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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 ...

The good folks over at Other Word Computing, who love to make creative add-ons for Mac products, have taken one of the new 27-inch iMacs apart to see if end users could add their own SSD (Solid State Drive). A second SSD is an option on the new Quad-Core 27-inch iMacs, but Apple charges a hefty $...

Apple today released Safari 5.0.1 for Leopard and Snow Leopard, and Safari 4.1.1 for Tiger. This update corrects security issues, including the problem with Safari's AutoFill, which can allow user information to be extracted at a malicious web site. Also corrected was an RSS issue that could allo...

"Where's the beef?" is one of the most oft-heard and well-remembered advertising catchphrases in recent memory. The new Apple products and Mac updates announced today have plenty of beef: new processors, more power, better graphics. But where are the condiments?

Lacking from both the iMac and Ma...

The Apple reservoir of unreleased products had a catastrophic failure today. When the dam holding products back broke, retail stores became flooded with new iMacs (new Mac Pros and Cinema Displays won't be far behind). Also spotted were a new Magic Trackpad and a brand new product type, the Apple...

If it's Tuesday, it must be new product announcement day, at least according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball. Gruber has a history of accurate predictions about Apple products, so we can all hope that his track record continues tomorrow.

There are a lot of indicators p...

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

As folks li...

The last time the FCC...

What becomes of old plastic grocery bags? Do they fill the landfills? Get caught in a cinematic updraft? Become toys for cats (they do for mine)? Yes, yes, and yes; but there's some good news, too. According to an article by Katie Cottingham in Chemical & Engineering News, Waste Plastics Become F...

If consumer-level 3D printing has had any shortcomings, it could be the level of the details that could be printed. Shapeways is now looking at using the EnvisionTec Aureus printer to print in wax and terra cotta at some unbelievable levels of detail. According to the company: "The XY resolution ...

A regular old HP 540 inkjet printer gets a quick makeover and becomes a 3D printer in this amazing video from YouTube user Scorch1974. The basics of the hack are not particularly technical. He takes out the paper tray and feed rolls, builds a simple wooden platform, and uses a powdery mixture of ...

Tired of missing those once-in-a-lifetime photos that get captured on video but not in a photo? Don't worry, Canon has got you covered. Its line of five new Canon Pixma Printers includes a new "Full High Definition (HD) Movie Print" feature. Here's how Canon describes it:

"Now when using the n...

Canon has announced the release of two new color scanners, the CanoScan LiDE 210 and the LiDE 110. The LiDE 210, which will retail for $89.99, has a maximum color resolution of 4800x4800 dpi. It's Canon's thinnest scanner so far, though Canon didn't release its exact specs yet. The LiDE 110 (wh...