Google Risks Wrath of Apple with iGoogle Personalized Home Page

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
All right, I’ll take that back; I don’t really know if they are risking the wrath of Apple, but Google has renamed their Personalized Home Page to iGoogle. We’ll see where it goes from there.
The search giant is renaming and adding new features to Google Personalized Home Page, a product [...]

Thought Controlled Games Coming Soon

ShareBy Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Are you interested in thought controlled video games, and if so, would you be if they adjusted for your thoughts and feelings? Say, you were nervous about something and picked up a game to play, the game would catch the nervousness and make it harder for you to do what you [...]

Is the iPhone Too Slippery?

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Reports have been flying around the Internet that the prototypes of the iPhone that people have been seeing are “too slippery.” People whio have used the device have said it’s definitely drop-prone … not good when you look at the price tag.
According to those who’ve had a little more than [...]

The Tornado: PC to PC Data Transfer Device

ShareBy Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews 

Every once in awhile a gadget lands on your desk and hangs around, kicking up a storm.
The aptly named The Tornado (but not for its destructive capabilities!), is an incredibly useful device for transferring data from one PC to the other.
We have just finished a big Vista migration in which this [...]

Spider-Man Suit Proposed by Scientist

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By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Continuing our strangely comic-book themed posts this week (when’s that Spider-Man 3 movie premiere again?), a scientist has proposed a type of suit using technology based on geckos to allow people to climb walls, ala Peter Parker’s alter-ego.
In an upcoming paper, Nicola Pugno, a professor of structural engineering at the Polytechnic [...]

Anyone Who Pays the Bills is Good Enough for Google

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
So says Ben Edelman, and many other experts in the security field. To avoid future malware attacks on searchers, such as the one I touched on here, more detail here, Google needs to more thoroughly investigate advertisers and publishers in their Adwords and Adsense programs. In short, malware “distributors” created fraudulent [...]

Casio Show: Exilim Hi-Zoom EX-V7 and EX-Z1050 – FIRST LOOK Reviews

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By Martin Regtien
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews 
Today DigitalReviews.net are having a quick look at Casio’s latest high-end models, the exciting 7x zoom EX-V7 as well as one of the few 10 mega pixel cameras on the market in the digicam range.
Both cameras are exciting in different ways and come loaded with features.  But are they picture perfect?  [...]

SP3 Coming for Microsoft Office 2003

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Microsoft will be backporting security work it did for Office 2007 and applying those security fixes to Office 2003, in a Service Pack (3). There’s also a chance that other code will make it into the SP, but there’s no information on that or on the date of release.
Service Pack [...]