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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. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... problems. The first is that people who use notebook PCs have all sorts of applications they use – if you’re doing serious number crunching or graphics work, you are going to want to buy a machine that ...

3. DashBoard shows users what Google's got on them

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... Docs, Web History, Orkut, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts, and Latitude.  "The scale and level of detail of the Dashboard is unprecedented, and we're delighted to be the first internet company ...

4. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... a prosthetic hand to existing nerve endings, allowing the user to actually feel it. Robin af Ekenstam of Sweden, the project's first human subject, has not only been able to complete complicated tasks ...

5. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... Facebook and Twitter feeds. The new beta version can be seen here, and marks the first major change for years. The main difference is the lack of clutter - more than half the links in the previous version ...

6. Welcome to a new TG Daily

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... 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 ...

7. Microsoft: Xbox 360 has the "best" FPS games

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... got the best first-person shooter games out there," Xbox Live Europe general manager Jerry Johnson told VideoGamer in a recent interview. "You will start to see us, though, do things that are broader ...

8. Astronomers find most distant object yet

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... Universe was very young and also was undergoing drastic changes. The primal cosmic darkness was being pierced by the light of the first stars and the first galaxies were beginning to form. The star that ...

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

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   ... we don’t like change as a race and first must be made to see the politician in office or the product we currently use as inadequate. But they have to be balanced with campaigns that focus on your product’s ...

10. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Opinion: A few months back, we took the brave - some might say daft - decision to allow readers to post comments on TG Daily stories without an editor approving them first. Not many sites do this. OK, ...

11. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... powerful companies for the first time since the 80s. Let’s talk about this while we think of that poor challenged Apple mouse. Windows 95 and Historic Mistakes Apple, back in 1995, while Steve Jobs ...

12. Google to search on Twitter Tweets too

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ...  Although Microsoft was the first to unveil the initiative at the Web 2.0 conference and Google announced its initiative later in the day, representatives from the bigger search engine told ABC News that ...

13. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... my way to becoming a loyal disciple of the venerable Saint Stephen Jobs. Let me explain. I first became acquainted with Windows in 1992 when Microsoft proudly introduced version 3.1. Although the GUI ...

14. Apple: Mac and iPhone sales shatter previous record

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... grew revenue by 12 percent and net income by 18 percent in extraordinarily challenging times. Looking ahead to the first fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue in the range of about $11.3 billion to ...

15. Can the Palm Pre knock the iPhone off its perch?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... US, Palm’s iPhone wannabe, the Pre, has just launched in the UK. Does it have what it takes to rival the seemingly-unstoppable iPhone? Released exclusively on O2’s network, the Palm Pre is the first ...

16. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... (and re-emergence) of others who led the companies that drove those changes. So, who was the greatest of the great IT vendor CEOs in the initial decade of the 21st century? First, let's eliminate the ...

17. NASA finds 'space ribbon' at solar system's edge

    (Space/Space Features)

    While mapping the solar system's edge for the first time, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), spacecraft has discovered a 'space ribbon' two billion miles long. While mapping the solar system's ...

18. Sony announces 250GB PS3 Slim for $350

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... console features a 250GB hard drive and will be available on November 3. "Since we launched the slimmer, lighter 120GB PS3 system, we've sold one million units worldwide within the first three weeks. ...

19. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... device - which is expected to debut during the first quarter of 2010. "Recent reports have suggested Apple is looking to portray the device, at least in part, as an e-reader," wrote Neil Hughes of AppleInsider. ...

20. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... days of DOS and Windows.   In fact, way back in the first decade of Windows even Windows itself was an extra you paid for.     These days getting rid of the graphical user ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... gain, the first time in seven months. Overall, September sales and retail data indicates that the pre-holiday season is off to a good start," said Divnich. "EEDAR believes this is a combination of both ...

22. Amazon chops Kindle price again

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... First shipments are slated for October 19, but Amazon is accepting pre-orders at $279 a pop. “Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 bestselling product across the millions of ...

23. First real Windows Mobile 6.5 spotted in Lisbon

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... been produced very specifically for the Portuguese mobile network operator, TMN. There are two major consequences – firstly, the handset doesn't support English – because it is a bespoke product. Secondly, ...

24. Mincemeat the Money in the Etre Dragon's Den

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... end of that, the interrogators are asked to say whether they'd invest in the man and his company, that'd be a yes or a no. This is a ruthless affair and today here at the Etre conference the first idea ...

25. Carla Bruni victim of own success

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... a website running to save her life. The French first lady felt that not enough people realised how much work she did for Charity.  She was concerned that the French press was only interested in ...

26. Google leaks Apple's October Mac lineup: Mighty Mouse!

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... non-existent Apple Store web pages. "Assuming the ads were indeed commissioned by Cupertino-based Apple, they'd corroborate a series of forward looking hardware reports first published by [us] over the ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... on the business driven by constant mergers and acquisitions and IPOs in the tech sector. Tech has been the engine of our growth for the past two decades. But that engine is petering out. The first sputtering ...

