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Good PDF Reader Device With Internet Browsing?: ranjix writes I need a handheld device which would allow me to read ebooks and/or browse the internet while actively and intensely laying in the hammock (and Yes, I do have a hammock in my moms basement). Ill try to

Nokia's Maemo Switching To Qt: suka writes During a keynote at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Nokias Quim Gil announced that a future release of Maemo is going to be built around Qt. Maemo Harmattan is going to switch away from GTK+ / Hildon, derStandard.at

Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever: Hugh Pickens writes Launched in May, BBC reports that Europes Planck observatory has reached its operating temperature, a staggering minus 273.05C — just a tenth of a degree above what scientists term absolute zero. and although laboratory set-ups have got

The Laptop, Circa 1968: Harry writes In 1968, computers tended to occupy entire rooms, and were therefore hard to take with you. But Computerworld reports on Anderson Jacobsons 75-pound Teletype-terminal-in-a-case, an early attempt to let folks compute from anywhere. (Well, anywhere they had power

New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car: Slatterz writes The Tesla Roadster has almost mythical status among electric car enthusiasts. Its fast, with high torque over a wide RPM range, and can beat a Ferrari in terms of acceleration. Now Tesla has released new video of its

Study Deconstructs Canadian Copyright Lobby Deception: An anonymous reader writes A new Canadian study deconstructs how copyright lobby groups manipulate public opinion by laundering proposals through seemingly independent groups. The study started after the Conference Board of Canada was shown to have plagiarized several of its

AOL Shuts Down CompuServe: Oracle Goddess writes After 30 years, CompuServe is all but dead, as AOL has pulled the plug on the once-great company. The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the

CrunchPad Will Be a 'Dead Simple Web Tablet': Hugh Pickens writes TechCrunchs Michael Arrington has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing and now it appears that the CrunchPad is close to becoming a reality. Were going to make some really big

Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict: CNet reports that the lawyers representing Jammie Thomas-Rasset have confirmed she will be fighting the $1.9 million verdict handed down in her case against the RIAA. The Recording Industry Association of America said on Monday that it had made a

Symantec Exec Warns Against Relying On Free Antivirus: thefickler writes Clearly, the rise of free antivirus is starting to worry Symantec, with one of their top executives warning consumers not to rely on free antivirus software (including Microsofts Security Essentials). If you are only relying on free antivirus

The Chemistry of Firework Displays: Ponca City, We love you writes David Ropeik writes at MSNBC that theres a lot more to making a basic firework display than putting a fuel source and an oxidizer together. Pyrotechnic chemists, who are trying to create bedazzlement instead

Behind the First Secure Quantum Crypto Network: schliz writes Researchers behind the worlds largest quantum encrypted network said the technology could secure business networks inside six years. The prototype Quantum Key Distribution network was built by the Secure Communication Based On Quantum Cryptography (SECOQC) group last year.

Generating Power From Ocean Buoys and Kites: cheezitmike writes Researchers at Oregon State University are testing a new type of wave-energy converter to generate electricity from ocean waves: Even when the ocean seems calm, swells are moving water up and down sufficiently to generate electricity. ... For

UK Police Told To Use Wikipedia When Preparing For Court: Half-pint HAL tips news of UK prosecution lawyers who are instructing police to study information on Wikipedia when preparing to give expert testimony in court. Mike Finn, a weaponry specialist and expert witness in more than 100 cases, told industry

Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution: movesguy sends us to The Daily Galaxy for comments by Stephen Hawking about how humans are evolving in a different way than any species before us. Quoting: At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase,

Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books: theodp writes Three Amazon inventors set out to correct what they felt was a real problem: that out-of-print or rare books ... typically do not include advertisements ... the content is fixed and, therefore, has not been adapted to modern

Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web": cin62 writes The number of Internet scammers offering fake versions of the anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, reports CNN. Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month,

Source Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released: jadoon88 writes to share a series of old Atari 7800 games that have been unofficially open sourced. Remember Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Ataris 7800 series was still around. Since the era of

How To Get Your Program Professionally Marketed?: one-man orchestra writes Im the sole programmer of a small, multi-platform, commercial audio program (a spectrogram editor). After over 6 months on the market, I realized that the program would never just sell itself, and that I need some real

Open Source Facing a Difficult Battle For Cloud Relevance: A recent eulogy for open sources relevance to cloud computing by Redmonk analyst Stephen OGrady caught the attention of Matt Asay, who breaks down the difficulty of this David and Goliath problem. In a world where horsepower matters more than

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Ads Spotted on Twitter: These first ads probably arent going to bring in enough cash to fuel a micro-app acquisition spree by Twitter, but this is the first clear public indication of one way the company is bringing in revenue.

IPhone 3GS owners bemoan its battery life: The new, high-octane iPhone 3GS is loaded with features that could light up your life -- but its battery isnt one of them.

Ramp up redesign & make overhaul event attract new customers: Confronted with a dumbfounding 90 percent drop-off in revenue at his high-end, custom bicycle business in San Antonio, Texas, Kevin Saunders could easily have closed his shop and resumed a career in finance or aircraft component design.

13 Magnificent Free Wordpress Portfolio Themes: Wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. All of these themes are free. Hope you will like them.

Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites: A fire at downtown Seattles Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at some top Web sites, including Microsofts Bing Travel and Authorize.net.

Walkman named top music invention of last 50 years: The Walkman, the clunky portable cassette player, has been named the best musical invention of the last 50 years, by a leading gadget magazine.

Ubuntu is A Microsoft Product Now!: Well at least according to Dells website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsofts latest masterpiece: Ubuntu!

Wine 1.1.25 Released: - A ton of translation updates. - Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad. - Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL. - Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically. - Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation

Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data: The Pirate Bay Lives On | To: Responses have been overwhelmingly negative to the news that The Pirate Bay will soon be sold to Global Gaming Factory. But what if there is a method to the apparent Pirate Bay madness — one that, as Peter Sunde has

25 Brilliant Bookmarklets to Boost Your Browsing: Speed up your productivity with these simple JavaScript applets.

Jammie Thomas' lawyer says she will appeal against RIAA: Joe Sibley, one of Thomas-Rassets two attorneys said that will appeal and argue the $1.9 damages she was ordered to pay are unconstitutional.

