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1. Windows 7 sales outpace Vista adoption

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... was sales of PCs with older operating systems (XP and Vista) were high, making up 20 percent of sales during the Windows 7 launch, compared to just 6 percent of older operating sales during Vista's launch ...

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

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... months AFF made $46.4 million in payments to those marketers. Marketing affiliates are companies that operate websites that market AFF services on their websites. They direct visitor traffic to AFF by ...

3. Notebook benchmarks fail to convey performance, price

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... depends on operating systems, the amount of memory a PC has, the speed of a broadband connection, and numerous other variables make it hard to agree on a common metric anyway. Subjective considerations ...

4. Prosthetic hand gives sensation of touch

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... training sessions, he is operating the artificial hand as though it's his own," says Prof. Shacham-Diamand. "We've built in tactile sensors too, so the information transfer goes two ways. These allow Ekenstam ...

5. Hacker jailbreaks iPhone 3GS with blacksn0w crack

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ...  
 In addition, Apple insisted that the licensee is not the "owner" of his or her iPhone software and warned that modifying the OS could "cause serious problems in the operation" of the device.  See ...

6. Parallels takes on VMware

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... performs 22 percent faster than the competition (VMware) when running a 64-bit version of Windows 7. In addition, version 5 reportedly offers up to 300 percent faster performance for virtual machine operations ...

7. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... of app stores, such as PlayNow and the Android Market. Additional specs include:
 Size - 119 x 63 x 13 mm. Weight - 135 grams. Memory - 8GB microSD memory card. Operating system - Google Android Donut, ...

8. UK court rules that global warming is a religious belief, not science

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... the redundancy was 'driven solely by the operational needs of the company during a period of extraordinary market turbulence, which also required other structural changes to be made within the company'. ...

9. Start-up sues over Nook

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... the Nook. Both e-readers use the Android operating system and combine an e-ink screen with a color touch screen.  ...

10. Coconut nuclear power on the horizon

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... to generate a cooling vacuum essential to ITER's operation. It is not clear if the coconuts have to be carried to the plant by an African or English Swallow. But it could turn countries famous for their ...

11. Why Apple should license Windows 7

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... reality is both firms are as dramatically different as their CEOs are. Microsoft at its core is an operating system and tools company, it is at its strongest when it is selling things that others turn ...

12. Apple drops Atom bomb on Hackintosh netbook rebels

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Quad, i7 and Xeon Nehalem CPUs. 

 It should be noted that Psystar's Darwin Universal Boot Loader supports additional operating systems, including Windows 7, XP, Vista and various Linux flavors. See ...

13. Gamer hardware to turn war into a game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... and computer games has just been recruited by the US Army to make controls for its war droids. According to CNET the idea is that PacBot operators to tell exactly how hard a robot's grip is, allowing ...

14. Snow Leopard glitch means Windows 7 runs faster - on Macs

    (Software/Software Features)

    The brand new 27" iMac is suffering from major problems with video graphics while Windows 7 operating on the same machines is working fine. The brand new 27" iMac is suffering from major problems with ...

15. Robot fish could monitor water quality

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... locomotion and maneuvering in the water." Robotic fish could operate autonomously for months, giving precise data on aquatic conditions. They will carry sensors recording such things as temperature, ...

16. Strike!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... And the only way for a union to flex its muscles is to strike. Globalization has tipped the scales dramatically against labor. Companies pack up and move operations (product and service quality be damned) ...

17. Russia plans nuclear rocket for manned Mars mission

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... mission to Mars, interplanetary travel, the creation and operation of planetary outposts," Perminov said. But he stopped short of proposing a permanent base on Mars. President Dmitry Medvedev backed ...

18. ICANN releases non-Latin domain names

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... providing valuable information of the operation of IDNs in the domain name system, they are also going to help to bring the first of billions more people online – people who never use Roman characters ...

19. Intel: Windows 7 offers "improved" performance and stability

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    An Intel spokesperson recently told TG Daily that Microsoft Windows 7 offers "improved performance and stability" compared to Vista and the veteran, yet aging XP operating system.An Intel spokesperson ...

20. My 10 favorite Windows apps

    (Software/Software Features)

    I am agnostic to operating systems. I've used Mac OSes, I've used OS/2, I've used every version of Windows since version 1.0. I've used SuSE Linux. I liked SuSE Linux. It ran fiendishly fast on the Pentium ...

21. Ubuntu is still rubbish

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... of Win 7 on the C: drive again, I chose install, expecting to be presented with a screen showing me the disks, partitions and installed operating systems already in place. Was I so wrong as to expect ...

22. Weather scrubs Ares I-X test flight

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... the launch team to begin safing the vehicle and set up for a recycle of the countdown. "We had some opportunities, but just couldn't get there," Spaulding said. "Weather didn't cooperate." The flight ...

23. Windows 7 upgrades crash and burn

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... either operating system from loading.  An unknown number of users have reportedly experienced serious difficulties migrating from Vista to Windows 7. Problems range from erroneously invalid product ...

24. Intel optimizes Windows 7 SSD performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... is part of the Windows ATA Data Set Management Command, synchs the operating system's view of deleted files with those that are deleted, but not erased on the drive," Intel explained in a statement.  ...

25. WiMAX far from dead in Taiwan

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... if that's the case, Taiwan doesn't seem to recognize the WiMAX corpse.The WiMAX Forum said today that operators have demonstrated the first mobile global roaming at a conference in Taipei And there will ...

