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The Technology That Toppled Eliot Spitzer
If there is a lesson from former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s scandal-driven fall (aside from the most obvious one), it is this: banks are paying attention to even the smallest of your...
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Google’s Wi-Fi Dreams
With next year’s transition to digital television sparking fierce debate over how to use the newly vacant TV channels, Google has offered a plan that it says could vastly improve U.S. broadband...
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Digital Sound Separator
Peter Neubäcker, a former German guitar maker turned programmer, has done what many in the computer-music business believed impossible. Decomposition: Two views of a digitally recorded chord, provided...
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Crossover Camera
A culture war is brewing in the world of digital photography, with a handful of enthusiasts arguing that high-definition video tools are making traditional still cameras all but obsolete. Scarlet:...
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Acrobat Gets Multimedia Makeover
Adobe is reinventing its venerable Acrobat software for the multimedia-heavy Web 2.0 age. Targeted primarily at business users, Acrobat’s familiar PDF format has long allowed Net users to create and...
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3-D Viewing without Goofy Glasses
With the release of a new set of 3-D video screens next week, Philips Electronics is bringing a sci-fi cinema standby a little closer to everyday use. Philips’ WOWvx displays–which allow viewers to...
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Twitter’s Growing Pains
As every Twitter addict knows, the popular messaging system has suffered long and frustrating service outages, measured in hours or even tens of hours per month. User complaints and defections to rival...
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Cloud Computing’s Perfect Storm?
Last week, Intel, Yahoo, HP, and an international trio of research institutions announced a joint cloud-computing research initiative. The ambitious six-site project is aimed at developing an...
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Malware Swipes Millions of Credit Cards
Tens of millions of credit cards could be at risk of fraudulent use thanks to a serious computer-security breach at financial-transactions company Heartland Payment Systems. Earlier this week,...
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New technologies will make online search more intelligent–and may even lead to a “Web 3.0.”
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