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This device quickly and easily converts photographs into digital images, allowing you to confidently preserve your memories for generations to come. Photographs are placed in a tray that slides into the converter, and the touch of a button instantly records the image to your PC via the included USB cable. Faster and easier than a [...]
This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet–40 years ago yesterday–the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers.
This was bound to happen after the U.S. recently recanted on its “ownership” of the Internet in a new agreement [...]
Nokia has finally decided to kill off its N-Gage gaming platform after years of shifting the strategy behind it with little success.
Nokia introduced N-Gage in 2003 as a standalone handheld gaming device, which developed a small but enthusiastic following. Nokia later discontinued the device and instead came up with a plan to develop phones that [...]
On this day 40 years ago (wegathernews.com), the very first e-mail message (long before they called it e-mail, of course) was sent by UCLA’s Leonard Kleinrock over the ARPANET system from Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute, more than 400 miles away.
Kleinrock, while still a student at MIT, developed the principles of “packet switching,” [...]
Oracle Corp. (ORCL) has had to withdraw its application to get antitrust clearance in Russia for its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) due to timing issues, people familiar with the deal said Friday.
The latest hitch for the database and software giant in buying hardware maker Sun comes alongside a separate probe by [...]
Finally, the World Wide Web will live up to its name. The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global [...]
The booster used on the Ares 1-X test rocket on Wednesday was damaged when it fell back into the ocean, the US space agency (Nasa) says.
The recovery team sent to retrieve the stage from waters east of the Kennedy Space Center found a large dent in the side of the booster.
Nasa said the damage resulted [...]
It is 40 years to the week since the first data packets were sent over the Arpanet.
That was the research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) to see whether computer-to-computer communications could be made faster, more reliable and more robust by using the novel technique of packet switching [...]
The iPhone saw its formal debut in China Friday on carrier China Unicom, with the Wi-Fi-less hardware sold via 2,000 stores at a starting price of 4,999 yuan, or $730.
That high price was cited by The Wall Street Journal as the “buzz-killer” over the handset’s debut. The high-end iPhone 3GS sells for 6,999 yuan ($1,024) [...]
Walt Disney Co is launching free iPhone and iPod touch applications, giving fans access to Disney content and interactive features anywhere.
Disney.com, part of the Disney Interactive Media Group, said it will offer users of the popular Apple Inc devices items like the new “Click2Life” feature that lets fans take pictures of images from the Disney.com [...]