Chinese Web Crawlers May Bypass Filters with Mac/Linux: Apple and Linux computers appear to be exempt from Chinas mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country. PCs that do not meet the softwares technical requirements are excluded, according to one

Ten ways to smooth the switch to Linux: Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.

Apple prepares iPhone SMS patch: Security experts have discovered a flaw in the way Apples iPhone handles text messages, prompting the company to ready a patch to fix the issue.

The Best Web Browser for Secretly Watching Videos at Work: Double Vision is one of the best web browsers for this kind of thing - it lets you view and interact with two applications at the same time, without having to switch windows again and again. So, you could be

NY thieves want iPhones, victims fight back: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thieves are increasingly going after iPhones and other smartphones but victims now can fight back with technology.One device allows a user to remotely activate a loud siren designed

Blind man sees after having a TOOTH implanted in right eye: A blind man is able to see his wife for the first time - after having a tooth implanted into his eye.

Facebook 'sparked white flight from MySpace': Sure, it wasnt the spam, the security holes, the stupid layouts and embedded *****, all the ads, or the fact that the site just plain sucks. ITS THEM BROWN FOLK IN MAH INNERNETS

The true cost of online privacy: Do you like your privacy? I bet you do. What about being able to read all kinds of stuff on the internet without having to hand over your credit card number -- do you like that, too? I bet thats

MacBook Pro Only Displays Thousands of Colors: In a machine labeled a “MacBook Pro,” you’d think they’d cater to, well I don’t know, professionals?

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Photos: How the Army tests biological, chemical weapons: At the U.S. Armys Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, scientists look for ways to protect soldiers against various chemical and biological weapons they might encounter in combat.

Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined: At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad finally got together on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years.

At 2,000 miles, Road Trip 2009 heads to America's largest bombing range: In the days since 1,000 miles, Road Trip 2009 has visited some of the most incredible scenery America has to offer, as well as learned some of the most sobering military realities.

Blogging live from Spiral Jetty: Never say never, but this may be the first blog ever posted live from the monumental earthwork on the edge of the Great Salt Lake called Spiral Jetty.

Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store: The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in an area hospital in serious but stable condition with a wound to the right shoulder. Many media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say its too early to tell.

What soccer team would your company be?: Martin Veitch at CIO.co.uk riffs on how certain football clubs resemble software companies, to good and painful effect.

Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites: Reports say a blown transformer knocked out power to the Fisher Plaza data center, which is home to the Bing Travel servers, among others.

iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web: Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3G ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, its Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography: Firefox 3.5 introduces a new embeddable font feature that can make Web typography much more visually appealing. But type foundries have to play along.

Apple patents point to haptics, fingerprints, RFID: Three just-published patent applications hint at the companys future plans. But it could be a while before we see any of the functionality built into iPhones or other Apple devices.

Symantec's Ramzan on solving the antivirus puzzle: q&a From puzzles and chess to ciphers and antivirus software, Zulfikar Ramzan talks about how he got into the computer security business and where its headed.

Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it: Open source has a role to play in cloud computing, but its likely not to be the vanquisher of old, proprietary dominance.

Defending against chemical and biological weapons: At the U.S. Armys Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, researchers look for ways to protect soldiers against bugs that could easily kill or sideline them.

Week in review: A speedier new Firefox: Mozillas latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

Sites that help you lodge complaints: If youve been wronged or youre just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.

Google App Engine misfires: A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Thursday.

Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images: NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped its first test images, showing the moons starkly cratered terrain in preparation for the start of mapping operations.

iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing: Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but thats just not true.

Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case: Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors cant use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.

Net Neutrality gets a boost from the feds: The Obama administration has included the FCCs Net Neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.

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Touch in Windows 7: Just for show?: Support for multitouch input is one of the most tangible ways that Windows 7 differs from its predecessors. But will many people actually get their hands on the technology? Theres a reason the first thing in Windows 7 that Microsoft

'Acid test' for Ubuntu on a netbook: A friend asked me to configure her netbook to my WiFi system so I decided it was time to replace the outdated operating system with a new Ubuntu Netbook Remix. At the end of last week I got the opportunity

Tech giants deny helping Iran eavesdrop: A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia is denying reports that Iran uses its Web-monitoring technology to censor and spy on its citizens online activities. A joint venture of Siemens AG and Nokia Corp., two large European technology firms,

Roadrunner, Jaguar retain supercomputer edge: IBMs Roadrunner and Crays Jaguar have retained their No. 1 and No. 2 rankings on the Top500 supercomputer list which is released twice yearly. Roadrunner (Credit: IBM) IBMs Roadrunner and Crays Jaguar have retained their No. 1 and No. 2

India's IT growth to slow down in 2009: The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this year, dragging Indias IT and IT-enabled services ITES industry to its lowest growth in five years. INDIA--The global financial meltdown is expected to finally reach local shores this

Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom: While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession IT security has been neglected due to the economic downturn, according to security

Intel expanding beyond its core: The chip maker has provided insights into a number of research projects that extend beyond its processor business. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Much more than most companies, Intels success depends on the technology that will arrive in its field years hence. As

Large Hadron Collider restart pushed back again: The Large Hadron Collider, put out of commission by a quality-control flaw, will be switched on a couple of weeks later than previously expected. The flagship particle accelerator at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Cern is to be restarted

Experts: Don't clamp down on social media: The use of Twitter to spread information about the unrest in Iran can teach businesses valuable lessons about the flow of information in their organizations, according to leading lights of the IT security world. The use of Twitter to spread

With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers: Mozillas browser broke Microsoft IEs lock on the market. But the new Firefox 3.5 faces other serious alternative-browser ontenders. A funny thing to happened to Firefox on the way to vanquishing Internet Explorer: the Mozilla browsers success opened the door

Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh: Chip giant Intel urges small and medium-sized enterprises to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a cost-cutting measure during the recession. Chip giant Intel has urged small and medium-sized enterprises to avoid lengthening their PC refresh cycles as a

Sony PSP could get phone functions: Sony is considering developing a mobile phone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apples highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday. Sony is considering developing a mobile phone-game gear hybrid in a

CIO Jury: iPhone has no place in business: The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover but its not enough to convince CIOs the device has a place in business, according to a jury of CIOs. The Apple iPhone may have got a makeover but its not enough

