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1. Microsoft integrating Wolfram Alpha and Bing

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... we can bring them a much more compelling experience than an endless list of link," says Yao. "We can bring them real knowledge and get them closer to the answer they were looking for or the decision they ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 05 November 2009

   Single Parent Gossip author and child safety expert Pat McKenna has discovered disturbing information that provides evidence that the dangers of child porn and paedophiles may be much closer than you ...

3. Hadron Collider could test a hyperdrive

   (Space/Space Features)

   Thursday, 08 October 2009

   ... based in the United States said the idea had been forgotten.  Now he thinks that this effect could be exploited to propel an initially stationary mass to closer to the speed of light. Felber predicts ...

4. Microsoft hits 'sweet spot' with new Xbox 360 prices

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 27 August 2009

   ... and the Nintendo Wii remains alluring to casual and price sensitive consumers at $249."As such, Divnich predicted that Microsoft was likely to reposition the Xbox 360 Elite closer to a $249 price point ...

5. Next-gen Google Search delivers more results, but are they better?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   ... engine delivers more results, which appear to be closer related to Bing’s results. But are they in fact more relevant? Mountain View (CA) – Google is giving us a first glimpse at its next-generation ...

6. NASA convinced it can find Earth-like planets

   (Space/Space Features)

   Friday, 07 August 2009

   ... The planet orbits the star in just 2.2 days and is 26 times closer than Earth is to the sun. Kepler team members say the new data indicates that the mission is indeed capable of finding Earth-like planets, ...

7. Apple’s iPad: Like Apple TV or like iPod?

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   ... closer in concept to the Chrome OS than the Mac and it would be ironic if Apple, in what is clearly Google’s space, got it right first.     If Apple can get it to market in the critical fourth ...

8. UMPC, take 2: Samsung touts first WiMax MID

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 21 July 2009

    Samsung today announced the first commercially available mobile Internet device (MID) with WiMax connectivity in the U.S. Conceivably, this is much closer to the type of device we would have imagined Microsoft ...

9. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 20 July 2009

   ... appears to simply get the product out the door. This was very similar to the initial release of Windows Vista and we all know how that turned out. Let’s have a closer look at Google Gcrap 1.0. Opportunity ...

10. Facebook membership swells to 250 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 15 July 2009

    ... could "connect with" and feel "closer" to. "For us, growing to 250 million users isn't just an impressive number; it is a mark of how many personal connections all of you have made, and how far we at ...

11. Disappointing Palm Pre launch, iPhone extravaganza today

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... Jonathan Atkin from RBC Capital Markets mentioned about 100,000 units and Michael Walkley from Piper Jaffray believes the number may be closer to 150,000 to 200,000.   Palm did not reveal any shipment ...

12. Twelve year old names next Mars rover

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 27 May 2009

    ... so far away," Ma said. "I thought that I would never be able to get close to it, so for me, naming the Mars rover would at least be one step closer." "Curiosity is an everlasting flame that burns in ...

13. Search me! Bing, Hakia & Co. keep Google honest

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 26 May 2009

    ... on an early version of Yahoo’s index, search still isn’t as elegant or integrated as it could be. Wolfram|Alpha’s approach takes search one step closer to elegant integration. If Google is like a librarian ...

14. AMD pushes Phenom II to 3.2 GHz, you can push it further

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 23 April 2009

    ... and if you don't already have an AM2+ motherboard the i7 may be worth considering. Especially now that DDR2 and DDR3 are much closer in price.” ...

15. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    ... and a $400 Netbook, comes in at a price point close to the netbook but with a capability closer to a small notebook making me wonder if those older concepts will survive much longer.   So, what ...

16. UPDATE: Intel attacked over Xeon 5500's power-efficiency

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    ... view, Nehalem is vastly more powerful for, according to its current technical documents, 15-20% less power. Let’s look a bit closer.The company says the chip is about 2.25 times faster than its 5400-series ...

