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1. Steve Jobs determines smoking is injurious to your Mac

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... smoke will void Mac warranties. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 43.4 million US adults smoked in 2007 - the most recent figures available. That's nearly 20 percent of all adults. ...

2. Modern life is rubbish

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Sunday, 22 November 2009

   ... but it's a good example for precisely those reasons. It's the little things that have the drip-drip-drip effect that bring rage. And it's usually the little things that occur most often - when your forensic ...

3. Auto roti maker wins Intel prize

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... team, Zimplistic of the National University of Singapore, because it's a roti maker. The device - the Rotimatic - quickly and easily makes roti, the bread staple of most of North India. It takes hours ...

4. Health IT doesn't save money

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... and 2007, they found no indication that health IT lowered costs or streamlined administration. Hospitals that computerized most rapidly actually had the largest increases in administrative costs. Modest ...

5. Tech Economy in the Hands of Nude Entrepreuners

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... you peek at most of the flesh on display in The Huffington Post image gallery, you may want to send Mr. Yiannopoulos a set of beer goggles as a joke. Sure, charity is good so we won't kick that notion ...

6. Sony takes on Apple's iTunes

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... most "successful" push into the online commerce market. 

Indeed, the PSN has over 33 million registered users and offers thousands of downloadable games, TV shows and movies. In addition, Sony recently ...

7. Google rolls out Chrome OS source code

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... people who spend "most of their time" on the web. "Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are ...

8. Apple tablet delayed. The rumors continue PR drip

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   They seek it here, they seek it there You'd almost think Apple was dropping rumors into cyberspace deliberately, wouldn't you? The latest rumors about the tablet PC that Apple has never actually said ...

9. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... advanced physics and stereovision capabilities made the PC platform "far and away" the most advanced.  ...

10. ZTE to make its own LTE 4G chips

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... only take his company a few months to create ZTE's first LTE product using Qualcomm's products. That product will be an LTE adapter for portable computers which almost certainly will take the form of ...

11. Lab-on-a-chip provides instant disease diagnosis

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 19 November 2009

    ... minutes to doctors so they can make informed and accurate decisions right at the time they need them most to save lives". The research appears in Lab on a Chip.  ...

12. Microsoft accelerates JavaScript with IE9

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... to company spokesperson Steven Sinofsky, IE9 is almost on par with Firefox and Chrome - despite having been in development for only a few weeks. "We know we have a lot of work to do in some areas of ...

13. TechCrunch crucified over Google phone rumor

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ...  "It's no longer a myth, it's real," claimed Arrington. "The next 'super' Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that's much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The Dragon/Passion. This ...

14. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... appear to malfunction slightly more than laptops, the lack of data on netbooks over a year old means that the results are far from conclusive. Asus and Toshiba were the most reliable manufacturers, with ...

15. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... For Apple it was bringing out the last iPod Nano; “ohhh it has a radio and a low resolution video camera that’s almost as good as the first Flip!”   People, instead of pointing out that the thing was simply ...

16. AMD debuts ATI Radeon 5970 GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... overclocking capabilities were enabled by next-gen fan and vapor technologies, as well as a "fully vented" exhaust to keep the card cool. 

 "The 5970 features the world's most powerful graphics core ...

17. Otellini, Barrett others sued by shareholder over antitrust

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... "approved and implemented by Intel's most senior executives, including CEO Paul S. Otellini, the Intel Board (a) refused to appoint an independent committe of directors" and refused to perform any investigation. ...

18. 'Unfriend' is Word of the Year

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... even more excited about the lexicography. "Most 'un-' prefixed words are adjectives (unacceptable, unpleasant), and there are certainly some familiar 'un-' verbs (uncap, unpack), but 'unfriend' is different ...

19. ARM accelerates Android mobile development

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... developing almost immediately." He noted that ARM's "simple and elegant" RISC architecture has been widely integrated into a variety of mobile devices, including the recently introduced Motorola Droid. ...

20. Semiconductors to bound back next year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... In 2009, DRAM and X86 microprocessors are pointing the way to a recovery But Gartner, being analysts, have hedged bets a little by saying that while most of the news has been positive, it thinks that ...