26. Tilera challenges X86 architecture with 100 core-processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 40 nanometer process - operate at up to 1.50 GHz with power consumption ranging from 10 to 55 watts. Tilera has launched an advanced line of TILE-Gx processors that reportedly offer "ten times better" ...

27. Geeks Are Losers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... his hardware partners into eschewing competitors' products, whether it be browsers or operating systems, not because he gave a damn about his customers, he just wanted Microsoft to grow at all costs. What ...

28. Microsoft Q1 revenues down 14 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 30, 2009, a 14 percent decline from the same period last year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $4.48 billion, $3.57 billion and $0.40 per share, which ...

29. Psystar bootlegs Snow Leopard for the masses

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... explained Psystar. "The application automatically detects connected devices and downloads the appropriate drivers." According to Psystar, Rebel's Darwin Universal Boot Loader supports additional operating ...

30. Nvidia: Windows 7 "dramatically improves" GPU performance

    (Software/Software Features)

    Nvidia has welcomed the official debut of Microsoft Windows 7. A company spokesperson explained that the new operating system will significantly accelerate system performance by using the DirectCompute ...

31. AMD joins Windows 7 launch party

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    AMD has congratulated Microsoft on the official launch of its long-awaited Windows 7 operating system. According to AMD spokesperson Margaret Lewis, the two industry heavyweights "closely collaborated" ...

32. Opinion: Ditching Windows has never felt so good

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Microsoft has launched yet another iteration of its infamous Windows operating system. Fortunately, I have chosen to opt out of the Microsoft universe and am well on my way to becoming a loyal disciple ...

33. Windows 7 launches in London hospital

    (Software/Software Features)

    Microsoft launched the very latest version of its operating system - Windows 7 today. The most interesting thing is that people will have to perform a 'clean' installation in order to upgrade from ...

34. Phoenix ties knot with Samsung for "instantly on" notebooks

    (Software/Software Features)

    ...  That's done by using Phoenix Hyperspace, which lets notebooks start and shut down within seconds - admittedly that's not instant. The operating environment lets you switch to Windows for specific tasks ...

35. Amazon: Windows 7 is 'the biggest pre-order product of all time'

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... product of all time in the UK, says Amazon. The UK arm of the retail behemoth adds that the new operating system sold more copies in the first eight hours of its release in July than Vista did in its ...

36. News aggregation sites threatened with legal action

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... we don't do anything that detracts from the value of your content. We don't redistribute your web pages to anyone. We operate within the law, and we don't do you any harm. Far from it. We deliver you traffic ...

37. SCO's Darl McBride gets eliminated

    (Software/Software Features)

    The man who spearheaded SCO's attack against IBM and the Linux operating system has been eliminated. The man who spearheaded SCO's attack against IBM and the Linux operating system has been eliminated. ...

38. Managers admit they can't handle server utilization

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... by 1E in association with the Alliance to Save Energy, reckons the cost of this inactivity as $25 billion a year. “Contrary to popular belief, one of the largest causes of energy and IT operational waste ...

39. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... firms such as, oooh, let’s pluck one out of the air, Gartner, for advising people on how to carry out a simple upgrade to an operating system. Nice work if you can get it, guys. As of press time, Gartner ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... story is well known. He took a battered Apple Computer, revived it, inspired it, and led it to the greatness it once had in the 1980s and early 1990s. He oversaw the development of OS X, my favorite operating ...

41. Twitter has a nose for fledgling wines

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... promoting literacy. According to SF Weekly, the wines will be branded as Fledgling Wines and created in cooperation with Crushpad. According to the Twitter site www.fledglingwine.com, every case of wine ...

42. Windows 7 to trigger notebook replacement sales

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... to the notebook market, according to a report from DRAM Exchange. But although the release of Microsoft's latest operating system will trigger replacement sales up to the end of this year, the real effect ...

43. Apple moves to prevent iPhone jailbreaking with updated Bootrom file

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the iPhone licensing agreement. The company also claimed that the licensee is not the "owner" of his or her iPhone software and that modifying the OS could "cause serious problems in the operation" of ...

44. Adobe sneaks out mega security patch

    (Security/Security Features)

    ... to take control of machines and install malware. When you consider that MS issued 34 patches covering seven application families and three operating systems, while Adobe had to plug 29 holes in just ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... the features you missed.     I can imagine a future OS, similar to Google Chrome, where you’d only have an operating system kernel and a browser when you bought a new system and then would ...

46. Intel reverses semiconductor recession

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  Its operating income amounted to $2.6 billion for the quarter and its net income that is to say profit, was $1.9 billion. Its revenues were $9.4 billion for the third quarter. This, said CEO Paul Otellini, ...

47. Windows 7 won't be successful until 2011

    (Software/Software Features)

    News Analysis Microsoft's future begins next week. That's when the company ships Windows 7, its latest operating system. If Microsoft stumbles with Windows 7 as it did with Vista, people will start ...

48. SanDisk ships 64 Gigabit X4 Flash memory cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... perfect new and powerful error correction algorithms to assure reliable operation." Mehrotra added that Tel Aviv University (TAU) had provided a "significant contribution" to the X4's advanced error correcting ...

49. Cisco buys Starent for $2.9 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... internet applications and infrastructure. Starent provides core network functions and services to manage access from 2.5G, 3G and 4G radio networks to mobile operators' packet core networks, It's applicable ...

50. Windows 7 boots fast enough for normal people

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    ... endless articles in green crayon slating Windows’ slow boot and shutdown times when compared with other operating systems so exotic that no one uses them, in the real world, it simply doesn’t matter. At ...