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Earthtimes
Hands-on With Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Beta
Washington Post - 56 minutes ago
An apparent conflict with toolbars from Google and Yahoo yields an interesting first experience with IE8's beta. Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.
Microsoft Releases New Web Browser Beta The Associated Press
Microsoft IE8 Beta 1 Available Neoseeker
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Apple CEO’s Stab at Flash to be Topic of the Day at SDK Event
Mashable - 1 hour ago
Adobe Flash. It’s been long a requested feature lacking in Apple’s mobile Safari browser. The preeminent rich-media platform used by Web developers and content owners alike in countless applications and settings today, Flash is seen by a great many ...
Adobe bites its tongue after iPhone Flash jab CNET News.com
Jobs Slams Flash, Adobe Responds InformationWeek
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Voice of America
Manmade Flood Unleashed in Grand Canyon
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
PAGE, Ariz. (AP) - Four arcs of water unleashed from a dam coursed through the Grand Canyon on Wednesday in a flood meant to mimic the natural ones that used to nourish the ecosystem by spreading sediment.
Questions on Grand Canyon ‘Blow Out’ New York Times
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Grand Canyon Flooded by Huge Torrent National Geographic
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PhysOrg.com
Bank Asks Judge to Dismiss Its Suit Against Wikileaks Site
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By Jonathan D. Glater A Swiss bank on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that it had filed against a Web site that it claimed had displayed stolen documents revealing confidential information about the accounts of the bank’s clients.
Swiss bank Julius Baer drops Wikileaks lawsuit Reuters
Comment by Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group
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eFluxMedia
Microsoft Entices New Users With Cash
The Associated Press - 2 hours ago
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. raked in tens of billions of dollars selling software last year. Now, it's giving away a sliver of that - $100000, plus prizes - to entice people to try a new, free program.
Microsoft Office Live Workspace Beta PC Magazine
Microsoft Offers $100K to Testers of Office Live Workspace New York Times
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eFluxMedia
Apple's Finickiness on Flash May Help Microsoft
TheStreet.com - 3 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Bad news for AdobeADBE may mean a victory for MicrosoftMSFT, if AppleAAPL CEO Steve Jobs throws his company's support behind Microsoft's Silverlight technology on Thursday.
Microsoft, Nokia Put Silverlight On Mobile Devices InformationWeek
Linux tablet vendor pledges Silverlight support LinuxDevices.com
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Citizen
Brain Scanner Can Tell What You're Looking At
Wired News - 3 hours ago
By Brandon Keim 03.05.08 | 6:40 PM Scientists have developed a computer model that predicts the brain patterns elicited by looking at different images -- a possible first step on the path to mind reading.
Brain Scans Let Computer 'Read' Visual Activity Washington Post
"Brain Reading" Device Can Predict What People See National Geographic
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NEWS.com.au
A one-stop shop for Blu-ray licensing
CNET News.com - 4 hours ago
Now that Blu-ray has won the high-definition disc format war, the industry is moving on to the next step: recruiting companies to produce players and media.
A $299 Sony Blu-ray Player, But No Cheap Chinese Models New York Times
Samsung Cancels Second-Gen Blu-ray and HD DVD Player PC World
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TechShout!
Intel's Otellini pledges growth from places new and old
CNET News.com - 4 hours ago
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Intel CEO Paul Otellini sought to reassure major investors Wednesday that the world's largest chip maker is still poised for strong growth into new areas like mobile computers, and can maintain its current lead in PC technology.
Intel's Atom Processors and Chipsets TMCnet
Atom inside: Intel announces ultramobile processor brand Ars Technica
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E Canada Now
Apple Falls Short of Rental-Movie Target
The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) - Apple Inc. has fallen substantially short of its target of having 1000 movies available for rent on its Apple TV set-top box by the end of February, and is blaming studios for the discrepancy.
