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1. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... double-clicks or less. " 
 Additional OpenOfficeMouse specs include:

 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality. Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro. Analog Xbox ...

2. Microsoft preps critical security updates

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday patch blitzkrieg Microsoft has confirmed that it is preparing a number of critical patches for both Windows and Office. The 6 updates - three of which are critical - address 15 vulnerabilities ...

3. Apple plans iPhone lockdown

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... with leading a team dedicated to preserving the iPhone's fragile integrity.  According to Apple, the team currently focuses on a number of security related parameters, including booting sequences, OS ...

4. Microsoft launches Halo Waypoint

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Legends arrive on Xbox Live Microsoft has launched its long-awaited Halo Waypoint for Xbox Live members. The portal offers full-episode previews of Halo Legends, along with developer interviews, trailers, ...

5. Smartphone users make lousy partners

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   iPhone users are the worst A survey of iPhone and BlackBerry users has concluded that they're a pretty insensitive bunch. Carried out by shopping website Retrevo, the (statistically rather dubious) survey ...

6. Beatles download site told to cease and desist

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Baby you're a rich man Music behemoth EMI has won a preliminary victory in its fight to block a download site offering the entire Beatles' back catalogue for download at 25 cents a track. Bluebeat.com ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ...  Earlier this week, Global Foundries bid a sad farewell to its president, Hector Ruiz. While AMD is Global Foundries' biggest customer, it is shortly set to merge with Chartered Semiconductor, which has ...

8. Tool stops search engines gathering your data

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... privacy is preserved," said Alexandre Viejo, a researcher at the Computer Engineering Department of the Rovira i Virgili University. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live search save ...

9. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   GPU accelerates profits Nvidia has reported revenue of $903.2 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2010. According to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, revenue increased 16 percent from the previous quarter and ...

10. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft finally gets it right Initial sales of Microsoft Windows 7 have reportedly "surpassed" those of Vista by 234 percent. According to the NPD Group, a combination of pre-sale discounts and a lack ...

11. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... company's overpriced hardware. 
 "It's the same thing with the Palm Pre. Palm got their phone to work with iTunes and Apple now blocked the Palm Pre in the latest iTunes update. They're like a bunch of ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... idea to find out what is out there. But there is one topic we usually don’t talk about and pretend it does not exist – child pornography. Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna ...

13. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... out to a band of about a dozen reviewers from the US and Europe, and it was pretty evident there aren’t any clear answers to the conundrum. Schwarzbach said that AMD wanted to put across the idea that ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Presumably trying to reassure us, Google has launched a new feature allowing users to see which personal data it's storing, and to control or delete some of it. Presumably trying to reassure us, Google ...

15. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... to orbit with an elevator climbing a fixed cable. The device, created by LaserMotive, made it to the top in a little over four minutes, half the time of the previous record holder, winning its inventors ...

16. Wii fails to deliver

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... and if it's not equal then we won't do it." Meanwhile, Japanese Wii sales have dipped below 50,000 units per week, which recently prompted Nintendo president Satoru Iwata to admit that the situation ...

17. Hacker jailbreaks iPhone 3GS with blacksn0w crack

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... to be able to restore to 3.1.2 in the future. And as always, the baseband cannot be downgraded, so be *super* careful with updates if you need the unlock." As TG Daily previously reported, Club Cupertino ...

18. Parallels takes on VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... than previous iterations of the platform. "As the OS battles rage between Microsoft, Apple and Linux, we provide a completely customizable solution that enables people to use the applications they need ...

19. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... applications and our customers are loving all of the amazing apps our developers are creating."

 Travis Boatman of EA mobile expressed similar sentiments: "The App Store has forever changed the mobile ...

20. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Boxer of California. Fiorina's entry into the race could present the liberal Boxer with her toughest re-election challenge, but Fiorina has to win a Republican primary against state Assemblyman Chuck ...

21. EMI sues Beatles 25 cent download site

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... "EMI want something we're not prepared to give 'em. It's between EMI and The Beatles I think - what else is new? " EMI said it had been 'working hard to secure agreement with Apple Corps to make the Beatles' ...

22. 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 ...

23. Nvidia may be moving into X86 market

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... outfit needs to preserve both GPU and chipset revenue and pushing into the x86 market is the best way forward. Nvidia is involved in a spat with Intel over rights to develop chipsets for future Intel ...

24. Apple's small-minded strategy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Apple is acting just like the snotty monopolist it has become in electronic music distribution and combined that lousy attitude with the presumptive arrogance of a smartphone monopolist. Among its few ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... into its mainboards. The news got Nvidia fuming and sent out a press release insisting that Intel was stifling innovation. The graphics chip maker insists that Intel has quashed its abilities to enter ...

