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Web Developers Get Full Access to YouTube Technology. Google today announced that it will give web developers deep access to the underlying technology behind YouTube with a new YouTube API (application programming interface). Having gained substantial re

Analyst Opinion - Rob Enderle has a look at products that bridge categories, combining the usability of at least two different devices in just one box. Are there Super Devices in your future?

While the Internet is not anonymous, with a little help you can make yourself less obvious and hidden from public view.

Patching a single Linux machine every once in a while can be a small pain, but what do you do when you have a data center full of machines that need updates?

Dell will soon be sold at over 900 Best Buy retail outlets in the United States. Dell's world-wide in-store presence will be nearly 10,000 stores following this deal.

We look at full disk backup and restore packages for Microsoft Small Business Server and Vista desktops to help you decide what's best for your networks and systems.

Throw away that mega-buck video camera. If Mike Hodgkinson, Director of Rob Dickinson's "Oceans" music video is right, all you need to make it to MTV or VH1 is Nokia's N93 camera phone. See the video and the making-of video, as well as a slideshow featuring the N93.

Everyone with a high-speed Internet connection needs a router. So why not learn how to choose the one that best meets your needs? We've updated and expanded our classic Hardware Router Need To Know to help you do just that!

MobilityGuru takes its first look at a mobile computer with Intel's GMA 950 integrated graphics processor, HP's Core Duo DV1000T laptop. How does the GMA 950 compare with the older GMA 900 technology? And, what's the DV1000T like?

If you've been looking for a gigabit switch for SOHO use that supports jumbo frames, your search could soon be over. NETGEAR is rolling the feature into this consumer-priced gigabit switch for no extra cost. But getting your hands on upgraded product will be tricky in the short term.

Forget about expensive LCD TV screens: A digital video projector can do a better job for a whole lot less. A blank white wall and an investment of less than $1,500 can transform your living room into a movie theater minus the $10 plus tickets and obnoxious crowds. THG illustrates how now-affordable digital video projectors work as well as what to avoid.

Linksys' WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander [reviewed here] is a WDS-based 802.11b / g repeater that Linksys says works only with its WAP54G access point and WRT54G and WRT54GS wireless routers. But with a little effort, you can get it to function with any 802.11b or g product that supports WDS-based bridging and/or repeating.

At first glance, you might dismiss ASUS' tiny WL-330 as a wireless toy, but you'd be wrong. This mighty-mite packs good performance, WDS bridging / repeating and Ethernet-to-wireless adapter capabilities into a package that's sure to lend itself to some creative uses.

There are times when having two separate networks - both sharing the same Internet connection - can come in handy. For example, I recently helped a community center with its network setup. They needed to provide Internet connection to tenants who were renting space, in addition to their own shared Internet. They also shared a number of folders on the network, but weren't too careful about password protecting the shares.

We use Ixia's free Qcheck utility and IxChariot network peformance evaluation program to put wireless network gear through their paces. We use the simple test setup pictured below to run our tests under four different conditions.

With the right know-how, you can copy VHS and Super-8 movies to your PC. This workshop will also show you how to give your old movies a new, digital lease on life.

This is one of the most frustrating problems that a broadband user faces. The ISP will probably blame the router. The router vendor will probably blame the ISP. The solution usually lies somewhere in between, but no one seems to want to help.

You do have to fill out a form to request the download because Ixia hopes that you'll like what you see and want to buy the full-featured Chariot, but that's a small price to pay for such a handy tool