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Even as municipal Wi-Fi has floundered nationwide, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer unveiled a plan to bring affordable broadband to the entire state. The plan would beef up the state's economy, especially in long-depressed upstate New York, the governor said.

By an overwhelming margin -- 409 to 2 -- the U.S. House of Representatives passed new legislation on Thursday aimed at making the Internet safer for children. The Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online (SAFE) Act was sponsored by Texas Democrat Nick Lampson, one of the founding members of the House Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - JetBlue will begin offering passengers free e-mail access on one of its airplanes next week as Internet connections that have become ubiquitous on the ground begin taking to the skies.

Formerly with Motorola, Padmasree Warrior now looks to the next phase of the Internet's evolution and how she plans to help lead Cisco into the new era.

The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC is ready to ship in the U.S., according to a document posted on the company's Web site.

The Dell Latitude XT tablet PC is ready to ship in the U.S., according to a document posted on the company's Web site.

San Francisco - Dell's much-awaited Latitude XT tablet PC is ready to ship in the United States, according to a document posted on the company's Web site.

San Francisco - A laptop stolen during a recent blood drive contained sensitive information on 268,000 Minnesota-region blood donors, Memorial Blood Centers said Wednesday.

Navigation gadgets are now so widely available no one needs to worry about getting lost anymore — except when they're trying to choose the right device.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At Apple Inc's new store in Manhattan, the smiling "geniuses" and "concierges" standing at attention are as important as the iPods and Mac computers on display.

Nintendo's hit video game console Wii is in short supply this holiday season. But the Japanese company insists it's making and shipping as many as it can.

Video games will get the Hollywood treatment on a weekly series devoted to airing trailers for new games. GameTrailers TV, which premieres next month on Spike TV, also will include industry news, interviews and features.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many parents wish their kids would spend less time at the computer playing games and messaging, and concentrate more on homework, sports or family activities.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Franklin Perry used to spend hours performing video game feats with his thumbs but lately he has been using the Nintendo Wii, and the rest of his body, to regain his strength after suffering a stroke.

CompTIA survey shows that HDTV and game consoles top many holiday wish lists in 2007.

The company sees consumers with a personalized TV listing guide, accessing movie reviews before downloading a film or tap into their MP3 collection from any device.

The winner, from a pool of 20 finalists, received a $5,000 debit card and a meeting with Fox Searchlight Pictures production executives.

EchoStar Communications Corp. has notified shareholders that the company intends to take on the name DISH Network Corporation, also the name of its most popular product.

LONDON (Reuters) - Entertainment group Walt Disney's Internet arm said on Thursday it was about to launch a UK portal aimed at young adults showcasing its games, films, music and social networking assets in one British Web site.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said it has no date for reviewing its voluntary guidelines on managing online music rights despite new calls on Thursday for a mandatory shake-up of the system.

San Francisco - Remember when computer security was simple? Advice was as easy as, "Don't boot with a floppy drive in your A: drive" and "Don't enable the macro to run." Boy, do I long for the days of yesteryear.

A site billing itself as the world's largest sex and swingers community has settled charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it bombarded consumers with sexually explicit pop-up ads.

San Francisco - A site billing itself as the world's largest sex and swingers community has settled charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it bombarded consumers with sexually explicit pop-up ads.

Updated: A routine update from Symantec Security Response wreaked havoc on a California company's clientele this week when it inadvertently tagged a program produced by Solid Oak Software as a virus and cut off the Internet access of Solid Oak customers.

Analysts with F-Secure and Websense predict an explosive growth of malware, bot attacks, QuickTime exploits, and viruses that target the iPhone.

Apple's Macintosh computers are poised to make sizable market share gains in the coming months, according to a research firm that tracks PC purchase intent.

Apple may have had high hopes for its first generation Apple TV, but analyst sales estimates indicate the product is not as successful as once thought. Blaming the iTunes video revolution that never happened, market research firm, Forrester said the Apple TV failed to catch on with consumers.

Despite Apple’s vast reach into online music distribution, its dominance in that market is not helping it with video downloads. Among other recommendations, Forrester research analyst James L. McQuivey says Apple needs to win back NBC to make video sales on the iTunes Store successful moving forward.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - At Apple Inc's new store in Manhattan, the smiling "geniuses" and "concierges" standing at attention are as important as the iPods and Mac computers on display.

The glitch may be caused by graphics card drivers not optimized for Mac OS X 10.5.

San Francisco - Version 2.0 of Ruby on Rails, the popular open source Web application development framework, was released this morning, said the developer of the framework, David Heinemeier Hansson, on Friday.

The Software Freedom Law Center is taking issue with the Actiontec MI424WR wireless router, which may include open license-infringing BusyBox software.

New features in the Firefox and Opera browsers could make it less complex and cheaper for people to incorporate video into their Web sites.

San Francisco - A group of lawyers focused on protecting open source and free software has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, alleging that routers the company uses with its Fios broadband service violate the GNU GPL (General Public License).

San Francisco - New features in the Firefox and Opera browsers could make it less complex and cheaper for people to incorporate video into their Web sites, representatives of Mozilla and Opera say.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Franklin Perry used to spend hours performing video game feats with his thumbs but lately he has been using the Nintendo Wii, and the rest of his body, to regain his strength after suffering a stroke.

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli "infiltration" of Syrian social networks on the Net, according to residents and media reports.

Navigation gadgets are now so widely available no one needs to worry about getting lost anymore — except when they're trying to choose the right device.

NEW YORK - JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - IBM says it has made a breakthrough in converting electrical signals into light pulses that brings closer the day when supercomputing, which now requires huge machines, will be done on a single chip.