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Technology Headlines from Canadian media
8 hours ago
As churches continue to close, the Anglican Diocese of British Columbia is being urged to turn to social media to evangelize
12 hours ago
Television has moved to the Internet and media companies are racing to meet the growing demand for online video
18 hours ago
Why you should bank your gains and walk away now, as the stock hits new highs
20 hours ago
Company says the upgraded networking device can handle 322 terabits of traffic per second, or simultaneous video calls for every person in China
20 hours ago
While the melodrama can get a little thick, the two-decade-old series returns with undeniably exotic and memorable characters, combat, and artistry
22 hours ago
John Freeman’s attempt to come to terms with e-mail’s omnipresence has its moments, but mostly it’s a muddle of loose ideas and obvious advice
22 hours ago
Bravia maker aims for 3D models to make up 10% of LCD TVs sold in next year
22 hours ago
After three years of waiting video game fans are celebrating the release of Final Fantasy 13. Boasting high-tech graphics and an edition suitable for new generation consoles, Japanese producers hope sales figures will go beyond the 100 million mark
22 hours ago
Public increasingly inclined to blame search engines, social networks for online transgressions
1 day 1 hour ago
CRS Electronics is betting its future on LEDs, which significantly cut energy use and last 25 times longer than halogens
1 day 8 hours ago
With the government-decreed death of energy-hogging incandescent bulbs, the makers of light-emitting diodes have reason to beam
1 day 10 hours ago
Call for Heritage Minister to stop U.S. retailer's Canadian ambitions sets up showdown over foreign ownership regulations
1 day 12 hours ago
Emerging threats are sparking a renewed federal interest in forging partnerships between the corporate and intelligence worlds
1 day 13 hours ago
Bidding for one of the most coveted domain names on the web will begin at $1-million (U.S.)
1 day 18 hours ago
April Holladay investigates whether a domestic cat can be trained as well as a dog
Technology Headlines from United Kingdom media
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2 hours ago
Illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than have their internet connection cut off, says the boss of BT.
25 minutes ago
Mobile technology that could allow prying bosses to monitor every movement of their staff is developed in Japan.
1 hour ago
Facebook calls on game designers to make an iconic title, such as Mario or Halo, specifically for the social network.
1 day 1 hour ago
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for Windows XP users.
1 day 1 hour ago
A plan to create a .xxx net domain for adult content will be revisited three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
3 hours ago
Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, research suggests.
20 hours ago
A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.
2 days 4 hours ago
Almost four in five people worldwide see internet access as a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
22 hours ago
The merging of social networks and games is set to dominate this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
20 hours ago
Electronics giant Sony says its new 3D television will be on sale in Japan from June, with a cost of £2,600 for a 46-inch screen model.
1 day 18 hours ago
The US eases sanctions on Iran, Cuba and Sudan to help further the use of internet services and support opposition groups.
1 day 3 hours ago
Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.
23 hours ago
The home secretary says internet safety lessons must be learned after a convicted sex offender contacts and kills a teenager.
2 days 1 hour ago
Questions used as security checks on websites need to be replaced by better tests to see who someone is, say researchers.
5 days 2 hours ago
UK university websites are targeted by criminals peddling counterfeit drugs from fake online pharmacies.
5 days 4 hours ago
A device that could allow people to conduct phone conversations without uttering a word is shown off by researchers.
2 days 10 hours ago
The Queen warns that businesses in developing nations are missing out because the internet is an "unaffordable option" in many areas.
5 days 2 hours ago
Small browser firms want changes made to Microsoft's browser choice screen to make their programs more prominent.
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Technology Headlines from United States media
2 hours ago
What your phone says about you--and who's listening.
14 hours ago
How everyday household products can harm you and your family.
1 day 2 hours ago
Where are the back doors to the corporate jewels, and what can be done to fix them?
1 day 14 hours ago
Were the intruders sophisticated spies or run-of-the-mill thieves?
1 day 14 hours ago
Method charges ahead with its eco-friendly cleaning products.
1 day 14 hours ago
Merging public and private cloud computing infrastructures.
2 days 2 hours ago
As more and more business processes are outsourced, CIOs will have to adjust to a whole new world order.
2 days 2 hours ago
Is the move back to centralized computing really as good as it sounds?
4 days 16 hours ago
Theaters across the nation are making the movie-going experience a great, green adventure.
4 days 18 hours ago
Armed with a fortune from Infosys, Rohini Nilekani is intent on helping India's poor.
4 days 23 hours ago
Lahore native Nadeem Bbar brings his energy ambitions back to bear on Punjab's power shortage.
5 days 2 hours ago
Analysts are already identifying companies that will benefit--or not--from the FCC's upcoming multibillion-dollar plan.
5 days 14 hours ago
Tips for evaluating and implementing cloud computing technologies.
5 days 14 hours ago
Data centers are relying on cheaper chips, thanks to virtualization.
5 days 14 hours ago
If your desktop is free of malware, you can probably thank virtualization.
5 days 14 hours ago
How virtualization is seeping into every aspect of our lives.
