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Researchers have created a new knee brace device that can harvest energy normally dissipated or essentially wasted from the human body during walking ...

Modu, a new cell phone manufacturer based in Israel, is developing a new set of modular components for cell phones, letting consumers add pieces and parts to a miniature core cell phone to enhance its functionality -- or even just its look and feel ...

After Microsoft made its move to acquire Yahoo, the blog chatter started almost immediately. Initial postings hit the Web with notes of surprise before the more thoughtful ruminations started to hit, not to mention the tongue-in-cheek name-crunching that produced hypothetical monikers like -- "Microhoo!" and "Yahsoft" ...

YouTube has amped up its catalog of videos accessible by mobile phones around the world. Now users of more than 100 million devices can access tens of millions of YouTube videos on what YouTube is calling the "largest repository of mobile video content available." ...

Dell has released a new M-Series blade solution, the M1000e, that boasts a new balance of performance, ease of use, and more efficient energy consumption -- not to mention environmentally friendly lead-free configurations. Dell says it designed the M1000e "from the ground up" using Dell Energy Smart technologies that resulted in 30 patent applications...

There are conflicting reports coming out of Washington surrounding missing White House e-mails as well as conflicting statements coming from the White House press room. A hearing has been scheduled by Democratic Calif. Rep. Henry Waxman to investigate comments from White House spokesperson Tony Fratto asserting that he had no reason to believe any e-mails are missing...

Yahoo, with its 248 million active registered users worldwide, has announced that all of them will be able to use their Yahoo IDs as an OpenID to let them eliminate separate IDs and logins at Web sites that support the open, decentralized digital identity framework ...

A group of public policy organizations has filed a petition and complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Comcast over the way the Internet service provider has managed its Internet traffic ...

In a move to help it break free of the old-school DVD format, Netflix is beefing up its streaming video service. Instead of limiting the number of hours customers can watch movies online, Netflix is now offering unlimited video streaming from its entire video library ...

The results of a pair of year-long studies that use so-called intelligent appliances show that new power grid management tools in the home -- and even in the appliances themselves -- can help save homeowners money while improving power grid efficiency at the same time ...

San Francisco-based security firm Coverity has been working with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and with Stanford University to find flaws in open source software, and it looks like they've found plenty ...

The latest salvo in the war between the Blu-ray and HD DVD camps over which high definition format will replace the ubiquitous DVD may be little more than pop and flash -- but effective nonetheless. Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD formats have various technology industry supporters behind them, but the biggest backers come in the form of the Hollywood studios...

Intel unveiled 16 new Penryn processors at the International 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Monday. Coming in a variety of form factors, all of the new chips are based on Intel's 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process, and five of them represent the first Penryn-based processors built for laptops. Four are for servers, and the remaining seven are for desktops...

Intel has reportedly pulled out of its position on the board of directors for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project due to disagreements over philosophical issues ...

Microsoft has found itself between a rock and a hard place with its latest Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The Redmond, Wash., software giant released SP3 in September, and in doing so blocked the ability of MS Office 2003 users to easily access older, less secure file formats ...

The Recording Industry Association of America has dumped a load of mud into the already murky waters surrounding the personal use of copyrighted music ...

The holiday selling season has come and gone, and the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war is still on ...

Amazon.com has picked up the third major record label to let the online music retailer sell MP3 songs without digital rights management (DRM) schemes attached. Warner Music Group announced Thursday that Amazon customers can now buy and download songs from its artists, which include Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas, Jewel, Kid Rock, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Big & Rich and Faith Hill...

Several years after the European Commission ruled in an antitrust suit in 2004 that Microsoft had to provide protocol information to its competitors, the Redmond, Wash., software giant has inked an agreement with a team behind the open source project Samba that will let them in on Microsoft's secret protocols ...

Security researcher Aviv Raff has published a vulnerability affecting Google's Toolbar browser feature. The weak spot Raff reported could let a hacker gain control of a user's PC when the user tries to add a new Google Toolbar button ...