Subprime cards often add to debt, credit headaches (Courier-Post) After incurring debt problems, Rosemary Potter of Pinon Hills, Calif., decided this year to try to repair her credit. She didnt qualify for a standard credit card, so she signed up for whats called an Imagine Gold Card, hoping to use it to raise her credit score.

Bamboo PC is eco-friendly and looks nice, too Asustek gives a nod to eco-minded consumers with prototype laptop encased in fast-growing bamboo. Back in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I, an early personal computer that consisted of a circuit board in a simple wooden box. Apple and other computer makers went...

Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse files? After retailer allegedly discovers contraband on mans PC, he asks judges to say results of search cant be used as evidence. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Pennsylvania man accused of possessing illegal images objects to...

Celebrating 60 years of transistors The modern world wouldnt be what it is if it werent for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, two Bell Labs researchers, built the worlds first transistor. ...

Inside Baghdad: Jared Yoon Jared Yoon reveals why he enlisted in the US army, how he feels about his first tour of Iraq and what he remembers about the day he got shot

Every loo must have one Arts & entertainment: Stuart Jeffries investigates the phenomenon of the Christmas bestseller and wonders what this years big successes will be

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Call of Duty 4 Hardware Performance Guide Find out how Call of Duty 4 runs on our stable of hardware and what we did to improve frame rates.