Armed robots called MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) and hi-tech soldier gear called "Land Warrior" are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan in an effort to decrease the allied casualties and increase allied effectiveness.

Google is taking a step deeper into Microsoft’s turf by designing web applications that are functional in the offline world. Though with this initial launch, only the word processor in Google Docs will work offline, more is sure to follow.

In the latest case of pointless legal battles, T-Mobile hand delivered a letter to a popular tech site focused around mobile gadgets. The letter asks the site to site to stop using the color magenta because — as explained with too many sentences in the letter — it belongs to T-Mobile.

It doesn’t come as any surprise that the telco you love to hate is going to extremes in order to add channels to its line-up.  Comcast has decided that three HD channels can fit in the bandwidth previously allocated for two.  The image quality which used to be perfect HD is now full of static and noise.

Adobe’s been busy lately - not only launching Adobe Photoshop Express but announcing its joining the Linux Foundation. Another surprise: Adobe AIR for Linux.

The crackdown on illegal file sharers in the UK which has been rumoured for months is soon going to begin in earnest, with Virgin Media the first ISP to trial the “three strikes and you’re out” regime.

HD DVD is long dead, but we shouldn’t assume that means Blu-ray is the ultimate winner. In fact, it could already be nearing its end, being beaten by a combination of DVDs and digital downloads.

Ethical hackers - a term that seems like an oxymoron of sorts. A self-styled group of them have a mission to work against those who would seek to hide security flaws with spin.

You may not always be able to trust what you read on Wikipedia, but with the news that the number of articles has now gone beyond ten million, there’s certainly not a dearth of pages to read.

Society has always had a fear of hackers since the advent of computers and the internet. The hacker community’s notoriety has been relatively low, as of late, because of its relative dormancy. That all should change: possibly the first time ever, hackers have used their ways to attack innocent people physically, in the form of a methodical attack on an epilepsy support forum.

If Obama is the most technologically knowledgeable candidate, McCain is the one most likely to vote in favor of big telecommunications companies and against necessary ideals like network neutrality. He doesn’t vote that way out of any pool of knowledge, he votes that way because he is firmly in the telco lobby pockets.

It’s coming on for almost a year since the original Apple iPhone launched in the US, and what a year it has been for the company and the product. With that in mind, Apple are preparing for the launch of a new version of the iPhone, dubbed iPhone 2.0, which looks set for a June release.

At this year’s PWN 2 OWN hacking contest, a MacBook Air was hacked before any Vista or Linux machines. The skilled hacker responsible for the victory walked away as this year’s champion with the hacked computer and $10,000. It seems Apple really does employ a reality distortion field over its customers, and if this isn’t evidence, we couldn’t say what is.

The newspaper industry has lost money to the Internet for years now, and its remaining pools of profit are drying up faster than ever. The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) is reporting a 9.4% decrease in ad revenue profits for newspapers when comparing 2006 to 2007.

When everything else fails, why not turn to tax. Which is exactly what Warner Music and others are contemplating in a last ditch attempt to save the dead business model which they are desperately clinging on to.

The Nintendo Wii and the Apple iPhone are two of the most popular gadgets on the market right now. But their uses go beyond mere entertainment, and the technology in both devices has now been adapted to be used by the US military.

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