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It's been a rumor-filled week leading into Labor Day, and Thursday was no exception, with reports surfacing that Microsoft might be considering purchasing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) ...

TomTom unveiled a new top of the line in its GPS (Global Positioning System) product set Thursday featuring the addition of voice recognition ...

In what's likely an effort to defend itself against the wildly hyped iPhone phenomenon, cell phone giant Nokia on Wednesday unveiled several new wireless devices and services, including a music-download offering to rival iTunes ...

Pano Logic announced Tuesday an all-hardware, no-software desktop device designed specifically for server-based desktop virtualization ...

Intel has upgraded its vPro processor technology for desktop PCs with a host of new security features that protect against viruses, hacker attacks and other threats, the company announced Monday ...

A server problem at Microsoft over the weekend caused the company's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation system to falsely accuse legitimate users of Windows Vista and XP of running pirated software, resulting in the disbanding of some features for those users until the problem was fixed ...

SoundExchange has agreed to implement a cap on the royalty rates large Internet radio webcasters must pay, the organization announced Thursday ...

The Internet is beginning to overtake TV as the preferred medium of consumers around the globe, according to a new survey sponsored by IBM ...

Although Google didn't get everything it wanted regarding rules for the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of 700 MHz (megahertz) wireless spectrum, it will likely participate in the auction anyway, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday ...

Google Earth turned its gaze upward Wednesday with the debut of a new feature that allows users to view the best images of the sky captured by astronomers around the globe ...

Adobe Systems has upgraded its Flash Player with support for the H.264 video-encoding standard and improved audio-compression technology, the company announced Tuesday ...

The battle over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping efforts escalated Monday as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee threatened to hold White House officials in contempt for flouting an already-extended deadline to respond to a June subpoena ...

In the latest report from the front lines in the high-definition format wars, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have both jumped with both feet into the HD DVD camp, the companies announced Monday ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, the very first compact disc was produced by Royal Philips Electronics at a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany. It was Aug. 17, 1982, and the CD was "The Visitors" by ABBA ...

HP brought joy to the hearts of many investors Thursday when it reported revenues for the third quarter that blew away analyst expectations by more than US$1 billion ...

Small to medium-sized e-commerce companies can go a long way toward marketing themselves online by doing some simple search engine optimization (SEO) and taking the time to foster some inbound links to their site ...

A software problem at Skype left many users of the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service unable to log in or make calls Thursday, and with little hope for relief until Friday, the company said ...

Anonymous Wikipedia editors who seek to alter articles for less-than-honorable purposes can no longer hide behind their cloak of anonymity: A new scanner tool now makes it relatively easy to figure out where they came from ...

Clunky old batteries may soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new energy-storage device that looks and feels like a scrap of paper ...

One of the hard realizations that most new e-commerce companies must make sooner or later is that simply creating a Web site does not mean customers will visit it ...