ITunes' Incomplete Movie-Rental Inventory Washington Post
Apple Misses Mark On Movie Rentals InformationWeek
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Cinema Blend
Activision ponders Call of Duty MMO, Guitar Hero "instruments"
GamePro.com - 5 hours ago
by Blake Snow | 03/05/2008 | 1:49:20 PM PST After merging with MMO-expert Blizzard Entertainment last year, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said his company would eventually consider an MMO version of Call of Duty, in addition to a Guitar Hero expansion ...
Activision Hints At Call Of Duty MMO Wired News
Activision CEO on COD MMOG, Guitar Hero's Asian Tour GameSpot
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3-D Computer Designs Take Form With Magnetic Device
InformationWeek - 5 hours ago
Researchers are honing a system that could allow people to feel textures and shapes of 3-D designs created on computers -- without awkward mechanical gear.
"Maglev" refines haptic input technology Ars Technica
Give your computer the sense of touch ZDNet
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Edmonton Journal
Is thinner better? The ThinkPad X300 challenges the MacBook Air
Computerworld - 6 hours ago
By Brian Nadel Matt says: Do you trust something that just eats your disk completely? Then there is the issue of the smaller size disks... TP701c says: ThinkPads rule. MacBooks drool. "the year is 2008 not 1995…there are different colors than "Black"" ...
ThinkPad crams tons of features into lightweight laptop CNN
The New ThinkPad: Light, Thin And Pricey CBS News
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The Tech Herald
A Mighty (Renewable) Wind Blows In California
InformationWeek - 8 hours ago
California dairy cows are giving the state's power grid a blast of renewable energy, but the real money maker in bovine biogas may lie elsewhere.
California cows start passing gas to the grid Reuters
PG&E starts getting gas from manure CNET News.com
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An homage to the man behind 'Dungeons & Dragons'
CNET News.com - 8 hours ago
Gary Gygax helped keep me out of trouble when I was in junior high school. I was saddened earlier Tuesday to hear that Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and the father of modern role-playing games, has died.
Dungeons & Dragons Game Co-Creator Dies PC World
D&D cocreator Gary Gygax now beyond scope of healing spells Ars Technica
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Google Gears Shifts Toward Windows Mobile
CRN - 8 hours ago
By Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb Google this week announced that it is mobilizing Google Gears and making it available on a select set of mobile devices, meaning Windows Mobile device users can access mobile applications whether or not they're connected ...
Google Gears heads for Windows Mobile phones CNET News.com
Google Gears Comes Out for Mobile PC World
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New York Times
Gored: Why Skeptics Need Al
Wall Street Journal - 10 hours ago
The striking thing about the “Manhattan Declaration” that ended the Heartland Institute’s global-warming skeptics’ conference this week wasn’t its rejection of man-made global warming or the host of alternative scientific theories.
Take 2: Networks Still Ignore, Print Media Still Bash Warming ... Business Media Institute
Lessons from the Skeptics’ Conference New York Times
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eFluxMedia
Yahoo activates smart mobile bookmarks
Reuters - 13 hours ago
By Georgina Prodhan, European Technology Correspondent HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc, still fending off a $41 billion takeover bid by Microsoft Corp, unveiled a cell phone tool on Tuesday that lets users keep up with their favorite topics ...
Yahoo to launch mobile-bookmarking tool CNET News.com
Yahoo Unveils Mobile Organizer For Web Content InformationWeek
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PC Perspectives
AMD Cuts Time Needed to Shift Production Method
New York Times - 23 hours ago
By LAURIE J. FLYNN Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it was closing a technology gap with its rival Intel, cutting about in half the time required to move to a new manufacturing process.
AMD Tries To Win Gamers’ Hearts With The AMD 780 Series eFluxMedia
AMD Rolls Out 45nm Chips, Hybrid Graphics CRN
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KIMA CBS 29
Did IPods Cause a Crime Wave?
Washington Post - Mar 4, 2008
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN AP BOSTON -- It's easy to see why iPods would be alluring targets for criminals: The music players are valuable and easy to resell, and people absorbed in their personal soundtracks can be vulnerably oblivious to their surroundings.
Group claims increase in violent crime due to iPods KSL-TV
IPod link to violent crime eyed Washington Times
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