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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. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... installation, hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services and risk analysis of security threats. So what does Apple expect from the lucky candidate? "This position requires ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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. ...

5. Nvidia taunts Intel with cartoon parody site

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... posted cartoons intended to show Intel in a bad light. One, for example, has a cartoon of what looks like Marlon Brando in the Godfather but with a name place marked Otellini, saying to his associates: ...

6. Midnight shoppers queue for Droid

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... at seven am this morning. Analyst outfit Gartner reckons at least 40 new Android-based phones are set to appear on the market in 2010 and that they will be in overall second place in the market to the ...

7. Smartphone users make lousy partners

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... their mobile device. Retervo concludes: "This data could lead to creating unfair stereotypes but you have to admit, it sure paints a picture of a group of smartphone owners that 'think different'.  ...

8. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... conspiracy can no longer point to this photo as possible evidence." Farid added that federal officials long ago said that this image had not been tampered with, but a surprising number of skeptics still ...

9. Beatles download site told to cease and desist

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... added that his client 'is a genius who is very well versed in psychoacoustics and has been studying this field for years.' He apparently has 'a method of transmitting sound recordings into a virtual 3D ...

10. Sub sinks large Hadron Collider

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    God really doesn't want it to work The accident-prone Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has ground to a halt again - this time thanks to a sandwich. Scientists at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva ...

11. Global Foundries will bash up Intel's process lead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... said in a public forum in Austin earlier this week that while it was important for AMD to use the very latest process technology, he was confident that Global Foundries would close the gap with Intel. ...

12. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... that the new protocol does delay searches slightly, but says this is barely noticeable. The prototype has already been tried out in both research centre intranets and open internet environments. The results ...

13. Twitter turns UI thinking on its head

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... better. I could go on. But it really doesn't matter because there will be many more clients to choose from soon enough. With the recent arrival of Windows 7 and the Verizon/Google Droid phone this week, ...

14. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... look cool because they're different or because they have no clue what they're doing and need a very simple OS." TG Daily reader Johnnyricomc expressed similar sentiments. "To me this is just another ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... has discovered disturbing information that provides evidence that the dangers of child porn and paedophiles may be much closer to single parents than you think.    This article outlines the serious nature ...

16. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... can’t go it alone. And the problem too is that AMD doesn’t seem entirely clear what to replace the old metrics with. At its Lone Star facility in Austin, Texas, earlier this week, AMD showed a video ...

17. DashBoard shows users what Google's got on them

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, and Latitude.  "The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we're delighted to be the first internet company ...

18. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... a $900,000 prize. "The entire team is exceedingly satisfied that our system performed this well today," says the company, which is hoping to improve on its speed today. The LaserMotive system uses a ...

19. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... like eating and writing, but says he can also 'feel' his fingers once again.  "Perfectly good nerve endings remain at the stem of a severed limb,"  says Professor Yosi Shacham-Diamand of TAU's Department ...

20. Hacker jailbreaks iPhone 3GS with blacksn0w crack

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... carrier. "This may be the best iPhone users ever have it," Hotz explained in an official blog post. "Be sure, if you have a 3GS or iPod Touch 3, to use Cydia's 'On File' or Firmware Umbrella in order ...

21. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... This is what motivates me to run for the US Senate," she added. "Tax, spend and borrow is not a governing philosophy; it's a cycle of dependency and it is one that must be broken. Washington must show ...

22. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Freeman is going against others forecasts that Nvidia will quit the chipset business, but the recruitment drive seems to back up his idea. He said that Nvidia could soon enter the x86 CPU business targeting ...

23. iPhone jailbreakers held hostage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... them that if they did not pay then thousands of others can send text messages from your number or use it to call or record their calls.  Later he changed his mind, returned the cash and published details ...

24. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... Palm Pre users have with their iTunes music. Pre users once saw their device's icon in the iTunes navigation bar, but it's no longer there. Apple has screwed some of its iTunes users. This is the third ...

25. USB 3 turns into handbag fight between Intel and Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... the chipset market and that now that it does not have any competitors, Intel is slowing down its innovation. There might be something in this. Nvidia was trying to push its own nForce chipset and found ...

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

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... Scientists don't fully understand how they are created, and this is the first solid evidence of their existence at great distances. The team led by Tanaka discovered a large structure around a distant ...

27. AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Fusion family of products today. Bergman has a new mantra. He said: “Every year we’re going to have the best CPU in the industry. It’s our new mantra." He has a history in the industry that includes IBM, ...