8 hours ago8 hours ago
With a click of a mouse, cyclists can get the quickest, and flattest, route between Point A and Point B.
8 hours ago8 hours ago
The Nasdaq begins its spectacular collapse, signaling the end of the dot-com boom.
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The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe.
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Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
12 hours ago12 hours ago
Huge projects that would store wind energy by compressing air in abandoned mines and porous sandstone are gaining steam in the Midwest.
12 hours ago12 hours ago
The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams.
14 hours ago14 hours ago
Through interviews with a brainy crop of musicians and scientists, a new documentary probes the connection between body, mind and music.
14 hours ago14 hours ago
You're carrying around a video camera in your pocket (it's that thing attached to your mobile phone) so be prepared and learn how to start streaming video to the web at a moment's notice.
15 hours ago15 hours ago
It's from 1934, and it doesn't look like a car, and it doesn't look like it would fly.
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It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com.
15 hours ago15 hours ago
From blasting body armor to testing the limits of a satellite tracker, the Wired magazine team talks about putting survival products through the real-world wringer.
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Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.
15 hours ago15 hours ago
Cisco's new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That's fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.
16 hours ago16 hours ago
The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.
17 hours ago17 hours ago
Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle -- yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.
18 hours ago18 hours ago
Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.
18 hours ago18 hours ago
Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.
21 hours ago21 hours ago
For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
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Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.
1 day 1 hour ago1 day 1 hour ago
Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto's Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there's only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.
1 day 8 hours ago1 day 8 hours ago
The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning "informational privacy." The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.
1 day 8 hours ago1 day 8 hours ago
Amerigo Vespucci is remembered in the names of two continents, not because he was first to visit them, but because he was first to realize that they were something new to Europeans.
1 day 12 hours ago1 day 12 hours ago
Seize the airwaves to fight corporate radio's preprogrammed junk. It all starts with a soldering iron and a cheapo FM transmitter.
1 day 12 hours ago1 day 12 hours ago
There's no sharp point or edge, but the electrodes in the polycarbonate Shocknife deliver a stabbing 7,500 volts. Ouch. Kilo-ouch.
1 day 12 hours ago1 day 12 hours ago
Sony's new user interface is designed as a skin that will go on top of the Android operating system and aggregate social networking feeds. Take a closer look at it how it compares to Motorola's MotoBlur and the HTC Sense.
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7 hours ago
As awareness spreads that lithium is an ingredient for hybrid cars, a hunt is under way for sources of the metal.
19 hours ago
The company’s network pushes the limits of translation technology and has become a favored source for millions.
1 day 14 hours ago
Researchers have tested the Sensecam, which contains a digital camera and an accelerometer, as an aid to people with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory disorders.
1 day 9 hours ago
France Télécom has already stopped several practices identified as being particularly disruptive, like forcing employees to change jobs and closing work sites.
8 hours ago
Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.
8 hours ago
Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com.
14 hours ago
Two of the world's computing powerhouses have started a war of words around their forthcoming tablet computers.
7 hours ago
Charles Thacker, the lead designer on the Alto, the Xerox PARC prototype of the modern personal computer, won the Turing Award.
1 day 1 hour ago
A national commitment to solar power transformed one community but big subsidies led to unsustainable growth.
16 hours ago
An alarm goes out online, and a messenger is soon reunited with his stolen bike.
1 day 17 hours ago
After a decade of near-death experiences, the Internet music service is attracting attention from investment bankers who think it could go public.
2 days 7 hours ago
EBay, recovering from unprofitable quarters and falling market share, has recast its site to make it more attractive to new kinds of shoppers, like the carbon conscious.
2 days 7 hours ago
As Microsoft complies with new European rules to offer a choice of browsers to Windows users, smaller browsers are getting a boost.
2 days 5 hours ago
The Treasury Department will issue a general license for the export of free personal Internet services and software geared toward Iran, Cuba and Sudan.
1 day 21 hours ago
Major League Baseball Advanced Media will handle the technology infrastructure and customer support for the nearly 3,500 live events that ESPN streams each year.
2 days 9 hours ago
An attempt by a public television stalwart to bring the young into the fold with punchy takes on social issues.
1 day 21 hours ago
ChatRoulette, a nascent Internet phenomenon, is providing Web researchers with a social networking case study into the nature of online togetherness.
2 days 10 hours ago
Though girls still have more cellphones than boys, the gap is about half as large as it was in 2005.
5 days 16 hours ago
Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of the day than to broadcast their own thoughts.
7 days 9 hours ago
Allrecipes Dinner Spinner Pro adds 40,000 dishes you don't get with the free version plus new features like recipe sharing over Bluetooth.
1 hour ago
Google adds biking directions to its digital maps for 150 American cities, to the acclaim of cycling activists.
17 hours ago
Panasonic has added two new Micro Four Thirds cameras to its line-up, including a model with a touch-screen and one that is the smallest interchangeable lens camera with a viewfinder.
20 hours ago
Palm has added new features in its Web OS 1.4 upgrade. Here's how to get it.
