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It seems like common sense right? Package gadgets in a way that protects them, yet minimizes shipping materials. Not only is it good for the environment, it will save your company a whole lot of dough. How many times have you opened a box full of Styrofoam and other unnecessary packing materials, only to throw most of it away? Apparently it took awhile for HP to figure this out, but they are feeling much better now.

They're here. I wrote earlier about Microsoft's new ad campaign, scheduled to start on Sept. 4th and to feature Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. The first ad aired during the opening game of the NFL season between Washington and the New York Giants. It's titled "The future, delicious," but I have to say "yuck."

September 3, 2008a 'In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances.

You didn't seriously think Comcast would roll over without a fight, did you? It was only a matter of time after FCC's decision in early August, before Comcast took some legal action. And here we are.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis, is on the rise. A new study published in the August journal of Phytotherapy Research, says that Pycnogenol, bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduced overall knee osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms by 20.9 percent and lowered pain by 40.3 percent.

Spore starts out in primitive waters, where players eat algae and try not to get eaten.

At least we can say: this Sony recall is not about batteries. It is about a potential overheating / fire issue, though.

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission and Sony announced on Thursday that Sony was recalling 19 models in the VAIO TZ series notebooks manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008.

Looks like Box.net was leaking (er, telling) the truth: Dell's new netbook, the Inspiron Mini 9 (no longer the 910) launched on Thursday. And yes, you can order it now, though not at the price originally hoped for. Pricing starts at $349 for Ubuntu Linux and $399 for Windows XP Home Edition.

A new study has found that mothers who delivered vaginally compared to caesarean section delivery were significantly more responsive to the cry of their own baby, identified through MRI brain scans ...

A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

Many are getting a bit weary of waiting for an iPhone 3G fix, which was previously promised in a supposed Steve Jobs email for sometime in September. A second lawsuit has been filed, joining the first which was filed last month by Jessica Alena Smith.

Men with elevated levels of calcium in their blood may have a much higher risk of getting fatal prostate cancer, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The best DirecTV DVR was the DirecTiVo, and that is no longer sold --- and we can likely thank Rupert Murdoch for some of that, as it was his desire after acquiring a controlling stake in DirecTV to move to in-house DVRs. Now he's gone, but we still have the DirecTV DVRs. But for DirecTiVo lovers there is light at the end of the tunnel!

One of the Chrome features touted by Google was sandboxing and security. Poof, no problem, right? Unfortunately, because Google used an old version of Webkit to create its beta of Chrome, a bug that's already ...

Excavations at Kfar HaHoresh, in the north of Israel, led by Prof. Nigel Goring-Morris of Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, have revealed a prehistoric funerary precinct dating back to 6,750-8,500 BC. This funerary has grave goods including phallic figurines and sea shells from the Mediterranean and Red Seas, along with other items from Syria, Cyprus and Anatolia.

According to a new mass extinction scoring system, the latest will likely be the greatest in Earth's history.

Developed by researchers at Istanbul Technical University, the system offers a way to quantify those times when more than half of all species disappeared.

A new age for air travel is dawning; at least if you’re one of the lucky few in the market for supersonic luxury travel. Lockheed Martin's advanced Skunk Works unit is designing a small, 12-seat passenger jet that would travel at 1,200 mph (Mach 1.8) but which would produce only a whisper of the annoying crack once emitted by the retired Concorde.

There are a number of worrisome events that scientists assure us we don't have to worry about yet.

Apple Inc plans to hold a press conference next week to announce unspecified new products, the computer and digital entertainment company said on Tuesday.

Will Google Chrome sink Firefox? Not exactly, according to Mozilla chief executive John Lilly.

"More smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely," Lilly wrote in a blog post. "Competition often results in innovation … I'd expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in the ring."