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1. That new Xbox for 2010 … real or fake news?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   Opinion – It appears that there has been a lot of chatter about what Steve Ballmer told an audience of 1500 Chicago executives yesterday at a luncheon of The Executives Club of Chicago. Ballmer mentioned ...

2. UPDATED: Live coverage of Madagascar political crisis tweeted unto world

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Monday, 16 March 2009

   A 31-year old research assistant from West Lafayette, Indiana, has become the subject of world-wide attention due a political conflict in Madagascar -- one that's claimed 120 lives so far. Using Twitter, ...

3. Apple's A-bomb against Palm: A 358 page iPhone patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Tuesday, 27 January 2009

   ... software Scott Forstall and Wayne Westerman. The latter is the key to multi-touch technology used in the iPhone. MOTHER OF ALL IPHONE PATENTSApple was awarded last week a mammoth 358 page patent that ...

4. MPC shipping "low cost" American educational PC

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 19 August 2008

   ... Intel’s 1.6 GHz Atom processor, up to five hours of battery life, an 8.9” display, wired and wireless networking, a Web cam, stereo audio and USB support. It is built, according to MPC, in a durable, drop-proof ...

5. Apple applies for electro-magnetic connector patent

   (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

   Tuesday, 08 April 2008

   ... receptacle are brought into proximity, the magnetic attraction between the electromagnet magnet and its complement, whether another magnet or a ferromagnetic material, maintains the contacts in an electrically ...

6. Ebay raises fee for selling digital downloads

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Thursday, 03 April 2008

   ... sellers to list thousands of the same item in an attempt to manipulate the feedback system. It also creates a perception that even legitimate sellers of digital goods are manipulating the feedback system. ...

7. AT&T settles with authors of D.OT. patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 12 March 2008

   ... but their battle against telco giants was unsuccessful, and the company went bust at the turn of the century. DTL LLC filed law-suits against cellphone manufacturers such as Motorola, Nokia, Samsung ...

8. TG Video: Wirelessly hacking Gmail and more - tutorial

   (Security/Security Features)

   Thursday, 11 October 2007

   ... about a hack isn’t enough.  In this article and accompanying video, we’ll teach you have to perform the same attack and you’ll probably be very surprised at how easy it can be done. ...

9. Intel promises enhanced trusted computing in virtualization with vPro

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 27 August 2007

   Intel announced today an extended platform technology which has the potential to make computer viruses and successful hacker attacks in virtualized environments a thing of the past. Santa Clara (CA) - ...

10. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 18 July 2007

    ... who, either through a personal desire to provide something of interest to users, or in an attempt to avoid Redmond at all costs, have donated their time, talents and expertise toward these projects.  ...

11. Microsoft patents voice-based caller ID, GUI of screen phone

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 15 June 2007

    ... sound patterns – that could be used as a potential replacement of certain caller ID services. The repository is used to compare voice characteristics of a current telephone caller with the pattern ...

12. Update: Intel launches Bearlake chipset, announces plans for sub-$200 PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 June 2007

    ... southbridge. ICH9 continues the legacy removal that began with ICH8, includes 12 USB ports and a reduced power consumption to less than 3.5 watt.   In the entry-level segment, Intel is offering the ...

13. Intel fires up upgraded mobile Core 2 Duos

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    ... battery life in Turbo Memory notebooks as the number of hard drive spin ups is reduced. Turbo Memory will only be offered in premium notebooks and it is unclear just how much manufacturers will charge ...

14. Intel introduces ‘Centrino Pro’ brand for business notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 04 April 2007

    ... software attacks, protect critical data, communications as well as transactions.    ...

15. AT&T to host "TXT Bee" events

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 19 January 2007

    AT&T wants you to go back to school and learn the (texting) language of your children. The company today announced that it will be hosting a series of "interactive TXT Bees" at "select ...

16. California bloggers get defamation immunity

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 21 November 2006

    ... where hearsay defamation is more of a gray line. Traditional publications, no matter oftheir size, can be the target of defamation suits and can be held liable for claims they cannot prove. For example, ...

17. Core 2 Duo to hit 3 GHz, introduce FSB1333 in Q3 '07

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 November 2006

    ... PATA support will be disappearing from the mobile version; there will be added USB support (12 ports) and a reduced power consumption of less than 3.5 watt. New Processors 2007 will see less excitement ...

18. Blackberry 8100 Pearl: Ready for primetime?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 13 September 2006

    ... first ones, outside the manufacturer, to play with gadgets. The Blackberry 8100 is an attarctive gadget and if it wasn't a phone, we probably would have already had a look at the device, given the attention ...

