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Just about all of the gadgets that we take for granted each day from cameras to our notebooks and mobile phones use lithium-ion batteries. These batteries have been around for many years and for the most part are trouble free. However, last year and in 2007 a number of fires and explosions caused  by overheating lithium-ion batteries resulted in some of ...

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7 after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers. Windows 7 so far has been doing much better than Vista and is growing rapidly in marketshare in the computer market. Early reports showed that retail box sales of Windows 7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the ...

Nov. 10 - The target of thieves who stole more than $2,000 worth of gear last week at a Rock Hill hotel is a Fort Mill-based National Guardsmen leaving today for training and then Afghanistan. Sgt. Jimmy Butler, 28, who served with the Fort Mill unit in Iraq in 2003-2004 and has been in the guard for 10 years, said ...

For a great many years, scientists have believed that the oceans on our planet were formed from water vapors emitted during volcanic eruptions that condensed and fell to the ground over millions of years. But a scientist now proposes that this might not have been the case. He argues that water is not something that our planet had when it ...

Intel is suing NVIDIA in an effort to get them dropped from chipset licensing on Nehalem boards.  NVIDIA has filed countersuit against Intel.  NVIDIA has even gone as far as to sponsor cartoons lampooning Intel. NVIDIA particularly enraged Intel when it convinced Apple to dump Intel's integrated graphics from its product lineup in favor of NVIDIA designs.   Intel vows it ...

Apple has long opted for a system of closed computer hardware, disallowing third party OS X computers.  Nonetheless, small companies retailing cheaper OS X boxes have continually popped up, the latest of which is Psystar.  Legal pressure from Apple has typically succeeded in eventually killing such companies, but it typically isn't long before a new one pops up. Individual users also ...

NVIDIA and Intel, two of the electronics industry's largest veteran powers, have never been too warm or close.  Recently, the pair can't seem to stop stepping on each other's toes.  The pair's troubles started last year with NVIDIA releasing its Ion integrated graphics platform, which NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang likened to opening a "can of whoop-ass".  Intel was not too happy ...

While Apple seems to be content with "going negative" when it comes to commercials touting its computing products, Microsoft has taken a different route with Windows 7. Apple has focused more on bashing Windows 7 (and the faults of its predecessors) rather than focus on the main strengths of the OS X platform. Microsoft, on the other hand, has created positive ...

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. says it is cutting 800 more jobs. That's in addition to the 5,000 layoffs it announced in January. Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, said Wednesday the cuts are being made in offices around the globe. He would not say what specific product groups or job types are affected. Gellos also says Microsoft had already let nearly ...

NASA's Swift satellite is the first spacecraft to have spotted the first signs from the earliest known explosion in the entire Universe. The phenomenon is believed to have taken place about 13 billion years ago, when the Cosmos was just around 700 million years old. The star that exploded sent forth a massive amount of radiation, in the form of ...

Blind phone hacker's reign comes to a close On June 12, 2006, SWAT police stormed a house in Alvarado, Texas.  They had received a call from what appeared to be the phone number, from an individual who reported that he was holding hostages and had killed family members with an AK47 while high on hallucinogenic drugs.  The operation, which likely cost ...

'Facebook is believed to be under attack by a relatively organized group of cybercriminals.' - Facebook, the world's largest social networking site with over 200 million users, is an attractive target for hackers and cyber criminals.  Unsurprisingly, the site has been increasingly under attack in recent months.  The latest attack comes in a cohesive phishing assault designed to lure Facebook's users ...

'The state has refused to pay the $10M ransom demand.' - Days after it was revealed a hacker successfully compromised the Virginia Health database and stole records of more than 8 million patients; the state of Virginia announced it will not pay a requested $10 million ransom. The database is used by pharmacies and doctors to track narcotics and painkiller prescriptions, ...

'TWC throws down the gauntlet in additional markets.' - Nearly a year ago, DailyTech brought you news that Time Warner Cable (TWC) planned to implement bandwidth restrictions in Texas. The initial plan was to use Beaumont, Texas as a trial run for bandwidth caps meaning that customers would no longer have access to unrestricted, "all-you-can-eat" internet bandwidth. The Beaumont test bed ...

'Microsoft is listening to you, and here's what it's done.' - Microsoft's Windows 7 team has been pretty quiet for the last month and a half since releasing their beta to the public, and many wondered what, if any, changes were going to show up in the final version of Windows 7.  Microsoft's senior vice president in charge of the Windows ...

'A new study claims to have found modest links between video game play and poor relationships.' - Video games are either the scourge of the Earth or a great way to spend some time with friends and family as well as an outlet for aggression depending on who you speak with. There have been many studies that have looked into the ...

'Who leaked Windows 7? Was it Microsoft? Or hackers? Or the 1991 Denver Broncos?' - Microsoft's Windows 7 beta 1 was not officially intended for release until January.  However, the release somehow hit torrent sites this week.  Many, including commenters here at DailyTech, suspected the "leak" was really a clever ruse by Microsoft to drum up tech community excitement for its ...

'Unfortunately, the fix won't arrive until next Vista service pack.' - Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is one of the most maligned operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. The operating system has been panned by some users and critics and has become the brunt of jokes in commercials from rival Apple for its Mac computer systems. One of the key things ...

'Windows 7 is set to drop mid-year 2009, says Microsoft. The company also detailed its plans for improving Vista.' - At Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), an important yearly event for the tech giant, new hardware details on the upcoming Windows 7 weren't the only revelation that Microsoft had in store.  Perhaps the most significant development of the conference came as ...

Nov. 19 - School rules are trickier in cyberspace. As social networking sites attract younger followers, schools across the country are grappling with the fuzzy boundary between harmless online chatter and valid security concerns. The issue hit North Texas this month when two Frisco middle-schoolers were suspended for threatening to kill their teacher on Facebook. Legal experts say districts face an ...