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When Warner Bros. Entertainment moved all its high-definition eggs into the Blu-ray basket a week and a half ago, tremors could be felt throughout the digital entertainment world. HD DVD champion Toshiba canceled a press event in response, and all eyes fell on Paramount and Universal, the last major...
A government Web site meant to aid travelers in removing their names from the Do Not Fly list inadvertently exposed thousands of personal data files to malicious hackers, according to a congressional report released on Friday. While the committee takes the TSA to task for failing to comply with gove...
CES is an incredible show, but I was both sad and happy to see the final keynote Bill Gates gave at CES, both because I like Bill and probably won't see him personally again, and because he is moving to something that he really wants to do, I'm happy for him. I also think this CES signals a major ch...
Researchers at Advanced Cell Technology have successfully created human embryonic stem cell lines without destroying human embryos. The new technique, published in a report Thursday in the journal Cell Stem Cell, involves removing single cells from embryos using a technique similar to preimplantatio...
The results of a pair of year-long studies that use so-called intelligent appliances show that new power grid management tools in the home -- and even in the appliances themselves -- can help save homeowners money while improving power grid efficiency at the same time. The Pacific Northwest National...
An announcement by Dutch game developer Engine Software that its first WiiWare game, "Project Bang," had the gaming blogosphere buzzing Wednesday about a March 2008 launch date for Nintendo's WiiWare, a game development and download portal, in Europe and possibly the U.S. WiiWare is Nintendo's respo...
Daily traffic to video-sharing sites such as YouTube has almost doubled in the past year, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Whereas only 8 percent of Internet users surveyed at the end of 2006 said they had used a video-sharing site the day ...
Part 1 of this series looks into the issue of PC recycling and following the course of a hypothetical laptop through the recycling process. Continuing down this path, this part will consider another situation: Laptop owner Joe Verdi doesn't own a laptop from a brand name OEM with a take-back program...
A federal judge has sentenced a former systems administrator for Medco Health Solutions to 30 months in prison Tuesday for planting a "logic bomb" in Medco's computer systems that was designed to wipe out critical data on more than 70 servers, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. A progr...
The annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas not only highlights the must-have consumer products for the upcoming year, but also provides a forum for tech execs to share their philosophical musings on the future of their industry. This year is no exception. On the second day of the show, Intel ...
The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD may be settling down at last, but in the mobile TV arena another competition is just getting under way. Two different mobile digital television technologies will enter testing this year, each backed by a different set of vendors. In one camp, there's the A-VSB p...
The latest salvo in the war between the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps over which high definition format will replace the ubiquitous DVD may be little more than pop and flash -- but effective nonetheless. Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD formats have various technology industry supporters behind them, ...
Comcast and Panasonic are upping their strike capabilities in the consumer entertainment tech wars with the introduction of the AnyPlay portable digital video recorder. With a standard-definition, 60-gigabyte hard drive and DVD/CD player, AnyPlay lets consumers watch their stored TV programming on a...
The word "connected" appears no less than 13 times in the press release Microsoft issued to broadcast its DVR Anywhere launch at CES. The software system allows people to view recorded TV content all over the house. What I find astonishing is that this fracturing of the entertainment experience -- t...
There have been many indications in recent months that the music industry is on the cusp of a sea change, and two announcements on Monday suggested that the change is nigh. First, as anticipated in reports last week, Sony BMG Music Entertainment officially announced the launch of its Platinum MusicP...
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