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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. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ...  Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick 

 Hardware giant Dell delivered its quarterly results showing a profit of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion - a drop in profit of 54 percent. But in the ...

3. Dell disappoints despite chip up-tick

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   Is its strategy right? Hardware giant Dell delivered its quarterly results showing a profit of $577 million on revenues of $12.9 billion - a drop in profit of 54 percent. But in the face of other major ...

4. 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 ...

5. AOL will axe 2,500 jobs

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ... will forego his 2009 bonus, which the WSJ estimates was between $1.5 million and $4 million. The WSJ story is here (subscription needed).  ...

6. Gaming hardware to hit $27 billion next year

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   ...  $20,076 $21,260 $27,617 $32,749 $34,760 (figures in millions) He said: "The largest influence ...

7. Intel throws millions of Euro into Exascale center

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Thursday, 19 November 2009

   Supercomputers a thousand times more powerful Semiconductor company Intel said it will invest many millions of Euro into the Exascale Computing Research Center, in collaboration with the French Commissariat ...

8. Call of Duty grosses half a billion dollars in five days

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Shoot em up Activision Blizzard said that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has sold $550 million worth in five days. It didn't say how many units this represented and the figure is an internal estimate, ...

9. Thieves scrump thousands of Apple iPhones

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   It's an incider job Thieves have made off with 4,000 iPhones, worth over $3 million, in a daring heist in Belgium. They climbed a fire ladder to the roof of the warehouse, cut a hole in it, and dropped ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 November 2009

    ... year - 16 million according to IDC figures -  than any other company, came in last out of nine manufacturers with a two-year failure rate over 15 percent and a three-year projected failure rate of 25.6 ...

11. Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    ... called the AIM Problem Lists. This coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Riemann Hypothesis. Here. The Daily Express, out of the UK, wants you to sleep happier in your beds tonight as it says millions ...

12. Russian airport massacre prompts Modern Warfare 2 ban

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... sold a staggering 4.7 million copies during the first 24 hours of its debut. "Based on initial sales figures, it is clear that CoD: Modern Warfare 2 struck the right balance," explained Woo. "The last ...

13. Egypt creates first Arabic domain name

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... Russian and Korean. Speaking at a meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm el-Sheikh, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said that although there are over 300 million Arabic speakers in the world, fewer ...

14. Michael Arrington resurrects enigmatic CrunchPad tablet

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 16 November 2009

    ... to be fair, I don't think Mike Arrington expects the Crunchpad to be selling millions and he understands that the home 'pad' market is just taking off. So this, like many other first attempt projects, ...

15. NASA finds water on dark side of the moon


    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... stage rocket of the launch vehicle, executed a lunar swingby and entered into a series of long looping orbits around the Earth. After traveling approximately 113 days and nearly 5.6 million miles (9 million ...

16. Qualcomm debuts "Flo" mobile television device

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... According to Stone, FLO TV renders high-quality video by tapping into an advanced national mobile television network. 
 "The service is available through a dedicated multicast network so millions of consumers ...

17. Apple plans 50 new stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 13 November 2009

    ... the company's existing outlets. Apple opened its first store in 2001. The company now has 280 stores in ten countries, and they're very popular, with nearly 46 million visits during the last quarter. ...

18. CoD:MW2 Will Not End Recession

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    $310 million of sales for a game and we're still looking for a better paycheck.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has done stellar business at the box office, sorry, at retail. It's not a movie, and it isn't ...

19. Intel-AMD deal doesn't end the bitter war

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... the AMD antitrust case had been massive and promised to become even more so as the trial approached. He said there had been 200 million documents and thousands of pages of expert evidence. He said: "We ...

20. Microsoft integrating Wolfram Alpha and Bing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... It cites an example of how some 90 million Americans are on a diet every year, which means keeping track of your diet and physical condition is important to many people.  Bing and Wolfram Alpha will supply ...

21. 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 ...

22. Microsoft readies five million Natal units for launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... next November and Microsoft is gearing up to have five million devices ready at launch at a lower than expected price of around $50, along with at least 14 games. The Natal concept, which uses cameras ...

23. TSMC scoops $200 million from SMIC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ... SMIC will make cash payments of $200 million - that's on top of $135 million already paid to TSMC in a previous court case. The two companies will also terminate a cross licensing agreement they had in ...

24. NASA displays the heart of our galaxy

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 11 November 2009

    ...  The diffuse blue haze in the image is X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by outflows from the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, as well as by winds from ...

25. Feds indict RBS WorldPay hackers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    $9 million stolen in "elaborate" international scheme A US federal grand jury has indicted four hackers for allegedly breaking into a computer network operated by the Atlanta-based credit card processing ...

