Slideshow: Scary technology
Halloween is fast approaching. Time to don your "clever" iPod costume or put on a bathrobe and be Arthur Dent. But there's also a world of technology out there that's scarier than anything M. Night Shyamalan ever produced (admittedly, not that difficult). Read on, and get ready to hide under your bed...or drool with anticipation.
Flying cars hit market -- 53 years ago
One California man is taking to the road and the sky in a vehicle built in 1956.
Microsoft demos innovations at annual TechFest
Microsoft demonstrated new technologies, including a system for recognizing conference-call participants, at its annual TechFest event.
High-tech rides: Cars with cool technology
Knight Rider has nothing on what's brewing in the labs of leading automotive researchers. Today's technologies range from mobile Internet access to collision-detection systems to automated braking and steering capabilities. Some car manufacturers are even designing their cars to offer a personal touch by pulling up drivers' preferences based on fingerprint and other biometric technologies. Here we detail some of the leading-edge technology embedded in today's cars and what new vehicles are on tap from automotive giants in the near future.
jfruh
Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
pasmith
New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
mikelgan
How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
David Strom
Five important Windows 7 mobility features
sjvn
Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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Slideshow: Scary technology
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High-tech rides: Cars with cool technology
Microsoft demos innovations at annual TechFest
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Flying cars hit market -- 53 years ago