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Tech Gifts: What’s Hot and What’s Not in the CE Department

The holiday season may still be more than a month away, but you can be sure marketers and retailers already have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads ...

Yahoo Squirms Under Congressional Grilling Over Jailed Journalist

At a hearing before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan were forced to defend Yahoo's testimony last year regarding its role in the Chinese government's arrest and jailing of journalist Shi Tao ...

Samsung’s New Solid-State Drives Target Enterprise Servers

Samsung has begun sampling new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs) aimed at enterprise servers and high-end PCs, the company announced Sunday ...

Mobile Developers Get to Tinker With Google’s Android

After months of speculation and rumors about its mobile plans, Google and a raft of supporting companies gathered Monday to announce Android, a new platform billed as the first truly open and comprehensive application for mobile devices ...

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

The Med-Tech Industry’s Relentless Pursuit of Cures – and Cash

More than 300 completely new medicines, vaccines and treatments for more than 150 conditions have entered the U.S. market since 1990, with a raft of benefits for consumers ...

Robot-Car Finalists Rev Up for DARPA’s Urban Road Rally

Eleven robotic vehicles will compete in the final race Saturday of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge event, the group announced Thursday ...

Privacy Advocates Pressure FTC to Create ‘Do Not Track’ List

As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) geared up for its Town Hall meeting at the end of this week focusing on electronic behavioral marketing techniques, privacy advocates banded together to urge the agency to give consumers a way to opt out ...

OpenDocument Foundation Abandons Namesake Format

The OpenDocument Foundation, after five years of promoting the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for office applications, is switching direction and embracing a different format ...

Google to Put an End to Pesky Gphone Rumors

Sometime in the next two weeks, Google will announce its much anticipated wireless plans, according to a Tuesday report in The Wall Street Journal ...

Internet Patriarch Cerf Leaves ICANN, Sets Sights on Space Web

Vinton Cerf, known by many as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will be stepping down at the end of this week as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ...

Second Life Sex Toys Spat Spurs Real-Life Lawsuit

Second Life may be a virtual world, but six entrepreneurs operating there have filed a real-life lawsuit against Second Life users who allegedly copied their products ...

Linux Blog Safari: Gutsy Gibbon, the Greenphone, GPLv3, Microsoft

It's been a contentious few weeks on the Linux blogs, what with the big Microsoft news on Monday as well as a few key product happenings and subsequent evaluation ...

SanDisk Unleashes Wrath on 25 Accused Patent Violators

SanDisk filed three patent infringement actions against 25 companies that manufacture, sell and import USB flash drives, CompactFlash cards, multimedia cards, MP3/media players and other removable flash storage products, the company announced Wednesday ...

When a Man Loves the Internet

Who's always there for you, has the power to make you laugh or cry, and wants to keep you entertained and engrossed around the clock? Forget your significant other -- for one out of four Americans, the Internet is just as good ...

Mozilla Flies High on Google’s Coattails

Mozilla's revenues for 2006 were up roughly 26 percent from 2005, reaching US$66.8 million, the company said Monday ...

Verizon’s New FiOS Breaks Upload Speed Limits

A new FiOS (fiber optic service) from Verizon features upload and download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second (Mb/s), the company announced Tuesday ...

Microsoft Eyes Enterprise With New Mobile Server

Setting its sights squarely on Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft announced Tuesday its first dedicated mobile device management server aimed at enterprise users ...

New 3-D Tech Makes Online Shopping More Like Being There

Online stores could soon become a lot more like their real world counterparts thanks to new, 3-D immersive technology announced Monday by Kinset ...

AT&T Teams With Napster on 2-Buck Song Downloads

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday ...

AT&T Teams With Napster on 2-Buck Song Downloads

AT&T wireless subscribers will soon be able to download music over the air from Napster, the telecom company announced Monday ...

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