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Google responded to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week by working with satellite imagery company GeoEye to quickly make images of the destruction available in Google Earth and Google Maps. The images were taken at approximately 10:27 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, and c...

Google appears to be trying to boost its customer support for Nexus One customers, posting replies to many more queries on its online forum.

Google has come under fire since the launch of the Nexus One after hundreds of messages were posted with complaints or questions about the phone. Many cus...

Worldwide PC shipments soared during the fourth quarter, driven by historically low PC prices and an increased demand for laptops and netbooks, analyst firm IDC said Wednesday.

Shipments totaled 85.8 million units during the fourth quarter of 2009, growing 15.2 percent compared to the fourth q...

Each year, the nation's largest geekfest, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), is full of hype, overhype, and beyond the valley of the hype. Remember the Internet Refrigerator?

And each year the hype (and overhype, and b.t.v.o.t. hype) inevitably leads to disappointment: Vendors dangle many al...

Barnes & Noble is giving $100 gift certificates to Nook e-reader buyers who placed orders for the devices to be delivered before the holidays and now won't receive them until after the Christmas. The company had hoped that most preorders from November would be delivered by December 24, but says ...

Starting at 8:30 am EST, the Apple Store started accepting pre-orders for the iPad. The three Wi-Fi models will be available on April 3, while the Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April.

Apple has placed a limit of two iPads per customer, but there's a sneaky ...

Apple today released Safari 4.0.5. From the minor upgrade number, going from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5, you would think it's just a bug fix or security update. Well, you would be mostly right, but if you use Safari's Top Sites feature, you'll notice a performance boost that delivers faster Top Site updates ...

That's the tip being reported by ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. Adrian is only passing along a tip he received which suggests that a new Mac Pro will be announced next Tuesday, the 16th of March.

The tipster said the Mac Pro will be equipped with an Intel Core i7-980x, whic...

Elgato today released the latest version of its EyeTV Hybrid, a USB-based TV tuner for Macs and Windows 7-based PCs. Not much larger than a USB Flash drive, the EyeTV Hybrid can receive unscrambled analog or digital cable (Clear QAM) or over-the-air (ATSC) HDTV (separate antenna required).

Valve Software has confirmed the rumors it started about itself last week. It will bring its Stream distribution platform, as well as its library of games, to the Mac. Valve has said that Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter Strike, Portal, and Half-Life game series will be available sometime ...

Apple is releasing the iPhone 3.0 update today which adds copy & paste functional...

This week, Cisco has announced its new marquee router, CRS-3. At 322 terabits per second, Ci...

Who wouldn't want a giant locket that opens to a photo of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? But where would you find such a valuable piece of jewelry? Fear not--you can find downloadable plans for the locket (including photos of the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, and even Alice herself) through Paperkra...

The rise in 3-D printing is not just about being able to create your own customized cufflinks or action figure. Researchers are discovering that the technology is helping to create better prosthetic limbs . An article in CNET News by Daniel Terdiman looks at a presentation by industrial designer ...

Well, probably not--at least in the short term. But the pencil printer is an awesome idea. Stick in a pencil to the printer's built-in sharpener and use the pencil's graphite as 'ink' to do your printing. Not only do you save tons on ink cartridges, but paper as well, since mistakes are easily er...

Photo scanners are becoming more popular and American consumers are scanning more photos than ever before, according to a new survey from IDC, a market intelligence firm based in Massachusetts. And the trend will continue upward. "IDC believes that consumers' interest in converting their photo pr...

I've tried a number of Linux distributions with varying degrees of success and satisfaction. It wasn't always easy getting printers and scanners to run, but then again I'm pretty much a Linux beginner, no matter how many times I use it. So it's always nice to know that Linux pros are constantly a...