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

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... accepted cosmological theories predict that matter also clumps on a larger scale in the so-called 'cosmic web', in which galaxies, embedded in filaments stretching between voids, create a gigantic wispy ...

27. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Facebook and Twitter feeds. The new beta version can be seen here, and marks the first major change for years. The main difference is the lack of clutter - more than half the links in the previous version ...

28. Feds indict alleged cable modem hacker

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... TCNISO customer known as "DShocker" was recently apprehended and charged in federal court with computer intrusion, interstate threats and wire fraud. Update: PC World explains that the MAC addresses ...

29. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sony Ericsson has debuted the Xperia X10 Android phone. Sony Ericsson has debuted the Xperia X10 Android phone. The device, previously codenamed "Rachel," is capable of automatically recognizing connections ...

30. Start-up sues over Nook

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... conference calls with executives ranging up to the president of BarnesandNoble.com. Apparently the book outfit liked some of Alex's 'innovative' features and used them in the Nook. The press release from ...

31. AMD culls Phenoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... card makers as part of his Larrabee GPU promotion.  Larrabee is set to launch in 2010 and Otellini is supposed to be offering preferential pricing for the GPU purchased by itself, and bundled with other ...

32. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... say they hit a few glitches, 22 percent say they hit big problems. At the time of writing, 1175 people had responded to the poll and there are 43 pages of comments. Here is a selection (a pretty much ...

33. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... could collaborate. Granted, this time Apple is in vastly better shape. But why would they partner? Google: The Enemy of my Enemy… Google represents a real threat to both companies because it is working ...

34. Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta spotted in the wild

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time. Testers can download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux here. See Also Mozilla preps Firefox 3.6 with ...

35. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Also 
Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses Apple moves to prevent iPhone jailbreaking with updated Bootrom file Psystar clones Apple's Snow Leopard Mac clone war sparks fierce debate over Apple ...

36. Ruiz quits Globalfoundries

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... until a permanent chairman has been appointed by the board. Ross, a current member of the board, was previously president and CEO of Broadcom. He also served in high-level executive positions with Rockwell ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... video graphics while Windows 7 operating on the same machines is working fine. According to Apple bulletin boards, users started to notice that their Macs' pretty screens were running movies in browsers ...

38. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... it advised (falsely) President Johnson that Navy ships had been attacked by North Vietnamese forces in the Gulf of Tonkin. More recently, it signed off on a pre-invasion intelligence assessment that claimed ...

39. Robot fish could monitor water quality

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... locomotion and maneuvering in the water." Robotic fish could operate autonomously for months, giving precise data on aquatic conditions. They will carry sensors recording such things as temperature, ...

40. US government opens $9m cyber security center

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... the fight against computer crime. He called for the creation of a central hub for federal agencies and private companies to share information on cyber threats. It would be headed by a presidential ...

41. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

    (Software/Software Features)

    Apple has released an updated version of its iTunes software. Predictably, iTunes 9.0.2 blocks the Palm Pre's ability to sync media files with the popular application.Apple has released an updated ...

42. Strike!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... I say I'm supporting the Hewlett-Packard workers in the United Kingdom as they prepare to go on strike, it's not from some innate pro-union bias. It's because IT professionals today need a strong union. ...

43. Asus introduces Superspeed USB 3.0 mobo

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... P7DP55DE-E uses Intel's P55 Express chipset, and even though this chipset does not support USB 3.0, Asus has added in support from an unknown third party manufacturer. Intel is rumored not to be ready ...

44. Russia plans nuclear rocket for manned Mars mission

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... mission to Mars, interplanetary travel, the creation and operation of planetary outposts," Perminov said. But he stopped short of proposing a permanent base on Mars. President Dmitry Medvedev backed ...

45. ICANN releases non-Latin domain names

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... is an incredibly big one and an historic move toward the internationalization of the internet," said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's President and CEO. "The first countries that participate will not only be ...

46. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... people have loved. I can really only think of Halo Wars and Halo 3: ODST for the 360 this year. Oh, and let's not forget next year: Heavy Rain, God of War III and MAG all look pretty amazing to me."  ...

47. Google launches OneBox music service

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... audio preview of those songs provided by MySpace  - which has just acquired iLike - or Lala. The company is also linking to Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody sites, to offer music related to the query. ...

48. Apple sued over camera patent by litigant with a past

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 5,138,459 is a sample of the patent.The action is being brought by St Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, and it's provided a battery of previous litigation that's resulted in success in the courts.For ...

49. Amazon streamlines payment process

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... along with a PIN to quickly preview their order and complete their purchase. Amazon then uses the preferred payment and shipping methods it has on file, without having to share sensitive payment information ...

50. Submit your press release

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    Submit your press release, ,  ...