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Gallery: VMware Workstation 6

The latest version of VMware Workstation is a worthy upgrade: It's familiar enough to use without diving into the manual, yet delivers a crop of new, useful features. ... 3:25 AM on May 10

The 'Tesla' of scooters

An electric scooter that hits 60 mphCNET News.com's Michael Kanellos talks with Jeff Morrill of Vectrix, a company offering an electric scooter that hits 60 mph. See the vehicle in action and hear about its patented brake technology. ... 9:00 PM on May 18

AMD releases new high-end graphics processor

Advanced Micro Devices demos new ATI Radeon HD 2900At a press conference in San Francisco, Rick Bergman, AMD's vice president of PC graphics, demonstrates the new graphic capabilities of the ATI Radeon HD 2900 processor. The company says the processor ... 8:02 PM on May 14

Stanford student posts her number on Net

Girl urges globe-trotters to give a callMegan Zoback, a senior at Stanford University, has come up with her own rendition of the Luke Johnson phone experiment by posting her contact information on popular video-hosting site YouTube. Zoback has kept her ... 10:20 PM on May 17

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

Microsoft claims that free and open-source software violates more than 230 of its patents, according to a magazine report published Sunday. In an ... 7:35 AM on May 13

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