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Part 1 of this two-part series looks at the current state of the vote-tallying system and calls for its reform in the wake of vote-counting irregularities in the last two presidential elections. Part 2 explores whether open source software in electronic voting machines is the solution ...

Amazon.com will launch a new streaming video service in the next "several weeks," CEO Jeff Bezos said Wednesday ...

Sony Electronics and the six largest U.S. cable companies have signed an agreement that paves the way toward allowing consumers to view interactive digital and high-definition video services on "two-way" devices without a set-top box, the companies announced Tuesday ...

As the 2008 elections approach, political mudslinging on the campaign trail has become an all-too-familiar sight. No less muddy, however -- and no less central to the democratic process -- is the battle that's currently being waged over the ballot box ...

Michael Hollick isn't really a Balkan criminal -- he just plays one in a video game that happens to be one of the fastest-selling ever, generating at least US$600 million in sales over the last three weeks ...

Nanotechnology may be considered one of the most promising new technologies emerging today, but it's also the source of considerable concern about potential risks to the environment and human health. A new study published Tuesday in Nature Nanotechnology adds further evidence that there's good reason for that concern ...

Atlantic hurricanes will be fewer in number but more intense as a result of global warming, a new study predicts ...

Fighting the animated powers of evil may be a reward unto itself for some gamers, but it can't hold a candle to finding a cure for cancer. A new game from scientists at the University of Washington, however, aims to tap gamers' brain power to make medical discoveries, with the potential even to win the Nobel Prize ...

The Open Handset Alliance may have the power of Google behind it, but a surge of new members has just swelled the ranks of the competing LiMo Foundation to 40, the group announced Wednesday. Verizon Wireless is the marquee name on the list of new members, becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to join the foundation ...

Taking on the likes of Adobe and Microsoft, Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled its new JavaFX family of products for building rich Internet applications ...

Second Life is no place for kids, a Republican congressman declared Monday ...

T-Mobile customers in New York City are the first to be able to enjoy its long-awaited third-generation (3G) wireless service, the company announced Monday ...

Researchers at HP Labs have proven the existence of the "memristor," a component of electrical circuits that could lead to computer systems with memories that never forget, the company announced Wednesday ...

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday brought new how-to guides and services to the community of more than 3,000 developers using its OpenSolaris-based open storage platform ...

Search online for a particular type of image today, and the results will reflect more or less exclusively the text that's associated with them. A new technology presented by two Google researchers last week, however, promises to use visual cues in the images themselves to rank their relevance ...

Months of eager anticipation came to an end Thursday with the long-awaited release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron ...

IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications ...

Internet service providers that serve advertising when a user requests a Web page that doesn't exist are exposing their users to a giant security breach, according to security researcher Dan Kaminsky ...

In what surely came as a blow to many Linux aficionados, Red Hat announced Wednesday that it will not develop a desktop implementation of the operating system for the consumer market anytime soon ...

A new fashion shopping site from Florida boutique La Ti Da is banking on personalized service to set it apart ...