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You're likely to visit the doctor when you have an infection, but what if the e-health records in her office were infected themselves -- with viruses, worms and other malware? That could be detrimental to your health, and depending on the severity of the computer problems, could even change the cour...
Intel used its Developer Forum event in San Francisco this week to debut new computer chip technology that the company said boasts energy efficiency alongside performance gains. Intel also unveiled a quad-core processor configuration that some have referred to as a processor with two dual-cores. The...
Microsoft is picking up speed in its race to overtake Google's huge lead in search technology with the rollout of a beta search application and the announcement it has acquired a privately held company's search technology assets. The software giant rolled out a beta of its Windows Live Search applic...
Cingular Wireless on Tuesday launched an on-demand streaming video service with a selection of content from providers including Fox and HBO. Consumers can now watch video clips of their favorite television shows, sports, news and weather, entertainment and premium content on their high-speed 3G-capa...
Yahoo on Tuesday said it is planning to make four new and enhanced interfaces available to independent developers. The Web service Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are intended to enable developers to use and build on technology from Yahoo Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping. The idea is to cr...
Clipboard extenders are among the most useful applications in the Windows world. How many times have you overwritten something in the clipboard that you later wish you had available? Clipboard extenders solve that problem by saving everything you cut or copy from your screen and letting you access i...
Google inadvertently posted a PowerPoint presentation by CEO Eric Schmidt on its Web site, where bloggers who follow the company's doings promptly discovered it and then broadcast the information across the Internet. Google has since removed the slides, but details about the internal document are st...
Emulation and translation software company Transitive announced on Tuesday it's collaborating with Intel to drive the migration of older, RISC environments and applications that previously ran on non-Intel hardware to Intel's Itanium 2 and Xeon processors. Although the companies do not yet have prod...
Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled the world's first 8GB hard-disk embedded smartphone. Dubbed the SGH-i310, the model breaks the storage limit in mobile phones. As such, Samsung believes the new handset will change the way people manage and use mobile phones. Its three new models that come equi...
The four anchors of the open source world -- Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python, or the so-called LAMP stack -- proved most reliable in a study released Monday by Coverity, a San Francisco-based maker of source code analysis tools. With the release of the study, which is part of an ongoing US$...
Silicon Valley -- the sprawling suburbs of San Francisco and San Jose -- first emerged during the 1960s as a prime location for the Pentagon to conduct research and development work during the Cold War. Will the Silicon Prairie -- the stretch of land between Chicago and downstate Champaign-Urbana --...
Tech giant Cisco is looking to serve up what could be the holy grail of today's enterprise communications, announcing on Monday its Unified Communications System, a suite of voice, data and video applications aimed at wrangling Internet Protocol (IP) communications. Cisco said the new suite is built...
Sun Microsystems is attempting to take the concept of pervasive computing into the mainstream with a new battery-operated platform for development of wireless sensor networks, robotics and personal consumer electronics. Dubbed Project Sun Small Programmable Object Technology, or Sun SPOT, Sun hopes ...
AOL is opening up its proprietary instant messaging platform, AIM, to outside developers to build plugins and custom communications, the company announced. It has made available an AIM Software Development Kit to build new tools for real time text, voice and video communications applications. AOL is...
Three bits of news got me thinking about personal computers last week. The first was the "surprise" announcement from Apple that it was getting into speakers and, yawn, building an Intel-based Mac Mini. The second was the HP/Gateway settlement, and the third was the "secret" Microsoft Origami projec...
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