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Google has formally launched its 3D mapping and imagery technology, contained in a service called Google Earth, a name that seems to fit the search company's global ambitions. Based on the Keyhole technology Google acquired earlier this year, Google Earth uses satellite-based maps to create three-di...
Apple is turning podcasting into an everyday activity for the average person. The iPod maker said it will program everything users need to discover, subscribe, manage and listen to podcasts into iTunes 4.9, the latest version of its digital music software and online music store. "Apple is taking pod...
Matt Drudge may be the world's most famous blogger, having outed former President Clinton and his pudgy paramour Monica Lewinsky online. His successors on the Internet made blogging a political force during last year's presidential election, and may have helped George W. Bush retain the White House ...
Gamers with 3D-enabled mobile phones will soon be able to carry Quake with them. The first-person shooter, first released by id Software in 1996 for PCs and followed by three sequels, is thought of as a ground-breaker in 3D gaming. id Software and publisher Pulse Interactive said Quake Mobile will b...
AMD is accusing Intel of serious abuses of its dominant position in the computer microprocessor industry, saying the industry giant coerced manufacturers including Dell, HP, Sony, Acer, Fujitsu and others away from AMD products, thereby limiting the challenger's ability to compete. The allegations i...
AMD has launched its AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor, a chip designed to provide realistic graphics resolutions and enhanced PC performance on 3D games and other intense applications. As PC gaming continues to escalate, AMD has been on a mission to provide the fastest processor on the market. The comp...
There are few of us who would choose to go anywhere without them, but we've all wished at one time or another that we had a magic jamming device that could hang up cell phones in the face of a loud, annoying user nearby. The fact is, for most of us, the only thing that makes us more angry than a fel...
As the two sides pushing different standards for the next-generation DVD format continue sending mixed signals on a unified format, Microsoft and Toshiba announced they would be collaborating to create products compatible with the HD DVD format, which is competing against the Sony-backed Blu-ray. E...
Microsoft announced Friday that its long-in-the-works Longhorn will enable RSS (really simple syndication) feeds. "The fact that they're announcing it now, keeps them in the news," Laura DiDio, senior analyst, Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It keeps users, developers and competitors very well aw...
AMD today launched its AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor, a chip designed to provide realistic graphics resolutions and enhanced PC performance on 3D games and other intense applications. As PC gaming continues to escalate, AMD has been on a mission to provide the fastest processor on the market. The co...
Sun Microsystems today introduced a new workstation aimed at computer-aided design engineers and software developers -- with a price point low enough that the company hopes it will woo users away from the competition. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation enters the market with a starting price of US$895, or...
I just had one of the most surreal experiences in my life. I attended, as AMD's guest, the F1 Race in Indianapolis where 14 out of the 20 cars racing, including the Intel car, left the race after the parade lap. Sharing the experience with me was a group of AMD's closest friends, mostly actual IT p...
The adoption earlier this month of a new e-mail security technology by e-commerce merchant Amazon.com, Internet service provider RoadRunner and Internet security firm IronPort Systems signals what industry watchers say might be the start of a trend that will harden e-mail from phishing and spamming ...
Microsoft announced today that it would extend the intellectual property protection program it gives channel partners and PC manufacturers. The software giant said it would foot the bill for legal costs associated with any lawsuits related to Microsoft trade secrets, patents, copyrights or trademark...
Conflicting messages from Samsung and industry analysts surround the spiraling memory chip market this week. Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has said prices of Flash and DRAM chips are likely to stabilize, while some analysts clearly disagree, saying there is little cha...