Step aside, Tipper Gore. The new icon thumbing his nose at what kids are listening to these days is none other than The Who's Pete Townshend. OK, so maybe the legendary guitarist with the classic pendulum strum who rocked on about My Generation -- ummm, two generations ago -- isn't overly concerned about the

LONDON - Landmark BBC television reports of major world events from the past half-century will be available free online to British computer users.
 
Footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, protests in Tiananmen Square and the famous 1984 dispatch detailing famine in Ethiopia, which prompted the Live Aid charity

Network-based IP VPN revenues will nearly double from 2004 to 2009, to reach $658 million in sales, according to a new report by In-Stat.

The report said that the growth is due to VPN intelligence being moved to the edge of the network, rather than tunneling at the CPE with CPE-based VPN

LAS VEGAS-- Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates shared his company's future vision for seamlessly connecting users to personalized digital content through next-generation software, services and devices during his keynote at Consumer Electronics Show here on Wednesday.

If the array of demonstrations Microsoft showed on the stage Wednesday was any indication,

Eastman Kodak and Lexar Media have introduced new memory cards for high-speed processing, rapid-fire still shots, high frame rate video recording and fast computer transfer.

The cards, introduced in Las Vegas Monday, are fully compatible with a long list of consumer electronics devices such as cameras, PDAs, and KODAK Picture Kiosks in

Apple has posted firmware updates for its AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express wireless networking base stations. Separate updates have been published for Mac OS X and Windows hardware for each device; they are all available for download from Apple’s Web site.
 
The updates will bring AirPort Extreme base station firmware

LAS VEGAS, NV — Motorola Ventures, Motorola Inc.'s investment arm, has made a strategic investment in CopperGate Communications, a Israeli-based supplier of chipset solutions for multimedia home networking.

The investment was made as part of a $14.5 million round led by new investor Carmel Ventures, with the participation of existing investors Tamir Fishman

A small but growing percentage of computer users today reap the benefits that Linux offers: cost savings, improved security, and more flexible, customized working environments.
 
Linux has long included strong support for PostScript-based printers (which includes most laser models), because PostScript is the default printing subsystem on UNIX, the operating system

LONDON — Microdisplays specialist Kopin Corp. has teamed with Israeli group ExPlay to develop a nano projector for portable, hand-held devices.
Under the $2.2 million program, partially funded by the BIRD Foundation, Kopin (Taunton, Mass.) and ExPlay (Herzelia) aim to come up with a projection engine with target optical efficiencies nearly 10

Entertainment giant Disney is expanding its video offerings for the iTunes platform with the addition of content from its ESPN and ABC Sports outlets as the company pushes further into the mobile-media realm.
 
Kicking off the latest effort are condensed versions of this year's four college BCS bowl football games