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Electronic devices are the fastest-growing source of power demand in the world, but there is resistance to efficiency.

Amazon is expected to soon sell more general merchandise than media products like books and DVDs.

A proponent of a collaborative method of working believes it saves a company time and money by revealing bugs quickly.

After a $1.50 fee was added to bills mailed in August, the number of people opting for paperless billing jumped to 33,000 a day from 1,000 a day.

Thanks to digital technology, cake toppers are more customizable than they have ever been.

Amazon.com is expanding its line of private-label products and will offer basic consumer electronics items such as cables and blank DVDs under the AmazonBasics brand.

The lawsuit asserts that Joost’s former chief executive misused confidential technical information about the peer-to-peer architecture behind both Skype and Joost.

Five lawsuits filed against John Does on Thursday will give the software company subpoena power to help track down purveyors of Internet malware.

Second International Conference on 'Networked Digital Technologies' (NDT2010) (10)

Date:Aug 4 10 to Aug 6 10 Deadline:May 1 10 Location:London Url: http://www.dirf.org/ndt2010 Keywords:Data and Network mining, Simulation models for social networks,Internet Modeling Description:The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at the London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University, UK from August 4-6, 2010 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. Currently, a number of institutions across the countries are working to evolve better models to provide collaborative technology services for scholarship by creating shared cyberspace thro expert collaboration, but this is a challenge for the institutions for a number of reasons. In the last few years, the landscape of digital technology applications projects for the various disciplines in humanities, social sciences, and sciences appears induced by many initiatives. For the creation of research clusters, the research community has thousands of databases, websites, local computing clusters, and web-based tools around individual themes, interests and projects. In most cases, these tools and resources are and were created to meet the specific needs of a particular community. In many cases, the funding and support for these critical initiatives is fragile and temporary, and directed in piecemeal fashion. There is a need to provide concerted efforts in building federated digital technologies that will enable the formation of network of digital technologies

The proposal would expand and formalize rules meant to keep Internet providers from discriminating against certain content flowing over their networks.

The Justice Department said late Friday that a proposed legal settlement between Google and book authors and publishers should not be approved by the court without modifications.

The musically eclectic Guitar Hero 5 is the most enjoyable Guitar Hero game in several years.

Microsoft Corp on Thursday filed five civil lawsuits in Seattle, Washington against alleged “malvertisers.”

While Apple claims it is still considering the iPhone application for Google Voice, Google says the company rejected the app outright because it could replace core functions of the iPhone's dialer software.

Yahoo plans to introduce a big marketing push next week to reinvigorate its brand, backed by a budget of $100 million.

A new app maps out child-friendly locations in New York City.

The company will introduce a long-awaited system that will instantly match ad buyers with ad sellers when a customer visits a Web site.

In addition to banning flash orders, regulators are also seeking new limits on the credit rating industry.

Google's agreement with some news publishers over its new Fast Flip service resembles other deals that Google has cut with content owners.

Facebook said it had passed an important financial milestone and become cash-flow positive. The service now has 300 million members.