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The rise of the netbook helped bring reasonable computing power to smaller packages. While that’s good, one of the downsides is trying to cram all the expected ports and jacks in a thin, small device. USB ports and audio jacks aren’t so bad,
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Our favorite live video-broadcasting service just upped the ante last night. Qik has gone ahead and introduced not only support for Android 2.0 and the Motorola DROID, but the capability to stream 720×480 video live right...
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A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world's spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye.
After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week launched a coordinated blitz
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Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM'd movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future!
If you are one of the hoards of PS3 owners that were excited by Netflix announced streaming would be coming to the game console, today is the big day friends. Netflix has announced that its streaming service is now officially live on the PS3. I hope you ordered your PS3 Netflix disc.
Ben Foss grew up with dyslexia, a learning disability so severe that his mother had to read books to him throughout his school years, all the way through college. Now 36, he is spearheading the launch of a remarkable device from Intel that can read e...
Men and women approach technology differently—this comes as no surprise. However, according to data from a UK-based helpline, men are significantly less likely to have read the manual before calling tech support.
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It’s not love, war, or baseball. But over the years some memorable things have been said about technology. Some have been memorably eloquent; others are unforgettably shortsighted, wrongheaded, or just plain weird. Let’s celebrate them, s...
Once again last week, the rumor mill began grinding away about the possibility of Nvidia developing an x86 microprocessor. And, once again, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has shot down the speculation. CNet News got the official line from Huang during Nvi...
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Yesterday, fellow Gadgetell writer JG told us about Walmart’s pre-Black Friday sale and one of the items up for sale is a $298 laptop from HP. According to the initial ad listing we could see that laptop has a 15.6-inc...
The CrunchPad, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's entry into the gadget business, is still missing in action.
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Love bowling but never hit the perfect 300 score? This remote-controlled bowling ball ought to change that situation, where the brains behind this would be 900 Global. This unique bowling ball is obviously not legal for use during gameplay, be it in ...
This morning I read about the nPower PEG — a Personal Energy Generator — so I had to look into it online. PEG sounds like a decent fit in my quest to reduce electricity demand where I can. My last attempt using solar power was...
Yesterday I detailed my quest to find the throngs of Droid fans who had woken up at the crack of dawn to grab a place in line before Verizon unleashed the phone to the masses. Yet despite reports...
A lamp this cheap and ugly would never usually get a mention here at the Lab, but as you will have guessed, there is a clever twist. Instead of hooking up to the mains or even a USB port to get its power, this 8-LED reading light plugs into the telep...
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“Breathtakingly stupid” are the words used by Struan Robertson, editor of Out-Law.com, in a post describing a new law that demands consent to cookies that will be in force across the European Union within 18 months.
Facebook groups are under attack. But the attackers say they come in peace and insist they want only to highlight a flaw in the way Facebook handles group administration.
Professional social network LinkedIn has long had a feature that lets users update their status on their profile. But it’s plainly obvious that LinkedIn users don’t nearly use the status feature for mass communication as frequently as th...
Here’s a nice holiday gift from Google (which may point to a service further ahead): the company will provide free Wi-Fi on airports across USA from now through January 15, 2010.
Google has worked with Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group...
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Kindle fans now have one more place they can read their e-books: A PC. Kindle for PC joins the equally well-named Kindle for iPhone and, er, Kindle for Kindle in the list of ways to read Amazon’s DRM’ed content. A Mac version is “coming soon”.
At the time we’re writing this, Stephen Elop, President, Microsoft Business Division, is on stage at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2009 delivering his keynote. The largest focus of the opening keynote is, of course, placed on Information Technology innovations and the evolution of communications.
Shazam has proven one of the surprise success stories in the iPhone App Store. The program lets users identify songs by singing into the phone or holding it up as a song plays in the background.
Third time’s a portable charm — at least, that’s what iBiquity Digital, the company behind HD Radio technology, is hoping with its new app.
The first portable HD Radio device hit shelves through Best Buy’s Insignia brand in July, followed...
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It sounds highly implausible, but NEC says it has created a pair of specs that can listen to a foreign language and beam a translation directly into the wearer's eyes.
The TeleScouter is based around a combination of voice recognition software and a machine...
Image From NASA MSFC, Artist Pat Rawling
The legend that is Sir Arthur C. Clarke is formidable. As a science fiction author who knew how to mix imagination with scientific reality, Clarke left the world a legacy of wonderful stories as well as a f...
Could the six-hour runtime of a netbook go to 36 hours in the future? It sounds possible based on recent ionic battery projects. Battery technologies simply haven’t undergone a major change in years, so most of our runtime gains...
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break. First, a coolant leak destroyed some of the magnets that guide the energy beam. Then LHC officials postponed the restart of the machine...
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