoming the primary form of media entertainment for many people. Web surfers spent about an hour more per month watching videos in November compared with January, according to the latest comScore Video Metrix. Specifically, they watched an average of 3.25 ho...
A new technology using silicon nanowires boosts the ability of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to store a charge by as much as a factor of 10, according to research conducted at Stanford University. The findings are published in the December 2007 issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The technology cou...
In the wake of several incidents in which batteries in AT&T U-verse network cabinets exploded or caught fire, AT&T is replacing 17,000 of the batteries in its streetside devices, the company confirmed Thursday. The batteries were manufactured by Avestor, a Canadian company based in Quebec th...
In the beginning, man adapted to the environment; shortly thereafter, the environment adapted to man. Al Gore's "inconvenient truth" is fast becoming an uncomfortable reality, and the race is on to find new ways to cope before nature hands us the ultimate eviction notice. However, are the super-citi...
For decades, sci-fi writers have painted a picture of utopia as a crystal-domed city appointed with shiny-steel accents, ultra-modern furniture and gadgets ranging from food replicators to floor-hugging maintenance drones. Tranquility and efficiency extend from work to sex, and the human aging proce...
MySpace has introduced aggressive new measures to protect users -- particularly children and adolescents -- against sexual predators. Up until now, the social networking site has made incremental changes to its policies, usually in response to parental or congressional outcry. This latest set of ste...
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