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Product Recall: bench scale adapters
The following recall has been announced: - About 1,300 bench scale adapters, made in China by American Weigh Scales, because the adapters can smoke, catch fire and melt, posing a fire hazard to consumers. The company has received three reports of the adapters smoking after being plugged in. No injuries have been reported. The recalled bench scale adapters were sold online and through American ...
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Lawmakers scrutinize Yahoo-Google ad partnership
Congress waded into the escalating fight over the future of Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, demanding to know whether the Internet company's advertising partnership with Google Inc., intended to keep Yahoo out of the clutches of Microsoft Corp., raises antitrust...
San Francisco Chronicle |
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New Zealander fined in hack of U. of Penn. computer system
A computer hacker known online as AKILL was fined more than $11,000 in New Zealand today for breaking into the University of Pennsylvania computer network in 2006, causing the system to crash.
The Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Intel second-quarter profit jumps 25 per cent, beats analyst estimates
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel says its second-quarter profit jumped 25 per cent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Aug 2005 14:26 UTC
With Vista, Microsoft is addressing what's become a sad truth for most people: PCs run more slowly over time . Vista will automatically de-fragment hard disks, make better use of memory to more quickly load programs, and include a new performance control panel that will identify performance bottlenecks, according to the company.
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Recent Original Stories
Google and CodeWeavers are working together to bring Google's popular Windows Picasa photo editing and sharing program to Linux. The program is now in a limited beta test. If this program is successful, other Google applications will be following it to the Linux desktop, sources say.
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Lenovo Launches Complete PC Solution for Small Businesses with New ThinkPad SL Notebooks
Lenovo today unveiled a complete computing solution for small-to-medium business (SMB) users that includes the new SL series of ThinkPad notebooks, value-added software and unique new services. The trio of notebooks - SL300, SL400 and SL500 - feature cutting-edge technologies, such as built-in high speed mobile broadband connectivity, excellent multimedia capabilities with an optional Blu-Ray ...
PhysOrg |
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Interview With Evan Williams: Summize Acquisition, API Issues And Their Revenue Model
I had a chance to sit down with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams at Foo Camp last weekend and talk about the overall state of the company. The first part of the conversation focused on their acquisition of Summize, which we wrote about earlier today (for more on the acquisition, see the Twitter blog, Twitter investor [...]
TechCrunch |
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Xbox Pacts With Netflix
LOS ANGELES Microsoft kicked off the E3 video game conference here on Monday by announcing a deal with Netflix to enable Xbox 360 owners to play movies on demand through their consoles.
AdWeek |
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Intel 2Q profits up 25 percent on demand for PCs
Intel's profits rose 25 percent in its second quarter, the company said today, while announcing that revenue grew 9 percent to $9.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Round Up: Nine iPhone 3G Battery Life Test Results [IPhone 3G Battery Life]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The black art of battery life testing takes time—that's why every launch day review had some version of "we'll get back to you"—as...
Gizmodo |
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Apple pledges support for PA Semi processor
Apple Inc. has informed the U.S. Department of Defense it will supply for at least three years the PowerPC-based processor it acquired with startup P.A. Semi.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Intel Profit Rises, Driven By Notebook PC Sales
Intel Tuesday posted a higher quarterly profit as the world's biggest chipmaker was helped by strong sales of microprocessors used in notebook personal computers.
InformationWeek |
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Sony Will Increase Storage Capacity for PlayStation 3 Console
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Sony Corp. will increase the storage capacity of its PlayStation 3 video-game console starting in September, following a similar move by Microsoft Corp. earlier this week.
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Microsoft Says Yahoo-Google Deal Threatens Internet Privacy
The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business.
InformationWeek |
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Senate Begins Hearings on Google-Yahoo Search Deal
The U.S. Senate opened hearings on a pending Yahoo-Google partnership Tuesday. The Antitrust, Competition and Consumer Rights committee means to put the screws to each party's legal counsel in an attempt to determine whether the deal violates antitrust laws. Google is the number-one search site, while Yahoo currently hosts the second most popular site. Ad revenues from searches are a ...
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Intel Ships Centrino 2 with Laptop Management Features
Intel has begun shipping its Centrino 2 microprocessors and chipsets for laptops. Formerly code-named Montevina, the next-generation platform gives notebook designers five Core 2 Duo processors to choose from, including a new Extreme chip capable of running at 3.06 GHz. Nearly 250 new consumer and business notebook PCs are slated to adopt Intel's latest processors and chipsets, the company said. ...
CIO Today |
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Netflix Takes Center Stage on Xbox
Microsoft added another capability to the Xbox 360's stable of entertainment functions Monday in a partnership with Netflix that will allow users to watch streaming movies and TV shows through the Internet-connected video game console. The feature, which will launch this fall, will be available to Xbox Live Gold members who are also Netflix subscribers. Gold membership costs $60 per year.
E-Commerce Times |
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Survey: Mobile TV, Wi-Fi, games turn off handset users
A survey conducted by ABI Research found that mobile phone users are not too keen to have Wi-Fi, mobile TV or games on their handsets.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Compact power inductor line fits multiple apps
Stackpole has extended its power inductor product offering with several product line expansions. With its small size, the CPS series is suitable for portable devices, laptops, PDAs, and other handheld wireless communication devices.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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The FCC scolds Comcast, but there's still a long Internet fight to come
Column: Recent decision by Chairman Kevin Martin leans toward Net neutrality.
The Christian Science Monitor |
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The evolution of processor cores
Today?s processor cores integrate more than 20 million transistors, supported by cache memories consuming billions of transistors and delivering almost 30,000 times more than the performance of Intel?s 4004, the first ever microprocessor.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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Dynamic software tool compatible with real-time Linux systems
SKY Computers Inc. has introduced the TimeTrac dynamic software tool for Linux multiprocessing systems.
Electronic Engineering Times Asia |
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NTT told to halt misleading ads
NTT Corp. has been ordered to stop advertisements for its Internet call services because they are misleading. The ads suggest the services cost less than they actually do, the Fair Trade Commission said Tuesday. Read the full story
The Japan Times |
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MacMedia offers PhoneAgent 1.5
Earlier today MacMedia announced the release of an update to PhoneAgent, syncing software for Mac OS X and Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Version 1.5 adds support to another model in the Ericsson line, the C902. This brings the number of Ericsson's supported 13, including the T610, T616, T630, T637, Z600, K700i, K750i, K790i, K800i, K810i, W800i, W88...
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