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Forecaster Predicts Double-Digit Growth, Flat Revenues for PCs

Personal computer shipments this year and next will grow by double digits, but that won't translate into the big revenue gains for PC makers, according to a preliminary forecast released yesterday by Gartner, of Stamford, Conn. Compared on a year-to-year basis, Gartner predicted worldwide PC shipmen...

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New Nikon Digital SLR Has the Right Stuff

If you've ever owned an SLR camera, you can probably remember the first time you held it in your hands. I do. Here, I thought, many years ago when I picked up my Minolta X7, is something of substance. Weighty, certainly, but also beautifully balanced -- an inanimate object capable of animating its b...

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Disposable Video Camera Convenient, Accessible

At first blush, the idea seemed a little wacky to me. But when drug store giant CVS announced its US$29.95 one-time-use digital video camera (DVC), I couldn't resist the temptation to check it out. The video cameras are made by a San Francisco outfit called Pure Digital Technologies, which last summ...

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RSS News Feeders Come in Many Flavors

Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is a convenient way to funnel news to your desktop -- if you have an "always on" connection. With RSS, not only can you receive up-to-the-minute feeds from heavyweight news sources, but you can plug into the blogosphere without blog-hopping on the Net. Whatever you...

New .mobi Domain Approved but Challenges Remain

Action yesterday by the body that governs the Internet to create a .mobi domain is being touted as a major advance toward making the Web more hospitable to mobile phone users, but according to one analyst the move might be more redundant than revolutionary. "The answer isn't having another extension...

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Future of RSS Looks Rosy

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication, but for technologists with an eye on the Internet's future, it stands for much, much more. The technology provides a way for people to opt to have information delivered to their computer desktops without having to burn time surfing the Web. Although around for...

Confab to Promote E-Mail Authentication

E-mail authentication -- considered by many spam fighters as an important first step in reducing unsolicited correspondence on the Internet -- will be the focus of a summit conference to be held in New York City next Tuesday. The day-long confab at the Marriott Marquis will be moderated by Esther Dy...

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With SpotLock, Hit Hot Spots Without Getting Burned

Now that summer has finally arrived, you can start to train your thoughts on vacation -- and what to bring with you when you take it. What do you consider essential carry-alongs? A good book? How about a laptop? Better yet, a laptop with wireless networking so you can plug into the Internet whenever...

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Gateway M680 Notebook Delivers Value for Business Use

Gateway has come to the table with its 17-inch widescreen notebooks a little later than some of its competitors, but its latest offering in this category illustrates, once again, that it's capable to delivering excellent value without skimping on performance. Some impressive features have been incor...

FUTURE WATCH

Better PC Security Years Away

Emerging technologies could lead to a quantum leap in PC security, but the realization of that advance is still years away, industry experts say. "The next quantum leap in security won't occur until there is better operating system and better hardware support for it," John Bedrick, a director of eTr...

Companies Not Keeping Up With Network Security Needs

Most companies depend exclusively on perimeter defenses to protect their computer networks from intruders, a practice that appears to be more sieve than stone wall, according to a survey released yesterday by Vernier Networks, a network access management firm in Mountain View, Calif. Surveyors found...

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A Notebook that Mixes Pleasure with Business

If you're looking for a laptop, you couldn't have picked a better time. New models seem to be appearing on a weekly basis, each with its own mix of features to entice buyers. Gateway, for instance, has introduced its M680 series, which packs power into a thin, yet full-sized package. Sharp, with its...

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

New DSL Standard Promises 10 Times the Speed

An international standards group has approved a new DSL standard that it says will increase the technology's upstream and downstream speeds to as much as 100 megabits per second -- 10 times faster than the fastest DSL now offered by carriers. The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Telecommunica...

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Researchers Aim To Protect DVDs with RFID

Ask any box office expert to name the holy trinity of movie attendance and they'll tell you: big screen, big sound and immediacy -- getting to see a movie when it's released. With improving home entertainment systems rapidly undermining the first two tenets of attendance, how long will it be before ...

FTC Launches Attack on Zombie Spammers

The Federal Trade Commission today launched "Operation Spam Zombies," a campaign to encourage Internet service providers (ISPs) to crack down on compromised computers within their networks that are being used to spew spam onto the Internet. These "zombie" computers -- so-called because they're remot...

Award of E-Mail-Related Patent to Microsoft Questioned

Microsoft was awarded a patent this week for a "system and process for allowing a user to treat e-mail addresses as objects" -- a patent called "obvious and trivial" by one critic of the filing. "The technique of applying object properties and methods to various data fields in a software product has...

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Olympus Debuts Classy Digital Recorder

Digital voice recorders don't have the flashy visibility of their music-playing brethren, but their utility can't be denied. Granted, some digital music players include recording in their repertoire and others can accommodate it with optional add-ons, but for the most part, recording plays second fi...

Microsoft Launching Wide-Ranging Mobile OS Today

In the comic book series X-Men, Magneto is a supervillain bent on world domination. Microsoft is associating its Magneto with world domination, too -- domination of the global mobile operating system market. Magneto, the code name for version five of the Redmond, Wash., software maker's mobile opera...

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Fight Heats Up over Municipal WiFi

Philadelphia might be known as the city of brotherly love but what it's generating with its experiment with government-sponsored wireless broadband access is far from that emotion. Last fall, the city aired its intentions to make itself a gigantic WiFi hotspot, a project with a projected price tag o...

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Roxio Upgrade Worth Price of Admission

For a long time, while Apple computer users enjoyed the advantages of an integrated multimedia software suite, Windows users who wished to experience the i-life had to be satisfied with standalone applications or meek integrated products. Then Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 entered the picture. EMC 7 is...

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