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InCard Technologies has developed technology that can turn a credit card into a device that generates passwords for one-time use, for example for stronger authentication when banking online. CNET News.com's Joris Evers takes a look.

Yahoo Messenger with Voice 8 offers paid outbound and inbound telephone calls in addition to free voice and video chat, free avatars, creative third-party plug-ins, and the ability to chat with Windows Live users. CNET's Elsa Wenzel takes a look.

At the "Christmas in July" product showcase on Tuesday, CNET's Neha Tiwari talks to Samsung's Matt Durgin about the company's take on XM satellite music. Samsung says it plans to take the technology to a higher, more personalized level.

CNET's Neha Tiwari talks to Aaron Novak, marketing manager of camcorders at Samsung, about why the company has allied itself with Blu-ray instead of the competing next-generation format, HD DVD. The BD-P1000 was one of the products showcased at Samsung's "Christmas in July" event in San Francisco.

Microsoft to release IE 7, but not every Windows user will get it. Also, Vista and Web 2.0 to get scrutinized at Black Hat, there's a new Firefox attack and fixes, and get a first look at AOL's Total Care.

Entrepreneur and Hipcast cofounder Eric Rice has built a 3D convention center in the virtual world of Second Life. Content creators and marketers no longer have to visit Las Vegas--now they can rent Hipcast\222s meeting center for a negotiated fee and stream live media-events virtually.

Entrepreneur Kimberly Rufer-Bach is working with University of California-Davis to develop a virtual training environment in the Second Life virtual world. The goal is to prepare, train and aid emergency workers in a simulated setting before they are called on to help in a real-world crisis.

As the Siggraph digital design conference opens July 30 in Boston, the Electric Sheep screensaver is an example of one innovative digital project that will be on display. Its creator opines that Electric Sheep is the collective dream of computers sleeping all over the Internet. This video features a sampling of the project's fruits.\r\n

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Join CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari as she talks with Robin Hunicke, a lead designer for EA's "Sims" division. See footage from the "The Sims 2 Pets" add-on, as well as from a surprise event during the EA Studio Showcase 2006, where actual puppies took the spotlight.

YouTube CEO Chad Hurley and MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, plus executives from Yahoo and Sony, gathered to speak about the limitations and future of consumer-generated media at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit in Palo Alto, Calif. YouTube has recently come under fire for pirated and copyright content posted by consumers on the site. In May, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said his company would never acquire YouTube because of its laissez-faire attitude toward content.

At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, MP3.com founder and MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson predicted the addition of ads to YouTube and referred to popular social-networking site MySpace as a "technological nightmare." YouTube CEO Chad Hurley says that although his site is going through revisions, it will remain a site for the people by the people.

MP3tunes will let you play your chosen tunes anywhere--car, PC, cell phone, or earphones. And, Robertson has another new business getting started, he tells CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval at Stanford's AlwaysOn Innovation Summit on July 26.

MP3tunes' CEO and Founder Michael Robertson appeared at Stanford University's AlwaysOn Innovation Summit on July 26. Talking with CNET News.com's Greg Sandoval, Robertson had some advice for his fellow entrepreneurs, including YouTube's Chad Hurley, on running video ads.

Symantec researchers question Windows Vista security--a sales pitch in disguise? Also, rootkits get better at hiding, MySpace users get hit by a flash worm, Oracle patches, and AOL security software.

CNET's Neha Tiwari talks to Aaron Novak, marketing manager of camcorders at Samsung, about an extreme athlete's dream: the lightweight, weatherproof, cordless 1GB SC-X210WL camcorder. Novak also shows off a less daring but equally interesting DVD camera, the SC-DC564. This 40-minute dual-layer DVD camcorder allows double the recording time of a standard, recordable DVD-camcorder.