Sony Brings Out Smile-Detecting Cameras

2007/09/14 06:09:29

Two models use face-detection technology to snap shutter at moment people grin....

Hundred-Dollar Laptop Now Costs $188

2007/09/14 05:52:20

Currency fluctuations, commodity costs boost price of low-cost machine to nearly double stated goal....

Palm Shareholders OK Partial Sale to Elevation

2007/09/13 13:04:39

Faltering PDA pioneer to sell 25 percent of itself to high-end private-equity firm Elevation Partner...

Texas Man Develops 'Robot Boy' With Range of Expressions

2007/09/12 12:39:12

Robotic Zeno can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that ca...

Hard Drives Found to Survive Flood, Fire, Gunshots

2007/09/12 11:48:17

Data-recovery firms getting more and more successful, though they still charge a lot....

Sony Unveils Dancing, Rolling MP3 Player

2007/09/12 09:35:37

'Rolly' portable music player shaped like an egg, has stereo speakers, whirls around in time to musi...

Walgreens Giving Away Printer-Cartridge Refills

2007/09/12 08:55:50

To promote its cartridge-refill program, on Sept. 12 Walgreens will fill one black or color cartridg...

Software Tool Flags Dodgy Wikipedia Edits

2007/09/11 11:56:30

Program checks each contributor to see how often his other edits have been overwritten....

Rock Star Prince Plans to Sue Video Web Sites

2007/09/14 06:05:30

Purple One about to become Litigious One, at least as far as sites that post his videos are concerne...

Review: 'Lair' Is Lame, 'Warhawk' Wonderful

2007/09/14 03:57:36

Medieval dragon-slayer 'Lair' just doesn't get PS3's controls right; 'Warhawk' is a rush, especially...

Google Gets Space at NASA Airport for $1.3 Million

2007/09/13 03:44:55

The two co-founders are paying the NASA-managed airport so their Boeing 767 plane can take off, land...

Public Libraries Not Adding Any More Computers

2007/09/12 12:33:43

American Library Ass'n finds libraries don't have space, power or funds to increase number of PCs de...

Monthly Microsoft Patch Fixes Instant-Message Hole

2007/09/12 11:40:50

Only one of four patches in this month's 'Patch Tuesday' deemed 'critical,' however....

Review: Verizon's FiOS Broadband-Cable Service

2007/09/12 08:56:00

Verizon's fiber-optic-based cable TV-landline-broadband Internet service is excellent, except that t...

Review: Apple's Terrific Video iPod Nano

2007/09/12 05:56:18

Apple's new video iPod Nano player remains very thin and sleek, with an excellent widescreen display...