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Projects on display at Siggraph 2006 predict a future where technology will bring a new dimension to sight, sound and touch.

Using the DownThemAll (dTa) Mozilla Firefox extension, you can quickly and easily download multiple images and links from a Web page. In this gallery and related blog post, Bill Detwiler shows you why he thinks dTa is definitely the right tool for the job.

Chip embedded on a credit card provides one-time passwords for security when online shopping and other uses.

A Bay Area nonprofit has developed solar-powered Wi-Fi gear designed to bring wireless broadband to developing countries.

Boeing turns to Wind River for a version of the open-source software in a plane for the U.S. Navy.

Server virtualization allows organizations to maximizing their hardware resources by running multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine. This screenshot gallery shows the toolkit in action. Check out Joshua Hoskins’ The Right Tool for the Job? blog post, to learn how his IT department migrated its physical server to virtual servers using the Microsoft’s Virtual Server Migration Toolkit (VSMT).

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Computer graphic art from the Siggraph 2006 Art Gallery in Boston.

Verizon Wireless brings LG Mobile Phones’ Chocolate handset to U.S. shores.

Services from fledging start-ups let people build Web applications themselves.

A collection of the 10 new products that CNET editors liked best in the past week.

Electric Sheep project combines distributed computing, open-source software with psychedelic magic to produce flock of colorful screensavers.

Breaking the sound barrier may not be quite as noisy when the luxury-minded QSST eventually gets off the ground.

When your servers crash, end users scream, and network grinds to a halt, let these Demotivators make you smile. These soul-crushingly funny explanations of defeat, futility, failure, disloyalty and more, remind you that it could always be worse.

The company puts an end to the Pentium era with the unveiling of its next-generation PC chip.

Members of the Technologia Guild make a raid on Uldaman. An instance dugeon famous for its mineral riches.

Designed as a video sleeve for Apple Computer’s iPod, the iSee 360 will soon come out in a high-definition version.

The Sun Fire X4500 system, code-named Thumper, accommodates 48 hard drives and has two AMD Opteron chips.

One of Microsoft’s most long-awaited releases, SQL Server 2005 has finally hit the market and brought with it significant new features and changes from previous versions.

In this gallery, Scott Lowe walks throgh a sample deployment of SQL Server 2005. The installation procedure has changed quite a bit from previous versions, and this will hopefully help you find the potential pitfalls before you undertake your own deployment.