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• March 26, 2008
• 3:02

  Intel and Microsoft fund $20M grant to reinvent computing: where do you want to go tomorrow?

• 1:02

  Clear Channel digital billboards in SoCal hax0r3d

• March 25, 2008
• 19:11

  Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down

• 9:21

  Garmin and Kenwood team up to market nav-enabled car stereos

• March 22, 2008
• 8:26

  Sony's 25 megapixel Alpha A900 to arrive in August or September

• 2:57

  Poll: Did The Onion's predicted Apple backlash actually start today?

• 1:46

  Array-based flash memory could enable 1TB memory chips

• 0:55

  Gibson still thinks a video game is a musical instrument, sues Harmonix for Rock Band

• March 21, 2008
• 23:26

  Researchers claim to have developed robotic AI on par with a puppy

• 4:33

  MacBook Air reviewed... as a Windows machine

• 3:09

  Qantas bringing in-flight SMS and email coming to all AU domestic flights

• 2:04

  Nyko's Tele-shaped Frontman Wii Guitar Hero controller hits shelves

• 0:33

  HP launches the 13.3-inch dv3000 laptop in Asia

• March 20, 2008
• 23:47

  AMD denies layoffs taking place, wants kids off lawn

• 4:16

  Red Zune 80 now available... but only with Zune Originals engraving

• 3:03

  FCC redefines "broadband" to mean 768Kbps, "fast" to mean "kinda slow"

• 2:17

  Time Machine now works with AirPort Extreme's AirDisk feature

• 2:07

  Stanford researchers cram 12,616 tiny lenses into a 3D camera

• 1:33

  RFID credit cards easily hacked with $8 reader

• 0:50

  Build your own street-legal solar-powered electric car

• March 19, 2008
• 22:24

  Verizon opens up about "Any Apps, Any Device"

• 21:42

  Some Vista SP1 early adopters reporting problems, how about you?

• 0:34

  700MHz auction comes to a $19.6B finish, winners still not revealed

• March 18, 2008
• 23:54

  Intel details the Larrabee next-gen hybrid CPU / GPU

• 22:16

  NVIDIA thinking about acquiring VIA?

• 19:25

  Vista SP1 officially released

• 18:53

  802.11n AirPort Express hands-on

• March 17, 2008
• 21:02

  Vista SP1 officially coming tomorrow?

• March 15, 2008
• 4:15

  Varioptic and Seiko to start manufacturing liquid camera lenses

• 1:14

  Comcast sues FCC for not letting it own anything it wants

• 0:28

  AirLive AirMedia 3000 streamer does YouTube, too

• March 14, 2008
• 20:47

  Oyster Cards vulnerable to RFID hack, lots of other systems too

• 11:02

  Fisker Karma hybrid sports car to generate motor noise through external speakers

• 4:34

  Mac Pro Mini mod is almost the midrange tower Mac you've always wanted

• 1:38

  Gateway revs the M-series laptops to X and XL

• 0:34

  Nokia says it's spent over $1B on Qualcomm patent payments, can it please go now

• March 13, 2008
• 23:03

  Polaroid to shake Instant Digital photo frame into reality [Update: sorry, game off!]

• 22:03

  Cuba ends ban on DVD player, computer sales

• 20:58

  Third-gen Zune to hit in 2009, make it to Europe

• 15:16

  One billion RFID cards vulnerable to hacks

• 8:52

  Who's suing Apple today? ZapMedia gets angry over iTunes

• 8:05

  Samsung's round YP-S2 DAP gets the sneak peek action

• 2:19

  Taliban pressures Afghan cell networks into 5PM curfew

• 0:04

  Gibson says Guitar Hero violates patents, Activision says nuh-uh

• March 12, 2008
• 23:01

  Acer unveils the second-gen Gemstone

• 22:13

  Indian Blackberry network to be shut down unless RIM allows government snooping

• 20:43

  Former Polish prime minister opposes online voting, says Internet users are all watching porn

• 8:32

  68% of Americans suffer disconnection anxiety, should probably go outside

• 2:26

  Mixed reality research takes a first hesitant step

• March 10, 2008
• 18:50

  European Xbox 360 price cuts officially official

• March 08, 2008
• 9:29

  Pentax canceling the 645 Digital to focus on K-series DSLRs?

