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1. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... 52 key commands. "You can do far more with this [device] than most people are likely to realize at first," explained mouse designer Theodore Beale. "You can launch applications from the desktop and in ...

2. 25 laziest cities in America unveiled

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ...  We won't go through the whole list. You can find the sad tale here. If it is a sad tale, that is. Walter Hudson (1944-1991) was the fourth most obese human in medical history, according to the Wiki. ...

3. Nvidia taunts Intel with cartoon parody site

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... is. The site purports to be "a parody of events occurring within the semiconductor sector, with particular focus on its largest, and most commented upon competitor". For the last few days the site has ...

4. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... as Oswald claimed, a fake. Dartmouth computer scientist Hany Farid has analyzed the photo with modern-day forensic tools, and says it is almost certainly genuine. "If we had found evidence of photo tampering, ...

5. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... and memory - was up almost 25 percent sequentially.    

 "Demand was strong throughout the quarter in both the desktop and notebook segments, with many customers on allocation as a result of stronger ...

6. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... shift the ratio of Xbox 360 to PS3 sales for most major multi-platform releases in its favor among dual owners," OTX analyst Nick Williams told Gamasutra. Williams explained that 15 percent of gamers ...

7. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... selfish children," wrote Los. "It [is] another reason why I don't like Apple or their OS. I look at Apples as 'Computing For Dummies' anyway. Most people I know buy Apple for 1 of 2 reasons: To either ...

8. Adult Friend Finder: paedophiles are just one click away

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... think. Pornography on the Internet has many faces. We all know that it always was and always will be one of the most popular topic areas and most of us will have to admit that we at least played with the ...

9. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... the release of Android based handsets from several different OEMs, most recently Motorola, but also Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson, the buzz surrounding Android OS is reaching critical mass,” said William ...

10. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Traditional standardized benchmarks have less and less meaning for most people.” AMD has taken the view that although it was a product oriented company, it now needs to be a a platform company. He said ...

11. Internet users do have friends

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... people's participation in the local community, local institutions and local spaces, our findings show that most internet activities are associated with higher levels of local activity," say the researchers. ...

12. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... added. Most of the 27 agencies involved in the data center consolidation have expressed frustration with Big Blue. A survey of the agencies' information technology directors taken in the spring found ...

13. Cops to get long range tasers

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... officer shooting a victim when under most circumstances the risk of a suspect escaping a missed shot will be eased by several opening fire.  ...

14. Distant galaxy cluster sheds light on 'cosmic skeleton'

    (Space/Space Features)

    Astronomers have discovered a gigantic assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers have discovered a gigantic assembly of galaxies located almost seven billion ...

15. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... hassle to find what matters most to them,” said Erik Jorgensen, corporate vice president of Microsoft. “Microsoft is uniquely invested in search, media experiences and technical innovation. Combining these ...

16. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    If the most technical Ubuntu supporters can't make it work properly, what hope is there for the rest of us? If the most technical Ubuntu supporters can't make Ubuntu 9.10 work properly, what hope is there ...

17. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... they control the hardware, software, user experience, most of the channel, the gate that allows applications in, and virtually all of the user experience. It is no surprise that this is one of their most ...

18. Apple gambles on killing iPhone subsidy

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... might cause Apple to lose a bit of cash, if the Verzon deal works it could sell an extra 14 million iPhones and claw back the cash in volume sales. It is fairly risky and it is equally likely that most ...

19. EU wants black boxes in autos

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... black boxes are now fitted as standard in most new cars in the US, they are rarer in Europe. Privacy campaigners are concerned about the proposals, but the EU says there would be no compulsion involved, ...

20. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is any guide, it will also include messages to and from U.S. citizens inside the nation's borders, which is against the law. But no one really cares. Most people think the NSA is just snooping on terrorists ...

21. Welcome to a new TG Daily

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... tech generation. We see the tech generation as a community of people who understand how technology can help and who want to make the most of their experience and get the news first and in an easily ...

22. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the Pre to enable iTunes syncing, while Apple has done its utmost to block transfers from what it describes as "non-sanctioned" devices. Dan Moren of MacWorld compared the ongoing struggle to a classic ...

23. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... in most of the years assessed, other European carmakers PSA (Peugeot, Citroën), Renault, Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler/Daimler AG only occasionally kept pace. FIAT Auto was well behind throughout the ...

24. Facebook wins $711 million against spammer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... blog post. "Most notably, the judge referred Wallace to the US Attorney's Office with a request that Wallace be prosecuted for criminal contempt, which means that in addition to the judgment, he now ...

25. Astronomers find most distant object yet

    (Space/Space Features)

    Astronomers have observed the oldest and most distant object yet, a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). Astronomers have observed the oldest and most distant object yet, a gigantic ...

