Bill Detwiler

Get a load of the next digital single-lens reflex cameras headed for shelves. What distinguishes them from the rest?

Google and Microsoft work to reduce energy use and promote sustainability as product battle heats up.

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MIT fellow Elizabeth Goldring leads research and produces art designed to stimulate visual activity among the nearly blind.

Your server room may be perfect; every Ethernet cable in place, all KVM and power cables neatly tucked into the sides of the racks. Your comm rack may be a marvel of modern cable management. Unfortunately, not all server rooms are so lucky.

Some server rooms are nothing but living examples of bad planning and worse execution. Dare I say, viewing some are even trips to the legendary 11th level of Hades itself (it’s where the Apple Netwon and Microsoft BOB are). We now embark on an adventure to one such server room. If you dare?

How Microsoft manages power in the Windows update, which can drain laptop batteries faster than XP.

Ask.com is launching a new blog search service that aims to capitalize on the interest in topics and debates covered by blogs.

The Orion VII looks pretty much like a regular bus, but it uses a hybrid diesel engine for better mileage and a quieter ride.

Motorola and Dolce&Gabbana have released a new gold and silver version of the Razr V3i.

F***edCompany.com founder Philip Kaplan is stepping aside as chief executive at AdBrite.

Earlier this month George Ou, TechRepublic Technical Director, got an announcement from Polycom about their soon to be released Communicator C100S speaker-phone product which is optimized for Skype. As a heavy user of Skype which is notoriously bad at echo and feedback suppression, George was very excited about the new product’s acoustic features and wanted to see if it really lived up to the specifications.

This gallery gives you a first look at the Polycom Communicator C100S. Check out George’s full review of the C100S in this blog post.