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Inductive Charging for Portable Devices

Splashpower is introducing the new SplashPad, a device which allows mobile devices such as cell phones to be charged simply by setting them on the pad. Add comment

Commerce Chair Pushes for 2009 Digital TV

US Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens is backing a cutoff of 2009 for the mandatory conversion to digital TV. However, his plan doesn't leave out those who can't afford to buy new televisions - he has introduced the idea of the 'convertor box' to downgrade the digital signal for older sets. Add comment

RIAA sues another child

The RIAA has sued 14-year old Brittany Chan, after failing to receive a favorable judgement from the courts against her mother. Add comment

Record Labels Aim at Satellite Radio

The record labels have shifted their aim toward Satellite Radio providers, for allowing their customers the use of portable listening devices which also provide a recording capability. Add comment

ATI Radeon X1000 series Reviews

It seems the NDA on the new ATI GPUs has lifted..... Add comment

Quake IV Goes Gold!

[url=http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/38922]Shacknews[/url] reports Quake IV has gone gold! Add comment

Political Hackers Deface Novell SUSE Sites

[url=http://www.theregister.com]The Register[/url] reports that Novell OpenSUSE community web sites OpenSUSE.org, wiki.novell.com and forge.novell.com were defaced on Sunday by politically motivated hackers. Add comment

NEW MSN Messenger 7.5.0306

A new version of the popular IM client MSN Messenger has been made available for download from Microsoft. Add comment

Google Confirms Free San Francisco Wi-Fi Plan

[url=http://gigaom.com]Om Malik's Broadband Blog[/url] reports that Google company officials have confirmed a bid to build a free San Francisco-wide wifi network. Add comment

US Insists on Keeping Internet Control

[url=http://www.businessweek.com]Business Week[/url] reports that the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy, David Gross rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer. Add comment

Warner Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple

[url=http://www.pcpro.co.uk]PC Pro[/url] is reporting that a Warner Music executive has threatened to cut Apple off if Steve Jobs continues to refuse changes in iTunes Music Store pricing. Add comment

DARPA Grand Challenge Underway

The now annual robotic race challenge elimination round has begun. Add comment

$100 Laptop for 3rd world closer to reality.

MIT researchers are working on specifications and hardware for a $100 notebook PC that can be used by children in 3rd-world countries. Add comment

Apple Promises to fix Cracked Nano

Apple has admitted to a material quality issue with the iPod Nano screen, and has promised to fix any customer's Nano that experienced the problem. Add comment

Microsoft releases Office 2003 Service Pack 2

Office 2003 SP2 contains the usual list of improvements that come with a service pack - stability, security, and performance. Add comment

New Call of Duty 2 Demo Released

The official single-player demo for Call of Duty 2 is now available. Add comment

Google to Triple Index Size

Google has announced that it will triple the number of pages that it can search, in an effort to combat Yahoo's claims of being the broadest search engine. Add comment

ATI Finally Releases Crossfire

[url=http://www.hexus.net/content/static/crossfire_launch.html]Hexus[/url] is reporting on Crossfire, ATI's answer to nVidia's SLI technology. Add comment

Abit to Outsource to ECS

Abit plans on outsorcing its entry-level productoin to to Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS). Add comment

Vista Graphics Drivers Will Be More Stable than XP’s

ATI told TomsHardware that Graphics Drivers for the new Microsoft Operating System, Vista, will be much more Stabler than the current drivers for XP. Add comment

True Dual PCI Express 16x From Asus

AMDZone has posted some info on a True Dual 16x board board from Asus Add comment