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Ford feature will let parents set limits for teens

12 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 8

(AP) -- So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it.


Diller: IAC 'extremely lucky' with split timing

October 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- Barry Diller is feeling very lucky right now. The consummate deal maker split his Internet conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, into five publicly traded companies in late August - and not a moment ...


South Korea's free computer game model hits US

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Free computer game play that is all the rage in South Korean is taking hold in a US market dominated by videogames sold on packaged disks or by online subscriptions.


Peer-to-peer networking takes internet out of the equation

October 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When people working on a project get together with their laptops and PDAs, they share information via the internet and a client server. But new software developed by European researchers allows independent, ...


Honda Introduces All-New Insight Dedicated Hybrid Concept Vehicle at Paris Motor Show

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Honda Motor presented the concept model of its all-new Insight dedicated hybrid vehicle scheduled to be introduced in 2009, at the 2008 Paris Motor Show.


Computer hardware 'guardians' protect users from undiscovered bugs

October 01, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | No comments yet

As computer processor chips grow faster and more complex, they are likely to make it to market with more design bugs. But that may be OK, according to University of Michigan researchers who have devised a system that lets ...


EBay cuts 10 percent of workforce

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

Online auction giant eBay Inc. announced on Monday that it was cutting 1,000 permanent employees and several hundred temporary workers, about 10 percent of its global workforce.


Top firms band together behind Mobile Broadband

September 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Top computer makers, mobile operators and technology providers announced on Tuesday that upcoming laptop computers would feature mobile broadband making them ready to surf right out of the box.


China spying on Skype users: Canadian researchers

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2

China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as "Tibet" or "Communist Party," according to a group of Canadian researchers.


An 'electric' future for Formula 1 gearboxes?

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Bristol University student, Niall Oswald, has won the e2v Award for the Best Electronic Engineering Student at the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) Awards for his final-year research project, ...


Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says

October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the ...


A tech giant wants you to know who it is

October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

Cisco. Cisco. Cisco. Cisco.

Cisco.


Visualizing election polls

October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | No comments yet

Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt?


AMD to spin off factories in bid to save money

12 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- In a move to dramatically cut costs and better compete with Intel Corp., chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday it will spin off its factories into a new joint venture with investors in the Persian Gulf ...


Labor report indicates squeeze on tech sector

October 03, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet

(AP) -- The economic slowdown has started to squeeze the technology sector. So far this has not led to wide-scale job cuts, but a slowing demand for computers and other electronics may already be weighing on some payrolls.


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