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Panasonic to Bring Blu-ray Disc Burners to Europe
Panasonic will soon begin selling Blu-ray Disc-based video recorders in EuropeNews
New Hynix Chip Factory May Hurt NAND Flash Prices
Hynix's new NAND flash factory shows why chip prices may still take time to recover, which is great for users.News
Sony Opens Lithium-ion Battery Plant in Singapore
Sony was scheduled to open a lithium-ion battery plant in Singapore on Thursday to meet rising demand.News
Nortel Uses USB Drive to Secure Remote Work
Nortel hopes to tackle the security of remote work with an "office on a stick," a USB drive for VPN sessions.News
Fujitsu Siemens Shows Its First Netbook
Fujitsu Siemens officially launched its first netbook, the Amilo Mini, at the IFA electronics show in Berlin on Wednesday.News
LG Unveils Netbook PC With Embedded 3G at IFA
LG Electronics will launch in October a netbook-class laptop PC based on Intel's Atom processor that also includes 3G…News
EU Project Promises Safer Traffic
A more advanced system to avoid traffic jams, accidents and other dangers will be demonstrated at IFA.News
LG Puts Bluetooth Into New LCD, Plasma TV Sets
LG will soon start selling TV sets with built-in Bluetooth, the company said at IFA.News
595 Immigrants Arrested at Electronics Plant
US officials arrest 595 people suspected of being illegal immigrants at a Mississippi electronics plant.News
Maxian to Show New PMPs at Berlin’s IFA
South Korea's Maxian will unveil a couple of new portable media players at the IFA consumer electronics in Berlin later this…News
Dell Puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for Emerging Markets
Dell is using the Linux operating system and Intel processors including the Atom in new Vostro PCs for emerging markets.News
Locked IPhones Can Be Unlocked Without a Password
Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses.News
Samsung: Market for SSDs in Low-cost PCs Exploding
Samsung launched 3 new SSDs for low-cost PCs, saying the computers are driving explosive growth in SSD sales.News
12 Sly Web Tricks That Put You in Control
Turn a Wi-Fi thief's world upside down. Send an e-mail that self-destructs. And ensure that your boss thinks you're always hard at work. These tweaks and tools let you gain the upper hand.News
Fujitsu Readies Eight-core Sparc64 Chip
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 server processor, a Fujitsu engineer said on Tuesday.News
Mozilla Extension Would Tap Into Typed Commands
An experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks.News
China Aims for Petaflop Computer in 2010
China hopes to develop a petaflop-class supercomputer based on its Godson processor by 2010, an engineer said Tuesday.News
Microsoft Tweaks Anti-piracy Check for Windows XP
Microsoft has updated anti-piracy checks for Windows XP Pro to make it more like Windows Vista.News
Google May Let Users Comment On, Rearrange Search Results
Google is apparently mulling giving people more options to modify search-results pages.News
Democratic Convention Brings Calls for Broadband Policy
Several panelists at a tech event in Denver call for a stronger U.S. broadband policy.News
Database Vendors Add Google’s MapReduce
Two database vendors have integrated Google's MapReduce parallel processing framework.News
HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
HP and Acer have cut prices on their respective netbooks, the Mini-Note and Aspire one.News
Google Drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs From Android 1.0
Google dropped Bluetooth and GTalkService instant messaging APIsFull Disclosure
Time for Change? Not Necessarily
Too many software developers love to alter even the parts of their programs that work.News
Olympic Tech’s Winners and Losers
The flame is extinguished, and as such the games of the 2008 Olympics are closed. While the medal count is now final, a few…News
AMD Sells Digital TV Business to Broadcom
Broadcom plans to acquire AMD's digital television business for $192.8 million.News
Sony Ericsson Adds DRM Free Music to Mobile Content Store
Sony is pushing DRM-free music as one of the attractions of its rebranded PlayNow Arena online store.News
Gartner Sees Chip Industry Slowing
Gartner sees the chip market slowing but plans to leave its 2008 revenue growth forecast unchanged.News
Time Working Against AMD’s Asset-light Plans
AMD wants to sell of its chip plants, but its financial problems will make that difficult, an analyst warned.News
Symantec Buys PC Tools
The security firm is acquiring an Australian vendor of security and privacy products for Windows-based PCs.News
Android Apps Might Not Feature Bluetooth
The latest version of the Android SDK says the forthcoming software won't support "comprehensive" Bluetooth APIs.News
E-voting Vendor: Programming Errors Caused Dropped Votes
A major electronic voting system vendor blames a programming error in explaining how its machines dropped hundreds of votes in Ohio's primary elections.News
Eight Crazy E-Mail Hoaxes Millions Have Fallen For
E-mail fills our in-boxes with come-ons to see celebrities naked and to get rich quick. Even though we know deep down that these are fakes, why do we contine to think, 'Maybe?'News
China Blocks Apple’s ITunes, Amazon Over Tibet Songs
Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to Apple's U.S. iTunes Music Store, following the release of a Tibetan song…News
SSDs Are Hot, but Not Without Security Risks
Solid-state drives offer more data security than traditional hard drives, but experts caution that they may be prone to hacks…News
Microsoft Taps Multimap CEO to Steer Commercial-search Unit
Microsoft has named former Multimap CEO to lead new commercial search unit.News
Groups Ask Court to Lift Gag Order in Intel Antitrust Case
A tech trade group and five news organizations ask a court to lift an order sealing documents in AMD's antitrust lawsuit…News
Robots Simulate Torture in Controversial Exhibit
An art installation in Coney Island that uses robots to simulate waterboarding, a torturous interrogation tactic that's been…News
Comcast: No New Traffic Management Plan Yet
Comcast says it's looking at slowing traffic for its heaviest users during times of network congestion.News
Amazon Adds Persistent Storage to Compute Cloud
Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature that will allow its cloud computing service to host more types of…News
Nokia Admits Security Flaws in Series 40 OS
Nokia confirmed Thursday its widely-used Series 40 operating system has security vulnerabilities that could allow activation…News
Asustek Turns to Celerons Amid Atom Shortage
Asustek turned to Intel Celeron CPUs in its latest Eee PCs in part due to the Atom shortage.News
Asustek Aims New Eee PCs at Emerging Markets
Asustek's latest Eee PCs, the 904HD and 1000HD are aimed at emerging markets.News
WSJ: Microsoft Hires Seinfeld to Bite Apple
Microsoft plans to hire comedian Jerry Seinfeld for its new marketing campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.News
Intel Will Ship Dual-core Atom Processor Next Month
Intel will release a dual-core Atom processor next month.News
Microsoft Opens up Photosynth
Microsoft has made its Photosynth technology easier to use and opened it up for anyone to create their own images, the company planned to announce Thursday.News
More Cores, Bigger Cache Give Boost to Dunnington
More cores and a bigger cache should give Dunnington a boost over Intel's current Xeon processorsNews
Intel Confirms OQO to Use Atom in Handheld PC
Intel on Wednesday confirmed that its Atom chip will be included in a handheld computer from OQO in the future.News
Singapore Gets IPhone, but No Visual Voicemail or ITunes
The iPhone 3G goes on sale in Singapore tonight.News