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5 hours ago
MySpace thinks it can survive even thrive as a repository for all things music, Avatar and Twilight for the under-35 crowd.
13 hours ago
A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services ...
16 hours ago
Cisco is upgrading one of its biggest pieces of networking hardware, a router that's used to power the most trafficked parts ...
23 hours ago
Sony Corp. said Tuesday it will start selling 3-D televisions in June, joining a competitive industrywide push to convince consumers ...
1 day 9 hours ago
An upcoming music video game gives you the power to progress from fantasy guitar hero to true six-string slinger.
1 day 12 hours ago
A gritty police drama set in Hong Kong, the in-development video game True Crime is due this fall.
1 day 14 hours ago
Control4 has a remote that can turn on the TV and Blu-ray player and dim the lights, lock the door, close the blinds and adjust ...
2 days 7 hours ago
AT&T's "Txtng & Drivng ... It Can Wait" campaign features parents of young texting-and-driving victims and the final text messages ...
1 day 14 hours ago
Obesity scientists dig deep to find the connection between body fat, white blood cells and a cascade of diseases.
2 days 20 hours ago
Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College ...
4 days 13 hours ago
Federal regulators trying to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans will propose tapping the government program ...
20 hours ago
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," then, with apologies to Kipling, you ...
4 days 19 hours ago
Apple says its much-anticipated iPad tablet will hit U.S. store shelves on April 3.
5 days 1 hour ago
YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos.
4 days 22 hours ago
A reality series that's only available to owners of PlayStation game consoles demonstrates new possibilities for video gaming.
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3 hours ago
BehindtheBuy.com Shares High-Tech Products to Help You Unwind, Remember Fun Times
12 hours ago
Listen to the 9-1-1 call of the Prius driver whose car sped out of control on a San Diego highway before coming to a stop.
12 hours ago
Toyota Prius driver Jim Sikes frantically called 911 when his car speed out of control on a stretch of San Diego highway. Ben Tracy reports the U.S. government wants to know what happened.
12 hours ago
China and the U.S. are fighting to lead the world in green energy technology, but China is way ahead. Celia Hatton reports on what the U.S. needs to do to keep up.
13 hours ago
Peggy Liu, from JUCCEE, joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy, says energy powers nation growth.
13 hours ago
Barbara Finamore, from the National Resources Defense Council says renewable energy is essential in the 21st century.
11 hours ago
China is Cashing in its Emerging Energy Sector - What Solutions Will Help the U.S. Catch Up?
16 hours ago
GPS Measurements Show Significant Movement From Feb. 27 Quake as Far as Argentina and Peru
18 hours ago
Customers Up in Arms After Being Dropped by Amazon Affiliate Program; Company Blames States Like Colo. Seeking Revenue
19 hours ago
Samsung, Panasonic Start Selling 3-D TVs, Glasses in U.S. Stores This Week; Prices Start at $3,000 for 46-inch Screen
21 hours ago
Although China has the reputation of being a major polluter, it has a green industry that is booming and creating thousands of jobs. Celia Hatton reports.
21 hours ago
Famous Folksinger Wrote It After Doctors Found Polyp When He Had the Procedure; He Sang it on "The Early Show"
16 hours ago
Well-Preserved Ships, Some Hundreds of Years Old, Found During Pipeline Construction
1 day 2 hours ago
Worsening Quake Problem Not Below Ground, But Above; More People, Poor Buildings, More Deaths
22 hours ago
Advertisers Spending More On Web Ads -- And Promoting Their Own Web Sites
1 day 14 hours ago
Search Giant May Offer Text Search of TV Programs and Web Videos Through Dish Network
1 day 16 hours ago
Officials from Toyota are trying to rebut claims from prominent researchers who suggest that the automaker's solution to faulty brake pedals may not actually work.
1 day 16 hours ago
Repairs to Last 8 Mos. On 230-Foot Dish Near L.A. that Delivered Moon Landing to Americans, Aids in Interplanetary Missions
1 day 19 hours ago
Cold War-Era Underground Station in U.K. Built to Monitor Spread of Radiation; Features Phone, Chemical Toilet and Air Shafts
1 day 11 hours ago
Automaker Brings in Experts to Discredit Professor's Claim That Electronics Glitch is Behind Safety Problems
2 days 2 hours ago
Attorney for 1 of Lower Merion School District IT Workers Currently on Leave says Computers Turned Over to Police
2 days 18 hours ago
The Annual National Robotic Contest, Robocon 2010, brought together students from across India's western Pune city to showcase their designs for robotics, in a three-day event
1 day 23 hours ago
An Entertainment Revolution Is Underway as Clear as the Glasses on Your Face
3 days 1 hour ago
18,000-Year-Old Fossils of Dwarf Cavewoman in Indonesia Raises Doubt Whether All Evolutionary Answers Lie in Africa
4 days 15 hours ago
Online rumors have erroneously reported that comedian Bill Cosby died and that Chief Justice John Roberts resigned from the Supreme Court. Katie Couric reports on cyber lies.
