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Microsoft to give Hotmail users POP3 access

RUMOUR MILL : Microsoft may be allowing people to have access to their Hotmail e-mails on different e-mail clients via POP3, according to several sites pointing to a forum posting ...

TECHGEEK.com.au - 15 minutes ago

Federal Trade Commission To Scrutinize DRM

Ars Technica reports that the FTC is getting ready to take a hard look at gaming DRM, setting up a town hall meeting to be held on March 25th. They're ...

Slashdot - 26 minutes ago

I’m now a Microsoft MVP: Developer Security

Happy New Year everyone. I hope the Christmas & New Year break was good for you and Santa brought you loads of presents. Santa was a bit late for me ...

parallelthinking - 38 minutes ago

Garmin to bring out new GPS device for motorcyclists

CES 2009 : Garmin has launched its brand new “slim and sleek” zūmo 660 GPS device, and has said that this is made exclusively for motorcyclists. With a 4.3-inch “sunlight ...

TECHGEEK.com.au - 52 minutes ago

Brain Food: How to Eat Smart

Five things you should know about feeding your brain.

LiveScience.com - 1 hour, 22 minutes ago

Macvs. PC: Is it a 'tax' if users happily pay a premium?

With MacWorld Expo here, you should expect that Microsoft officials are out talking up the idea of the “Apple tax” again.

Digg / Technology - 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

Wide Email for iPhone: Happy Thumbs

Apple's iPhone 3G is astoundingly responsive -- for instance, quickly resizing a Web page from a vertical layout to a horizontal view -- there's no built-in ability to change to ...

MacNewsWorld - 1 hour, 41 minutes ago

The Green Home in 2009

This year's home trends will focus on going lean and green.

LiveScience.com - 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

Good memory for a face? Thank the love hormone

Oxytocin – a hormone dubbed the "cuddle chemical" for its role in long-term love – might also help us recall the faces of friends

New Scientist - Latest Headlines - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

World's smallest fuel cell promises greener gadgets

Portable devices could be hydrogen powered if fuel cell technology could be made smaller – a design 3 mm across might do the trick

New Scientist Tech - Technology - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

Inside the mind of an autistic savant

We could all unleash extraordinary mental abilities if we learned to think like savants, says

New Scientist - Latest Headlines - 2 hours, 1 minute ago

We have the technology to rebuild ourselves

With better, stronger and faster components, the bionic age has finally arrived, says

New Scientist - Latest Headlines - 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

CES VEGAS: AMD to reveal Yukon Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks

The annual technology orgy that is the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas this week, and foreplay has already begun with AMD announcing that the much hyped Yukon...

iTWire - Latest Headlines - 2 hours, 19 minutes ago

Digital boom helps British music sales hit record (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) - British music sales are booming as young fans increasingly buy songs online rather than illegally downloading them, the country's industry body said Wednesday.

Yahoo!7 - Technology - 2 hours, 32 minutes ago

CES 2009 Shrinks With Dwindling Economy

nandemoari writes "Not long after we first heard murmurs Microsoft may be ready to lay off as much as 17 per cent of its workforce, the popular Consumer Electronics Show, ...

Slashdot - 3 hours, 10 minutes ago

Worried parents can track children with GPS locator watch

A satellite tracking device that will plot a child's location to within 10ft is being launched by a British firm. The Nu.M8 digital watch uses GPS satellite technology like car ...

Digg / Technology - 3 hours, 31 minutes ago

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Pigs Don't Fly - 3 hours, 36 minutes ago

Supernova's ghost caught expanding in new video

A time-lapse movie suggests the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A may be channelling its energy into creating high-speed cosmic rays

New Scientist - Latest Headlines - 3 hours, 41 minutes ago

Macworld 2009 : Even though big announcements were made, shares slide

MACWORLD 2009 : Apple’s shares slid 1.65 percent over the “lack of news from the trade conference”, according to a chart from CNBC. Even though it announced that iTunes would ...

TECHGEEK.com.au - 4 hours, 36 minutes ago

Thinnest (Hottest?) All-in-One PC on the Block

Lenovo's IdeaCentre 600 is a pretty splashy debut: Its first ever all-in-one is a simple curved slab that's supposedly the thinnest all-in-one in the industry.

Digg / Technology - 4 hours, 41 minutes ago

AOL launches new SHOUTcast, ICQ iPhone apps; updates AIM app

MACWORLD 2009 : AOL has announced today that there will be two new iPhone and iPod touch applications – one for its SHOUTcast radio directory and another one for its ...