Jackson death prompts malware alert at Google: The breaking news of Michael Jacksons death on Thursday triggered an alert at Google over a potential malware attack. The breaking news of Michael Jacksons death on Thursday triggered an alert at Google over a potential malware attack. As reports

What PC makers are paying for Windows 7: Microsoft plans to charge PC makers the same for the business version of Windows 7 as it did for Windows Vista, while cutting the price of Windows 7 Home Premium as compared to its predecessor. Microsoft plans to charge PC

Ad tech can recognize gender - age next?: Singapores Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a gender-recognition system that could change the way advertising works in future. A*Stars gender recognition system at work. (Credit: Leonard Goh/CNET Asia) Singapores Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) has

'Golden Cash' network - rent a botnet: Finjan said that they have uncovered an underground botnet-leasing network where cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data and sending spam. Researchers at security firm Finjan said on Wednesday

RFID could be in all cell phones by 2010: All cell phones will come packed with an RFID chip by next summer â giving your phone the possibility of also becoming the keys to your car or house. All cell phones will come packed with an RFID chip by

New iPhone 3.0 OS available: A revised operating system for Apples iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste to the popular handset. A revised operating system for Apples iPhone is now available, adding functionality such as system-wide search and cut-and-paste

iPhone OS 3.0 now available: Many of the iPhones long-awaited features will finally become reality Wednesday when Apple rolled out iPhone OS 3.0. Many of the iPhones long-awaited features will finally become reality Wednesday when Apple rolled out iPhone OS 3.0. Current iPhone owners can

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Penguin Parents Won’t Chip in to Help a Handicapped Spouse: Tired of your partner not helping out with the kids after you’ve had a tough day at work? At least you’re not a handicapped penguin parent trying to fish with a Plexiglas box strapped to your back.Penguin pairs are known

Lunar Probe Sends Back First High-Res Images: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sent its first images back to Earth after activating its cameras on June 30.The LRO has both a low-resolution wide-angle camera and a high-resolution camera. These shots were taken at the boundary between night and day,

Why You Can’t Keep Your Foot Out of Your Mouth: It’s one of the more frustrating aspects of human nature: the harder we try not to say or do or think something, the more likely we are to slip — and often at the worst possible time. But maybe science

New Class of Black Holes Discovered: Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they’ve never been able to find one until now.Astrophysicists identified what appears to be the first-ever

Will Obama Save America’s Giant, Smelly Earthworm?: Environmentalists have asked the Obama administration to declare the three-foot-long, highly aromatic Palouse earthworm an endangered species, reversing the Bush administration’s mystifying refusal to protect them.Scientifically known as Driloleirus americanus, or “lily-smelling American worm,” the Palouse earthworm was once abundant

Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration: By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs.Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’

Make Like a Dolphin: Learn Echolocation: With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to “see” objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do.Ordinary people with no special skills can use tongue clicks to visualize objects by listening to

Water Should Be a Human Right: Water, water everywhere, and you’re entitled to a drop.As scientists warn that the world’s fresh water supplies will soon run critically short, and companies scramble to privatize them, some researchers and activists say water should be considered a basic human

Swine Flu: Just the Latest Chapter in a 91-Year Pandemic Era: The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it’s a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But as a group, H1N1 viruses aren’t new. They’ve been circulating since 1918,

Meet Dento-Munch, the Robot That Bites: Like mechanized dentures, a new chewing robot will test the toll that munching takes on novel artificial teeth materials.Designed at the University of Bristol, the machine, pictured, has 6 degrees of freedom of motion. This makes it more like your

NASA Satellite Maps 99% of Earth’s Topography: The elevation of nearly every place on Earth is now available, thanks to a NASA satellite mission.By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the agency created a topographic map covering 99 percent of the

Your Tales of Tough Scientists: For a bunch of laboratory-bound nebbishes and geeks, scientists can be pretty tough.Exhibit A is Jerri Nielsen, who while isolated at a South Pole research station biopsied her own breast cancer. Because winter weather made rescue risky, she treated the

Swine Flu: Just the Latest Chapter in a 91-Year Pandemic Era: The current strain of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, has people scared because it’s a novel virus that most of the population has never been exposed to. But as a group, H1N1 viruses aren’t new. They’ve been circulating since 1918,

Meet Dento-Munch, the Robot That Bites: Like mechanized dentures, a new chewing robot will test the toll that munching takes on novel artificial teeth materials.Designed at the University of Bristol, the machine, pictured, has 6 degrees of freedom of motion. This makes it more like your

NASA Satellite Maps 99% of Earth’s Topography: The elevation of nearly every place on Earth is now available, thanks to a NASA satellite mission.By analyzing 1.3 million images collected by a Japanese instrument aboard the spacecraft, the agency created a topographic map covering 99 percent of the

Your Tales of Tough Scientists: For a bunch of laboratory-bound nebbishes and geeks, scientists can be pretty tough.Exhibit A is Jerri Nielsen, who while isolated at a South Pole research station biopsied her own breast cancer. Because winter weather made rescue risky, she treated the

Update: Climate Bill Clears House by Narrow Margin: Update 4:45 pm: The American Clean Energy and Security Act passed the House today by a vote of 219-212, the first time that a bill capping carbon dioxide emissions has passed a chamber of Congress. It now heads to Senate,

NASA Wants Your Ideas for Digitizing Rocket Scientist’s Notes: NASA is taking the rare step of reaching out to the public for help. The space agency is looking for the best way to analyze and electronically catalog a precious collection of notes that chronicle the early history of the

A MASH Unit for Ailing Sea Mammals: << previous image | next image >>SAUSALITO, California — The Marine Mammal Center — located on the site of a Cold War-era missile silo north of San Francisco, within sight of the Pacific Ocean at the end of a military

Whales Might Be as Much Like People as Apes Are: As the annual International Whaling Commission meeting stumbles to a close, unable to negotiate a compromise between whaling opponents and people who’ve killed more than 40,000 whales since 1985, scientists say these aquatic mammals are more than mere animals. They

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Village Tronic ViBook: Multi-Monitor For Your Netbook: Once youve used a multi-monitor setup, its almost impossible to go back to a single screen. Notebook users likely feel this

Setting Up Your First 64-Bit Digital Audio Workstation: You already know how to build a PC. But do you know how to take desktop hardware components and turn them into a digital audio workstation? John Brandon discusses how he pieced together his latest musical creation, along with the

