But the usual suspects--gadget fanatics--aren't the ones at the front of the line.

Company's decision to add a link to its home page that leads to its Privacy Center is enough to quell a controversy.

Every year, the U.S. Army designates a set of top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers.

CNET Reviews rates the Garmin Nuvi 880 car GPS gadget, a Panasonic Viera flat-screen TV, the Asus Eee PC 901 laptop, and more.

Fourth-ranked search engine completes its acquisition of the parent company of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.

Parents had put their baby boy up for sale on eBay--apparently as a joke--but German authorities didn't find it particularly amusing.

Company's founder takes the place of the CEO and president, who resigned abruptly earlier this week.

Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are facing probes, proxies, and accusations of backroom politicking as their various attempts to link up come under scrutiny. Also: searching for content within Flash is becoming easier.

News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.

TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991.

During a visit to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., CNET News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets to see the high-performance pilots up close.

Oil company turns to the sun, with plans to build a factory manufacturing thin-film solar panels with a cumulative yearly power generation capacity of 1 gigawatt.

After its pairing with board game maker Hasbro, EA shows off its new family-oriented games and an "All-Play" series for Wii.

News.com's Dan Farber tells what's at stake for users' privacy as a result of a federal judge's ruling that Google must turn data over to Viacom.

He says iPhone, still at version 1.1.4, is at least four months behind desktop OS in patching many known Mac OS X security vulnerabilities.

Hackers tried to entice users into downloading the Storm bot Trojan on July 4 with a flood of Fourth of July spam containing links to malicious sites, several security companies reported.

It's the early 1990s when this pilot fish is challenged to find a better way to support telecommuting -- and with a little ingenuity, he does.

Apple on Thursday quietly reduced the price of its most expensive laptop by $500, dropping the cost of the upper-end MacBook Air to $2,598.

E-voting activist Avi Rubin says voting systems around the U.S. have improved since the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, noting that more states are using paper records as a backup to electronic voting systems.

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We look at a range of versatile UMPCs and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) from ASUS, Gigabyte, and Samsung, Amtek, OQO, Roan Digital, Vye, and WiBrain.

The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.

As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year.

Microsoft is working with Circuit City to offer a consumer software subscription service that includes its Office, Windows Live OneCare, Messenger, and Photo Gallery applications and services.

With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.

Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.

Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings.

Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP.

In a case that could shut down RIM's network, the judge has granted a stay until the disputed patents are fully reviewed.

Michael Robertson says Microsoft's imposing lead in the desktop market means Linux should look to next-gen devices for growth.

Some 4.2 million high-speed Internet users received fiber in the first quarter of 2008 versus 2.5 million who received cable, Point Topic analysts said.

The International Organization for Standardization will assume responsibility for publishing specs for the current version, and for updating and developing future versions.

Investors reacted negatively to the graphics chipmaker's revised earnings estimate and the news that it would take up to a $200 million charge for products that failed in notebooks.

In order to accommodate the restrictions that Apple placed on iPhone apps to conserve system resources, this version of Google Talk shuts down if you launch another application.

The Nokia 6220 classic design includes 3G connectivity, compatibility with Microsoft Office applications, Bluetooth capabilities, and a 5-megapixel camera.

AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

AP - Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.

AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

AP - Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously. Now in an increasing number of cities, tipsters are being invited to use their thumbs — to identify criminals using text messages.

CNET - The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday--an entire week before the device goes on sale.

CNET - Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.

Reuters - These days when customers walk into electronics stores, the first question they ask is how much electricity the fridge, washing machine or laptop computer they are contemplating buying consumes.

PC World - Asustek will offer an Eee PC later this year with built-in 3G connectivity.

NewsFactor - Openmoko has taken the wraps off its Neo FreeRunner, a Linux-based smartphone based on the company's open mobile-computing platform. Before you yawn about reading yet another product-introduction story -- especially about a handset that lacks 3G capability -- what sets the Neo FreeRunner apart is that it really is open, literally and figuratively.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.

PC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...

Investor's Business Daily - Now televisions, digital cameras and game consoles commonly link to the world without those physical ties.