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Dell To Transition Laptop Displays to LED Technology
Dell said at least 80 percent of its laptop volume will be delivered with LED as a standard back-lit display by the end of 2009 and 100 percent in 2010. Beginning Dec. 15, 2008, two-thirds of Dell's Latitude E-Family laptops, including the E4200, E4300, E6400, E6400 ATG and E6500, will be shipped with mercury-free LED back lighting as a standard feature. Dell's Precision M2400 and M4400 mobile ...
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OSU open source lab announces advisory council
The Oregon State University Open Source Laboday announced the formation of its new advisory council.
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Slideshow: Switching On Android
So, the long wait for the first-ever Google Android mobile phone is over. The search giant teamed with T-Mobile USA , High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), and a whole gaggle of hootin' and hollerin' developers to unveil the G1 phone in NYC today. Click the photo below to launch our slideshow: ...
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Updated 9/24: Argonne looks at lithium batteries to power cars
Argonne National Laboratory welcomed American, Chinese, Japanese and South Korean research organizations to the first International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automobile Applications last week. The conference provided information and ideas to make the battery commonplace in future vehicles.
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The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners
Part 1: Will Barcodes Bridge The Gap Between Reality And The Net? One of the promises of the mobile web was the possibility of being able to integrate the internet with the real world. One of the ways to accomplish this task is through the use of barcodes. The idea is that you take a picture of barcode with your camera phone and you're then delivered to a mobile web site. This could ...
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United States Appellate Court Rules in Buffalo's Favor in Ongoing U.S. Patent Litigation
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24, 2008 -- Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking, storage and memory solutions today released a statement, providing an update regarding the status of the ongoing U.S. patent litigation with respect to the offer to sell, use, import or manufacture of Buffalo's IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g standard ...
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Apple recalls tiny iPhone 3G power adapters
Apple Inc. on Friday advised iPhone 3G users in many countries to replace the device's power adapter following reports that metal prongs broke off and stuck in power outlets, creating a risk of electric shock.
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NHL's Expanded Online Streaming: Not Quite There Yet
As Tidbits' biggest hockey fan (go Red Wings !) I devote a good deal of time and derive much pleasure watching hockey on television while following the game statistically on my computer at the same time.
Poynter Institute |
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4th grader wins laptop, $5,000 for Grant School
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Fourth-grader Trea Koller quite possibly had his most exciting day in elementary school on Tuesday when he was awarded a laptop computer and his school was issued a check for $5,000.
Muscatine Journal |
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Storage Vendors Jump on Oracle Bandwagon
EMC, Intel, Dell, Pillar, NetApp, and QLogic promise performance gains for Oracle databases, apps
Byte and Switch |
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Window broken, laptop stolen from home
A Francis Stewart Road man woke in the middle of the night to find his patio door window smashed and a laptop computer stolen from [...]
The Peterborough Examiner |
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UCI receives $5.4M to study large-scale computer networks
( University of California - Irvine ) If your Facebook page -- or "node" -- disappeared, would your whole social network come crashing to a halt?
EurekAlert! |
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Dell Adds New Studio Entertainment Desktops
The Studio Desktop and Studio Slimline have been designed for pumping out high-def content in home entertainment systems.
DesignTechnica |
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Biden: Ad mocking McCain was 'terrible'
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's running mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican presidential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-of-date computer illiterate was "terrible" and would not have been done had he known about it.
Hattiesburg American |
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Police Log
The following excerpts were taken from the Walnut Creek police log:Saturday, Sept. 6BURGLARY — A laptop, DVD player and other items were reported stolen from a storage unit broken into during the weekend in the 1300 block of Alma Avenue.
Contra Costa Times |
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Google goes mobile
The first phone that harnesses Google Inc.'s ambition to make the Internet easy to use on the go was revealed Tuesday, and it looks a lot like an iPhone.
Daily Breeze |
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Cybercriminals go mobile
Clive Akass, Personal Computer World , Wednesday 24 September 2008 at 17:19:00 Hackers helped by software development kits for G1, iPhone and Blackberry, warns expert The increasing use of smart mobile devices will make them a major target for cybercriminals, a security analyst warned today....
vnunet.com |
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Low-cost laptops to change from Linux to Microsoft
[LIMA] Peru is about to start delivering XO laptops from the One Laptop Per Child initiative (OLPC) that use Microsoft Windows instead of Linux to schools.
SciDev.net |
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Sumog-oy: Gensan's Computer Literacy Program
SO, WHEN Sheep-CLP was born upon the initiative of former Mayor Adelbert W. Antonino in the late '90s, what preoccupied the minds of local officials then was how to prepare the city and its productive forces for effective global engagements, not only to merely survive but to also prevail and dominate, in the end.
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Pearson Announces Pilot Program Results for New Pearson Test of English
Pearson today announced that it has successfully completed the final stage of the worldwide pilot program for its new computer-based international academic English language test, Pearson Test of English .
CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance |
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IBM launches four new cloud computing centers
IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities, and governments test Web-based services and applications. The new cloud computing centers are in Bangalore, India; Hanoi, Vietnam; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Seoul, South Korea. The company now has 13 cloud computing centers worldwide. [ Learn more about what cloud computing really means ...
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A second router protects adults from kids
Installing a second router on your home network can segment the adult computers from those used by children.
CNET |
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Good example set by the prime minister
As we all sit in front of our television sets or get the dramatic bulletins via computer or read the long, convoluted and ultimately sad stories in the newspapers about the demise of the many financial corporations, it all seems kind of removed from our lives here in The Bahamas.
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A Great Way to Expand Your Home's Living Space
(ARA) - Is what used to be your office now the baby's room? Have your desk and computer taken up residence in the formal living room? Are you running out of space to store your growing collection of stuff?
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EA to Deliver TRIVIAL PURSUIT across Pogo.Com, Console and Mobile Platforms
Gather up your pies and wedges, round up friends and family and join in the fun with the Casual Entertainment Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) as it celebrates the 25th year of TRIVIAL PURSUIT by offering new ways and places to play one of America's favorite board games. TRIVIAL PURSUIT will be released on multiple digital platforms including online at Pogo.com(TM), across several ...
Centre Daily Times |
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