Windows 7 Versus XP: Which Belongs On Your Netbook?: Windows Vista was never really an option for netbook users, but the release candidate of Windows 7

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A Lesson In Backup: Taking Care Of Your Data: If you arent regularly backing up your data, nows a good time to start. In this piece

Killer Xeno Pro: Do You Really Need A Gaming Network Card?: Bigfoot Networks has updated its gaming Network Processing Units to support PCI Express

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AMD's Phenom II X4 TWKR: We Give It The LN2 Treatment: Youve seen the leaked photos of AMDs latest overclocking darling, the Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR. We got our hands on a pair of these CPUs (four, actually, but two are to give to you) and benchmarked them

DDR3 Memory Scaling: Intel's Core 2 Quad Examined: This is our third RAM scaling story in a series that will conclude next week. In this piece, were

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A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing: Believe it or not, there was once a time when computers took up entire rooms. As you sit there, appreciating your svelte desktop, check out our complete history of mainframe computing for a look back at some of the most

Cyberpower’s Gamer Dragon: Can AMD Bring The Game?: Cyberpower sent us a factory-overclocked Phenom II X4 955 system wielding two Radeon HD 4890 cards in CrossFire. We pit the formidable rig against our previous System Builder Marathon Core i7 machine to see if AMD can deliver a viable

1.5 TB Low-Power HDDs: Green Gets Big: The latest 2 TB hard drives are still expensive, but 1.5 TB disks provide low power consumption at a better cost-to-capacity ratio. We look at offerings from Samsung and Western Digital to determine the value of taking a step down

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MSI Eclipse Plus: Does nForce 200 Boost 3-Way SLI?: With 36 lanes of PCIe 2.0, 3-way SLI could be the X58 chipset’s biggest challenge. If that turns out to be true, is Nvidia’s nForce 200 controller hub, which multiplexes the platforms connectivity, a solution? We compare three configurations to

Gigabit Ethernet: Dude, Where's My Bandwidth?: Once we make the jump to Gigabit Ethernet, the expected tenfold increase in network speed doesnt seem to materialize. Well look at the basics of gigabit networks, what limits their performance, and how we can get the best possible speed

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VirtualBox 3 brings 3D graphics support: Sun announced this week the availability of VirtualBox 3, the latest version of its open source virtualization solution. The new version introduces experimental

Week in Gaming: Console price drops and StarCraft 2 details: Gaming news this week began with a bang—our famed Mole revealed that price drops on both the Xbox 360

Tech week in review: Firefox 3.5 edition: Its now a holiday weekend here in the US, but that doesnt mean last week wasnt exciting. Heres a recap of the

Week in Apple: Steve Jobs is back, Newton bugs, and lawsuits: July is finally here, proving that the world of Apple can in fact keep turning while Steve Jobs

Raising a healthy gamer: seven tips for parents: If youre a parent, or a soon-to-be parent, the noise about gaming and children can be deafening. Video games turn kids

Tech week in review: Firefox 3.5 edition: Its now a holiday weekend here in the US, but that doesnt mean last week wasnt exciting. Heres a recap of the

Why Sony's PSP Go speed boost won't up the eye candy: SonyInsider dug up an FCC filing that indicates that the forthcoming PSP Go will have a significantly faster

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Sony Ericsson’s First Android-Based Phone Pictured: Sony Ericsson’s first Android-based mobile phone is apparently code-named Rachael and is pictured over at Engadget. Go check it out if you’re curious. Details are sparse at this time, though they do tell you what CPU the handset is running.

First High-Res Pics from NASA LRO Received: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) sent back the first high-res images of the moon’s surface at the night/day boundary. Check out the Wired article for the pics and more about the orbiter and its mission. One of the goals of

Sony Walkman Named Top Music Invention of Past 50 Years: I can get behind that. Sony’s Walkman was such a revolutionary device at the time: a cassette player that can fit in your (very large) pocket? Sign me up! I was able to listen to Soulsonic Force and break-dancing mixtapes

McAfee Attacking Core System Files with Latest Update: McAfee users are blowing up about an apparent glitch in McAfee’s most recent virus signature update. This glitch causes McAfee to attack core system files, sometimes causing BSODs. I don’t think these were the fireworks that sysadmins were expecting today.

How Twitter Can Actually Benefit You: Many of you are vehement anti-Twitter/anti-social network people. I get that. However, if you’re a frequent traveler, you might be interested to see how others are using Twitter to get fast results for disputes. If you’re not having luck with

US Soldiers Call Home Free Today: U.S. troops serving overseas can call home for free on July 4th thanks to a pair of Camp Hovey soldiers. Larry Thorpe, 28, Army 1st-15th Field Artillery and Patrick Ayers, 25, an Army Medic with the 4th-7th Cavalry, are giving

Imagine Cup 2009 Kicks Off in Cairo: Competition began yesterday in Cairo for 444 students from 124 countries and regions at the Imagine Cup 2009 Worldwide Finals. Now in its seventh year, Imagine Cup is an annual Microsoft Corp. competition that challenges students around the globe to

appy Independence Day: All of us here at ard|OCP wish all of our USA readers a very Happy Independence Day today. Have fun and stay safe while you celebrate our countrys freedom with BBQ, beer, and fireworks with your friends and family. USA.gov

Windows 7 Release To Manufacturing On July 13th: According to this article, Windows 7 release to manufacturing is reportedly on track for July 13th. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in. Get out your Bill Gates commemorative calendars folks, cause it looks like we now have a

Woman Shot in Apple Store: Proof positive that owning an Apple computer is far more dangerous than a PC. Alright, alright, all joking aside, I’m glad the lady that was shot is okay and let us all hope the suspect is caught and gets what

DOJ Officially Opens Google Book Search Investigation: After months of speculation, the U.S. Department of Justice has finally confirmed that it is investigating a settlement involving Google Book Search for possible antitrust violations. In a filing to the judge overseeing the settlement of a lawsuit filed by

Fire Knocks Out Service to Bing Travel, Other Sites: Apparently the fireworks have started early in Seattle, a fire has interrupted service at Microsofts Bing Travel and other major web sites. Its a little unclear exactly when the fire at the Fisher Plaza data center started--some reports say Thursday