17. Google 3.0: Semantic search

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    If you aren’t following changes in search technology, you could have almost missed today’s announcement from Google – which seems to be insignificant at first, but at a closer look a dramatic improvement that ...

18. Mount Redoubt erupts four times in three hours

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Monday, 23 March 2009

    ... on Monday and 1:40am on Tuesday (in just over three hours). The current wind patterns are carrying the cloud of ash away from Anchorage, toward Talkeetna and Willow communities which are located closer ...

19. Why Sun makes a whole lot of sense for IBM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... of view and seemed to be struggling with finding a focus since Scott McNealy handed over the controls to Jonathan Schwartz. But look closer and Sun may be one of the big bargains currently on the market ...

20. Review: Chrome 2.0 beta is speedy, still falling behind in features

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... to run both stable and beta releases of Chrome on our computers at the same time. With that off our backs, let's take a closer look at new features that Google has in store for Chrome. Faster V8:  Speed, ...

21. iPhone OS 3.0: A thousand new APIs for developers

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 March 2009

    ... designed to help programmers create a new breed of feature-rich applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Here we take a closer look at some key SDK 2.0 abilities, what they mean for developers and ...

22. Space junk barely misses ISS

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 13 March 2009

    ... system to avoid future collisions. We typically assume that space is a whole lot of “nothing”, but a closer look at satellite tracking data provided by the UCS Satellite Database reveals that hundreds ...

23. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 March 2009

    ... to spend it at your will, but the truth is the price you'll pay for the newest Mac hardware is still just one side of the coin. That said, we pause to reconsider the bigger picture by taking a closer ...

24. Apple updates Mac mini, should you buy it?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... of the design: It still comes in the same aluminum casing measuring just 6.5 by 6.5 by 2 inches. A closer look under the hood, however, reveals more substantial hardware changes which now bring the ...

25. First Core i7 notebook announced

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... watts to the GPU), while the average CPU+GPU power is expected to be closer to 180 watts. The i7 CPU alone consumes about 80 watts on average, we were told. Given the hardware specs, the battery time is ...

26. Analysis: Safari 4 lifts Apple above 10% browser market share

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 01 March 2009

    ... be closer to 11 million. Not bad for four days. In comparison, it took Internet Explorer 8 Beta more than six months of active promotion to hit the 1% mark. Mozilla needed seven days to cross the 1% mark ...

27. Researchers tap supercomputers to find interesting language trends

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    ... definition that things are closer to being as they should, referred more at the time to the Biblical use of the word "perfect," which means "complete" or "whole," as in not lacking anything in a given ...

28. AMD steps up Folding@Home rivalry with Nvidia

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 20 February 2009

    ... better understanding of Alzheimer’s disease, may want to have a closer look. AMD says that the new driver support Multi-GPU configurations for Radeon HD 4000, 3000 and 2000 series cards: Using the driver, ...

29. Satellite collision prompts calls for space traffic control system

    (Space/Space Features)

    Friday, 13 February 2009

    ... environment” in space. We typically assume that space is a whole lot of “nothing”, but a closer look at satellite tracking data provided by the UCS Satellite Database reveals that hundreds ...

30. Review: Internet Explorer 8 improves with age

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

    ... of the browser. After restarting the browser, Gmail seemed to work fine the second time. We will look into this issue a bit closer, but remember that this is a pre-release version (only a release candidate) ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 January 2009

    ... part of the deal, Westerman moved in Apple's headquarters to continue developing multi-touch for Apple's handset. A closer look at "the mother of all iPhone patents" The 358 page patent is also called ...

32. Windows 7 vs. the World: Change is in the Wind

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 January 2009

    ... a MID is just a small PC. The market is hunting for something, and it looks like that something is a lot closer to what webOS and Android are than what Windows is. But, as it took DOS/Windows many years ...

33. Big News Around CES That Got Little Coverage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... closer in concept the MacOS and was vastly more popular as a result.   Linux is dead, long live Linux!    ...

