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CES 2007 SanDisk today introduced its take on Microsoft's Zune music player: a compact Flash-based unit with a 2.2in LCD and Wi-Fi. Called the Sansa Connect, the player is ready to receive internet radio and connect to Plays for Sure music download stores over the air.

Security vendors are talking up the potential for attacks on IP telephony systems, reckoned to be the next major market for security defences.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have created a tiny cable -- much thinner than a human hair -- through which they can transmit visible light, potentially paving the way for improvements in solar energy, computing and medicine.

The advice is still to be wary of strangers on the street, especially if they’re offering you candy. But with social interaction now fully available in today’s immersive Web 2.0 environments that are both online meeting space and a new form of ‘virtual reality’, kids are finally learning they need to be as careful and as street smart online as they are off. A new survey has the details...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is gearing up to offer its Web search software straight to mobile phone users, bypassing its reliance on network carriers and handset makers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Ships set sail on Friday to mend cables damaged by earthquakes off Taiwan that cut communication in Asia, while companies found new routes for their data to flow to prevent another disruption.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - EBay Inc. will roll its China site into a joint venture run by a Chinese partner, a source said, in the latest example of a Western media firm ceding control of its China operation in the face of a tough market.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the iPhone from... er... Linksys. Yes, the iPhone has indeed been launched today, as forecast, but it's not the device so many people were expecting. Instead, it's Linksys' new brand name for its range of VoIP handsets.

A major card issuer is preparing to announce its support for Microsoft's new identity security system, Cardspace, in the new year, along with "a major consumer retail site", Microsoft said this week.

Apple will announce the iPhone on Monday, website Gizmodo has claimed. It cites no sources and provides no details, but a senior staffer guarantees the announcement - which he says was unexpected - will happen, for what that's worth...

New research indicates that online banking users are getting more savvy when it comes to responding to e-mails purporting to come from banks and building societies.

IBM and Yahoo are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.

Microsoft has hit back at rival Google's bundled packages of online services by releasing one of its own.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away -- for free -- all the software, computing, storage and network access that Web site builders need to create community collaboration sites.

Comment A new report "warns that cities considering municipal WiFi shouldn’t fool themselves into believing that the experience will be as routine as running water, gas and electricity systems." The report should come with a Thatcher Warning; it's not ideologically neutral.

Ultrawideband is to be legalised across Europe within the next six months, ZDNet UK has learned.

TAIPEI (Reuters) - As much of the world buzzes with high-speed 3G mobile services, Taipei is humming another wireless broadband tune with a year-old network providing low-cost Wi-Fi service throughout the city.