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Apple to unveil new laptop computers
Apple is expected to unveil new notebook computers, perhaps even one priced for those with tight budgets, at a "town hall" gathering at its northern California headquarters next week.
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Apple’s Hot Ticket: New Laptops Next Week
Like clockwork (that’s running a bit slow), Apple sent out invitations Thursday morning to next Tuesday’s press conference to announce its latest laptop computers.
New York Times |
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Atom-based module trims COM Express
— Sep. 30, 2008 — Advantech announced an Atom-based computer module using the company's new "SOM Express Micro" form factor. The SOM-6760 has an Intel Atom Z500 processor, up to 1GB of DDR2 memory, has 10/100 Ethernet, 8 USB 2.0 ports, EIDE, and a PCI Express interface, the company says. ...
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Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security
ATLANTA (AP) — Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.
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US stocks advance after IBM profit tops estimates; banks gain
US stocks rose and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rebounded from its worst six-day plunge since 1987 as better-than-estimated profit at International Business Machines Corp spurred speculation earnings will weather the financial crisis.
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Micron to cut workforce by 15 percent, slash flash output
Company announces a restructuring of its memory operations. Move comes on the heels of quarterly loss and news that Micron was cutting executive pay.
CNET |
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Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security
ATLANTA - Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.
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Mom Blackmails Daughter's Boyfriend with Nude Photos
Authorities in Kane County, Illinois, say they're investigating the case of a mother who's accused of threatening to post nude photos of her daughter's ex-boyfriend online.
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Blades to broadcast pre-season games on internet
Estero, FL - The Florida Everblades have announced that the audio broadcast for both pre-season games vs. the Phoenix Roadrunners will be available via the internet and the video broadcast for both games will be available through B2 Networks.
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Attic of riches
Randy Metcalf/The Explorer , Richie and Judy Ravner have sold items on eBay for the past five years, turning a hobby of selling hard-to-find items bought at garage sales into a full-time business run out of their home.
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Intel event lobbies for unified 60 GHz spec
Intel Corp. hosted a gathering of about 120 researchers this week as part of an effort to drive toward a standard for 60 GHz wireless networks that could serve a broad range of computer and consumer systems.
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Health 2.0: empowering hypochondriacs one misdiagnosis at a time [Valleywag Calendar]
A glut of online health sites makes it easier than ever before for individuals to procrastinate on calling the doctor by surfing the Web. Discuss the rise of Joe Six Pack, Web M.D. at tonight's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security
Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road. But what if you lose it while fumbling for change at...
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Fake YouTube Pages Used To Spread Viruses
Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.
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Clouds on Vista's horizon to be dubbed Strata?
Filed under: Desktops , Laptops When Ballmer dropped a few sprinkles of information about Vista's successor, he dubbed it "Windows Cloud," but said the real moniker would be unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference later this month in LA. That show's agenda was recently posted, and interestingly contained a number of sessions under the header "Windows Strata," leading ...
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Group Says Long Lines Possible on Election Day
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group says a lack of voting machines and poll workers could make for long lines at some polling places in Pennsylvania on Election Day. The Advancement Project says the surge in voter registration and expected larger-than-usual turnout may also overwhelm the resources of some precincts. [ WEB LINK: ( Advancement Project ) ]
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Review: Tiny flash drives improve their security
(AP:ATLANTA) Flash memory drives, the size of your thumb, are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road.
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Apple admits new notebook plans
Apple's got tongues wagging after announcing another product launch, this time in the cosy confines of its Silicon Valley HQ. Speculation - as always - is rife: is it an $800 notebook computer ? Is it the carved aluminium 'brick' ? Is it going to change the world, man, or is it something else entirely? Yeah, yeah, we can all speculate. But right now I'm more interested in the of the ...
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Researchers Teach Computers To Recognize Objects In Images
Some 60,000 photos were manually tagged with keywords by Penn State computer scientists to associate keywords with the pixel patterns that depict the objects in images.
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Where open source will be sucked into the downdraft
Google will survive, albeit in a much smaller form. IBM will survive, and be ready to thrive when this is over. Everything else will consolidate. Bye-bye Sun. Red Hat, find a buyer.
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Micron to cut workforce by 15 percent, slash flash output
Company announces a restructuring of its memory operations. Move comes on the heels of quarterly loss and news that Micron was cutting executive pay.
CNET |
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Apple Sets New Laptop Launch Event
A refresh to the company's product line is coming.
TheStreet.com |
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Wabash Tunnel closed
The Port Authority closed the Wabash Tunnel to outbound traffic this afternoon because of a computer server problem
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Google Maps gets search-related text ads
The Internet colossus has begun opening another direct revenue spigot: text ads that show up when people search at Google Maps.
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Palin's e-mail hacker indicted, to be kept offline
How do the feds prevent someone from using the Internet?
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