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Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Last fall, YouTube announced that it hosted 1 billion views every day, a total that has apparently more than doubled. In honor of its fifth anniversary, the site released a gratuitous pat-on-the-back blog post which announced that YouTube now "exceeds over two billions views a day." [From: The Guardian] In response to President ...

Don't look now, but soon HP could know about every move you make. According to CNN, HP will start depositing "smart dust" around the globe in the next two years. The term was coined in the 1990s by UC Berkeley researcher Kris Pister, who envisioned "smart dust" spreading rice-grain sized sensors across the Earth (think a more mobile version of Helen Hunt's tornado trackers in 'Twister'). These ...

It's no secret that, despite garnering tons of hype, Palm's Web OS was simply too little and too late in the game to compete with smart phone powerhouses. Maybe it was the super creepy ads. Maybe it was the questionable exclusivity deal it struck with Sprint. Whatever the straw was that broke the proverbial camel's back, Palm has found itself trailing far behind in the mobile OS wars. Rumors had ...

Now that Apple has jumped into the tablet arena, everyone else is clamoring to capitalize on the new found attention being garnered by the form factor. We already know that HP has one in the works, and Microsoft has been teasing us with the drool-inducing Courier for months now. Even Dell and Nokia are getting in on the slate craze, and we spent some hands on time at CES with many lower profile ...

The Climate Group, a group of tech companies including Google, AT&T, Intel, GE, HP and Verizon, has written a letter (.PDF) to President Obama urging him to explicitly support the building of a smart grid and the deployment of smart metering technologies to every home and business in the U.S. The use of smart grid technologies is believed to be an essential ingredient in creating more ...

Apple may have made a big splash with the iPad this weekend, but HP wasn't about to sit quietly on the sidelines and let the Cupertino boys hog the spotlight. We first caught a glimpse of the HP Slate at CES, and the manufacturer (with a little help from Adobe) has yet to pass up a chance to take pot-shots at Apple's netpad-light, over-sized iPhone, toy-tablet device. The latest comes in the ...

Software Software When it comes to purchasing pre-loaded software with your computer, our advice is to avoid it at all costs. Most companies, like Dell and HP, will allow you to decline at least some of the crapware that comes loaded on a PC, but only Sony offers the option of getting an unmolested Windows 7 install. While it's tempting to have Microsoft Office and security software (a ...

We're sure someone out there has already dubbed this the year of the tablet, and it's hard to blame them. Gadget makers all over CES were showing off slate and tablet devices of every stripe, some running NVIDIA's Tegra platform and Android, and some using Intel hardware to push Windows and Linux. But through the chaos, clear trends were forming, dividing lines being drawn. There were also a ...

After days of hype, the big news from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, during his keynote address this evening, was (aside from the power outage) the HP Slate, which appears to be a Windows 7-based touchscreen tablet. He debuted the prototype HP device, which still doesn't have an official name, in a rather uneventful presentation; we got to see some games, a PC Kindle app (showing off vampire novel ...

It's a bit ahead of schedule, but information about new laptops and PCs scheduled to be unveiled this week at CES is already leaking out to a gadget-hungry public. First up is HP, or Hewlett Packard, and Engadget got the scoop on eight new computers from the company, including three new models being added to its Mini line of netbooks. Details are still a bit thin, but here's a quick rundown of ...

After a video (after the break) that demonstrates a problem with Hewlett-Packard's (HP) webcams exploded on YouTube, the manufacturer is reexamining its software while handling a PR nightmare. In a video posted on December 10th, a black male and a white female show how an HP computer's facial-tracking software fails to recognize the black man's movements. Yeah, you know where this is headed. ...

HP Touchsmart 300z (Novice, Under $2,500) HP's all-in-one desktop ($799 – $1,099, depending on the configuration) includes the specs you'd want for day-to-day computing: a 20-inch widescreen LCD, an AMD Athlon multi-core processor, 2-4-gigabytes (GB) of RAM and up to a 750 GB hard drive. But what separates the Touchsmart 300z from the pack is the user-friendly, iPhone-like touchscreen ...

HP Beats Laptop (Media Hound, Under $2,500) It's rare that a PC laptop makes even Mac owners look twice, but look twice at the above photo. See? The 15-inch black-and-red stunna -- essentially an HP Envy with a Beats by Dr. Dre veneer -- has a lot in common with the MacBook Pro, actually: the chiclet keyboard, the buttonless, multitouch trackpad, the slim, bezel-etched design, even the ...

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, underwent successful breast cancer surgery Monday at Stanford University Hospital in California. Diagnosed on February 20th, Fiorina is set to participate in chemotherapy treatments at Stanford with an excellent chance for a full recovery, according to her chief of staff Deborah Bowker. During her tenure as CEO of HP, a position she held from ...

, Well, what do you know? Nearly four years after Arizona State University opened its very own flexible display center comes this, a prototype device that's purportedly easy to manufacture, easy on the environment and practically as strong as Thor. HP and ASU have teamed up to demonstrate the fresh e-displays, which are constructed almost entirely of plastic and consume far less power than ...