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PRODUCT REVIEW

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 ...

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 ...

RESEARCH

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

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 ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Open-Source Web Editor Makes a Tasty Free Lunch

Everyone has heard the expression, "You get what you pay for." It suggests that the functionality of something is directly proportional to its price. But that rule of thumb is being turned on its head by open-source software ...

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 ...

INDUSTRY REPORT

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 ...

Bill Would Force Car Makers To Share Computer Code

Anyone who has ever bought a car knows that one of first hard choices they must make is how to service it. Do you stick with the dealer who sold it to you, or do you take it to one of the 495,000 businesses providing after-market service to auto owners? ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

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 ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Sony Breaks Size Barrier with New Camcorder

How small can a full-feature consumer camcorder get? Sony is certainly pushing the limits with its latest entry in its digital Handycam family of products ...

Patent Office Says Critics Wrong, Complete Review Provided

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has responded to criticism that its system for approving patents is flawed ...

Tech Heavyweights Rally Around EC on Microsoft Appeal

An tech industry organization advocating interoperability has asked a European court to allow it to join the European Commission (EC) in defense of its antitrust decision against Microsoft ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Gadget Produces Surround Sound from a Laptop

Laptops are loveable computers ...

US Standing Firm on Deadline for Biometric Passports

The United States appears to be digging in its heels on the deadline for its rules requiring visitors to its shores to have passports containing biometric information ...

INDUSTRY REPORT

Small ISP Breaks Ground with Wireless Broadband Network

Fall River, Mass., is an old textile town sprawled along the hillson the banks of the Taunton river, its salad days more than a century behind it. Although located only some 50 miles south of Boston and its high-tech "Golden Horseshoe," Fall River has never been associated with the phrase "state of the art" -- until last week ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Rip Audio from Sound Cards with Audio Record Wizard

Earlier this year, the new Napster was given a bit of a fright when reports began circulating that its recently introduced subscription service had been "hacked." Those reports stung Napster in two ways ...

Letter Demands Open Access to Global IP Rights Forum

More than 1,000 individuals and groups have signed a letter urging the U.N.'s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to open its meetings next month on global patent and copyright policy to more government outsiders ...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Apple Mini: Little Box of Wonders

The thinking inside the box for producing a personal computer for users with shallow pockets is to start subtracting features from a more expensive model until you reach the price point you want, then toss the works into the same dull cabinet as the pricier offering ...

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