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Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years.

By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them.
The move to the advanced format will make it easier for hard drive makers to produce bigger drives [...]

A Web browser's speed isn't something one often thinks about apart from the speed of the computer it's installed on. But if you use multiple browsers on the same system—whether for professional or merely personal-preference reasons—you'll probably notice certain variations between them, even if the they usually don't amount to much more than a few [...]

A new Blue Ribbon Task Force reports that addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age — ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future — requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical. (Credit: Image courtesy of University [...]

(Reuters) – A Web application that alerts wine grape farmers when their vines are thirsty has won first place in a competition to spur entrepreneurs in the investment-starved water sector, organizers said on Monday.

Fruition Sciences, which operates in both California and France, came first among 50 teams in Imagine H2O's global competition aimed at building [...]

Internet users around the world are attracted by
the availability of information.

Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.

The survey – of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries – found strong support for net access on both [...]

Owners of Nvidia-based video cards may be putting those cards, as well as the rest of their PCs, at risk if they're using the latest version of Nvidia's graphics drivers. First reported by beta testers playing Starcraft II, the problem with the recently released driver update 196.75 may affect you, even if you're not a [...]

Say goodbye to the earth tones: According to a story on Ars Technica, the popular Linux distro Ubuntu will be getting a new look and new branding when version 10.04 is released.

Anyone who's used previous versions of Ubuntu is familiar with the elegant but flat brown color that's long been the primary hue in its [...]

The residents of Stassfurt can take a virtual tour of their city by mouse click. (Credit: Copyright Fraunhofer IFF)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2010) — Cities have to come up with creative ideas to attract investors. Specially developed software provides support and sends interested companies on a virtual tour of an industrial park. Residents can use the [...]

Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the US, according to a survey.

Reading newspapers has become less popular in the US and UK.
It is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV stations, the Pew Research Center said.
"News awareness is becoming an anytime, anywhere, any device activity for [...]

Microsoft is to ask millions of users across Europe if they want to use a web browser other than its own.

Users will be introduced to some obscure browsers.
Windows users will be offered the choice as part of a deal Microsoft struck with the European Commission.
The agreement resolves a long-running case in which the software giant [...]