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Researchers at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC) received the 2005 Best Emerging Technology Award from CATAAlliance for their environmentally-friendly toner technology, called Emulsion Aggregation (EA). EA, the company says, has several advantages over standard toner technologies

Sun Microsystems Inc. has taken the wraps off a 64-bit UltraSparc-based laptop, the Ultra 3 Mobile Workstation, at the JavaOne show in San Francisco. The laptop should be generally available this month and entry-level pricing begins at US$3,400.

After failing to break into the mainstream of computing, the Tablet PC might have been written-off by many, but it still has at least one strong supporter. Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp., said Monday he still believes in the form-factor and repeated a prediction that, with better hardware and software, it could still dominate over traditional laptop PCs.

Microsoft Corp. plans to add broad support for the Web publishing standard RSS (Really Simple Syndication) in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, the company is expected to announce Friday at the Gnomedex 5.0 conference in Seattle.

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The Java-based ThinkFree Office suite is about to get its first major update since South Korea's Haansoft Inc. acquired it in 2004, the company said Wednesday.

The Shuttle XPC Barebone SD31P, introduced Tuesday, features the Intel 945G Express chipset and is the first small form factor PC to support the Intel Corp.'s 64-bit technology, according to Taiwanese computer maker Shuttle Inc.

"I have a lot of trouble with your remote controls," Queen Elizabeth II said to Howard Stringer, Sony Corp.'s new CEO. "Too many arrows."