(Credit: Dell ) For an entry-level 12.1-inch ultraportable, the Vostro 1220 sure is pretty. An upgrade from the Vostro 1200, this series targets the SMB user who might want to save a few bucks and doesn’t need the high-end features like the Centrino vPro platform in the Latitude lineup. …...

Grab it and go. (Credit: Hamilton Beach) Summer is all about being on the go. There’s good reason to be, too. The weather is nice, the kids are out of school, and it is time for vacation. We don’t have time for sitting around; there’s just too … Originally posted at Appliances...

(Credit: University of Leeds) Engineers in England have come up with a product to save a few bob for those who work in semi-dangerous occupations–cement body armor. The vests combine “super strong” cement with recycled carbon fiber, making the vests tough enough to withstand most bullet...

Extreme sports and music go hand in hand, so it’s not surprising companies such as Skullcandy and Nixon take advantage of this relationship to market headphones to teens and young adults with an interest in such activities. Now you can add Roxy to the list. The female-centric surfwear maker …...

Donald and Jasmine bow to listener pressures and dedicate (almost) an entire episode to Bluetooth. On deck: a description of A2DP Bluetooth technology in detail, some fascinating info about the iPod Touch/iPhone’s partially crippled BT functionality, and product shout-outs for Bluetooth-capable...

Apple has confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs has officially gone back to work, according to numerous media reports. Beyond saying that Jobs would be working both at his office and from home, and that the company was happy to have him back, Apple provided no details about its chief’s future involvement...

Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, has agreed to acquire The Pirate Bay video-sharing Web site — whose owners are under fire for brokering copyrighted content — for nearly $7.8 million. Pirate Bay is one of the largest video-sharing sites on the Internet. The site has...

Straight out from a sitcom, President Obama’s speech is interrupted — humorously — by a quacking duck. The phonecall came from one of the members of the media during a press conference. Post from: Cellphone9 More here: Obama’s speech stopped by duck ringtone

Mozilla on Tuesday released a Web browser that it said is 10 times faster than its original browser. One year after releasing Firefox 3.0, the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit released Firefox 3.5, which it said is two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2. The free open-source...

Rohnert Park, Calif., June 30, 2009 - Red Condor, the award-winning provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a recent third-party head-to-head anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test between Red Condor Message Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) and...

Burlington, Mass., June 30th, 2009 - Veracode Inc., provider of the world’s leading Application Risk Management Platform, today announced expansion of its SecurityReview cloud-based subscription service to support mobile applications. With more than 100,000 mobile applications already in the market...

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 30, 2009 — Lucid Imagination, a commercial company dedicated to supporting open source Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies, and ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today...