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Article | 10/03/2008 This is your brain on cell phones

Don't feel so smug about how safety conscious you are by using a hands-free cell phone in the car: Carnegie Mellon University researchers say you're s...

Article | 11/03/2008 New security camera spots drugs, not your 'naughty bits'

A camera that is sophisticated enough to tell if you have sugar in your pocket, not cocaine from a distance of 25 metres, but doesn't see your naughty...

Article | 5/03/2008 Dungeons & Dragons game co-creator dead at 69

Dungeons & Dragons fans this week are mourning the death of Gary Gygax, 69, co-creator of what went from being a popular face-to-face game to being a ...

Article | 26/02/2008 Disk encryption easily cracked, researchers find

The disk encryption technology used to secure the data in your Windows, Apple and Linux laptops can be easily circumvented, according to new research ...

Article | 22/02/2008 Prototype software sniffs out insider threats

Researchers are developing technology they say will use data mining and social networking techniques to spot and stop insider security threats and ind...

Article | 13/02/2008 FBI warns of Valentines Day Storm Worm virus

The FBI and the US Internet Crime Complaint Center today said that with Valentine's Day approaching, users should be on the lookout for spam e-mails s...

Article | 8/02/2008 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition launches

Guinness World Records is giving Xbox, Halo 3 and other gamers everywhere a book full of goals to shoot for with the launching this week of its first ...

Article | 6/02/2008 Microsoft's Ballmer: More investments coming

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday future growth for the company hinges on continued investment that matches the company's multi-billion dollar r...

Article | 1/02/2008 Rock on Gramps: iPods won't hurt your heart

A Food and Drug Administration-led study refutes claims that the magnetic fields produced by <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/apple...

Article | 2/02/2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo

Below is the text of the letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo's Board of Directors:

Article | 21/11/2007 Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus storage drive

While the Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus can be used simply as an external storage device connected to a PC via USB, the true benefit comes from its software ...

Article | 30/10/2007 Networking's greatest debates in LANS + WANS

A Look at the all time greatest controversies in the history of the networking industry.

Article | 19/10/2007 Researchers: Wikipedia proves Good Samaritans do exist

Dartmouth researchers say they were surprised to find that Good Samaritans -- those people who update the online Wikipedia encyclopedia when just pass...

Article | 11/10/2007 Internet surfers say goodbye mouse, hello voice commands

University of Washington researchers have developed software designed to let those who can't work a handheld mouse use their voice instead to navigate...

Article | 10/10/2007 iPods, better laptops stemmed from Nobel Prize discovery

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two researchers for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), a sort of nanotechnology tha...