26. Nintendo poised to "regain control" of console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... 15 million units worldwide," said Divnich. He added that Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is expected to be the top-selling game for the month of October at over 600,000 units. 

 "If sales trends continue ...

27. Motorola Droid snipes at iPhone's market share

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... to ship 1 million Android-based phones in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 10 million in 2010.  "I see the first few days as encouraging," McKechnie told Bloomberg. "There seems to be pretty good ...

28. Intel Reader gizmo will read text to you

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    Using the Atom Semiconductor giant Intel said it has created a Reader that will convert printed text to digital text and read it out aloud. The Reader is aimed at helping around 55 million people in the ...

29. Google gives away free wi-fi at 47 airports

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... airport wide free wi-fi indefinitely, as a result of the deal. Over 100 million people will travel through the 47 airports between now and January 15, 2010 - when the offer ends. Airports covered by ...

30. Solar sail set for launch next year

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    With $1m to speed it on its way An anonymous donor has donated a million dollars to the Planetary Society to help get a solar sail up and running. The organisation reckons it should have a spacecraft ...

31. 'eBay for billionaires' launched

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... option. There's quite a list of items for sale already. Your reporter has her eye on a $49 million mega yacht. And of course we'll all be clubbing together to get the editor a bottle of Remy Martin Cognac ...

32. Infinity Ward deploys Modern Warfare 2

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... 10,000 special midnight store openings throughout North America. "The impact of CoD: Modern Warfare 2 is going to be really huge. We estimate worldwide sales of between 10-13 million units just for ...

33. Mozilla looks ahead as Firefox celebrates fifth anniversary

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    330 million users and 7,000 add-ons The Open Source community is celebrating the fifth year anniversary of the popular Firefox Internet browser. According to Mozilla, over 330 million users have downloaded ...

34. Retreat of glaciers locks up carbon

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... where it can store carbon for thousands or millions of years. Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) now estimate that this new natural 'sink' is taking around 3.5 million tonnes of carbon ...

35. Nook put into shade by delays

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... in the US will amount to three million this year. See Also Wall Street Journal (subscription needed) By hook or by crook, Barnes & Noble launches the Nook Start up sues over Nook  ...

36. Microprocessor sales aided by Atom smasher

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... shipments overall just itself slightly exceeded shipmens in Q3 2009, the processor market is recovering." IDc has now raised its forecast for PC processor shipment units to over 300 million units. But ...

37. Nokia phone chargers could fall to bits

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    Nokia: Connecting People - to the mains Nokia has announced that up to 14 million of its phone chargers could fall apart, exposing users to a potentially-fatal mains electric shock. The company has kicked ...

38. Ashmolean in Oxford re-opens this weekend

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... beautiful art, and some beautiful everything else. 39 new galleries have been added on to the original edifice. The refurb cost £61 million (~$100 million). It opens on Saturday the 7th of November. The ...

39. Gartner beats up software company in court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    ... four categories - Leader, Challenger, Visionary or Niche. ZL took exception to that, and sued Gartner for $132 million. But a district court judge threw out the action yesterday. However, ZL can file ...

40. Nvidia reports 3Q revenue jump

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 06 November 2009

    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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... of a threat to the safety of millions of users of the world’s most popular adult personals site Adult Friend Finder (AFF), which is advertised on countless sites that are flooded with imagery depicting ...

42. Smartphone market: Android and iPhone continue to grow

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

43. Chinese foundry violated Taiwanese secrets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... with Taiwanese firm TSMC. The jury found that the $175 million settlement was breached, and that SMIC infringed many of the 65 trade secrets TSMC had accused it of filching. TSMC wants over $1 billion ...

44. Space elevator climbs nearly 1km high

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    Famously proposed by Arthur C Clarke, a space elevator is a little closer to reality. Famously proposed by Arthur C Clarke, a space elevator is a little closer to reality. As part of a $2 million compeition, ...

45. Apple brags as apps exceed 100,000 mark

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... available, is clearly a major differentiator for millions of iPhone and iPod touch customers around the world," oozed Apple's Phil Schiller. "The iPhone SDK created the first great platform for mobile ...

46. Carly Fiorina to run for Senate

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... the discipline to cut spending and create policies that encourage and empower businesses to put people back to work." Fiorina has $21 million in the bank following her departure from HP, probably more ...

47. IBM censured after massive server screw up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... that 88 percent of them were dissatisfied with the services provided by IBM. The data center consolidation contract with IBM is worth $863 million. IBM has so far failed to comment on the SNAFU. See Also ...