Gaming News: Alpha Protocol Dev Diary Explores Its Options @ ShacknewsL4D2 Pre-Order Sales Already Double The Original @ Joystiq Left 4 Dead 2 Interview @ VE3DSesame Street Says Video Games Are OK @ Kotaku

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The True Cost of Online Privacy: What is the true cost of online privacy? Any time an article asks what is the true amount of something, you know for a fact the answer isn’t going to be what you want to hear. Do you like your

Beware of Independence Day Scams: Researchers at ESET have issued a warning against opening e-mail or video attachments that have a 4th of July theme. As always, I know you guys wouldnt open attachments or click links to fireworks show but we all know friends

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Koolance CPU-LN2 Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator: While the rest of the world is worrying about fireworks, large pyrotechnic shows and generally just setting stuff on fire tomorrow, Legit Reviews went the total. other. direction. The CPU-LN2 operates on heat exchange with cold substances like dry ice

Pirate Bay 2.0 Explained: I wish the new owners of the Pirate Bay well but I just don’t know how they are going to do any of the stuff they say they are going to do. Paying people cash for seeding paid content they

Fireworks: 10 Explosive Science Facts: I’ll bet you didn’t know all these things about fireworks! If you follow the link there is also a bonus slideshow with handy little nuggets of info as well. A typical pyrotechnics display incorporates elements of chemistry, physics, aerospace engineering,

AnandTech

June GPU Market Update: Price Compression Benefits: Its a great time to buy a GPU, especially if youre in the market for an AMD part. Prices are low and performance is high....

Computex 2009 - Gigabyte: Computex 2009Gigabyte had a slew of new product introductions at Computex this year. In fact, the sheer number of new or revised products on display was a bit dizzying at times. While we love seeing new product introductions, the most

The Palm Pre Review: When I first met Apples iPhone, I was very impressed. Meet the first smartphone to impress me since....

iPhone 3GS Performance: A Significant Performance Bump: Whats the first thing I did with my new iPhone 3GS? Benchmarked it....

EVGA Killer Xeno Pro: The Impact of Network Offloading: Bigfoot Networks has a new generation of more affordable high performance network cards. These add some features beyond the original, but are they worth it?...

ASRock X58 Extreme - $169.99 is not too Extreme: We take an early look at ASRocks new X58 budget offering and find a board full of features and performance to boot....

Intel Quietly Announces Core i5 and Core i3 Branding: Intel quietly announced the Core i5 and i3 branding for future Nehalem CPUs. I hope to add some additional light to the announcement. ...

Desperately Seeking Quality LCDs: A while back, BenQ sent us their FP241VW LCD, an expensive high-end offering with some interesting features. Can this A-MVA panel best the competition, and does it even matter?...

Overclocking Extravaganza: GTX 275's Complex Characteristics: Today we round out our overclocking coverage by testing the GTX 275 and turning up its core memory and shader clocks. Find out how competitive it is with Radeon 4890....

Computex 2009 - ASRock: Computex 2009 ASRock is formally introducing both new products and product lines at Computex this year. ASRock has always been one of our favorite motherboard companies over the past few years. The reason, they tend to innovate and take chances

AMD Evergreen: 40nm DirectX 11 GPU Silicon Arrives: At Computex, AMD has demonstrated working next generation DX11 hardware and shows of their first wafer of codename Evergreen parts....

Intel’s Core i7-975 & 950: Preparing for Lynnfield: The worlds fastest processor gets faster. The new Core i7-975 runs at 3.33GHz but will hit 3.60GHz when only one core is active. The end result is the fastest CPU regardless of how many threads youre running....

Optimizing for Virtualization: Want to gain the upper hand on your colleagues by getting the very best performance out of ESX? AnandTech IT shares its best practices uncovered in the development of their vApus Mark I benchmark....

Gigabyte GM-M8000 Mouse - A GHOST Story: We take a look at the top gaming mouse from Gigabyte and realize it might indeed be a real GHOST when it comes to gameplay. ...

The New MacBook Pro Part II: Lower Battery Life Under Vista & SATA Issues: Weve got the first battery life results under Windows Vista and it still doesnt look good. The new MacBook Pro lasts 33% longer under OS X than under Vista. We also talk about the SATA issues on the new MacBook

Optimizing for Virtualization, Part 2: This is the second part of our ESX optimization tips and tricks, diving into storage optimization and configuration options....

Computex 2009 - Intel ULV Processor Updates: Intel is introducing new Ultra-Low Voltage (ULV) processors, Core 2 Duo processors, a speed bumped Standard Voltage (SV) processor, and finally a valuebased chipset (Mobile Intel GS40 Express) not based on the 945 chipset technology. These products join the recentlyreleased

The Athlon II X2 & Phenom II X2: 45nm Dual-Core from AMD: After months of begging, we finally have 45nm dual-core from AMD. And these new parts perform. Competition is alive and well in the lower price points....

AMD's Six-Core Opteron 2435: AMD added 2 cores to the improved AMD quad-core “Shanghai”. Which applications can take advantage of these extra cores? The answer is more interesting than you might think at first. ...

Apple's 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For: Apples latest MacBook Pro breaks 8 hours in one of our battery life tests. The new MacBook Pro is the best Apple notebook Ive ever tested....

O'Reilly Network

Four short links: 3 July 2009: OECD Factbook -- Flash-built impressive data explorer from OECD. Go to Indicators > Load and, in the words of Ben Goldacre, prepare for nerdgasm. (via bengoldacre on Twitter) James Boyle is on Twitter -- author of the book The Public

Pre-OSCON, Free Webcast Lineup (and a special offer): The theme of this years OSCON is Open for Business. Times are tough, making open source technology a smart choice for staying competitive. It gives you the means to drive down costs while increasing system and staff efficiencies. And OSCON

Ignite Los Angeles on 7/21! Submit a Talk: Ignite is coming to LA! As always speakers will get 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds. Were going to be holding the geek event at Cinespace in Hollywood on 7/21. Submit a talk now. This will be the first

Twitter Approval Matrix - June 2009: A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. For this post, Ive limited the data and activity to the month of June.