• 3:06

  EPA fines IOGEAR $208,000 for making unverified claims about germ-resistent mice

• March 06, 2008
• 21:50

  iPhone SDK comparison chart

• 5:21

  Mariah Carey demands 802.11n, Kenneth touch her body

• 0:22

  Asus and Microsoft working an Eee-targeted version of Windows 7?

• March 05, 2008
• 21:57

  Meizu's CeBIT booth shut down over MP3 licensing issues, not the M8

• 21:49

  Sony announces the creatively-named PSP Cradle

• 11:25

  Massachussetts company develops inkjet-printed solar panels

• 0:43

  Rock Band drum kit modded for beatbox control

• 0:34

  Qtrax says it now has deals with major labels, doesn't actually have deals

• March 04, 2008
• 20:44

  Windows passwords easily bypassed over Firewire

• 15:32

  Dreamcast demo display shows up on eBay

• 15:11

  Amazon pondering high def Unbox rentals?

• 13:58

  Bootable flash key makes disk encryption attacks super-simple

• 11:55

  Sony introduces a pantyhose colored PSP, L'eggs-ellent

• 10:48

  IOGEAR's Mobile Digital Scribe lets you ignore digital pens on the go

• 3:30

  Microsoft and Harrah's confuse B-list celebs with Surface

• 3:03

  Audiophiles can't tell the difference between Monster Cable and coat hangers

• 2:23

  Acer ups the Alto easyStore SOHO NAS to 3TB

• 2:01

  Toshiba CEO: HD DVD didn't stand a chance after Warner left

• March 03, 2008
• 18:15

  TomTom intros GO 930T and 730T with Lane Guidance and IQ Routes

• 18:00

  Time Capsule: everything you wanted to know

• March 01, 2008
• 10:38

  XM and Sirius extend merger deadline, blame FCC for not understanding their love

• 4:54

  Apple "actively courting" Sony for slot-loading Blu-ray drives?

• 1:34

  NME says format war still on, it totally made out with a girl last summer in Niagara Falls

• February 29, 2008
• 22:37

  Alcatel-Lucent sends data 1600 miles at 16.4Tbps

• 20:28

  Time Capsule first impressions

• 18:15

  Opening the Time Capsule

• February 28, 2008
• 22:55

  Conceptronic intros the Media Giant HD media server / DVR

• 19:13

  Microsoft lowered Vista requirements to help Intel sell incompatible chipsets

• 14:31

  Apple sued over iPhone caller ID

• 3:26

  Apple COO says it's not married to iPhone exclusivity, still on track to sell 10m this year

• 2:37

  Build your own Nikon D200 geotagger for under $100

• 1:49

  Asus U2E gets unboxed

• 0:04

  Sony's PS3 headtracking system does it all with a camera

• February 27, 2008
• 23:50

  Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be single best thing ever invented

• 22:43

  Proposed law would require carriers to sell contract-free phones

• 21:18

  "Silicon womb" enters human testing in the UK

• 0:32

  HP so confident in the UMPC 2133 it's building 2m units?

• February 26, 2008
• 22:32

  IBM's z10 mainframe to take on the upstart PC

• 21:56

  DualShock 3 to arrive in April for $55

• 19:48

  iTunes now number two US music retailer

• 19:27

  Creative drops Zen pricing -- 8GB Zen now $149

• 11:56

  Danish wind turbine eats itself

• 9:22

  Japanese plastic dirt is half as dense as real dirt, over 100 times more plastic

• 6:40

  Build your own energy-monitoring EnerJar

• 3:02

  More Apple MacBook / MacBook Pro models numbers pop up

• 0:27

  Virgin's coconut-powered 747 completes first flight

• February 25, 2008
• 23:21

  Yep, new MacBook part numbers are in Best Buy's database

• 22:38

  Nokia and Qualcomm agree to try and maybe possibly stop suing each other

• 21:42

  Marbella 8800 PND is cheap, versatile

• February 22, 2008
• 21:29

  Interspecies gaming hits GDC

• 6:09

  WowWee Dragonfly bots being hunted by hawks

• 2:03

  Apple patent hints at Surface-like research

• 1:18

  Cold boot disk encryption attack is shockingly effective

• 0:16

  EU says it'll believe Microsoft is going open when it sees it

• February 21, 2008
• 23:20

  Rock Band standalone drum kit now shipping in US and Canada

• 22:26

  Franklin Speaking Spelling Bee takes a page from Mylo, also the whole design

• 21:28

  Bluetooth mod comes to the 5G iPod

• 20:01

  NVIDIA unveils Quadro FX 3600M for laptops

• 18:57

  Windows Home Server bug corrupts iTunes, Zune, lots of other apps

• 16:33

  AT&T Palm Centro gets reviewed

• 1:03

  Novint adds a black Falcon, pistol grip accessory

• 0:04

  First Xbox 360 Community Games to hit Live "immediately"

