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SAN FRANCISCO - Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history," as a Scottish newspaper put it?

NEW YORK - A leading printer maker wants to help you do less printing.

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Joe_Biden_s_pro_RIAA_pro_FBI_tech_voting_record'; By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

ATLANTA - The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.

WASHINGTON - Tom Albert drove his loaner Chevrolet Equinox like any other car.

NEW YORK - Nikon Corp. on Wednesday launched the first digital still camera with interchangeable lenses that also shoots movies.

SEATTLE--Imagine your laptop is stolen.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Scientists in Israel are taking digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the 2,000-year-old documents available to the public and researchers on the Internet.

Laptop manufacturers take widescreen a step too far—and with it, some of my productivity.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) unveiled two new high-end phone models, the N79 and the N85, as the world's top cellphone maker battles against increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung (005930.KS).

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) wireless business T-Mobile has sold more than 120,000 new 3G iPhones since its sales launch on July 11 despite distribution problems, its chief executive told a German weekly magazine.

Online electronics retailer Newegg has stopped charging sales tax to its New York customers, according to a posting on the Consumerist.com.

NEW YORK - Bluetooth wireless headsets for mobile phones are puzzling: We're supposed to control them with couple of unmarked buttons and get feedback from a single indicator light.

Amazon will ship new versions of its Kindle e-book reader before year's end. The original reader launched last November sold out in its first week and had Amazon scrambling to fill holiday orders. While sales have been brisk, estimates vary.

SEATTLE - The next version of Microsoft Corp.'s Web browser makes it easier for people to surf the Internet without leaving a trace.

The recording industry appears to have won a closely watched copyright infringement case over charges of evidence tampering.

SANTA ANA, Calif. - Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has apologized for lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission during its probe of stock options backdating at the chip maker.

Several blogs (see Techmeme) are reporting that Apple will roll out new products on September 9. As previously rumored, starting with missive from Digg's Kevin Rose, Apple may be revamping the iPod Nano and tweaking the iPod Touch with new software, as well delivering iTunes 8.0 with a recommendation engine and selective price cuts.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Filmmaker Charles Ferguson is bringing his documentary "No End in Sight" to YouTube.