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  • Texting and driving: Young drivers don't obey limits

    Young Australian motorists are still using their mobile phones while driving and think its okay.

  • US National ID cards on the way?

    A recent vote in Congress endorsing standardised, electronically readable driver's licenses has raised fears about whether the proposal would usher in what amounts to a national ID card.

  • Road rage drives into the SMS age

    Ever wanted to tell an annoying 'Sunday driver' exactly what you think of them? Ever wanted to get the phone number of the cute motorist sitting next to you at a set of lights? A new Australian SMS service may grant your wishes--for free.

  • Telematics left in dot-com dust

    The automobile industry has a hangover, and it's blaming the technology sector for the all-night bender.

  • Panasonic unveils new ToughBooks

    Panasonic has updated its ToughBook range with the release of four notebooks, and a new rugged ultra-mobile PC.

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  • Photos: Disk drive dissection

    What's inside the latest 160GB notebook hard drive from Western Digital? Our photo gallery shows you.

  • Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life

    Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks.

  • At SAP, putting software in drive

    Shai Agassi has a technical mind, as one would expect of the president of product and technology for the world's largest enterprise software applications vendor, SAP.

  • Seagate hopes for big splash with small drives

    Seagate has unveiled two new portable hard drives -- one of which is just 3 inches in diameter, yet capable of storing 5GB of data.

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

Reviews (25)

  • Humans look to robot race

    Commentary: Cars are fun, but they kill people. Can the US defence industry help change this unendearing side effect of modern motoring?

  • Do mobile phones blind drivers?

    New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone.

  • Asus SDRW-08D1S-U External DVD-RW Drive

    External DVD writers are never going to be exciting, but at least Asus' effort looks pretty.

  • Panasonic ToughBook CF-U1

    Panasonic has created a new paradigm in rugged notebooks with the CF-U1, which is a nice balance between portability and functionality. However businesses should be aware of its limited performance, and note that protection comes at a premium price.

  • Study: What drives us to distraction?

    Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?

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