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Microsoft Unveils InstaLoad Battery Technology

Microsoft is announcing a new technology, InstaLoad, that allows batteries to be inserted into a device "without regard to positive and negative polarity," according...

Cheaper Amazon Kindle DX an iPad Competitor

Amazon.com is announcing a new, cheaper version of the Kindle DX, its large-screen e-reader, in a bid to remain competitive against both rival devices...

Google News Gets Personal, Social Makeover

Google June 30 rolled out several changes to Google News, led by News for You, a headline stream based on users' interests.Google News is...

Facebook Privacy Controls Boosted for Applications

Facebook has launched more changes intended to improve privacy, this time focusing on tightening controls determining how applications collect and share data."The majority of...

Google Editions Allies with ABA in Ebook War vs. Amazon, Apple

Google Editions, the search engine's effort to follow the trail blazed by Amazon's Kindle in the market for electronic books, is rolling out this...

Google Buzz Links Added to Social Search as Google Me Precursor

Hot on the heels of reports that Google is building a social network to challenge Facebook, the company said June 29 it will begin...

Cisco Rolls Out Cloud Preparation Services Suite

As Cisco Systems reinvents itself partly as a cloud-computing infrastructure provider, it needs to add a set of services to wrap around all the...

Spammers to Face Video CAPTCHA Technology

A company is launching video CAPTCHA technology designed to make spammers' lives more difficult.NuCaptcha is offering a fresh approach to blogs and other Websites...

Oracle Upgrades Its Sun Storage Systems

A day after introducing a major rebuild of its data center networking equipment and its Intel-based servers, Oracle -- seemingly as an afterthought --...

Google to Cease Google.hk Redirect, Bowing to Pressure in China

Citing threats from China's government that would make its search engine go dark in the country, Google June 28 said it will cease rerouting...