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Ford Fiesta Econetic limbos under 4L/100km

Working hard to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions, Ford showed off its third Econetic model at the London Motor Show this week.

Google Docs gets limited PDF support

Google Docs, the online office suite from the search giant, now has some limited but still useful support for PDF files.

Mercedes-Benz claims battery breakthrough

Current mass-produced hybrid cars use nickel-metal hydride batteries, but Mercedes-Benz says it will launch the first hybrid with lithium ion batteries in 2009.

TV comes to life with gesture technology

The natural human interface has been a huge theme at this year's CES.

Adobe brings high definition to Flash videos

The next version of Flash Player will support high-definition MPEG 4 video compression standard H.264.

Intel's chipset road map lacks a driver

Executives in charge of Intel's integrated graphics program once hoped to take a giant step forward with the company's latest chipset. Instead, it's running in place.

Microsoft makes copying Vista a monster task

With Windows XP, antipiracy measures were a bit of an afterthought. But with Windows Vista, Microsoft had pirates in its sights from the get go.

Sony's brave Sir Howard

Sony has been in the news a lot in the last year, but mostly for the wrong reasons.

Sony ships 1mn PS3s in Japan, 2mn worldwide

Japanese electronics giant reaches 2006 shipment goal a fortnight after year's end; console still the fastest-growing PlayStation product.

Yahoo beats Microsoft to punch with IE update

Yahoo posts an optimized version of Internet Explorer 7 before Microsoft's own final release of the browser.

Students ditch booze queues with RFID pub tables

Sharp elbows. Long lines. Being ignored by the bartender when you eventually get there.

MySpace feels the heat

All talk of global warming aside, the record-breaking heat wave that knocked out power infrastructures throughout California will probably be best remembered for making MySpace.com look really bad.

Forget the glasses -- 3D monitors ready now

Expect to see more opportunities for three-dimensional viewing show up on TVs, mobile phones and beyond.

Reliability of USB flash drives questioned

According to a report released by data recovery specialist Payam Data Recovery, cases of faulty USB flash drives are on the rise, growing at an even faster rate than unit sales themselves.

Forecast: Up to 7 million PlayStation 3s to ship soon

Following Sony's unsurprising PlayStation 3 keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, some pundits prophesized that the console would undergo supply shortages similar to those that Xbox 360 suffered last year.

Intel debuts Core Duo: dual-core processors come to laptops

In a keynote speech by CEO Paul Otellini at CES 2006 in Las Vegas, Intel officially unveiled its new Centrino Duo Mobile Technology.

Toshiba's PMC-equipped Gigabeat S

Toshiba's new Gigabeat S series looks like a true 2006 contender as it incorporates Microsoft's superintuitive Portable Media Center software into an attractive 30GB or 60GB portable video player.

Bye-bye hard-drive, hello flash

The world as notebook users know it is about to change in a flash.

Rokr iTunes phone, iPod Nano unveiled

Ending months of speculation, Apple Computer on Wednesday rolled out a mobile phone capable of playing music and a tiny new iPod that will replace the popular iPod Mini.

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