Four short links: 2 July 2009: UNESCO book: Open Educational Resources -- UNESCOs first openly licensed publication, a collection of papers and reports in the area of Open Educational Resources. (via glynmoody on Twitter) ETSI 2.0 -- Paul Downey ventures into the belly of the telco

Patrick Collison Puts the Squeeze on Wikipedia: Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, thats just what Patrick Collisons iPhone

In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It): Scott Berkun just posted a great rant titled, Calling Bullshit on Social Media. I suggest everyone read it. Berkun raises good points - and I agree the hype around social media warrants taking a critical look. Despite being in general

Star Date 2387: Is This Thing On?: In an amusing press release, Blue Microphones reports that the new Star Trek movie is crawling with its Mouse microphones. Heres a photo of one apparently recording the young Captain Kirk. Somehow I imagined it would look different.

iPhone workshop frequently asked question: Key Value Coding error: One of the most common questions from the iPhone workshops we held recently is: What is key value coding and why the heck am I getting this error?

Velocity and the Bottom Line: Velocity 2009 took place last week in San Jose, with Jesse Robbins and I serving as co-chairs. Back in November 2008, while we were planning Velocity, I said I wanted to highlight best practices in performance and operations that improve

Four short links: 1 July 2009: The Onyas -- New Zealand web design awards launch, from the people behind Webstock and Full Code Press. The name comes from good on ya, the highest praise that traditionally taciturn New Zealanders are allowed by law to give. The

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launched!: Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Fusion Middleware 11gR1 is the result of a herculean effort that is 3+ years in the making.

Everyblock's Code is Open-Sourced: The code for Adrian Holovatys Everyblock has been released. The open-sourcing of the sites system were apart of the Knight News Challenge Program. Everyblock is very impressive site that aggregates and geocodes local data -- news, crime, fire, restaraunt inspections

The Hacker Ethic - Harming Developers?: Is the hacker ethic harming developers? We dont think so, but maybe the idea resonates a little bit?

The US Online Job Market Was (still) Down Big In June 2009: Updating my post from early June, the U.S. online job market† still hasnt shown signs of recovering from steady declines that began in September of last year. Compared to the same period last year, there were 50% less job postings

Clean Energy and Security Act - First Step for U.S.: What does this Act mean? Almost everything about the bill can be debated, from whether the cap and trade system it introduces will be effective to whether the carbon emissions targets are going to be impactful. But its a start...

Radical Transparency: The New Federal IT Dashboard: Today, at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, Vivek Kundra, the US national CIO, unveiled the new IT spending dashboards at usaspending.gov. The dashboards are designed to help Vivek and the CIOs of individual government agencies get a handle

Take Your iPhone to the Next Level--Best iPhone Apps Is Here: Josh Clark, author of OReillys Best iPhone Apps: The Essential Guide for Discriminating Downloaders says he waited three decades until the iPhone finally arrived in 2007. Apples fabulous device is the only thing thats ever resembled my childhood notions of

Four short links: 30 June 2009: Military Open Source Software Conference -- 12-13 August 2009 in Atlanta. Govloop -- a Social Network for Gov 2.0. Gov 2.0 could easily become the intersection of talk radio and social media consultant inanity. As with the Web 2.0 lunacy,

Bing's Sanaz Ahari on System Feedback (2 of 2): A couple of weeks ago Bing had a small search summit for analysts, bloggers, SEO experts, entrepreneurs and advertisers. It was held in Bellevue; they put us up in the hotel and fed us. While there we received demos from

VNU Net

Nominet announces internet best practice awards: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Sunday 5 July 2009 at 10:45:00Dot UK registry hails innovative UK winners who will go on to share bestpractice at the global Internet Governance ForumOnline security and accessibility projects were the

Commission promises shake-up on standardisation policy: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Saturday 4 July 2009 at 12:16:00New European white paper says new approach is vital to boost competitivenessThe European Commission has proposed a radical shake-up of its policy on ICTstandardisation, saying a

Department of Justice investigates Google Book Search: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Saturday 4 July 2009 at 11:33:00Deal with US book publishers may breach anti-trust regulationsTheUSDepartment of Justice (DoJ) has confirmed that its anti-trust division isinvestigating Googles $125m (£76m) deal with book publishers

Public sector bosses fear they will miss green IT goals: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 3 July 2009 at 17:28:00Survey of public sector IT managers reveals deep concern over ability todeliver on carbon-neutral targetsPublic sector IT managers are deeply sceptical about their ability to deliveron

IT graduates have the hardest task finding work: Bryan Glick, Computing, Friday 3 July 2009 at 17:25:00Some 14 per cent of the class of 2008 computer science graduates are stillunemployedLast year’s computer science graduates are having a harder time finding a jobthan

VMware rakes in 700 service provider partners: Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Friday 3 July 2009 at 16:50:00Virtualisation giant claims VSPP programme has gained significant traction inshort space of timeVirtualisation behemothVMwareclaims to have enticed 700 partners to itsVMwareService Provider Programme (VSPP) since its

Barkers sold to Penna in pre-pack deal: David Jetuah, Accountancy Age, Friday 3 July 2009 at 16:30:00Barkers enters administration and HR consultancy Penna simultaneouslyannounces purchase of the business and assets of the troubled groupTroubled recruitment business Barkers is the latest high-profile company topull off a pre-packaged administration,

Apple iPhone 3GS users report overheating problems: Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeractive, Friday 3 July 2009 at 16:09:00Some users complain about overheating and burn marksSome owners of the Apple iPhone 3GS model have had trouble with the modeloverheating and becoming discoloured.Details of the

O2 could join T-Mobile UK bidding war: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 16:09:00New reports suggest Telefónica bosses are mulling a bidO2 may join theraceto acquire T-Mobile UK, after reports suggested that O2 parent Telefónica islooking at the case

Magic aims to make ISVs appear: Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Friday 3 July 2009 at 15:59:00Vendor aiming to double its global ISV base in just three yearsApplication platform vendor Magic Software Enterprises is aiming to doubleits global ISV base to 5,000

Archos steps up portable computing push: Ian Williams, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 15:58:00Range of new devices moves beyond media playersArchoshas expanded its reach into the portable computing market with the launch of arange of new products, including an

Twitter charges are bad idea, say V3.co.uk readers: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 15:37:00Over a third insist the service should remain free for firms, but many do notuse it at allOver a third of businesses would not pay forTwitter