26. Control your enthusiasm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the inventory management the OEMs and channel executed. Sure a few companies got caught off guard, but for the most part the industry as a whole, and in particular the semiconductor suppliers (well, most ...

27. Is Windows 7 too good for Apple to FUD?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... back to FUD; Scott McNealy and Sun tried the same tactic for most of the 90s and watched their market share and profitability drop sharply as a result. Will the same thing happen to Apple? (By the way ...

28. World's largest supercomputer starts work

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... there is ordinary matter in the universe, and we know it's there from many different observations; most spectacularly, we've seen it bend light in pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope, but its origin ...

29. Peer pressure can lead to big energy savings

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... France's total carbon output, or of total emissions by the US petroleum refining, steel and aluminum industries. "On the research end of things, we've invested mostly in engineering approaches - building ...

30. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    ... stupid, we'll point it out. When it does something good, we might even praise them a bit. And so it is that, unlike most IT sites, we don't have a news agenda. We're not pro Intel or AMD, for Microsoft ...

31. Leaving the iPhone behind

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    ... call to make mid-way through the drive, which forced me to take the second route, Interstate 5, a mostly tedious freeway that stretches from the Mexican border in the south to the Canadian one up north. ...

32. Night falls on Saturn's rings

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... Flasar of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Researchers have discovered that while most of the ring particles are as small as dust and pebbles, there are a few chunks as big as mountains, and even ...

33. Daylight Saving is a waste of time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... do the actual plowing these days do it from the comfort of an air-conditioned cab and with the benefit of a new wonderment called electrical lighting. Indeed, most of the cereal harvesting done around ...

34. Live feed update sparks angry protests from Facebook users

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... its homepage with a dual-view news feed. A summary view now displays the "most interesting" activity over the past 24 hours, while a "real-time" stream offers instant access to ongoing updates. "While ...

35. Raindrops keep falling on Mozilla's head

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... According to the Raindrop site, it aims to make life enjoyable  and will use a sort of miniweb server to pull out the most important bits to you and show them in your favorite web browser. It's asking ...

36. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... come to mind. Both are brilliant and delightful individuals. They are also careful, non-ideological thinkers, willing to weigh other views. But most techies think just because something can be done by ...

37. Global warming scepticism rising faster than temperatures

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... there might be an argument saying biofuels grown on brownfield sites are carbon neutral because they absorb Co2 from the atmosphere while they are being cultivated, in most cases, existing forests are ...

38. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Dynario, that comes with a dedicated fiel cartridge will be sold in Japan in a limited edition of 3,000 units only. Toshiba claims that the Dynario delivers "almost instant refueling", untethering electrical ...

39. NASA finds most distant galaxy cluster yet

    (Space/Space Features)

    The most distant - and oldest - galaxy cluster yet has been discovered, beating the previous record holder by about a billion light years. The most distant - and oldest - galaxy cluster yet has been ...

40. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... incompatibility issues.  "Users who are having difficulties getting a specific device to work correctly on their machines would send in their component to have it certified. The most common hardware ...

41. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... The Apple executives, most of whom were let go in the following years or fired by Steve Jobs, told me they had it well in hand and that, after all, Windows 95 was simply a bad copy of the 1988 version ...

42. Lenin's favorite car maker launches $1 million SUV

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... course you can choose any metal or incrusting," promises Dartz. Most startlingly, perhaps, the seats are made with leather from a whale's penis. Very soft, apparently. Powered by a 550-horsepower ...

43. Cost of solar energy declines

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... of installed systems over time," says report co-author Ryan Wiser. According to the report, the most recent decline is mainly because of of a decrease in PV module costs as manufacturing capacity has ...

44. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft launched the very latest version of its operating system - Windows 7 today. The most interesting thing is that people will have to perform a 'clean' installation in order to upgrade from ...

45. Almost no one is prepared to pay for online news

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... online news content. MediaWeek also points out that entertainment download services appear to be the most acceptable form of paid-for online media, with 49 percent willing to pay for music downloads, ...

46. SSDs inch toward the desktop

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... for most desktop users. For the vast majority of us, we'll be happy to use SSDs in the form of flash drives to carry mobile data or for quick, simple backups. But they have a long way to go in price and ...

47. By hook or by crook, B&N launches the nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Barnes & Noble has officially introduced its electronic reader - it calls it the nook - and claims it is the world's most advanced eBook reader. Barnes & Noble has officially introduced its ...

48. New material increases storage capacity

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... discovery also advances knowledge in the emerging field of spintronics, which is dedicated to harnessing energy produced by the spinning of electrons. Most energy used today is harnessed through the ...