TECHGEEK.com.au - 4 hours, 54 minutes ago

SanDisk unveils new slotRadio player and cards

CES 2009 : SanDisk has today unveil the new Sansa slotRadio player, along with a companion line of slotRadio music cards, based around the slotMusic idea, and will be preloaded ...

TECHGEEK.com.au - 5 hours, 7 minutes ago

Silent Hill: Homecoming classified in Australia

PlayStation 3 News Receives a MA15+ rating by Australian Classification Board.

PAL Gaming Network - 5 hours, 12 minutes ago

Get a kick out of the latest Street Fighter IV screens

PlayStation 3 Media Kickin' it with Cammy.

PAL Gaming Network - 5 hours, 23 minutes ago

Excess sunlight leads to blindness

While plenty of sunlight is needed in youth to prevent myopia, excess exposure throughout life makes blindness more likely in old age, according to recent research.

ScienceAlert - Latest Stories - 5 hours, 41 minutes ago

Gaming machines cause unhappiness

In a recent study, electronic gaming machines were linked with worse physical and mental health, compared to not gambling or more social forms of gambling.

ScienceAlert - Latest Stories - 5 hours, 41 minutes ago

Telstra bought iBurst's wireless spectrum

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has confirmed that Telstra was the unknown bidder who bought the wireless spectrum belonging to Commander subsidiary Personal Broadband Australia, which shut down its ...

zdnet Latest - 8 hours, 6 minutes ago

Blockbuster CEO open to partnerships with telecoms (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Blockbuster Inc , the largest U.S. movie rental chain, is open to collaboration with telecom companies such as Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc as it ...

Yahoo!7 - Technology - 10 hours, 41 minutes ago

Clever sets its sights on acquisition

ASX-listed wireless broadband operator, Clever Communications (ASX:CVA), has failed to secure a majority foothold in its rival, BigAir (ASX:BGL), but says it remains committed to expansion this year.

ARN - 12 hours, 11 minutes ago

Salesforce suffers system wide outage

Salesforce.com was down for under an hour on Tuesday, leaving many users in the dark.

ARN - 12 hours, 17 minutes ago

Report: Microsoft to do free Windows 7 upgrades

Microsoft Corp. will offer free or discounted Windows 7 upgrades to users who buy Vista PCs after July 1, according to a Web site that has accurately predicted the company's ...

ARN - 12 hours, 31 minutes ago

Macworld 2009: Complete wrap-up

Phil Schiller takes the stage at Macworld 09, revealing Apple's new line up. While the rumours were mostly right, the lack of a new Mac Mini will be a sticking ...

zdnet Headlines - 15 hours, 6 minutes ago

Not quite a netbook: Meet the AMD Athlon Neo platform

We may see the laptop market as completely oversaturated, but chipmaker AMD sees only opportunities and undeserved markets. Hence the new Athlon Neo, which AMD calls a "platform for ultrathin ...

CNET.com.au: News - 15 hours, 8 minutes ago

CES 2009 preview: Home entertainment

For the last few years, the format war between HD DVD and Blu-ray has monopolised home entertainment coverage at CES. Now that HD DVD is dead, we can finally get ...

Home Theatre - CNET.com.au - 15 hours, 12 minutes ago

Apple strips iTunes of DRM

MILLIONS of songs on Apple's iTunes digital music store will soon play on any device.

AustralianIT.com.au | IT News | Industry - 15 hours, 21 minutes ago

Apple bows out of Macworld with a fizzle

Apple announced plans to scrap copy protection from songs sold on its online iTunes stores in its last appearance at Macworld.

The Age Technology Headlines - 15 hours, 41 minutes ago

'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clusterware

The additional second that time-tracking scientists added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's Cluster Ready Services (CRS) clusterware, but a ...

ARN - 16 hours, 46 minutes ago

Apple rolls out movie, pix software upgrades (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc, missing master pitchman Steve Jobs and facing subdued expectations during its final appearance at the Macworld trade show, rolled out upgrades to its home ...

Yahoo!7 - Technology - 18 hours, 55 minutes ago

Apple to sell copy protection-free songs (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc has reached a deal with major record labels to sell digital songs without the copy protection software that had prevented fans from sharing music ...

Yahoo!7 - Technology - 19 hours, 40 minutes ago

Yellowstone quakes pose explosion risk

Hundreds of earthquakes rippling through the national park have prompted fears of dangerous steam explosions

New Scientist - Latest Headlines - 22 hours, 5 minutes ago