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Article | 24/06/2008 3Com unveils 802.11n WLAN wares
3Com is expanding its business-class wireless LAN line to embrace higher-performance IEEE 802.11n applications.
Article | 24/06/2008 Travel agent takes off with VoIP
Online flight travel agency Skywest has ditched its old land line telephone system for a unified communications and reporting suite.
Article | 24/06/2008 Sharp to power solar panel factory with solar energy
Sharp plans to partially power a new solar panel factory with energy generated from a solar installation on the plant's roof, it said Monday.
Article | 24/06/2008 Study calls for 1G broadband in US
The U.S. should aim for 100M bps (bits per second) of broadband available to all U.S. residents by 2012 and 1G bps by 2015 in order to catch up to oth...
Article | 24/06/2008 Classy Disc Printer: Dymo's DiscPainter
Dymo's DiscPainter is a mini-inkjet printer that lays ink onto printable CDs and DVDs in a concentric manner. (US review.)
Article | 24/06/2008 Desktop Bling: Dell's Crystal Monitor
PC World US takes a look at Dell's new Crystal LCD monitor
Article | 24/06/2008 Netflix Streams to Your TV
Netflix and Roku have teamed up to create a $99 set-top player that lets you stream movies and TV shows into your living room. (US review.)
Article | 24/06/2008 The '640K' quote won't go away but did Gates really say it
Here's the legend: at a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC's 640KB us...
Article | 24/06/2008 Lenovo to offer new ThinkPad line for SMBs
Lenovo on Monday confirmed plans to launch a new ThinkPad laptop line, the SL series, with features and support services geared toward small and mediu...
Article | 24/06/2008 NASA: With Martian ice discovered, major tests beginning
After a technical glitch and the loss of data last week, NASA engineers and scientists are finally finding what they'd hoped to discover in the latest...
Article | 24/06/2008 FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 1 week
One week. That's how long before Microsoft pulls the plug, more or less, on Windows XP.
Article | 24/06/2008 Firefox 3.0 boosts Mozilla's market share
On the back of the release last week of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla's open-source browser gained market share at the expense of rivals Internet Explorer (IE)...
Article | 24/06/2008 Gartner expects 2 billion PCs will be in use by 2014
As the number of PCs in use around the world passed the one billion mark, a research firm is estimating that the total will double in just another six...
Article | 24/06/2008 Researchers spot Mac Trojan in the wild
Security researchers reported recently that they have spotted a Mac Trojan horse in the wild that could compromise machines running Apple's Mac OS X 1...
Article | 24/06/2008 Apple iPhone is best phone for pornography
There has been an increase in the number of iPhone users searching for pornography that can be viewed on the device.
Article | 24/06/2008 Toshiba unveils laptop that uses powerful Cell chip
Toshiba Monday unveiled the first laptop computer to use the computing-intensive Cell chip that was first was designed for Sony's PlayStation 3 game c...
Article | 23/06/2008 Blogger launches 'Google bomb' at McCain
A political blogger is using a technique known as " Google bombing" to enlist the aid of fellow partisan bloggers to boost the search engine rankings ...
Article | 23/06/2008 Report: Google faces Android handset delays
Mobile phones designed around Google's Android software may not be available until the fourth quarter of this year, and some companies are struggling ...
Article | 23/06/2008 Patch-blocking bug also stymies Microsoft's WSUS
Just days after fixing a glitch in one of its enterprise patch-distribution tools, Microsoft said that another of its patching programs has been block...
Article | 23/06/2008 Third of IT admins admit snooping with privileged passwords
One in three IT administrators say they or one of their colleagues have used top-level admin passwords to pry into confidential or sensitive informati...

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