28. I speaka da Ingrish. I learn it from a vook

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... fiction and prescriptive nonfiction of the first vooks that we are offering to readers. Our authors have been actively involved in the creation of their vooks, and we think readers will be delighted with ...

29. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... BBC is the first and best example of that [Well, up to a point, Lord Copper – Ed]. Germany's Deustsche Welle is another. But too many government-funded news sources are mere mouthpieces for those in power. ...

30. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Nvidia has finally unveiled its next-generation Fermi GPU. According to Jen-Hsun Huang, Fermi architecture represents the "foundation" of the world's first computational graphics processing units. Nvidia ...

31. Private Clouds are SaaS's future enemy

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ...  Assuming there is a Great (or even not-so-great) Recovery to follow the Great Recession, can SaaS survive it? The SaaS advantage is all about leveraging services in the cloud. SaaS providers have a first-mover ...

32. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to bear on what will be highly parallelizable computational problems." "The scientific community was one of the first to realize the potential of the GPU to transform its work, observing speedups ranging ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... OCZ, Samsung and tried to visit Corsair – and the messages there for the first three are of cautious recovery. We couldn't get to see anyone from Corsair.Trundling down sweet old 101 the going was easy ...

34. Indian probe finds water on the moon

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... India's first moon mission. It was equipped with NASA's Moon Mineralology Mapper (M3), designed to search for the electromagnetic signature of water. Because M3 cannot penetrate very deeply, the data ...

35. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... better. Generally the firm falls into decline or stagnates; don't forget, Apple actually had a warning, as it didn’t do particularly well the first time Steve left.Apple’s crossroad is to find a way to ...

36. Flaky online info scares surgery patients

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... using a search engine. Previous studies have shown that most people who look for health-related information through search engines use short, often misspelt search phrases and seldom go beyond the first ...

37. Hey teacher, leave that kid alone

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... corner of some Thai jail. Thailand has had a few scandals about video clips of student brawls filmed on mobiles were posted on the Internet.  However it looks like this is the first time an adult ...

38. ATI introduces Radeon HD 5800 GPU for DirectX 11 gaming

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ATI has introduced its long-awaited Radeon HD 5800 GPU series. The 5800 - which is AMD's first DirectX 11 GPU - supports Eyefinity Technology, OpenCL and DirectCompute 11. ATI has introduced its long-awaited ...

39. Intel accidentally previews Larrabee, Gulftown

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... video and running 3D in a 'far-future' configuration. Westmere - Intel's first 32nm processor - will be showed off, with AES encryption on-chip, Turbo Boost and hyperthreading.Finally, Maloney will talk ...

40. Intel shows off 22 nanometer, optimistic about future

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Intel does. Two years ago Intel introduced the world's first 45 nanometer process, and to date the competition - that is to say AMD - has shipped zero. 32 nanometers is here now and makes it possible to ...

41. Beatles finally bigger than Jesus

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ...  He said: "I do not know what will go first, rock'n'roll or Christianity, we're more popular than Jesus now". The comments sparked problems for the Beatles among US religious groups who claimed he ...

42. Microsoft shareholders get say on pay (sort of)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Calvert Investments and the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. But it's not quite as brave a move as it first might appear. The company says that if, say, the shareholders gang up and demand that Ballmer's ...

43. Handwriting gives liars away

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... write two paragraphs, first describing an event that really took place and then one that did not really occur. They wrote the paragraphs with an electronic pen on a page  placed on an electronic board.Pressure, ...

44. Bethesda to disperse Fallout 3 DLC for the PS3 on September 24

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Bethesda has confirmed that it will release Broken Steel - the first Fallout 3 DLC for the PS3 - on Thursday, September 24th. Broken Steel is expected to be followed by the release of "Operation: Anchorage" ...

45. Super Talent uncorks storage bottleneck with RAID SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Super Talent Technology has confirmed that it will be shipping the first PCI Express RAIDDrive SSDs in early October. A company spokesperson told TG Daily that RAIDDrive was designed to break the throughput ...

46. First rocky exoplanet is identified

    (Space/Space Features)

      The first Earth-like planet outside the solar system has been identified. Unfortunately, it's only Earth-like in that it's solid enough to stand on. The first Earth-like planet outside the solar ...

47. What's at the heart of HP’s Laptops and Lenovo’s Best Student Tablet

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... addition Lenovo has announced what may be the perfect student laptop or close to it in its X200 we’ll close with why that is.  First to HP. Netbooks HP has the broadest line of Netbook products two ...

48. Google Fast Flip promises look and feel of print

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Washington Post, Salon, Fast Company, ProPublica and Newsweek. In essence, Google is offering thumbnails of the first pages of these news sources - readers who click on them are taken direct to the ...

49. August game sales caught in downward spiral

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... first month the PlayStation 3 posted year-over-year gains in 2009." NPD analyst Anita Frazier expressed similar sentiments. "The PS3 was the only platform to realize a year-over-year increase in total ...

50. British PM apologises to dead codebreaker Alan Turing

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... Telegraph. Indeed, Brown cares so much, he's on first-name terms with the guy. “I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for happened to him. Alan and the many thousands ...