Nvidia Joins "One Netbook per Geek" Race

Some computer-centric companies concerned with pulling 3rd World areas into the 21st century computer culture have been active in producing miniature computers that are cheap yet functional in order to help connect the have nots to the haves, at least technically. We've all...

New MacBook Air Debuts at Macworld

View Video at http://www.webcastr.com Sporting a silvery finish, the MacBook Air features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit widescreen display that has a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. The backlighting saves power and...

Independent Idol: Taylor Hicks Goes It Alone

Too bad for Taylor, but if every other Idol winner's debut goes platinum and scores a big radio single,  the expectation is that he should be able to do it too. With record industry sales plummeting to...

Google debuts knowledge project

"Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic. The search giant has already started inviting people to write about the subject on which they are known to be an expert. Google said it would not act as editor for the...

Shrek the Halls, Another Christmas Special

"Shrek, star of three animated blockbusters, now has his own Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, which debuts in the US this week. Cameron Diaz, who reprises her voice role as Princess Fiona, hopes the story of the grumpy-yet-lovable green ogre's first Christmas with family...

Alpine debuts new show car

Alpine comes through again with their new show car. Whether or not you like the looks of it, you have to admit they did one hell of a job creating this little monster.

Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawings to be Permanently Installed at Mass MoCA

"LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS AT MASS MOCA Conceptual Art pioneer Sol LeWitt (b. 1928) is getting a major, semi-permanent installation of his history-making wall drawings at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass., beginning next fall. Featuring 50 works dating from 1968 to the present, "Sol...

Timberlake debuts 'Street Sexy' clothes (AP)

" LOS ANGELES - Pop star Justin Timberlake " /> SEARCH News | News Photos | Images | Web " /> Justin Timberlake isn't your typical fashion designer. So the runway debut of his William Rast clothing line wasn't a typical fashion show. Rather than show the collection at the...

A Free-Trade Zone Is Born

"A new commission-free stock-trading platform debuts today, one which my fellow Foolish contributor Rick Munarriz wrote about here and here. While he's fairly sanguine about the business prospects for Zecco, I'm rather excited about the money-saving potential for individual...

Paranoid about privacy? get the new Torpark browser

Amazing what one coder, locked inside his Texas apartment can do:"Web users worried about privacy can now use a modified version of Firefox that lets them browse the net anonymously. The Torpark browser has been...

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