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It's no exaggeration to say the '00s have been the decade when the electronic sensor left the factory floor and went, well, everywhere.

At the Consumer Electronics Associations' Digital Downtown event in New York City a number of new products were on display. While this was no Las Vegas CES there were some cool gadgets out.

Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-level domain by the country of Montenegro.

Meet this year's JavaOne spotlight technology, the same as last year's JavaOne spotlight technology.

When Anthony McCloud graduated from Graceland University in 2000, he didn't have a smidgen of business experience. He didn't know the first thing about business processes, customer service, or the quirks and habits of business workers.

MySpace has launched the MySpace Developer Platform site which will allow external software developers the chance to build applications for its users.

When 3Ghz dual core computers running 2GB of RAM weren't being used for many heavily CPU-intensive applications in a Victorian secondary school library, the school's IT department initially joked about replacing them with older and previously abandoned hardware. Then it saw the serious side.

Apple said it has enterprise business support for its iPhone 2.0 beta release, but several senior IT executives expressed skepticism and even ridiculed Apple for having little big business expertise.

Drivers tend to be a world unto themselves, with bugs only affecting a subset-often a tiny subset-of kernel users. Until a driver gets merged into the kernel though, anyone wishing to test it, or help clean it up, has to jump through some hoops. To try and help reduce those barriers, Linus Torvalds and others have been advocating early merging of drivers; getting them into the kernel and incrementally improving them from there.

EMC is one of the biggest names in the world of managing and storing information, but until just a few months ago the company didn't have a good system for governing employee access rights to unstructured data.

IBM and 3Com Monday announced a set of add-on unified communications capabilities for a jointly developed IP telephony system that runs on IBM's System i midrange servers.