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Power-line networks -- networks that use the existing electrical wiring in your residence or small office -- may yet prove the dark horse of home networking technologies.

Taking on established players like Cisco Systems Inc. and 3Com Corp., Dell Computer Corp. said Wednesday that it would enter the market for networking products. The U.S. direct seller of PCs plans in October to start selling low-cost switches for small and medium sized businesses under the Dell PowerConnect brand. The products will initially be available in the U.S. only.

The brainiacs at MIT have a vision of human-centered computing called Oxygen (www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu). It's not a new vision--we saw an early version of it on Star Trek back in the '70s, with rooms that responded to Enterprise crew members' individual needs and devices that "sniffed" and interpreted the environment through a variety of sensors. What's new is that researchers at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) have created a comprehensive framework for making the vision a reality.

Six companies last week pledged more than US$25 million to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology project aimed at reinventing computing for the Internet.

At a press conference here Wednesday, MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) announced that its Project Oxygen -- an ambitious human-centered computing project -- will be getting a financial and research boost from six technology vendors.

IBM has issued a recall on AC adapters supplied with its ThinkPad 310 and ThnkPad I Series notebooks, following reports the adapters can overheat and pose a fire hazard.