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Toshiba plans to begin mass production of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells by March next year and to have a television based on the... 09-May-2008
In the not-too-distant future, people could use computer printers to make simple medicines as part of a do-it-yourself model... 09-May-2008
Microsoft will launch Worldwide Telescope, a tool for exploring images of the night sky, by the end of May, free to anyone who... 09-May-2008
The growing disaster in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis could have been at least party avoided had people living in the path... 09-May-2008
Spray them with water, subject them to extreme temperatures or drop them on the ground, NEC's rugged ShieldPro laptops are... 09-May-2008
Shipments of the Gran Turismo series of car racing games edged past the 50 million unit mark at the end of April, Sony said... 09-May-2008
Samsung has launched a high-definition (HD) video camera that can also snap high-resolution digital photos and take smooth... 09-May-2008
They say everything comes to those that wait. A year after it went on sale in the rest of the world customers in Japan will... 08-May-2008
Two giant offers for free Wi-Fi extended, one from AT&T to iPhone users, and another from Cablevision for its millions of home territory broadband subscribers. 08-May-2008
In the wake of collapsed talks with Yahoo, Microsoft reportedly is sniffing around social-networking site Facebook. 08-May-2008
Google's shareholders, following the advice of the board, voted down two proposals on Thursday that would have compelled the... 08-May-2008
Only hours after AT&T posted information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless network, the info was gone. 08-May-2008
The free office suite's support for Microsoft's XML-based Office 2007 file formats leaves much to be desired. 08-May-2008
Microsoft plans to fix critical bugs in its Word, Publisher and Jet database software next week. 08-May-2008
Digital River on Thursday revealed a collaboration with Mac game publisher Aspyr Media to create Aspyr's long-awaited online... 08-May-2008
Since the iPhone debuted last June, Apple has followed the same gameplan for introducing its mobile device to a new market:... 08-May-2008
After a slow climb during the height of a generally positive earnings season, the IT-heavy Nasdaq hit turbulence this week... 08-May-2008
Microsoft has invested several million more dollars into an incentive program it recently unveiled for small businesses... 08-May-2008
Two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have introduced a bill that would subject broadband providers to antitrust... 08-May-2008
C++ developers using Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris OS have a new tool from Intel for optimizing their applications to run on... 08-May-2008
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would allow law enforcement authorities to seek the forfeiture... 08-May-2008
A day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced investments in a WiMax joint venture spearheaded by Sprint and Clearwire... 08-May-2008
Teenagers in the U.S. are having a more difficult time buying M-rated mature video games in stores than in past years... 08-May-2008
U.S. retailer Best Buy is buying a 50 percent stake in an established European retailer to expand its worldwide consumer... 08-May-2008
The world has a lot of unwritten rules: In social etiquette. In baseball. And in buying computers. For years, we have... 08-May-2008
What do you get when you install Mac OS X on a generic Intel-powered computer with a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor? A system... 08-May-2008
When I reviewed Objective Development Software GmbH's Little Snitch 1.2 for Macworld two years ago, it helpfully filled a gap... 08-May-2008
Since Apple introduced a refreshed iMac line last week, I've been repeatedly asked the question, "Is this iMac right for... 08-May-2008
Parallels has announced that its Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization software will be made available as part of... 08-May-2008
Responding to the momentum around data portability, MySpace has launched its own "Data Availability" effort with big-name... 08-May-2008
Facebook is following in the footsteps of its rival MySpace by reaching an online safety agreement with the attorneys general... 08-May-2008
SAP co-CEO Henning Kagermann took center stage at this week's SAPPHIRE conference in Orlando, but that may not be the case... 08-May-2008
Fox Interactive Media (FIM), MySpace's News Corp. unit, will fail to meet its revenue projections for this fiscal year... 08-May-2008
A U.S. judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent... 08-May-2008
Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.1, a new version of its Web design software for Mac OS X. A... 08-May-2008
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