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If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap. There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media...

Hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate unveiled Monday two 1 terabyte storage hard drives aimed at both enterprise and consumers users. The "first second-generation desktop and enterprise" Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 1 HDDs will be available in the third quarter of 2007, the company said. In ...

International business travelers will be able to access the Internet for a flat monthly fee through more than 100,000 wireless hotspots around the world under a new service announced Monday by Boingo Wireless. Boingo, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based aggregator of WiFi networks, said its new service wil...

With the emergence of wireless networking, ultra slim notebooks, PDAs and smartphones, mobile communications have quickly become an integral part of doing business. Mobile capabilities are set to take another leap forward with the introduction of new standards for wireless broadband wide- and local...

Sony's latest firmware update for its PlayStation Portable gaming device unleashes the full power of the machine's processor, accelerating its CPU speed from 266 MHz to 333 MHz. Although the increased speed does not affect games currently being sold, those under development could afford players an i...

Are video games truly addictive -- or just really, really fun? That question is at the heart of a controversy stirred up at an American Medical Association meeting that began on Saturday. As part of the meeting, the AMA's Council on Science and Public Health presented a report on the effects and add...

This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the t...

After a ban in Ireland and the UK, as well as an Adults Only rating from the U.S. Entertainment Software Ratings Board, Take 2, parent company of Rockstar Games, said Thursday it has temporarily suspended the release of "Manhunt 2" for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable video game syste...

Three new robotic vehicles designed by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute will embark on an expedition next month to search for life on the Arctic Ocean floor. The vehicles -- two autonomous underwater vehicles and a tethered, remote controlled sampling system -- were designed specifi...

The world of high performance computing is expanding every day, particularly in the fields of geosciences, molecular biology and medical diagnostics, where scientists are increasingly turning to supercomputers to crunch massive amounts of data via complex simulations and applications. Graphics proce...

Sony has bet its PlayStation 3 fortunes on some 380 new games coming to store shelves in 2008 Kaz Hirai reportedly told just over 7,000 shareholders Thursday at the company's 90th annual shareholder meeting held in Tokyo. The PS3 maker believes the new titles will boost sales of the next-generation ...

Every time Congress has passed legislation to ease stem cell restrictions in recent years, President Bush has vowed he would veto the bill, and that's just what he did again on Wednesday. "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers -- for the first time in our history -- to s...

Enterprise IT departments are straining despite huge increases in network capacity in the past decade. There are growing concerns over bandwidth availability, interoperability and security, as online video, VoIP, social networking and on-demand application services proliferate. Network providers are...

Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors' desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google. News of the agreement was included in an U.S. Department of Justice report on Microsoft's compliance with final judgments to the U.S. versus Micr...

Of the 88 White House officials who also have e-mail accounts with the Republican National Committee, some 51 are missing records, according to a House Oversight Committee interim report released on Monday. The investigation stems from a larger Congressional probe into the firing of eight U.S. Attor...

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