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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... debt and many commentators indicate that the IPO will help FFN raise much needed cash to service its debt commitments. 200,000 affiliates For the first six months of 2009, AFF had about one million paying ...

2. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... me – reached a record for shipments during the third quarter of 2003, with 43.3 million units shipped, up 4.2 percent from the 41.5 million units shipped in the same calendar quarter last year. “With ...

3. Chinese foundry violated Taiwanese secrets

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   SMIC smacked down by jury A jury in Oakland found yesterday that Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) failed to abide by a 2005 agreement and breached a four year settlement ...

4. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... rubbish. The Android Market - which launched in August 2008 - offers around 10,000 applications. 

Although Android's numbers are respectable, Apple's critical mass will undoubtedly allow the company ...

5. IBM censured after massive server screw up

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   The Texas secretary of state’s office has pulled electoral registration from an IBM facilities management deal following a server crash. The Texas secretary of state’s office has pulled electoral registration ...

6. Apple iPhone released in China at high price tag

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... The WSJ says that the average amount spent on a smartphone in China is $350, with 11 million smartphones sold in 2008. The iPhone in China ships without wi-fi because the Chinese government wants to push ...

7. Russia plans nuclear rocket for manned Mars mission

   (Space/Space Features)

   Russia is planning to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for a manned mission to Mars. Russia is planning to build a nuclear-powered spacecraft for a manned mission to Mars. According to news agency ...

8. Internet achieves middle age: life begins at 40

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer to Stanford Research Institute.Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer ...

9. Sony, Philips get wrists slapped very lightly over storage monopoly

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... expiry dates and technological details.The FTC confirmed that the three companies behaved monopolistically in 2001, although legal wranglings meant the case was up in the air until the FTC made its ruling ...

10. Google simplifies GPS navigation for Android 2.0 smartphones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... 2005, millions of people have relied on Google Maps for mobile to get directions on the go. However, there's always been one problem: once you're behind the wheel, a list of driving directions just isn't ...

11. Ex AMD CEO named in insider trading scandal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... $25 million profit on deals made between 2006 and 2009 involving companies such as AMD, Google and Sun in return for monetary reward. Wire taps were put on the suspects after an anonymous tip-off. The ...

12. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Nvidia has welcomed the official debut of Microsoft Windows 7. A company spokesperson explained that the new operating system will significantly accelerate system performance by using the DirectCompute ...

13. AT&T sues display manufacturers over alleged price fixing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    AT&T has sued a number of liquid-crystal display manufacturers for allegedly fixing the price of mobile LCD screens in the US. AT&T has sued a number of liquid-crystal display manufacturers ...

14. Otellini: Intel ‘knew nothing’ about insider trading probe

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... late last week. The men are accused of using inside knowledge to help investors make an illegal $25 million profit on deals made between 2006 and 2009 involving companies such as AMD, Google and Sun ...

15. Video game industry halts downward spiral

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... "Madden NFL 10" for the Xbox 360 captured third place with a respectable 289,000 copies sold. See Also PS3 claims "top home console" slot as Wii sales decline Nintendo lowers Wii price point to $200 ...

16. Apple: Mac and iPhone sales shatter previous record

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    Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter. According to CFO Peter Oppenheimer, the company defied the economic recession by selling 3.05 million Macintosh computers, ...

17. AMD makes loss, but profits from it

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... sequentially by 18 percent, although compared to 2008, its revenues fell by 22 percent. Dirk Meyer, AMD's CEO, said: "Strong demand for our product and platform offerings combined with disciplined execution ...

18. Finland promises broadband for all

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... a household as connected if there's an access point within a couple of miles, leaving around 200,000 people with a bit of a walk to check their emails.  ...

19. Acer beats up Dell on shipments

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... faster than expected. According to Gartner, worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, up 0.5 percent from the third quarter of 2008. The results surprised the analyst ...

20. Intel, ASML bring cheer to the chip market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Unexpectedly good results for Intel's third quarter combined with ASML turning in a profit for its third quarter is bound to bring some hope that the semiconductor industry is on the turn.Unexpectedly ...

21. Sun: Oracle is "committed" to SPARC architecture

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Source. Oracle Open World 2009 - Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy has confirmed that Oracle will continue to develop SPARC architecture. "SPARC has good momentum. There are 216,000 Sparc-based ...

22. Social Networking helps you dodge the law

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    And we thought we were cynics. Honestly, we're like babes in the wood compared to this lot.And we thought we were cynics. Honestly, we're like babes in the wood compared to this lot.At a round table on ...

23. PS3 claims "top home console" slot as Wii sales decline

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... pricing." Divnich also predicted that video game sales for September 2009 will total $715 million, marking a 16 percent increase over 2008. "Software sales are expected to post a positive year-over-year ...

24. Nanoradio takes on the giants: Forget Bluetooth!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    One of the guys who invented Bluetooth spoke here at the Etre conference in Paris and claimed chips his company designed are ousting the top players in the industry.One of the guys who invented Bluetooth ...

25. WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Hermann Hauser, the man who span off ARM from Acorn and later CSR, said at a roundtable today here in Paris that WiMAX has failed.Hermann Hauser, the man who span off ARM from Acorn and later CSR, said ...

26. Startup goes head on against Kindle, Sony

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    The CEO of start up company txtr said his firm would release an e-reader before Christmas aimed at what he said is a burgeoning market ripe for exploitation. The CEO of start up company txtr said his ...

27. Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Mohsen Moazami, VP of Cisco's internet business solutions group, told the Etre conference today that it has devolved its management from 10 top stars 10 years ago to 2,500 to 3,000 people now.Mohsen Moazami, ...

28. School start up seeks money for German market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... first founded in Iceland in 2000, and has a 90 percent market share there. In 2007 it merged with a Swedish company and Einarsdotter said that the company is set to move into the German speaking markets.Mentor ...

29. Saturn gets another ring - and it’s a biggie

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... cool dust. The telescope, launched in 2003, is currently 107 million kilometers (66 million miles) from Earth in orbit around the sun. Verbiscer and her colleagues used Spitzer's longer-wavelength infrared ...

30. Intel: Xeon 5500 servers are "cash machines"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel managed to save a significant amount of money by swapping the company's older servers for Nehalem-based units. "Although 2009 was a challenging year, Intel continued with its plan to replace older ...

31. High tech won't save the economy this time

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... ("We put the dot in dot-com.") suffered badly and never fully recovered. Compaq was so battered it fell into the arms of Hewlett-Packard in 2001 to save itself. Venture capital investment stalled. After ...

32. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... advocates point to the growth in online revenues. That's true. According to the Newspaper Association of America online revenues grew overall for the industry by around 25 percent in 2008. The problem ...

33. Cisco eats up Tandberg at $3 billion tag

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... purely a cash transaction, gives Cisco more leverage into the market of collaborative software. Tandberg makes teleconferencing systems and last time it reported results for 2008 showed it had turned ...

34. Judge overturns Microsoft patent judgement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... million in damages back in April. The suit was filed in September 2003 by California-based Uniloc, alleging that Microsoft has used its patent software activation technology in Windows XP and Office. ...

35. Apple's new Macs better be cheap

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Opinion: It's no surprise that Apple will be unveiling new iMacs and MacBooks soon. Rumors have been floating for weeks and now retailers are running out of stock of existing units and being told, in ...

36. Dell says it will behave from now on, honest

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... into its accounting practices. The SEC ruled that between 2003 and 2007, Dell had exaggerated sales by $359 million and its profits by $92 million. The Securities and Exchange Commission started a ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    It’s obviously too soon to say that everything is just fine and dandy down in Silicon Valley.  We took a drive down there on Friday, right the way to millionaire enclave Silver Creek, and all the ...

38. Settlement looks likely in AMD-Intel civil case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in a Delaware district court in June 2005 in a very long filing that alleged all manners of misbehavior by the chip giant. Since then, the case has developed legs greater than a million millipedes, with ...

39. Twitter adds $100 million to social networking war chest

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Square Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Bezos.   The popular social networking site has experienced a surge in unique visitors since the 4 million recorded in August 2008. Indeed, according to ...

40. TSMC ramps production to build Intel Atoms

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    TSMC is to ramp monthly production at its 300mm Fab 14 in southern Taiwan to 6,000 wafers by the end of 2009, and 35,000 wafers in 2010, due to demand for Intel's Atom chips, say industry observers. ...

41. Nintendo lowers Wii price point to $200

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Nintendo has announced plans to slash the Wii's suggested retail price by $50. According to company spokesperson Cammie Dunaway, the new $200 price point - effective on September 27 - will help advance ...

42. Will the real rights holder please stand up?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and 2003 that Aftermath owned the master sound recordings, and that it had the exclusive license to distribute them in any form. A trial is scheduled for tomorrow, unless a settlement is reached today. ...

43. MCCI showcases 270MB/s USB 3.0 system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    MCCI and Symwave are showcasing the world's "highest performing" USB 3.0 system at IDF 2009. The next-generation platform - powered by MCCI's optimized host software and Symwave's SuperSpeed SATA controller ...

44. Internet child porn increasing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... exploitation quadrupled between 2003 and 2007, showing abject images of brutal rape, bondage, oral sex and other forms of debasement," Maalla said, adding that more than 750,000 people are using child ...

45. Google bolsters OCR capabilities with reCAPTCHA acquisition

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... 2008, noted that Google was the "best fit" for reCAPTCHA. "From the very start, people often assumed the project was connected to Google, so it only makes sense that reCAPTCHA Inc. ultimately would find ...

46. Allman Brothers tie record company to the whipping post

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Grammy-winning veteran rockers, the Allman Brothers Band have been given the green light to proceed against their record company for underpayment of royalties from digital downloads of their classic ...

47. Consumer notebooks save PC bacon

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... with shipment numbers being represented in millions. Region Type 2008 2009 2010 2011  ...

48. Mayor Nagin named in Dell conspiracy case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... his vendors and associates, Mark St. Pierre, set up a deal with Dell. When Meffert left City Hall in 2006, it was to take up a $600,000 consultancy job with St. Pierre's company, NetMethods, at the same ...

49. Intel has ambitious plans for i5, i7 CPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... using the P55 chipset, while other Taiwanese vendors will add another 200,000 units to the Lynnfield blitz. The aggressive target for the shipment of the i5 and i7 microprocessors reflects Intel's wish ...

50. Activision unshackles platform gaming with untethered systems

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... consoles and PCs have been around since the early 2000's. "Namco, Intellivision, and Atari have all released 'Plug and Play' gaming devices that allow consumers to play some of our industry's classics ...