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Before they ship PCs to retailers like Best Buy, computer makers get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to load them up with lots of free software. For $30, Best Buy will get rid of it for you.

Iogear's new U.S.B. Laptop K.V.M. Switch, a double-ended cable that connects two Windows PCs or laptops together, lets you use one PC to control the other and even drag files between the machines.

Combining a graphics tablet with a built-in camera and a computer-based set of creativity tools, Stylin' Studio is the latest thing in face-editing technology.

San Francisco - Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were busy Wednesday fighting a computer virus that managed to infect one of the laptop computers used by astronauts on the space station, a spokesman for the US ...

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Apple is looking to protect technology that could be used in a multi-touch interface Mac, and the application diagrams show the concepts in use on a tablet-based device. The patent filing shows a device that appears to be a computer running Mac OS X instead of a stripped down OS for handheld devices

My computer has recently started crashing on me after roughly 20 minutes in any game. I've had this rig for over three months and have gamed a lot on it prior to the recent crashing issues and I've run numerous tests on the memory and power supply and they both check out so I'm thinking it's heat related.

At the PROJECT Las Vegas fashion trade show this week, Microsoft Corp. tries to bring the worlds of computers and fashion together, strutting its partners' coolest PC designs before fashionistas and style divas.

Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices. Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, saying Apple's tying of the Mac OS to Apple-labeled hardware is 'an anticompetitive restrain of trade', according to attorney Colby Springer of antitrust specialists Carr & Ferrell. Psystar is requesting that the court find Apple's EULA void, and is asking for unspecified damages. Psystar's attorneys are calling Apple's allegations of Psystar's copyright infringement 'misinformed and mischaracterized'. Psystar argues that its OpenComputer product is shipped with a fully licensed, unmodified copy of Mac OS X, and that the company has simply 'leveraged open source-licensed code including Apple's OS' to ena