Perhaps it’s a bit difficult to fathom, but a technology that was originally developed for “homeland security and defense purposes,” is now being unleashed in a consumer product that will let you remotely see what your pet is up to while you are away from the house. San Diego-based, Avaak, today officially announced its first general consumer product, the Vue Personal Video Network, a “wire-free video system.” The Vue Personal Video Network ($299) comes with two wireless, Lithium-Ion battery-powered cameras,

Today's hard drive market is starting to grow towards enterprise level hardware, which is SAS. SAS, or Serial Attached SCSI, is the server grade storage medium of choice these days. Some desktop motherboards like the ASUS P6T Deluxe offer support for up to a pair of SAS drives, so read on as we show you how to setup a pair in RAID and install Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Spansion today filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code as part of its strategy to strengthen its financial position and focus its business for long-term success. The company's strategic plan is designed to restructure its burdensome debt obligations and intensify its focus on market segments with greater profit potential. Each of Spansion's domestic subsidiaries also simultaneously filed chapter 11 petitions. Spansion is a joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu that began in 1993. AMD took control of the company in 2003 and spun it off as an independent maker of flash memory chips in December 2005.

The decision to seek chapter 11 protection was made in consultation with an ad hoc consortium of holders of Spansion's $625 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2013. Spansion continues to be actively engaged in constructive discussions with this ad hoc consortium for the development of a plan of reorganization that would permit Spansion to emerge quickly from chapter 11 in a stronger financial and competitive position and for the continued exploration of multiple proposals from multiple parties seeking a strategic transaction.

So as not to give companies more excuses to kick employees to the curb in this tough economy, we’ve warned before about watching what you post to your social networking site. After all, MySpace photos have gotten an Oregon mayor recalled, and now a Facebook post about how boring her job was has gotten Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited. Kimberley Swann, 16, came home one day and typical of a 16-year-old, posted what she later called a “throw-away

Feel guilty about something and want to confess to the world? Well, you can use Twitter to anonymously broadcast your sins to the world, with a site, SecretTweet, that posts them to a public Twitter stream. According to the site, not even your IP address is collected, so you are completely anonymous. At the time of this writing there are 13,758 followers of the secrettweet Twitter stream, meaning there appear to be plenty of people willing to watch as people publicly confess their secrets. Some of the secrets

Man, talk about a buzz-kill. With still a few precious hours left in the weekend, now you have to sit and wonder if all that gaming you’ve done over the past 48 hours is increasing your chances of getting some sort of weird skin disorder.According to a new report from a team of Swiss scientists, keeping too tight a grip on a controller and mashing the buttons too furiously can actually cause a newly identified skin disorder “marked by painful lumps on the palms.” The hysterically named “PlayStation palmar hidradentitis”

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College students with a valid “.edu” e-mail address from an accredited institution can snag a download of Microsoft Office 2007 for less than $60.With ever more free options (think OpenOffice) and college students being a traditionally poor and penny-pinching market, the average college student isn’t going to shell out $679.95 for Microsoft Office Ultimate.The Ultimate Steal, as it’s called, lets students snag a copy for $59.95. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Groove, Publisher, Access

Who said supercomputers were only good for powering governmental facilities and handling the dirty work for NASA? At the University of Reading in the UK, scientists have been able to utilize an immensely powerful IBM ThamesBlue supercomputer in order to find the oldest words in the English language. According to a release pushed out by IBM on the subject, it took “an average of six weeks to perform a computational task such as comparing two sets of words in different languages,” and once its brawny machine stepped

CBS Mobile introduced a free application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that will stream a selection of its TV.com content onto those devices. The content comes from a variety of CBS properties including the Entertainment, Sports, and News divisions as well as CNET TV, GameSpot, and The CW. YouTube content is also available through this app. TV.com doesn’t include content from Hulu, which is to be expected since Hulu pulled out of TV.com earlier this month. The new iPhone app, named Tv.com, can provide plenty