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Synaptics wins deal for first Android phone
HELSINKI (Reuters) - U.S. technology company Synaptics has won a deal to provide touchscreen sensors and chips for the first phone model using Google's Android software, a Synaptics spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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MySpace tries to strike new chord in digital music
(AP) -- Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels.
PhysOrg |
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Adobe’s Big Bundle Puts Growth to the Test
The software maker Adobe Systems once again faces the big test: will customers upgrade to its latest set of media creation products?
New York Times |
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Adobe’s Big Bundle Puts Growth to the Test
The software maker Adobe Systems once again faces the big test: will customers upgrade to its latest set of media creation products?
New York Times |
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3 ways Facebook could impress Madison Avenue [Free Advice]
NEW YORK — Facebook is making a huge push during Advertising Week, an industrywide series of events for media buyers and publishers taking place now. Mark Zuckerberg's marketing minions bought... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag |
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Left to right: SL521 D1, SL521 D4, and SL511 decoder
The fanless SL521 encoder runs on a 12VDC @18W power supply, and is equipped with DIN-rail mounting, as well as optional wall mounting. The encoder comes with a 40-60GB hard drive, as well as a 64MB server kernel DOM (Disk-on-Module) that stores a Linux 2.4.20 implementation.
Linux Devices |
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Intuit, H&R Block end separate fees for e-filing
(AP:NEW YORK) Two companies with big roles in preparing tax returns are giving their customers a small break. Intuit Inc., which makes TurboTax software, and H&R Block Inc. said separately they both eliminated fees for filing federal returns electronically using their desktop software.
INO News |
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Final Glance: Computer companies
Apple Inc rose $1.87 or 1.5 percent, to $128.71. Dell Inc rose $.37 or 2.3 percent, to $16.70.
INO News |
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Senate passes bill to close child porn loophole
WASHINGTON Responding to a Kansas child pornography case, the U.S. Senate has passed a bill making it clear that images obtained on the Internet do in fact travel across state lines.
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IG to Buy Japanese Currency Trader for $207 Million (Update3)
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- IG Group Holdings Plc , which takes bets on financial markets under the IG Index name, agreed to buy control of a Japanese online currency-trading company for 21.9 billion yen ($207 million) to expand into a new market.
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Android on WiMax in 2009?
A new analyst report from ThinkPanmure LLC suggests that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - message board ) Android devices could arrive on the Clearwire LLC (Nasdaq: CLWR - message board ) network sometime in 2009, backing up recent comments about the platform by the operator's CEO, Ben Wolff.
Unstrung.com |
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The Google Phone Is About Open Software
Android software is more open and flexible than the iPhone and BlackBerry.
US News & World Report |
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MySpace tries to strike new chord in digital music
Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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Wit, intelligence defined David Teetzel
Special Story
yorkregion.com |
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Backup Chrome, create profiles
A bit ahead of its time because Chrome doesn't have a lot features to back up in the first place, Google Chrome Backup is still a useful little app for Chrome fiends.
CNET |
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Student Murder Suspect Is Arrested
Police investigating the murder of a student linked to the online fantasy gaming community have made an arrest.
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Even Bill Maher can be irrational
My feature/review of Bill Maher’s new film, “Religulous,” is off to the printer and will appear in tomorrow’s Jewish Journal . It’s a decent piece and, if nothing else, includes the pretty cool, ultra-pious photo seen here (now my desktop background).
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MySpace tries to strike new chord in digital music
Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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GNOME 2.24 Released
The GNOME project has released GNOME 2.24 today. In case you're new here: "GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect ...
OSNews |
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Big Blue Adopts Anti-Shenanigans Standards Policy
IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. "There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways," said Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards.
LinuxInsider.com |
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Review: Lifestreaming sites can organize Web lives
These online destinations, many of which are quite new, are like overlooks that offer a panoramic view of what you and your friends are doing on social media sites across the Internet.
KATU Portland |
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New smartphone from Samsung
The phone is powered with Windows Mobile 6.0
The Hindu |
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FLASHBACK: Mitch Albom sizes up Millen's hiring in 2001
Editor's note: This story originally ran on Jan. 10, 2001.
Detroit Free Press |
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MySpace tries to strike new chord in digital music
Make room, iTunes. MySpace is hoping to shake up the digital music scene. In a bid to spruce up its popular online hangout, MySpace plans to flip the switch Thursday on a much-anticipated service that will give its roughly 120 million users free access to hundreds of thousands of songs from the world's largest recording labels. The catch: the music can be played only on personal computers ...
The State |
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$34 MIPS board has own Linux distro
— Sep. 17, 2008 — UK-based Omnima Ltd. is shipping a low-cost MIPS32 controller board with optional case.
Linux Devices |
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