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Better than 'Guitar Hero'? Rock on!
It might be better than Guitar Hero. A new computer program can generate spot-on music accompaniment tailored to the unique styles of different bands.
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Pine Lawn Truancy Center Will Keep Kids Busy
The Pine Lawn police department opened up a new truancy center Tuesday. The plan is to get kids who ditched school quickly off the street, but once they get here, there are no fun and games. They'll have to read books, work on computers and do homework.
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Business
Google's answer to the iPhone was unveiled overnight as the web giant makes its biggest foray yet into moving PCs into consumers' pockets.
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Study shows pop up warnings ineffective
A study by the Department of Psychology at North Carolina State University has shown that computer users largely ignore pop up windows warning them of unsafe computing use.
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Samsung ups the ante with the X460 laptop; X360 feels neglected
Filed under: Laptops Is Samsung's Air competitor, the X360 , a little too delicate for your tastes? Perhaps you'd be in for its slightly heavier cousin, the newly announced X460. It weighs in at 4.1 pounds and offers a larger 14.1-inch (though still 1280 x 800) screen, yet still manages to come in at just 1.2-inches thick. An Intel Centrino 2 handles the number crunching paired with ...
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Google phone will cost $179
T-Mobile says it will begin selling the G1 phone on Oct. 22
Contra Costa Times |
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Intel ships first dual core Atom processors
Intel has begun shipping the first of its dual-core Atom line of chips.
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Yahoo! offers XForms tools
— Sep. 14, 2008 — [Updated, Sep. 14] -- Yahoo! announced a development platform aimed at helping developers create standalone XForms applications for Windows Mobile, Java, iPhone, and Symbian devices.
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Google phone will cost $179
T-Mobile says it will begin selling the G1 phone on Oct. 22
Contra Costa Times |
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Dell rolls out Studio Desktop, Studio Slim
Filed under: Desktops It looks like those thrown off by Dell's curvy Studio Hybrid desktop now have some more familiar boxy options to consider, as the company has just rounded out its Studio line with its new Studio Desktop (MT) and Studio Slim (ST) models. From the looks of it, the two boast many of the same specs, including your choice of Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processors, up ...
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Palin e-mail hack raises new concerns
The bevy of personal information on the Internet could be making personal security questions a far less effective protection method.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X200 tablet goes on sale
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs Anyone interested in Lenovo's ThinkPad X200 tablet is no doubt pretty well acquainted with it by now, and if you're sold on it you can now finally get your order in for one, though it'll apparently still take one or two weeks to actually ship. Contrary to what we had heard earlier, it looks like the base price starts at a slightly more ...
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Packard Bell debuts "dot" netbook
Filed under: Laptops Well, it looks like Acer's considerable influence is starting to have an impact on Packard Bell's " trendy " new ways, with the company now trotting out its new "dot" netbook, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Acer's own Aspire One. Those similarities also extend down to the netbook's specs, which include an 8.9-inch 1024 x 600 display, the usual ...
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Team Garmin Edition Edge 705 GPS Cycling Computer Available
Garmin announced today that its Team Garmin Edge 705 cycling computer is now available. The device has an orange case inspired by team Garmin-Chipotle uniforms. The computer offers wireless unit-to-unit connectivity, GPS, heart rate, speed, cadence, altitu...
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Final Glance: Computer companies
Shares of some top computer companies were down at the close of trading: Apple Inc fell $4.21 or 3.2 percent, to $126.84.
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USB Multi-Monitor Systems Use Less Power than Discrete Graphics
According to a study on electrical consumption by DisplayLink, USB displays use less power than discrete systems. The study used two identical computer systems and measured the power needed to run one to four LCD monitors. One of the computers was equipped...
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First Google Android phone announced (VOIP not included)
“It’s very exciting for me, as a computer geek, to have a phone that I can play with and modify and innovate upon just like I have with computers in the past,” Brin said.
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'Google phone' finally released (+pics)
IPHONE-ESQUE: The T-Mobile G1, the US version of the first mobile to run Google's Android operating system. SLIDER: The T-Mobile G1 running Google's Android operating system. Its manufacturer HTC makes Telecom's Titan in New Zealand.
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Cloud Computing Expo - Unisys Dumps its CEO
Unisys president and CEO Joe McGrath will be stepping down by the end of year. The board thinks “a change in leadership would best enable Unisys to move forward on accelerating execution of the company strategy.” It has formed a search committee. read more
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Oracle Pushing New Application Grid
Oracle announced a new application grid product suite at OpenWorld this week.
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Google reveals its challenge to iPhone
Google's answer to the iPhone was unveiled overnight as the web giant makes its biggest foray yet into moving PCs into consumers' pockets. US carrier T-Mobile introduced the widely-anticipated G1 phon
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Google rolls out rival to iPhone
T-Mobile has rolled out Google's answer to the iPhone as the Web search giant makes its biggest stab yet at leaping from consumers' computers into their pockets with a device cheaper than rival Apple offers.
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Google unveils mobile phone, on sale in October
NEW YORK (AFP) - Internet search giant Google launched its long-awaited mobile phone on Tuesday, unveiling a handset developed with telecom carrier T-Mobile to compete with rival Apple's hot-selling iPhone.
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The Zzzz factor: Euro Truck Simulator
With my beat-up trucker cap in place, I'm driving slowly through town in my truck, a Majestic C-class, when I see a family sedan coming the other way. This being a videogame, you'd expect me to leap out of the cab, car-jack the sedan, leave the driver for dead, and screech away in search of some house of ill repute. But this isn't Liberty City, it's Brussels. And this isn't Grand Theft Auto 4, ...
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From desktop to dustbin: The evolution of the mouse
For almost 30 years, they have scurried across the globe with relentless speed, spawning new generations as they darted through holes in our desks to colonise the space beside our keyboards. The mouse has shown an extraordinary ability to survive the breakneck speed of technological evolution. Nobody has carried out a census of these denizens of the desktop, but it's certain that billions of ...
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