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New technologies are developing that make displays flexible, foldable or even as rollable as papyrus, so that large screens can be unfurled from small containers.

AP - Internet company Terra says it has been awarded Internet and mobile rights to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Latin America.

Hamburg - Most customers find themselves overwhelmed by the variety when buying blank CDs or DVDs. But they can only tell whether they have bought the right one after burning the CD. If it skips when played or if the data stored on it becomes unreada...

Munich - Using the wrong kind of power adapter may cause a computer to crash during heavy usage, the German PC-Welt magazine reported recently. Power may be severed, if the adapter does not meet the right specifications, the report added. That would ...

Hamburg - An avid gamer, Eje Stabler is not always prepared to wait for the German release of computer games. And thanks to online stores specializing in imported games, he doesn't have to. These stores, once frequented by gamers keen on becoming the...

In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the...

As the Web has become an irreplaceable part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.

Crysta Metcalf has eavesdropped on the conversations of strangers, pored over their personal photographs and grilled them on their closest relationships. Such nosiness is all part of her job of studying people and how they communicate. Metcalf is the principal staff anthropologist at Motorola. Her responsibility is to spot long-term trends in how people socialize and interact.

biscuitfever11 writes "Just two months ago it seemed that Bletchley Park, the home of Station X, Britain's secret code-breaking base during the War, was doomed as the codebreakers' huts rotted and the site fell into disrepair. But today Britain's Lottery Fund is set to step in with a grant to rescue the ailing heritage site. (There was an earlier story on ZDNet.)"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Why doesn't free trump expensive? Every microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products.