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1. We need Chrome

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 November 2009

   ... plan to be among the first to get one. You should, too. See Also Google rolls out Chrome source code  ...

2. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... performed the first near real time cortical simulation of the brain exceeding the scale of a cat cortex and with one billon spiking neuros and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. And if that wasn't ...

3. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... For Apple it was bringing out the last iPod Nano; “ohhh it has a radio and a low resolution video camera that’s almost as good as the first Flip!”   People, instead of pointing out that the thing was simply ...

4. Microsoft issues Windows 7 security advisory

   (Security/Security Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... Microsoft voiced its discontent over the "irresponsible" manner in which the issue was first reported and noted that only the following systems are affected by the vulnerability:  Windows 7 for 32-bit ...

5. Intel would like to give AMD a Glaswegian kiss

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 16 November 2009

   ... competition between the two companies. What's AMD gained? First of all, it has $1.25 billion in the bank, its ability to spin off and use Global Foundries as its fab is now assured, and it has a continuing ...

6. Getting paid to watch porn

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Saturday, 14 November 2009

   ... Because of this, we tend to spend a lot of time cataloguing and categorising the images found on suspects' computers. While at first this may sound interesting in a slightly creepy way (as a non-forensics ...

7. Dell touts Mini 3 Android smartphone

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 13 November 2009

   ... also emphasized that it was absolutely "critical" for the Mini 3 to feature an Android "look and feel." "The first iteration of the smartphone will run on a China Open Mobile platform that is actually ...

8. 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. ...

9. We didn't copy Windows 7 from Mac OS. Did we?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 12 November 2009

   ... around a screen. Apple got there first - and for a while there were two operating environments, GEM and Windows, both of which floated above the command line prompt in DOS. And then there was OS/2. Steve ...

10. How TG Daily is put together

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 12 November 2009

    ... My favorite application is the metal detector [10:19:12] Evil Spinola: You should have installed the bullshit detector app first and saved on buying the other 299 [10:19:57] Good Spinola: no! Some of them ...

11. Traveling with the MacBook Air Butt Kicking Dell Adamo 9.99

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... what will be coming next decade, think of the 9.99 as the first in what will likely be an increasingly amazing set of PC designs that are coming.   About time Apple had some real competition.   ...

12. Firefox 'most insecure browser'

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... place with 35 percent, while the traditionally-reviled Internet Explorer only accounts for 15 percent of browser bugs. In the first six months of 2009, California-based web security company Cenzic says ...

13. Messenger probe reveals new areas of Mercury

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 10 November 2009

    ... observations from the spacecraft's first flyby in January with data from the probe's second pass has provided key new insights into Mercury's magnetic field. "The previous flybys by Messenger and Mariner ...

14. Mozilla looks ahead as Firefox celebrates fifth anniversary

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... it," said Mozilla's Chris Blizzard. "In this sense we've done our jobs. We were first on the scene with fast JavaScript, CORS, mixing HTML and SVG, WebGL is based on Canvas3D work we pioneered, we're scripting ...

15. Health insurance IT isn't dead, it just smells funny

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 09 November 2009

    ... them on the payroll will be at a disadvantage to their competitors who fire them first. Across the country I'm guesstimating that a few thousand more IT folks will hit the unemployment line. It'll be ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

17. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

19. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 05 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

20. Microsoft overhauls MSN home page

    (Software/Software Features)

    Wednesday, 04 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

21. Welcome to a new TG Daily

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 02 November 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

23. Astronomers find most distant object yet

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 29 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 27 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

25. TG Daily: A readers' Guide

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 26 October 2009

    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, ...

26. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 22 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

27. Google to search on Twitter Tweets too

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ...  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 ...

28. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 21 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

29. Apple: Mac and iPhone sales shatter previous record

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 19 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 16 October 2009

    ... (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 ...

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

    (Space/Space Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    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 ...

33. Sony announces 250GB PS3 Slim for $350

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 15 October 2009

    ... 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. ...

34. Barnes and Noble leaks e-reader details

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 14 October 2009

    ... 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. ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 13 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 08 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

37. Amazon chops Kindle price again

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

38. First real Windows Mobile 6.5 spotted in Lisbon

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... 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, ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 06 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

40. Carla Bruni victim of own success

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Monday, 05 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... 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 ...

44. How to save journalism

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 October 2009

    ... 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. ...

45. Nvidia showcases next-generation Fermi GPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 30 September 2009

    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 ...

46. Private Clouds are SaaS's future enemy

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ...  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 ...

47. Nvidia teams up with Microsoft for HPC

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

49. Indian probe finds water on the moon

    (Space/Space Features)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... 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 ...

50. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 23 September 2009

    ... 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 ...