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A Web-based service under development offers a new tool intended to help with the matchmaking of inventors and companies.

Between laptop-sized computers and hand-held devices, is there room for a third category whose size would fall between the two?

PARENTS will have to pay thousands of dollars to help implement Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's election promise of a computer for every student.

Washington - Can a faster computer allow you to surf the internet with fewer lags? Yes, but only to a point. The speed of your computer has relatively little to do with pure internet performance. Most of the time you spend waiting will be a result of...

Willich, Germany - The format war is over, and Blu-ray has emerged as the victor in the fight to succeed the standard DVD. Now manufacturers are hoping that Blu-ray DVDs will also conquer the hearts of PC users. Surprisingly affordable drives are now...

Bonn- Users of the PDF program Adobe Reader should update the software as several weak points have been found and hackers have already used one of them to their advantage. Otherwise users risk having damaging files on their computer, the German Feder...

"I am suggesting that language evolved to allow us to gossip . . . to facilitate the bonding of social groups . . . it mainly achieves this aim by permitting the exchange of socially relevant information."

GURGAON, India -- When Aashish Sharma graduated from law school two years ago, his father had visions of seeing him argue in an Indian court and eventually become an honorable judge.

The greenhouse at Phelps High School is a shell of exterior brick walls and exposed steel beams. But by August, when a $63.8 million renovation of the school in Northeast Washington is finished, the space will have computer-controlled window shades and watering systems.

TOKYO (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen and Japan's Sanyo Electric Co will jointly develop a lithium-ion battery to be used in hybrid and electric cars, the Nikkei financial daily reported on Sunday.