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Scientists in Europe have created a robotic salamander that uses an amphibian type central nervous system to switch from swimming to walking as it crawls onto land out of water ...

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 ...

Customers of AT&T's Homezone service will now be able to control their digital video recorders with their Web-enabled cell phones ...

Sony is entering the world of flash memory-based portable media devices that play video ...

The pioneering computer game "SimCity," first written for the Commodore 64 in 1985, is being released this summer for the Nintendo DS platform, game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) said Thursday ...

In time for the annual Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show that begins March 8, Sony Electronics, unveiled Tuesday a flock of seven new Cyber-shot digital cameras. Many of the new models can be plugged directly into high-definition televisions and feature the company's new face-detection technology ...

Computer security veteran Symantec on Monday unveiled Norton 360, a comprehensive suite of PC security applications that aims to cover all system protection bases in one box ...

Daylight Saving Time (DST) starts three weeks earlier this year in most parts of the United States and there are fears that the change will cause problems for unprepared computer systems and digital devices ...

The PlayStation 3 consoles about to be sold in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia will not be as compatible with PlayStation 2 games as those sold elsewhere. The news may bother many gamers, but it probably won't affect Sony's bottom line ...

In a move that demonstrates consolidation among players in the burgeoning world of Web 2.0 development, Cisco Systems paid US$135 million to buy Reactivity, an XML specialist that's been selling products for only about five years ...

A security flaw found late last year in Google Desktop was quickly patched, but the company that discovered it says the popular application's mix of Web and private hard drive searches might still be risky ...

Warner Music Group acknowledged Tuesday it is still interested in purchasing EMI Group, its slumping rival in the troubled music industry, but such a deal is unlikely to solve the long-term problems facing both companies ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is close to making computer users out of a million children in developing nations ...

It was a David versus Goliath case that made international headlines. Russian authorities, determined to fight pirated software, came down hard on a school found to have 12 computers with phony versions of Windows and Microsoft Office ...

Relentless attempts by those determined to undermine the copy-protection technology used on HD DVD movies continue to yield successes ...

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 ...

Advances in technology, particularly customer resource management (CRM) 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 ...

Yahoo on Monday broadened the nascent world of cell phone advertising by launching a mobile ad platform in 19 countries. The service, which was first offered in the United States in November, allows companies to run interactive advertisements on the Yahoo Mobile Web home page ...

Personal computer buyers last week rapidly snapped up machines loaded with Microsoft's new Vista operating system, buying nearly 70 percent more units during the week than they did during the same week in 2006, according to a report by Current Analysis ...

Information infrastructure giant EMC is selling, through an initial public offering, a sliver of its highly successful VMware subsidiary, a move that should strengthen VMware's position in the growing virtualization software market ...