• February 20, 2008
• 23:21

  How to build a Skulltrail machine for $2,500

• 21:02

  Keeping it real fake, part CXII: Is the DaXian X999 the ultimate fake iPhone?

• 13:31

  Two-thirds of Americans think nanotechnology is morally unacceptable -- wait, what?

• 10:20

  Wedisk flash drive apes the Wiimote, is less fun to play

• 4:02

  GameStop no longer taking HD DVD trades, possibly not taking 360 HD DVD drive either

• February 19, 2008
• 23:37

  Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI turns your monitor into a TV

• 23:06

  Alienware takes the Area-51 m15x lappy to Penryn town

• 22:38

  Microsoft Wireless Laser Keyboard 7000 hits the FCC

• 21:48

  Apple patent hints at "advanced multitouch," iPhone copy / paste

• 20:05

  Intel get official with Skulltrail, gives it an incredibly dull name

• 0:06

  Mtron announces a 1.8-inch 128GB SSD

• February 18, 2008
• 22:33

  iPaq 210 finally ships, gets reviewed

• 21:18

  iPhone and iPod touch to get $100 price drop soon?

• 20:26

  RIM and Motorola suing each other for patent infringment

• February 16, 2008
• 17:39

  First impressions of the Cloudbook: rough around the edges

• 11:14

  Onkyo unveils another audiophile PC, the APX-2 HD

• 2:24

  Insignia photo frame virus much nastier than originally thought

• 1:03

  Digital TV upgrade vouchers to go out soon

• 0:04

  "YahooPhone" and "YPhone" trademarks filed for... by Hop-on?

• February 15, 2008
• 22:33

  Are "Opus" and "Valhalla" the next, next Xbox 360s?

• 22:33

  Are "Opus" and "Valhalla" the next, next Xbox 360s?

• 13:30

  KITT's scanner light gets explained

• 11:20

  Intelligent cardiac assist fabric beats your heart for you

• 7:20

  CompactFlash-based SSDs get tested

• 6:25

  Nintendo estimates it lost $975m worldwide in 2007 due to piracy

• 5:33

  Modu CEO says all Nokia can do is pray

• February 14, 2008
• 21:22

  Palm ads take a shot at RIM's recent Blackberry outages

• 20:46

  Panasonic shows off a pair of pro-level HD camcorders

• 8:31

  LG confirms that its laptop batteries are safe

• 5:44

  Disney brings back the House of the Future -- with help from Microsoft and HP

• 3:36

  NVIDIA / Ageia deal gets officially official

• 2:37

  MadCatz Xbox 360 HDMI Conversion kit now officially available

• 1:06

  Vista SP1 doesn't significantly boost performance, slows down certain tasks

• 0:24

  Apple reduces iPod / iPhone build rates, increases iMac production

• February 13, 2008
• 7:26

  Apple posts Apple TV take 2 Guided Tour

• 4:29

  Intel and Nokia working on seamless WiFi / WiMAX switchoffs

• 0:10

  T-Mobile HotSpot users will get five years of Starbucks WiFi access after AT&T switchover