19. Were there clues to the demise of E3?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 August 2006

    ... by the after-effects of 9/11. This at a time when attendees and exhibitors alike were complaining about the lack of any real business going on there. Yet if the lack of business at COMDEX was a symptom ...

20. Will Blu-ray sink the PlayStation 3?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 15 August 2006

    ... PS3 will have zero problems, Cai believes, in attracting early adopters and converting their enthusiasm into sales. The trouble, however, lies after December, once those early purchases have already been ...

21. Universal Pictures: "DRMs do not stop piracy"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 04 August 2006

    The battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray is in full swing: The first players are out, content follows. Now it's up to the marketing talent to get consumers excited. TG Daily spoke with Universal's Jerry ...

22. Blackhat 2006: Macbook hacked in a few seconds

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 03 August 2006

    ... system tools have traditionally been used to protect against wireless users, but Cache and Maynor say device driver can be exploited at a much lower level. This allows attacks to bypass all operating system ...

23. After the AMD / ATI merger: Will Nvidia GeForce still compete with ATI Radeon?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 31 July 2006

    ... but it's still a matter of graphics being the head honcho in the system." But market forces being what they are, like a universe that expands and then contracts again, Rau thinks companies will be compelled ...

24. The response to Core 2 Duo: What does AMD do next?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 28 July 2006

    ... Xeon. That fact alone has enabled it to remain strongly competitive against Intel, in a market the latter company still officially dominates. And just today, HP announced it would continue to use Opteron ...

25. TG Daily interviews Intel Senior VP: "Core is changing the game"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 27 July 2006

    ... it matter at this point? Perlmutter: Well, I am a technologist. The nuances of the architecture and the performance are very important to me. In general, you always need technology leadership in order ...

26. AMD and ATI: Will their technologies merge as well?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 26 July 2006

    ... the CPU awake requires more battery power," said Evenden. "You could conceive, in the future, of integrating the GPU into the CPU so when the computer's sitting there in idle - which is pretty much most ...

27. Q&A with AMD VP Randy Allen: How Torrenza will open up the CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 02 June 2006

    ... phase of which will launch in the latter part of this year - we could see physics processors, storage network connections, and conceivably even graphics processors moving off of PCI Express and onto HyperTransport ...

28. Analysis: One small step for Dell, one giant leap for AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 May 2006

    ... time, I think you'll see them offer Intel solutions more heavily." What do you think? Does AMD's Dell deal really matter? Discuss this topic: () Messages Why Opteron, and why now? Where Opteron has the ...

29. Monad becomes 'PowerShell': Next-gen Windows command line to ship in Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 April 2006

    ... to -MemberType, which describes the attribute you're searching for. Then, as you're building a script and you need a variable term to refer to the table of entries you've just acquired into memory, you ...

30. Microsoft didn't really pioneer open source...did it?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    ... architectures in engineering design could be attributed as personal statements by their designers directed to the rest of the world, then every time I walked into a modern kitchen, with its automatic ice ...

31. Could new broadband reforms lead to a "fast lane" for Google and Yahoo?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 April 2006

    ... as Google once was, would not be able to pay the fees to service providers that would enable them to compete with fast-lane providers on the same level, Rep. Boucher argued. What could make matters worse, ...

32. How capable is a 'Vista-capable' PC?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 April 2006

    ... ship DirectX 10 in November. What's also worth noting is that the capability for Vista Capable - and, for that matter, Vista Basic - systems to run the "Aero" 3D-rendered user interface, is clearly optional. ...

33. The Vista delay: Why would Microsoft cancel Christmas?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 23 March 2006

    ... perplexing. "I think that [Microsoft] has just successfully stopped PC sales until January," remarked Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, who attended co-president Jim Allchin's analyst's ...

34. Hacking SSL passwords - Update

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 20 February 2003

    ... about a timing attack. Two different things, I guess.  ...

35. Email joke virus annoys many

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 20 June 2000

      Over the weekend, an email virus masquerading as yet another unsolicited joke in a .txt file attacked computers through Microsoft Outlook. Over the weekend, an email virus masquerading as yet ...

36. New worm invades cellphone system

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 07 June 2000

    ... ILOVEYOU worm, arriving in a txt.vbs attachment to a Trojan horse-like e-mail that, once opened, sends a message to each address in the Microsoft Outlook address book. Anti-virus firms say the first ...

37. New flaw discovered in MS Hotmail

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 May 2000

    ... could reportedly allow a hacker to tap into a user's account and read his or her e-mail. Bennett Haselton, Webmaster for Peacefire.org, said the exploit involves a file included in HTML e-mail attachment ...