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It's is a dream come true for energy seekers: a portable energy source that outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market and produces 10 times the power of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals. Is the technology being developed by EES...
January has been very, very good to Blizzard Entertainment. Earlier this month, the game maker announced its World of Warcraft subscription-based, massively multiplayer online role-playing games had surpassed 8 million players. Tuesday, the company said that its "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusa...
Google unwittingly disclosed sensitive login and password information of more than a dozen users, opening up a can of worms for the search giant by exposing a flaw in its anti-phishing tool. The security snafu was discovered in Google's anti-phishing extension for the Firefox Web browser, according ...
Bad news outweighs the good in the new "Threat Report 2007" issued Monday by Sophos, the global IT security company. The good news, which might provide significant hope, is that computer users are finally refraining from opening attachments connected to unsolicited e-mail. Because of that, according...
Everywhere you turn these days, someone is pushing video -- on the Internet, on portable media players, even on cell phones. What's omitted by many enthusiastic purveyors of this electronic marvel, though, is that the digital video scene is a jungle of befuddling and confusing formats, a system more...
Google is reportedly working on a platform to allow users to download the entire content of books in a format that they could read on their computers or maybe even mobile devices. Google officials confirm that the company is continuing to work on online access, but assert that they have not announce...
Intel and Sun Microsystems announced Monday that the two companies have joined to form a "broad strategic alliance." The cornerstones of the newly created partnership are Intel's endorsement of Sun's Solaris operating system and the inclusion of Intel's Xeon processors in Sun's line of enterprise an...
In the competitive world of digital music download services, Ruckus Network upped the ante by announcing it is offering free music downloads to any college student. The Herndon, Va.-based company gets its revenue from selling advertising instead of charging users to download files. Under the new sys...
Apple released its financials last week, and 2006 was a very, very good year for the company. However, its forecast suggests that 2007 may be starting out as one of Apple's worst years this decade. Vista is now within two weeks of launching. I've been using it for some weeks now, and there are some...
It's easy to see how some gamers end up spending so much money on accessories when you add up all the special controllers, high-powered headsets, memory upgrades and multiplayer network subscriptions that players use to enhance the experience. "Through the years, gamers have demonstrated a willingne...
After months of speculation, fans of the popular video game "The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion" have reason to rejoice following Wednesday's announcement confirming that game maker Bethesda Softworks will release an official full expansion for the award-winning game. "The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Is...
"Storm Worm" is the name that seems to have stuck for a massive malware attack that spread Thursday and Friday by teasing e-mail recipients to open infected messages supposedly about European wind storms. The attackers use of the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe" was an effective way t...
Traffic to blog pages at the top 10 newspaper sites jumped 210 percent in December compared to the same month in 2005. Moreover, blogs garnered 13 percent of all traffic to the sites during the month, compared to only 4 percent in December 2005, according to findings released Wednesday by Nielsen//N...
News Corp.'s popular social networking site MySpace.com will soon offer parents a glimpse of what their teenagers are doing online. The site, which is one of a group of social networking sites used regularly by more than half of American teens, has recently come under fire for inadequate security co...
Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to make Vista, the newest version of its Windows operating system, available to consumers online when the product is officially rolled out at the end of this month. The launch of the consumer version of Vista, which has been postponed several times, is now sche...