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For some, it may seem like a dream come true. For others, it may feel like an April Fools' Day joke come early, but make no mistake about it: The beer-launching fridge has arrived. John Cornwell, who graduated last year from Duke University with a degree in electrical and computer engineering, is th...
Microsoft plans to skip its monthly round of security patches scheduled for release next Tuesday, despite at least five zero-day vulnerabilities waiting to be fixed. Redmond is working on patches for known vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007's Publisher 2007 and Windows Vista OS, but...
Microsoft plans to submit a new photo format to an international standards group that it claims offers the highest quality images available with improved compression techniques. The format, dubbed "HD Photo" -- formerly called "Windows Media Photo" -- is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old ...
Last week's first annual Tech Policy Summit in San Jose, Calif., turned out smaller than expected, but did feature some big names and key insights into tech issues. The biggest surprise was Google's apparent flip-flop on the issue of net neutrality. "None of us want any kind of heavy-handed regulat...
Forget Nintendo Wii's motion-sensing controller. After less than six months on the market, Nintendo's groundbreaking video game controller technology may be on the way out following the unveiling of a game platform that controls gameplay using a player's thoughts and emotions. Emotiv Systems gave at...
Connecticut lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require social networking sites to verify users' ages and obtain parental consent for minors who want to post profiles. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal urged adoption of the legislation Wednesday, a day after a Connecticut man was sentenced to ...
Mixing flash memory with the traditional spinning disk, Samsung's new hybrid hard drive for Vista-based notebooks will improve boot-up speed, extend battery life and increase reliability, said the company. The hybrid drive, the first of its kind, according to Samsung, is currently being sold only to...
Consumer reaction to downloading movies and TV programming from the Internet has been less than enthusiastic. Some say one of the major reasons for that is people find that moving entertainment content from their PCs to their living rooms is a hassle. In recent months, the gadget industry has focuse...
Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison took the wrapper off his company's long-awaited online components for the PlayStation 3 video game console Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Styling the new user communities as part of its "Game 3.0," Sony's offerings ar...
Biometrics -- or biometric authentication -- refers to technology that measures and analyzes human physical characteristics for security purposes. Physiological, or biometric, characteristics include, for instance, eye retinas, facial patterns and hand or foot measurements, whereas examples of behav...
Microsoft jumped into the Voice over Internet Provider market Wednesday with the announcement that business users will be able to test out a beta version of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, lat...
Microsoft is putting search at the forefront of its future plans, and is demonstrating its increasing prowess in that field at the company's annual TechFest this week. The software giant unveiled nearly 100 new innovations at its Redmond campus, including several key research projects such as the hi...
Customers of AT&T's Homezone service will now be able to control their digital video recorders with their Web-enabled cell phones. The company, based in San Antonio, first promised the feature in January. Similar services are also being developed by other communication companies -- as they striv...
Yahoo and Taiwan's High Tech Computer have inked a deal to preload Yahoo Web services on millions of HTC's smartphones that run Windows Mobile, giving Yahoo an edge in the race to capture mobile Web users. HTC develops smartphones and customizes them for mobile operators and distributors around the ...
The world is awash in digital data created by individuals, and by 2010 the amount of data added annually will swell from 161 exabytes to 988 exabytes, according to a report released Tuesday by technology research firm IDC. An exabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes. In 2006 alone, the researchers ...
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