34. Microsoft to put Live Search on Dell computers and Verizon cellphones

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... handsets. However, mobile search usage is exponentially growing - especially since Apple's iPhone was released. If we take a closer look at this 9% who do mobile searches, Google dominates with 60% share, ...

35. Outsourcing wave to hit Hollywood actors

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... but once in a while when I see something that could have the potential to revolutionize a part of your life (for the better or worse), I step back and take a closer look. This was the case after a demonstration ...

36. Apple: iPhone farts ok, boobs not

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 25 December 2008

    ... many sites are also having a much closer look at what is posted and what not. If Apple continues to scrutinize every application, there is a much better chance that threats such as spyware are kept from ...

37. Maiden flight of Burt Rutan's WhiteKnightTwo at Mojave

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

      Following low-speed maneuvers earlier this month at the Mojave air and spaceport yesterday, Burt Rutan's next generation privately funded spaceship, called SpaceShipTwo, has been brought one step closer ...

38. Report: Previous world coal reserve estimates could be way off

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

    ... relax a bit knowing that we might not be as damaging as previously thought. The new model takes a closer look at historical examples of times when fossil fuels were exhausted. One example of this was ...

39. Exclusive: First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 15 December 2008

    ... on closer footing with Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera in terms of features. However, web standards support (especially CSS 3) and performance are still far behind the competition. We tested the 32-bit ...

40. Why there isn’t an $800 MacBook Air-like product

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... won’t let them build one. Let’s look at this a bit closer.   Intel’s 10” rule Currently, the best processor for an ultra-thin low-cost product is Intel’s Atom dual-core processor (Diamondville ...

41. PC market growth expected to slow to a crawl in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 03 December 2008

    ... look a bit closer. Framingham (MA) – IDC updated its PC market forecast and there were few surprises and if you have been following the industry and the general economic drama of recent weeks you already ...

42. Computers: Changing from power to experience

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Sunday, 23 November 2008

    ... to the managers who own the related profit and loss. The idea behind this is that these managers are closer to the problems and can better assess how to most effectively spend their limited budgets.   ...

43. IE8 slips into 2009 - good or bad news?

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 20 November 2008

    ...   From this perspective, Microsoft may actually have all the reasons to delay IE8 for a few weeks and take a closer look at the browser’s competitiveness.  ...

44. Microsoft's PR blunder: MacBook Pro and PS3 promote Vista

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ... through several levels of review. A recent incident at Microsoft however may be a bit embarrassing, at least if customers are looking a bit closer at those images. According to Rami Taibah over at the ...

45. Microsoft launches New Xbox Experience, Netflix streaming off to a rocky launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ... software. The new software aligns the console much closer to Hollywood than ever before. Microsoft said it is determined to "put more games and entertainment at gamers’ fingertips than any other device ...

46. Nehalem: Intel gives the industry exactly what's needed

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    ... more. And at some point after that, our only choice for upgrade will be something Nehalem-based. At or before that point, prices will come down to something closer to commodity levels. And all the ...

47. World's largest, purest graphene sheets produced with 1000x better electrical properties

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

    The path toward reliably and effectively creating sheets of graphene has just gotten one step closer. Researchers at UCLA used a bath of hydrazine (nitrogen + hydrogen) and graphite oxide paper to create ...

48. Sandisk promises 4x faster SSDs for 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 05 November 2008

    ... by Sandisk. However, if you look closer than you quickly notice that this is theory at this time and simply promises the potential of 100x speed increases down the road, which, after several other challenges ...

49. BlackBerry Bold now available, gets free AT&T Wi-Fi

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 03 November 2008

    ... AT&T also pitches its AT&T Navigator GPS service for the Bold in parallel to Blackberry maps – in exchange for a $9.99 per month fee. Bold buyers may want to look a bit closer at the integrated ...

50. Top 5 Windows 7 features Apple should copy

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 31 October 2008

    ... available yet and we won’t be able to take a look at the entire feature set until the first beta arrives in early 2009. But we believe that it would be a good idea for Apple to take a closer look at Microsoft ...