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Right on the heels of Microsoft's announcement last week that its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment service had 6 million users, Sony let loose with its own groundbreaking online gaming announcement: PS3 Home. PS3 Home is an immersive, virtual 3D world for PS3 gamers where they can create th...

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) announced Tuesday that it is targeting online moms with a new, "one-stop" resource for parents. Disney Family.com, which will debut this week in a beta version, is aimed at parents in general and mothers in particular, offering community and objective informatio...

A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a $400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology un...

The days of the spinning disk hard drive seem to be numbered as Intel Tuesday joined the growing field of companies offering solid state flash memory drives that are faster, quieter and more power efficient. The new Intel unit, named the "Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive," is based on NAND flash memor...

Hewlett-Packard has redesigned three versions of its desktop PC line to meet new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency energy standards. The EPA's Energy Star 4.0 regulations, which take effect on July 20, 2007, require PC manufacturers to convert 80 percent of incoming electricity into usable comput...

If you want to avoid being a victim of information highwaymen on the Web, you may want to pay attention to the domain names of the sites you surf to. According to a study released Monday by security software maker McAfee, the Web is no different from the physical world when it comes to safety: there...

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, without degrading overall quality or performance, is a quality assurance function that is not always well understood or pra...

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Norton 360: Is Hands-Off Security a Good Thing?

Symantec's latest security suite, Norton 360, gives less-experienced consumers a fresh approach to hardening their computer security with a from-the-ground-up rebuild of its Norton Internet Security Suite into a product that offers anti-intrusion, PC optimization and backup modules. Norton 360 takes...

Samsung Electronics is putting the finishing touches on an 8 gigabyte chip -- a high-density embedded flash memory device capable of storing up to 2,000 songs on a mobile phone. The South Korea-based company expects to begin mass producing the line of flash memory and firmware chips, called "moviNAN...

Wireless handset users looking for a little more style than the usual black and silver need look no further than AT&T, which announced Monday the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Pearl and Palm Treo in shades of red. Research In Motion's BlackBerry Pearl is now available from all AT&...

Intel welcomed two new additions to its family of quad-core processors Monday with the arrival of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors L5320 and L5310. The two server chips sport the added benefit of energy efficiency, operating on 50 watts of power. "We are thrilled to drive further records in lower...

Seagate Technology has been working on delivering a laptop hard drive with built-in hardware encryption for a couple of years, but now the technology is finally hitting the streets, the company announced Monday. Seagate's new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 uses a government-grade security protocol to encrypt a...

Don't you get a sense that we are on the edge of some big changes? Whether it is the PC market, the consumer electronics market, the server market -- anyone notice Sun is actually getting stronger? -- the network market, or the world in general, we seem to be seeing a lot of change all of a sudden. ...

If one were to conduct a survey of technology publications over the past decade or so, it's a good bet there would be at least one instance in each of those years in which someone declared that "this is the year of biometrics." Full of promise but long constrained by a diverse set of obstacles, biom...

Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water. The "Salamandra Robotica," built by the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne, ...


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