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BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels ...

Rather than focusing on the relatively expensive and storage-shy all-flash hard drive movement, Seagate Technology is taking an intermediary step to mass produce a new line of hybrid hard drives -- the Momentus 5400 PSD (Power Savings Drive). The new drives combine both flash-based memory with traditional disc drives to offer a combination of benefits...

Novell has set loose OpenSuse 10.3, the latest version of the company's free Linux distribution. More specifically, OpenSuse 10.3 was created by the OpenSuse project, the community Novell sponsored, which now has 54,000 registered members ...

Microsoft, along with several partners, has launched a bundle of new methods for connecting household PCs to the living room entertainment center ...

Right smack in the middle of Microsoft's most important Xbox 360 game launch of the year, some "Halo 3" discs have been scratched before their unlucky owners ever got a chance to play them ...

Even in a sleepy little college town in rural Idaho, a mere five-and-a-half hour drive from Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., headquarters, "Halo 3" is more than just a game. We don't get the attention of New York -- no ATVs decked out in green, no famous stars, Microsoft giveaways or spotlights tearing through the night sky -- but gamers still came out in droves...

Microsoft's "Halo 3" video game for the Xbox 360 console will blast its way into the world Monday at midnight when it goes on sale for the first time. The first two games in the "Halo" trilogy, a series of first-person shooter games that lets friends cooperate as well as play against one another online, were wildly successful. All indications suggest that "Halo 3" will meet with a similar destiny...

Intel has created a new open source energy-saving project -- LessWatts.org -- which it hopes will help drive innovations so that Linux-powered servers, PCs and even household devices use up less juice ...

AT&T is now selling the first cellular and WiFi BlackBerry handset, the BlackBerry 8820, which is an upgrade of the already popular 8800 series model ...

Intel touted its processor roadmap during its Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the company even showed off a working model of its 45 nanometer next-generation processor, dubbed "Nehalem," as well as functioning 32 nanometer chips ...

Sprint has rolled out a new service that leverages broadband networks to let Sprint cellular customers use their existing phones to make calls in places where they have weak or nonexistent cellular signals. For home users, that might be the basement, bathroom or backyard ...

The free music download site SpiralFrog.com has finally croaked its first notes ...

Users of Microsoft's Windows operating system may be surprised to learn that Microsoft has been secretly updating their PCs even after they've activated a feature that seemingly prevents automatic updates ...

In the latest x86-based server processor war between Intel and AMD, both companies are on the offensive. Last week, Intel preemptively launched the first strike with its Xeon 7300 series, and Monday, AMD rolled out its Quad-Core AMD Opteron series ...

Advanced Micro Devices has launched its long-awaited quad-core addition to its groundbreaking Opteron x86 processor lineup -- the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, a.k.a. "Barcelona," which AMD is billing as the world's first native x86 processor to go quad-core ...

Microsoft has upped the ante in the server virtualization space, which has thus far been primarily dominated by VMware. The Redmond, Wash., software giant has released its System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2007 solution, which the company has been working on for the last two years. While SCVMM contains similar features offered by competitor VMware and VMware's partners, its roadmap is on track to take it even further...

Intel released its new lineup of Quad-Core Xeon 7300 series processors Wednesday, throwing a punch at rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which plans to release its own quad-core processor line, dubbed "Barcelona," early next week ...

Last week Apple publicly announced the breakup between its iTunes music and video store and NBC Universal, noting NBC's desire to dally with modified retail pricing plans and potentially force Apple to sell episodes at US$4.99 each. Holding fast to its insistence on selling online TV shows at exactly $1.99 an episode, the company in Cupertino, Calif., booted NBC's fall season content altogether after the network informed Apple it did not wish to renew its contract, which expires in December...

Wal-Mart, the world's largest music retailer, has entered the DRM (digital rights management)-free music download fray. Its decision to sell unrestricted 256 kpbs (kilobit per second) MP3 songs from record giants EMI and Universal may well be the tipping point that lets consumers easily buy popular, legitimate online music capable of playing on most any modern device...

Tilera, a startup semiconductor company, has launched its first product -- what it's calling the "world's highest performance embedded processor" -- at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. The product is the TILE64 processor, a 64-core processor with an architecture that Tilera said can scale to thousands of full-feature programmable cores, each capable of running Linux...