21. Leonid meteors promise great display tonight

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    Asia has the best seats in the houseThe annual Leonid meteor shower will peak tonight, with up to 300 shooting stars per hour. The display will be most visible in Asia, where it takes place in the early ...

22. Put your faith in the cloud

    (Security/Security Opinion)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... data is "safer in the cloud than you think." Most service providers follow best practices for, say, data backups. They also invest in software and hardware to give them added recovery capabilities. That's ...

23. Open Book Alliance slams Google Book Settlement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Most critically, the settlement proposal must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world's ...

24. LucidLogix preps Hydra SoC for early 2010 launch

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... improve performance and compatibility for Windows 7. Most importantly, our goal is to provide a product that delivers a good experience to the PC and gaming communities.  "It is important to note that ...

25. Getting paid to watch porn

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 14 November 2009

    ... It was at this point that I started to wonder about the career I'd chosen. As I'm sure most people in the computer forensics business know, a disproportionate number of cases involve indecent images. ...

26. YouTube goes hi-res

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    But most content comes from mobiles YouTube is to start support 1080p high-definition videos from next week. Google-owned YouTube says it will support video playback in the full 1080p HD format, upgrading ...

27. Wii regains top hardware spot as PS3 sales slip

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... - slid to second place as the Xbox 360 remained a distant third. "Hardware sales were down 17 percent in units for the month, with the Wii and the Xbox 360 decreasing the most compared to October 2008," ...

28. Intel maintains innocence despite $1.25 billion cash payoff

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ...  According to Otellini, the time had come for both companies to "take a step back" and re-examine their respective courses of action. "With most lawsuits there comes a time where both [parties] step ...

29. Electric cars mean more CO2

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... in the emissions trading scheme need to be closed and the cap further tightened, it says. The report says that the most certain way to promote electric-powered transport is to tighten long-term CO2 standards ...

30. Painted ladies fly to ISS

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... their own classroms. The children will be able to monitor their progress via still and video images. "One of the most exciting things about this project is that we can use the International Space Station ...

31. AMD says Fusion will knock Intel for six. Or five

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... today but they’re almost working in team, one on latency, and one of bandwidth.” He said: “Fusion is the combination of many decades of computing. It’s the fusion of CPU and GPU compute within one processor, ...

32. Google slashes price on Picasa storage

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... taken with a five megapixel camera. It estimates most people have less than 10GB of photographs and even if you haven't, it has plans to offer a range of up to 16TB - enough for eight million high res ...

33. Apple with iPhone more profitable than Nokia

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    It's a setback for Nokia Research from Strategy Research said that Nokia slipped into second place in the USA in the third quarter, leaving Apple with its iPhone as the most profitable handset vendor. ...

34. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... packed case almost effortlessly.   Cool but Practical The last Adamo was really cool but with a glass and brushed black finish it simply seemed too fragile to want to risk traveling with.   ...

35. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Not much of a birthday present for Mozilla Firefox accounts for almost half of all browser vulnerabilities. Mozilla's finest is responsible for 44 percent of all browser flaws, Apple's Safari takes second ...

36. Messenger probe reveals new areas of Mercury

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... 10 provided data only about Mercury's eastern hemisphere," explains Brian Anderson of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "The most recent flyby gave us our first measurements on Mercury's ...

37. Infinity Ward deploys Modern Warfare 2

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... is a big chunk (almost 3 percent) for a 12 billion dollar industry." Woo explained that the recent controversy over dedicated servers and graphic scenes involving terrorists will likely have little or ...

38. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... price erosion" by seven percent. So while market shipments rose, revenues grew less. Shane Rau, director of the semiconductors unit at IDC, said: "Most meaningful about Q3 2009 is that since PC processor ...

39. Murdoch plans to block Google News

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... empire would be blocking Google News and other aggregation sites once News International's plans for online content charging had been put in place. Murdoch has it in for online news aggregators, almost ...

40. OpenOffice debuts analog joystick mouse

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 07 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

41. 25 laziest cities in America unveiled

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ...  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. ...

42. Nvidia taunts Intel with cartoon parody site

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. Lee Harvey Oswald photo wasn't faked

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... 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, ...

44. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

45. Gamers ditch Xbox 360 for PS3 sequels

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

46. Apple reverses Atom Snow Leopard ban

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

48. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

49. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Internet users do have friends

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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. ...