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Rob O’Hara, who has 16 full sized arcade machines at his home in Yukon, Okla., says re-releases of classic video games are fun, but aren’t “quite the same.” (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
From refurbished consoles to re-released titles, classic video games are hot again
3:09 PM | FULL STORY 
A return of the show in 2005 depends on the ability of a newly formed advisory board of major vendors to rally support for the annual conference
3:32 PM | FULL STORY 
Americal Online employee alleged to have stolen customer names and sold them to spammer
8:37 PM | FULL STORY 
Canadian tech news briefs
9:08 AM | FULL STORY 
Cellphone-based systems beginning to catch on
9:37 PM | FULL STORY 
Four of five households have computers, biggest gains by low income, older households, survey says
1:24 PM | FULL STORY 
Engineer sold list of 92 million screen names that were eventually used to send spam
5:46 PM | FULL STORY 
Preliminary injunction remains in effect pending the outcome of a New York pop-up ad company's challenge to the law's constitutionality
3:36 PM | FULL STORY 
Software giant planning on creating an operating system for a cluster system, taking on the clear leader in the field: Linux
3:34 PM | FULL STORY 
Political websites not being used as effectively as they could be, experts say
8:15 AM | FULL STORY 
Canada's information technology sector has recovered and will produce small but certain gains in the next several years, IDC says
2:12 PM | FULL STORY 
Microsoft to offer custom support to large-businesses for eight-year-old operating system after its standard assistance runs out at end of this year
8:04 AM | FULL STORY 
Alliance of tech giants to introduce guidelines for building PCs and electronics that will conveniently share content with one another
8:05 AM | FULL STORY 
At least 50 per cent of investors must accept the takeover bid by July 22
3:01 AM | FULL STORY 
Cyberia
Kapica
When it comes to fighting child porn, it's time for a high-tech reality check, writes JACK KAPICA 

Mathew Ingram
Mathew Ingram
PC maker is still struggling to find a strategy 

Flashback
The week's stories, plus columns and case studies current and past 

Tech trivia

  • Forrester Research predicts nearly half of North American households will have a digital video recorder (DVR) by 2009.

Geek Watch
Geek Watch
From gadgets to weird geek obsessions, it's all here 

Haywired
Digital goof awards wrong marathon winner 


 Inside
Integrity
Privacy versus data
Canadians have thrown down the gauntlet on personal privacy, write John Wunderlich and Carolyn L Burke
Benefits of a Nortel-Cisco partnership cloudy
Questions remain on how firms would work together
Packaging summer
Opportunities abound for Canadians looking to explore their own backyards with this year's vacation



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