BusinessGreen.com Most Read – 3 July: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 3 July 2009 at 15:10:00From record-breaking solar panels to the International Renewable EnergyAgencys new home, we round up the top stories from the past week

Motorola looks for wireless leads: Sam Trendall, CRN, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:53:00Mobile phone and networking vendor aims to help partners increase revenueMotorola is looking for wireless specialists and ISVs to help increaseservices revenue and delve deeper into

RDC joins MAR scheme: Doug Woodburn, CRN, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:42:00Computacenter-owned re-marketing set up is first to sign up to MicrosoftsschemeMicrosoft is urging UK resellers to embrace its latest scheme that allowsfirms to obtain cut-price operating

Lenovo targets HP partner base: Sam Trendall, CRN, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:33:00Vendor looks to expand reach and looks to rivals channels to achieve itsaimsLenovo is taking aim at HP’s partner base as it looks to recruit up

US powers up new Energy Star PC standards: James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:31:00EPA hints it could soon raise efficiency bar for routers, modems and storagesystemsNew specifications for PCs carrying the popularEnergy Star energy efficiency labelwere officially launched this

Top 10 articles, 3 July 09: V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:26:00Free upgrades for Windows 7, and standard mobile phone chargers finally onthe horizonThe most popular story this week was Lenovos announcement that it was addingits name

Researchers warn of critical iPhone vulnerability: Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:18:00Flaw could allow hackers to remotely execute codeSecurity experts are warning of a serious vulnerability in the iPhone thatcould allow hackers to remotely execute code on

Red Hat beta builds on virtualisation plans: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Friday 3 July 2009 at 14:10:00Kernel-based Virtual Machine virtualisation added to latest Enterprise LinuxbetaRed Hathas released the latest beta ofRedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4, adding improved virtualisation features to theopen-source operating system.The

Kuro5hin

VirtualBox 3.0: Oracle Wants VMWare's Market and VirtualBox Makes Rapid Progress: Sun recently merged with Oracle, but they bought out some virtual machine software like Virtual Iron, Xen, etc to combine over four virtualzation technologies into VirtualBox.

Playing With Its Wii: Nintendo's 8G Console: Now that the dust has settled in the Seventh Generation console wars, with the Nintendo Wii emerging the clear winner and the XBox360 and PlayStation 3 duking it out in the dust behind, game manufacturers are already tapping out prototypes

The Unified Theory of Conservative Healthcare: With the loss of our great leader, wherein he was replaced by a foreign-born communist candidate from manchuria, we now find ourselves on the threshhold of nationalizing everything in sight. The two largest, most classically American industries have recently faltered

Apple Will Never Replace Darwin With Linux: Every few months, the Mac web is bombarded with open pleas to Apple, asking--nay, demanding--that Apple swap out the Mach-based kernel that Mac OS X runs on, XNU/Darwin, with Linux. This, of course, ends in with Apple stoically continuing development

Lost frames of reference... Part 1: reach out and touch someone.: Here in the U.S. we have officially converted to digital broadcast and most stations (with the exception of low-watt operations) have turned off the broadcast of a signal that some have kept running for over 50 years. This got me

Eric & Emad: Iranian Hackers & Cyber-Buddies: The latest Trollaxor piece, Eric & Emad: Iranian Hackers & Cyber-Buddies, is a direct response in humorous parable to Eric S. Raymonds blog entry, Dispatches from the Iranian cyberfront, where Raymond boasts that his life of late has been like

AmigaOS: Dragging Ass into the 21st Century: Fourteen years before Apple released iMovie, Amiga offered video editing for the masses. But no matter how vociferously studios and hobbyists swore by their favored platform, Amiga failed, hard, almost overnight.Today, the Amiga community is a church of zealots praying

AmigaOS: Dragging Ass into the 21st Century: Fourteen years before Apple released iMovie, Amiga offered video editing for the masses. But no matter how vociferously studios and hobbyists swore by their favored platform, Amiga failed, hard, almost overnight.Today, the Amiga community is a church of zealots praying

Iran and the Geopolitics of Bay-Area Hipsters: Much hype has already been made of the foray of Twitter into geopolitics. Jared Cohen, the Jew who wandered the Middle East solo, wrote a book about it, and was hired to the State Department by the Bush administration, figured

Sugar a Factor in Drinking and Loss of Inhibitions?: The chemical effects of alcohol on inhibitions are not particularly well understood by scientists studying the short-term effects of drinking on social behavior. There is some evidence that the loss of inhibitions is psychological: patients given placebo drinks often demonstrate

Kuro5hin Naval Gazing: Why $5 is Bad: Kuro5hin works as a discussion and debate forum because it has identity. Identity in this case means that users have a name, and they have a password, and they have optional information they can fill out about themselves. Usernames leave

You Guys Really Buy the 6 Million Number?: Did you know that if Hitler had started killing Jews at the beginning of World War 2, in 1939, and stopped when it ended in 1945, he would have to kill two Jews every minute. Thats the six million number.

COMPLEATLY HARD MMM REVIEW: In-depth Windows 7 Release Candidate: Recently it was time to do the semi-annual reinstall of XP to keep things running smoothly. Instead of slipping the XP SP2 disc in the tray, I thought Ill give Windows 7 Release Candidate a try. It has received an

Keep the vibe (Ask K5): So, I was something like 15 y.o. when I decided to play music. I spared some money on my lunch tickets and bought my first Strat-copy. As I read somewhere that Eddie practised without any kind of amplification, I waited

HOWTO: Quit Your Job and Travel the World.: Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, You step into the Road, and if you dont keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. - J.R.R. Tolkien Its really a simple

GM - Government Motors: With the recent announcement of the US and Canadian Government takeovers of Chrysler and GM (albeit in partnership with solid American Labor) it seems appropriate to revisit some government produced automobiles from the past and how they performed, as we

Slouching at craigslist.org: Since the first of the year I have delighted myself trolling Craigslist; primarily of course, in the fertile grounds of the personals. Not knowing much about craigslist at first I started by wasting a whole weekend answering ads just to

Joe Biden's tangled web of hedge funds: FT Alphaville, a blog run by the Financial Times, is running a three part series on the dealings surrounding a hedge fund management company purchased by the Biden family in 2006. The upshot: no allegations directly linking Biden to corruption,

What Monopoly taught me about economics: My phone is a Palm. I installed the infamous software version of Hasbros flagship game: Monopoly. I first happened to find it quite boring. Then it caught me like whatever flu will make the news next month. Whats it about?

