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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 ...

Parallels today took the wraps off the latest edition of its popular virtualization application for the Mac. Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac promises to provide increased performance in both CPU and graphics. Using a new 64-bit virtualization engine, Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac can take advantage of ...

Over the weekend, I needed to grab an email address from my Address Book. A simple process, right? Just launch the Address Book application and search for the contact. Well, that's when it hit me. I hadn't yet migrated the Address Book contact list from my old Mac to my new Mac Pro.

Luckily,...

iLife '11 made its debut today, but Apple didn't have a hand in the unveiling. Instead, Amazon, which had previously disclosed a possible shipping date for iLife '11 by listing a pre-order for an iLife book, did it again, by listing a pre-order for the iLife '11 software.

Amazon has since taken ...

Looking for a fabulous deal on an Apple or related product? Well, so am I! Every Sunday, I scan the Apple Refurbished store to see what Apple products are currently available, and which ones represent good bargains. I try to look only at current versions of Macs, but once in a while there will be...

JABMenu is a menu bar tool that provides a really easy way to access your Address Book data at a system-wide level. Instead of keeping Address Book always running, and switching applications just to check an address or phone number, you can use JABMenu to search, sort, and find contact informatio...

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

Network Address Translation (NAT) is the method used by routers to manage Internet service for a set of computers on the local network, each with their own private IP address, t...

It seems a whole new angle on printing--according to Engadget, HP will release in September a new printer, the Photosmart eStation C510 that, according to screen grabs from HP's product page (the original seems to be gone now), has a "detachable, 7-inch, full-color touchscreen  [that] doubles as ...

Companies that make printers will tell you not to refill inkjet cartridges--doing so will likely cause malfunctions, damage the printhead, and possibly void the warranty. Stores that sell inkjet-cartridge refills will tell you that ink is ink, and that you'll save a ton of money by having old car...

The Xerox Phaser 6140 is a color laser printer aimed at small and home offices. While it's bigger and more expensive than consumer-oriented color laser printers, it does have a robust duty cycle and does its work quickly; even better, it prints out great-looking color graphics. If you can fin...

More in a spate of new products from the folks at Epson. The newest entry is the Epson Stylus NX625, an all-in-one printer that offers built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking in addition to a built-in duplexer. The new Stylus is also fast, Epson says, with duplex printing at speeds as fast as 7.6 ...

Small businesses in a hurry have something to thank Epson for--three things, in fact. Epson has introduced three printers in the new generation of WorkForce printers that it says have "the world's fastest print speeds," as well as a host of business extras such as built in wireless networking,hig...