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Chairman of Microsoft, Bill Gates remains America’s richest man for the 14th straight year in a row, with a net worth estimated at $59b.
According to The New Yorker, While Gate’s foundation is a more generous donor to health research than all Western governments combined; Microsoft boss is still the richest person in the United […]

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The Software Free Law Center (SFLC) announced yesterday that it has filed the first U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia for violating the GNU General Public License.
Monsoon Multimedia is alleged to have violated the GPL by not offering the source code of the software to customers. The company uses the popular open source BusyBox […]

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Microsoft and Philips have both previously pushed for the use of white space frequencies (those unused chunks in the television spectrum), and now have filed again their case with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Analog TV uses fixed frequencies in the U.S., also known as channels. Between these there are “spaces” which were originally […]

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In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it’s highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end. Yet, that’s what Apple’s iPod media player, now approaching its sixth anniversary, has managed to do. One reason is that it has been reinvented continuously.
The latest iPod reinvention expands the line from […]

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While NBC is desperate to escape the iTunes stores chokehold, Fox is completely dependent on it. The network cant even give its shows away without help from Apple.The season premier episodes of seven of Foxs shows will be available for free on the iTunes store. NBC episodes will be free all season via NBC Direct, […]

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I was reading a very critical article this week, and I think that it is vital for everyone to also read it, for the safety of your computers.
http://www.channelinsider.com/print_article/Critical+ZeroDay+PDF
+Bug++Compromises+Windows+PCs/215644.aspx
A zero-day PDF vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat Reader has come to light that can lead to Windows boxes getting taken over completely and invisibly, according to a security […]

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Most celebrities work their entire lives to reach the degree of fame that Steve Skvara managed to obtain in less than five minutes on Aug. 7.
That’s the day he made an impassioned plea on national TV, where he questioned presidential candidates on America’s health care system.
But his story starts decades earlier when a temporary job […]

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SanDisk (SNDK - Cramer’s Take - Stockpickr - Rating) said it has received a grand jury subpoena, signaling that government regulators may be expanding a long-running price-fixing investigation into the flash memory market.In a regulatory filing Friday, Milpitas, Calif.-based SanDisk disclosed that CEO Eli Harari and the company had received subpoenas from the U.S. District […]

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So how many different memory cards do you have? If youre like me, at least one of each type and it grows and grows and grows. Apparently, it is going to continue to grow but possibly with the end result that there will be one unified memory card for electronic devices by 2009.
Nokia, […]

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The world’s most powerful internet company, Google recommends that a global privacy standard should be set up to protect consumer data.
Google’s global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, will unveil Google’s request at UNESCO’s meeting on ethics and human rights in Strasbourg, France on Friday.
International standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline should be put […]

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We’ve been hearing rumors over a number of weeks regarding tri-core CPU’s by AMD, but nothing tangible.
That’s just changed… AMD is creating a three-core chip.
This can be done for salvage purposes. Specifically, AMD can take a Quad with a bad core and sell them as three-core processors.
Secondly, this can be seen as a marketing […]

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Back in July, the FCC issued its final set of rules for the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction, giving both open access proponents and telecoms a bit of what they wanted. The FCC decided to support two of the open access principles open devices and open applications but they neglected to open up the underlying networks […]

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Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices says its first four-core chip, called Barcelona, is more than a match for Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) quad cores.
AMD unveiled Barcelona on Monday, aiming the state-of-the-art device at server makers.
To get the new product off to a good start, and to boost overall revenue, AMD (NYSE:AMD) this month quietly restructured its sales organization, […]

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I have been ignoring Vista as a possibility for my home. My experiences with it at work and with firends and family that have used it have been frustrating. From troubles with getting a DSL modem working reliably, to the amount of resources the thing seemed to chew. I was waiting for Vista SP1 before […]

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Because anyone can edit Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia’s reliability varies wildly. Now a computer science professor hopes to give users a better baloney detector: software that flags questionable lines in Wikipedia entries.
Developed by Luca de Alfaro and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the software will color text some gradation […]

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