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1. 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 ...

2. 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. ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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," ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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, ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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. ...

11. 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.   ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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. ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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, ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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 ...

24. 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 ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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. ...

28. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

29. Cops to get long range tasers

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

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

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

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    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 ...

31. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

32. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    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 ...

33. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 03 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

34. Apple gambles on killing iPhone subsidy

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

35. EU wants black boxes in autos

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... 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, ...

36. The NSA's Latest Listening Post

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

37. Welcome to a new TG Daily

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

38. Apple iTunes update disables Palm sync

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

39. GM is world's least green automobile maker

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

40. Facebook wins $711 million against spammer

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 30 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

41. Astronomers find most distant object yet

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    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 ...

42. Control your enthusiasm

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 28 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

44. World's largest supercomputer starts work

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

45. Peer pressure can lead to big energy savings

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

46. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

47. Leaving the iPhone behind

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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. ...

48. Night falls on Saturn's rings

    (Space/Space Features)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

49. Daylight Saving is a waste of time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Sunday, 25 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Live feed update sparks angry protests from Facebook users

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 23 October 2009

    ... 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 ...