• February 12, 2008
• 23:04

  Microsoft VP: "I personally got burnt" by Vista Capable stickers

• 20:40

  Woman files $54m lawsuit against Best Buy for losing laptop

• 20:21

  Nokia's S60 touch UI gets demoed at MWC

• 17:25

  Canon's eye-based biometric photo watermarking system hits the Patent Office

• 16:55

  White space tests fail again -- next up, conquering windmills

• 11:41

  Energizer unveils the Light-on-Demand modular LED lighting system

• 6:10

  Vmedia's cellphone optical disk system is probably not the next big thing

• 5:16

  Mobile World Congress roundup: cellphone mania

• 2:45

  MusicStation Max offers unlimited free music downloads to your mobile

• 1:56

  VAIO TZ gets a 64GB SDD + 250GB HDD configuration

• 0:55

  HP to integrate Qualcomm's Gobi EV-DO / HSPA chip into laptops

• 0:07

  Samsung's latest mobile processor integrates 3D graphics acceleration

• February 11, 2008
• 21:31

  What's an iPhone? 14.3M Windows Mobile phones sold in the past six months alone

• 21:04

  Iris browser brings WebKit to Windows Mobile

• 19:22

  MSN Direct now on Windows Mobile

• February 10, 2008
• 0:25

  NASA's wiring guide -- only the most demanding geeks need apply

• February 09, 2008
• 2:54

  Dell further clarifies how and where it's dropping AMD

• 1:43

  Amp'd going after former CEO to pay off debts

• February 08, 2008
• 23:16

  Wearable 3G CCTV system lets you snoop sort-of discreetly, be totally creepy

• 21:43

  Military-grade gel-based liquid bandages approved by the FDA

• 20:41

  AMD delaying quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 once again?

• 8:55

  Self-propelled glider uses ocean's heat to power itself

• 6:39

  Plextor releases two Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drives

• 4:39

  NAB trying to get Sirius / XM to surrender spectrum?

• 3:02

  Dell stops selling AMD-powered machines online

• 2:37

  Video: eCoupled fires up its wireless Foreman grill and cooks us a burger

• 0:47

  Japan's space agency planning space-based solar power arrays

• 0:16

  Guitar Rising perfects the "Guitar Hero with real guitars" genre

• February 07, 2008
• 21:42

  Archos 405 gets bumped to 30GB

• 20:01

  XPS M1330 BIOS update hints at upcoming Blu-ray / DVD combo drive

• 18:34

  Intel sued for Core 2 Duo patent infringement -- by the University of Wisconsin

• 15:46

  Is the Givori Serendipity the world's ugliest cellphone?

• 15:25

  Squeezebox Duet now available for pre-order

• 5:24

  Aerotel's GeoSkeeper lets everyone know exactly where you've fallen and can't get up

• February 06, 2008
• 23:48

  Voce indeed dead, execs let go by phone disconnections

• 23:16

  MacBook Air with SSD tested: performance boost nowhere to be found

• 20:32

  SanDisk unveils a 16-gigbit, 3 bits per cell flash chips, plans to move 43nm NAND into production

• February 05, 2008
• 23:27

  Teclast T50 PMP offers capacitive multitouch

• 9:34

  Microsoft looking to bring Surface home sooner

• 4:59

  HP Pavilion tx2000 tablet goes on sale

• 3:45

  Motorola CEO Greg Brown takes personal control of phone division

• 2:02

  Motus Darwin controller to being that Wii feeling to the PC

• 0:48

  Hotswap laptop batteries let you keep the juice flowing

• 0:45

  NVIDIA to acquire Ageia

• February 04, 2008
• 23:48

  Cloudbook promo video not exactly high-budget

• 22:43

  Transmeta's investors claim the company is being mismanaged

• 20:42

  Build your own Stylophone, be slightly more like David Bowie

• February 02, 2008
• 9:36

  iPhone takes on semi, lives to tell the tale

• 6:28

  Eye-Fi to get upgraded with "Smart Boost," become available in Ritz Camera stores

• 5:00

  Microsoft says 360 Elite is just so hot right now, no SKU changes planned

• 3:51

  Wii coming to Rock Band, Rock Band Premium Microphone not coming to Wii

• 1:42

  8GB Zune now $179

• February 01, 2008
• 22:28

  Samsung to integrate camera division with other units, make two hearts beat as one

• 22:03

  XM and Sony BMG kiss and make up over the Inno

• 21:38

  Sigma APO 200-500 F2.8 telephoto lens hands-on

• 21:31

  Sony 25MP full-frame DSLR hands-on

• 7:08

  Sony unleashes a holographic monster on Tokyo Bay

• 4:06

  HTC TouchFLO 2 "Manila" leaks out, are you brave enough to install it?

• 2:03

  Pentagon's "Cyber Storm" war game simulates blogger leaks, train disorder -- wait, blogger leaks?

