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For the second time in three years, Segway has issued a recall of its popular personal transporters, prompted by a series of injuries, some requiring hospitalization, that some riders have suffered when performing certain maneuvers A software glitch is responsible for the defect. Specifically, the "speed limiter" in a Segway can cause it to tip ba...

The release of Microsoft's next-generation Windows operating system, Vista, may have been delayed until next year, but the software giant is already sending to market new Vista-ready peripherals, including new multi-function wireless mice and comfort-designed keyboards unveiled this week Microsoft said its new PC components would be capable of adva...

In what it calls the next big milestone for its connected entertainment vision, Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off its upcoming Zune music player and service Microsoft's announcement comes a day after Apple revealed several new iPods and the availability of full-length feature films at its iTunes store. Microsoft does not appear to be intimid...

Yahoo said Wednesday it had reached a multi-year deal to have its search tools distributed on PCs made by Taiwan-based Acer. Yahoo is hoping the move will help its search engine and other online tools reach users long before they even log onto the Web Acer is the fourth-largest maker of PCs in the world -- it ranks third in notebook sales globally...

Unica has introduced the latest version of its enterprise marketing management suite, Affinium 7. Over the past few months, the company has been rolling out modules of version 7, including applications for marketing resource management, campaign management, optimization, predictive analytics and Web analytics The company also plans to release modu...

The office of the California Attorney General indicated it could be just days away from filing charges in connection with the investigation into media leaks conducted by former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn In a nationally televised interview Wednesday, Attorney General Bill Lockyer indicated he had compiled enough evidence to file charges...

Nintendo on Thursday said it will launch its newest video game console in the United States on Nov. 19, just in time for the lucrative holiday shopping season. The console is set to debut in Japan a few weeks later, on Dec. 2 The firm's Wii system will come to market as the most affordable among the next-generation gaming consoles from the Big Thre...

Hardly a week passes without a report of consumer or company data being compromised. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a non-profit consumer organization, more than 90 million data records containing sensitive personal information have been involved in security breaches since February 2005 We have all read about high profile cases suc...

Webcams have been around for awhile now, but it hasn't been until recently that they've started to become a hit with the instant messaging crowd. The classic videophone may have been a bust, but the marriage of Webcam and IM has started to capture the affection of Net gabbers Apple, as usual, was quick to pick up this vibe and began incorporating v...

Sun Microsystems showed off new server technology at a press event in New York this week where the firm took the opportunity to tout growth in its server business over consecutive quarters As a backdrop to talk about its path to a positive future, Sun announced new Sparc-based Sun Fire workgroup servers and Sun Ultra Workstations that further lever...

A new product fromeTalk, Qfiniti Assist, provides contact center agents with knowledge management support while they are on the line with a customer. The tool combines speech recognition and enterprise search technology to identify the information the agent needs in order to answer a client's question. It then automatically routes that information to the agent's desktop during the call...

Dell on Tuesday rolled out new desktop computers in truly made-to-order style. Not only can customers choose sizes and graphics capabilities, they can also choose between Intel and AMD chips Customers can select machines based on Intel's Core 2 Duo processors or, for the first time, AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processors. Both technologies allow con...

Michael Dell, whose namesake company has seen earnings drop, market share erode and accounting questions raised in recent months, attempted to deflect the blame from CEO Kevin Rollins, saying he too is partly to blame for the PC maker's missteps Rollins, the former Dell COO who Michael Dell hand-picked to run the company as he stepped away from day...

Microsoft on Tuesday released three security updates for Windows and Office to patch as many vulnerabilities, following several consecutive Patch Tuesday events that saw much larger batches of fixes. The software giant rated only one of the September patches as "critical." Bulletin MS06-054 addresses the critical flaw. The bulletin described a bug ...

Sears and Intel crowned a list of top performing Web sites released Monday by theCustomer Respect Group (CRG), an international research and consulting firm that focuses on how corporations treat their online customers The annual report, now in its fifth year, analyzed the Web sites of all Fortune 100 companies. It ranked them on their performance ...

As technology becomes a large part of many consumers' everyday lives, the risk of overexposure to new advances grows for people of all ages. Children, however, may be especially at risk of becoming too dependent on devices and outlets such as television sets, cell phones, music players, video games and the Internet Part 1 of this three-part series ...

AT&T and MobiTV are now offering a mobile television service to broadband users. Called AT&T Broadband TV, it is available to subscribers of any broadband service -- not just AT&T's high speed Internet services. AT&T and MobiTV have already partnered to offer MobiTV's content to users of AT&T's WiFi hot spots; this new offering is an expansion of that agreement, the companies said...

New research by a pair of Harvard University academics suggests that Linux will never be able to displace Windows based on the simple economics of Microsoft's head start and its continuing ecosystem advantages In a paper titled, "Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows," Harvard Business School researchers Ramon Casadesus-Mas...

Palm has launched a new Treo smartphone aimed at the European market, saying the device was specifically designed for Vodafone's third-generation high-speed mobile network The Treo 750v, also the first Palm device unveiled in Europe to use Windows Mobile 5.0, will launch in seven countries by the end of the year, including France, Germany, Ireland,...

With memories of ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina still fresh in the minds of many, news comes that the company's chairman, Patricia Dunn, has agreed to step down Dunn plans to give up her post on Jan. 18, 2007, but she will remain an HP board member. HP President and CEO Mark Hurd will fill her post in addition to retaining his other posit...