Techdirt

Is There Really An Idea/Expression Dichotomy In Copyright?: Copyright system defenders often trot out the commonly accepted wisdom that copyright does not protect ideas and that theres an important idea/expression dichotomy, where its only the specific expression thats protected, not the ideas. However, the reality is that both

How Does Offering Free Content Insult Those Who Pay?: Its interesting to see the logical pretzels that certain business execs will twist themselves into to defend a poor business model against one that customers enjoy much more. Take for example, the claim from cable firm Rainbow Medias CEO, Josh

The Myth Of Original Creators: We recently wrote about how many different sources Shakespeare used in writing King Lear, some of which he apparently copied verbatim. However, it seems quite likely that what Shakespeare did with those words created something wholly unique and valuable (at

Morons In A Hurry Can Raise Their Glasses Of Glenora Whisky Proudly Again: What is it with the silly food related trademark battles we keep hearing about lately? First there were Idaho potatoes, then lettuce, and now whisky. You see, the Scotch Whisky Association takes these things seriously. Already you cant call something

Why Is It So Difficult To Understand The Difference Between A Platform And A User?: In the US, thanks to safe harbor rules in the DMCA and the CDA, courts will often toss out misdirected lawsuits that go after a service provider for the actions of a user. To be honest, Ive always questioned why

Oh Look, Citizen Journalists Can Do Real Investigative Reporting: The newspaper people will tell you that if they are obliterated by the evil internets one of the big loses will be investigative journalism. If it hadn’t been for those gritty investigative journalists the newspaper hires there’d be no Watergate,

Canadian TV Station Selectively Issuing Copyright Takedowns?: A couple people have sent in this story, where the Canadian TV station Business News Network is apparently issuing takedowns on certain videos that are clips from BNN shows. The copyright claims may be valid, but whats odd is that

Judge Tosses Out Lori Drew Ruling: The Lori Drew verdict finding her guilty of computer hacking because she may have broken MySpaces terms of service (without even having read them) was a classic example of prosecutors trying to stretch the law to punish someone who did

New Jersey Politician Adds Most GPS Devices To Driver Distractions To Ban: Weve pointed out time and time again how silly it is for politicians to run around trying to ban each and every driver distraction, rather than just focusing on beefing up laws for reckless driving. There have been laws or

Blizzard The Latest To Kill Features, Call It An Upgrade: A bunch of folks have been sending in variations on the news that Blizzard has killed off LAN support for StarCraft II. The Buzz Saw points out that Blizzard seems to be taking the same old tactic of claiming that

Even More eMusic Features Disabled?: This is really unfortunate. eMusic used to be a great example of how treating customers right and with respect and trust could win over more customers -- but in the last month or so, it seems like the company is

Another City Caught Lowering Yellow Light Times To Catch More Red Light Runners: Its been shown repeatedly that redlight cameras dont appear to make intersections any safer, but they do act as a nice revenue generator for cities. In fact, at times its such a tempting revenue generator that city officials cannot resist

District Court Bans 'Catcher In The Rye' Sequel; Since When Did The US Ban Books?: Last month, we wrote about a lawsuit from JD Salinger over an attempt to publish a sequel to Salingers famous Catcher in the Rye written by Fredrik Colting under the pseudonym JD California. In a similar case, concerning a parallel

Jammie Thomas Decides To Appeal Constitutionality Of $1.92 Million Damages Award: As we speculated earlier this week, given the silence from the Jammie Thomas camp since the $1.92 million verdict against her, we assumed she was gearing up for an appeal -- and thats now been confirmed. Thomas lawyer has announced

Taiwan Regulators Tell Dell It Must Sell Mispriced Monitors At $15: Ever since e-commerce began there have been stories of mispriced items -- and following that, stories of the mad rush to buy the mispriced product (especially when it involves misplaced decimals, shrinking the price by orders of magnitude). In the

The Real Problem For The Music Industry Is... Interest Rates?: Cybeardjm points us to a story from Billboard about a claim from the head of PRS in the UK, noting that the real problem with the music industry today is low interest rates. You see, the way collections societies work

Forget Suing Google, Now It's Craigslist That's A Target For Misplaced Lawsuit: Its been quite common for companies to sue Google when a competitor puts up an ad that references their own trademarks. This is misguided in any number of ways: first, as long as the ad itself is not confusing such

Tehran Bureau Shows That If There's A Need, Reporting Will Get Done: The rallying cry of newspaper old timers who insist that reporting will die off if newspapers go away, but that ignores the fact that, if theres a true need, reporting will find a way. Andy Roon points us to a

Google Quietly Kills Off Its Commentary Feature For News: Back in 2007, Google released a feature for its News service that let folks comment on news stories. However, there were some weird quirks to it (eg. you had to be somehow involved in the news articles in order to

Insider Trading Suspected In The Pirate Bay Sale: The whole story of the supposed sale of The Pirate Bay gets odder and odder as more news comes out. Beyond the questionable business model the new owners are discussing, now comes the news that trading in GGF shares were

X-bit labs

Promise SmartStor NS4600 Review: Promise Company famous for its RAID controllers has been working very hard on entering the NAS market lately. Today we are going to talk about their new four-drive NAS that according to the manufacturer delivers Enterprise-Class RAID technology for Home,

Apple Reminds: iPhone and iPod Overheat at 35 Degrees Celcius: Apple Issues Warning Concerning Overheating

Former Intel's Chief Does Not Expect Quick Results from Intel-Nokia Pact: Feasibility of Intels and Nokias Partnership to Be Clear in Several Years

Nvidia's Chief Executive Publicly Unveils Pricing of "Ion" Core-Logic: Nvidias Ion Platform Appears to Be Up to Three Times More Expensive than Intels

Transcend Equips Memory Modules with Thermal Sensors: Transcends New Memory Modules Can Monitor Their Temperature

AMD Will Not Support Nvidia's CUDA Technology: AMD Not Interested in Supporting Nvidias CUDA

Intel DX58SO: a Completely Different Mainboard: We are going to talk about numerous features of the flagship LGA1366 mainboard from Intel that belongs to the Extreme product series. Read our review for details!

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