Comcast’s Web portal has been hacked, leaving some subscribers unable to access their e-mail.
A company spokeswoman confirmed that the Comcast Web page had been hacked late on Wednesday. Subscribers who tried to access the site to check e-mail or access the company’s official forums were greeted with …
Xerox gave a sneak peek Thursday at its cured gel ink for digital printers that works on a large variety of materials from foil to super-slick plastic to cardboard.
Xerox's cured gel ink
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Xerox’s ink, previewed at the print industry trade show Drupa in Germany, …
The only particle physics laboratory in the United States has received a $5 million grant to continue operating.
An anonymous donor gave the gift to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, of Batavia, Ill., to keep the facility from laying off more employees and prevent some planned furloughs.
“This …
Every so often, I wonder if Silicon Valley is all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, the confluence of venture capital, universities, and lawyers make it a veritable petri dish for the formation of technology companies, but there are a lot of other great places for innovation, right?
Well, …
As has been widely reported (for example, by EDN Magazine and both Brooke Crothers and Dan Ackerman here at CNET), Intel has delayed the first customer shipments (FCS) of its “Montevina” chipsets, part of the new Centrino 2 platform.
The delays are pretty short, however… a matter of just a …
On Thursday, Intel introduced a flash chip that stores more data, paving the way for its rollout of upcoming high-capacity solid-state drives.
Intel 32 gigabit NAND flash chip
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The chipmaker, along with Micron Technology, announced a 32-gigabit (Gb) NAND memory device built on a 34-nanometer manufacturing process.
The …
Someday, browsers will make it easy to retrace our Web steps by providing total recall of every page we’ve opened. Until then, we get the imperfect history features in Internet Explorer and Firefox.
They’re imperfect because they seem to remember every page I’ve visited except the only …
Via Technologies is set to go mainstream. On Thursday, Via launched the low-power Nano processor line that will compete with Intel’s Atom processor and likely give the chip supplier some mainstream PC street cred.
Via Nano processor
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Web video search company Mefeedia has just debuted its new news video search feature.
The company, which launched its video search feature in March, explained in a blog post on Wednesday that it now has more than 500 news video sources, searchable by keyword. News sources currently being tracked by …
Private investigators, be warned: if you spy on journalists on behalf of Hewlett-Packard, knowing state and federal laws prohibit you from obtaining their phone records through dubious means, you may end up paying a whopping penalty of $3,000.
That’s the message the Federal Trade Commission delivered on Wednesday …