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…Funai, the last remaining manufacturer of the VCR, will cease production of the players by the end of the month…

Ousted Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has a new Internet browser, and it’s nothing less than you’d expect from the creator of JavaScript and co-founder of the company behind FireFox.… aims to “fix the Web.” How? By blocking everything except the content you explicitly want. That means no ads, no cookies, nothing that you haven’t personally requested from the Internet.…

You may live and work in the cloud, but your data needs protection. We show you how to easily backup your vital information from Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and other cloud-based services.

The device is considered part of a new category of gadgets called mobile Internet devices, or MIDs, which are designed to fit into the market between a mobile phone and a laptop or Netbook computer.

Recently-predicted and much-sought, the material allows electrons on its surface to travel with no loss of energy at room temperatures and can be fabricated using existing semiconductor technologies. Such material could provide a leap in microchip speeds, and even become the bedrock of an entirely new kind of computing industry based on spintronics, the next evolution of electronics.

Engineering students at Duke University have taken advantage of the accelerometers in emerging cell phones to create an application that permits users to write short notes in the air with their phone, and have that message automatically sent to an e-mail address.

OCR software and ICR software technology are analytical artificial intelligence systems that consider sequences of characters rather than whole words or phrases. Based on the analysis of sequential lines and curves, OCR and ICR make 'best guesses' at characters using database look-up tables to closely associate or match the strings of characters that form words.

probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available

This chart provides a rundown of some of the major features introduced in each Windows iteration, as well as a quick look at the minimum hardware requirements for XP, Vista, and 7

first to create one of two basic types of semiconductors using an exotic, new, one-atom-thick material called graphene.... "There are still enormous challenges to really put it into products, but I think this really could play an important role...."

a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." ... The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode.....

Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 percent a year, will start to exceed supply as early as 2010 because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry Web sites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC's iPlayer... Beginning in 2012... PCs and laptops are likely to operate at a much reduced speed, rendering the Internet an "unreliable toy."

'You'll have to support two versions of Windows,' Each needs to be secured, antivirused, firewalled and patched. If a company has 10,000 PCs, that's 20,000 instances of Windows.

Tuesday marked the official unveiling of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 + High Speed (HS), the next iteration of the personal area networking technology. The revision aims to improve the speed of data transmission by harnessing the power of 802.11 connections, borrowing part of their bandwidth to transmit large files.