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With Google Apps, It’s Game On

With the release of Google Apps Premier Edition, there's little doubt that Google has its sights set squarely on Microsoft and the market for office software. Add in the fact that marquee names are on board, including Procter & Gamble for the new software suite, and there's clearly at least some degree of threat behind that challenge ...

NASA, Virgin Galactic May Fly Us to the Moon

Space enthusiasts, take note: Your chance to travel by rocket may be closer than you think. NASA and Virgin Galactic on Tuesday agreed to explore collaborations aimed at making commercial space travel a widespread reality ...

January Console Sales: Wii Is the Champion

The latest reports from the front lines in the video game console wars show that Nintendo's Wii was the U.S. market leader in January, according to new market research data ...

Adobe Takes Training Wheels Off Lightroom 1.0

Following a beta-test process involving half a million photographers, Adobe Systems on Monday released Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 ...

Evolution Wins Latest Round in Kansas Education Battle

In a landmark vote Tuesday, the Kansas State Board of Education once again adopted science standards regarding instruction in evolution ...

Unisys Joins Newly Formed Open Solutions Alliance

Following Wednesday's announcement of the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA) by a group of 10 vendors, Unisys said it would join the nonprofit consortium ...

FBI Still Losing Track of Weapons, Laptops

The FBI loses between three and four of its laptop computers every month, as well as the same number of weapons, according to a recent report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General ...

New Business BlackBerry Borrows From Pearl

Against the backdrop of the 3GSM World Congress wireless trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Research In Motion on Monday unveiled the latest in its BlackBerry line of e-mail phone devices ...

Computers Learning to Read Human Intentions

Computers can now be trained better than ever before to be able to predict what a human being plans to do, according to a new study published Thursday ...

Jobs’ DRM Comments Reignite Antipiracy Controversy

In response to Tuesday's open letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs calling for major record labels to stop requiring digital rights management (DRM) technology on music sold online, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now calling on Apple to license the antipiracy technology it uses to protect music it sells online ...

Action Video Games: The New Rx for Vision?

Parents, beware: Your video gaming kids may now have a new argument to justify the hours they spend playing. A new study from the University of Rochester has found that playing high-action video games can actually be good for your vision ...

Euro Mobile Phone Firms Pledge to Support Children’s Safety

As part of Safer Internet Day, which is being celebrated Tuesday in 40 countries around the world, a group of more than a dozen European mobile phone companies joined together in Brussels, Belgium, to sign an agreement to help make mobile phones safer for children ...

Microsoft Translator Strengthens Open Standards Commitment

Microsoft's self-proclaimed commitment to open standards became more tangible Thursday when it released the first Open XML translator for Word ...

Microsoft’s Zune Leader Stepping Down

The Microsoft executive who led the company's Zune product launch, among other things, is retiring from the company, officials announced Wednesday ...

Wii Outselling PS3: A New Gaming Order?

Sony's profits are down, while Nintendo's sales are way up. The Wii video game console is selling faster than Nintendo can keep up with. Following Sony's announcement of its disappointing results Tuesday, which it partly blamed on huge costs for the PS3 launch, speculation is running rampant about the PlayStation 3's position in the video gaming market...

Key Hubble Telescope Cameras Feared Lost

A problem that arose in NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the weekend means that many of the orbiting telescope's key capabilities may be permanently lost, officials announced Monday ...

Smartphones vs. Dumb Phones: No Contest

With the upcoming release of Apple's iPhone, smartphones are becoming one of the most hyped categories of consumer technology today. The combination of telephone technology with e-mail, Internet access and multimedia -- among other features -- serves many consumer needs in one tidy, sleek little packet ...

E-Learning Software Patent Under Scrutiny

At the request of the Software Freedom Law Center, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced Thursday that it will re-examine a patent held by e-learning software company Blackboard ...

Microsoft Adds Five Years to XP Consumer Support

In a move sure to bring joy to the hearts of many consumers, Microsoft yesterday announced that it is extending the availability of support for users of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition by an additional five years over what it had previously announced ...

SanDisk, Toshiba Unveil 56 Nanometer NAND Flash Chips

In the ever-intensifying race to deliver the most memory in the tiniest chip, SanDisk on Tuesday rolled out its 8-gigabit, 56 nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology and promised to deliver a 16-gigabit version in the second quarter ...

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