Lenovo Group said it is investigating into the Lenovo ThinkPad T43 laptop that caught on fire at Los Angeles International airport. The ThinkPad T43 notebook that overheated and began smoking was using a Sony-made battery. Nobody was hurt and there is no word on the cause of the fire. Lenovo said the ThinkPad T43 used [...]

Video-sharing service Motionbox announced on Wednesday that addition of a new deep-tagging feature, which allows users to tag selected portions inside of a video, sharing only the best parts with others. The feature lets Motionbox users mark specific moments inside a video and add descriptive keywords that apply just to those selected portions; the keywords [...]

Publisher Conde Nast has introduced a palm-sized, 80GB portable hard drive that contains the entire archive of its New Yorker magazine, spanning over 4,000 issues dating back to 1925. The 3×5-inch, brushed aluminum USB drive is selling for $299, and includes around 20GB of extra space on the hard drive for personal use, or subsequent [...]

Korean consumer electronics firm Samsung has introduced a new 32GB flash memory card, which can be doubled to 64GB and provide storage capacity for up to 40 movies or 16,000 songs in portable media players, cell phones and other devices. Samsung did not provide release date details for the new flash memory technology. Yesterday, Apple [...]

If you have some money to invest in a new and potentially groundbreaking wireless technology then Florida-based XG Technology would like to hear from you. XMax is the first mobile Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) system, making it easier for operators to set up mobile phone and data communications systems by using unlicensed sections of [...]

Yet another gadget to add a bit of versatility to your iPod. If turning it into a karaoke machine isn’t your thing, how about a voice recorder, with the XtremeMac MicroMemo? It might look like an old-style fruit machine, but that arm is actually a removeable microphone. The MicroMemo plugs right into your dock connector [...]

Usually, clarity and style are key components to a successful font. Not for Xerox – they’ve just developed MicroText – just 1/100th of an inch high and only visible with a magnifying glass. In fact, when a 100-page book is converted to the MicroText font, it can be printed on a standard A4 sheet of [...]

The number of phishing sites — or fraudulent Web sites try to fool people into handing over sensitive personal information — rose to 14,191 in July, an 18 percent increase over May, the previous all-time high, said the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). The fraudulent sites mimicked a record 154 brands, up 20 percent over June [...]

Free conference calls will soon be available to Yahoo Messenger users. The ConFreeCall plug-in from Vapps will be available for download through Yahoo Messenger with Voice service. It will allow people to hold free conference calls to complement Yahoo’s existing text, voice and photo-sharing services. A Vapps representative said the plug-in will be available within [...]

Company seeks to make enterprise search accessible to nontechnical users. SAP AG unwrapped its Enterprise Search application to help customers conduct specific secure queries of structured and unstructured data held in both SAP and non-SAP software. The vendor announced the search application Tuesday at its TechEd developer conference in Las Vegas during a flurry of [...]

Content from new partners, including videos, photos and blogs, is coming to the maps on Google Earth. The search giant apparently hopes to encourage curiosity about the world–and its Google Earth map application–by offering overlays of content from the United Nations Environment Program, the Jane Goodall Institute, the U.S. National Park Service and the Discovery [...]

The survey suggests that general personal use of the Internet takes up an average of an hour a day per employee: not just on porn of course, but I’m surprised there are what sounds like a significant proportion of workers prepared to take the risk. Either there are some companies with extremely lax policies, or [...]

I love video projectors, but they can often take up valuable space in the middle of a room as they’re still relatively large, particularly in a home environment. So I was interested to read of news of a projector that has been developed that’s about the size of a sugar cube. Actual dimensions are 16mm [...]

Millions of would-be starlets attempt to grab fans and fame each day on free video-sharing site YouTube. But on Tuesday (21 August 2006), the site began accepting payment for sky-rocketing videos to a prime spot on its home page. One so-called “participatory video ad” will be featured each day on the site and can be [...]

First, there was the war between eight-track tapes and cassettes. Then there was Betamax versus VHS. Now a new battle for the future of home entertainment is once again forcing consumers to choose. High-definition DVDs are supposed to provide sharp, wide-screen images to fill the more than 30 million HD television sets that have been [...]