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Research by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that a 2008 law banning the use of handheld cellphones while driving has reduced traffic fatalities and injuries.

Jump ahead 30 seconds for the good parts of this quadrotor copter video.

Smartphone prices are declining, even as a recent survey indicates that consumers are willing to spend more on the devices.

Those who make personal choices, like browsers, different from ours obviously do so because they're damaged in some way. That doesn't mean even IE users are too stupid to see that this study is shallow and inaccurate. Not what you look for in a quantitative analysis company.

Botnet makers are shifting from front-line crime to software development, renting their product to anyone with money to pay and mayhem to make.

Enterprise IT spending worldwide will reach $2.5 trillion in 2011, according to technology research firm Gartner Inc. Gartner forecasts a 3.1 percent increase in enterprise IT spending over this year's projected total of $2.4 trillion. That rate of growth is better than the 2.4 percent rate from 2009 to 2010.

The thought of brain-scanning machines detecting when you're lying is creepy enough -- but now they can apparently detect when you're lying to yourself.

Finally, some real data on the usage of fuzzing is emerging. Who is using fuzzing? How do people see fuzzing being used in the product security process? Forrester has included questions regarding use of fuzzing in to their questionnaire that they send to key industry CIOs, CSOs and CISOs. Security companies such as Cigital are publishing their findings. I have talked with these organizations and will be discussing my findings in this blog and the upcoming webinar.

Now here is research we can all get behind. Mexican scientists have figured out how to turn tequila into diamonds. The most I ever got out of tequila is a big headache with a side of regret.