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To outsiders, it may often seem that video gamers live in a world of their own. That perception will soon come closer to reality following the announcement Monday that Richard Branson's Virgin Games division has partnered with Game Domain International to form a new PC game download service, "A Worl...

Yahoo on Monday began integrating its popular Web-based e-mail service with its instant messaging platform, a process that will take several months to complete. In doing so, Yahoo is hardly breaking ground. More than a year ago, Google unveiled Google Talk, an application that allows Gmail users to ...

Just in time for the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, McAfee has released new research that points to a recent increase in mobile malware attacks. Additionally, nearly half of the operators who have been the recipients of mobile malware experienced an attack within the last three months, acc...

Hewlett-Packard is taking a new approach to smartphones with the launch of a slim new handset with 3G Internet connectivity, moving away from the clunky styling of its previous series of powerful PDA phones. The iPaq 500 smartphone, unveiled this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, wi...

Researchers at Intel unveiled an experimental 80-core microchip Monday at the International Solid States Circuit Conference in San Francisco. Known as a "Teraflop research chip," it is the first programmable microprocessor capable of delivering performance formerly associated only with supercomputer...

Musical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one person's foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to match or detach your mood can't be easily conjured f...

Advances in technology, particularly customer resource management software, are driving e-commerce these days. In some cases, they're driving the industry down a strange road that, like a "Twilight Zone" episode, ends up in Smalltown USA, circa 1950. It's a road that has companies adopting some of t...

Against the backdrop of the 3GSM World Congress wireless trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Research In Motion on Monday unveiled the latest in its BlackBerry line of e-mail phone devices. The BlackBerry 8800 smartphone is the slimmest BlackBerry yet, and comes equipped with a variety of consumer-style...

Researchers at Intel unveiled an experimental 80-core microchip Monday at the International Solid States Circuit Conference in San Francisco. Known as a "Teraflop research chip," it is the first programmable microprocessor capable of delivering performance formerly associated only with supercomputer...

Microsoft unveiled three new Windows Live services in conjunction with the official launch of the latest version of its operating system for smartphones, in an effort to cut deeper inroads into the mobile device market. Although details of Windows Mobile 6 were leaked to the press last week, the OS ...

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Sun Microsystems’ Vipul Gupta: Security Never Rests

Sun Microsystems is an industry leader in network security. It offers its own open source operating system, Solaris, and a Java desktop system. Sun's influence with network encryption and security solutions permeates the computer industry. TechNewsWorld discussed security issues with Dr. Vipul Gupta...

Unless you were sleeping last week, you saw Bill Gates get really upset when asked about the Mac vs. PC campaign that Apple is putting on. I'm not sure it is wise to piss off someone like Bill personally in this way, and the campaign does seem to over-stereotype both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. In a...

The March of the Smartphones

2006 was a pivotal year for the smartphone industry, with significant developments in areas both technological and in terms of industry practices and operation. As handset manufacturers continued to accessorize the smartphone and churned out a seemingly limitless variety of models and styles, substa...

Computers can now be trained better than ever before to be able to predict what a human being plans to do, according to a new study published Thursday. Using a combination of technologies, including pattern recognition software and functional magnetic resonance imaging, the authors of the study inve...

Samsung Enters iPhone Wars

Korean electronics maker Samsung has unveiled a new mobile phone with sleek features and functions that are similar to Apple's recently announced iPhone. The company delivered the new Ultra Smart F700 at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The handset, which even looks a lot like the iPhone...


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