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Intel Brings Quad-Core Chips to Embedded Computing

Intel introduced the latest member of its quad-core family of microprocessors Tuesday at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5335 and E5345 are the first, the company said, to bring the Intel architecture-based quad-core performance to the embedded market. A...

Adobe’s New Creative Suite Promises Smooth Operation

Adobe launched its Creative Suite 3 line of products Tuesday. The six new integrated Web design and content creation software packages are the first to leverage tools and technologies the company gained with its $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. With its six all-news suites and 13 stan...

New Batteries Get Their Buzz From Sugar

Researchers at St. Louis University in Missouri announced the development of a fuel cell battery powered by liquid sugar Sunday at the American Chemistry Society's 233rd national meeting. Using nearly anything from natural substances such as tree sap to man-made beverages including soda, the new tec...

Was PS3’s European Debut a Dud?

The less-than-stellar sales for Sony's next-generation video game console PlayStation 3 continued Thursday as the platform was made available in Europe. According to reports from around Europe, the scene bore little resemblance to the frenzy that greeted the release of the PlayStation 2 console in 2...

Virtualization Takes Toll on x86 Server Sales

Technology research firm IDC released a report Tuesday in which it revised an earlier forecast on customer spending in the x86 server market for the remainder of the decade. The company downgraded its original projection that x86 shipments would increase 61 percent by 2010, now predicting an increas...

Adobe’s Apollo Bridges Desktop, Internet Divide

Adobe released its cross-operating run-time system for Web developers on Monday. The development system, available from Adobe Labs, is currently in the first public alpha version. Code-named "Apollo," the technology enables Web developers to create and deploy rich Internet applications on the deskto...

Google Will Forget You Asked

Internet search giant Google announced Wednesday it will take steps to improve the way it handles data obtained as millions of consumers search for products and information online. Within the next year, the company said, Google will change its privacy policy and begin deleting personally identifiab...

IBM’s 65nm Cell Could Chip Away PS3 Costs

A state-of-the-art IBM manufacturing plant located in East Fishkill, N.Y., has become the first facility to produce the 65 nanometer Cell Broadband Engine, the chip maker announced Monday. The Cell chip, developed through a $400 million partnership between IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is the technology un...

Intel Goes Green With New Xeon Processors

Intel welcomed two new additions to its family of quad-core processors Monday with the arrival of the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors L5320 and L5310. The two server chips sport the added benefit of energy efficiency, operating on 50 watts of power. "We are thrilled to drive further records in lower...

Brain Control Takes Gaming Out of Your Hands

Forget Nintendo Wii's motion-sensing controller. After less than six months on the market, Nintendo's groundbreaking video game controller technology may be on the way out following the unveiling of a game platform that controls gameplay using a player's thoughts and emotions. Emotiv Systems gave at...

Sony Gives Gamers a ‘Home’ of Their Own

Sony Computer Entertainment President Phil Harrison took the wrapper off his company's long-awaited online components for the PlayStation 3 video game console Wednesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Styling the new user communities as part of its "Game 3.0," Sony's offerings ar...

Microsoft Ventures Into Crowded VoIP Market

Microsoft jumped into the Voice over Internet Provider market Wednesday with the announcement that business users will be able to test out a beta version of its VoIP and unified communications server, Office Communications Server 2007, and unified communications client, Office Communicator 2007, lat...

Data Odyssey 2010: To Pluto and Back

The world is awash in digital data created by individuals, and by 2010 the amount of data added annually will swell from 161 exabytes to 988 exabytes, according to a report released Tuesday by technology research firm IDC. An exabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes. In 2006 alone, the researchers ...

Microsoft Gives Xbox Gamers a Memory Boost

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft on Monday announced the upcoming launch of a 512 MB memory unit for the Xbox 360 video game console. The company also said it will bump up the "official size limit" of games presented on its Xbox Live Arcade game site from 50 MB to 150 MB...

YouTube and BBC: YouTelly?

The British Broadcasting Corporation and YouTube announced Friday the addition of three BBC-centric channels to the mainly user-generated content video site. The non-exclusive deal will bring YouTube viewers video clips and news from the venerable English broadcaster's store of popular television se...

IBM, Google Team on Gadgets for the Workplace

IBM has become the first vendor to incorporate Google Gadgets into its commercial portal software, WebSphere, the two tech companies announced Wednesday. Users of WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Portal Express v. 6.0 will have some 4,000 free-of-charge add-ons they can create, customize and use withi...

Sony Promises PS3s Aplenty by May

Shortages of the PlayStation 3 video game console should be resolved by May, according to Sony Computer Entertainment America chief executive Jack Tretton. The console remains a hard-to-get item in some areas of the country. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and ha...

Second Life Residents Speak for Themselves

Citizens of Second Life, the online virtual world, have until now communicated silently via instant messaging and chat. They will soon be given the power of speech. Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, announced Tuesday it will add voice capabilities to the Second Life grid. The new feature is "part ...

One in Three Web Surfers Choose Wireless

Roughly one-third of Internet surfers in the United States have connected to the Web wirelessly, according to a report released Sunday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey also found that wireless Internet users check e-mail and news sites much more frequently than wired users...

Photobucket Offers Free Adobe Video Editing

Adobe and Photobucket.com have teamed up to give the site's 35 million subscribers free access to basic video remixing and editing technology online. Users will be abel to incorporate music, effects, transitions and titles into their videos. "At Photobucket, we're committed to helping our users get...

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