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The $249 Touch, one of the smart phones fighting for our attention this holiday season, overreaches badly in trying to be a touch-screen phone. The Touch, carried by Sprint Nextel Corp., is the worst phone I’ve tried in the last few years.
High Tech Computer Corp. has tried to make it finger-friendly, but it just doesn’t […]

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Big boys, dont cry! So, instead of crying that Zune 80 missed Black Friday, Microsoft prepares for the future. The company announced that a significant number of its last-generation music players would hit the stores in maximum 10 days.
When Microsoft released the new Zune 80 player on November 13, it seemed that Apples popular iPod […]

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Estimates Upgrades To Cost $137b Globally
United States-based analyst firm Nemertes Research on Saturday warned over the emerging internet gridlock by 2010 as it further noted that upgrading would cost around $137 billion globally.
In a report that was partly funded by the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) which campaigns for universal broadband in the United States Nemertes […]

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Not content with being the fastest-selling Wii game in the US, Super Mario Galaxy has now been officially named the best game ever.
Following news that the Mario release clocked up 500,000 sales in America in its first week, statistics from gamerankings.com, a site that collates review scores from across the internet, has shown that the […]

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Burst.com, the company that has for 2 years alleged that Apple’s iTunes Music Store, iTunes software, the iPod devices, and Apple’s QuickTime Streaming products infringe various of its U.S. Patents, this week settled with Apple in return for a one-time payment of $10M cash, giving Apple a patent license providing the right to use Burst’s […]

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Software giant Microsoft has revealed that they are now delaying the next Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
It is usually held during March-April period. The company is now likely to held it around October next year.
Microsoft stated that they are delaying this conference on receiving feedback from the industry.
Microsoft used this years WinHEC to announce their Windows […]

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A subtle math error could make the RSA public key algorithm vulnerable, says Adi Shamir, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and one of the designer of the RSA software that is widely used to protect e-commerce transactions from hackers.Shamir - the S in the RSA he developed with Ronald Rivest […]

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All-in-one computers have been quite popular with Mac users since the introduction of the original iMac back in 1998. Apple continues to sell its iMac computers which now feature Core 2 Duo processor and 20 or 24 LCD screens. On the PC side of things, however, all-in-one designs haven’t fared so well.
That hasn’t stopped companies […]

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When Oracle Corp. announced its Xen-based variant Oracle VM earlier this week, it claimed “three times greater efficiency than current x86-based server virtualization products.” Now VMware Inc. is defending itself against Oracle’s assertion, laying out in depth the optimizations it has poured into ESX Server to make it the superior virtualization platform for running high-performance […]

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Today I received some email from my friend Mike with a quote in it, and I think that a lot of people should realize exactly what this stands for…
Definition of a Veteran
A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote […]

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Google might actually be going ahead with plans to buy up the 700MHz spectrum next year, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Google spokesman told the WSJ:
[W]e are making all the necessary preparations to become an applicant to bid. Our goal is to make sure that American consumers have more choices in an open […]

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With oil prices surging and U.S. stock prices slumping, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s sale of an 8.1 percent stake to the Abu Dhabi government’s investment arm represents the latest plunge by a wealthy Middle Eastern nation into a troubled U.S. corporation.It also raises fresh questions about the appropriateness of Middle Eastern firms owning […]

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Sony chief Howard Stringer is lamenting that the battle between high-def video disk formats — Sony’s Blu-ray vs. Toshiba-backed HD DVD — is a “difficult fight.”
But it’s worth asking whether it’s the wrong war. How long before large numbers of people start getting their HD movies by downloading them off the Net or via a […]

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As a result of settling the patent dispute with Eolas, Microsoft will be rolling off its Click to activate tags from Internet Explorer 7.
An excerpt from InternetNews
Its important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing Web pages, and no new actions for developers creating new pages, Pete LePage, senior […]

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Apple’s updated v.1.1.2 software for the iPod touch and the iPhone is available for download now, as the device goes on sale in Germany and queues form outside Apple retail stores across the UK.
The software introduces international language and network support to the iPhone, and the much-desired ability to both add and edit calendar events […]

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