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Microsoft’s Moves Suggest Renewed Focus on Core Business, Windows 7

Microsoft's recent cuts of applications and services suggest not only that the recession is having an effect on the company's bottom line, but also...

Privacy Researchers Push for Location Services Protected By Cryptography

Many users love geo-location services such as Google Latitude, Loopt and Brightkite, which leverage GPS data and wireless networks to help users find their...

Saturn Set for Celestial Magic Show

The 170,000-mile-wide ring system around Saturn will appear to disappear Aug. 11 as the planet's equator will be directly in line with the photons...

Amazon, Sony E-Book Battle Could Benefit Businesses in Big Way

Originally a niche occupied by key players such as Amazon.com and Sony, the e-reader market has the potential to expand rapidly in the near...

REVIEW: Google Wave Doesn’t Make Much of a Wave–Yet

Given the amount of hype around Google Wave since it was first announced, one would expect to be astonished and amazed by a radical...

How Will Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Open Mouth and Insert Foot Next?

You really have to feel bad for Yahoo's employees and its board of directors, but this is getting to be comical. Yahoo's board jettisoned...

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Goes Deep-Space Planet Hunting

Five months after its March 6 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida, "NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the...

Apple Tablet Could Shake Up Netbook Market, Analysts Say

As rumors of an Apple tablet PC reach a fever pitch, a new research note by Piper Jaffray suggests that any such device would...

Large Hadron Collider to Run at Half Power

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to cause collisions between opposing particle beams, has had a troubled history...

Google Voice Voicemail Transcription Now Recognizes Periods

The Google Voice team has enhanced its automatic voicemail transcription feature to recognize natural pauses in speaking by putting periods at the end of...