I was trying to watch a video on the Web and got prompted to download and install something called Silverlight. What is this, and will it mess up my system? Silverlight is a free Microsoft browser plug-in for streaming high-quality video and other ...
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Titillating stuff from Canon. (Credit: Canon) Rumors of a successor to the Canon 5D have been circulating for a while and now the digital-imaging blogsphere is churning again--this time with a brooding ad Canon has posted on some of its websites ...
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Updated 8:13 AM PTD: Added the number of recalled laptops worldwide. Sony is recalling about 438,000 Vaio TZ-series notebooks worldwide that may overheat and cause burns, the company said Thursday. The number of recalled laptops sold in the United ...
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Oh, Sony. Won't you ever learn? After going through quite the fiasco with laptop batteries spontaneously combusting, Sony has once again come under fire over some overheating notebooks. The good news is that the batteries are fine. The bad news is ...
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Dell CEO Michael Dell said he expects netbooks to eventually be subsidized by wireless telecom carriers that would sell the devices along with 3G service. The comments, made at the Citigroup Technology Conference on Wednesday, could shed some light ...
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Web 2.0, says Forrester consultant Josh Bernoff, "will become so common a way to do business that we won't talk about it anymore." ERNST & YOUNG: Recruiting Ernst & Young set up a page on Facebook two years ago. "We wanted to be able to reach ...
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Sony has blamed a possible manufacturing defect for forcing it to recall 73,000 Vaio TZ laptops, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said today. The recall relates to a problem with wiring near the computer's hinge, which could short-circuit ...
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