• 1:26

  GE unveils the geotagging 10 megapixel E1050, eight other new cams

• January 31, 2008
• 22:46

  Kingston joins the 16GB SDHC party

• 21:57

  Apple prepping updated MacBook Pros?

• 20:40

  Appeals court upholds TiVo patent claims against Echostar

• 19:38

  SanDisk pushes SDHC to 32GB

• 19:22

  700MHz C-block hits reserve price -- open access is here

• 15:02

  Keepin' it real fake, part CVIII: the PX-3600 gaming console

• 12:43

  Researchers get nanotube chips running at commercial speeds

• 10:27

  Eazo desktops offer ultra-luxe style at merely super-luxe prices

• 8:01

  IOGear busts out a wireless USB CardBus adapter

• 5:37

  Pasen F10 PMP rips off both the iTunes and WMP icons

• 4:03

  Slacker Portable available tomorrow

• 1:07

  Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-W110 leaks as well

• 0:57

  The hits keep coming with leaked Sony headphones

• January 30, 2008
• 22:39

  Sony's new Alpha A300 and A350 get official

• 21:32

  Microsoft's antitrust activities to be monitored for another two years

• 13:02

  Sprint and Clearwire talking again, might still go to prom together

• 10:25

  WiFi-enabled universal remote pulls codes from the web

• 2:41

  Baby Climo air purifier is adorable, possibly deadly

• January 29, 2008
• 23:57

  Apple posts a fix for iPhone 1.1.3 SMS ordering problem

• 21:25

  Diamond and gold PCs class up the floor under your desk

• 21:18

  How much would you pay to be the first Optimus Maximus owner?

• 4:09

  Steve Jobs tells Apple employees and investors to "hang in there"

• 3:21

  Mouse Computer's LuvBook J131 kicks it Penryn style

• 1:26

  San Francisco security cameras ineffective due to poor framerates

• January 28, 2008
• 23:39

  iPhone SDK key leaked?

• 23:03

  Sony A300 and A350 DSLRs with swivel-screen and live view leaked

• 20:32

  The Torch flashlight: why illuminate when you can incinerate?

• January 26, 2008
• 13:01

  Apple accused of harrassing an air purifier company

• 5:23

  SmartQ T5 flash player gets updated, taunts us from afar

• 4:08

  Tesla Roadster gets wrecked by the feds... in the name of safety, of course

• 3:04

  MovieBeam hardware gets hacked for shell access

• 0:33

  Best Buy stops selling the 80GB PS3

• January 25, 2008
• 21:03

  AMD talks specs on Fusion, continues to release nothing

• 4:51

  Sim2 mounts another assualt on your wallet with the PRO5000 HD projector

• 1:09

  Tesla Roadster now legal for sale in the US

• 0:06

  iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak goes live, update: it works!

• 0:02

  Video of the yeast-and-sugar powered generator in action: experience the power of boring

• January 24, 2008
• 20:31

  The ThunderPack jetpack promises to make you a ThunderMan... for 37 seconds

• 19:47

  Dell and Microsoft get official with (PRODUCT) RED gear

• 15:05

  Indian telecom company to rollout massive WiMax network

• 4:03

  Vista SP1 due on February 15th?

• 2:03

  HP bumps SSD to business class with new enterprise desktops

• 1:34

  Birmingham, AL totally confused by OLPC purchase

• 0:33

  Apple crippling OS X debugging tool to protect iTunes DRM?

• January 23, 2008
• 23:04

  MPAA admits it overstated the effects of college piracy, times it made a beer run

• 21:02

  Sony unloads a truckload of new cameras before PMA

• 20:51

  700MHz auction set to begin tomorrow, suits in a tizzy

• 7:04

  Samsung / Sharp patent fight gets slightly more interesting, still not interesting

• January 22, 2008
• 23:52

  Apple posts $1.58B profit, buys monocle, top hat

• 22:57

  Sony NWZ-A82X-series Walkmans with A2DP hit the FCC

• 22:06

  Uh-oh, Optimus -- United Keys partners with FoxConn to build OLED gaming keyboards

• 20:36

  Researchers develop eye-implantable camera

• 12:23

  Vehicle-based networks get sexy names, remain impractical

• 4:16

  FDA-commissioned study says we don't know much about wireless risks

• 1:36

  Meizu M8 hits the Chinese patent office, top of the irony meter

• January 21, 2008
• 21:40