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The Patent and Trademark Office has launched a pilot project designed to facilitate the patent approval process. While the efficiency benefit of this is obvious -- the PTO's examiners are overburdened and the process can take many years -- critics are concerned that the system could lead to manipula...
More than 40 percent of U.S. households with televisions now also have video game consoles, according to a new report released Monday by Nielsen Wireless and Interactive Services. By the fourth quarter of 2006, 41.1 percent of all TV households -- representing 45.7 million homes -- had video game co...
Ten percent of Caucasian American men but less than one percent of women are estimated to have some form of colorblindness. Colorblind people represent a significant but often neglected talent pool and consumer segment. Identifying opportunities to make products usable by as many people as possible,...
Cisco Systems is now offering customers an upgraded version of its software and network equipment that links desktop computers to cell phones and other mobile devices. The new wireless client software extends desk phone functions to a variety of smartphones and handheld devices, and supports BlackBe...
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft on Monday announced the upcoming launch of a 512 MB memory unit for the Xbox 360 video game console. The company also said it will bump up the "official size limit" of games presented on its Xbox Live Arcade game site from 50 MB to 150 MB...
There are two guilty pleasures I've developed of late. One is reading "Mini-Microsoft," which is an unauthorized blog by a Microsoft employee that probably does more to provide a glimpse inside the company and humanize it than anything the firm is officially doing. The other is "The Secret Diary of...
Sony is entering the world of flash memory-based portable media devices that play video. The company Thursday announced two new Walkman units that could challenge similar devices sold by SanDisk, Creative and others. However, because the new Walkman NW-A800 series devices are not hard-drive based, c...
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking will experience weightlessness for the first time when he flies aboard Zero Gravity's G-Force One next month. The flight, scheduled for April 26, will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will perform parabolic maneuver...
Researchers have fashioned the world's smallest transistor out of a one-atom-thick layer of graphene that's also less than 50 atoms wide. The minuscule graphene-based transistor may be the breakthrough that leads to faster microprocessors, ultimately replacing silicon, which becomes unstable at size...
The networked home -- complete with "smart" appliances and a range of security and entertainment options -- is becoming increasingly common. Many new homes come equipped with centrally controlled entertainment, security and climate systems, and more existing homes are being retrofitted with home the...
The pioneering computer game "SimCity," first written for the Commodore 64 in 1985, is being released this summer for the Nintendo DS platform, game publisher Electronic Arts said Thursday. One of the most popular games of all time, "SimCity" involves the planning, creation and control of virtual ci...
Ask a sales associate at a big-box retailer which section of the store has the most traffic this year, and more than likely he will point to the rows lined with big HDTV screens. Yes, those slim, shining flat-panel HDTV sets are irresistible. Even the bulkier digital-light processing and rear-projec...
The Recording Industry Association of America Wednesday stepped up its efforts to wipe out illegal music sharing on college campuses. The group, which represents the music recording industry, announced that it has sent out 400 "pre-litigation" letters to 13 American universities, informing them that...
Shortages of the PlayStation 3 video game console should be resolved by May, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America chief executive Jack Tretton. The console remains a hard-to-get item in some areas of the country. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and ha...
In time for the annual Photo Marketing Association trade show that begins March 8, Sony Electronics, unveiled Tuesday a flock of seven new Cyber-shot digital cameras. Many of the new models can be plugged directly into high-definition televisions and feature the company's new face-detection technolo...
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