28. Feds indict alleged cable modem hacker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... allegedly helping customers modify their cable modems to obtain "free" Internet access. 
 According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), Ryan Harris and his company TCNISO developed hardware and software ...

29. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    A British man has been told he can take his employer to tribunal on the grounds he was unfairly dismissed because his views on climate change constitute a religious belief. A British man has been told ...

30. AMD calls for more realistic notebook benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... been there for a couple of years… and their marketing and advertising show they know this is is the place to go. Intel is continuing to market like it’s 1995.” She said that AMD is using the 3Dmark06 ...

31. Start-up sues over Nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... Barnes & Noble and had been discussing its e-reader plans with the bookseller since early this year. Spring Design had been developing an ebook reader called the Alex.  It had many meetings, emails and ...

32. Coconut nuclear power on the horizon

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... from the plasma by neutrons which are absorbed by the surrounding walls of the Tokamak, transferring their energy to the walls as heat. This is when your average coconut becomes vital. They will be used ...

33. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... for the Phenom II X4 955 (3.2GHz/125W) are scheduled to end in the second quarter. All this clears the way for the second quarter of 2010 when AMD will launch a 95W Phenom II X4 955 processor. It is not ...

34. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... upgrading." "Another shockingly bad release in terms of QA, I really hoped this was behind us. It's a real shame because once it works Ubuntu is absolutely fantastic." "Very disappointed in this release. ...

35. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened... Let's start out by saying that hell would likely freeze over before this happened but then I can recall just a few years ...

36. Marvell powers next generation of e-readers with ARMADA SoC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... The platform - which is powered by the ARMADA 166E processor - boasts a number of new features, including the accelerated display of high-resolution PDF files and zero power mode. "This is a total platform ...

37. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... processor," reported OS X Daily. "This is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard." The publication also hypothesized that Apple was attempting ...

38. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... announced. Ruiz submitted his resignation in September with an effective date of January 4th, 2010. He will be replaced by Alan E. 'Lanny' Ross, who will serve as interim chairman, effective immediately, ...

39. Apple gambles on killing iPhone subsidy

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... into the same level of subsidy that it got with AT&T. AT&T is supposed to be subsidising each phone by $450 while the best Verizon will come up with is about $300. Marshall thinks that that while this ...

40. ATI HD 5900 spotted in the wild

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... best.  Unfortunately the people from ATI got on the phone and ordered them to take down the details. The drivers used are unknown at this time, but the GPU-Z shows as 8.14.10.708 version for the Direct3D ...

41. Snow Leopard glitch means Windows 7 runs faster - on Macs

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... But one user thought his 27" iMac was having major performance issues and not just with Flash. iPhoto slideshow transitions are choppy, Pandora streaming music skips and cracks up, game performance is ...

42. Gmail users lose service all weekend

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... since. It's been days now!" says one. "Why is no one from Google making a statement or telling us that they are working on fixing it? I do feel better to read others are having the same problem, but this ...

43. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Utah. Once completed it will store trillions of phone conversations, e-mail messages and whatever other private communications the secret intelligence agency can snag from around the world. And, if history ...

44. Unidentified bug causes massive CPU spike on 27-inch iMacs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... some applications like Rosetta Stone, Front-Row, iPhoto, Garage band and others start running slowly. I always end up having to restart the system," complained PenSilveltMEKY. "And this morning I encountered ...

45. Twitter tilts at lists on feeds

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... rolled out during the course of this week. The list feature is useful if you're following tons of people because it lets you group them into celebrities, friends, enemies, colleagues and the like. The ...

46. Apple iPhone released in China at high price tag

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... a competing standard. But it is expected to be offered with standard wi-fi later this year. China eased the ban in May but the first machines had, apparently, already been built. ...

47. Asus introduces Superspeed USB 3.0 mobo

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... ports. USB 3.0, or Superspeed as it's known, is set to be introduced in a range of products including peripherals towards the end of this year and throughout 2010. The board, dubbed the Xtreme Design ...

48. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... Management School added: "The bottom line is that this study reveals big differences in sustainability performance in automobile manufacturing. This shows that the production process itself bears considerable ...

49. Mobile phone market shows signs of recovery

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... older devices at significantly lower prices. For many, this was enough to spur demand and push volumes higher." He said: "The mobile phone market is showing the first signs of improvement since the onset ...

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