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News: Swarms of Ants Destroying Electronic Equipment

What a horrible situation this is. Imagine going over to turn on your computer to find that it doesn't work....and there is a colony of ants running around underneath it or even coming out of it. It l...

Microsoft XP SP3 Released, Again

It looks like after being pulled several times, the official service pack numero tres is gets to see the light of day and is now available on the Microsoft website. It looks dated to be the latest ver...

Apple iMacs Get A Small Boost In Speed

Announced yesterday afternoon, the Apple iMac line will get an upgrade to the new Core 2 Duo Penryn processors and a nice kick in speed to 2.4GHz for the 20" base model and 3.06GHz for the 24" top-dog...

NTT Firmo Enables Data Transfer Through the Skin...

Wowsers. We are not sure what the long term effects of this are, but it could end up being a major way that info travels around. The skin would be like a USB cable that moves info to/from a computin...

GE Develops Lite Brite Wallpaper

While it won't got to market for years, GE recently revealed that it had developed a cost effective way to make organic light-emitting diodes, which are used in some televisions, portable screens, and...

News: Microsoft Extending Life of XP, Kind of

Sadly, it seems lowering the price of Windows Vista and officially ending support for XP this coming June just weren't enough to take down our favorite operating system completely. Announced late Thur...

News: Comcast Introduces Extreme High Speed Broadband to Twin Cities

Yep, that's what they call it "Extreme High Speed" Broadband. What does that mean? Well, it's fast with up to 50Mbps download and 5Mbps upload speeds. But for now, it's only available in the Minnea...

Microsoft Surface Surfaces

It is actually coming, so get dressed. Microsoft has just announced that AT&T will be carrying their table monitor to help customers select phones in their stores. This is basically a soft roll-out ...

Netflix Tech Glitch Slows Down Service

Did anyone notice Netflix's breakdown in service yesterday? Apparently the site was down for most of the day due to technical difficulties yet to be described. Strangely enough, we were just remarki...

Which Blu-ray Player Should I Get?

Sony has released version 2.20 of its PlayStation 3 firmware which might just give people a reason to buy the console for something other than games... Since HD DVD is basically out of the 'picture' n...

News: Nintendo Tanks at Being Green

We check in regularly with the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. Usually it's Apple getting criticized for their less than stellar performance, but we were surprised to see th...

News: Apple Time Machine Finally Works With Airport Extreme

Hallelujah! I was one of those guys that bought the Airport Extreme because of the reported integration with Time Machine for set it and forget it data backup. When it turned out this was not the case...

News: Best Buy Gives $50 Credit for HD-DVD Players

Not to be outdone by the Blu-Ray debacle, Best Buy has followed on the heals of Circuit City's rebates to customers by issuing their own rebate for those who purchased HD-DVD players from their store...

News: Recycle Through the Mail

Got a gadget you want to get rid of? The US Postal Service is launching a pilot program that will allow you to recycle small electronics and printer cartridges through the mail, for free....

News: Airport Express Launches 802.11n

After some rumblings over the weekend, Engadget is reporting that Apple has launched a new Airport Express with 802.11n technology....

News: With HD-DVD Gone, Blu-Ray Player Pricing Goes Up

But of course. While this doesn't really come as a surprise now that HD-DVD is out of the picture, we continue to wonder why the PS3, a Blu-ray player and gaming console, manages to remain cheaper tha...

News: Circuit City's HD DVD For Blu-Ray Trade In

The details for this are a little sketchy, but Gizmodo has confirmed that you can take in your old HD-DVD player into Circuit City and receive credit for purchasing a new Blu-Ray machine. It's not c...

Touchpad App Turns Your iPhone Into a Wireless Touchpad

Our love for all things iPhone has pretty much been unabashed, with the exception of the occasional excessively long bill, and here's another reason: turn your iPhone into a wireless touchpad and co...

Roundup: Home Tech On Other AT Sites

Here's what's hot and home tech on other AT websites: above is the Anglepoise Fifty Lamp by Anthony Dickens, seen over on AT:Chicago. We've got some good stuff after the jump, especially if you hav...

News: Netflix Adding More Blu-Ray, May Raise Rates

Hot on the heals of the announcement of the death of HD-DVDs, Netflix has now announced that they are quickly phasing out their inventory in favor of Blu-Ray. The problem? They're finding it to not...

News: Apple Time Capsule Shipping this Week

Announced during the MacWorld keynote in January, it looks like Time Capsule is now starting to ship to all who have pre-ordered. If you didn't order as soon as it was announced, it appears that Best ...

Kill-a-Watt Available For Check-Out Through Libraries

We keep seeing these articles pop up around the web, so we wanted to share the thought with you: check your local library for a Kill-a-Watt and see if you can check out one from your local library, ...

News: Optimus Maximus Shipping Begins

The long awaited customizable keyboard finally arrives....

News: T-Mobile to Offer Land Line Service

If you're looking to augment your cell phone coverage at home, and you're a T-Mobile customer in Seattle or Dallas/Fort Worth, they've finally unveiled their T-Mobile @Home service ...

52 Nights Unplugged - An Addict's Journey

Ariel, a blogger, vowed to go one night a week without technology, email or blogging. And of course, as a result, she has created a blog about it. Above left is her "before" picture that she poste...

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