Demand for the next generation DRAM chip, DDR3 (double data rate, third generation), has spiked recently as systems makers turn to it for increased power efficiency and performance. Increasing ...

In these tough economic times it is increasingly common for C-level executives to come to IT saying: "I've read about that cloud computing thing. Why aren't we using the cloud instead of buying so ...

The iPhone scored quite a few headlines related to overheating problems with the 3GS this week. Depending on whom you believe, those issues are either real, exaggerated, the fault of users or some ...

I live in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. If you've visited San Francisco you may know it as the Italian district, where Joe DiMaggio learned to play baseball and where beat writers like ...

The Rudd government has announced it will spend $7 million over four years on improving public Internet access facilities in remote Indigenous communities. Part of the Closing the Gap initiatives, ...

How often have you had to repeatedly copy files from one place to another either to create a backup or to synchronize two locations, and finally resorted to writing some dumb batch files to do the ...

One of the reasons security is fun and interesting is that it requires a constant upgrade of your skills and knowledge. Here is a skill that you may not have realized you need, but you need it: ...

Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's arms around as a real cloud. A seemingly ...

The scoop: Savi Office, by Plantronics, about $380. What it is: This device combines the traditional desktop phone wireless headset with a VoIP headset connected to a PC. Before the Savi, users ...

Looking for a competitive edge in the Internet search wars, Microsoft plans to index Twitter updates in real time for Bing, its recently rebranded search engine. The idea is that recent developments ...

For all the hoopla, it turns out that Microsoft's foray into presenting real-time information--Twitter posts--on Bing is pretty lame. I just hope it stays that way. I spent an hour Binging around ...

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The computing world has seen various technology buzzwords come and go; while some gained prevalence and wide adoption, others eventually died somewhat silent deaths. A few years back, we began to ...

Keeping tabs on the latest cell phone models can be a full-time job, especially given the number of cell phones announced by Apple, Palm, Nokia, and HTC (including, most recently, the ...

Back in my previous life, I was a Finance guy--that's what my undergraduate degree is in, and that's how I made my living for many years. Through it all, one particular piece of gear was always at ...

Have you heard the news? Microsoft's Bing is taking a bite out of Google, boasting first-month market share gains while the competition's stronghold slips away! At least, that's what some headlines ...

On one hand, Microsoft may seem generous for allowing companies to upgrade 25 purchased machines to Windows 7 for free between now and the Oct. 22 planned ship date for the new OS. After all, that's ...

Hot on the heels of the release of Safari 4 comes the final version of Mozilla's Firefox 3.5. Originally slated to be a ".1" increment to Firefox 3, the number of improvements slated for this ...

Reader Karl needs help with his spelling. Specifically, he needs a spell-checker for Outlook Express, because the method he's using now is the very definition of "hassle." Karl says he composes new ...

What with all the hubbub about the iPhone 3GS and just as much hub (though a little less bub) regarding Snow Leopard, it's easy to forget that Apple opened the WWDC keynote with talk of an updated ...

It's been nearly two years since the first netbook, the Asus Eee PC 4G, became available to U.S. consumers. Even so, I just bought my first netbook, the Samsung N120. Why did I wait so long? ...

Judging from the 150 million sites that make up the blogosphere, anyone can call himself a content publisher. But to stand out from the crowd, a blog needs more than just a stream of original ...

The just-released version 3.5 of Firefox is a winner, offering significantly faster Web browsing, better tab handling, a host of interface tweaks and, like just about every other browser on the ...

Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 is off to a running start. The new browser, boasting significant speed increases and a host of added features, was officially released Tuesday morning. By mid-afternoon, the ...

What goes up must come down, and lately what's coming down are netbooks, as more and more articles talk about the compact computers disappointing customers. However, we can't blame netbooks for ...