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1. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Oldest public museum in world It's taken quite a while for the refurb of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford - that's going to be good news for the flocking tourists in this city. The galleries include some ...

2. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... strategy Why Apple should license Windows 7 Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good  ...

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

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Opinion: Apple was blindsided by Windows 7. It wasn’t the product which they saw coming, it was the sustaining marketing budget and positive reviews from Apple loyalists like Walt Mossberg they ...

4. 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 ...

5. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... entire budget before the product actually hit the stores and has a substantial sustaining marketing budget. This means, this time, both the product and the marketing program is in relatively good shape ...

6. Disney's Keychest unlocks movies for any platform

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... includes five major studios, has support from Intel. ABC has also persuaded an insider at Disney to talk. "Packaged goods will co-exist with digital platforms," he said, adding that Disney is in talks ...

7. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   ... a 160GB device at $649. But they have a long way to go before they reach traditional hard disk drive prices. You can pick up a 1 terabyte LaCie drive for as low as $135. So, you need a good reason to ...

8. Wal-Mart to take on Amazon

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... good news for people who can read, it’s not so clever for the retailers – estimating that Wal-Mart will be losing around $7.50 on every book it sells. And things aren’t all doom and gloom for the small, ...

9. Microsoft recovers Danger data

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... time and that the data was put at risk not by hardware failure, but by good old-fashioned human error. Industry watchers should look for evidence of this having happened coming in the form of a press ...

10. Adobe sneaks out mega security patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... while it is seen as jolly good fun to use the number of patches issued for Microsoft products as evidence of poor design and a lax attitude to security, where are the brickbats for Adobe for releasing ...

11. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... to upgrade their hardware. For most good-size companies that's a multi-million dollar decision. Given that most PCs are fast enough and Windows XP is good enough, putting off that kind of decision is easy ...

12. WikiReader puts Wikipedia in your pocket

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ...  The screen itself won’t win any prizes, but is good enough to display content inside and outside, even if we found that the readability in direct sunlight is limited. The upside of the monochrome screen, ...

13. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... Vista'. 'Even worse than Vista' has become the lazy writer’s marketingspeak for something less desirable than syphilis or about as good looking as a 55 Chevy after it’s been through a car crusher. With ...

14. Recession good news for polar bears, says IEA

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    The recession is ‘a window of opportunity to curb climate change and build a low-carbon future’, says the International Energy Agency (IEA). The recession is ‘a window of opportunity to curb climate ...

15. Top 13 reader comments revealed

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... this was a good idea for a news story on a day like today. 5. [On Tyrannosaur, sore throats] Are you sure they are not mentioned in the Bible? There is reference to creatures having 'tails like cedars'. ...

16. Nvidia and "Starting the Next Age of Personal Computing"

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Opinion)

    ... trouble wrapping my mind around it and this is something I’m supposed to be good at.   Rather than trying to focus on the entire event I’m going to focus on what went on during my panel which had ...

17. Sony's PSP Go is go

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... interesting development, it’s not completely good news for PSP aficionados with a collection of games on UMD discs - the new gadget doesn’t have a UMD drive. A label on the box warns: “This device does ...

18. End of O2 iPhone monopoly is good news for UK users

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Analysis: Now that Apple’s flagship phone is to be sold by Vodafone and Orange as well as O2, what benefits will UK users see? Ernest Doku of price comparison site Omio.com peers into his crystal ball... ...

19. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    ... dollars, it's more likely being done at places like Wal-Mart, where PCs are sold, not Apple Stores. That's not good news for Apple, long used to its free-spending users. In Q3 Apple's SEC filings showed ...

20. Down in the Valley, the car lots are empty

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... – which ain’t the way I remembered it this time last year when I was on my X86 grand tour.OCZ said that it was optimistic about the future, and that SSDs were proving to be good business right now. We ...

21. AT&T slammed for poor iPhone service

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... window into bright sunshine. Most complaints are about coverage.  AT&T claims its coverage is good but it plainly isn't.  ...

22. EU publishes lurid details of Intel antitrust ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... an Intel executive reported: "good news just came from [Acer Senior Executive] that Acer decides to drop AMD K8 [notebook product] throughout 2003 around the world. We've been talking with them all the ...

23. Silicon Valley returns to glory days

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... broadcaster says that Wall Street and Silicon Valley inverters are a lot more optimistic as they are watching an enormous amount of really good companies coming up and good people leaving their jobs and ...

24. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... product you buy  - the upgrade from Vista is easy but why do it if you don’t have to? -  now is a good time to begin looking at the products that stand out.   Most won’t be available ...

25. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the market seemed disappointed that he did not announce the iPad or the iPod touch with a camera and in this instance I think the market is full of crap.   What they did announce was good enough ...

26. TiVo wins $200 million in patent infringement suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... decision confirms our belief that we designed around TiVo's patent in good faith," Dish said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press. "We believe that we ultimately will prevail on appeal." Dish ...

27. IFA and 3D Wars: Blu-Ray is Once Again Obsolete

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... technically.  Both technologies have come a long way and after watching both demos I think I would be personally very happy with either.    The good news is that the same recording equipment ...

28. Intel boss confident of market upturn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... industry. The PC industry will sell as many computers this year as it did in 2008, Otellini told the BBC, saying that considering the seriousness of the recession it was 'a pretty good result' and that ...

29. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  This ought to be good news for Asus, which pretty much invented the netbook. But according to DisplaySearch, the company is steadily losing market share to the likes of  Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo and ...

30. Pensioner billed $109,000 for connection to power grid

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... McCarter told the BBC: "When I wake in the morning, if it's a good morning the thermometer on the wall will read two degrees. If it's a bad morning, it'll be below zero." His cliff-top house has ...

31. TSMC puts money into solar power

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... solar technology, saying it was a good bet for future growth.    ...

32. IT industry to spearhead economic recovery - report

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and 72 percent looking for improved profitability. The good news for people employed in the technology sector is that only 31 percent said they were engaged in cost cutting, while the rest are placing ...

33. PC industry staggering back - reports

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 13-26 percent in 2010, with original design manufacturers (ODMs) Wistron and Quanta enjoying particularly good growth. Quoting unnamed sources, Digitimes says that Quanta will produce as much as 40 percent ...

34. Top secret US spyplane blamed for spate of UFO sightings

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... just never visit because access is so difficult. Extra-terrestrial flying discs could be stored here as, geographically, we're in a good situation for communication with London, the US and western Europe," ...

35. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... any good fight, some folks may get hurt in the process. But big spectacles like this tend to force companies to bring their A game. Which, in the end, can only benefit consumers, regardless of whose cheering ...

36. ChipMOS safe from the flood

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... dead and the 600 reported missing in landslides, none of which merits a passing mention in the good news from the chip company.  ...

37. Upset your loved ones a bit more when you die

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... Then why not cause a divorce from beyond the grave by sending an old girlfriend an explicit email detailing how good she was in bed which is read years later by her husband?  One customer told ...

38. Nintendo: Natal is not a Wii killer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... right about motion control. Nintendo has that market cornered and the rather sad attempts to copy it have a good chance of failing," wrote Sterling. "The so-called 'casual' consumers already have the Wii. ...

39. DHS investigates racist emails

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... based on their national origin. The posts belittled migrant farmworkers which is clearly not an ideal thing for an agency designed to protect the nation's good to be seen to be doing.  ...

40. Microsoft offers EU compromise proposal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... be good news for European consumers and our partners in the industry."The EU responded to Microsoft's offer with cautious optimism.  "The proposal recognizes the principle that consumers should be ...

41. James Cameron previews 'Avatar' at Comic-Con

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... selves." "And the humans in the film, even though there are some good ones salted in, represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to ...

42. Apple 'helped Mafia to send death threats'

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... result of the elaborate conspiracy against him. Good luck with that.    ...

43. Intel rallies stocks and saves economy for now

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... It's a welcome respite from the pounding of the Great Depression 2.0. Not everyone sees the silver lining, and some analysts just don't buy the feel good factor. Intel's latest quarterly result has ...

44. Iranians boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' with regime

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... cannot be used for the monitoring or censorship of internet traffic," it said. The company is claiming that its presence in the country acts as a force for good. "Would people in Iran be better off without ...

45. 3G netbook market growing at rapid pace, iSuppli says

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

      Market researchers continue to believe that the netbook category will be posting significant shipment growth. iSuppli said that 3G netbooks shipments alone will top 17 million this year. Good ...

46. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... to manipulate that data. It wants to remove your ability to choose what apps you load on your machine. Google wants it all. This is obviously good news for the government, as they'll have a one-stop shop ...

47. $1.92 million RIAA fine sparks outrage as lawyer demands retrial

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of paying the fine. There's no way they're ever going to get that," Thomas-Rasset told reporters. "I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now. The only thing I can say is good luck ...

48. BBC admits digital radio is a dog

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... compared to the good old FM band.The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has pushed digital radio here for some years now, but a report on its flagship Radio 4 news program, Today, confirmed today that ...

49. RIAA claims victory in Usenet lawsuit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... only thing I can say is good luck trying to get it, because you can't get blood out of a turnip."  ...