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1. Karmic Koala displays bad karma

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... contiguous block from page 43, before anyone accuses me of cherry-picking): "Easiest upgrade I have had. Everything worked out well. So far everything seems to be working." "I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10. ...

2. MSI plans Tegra e-book, talks up notebook shipments

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... miss its target of shifting 200,000 notebooks in 2009, shipments have started picking up in the third quarter and annual shipments should reach 120,000 units this year and 300,000 in 2010.    ...

3. Large area TFT-LCDs continue to grow

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... and many brands continue to purchase panels to refill inventories. Moreover, LCD TV demand is picking up in Europe and North America, driving panel shipments to a record high of 15.6 million in September."This ...

4. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... to under estimate a competitor with Microsoft’s resources because they can actually get it right, and picking too many fights at once can take out the most powerful of entities just as it took out a nearly ...

5. ESA calls for Mars mission volunteers

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... in medicine, biology, life support systems engineering, computer engineering, electronic engineering or mechanical engineering. 'Social habits' will be another criterion - so no nose-picking in the interview, ...

6. "We're through the recession," says Google

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Google's business is picking up again, with third quarter revenues up seven percent on the same period last year. The company now says it feels confident about investing heavily in the future. Google's ...

7. European VCs bin majority of entrepreneurs' business plans

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   While widespread gloom and doom afflicts VCs in the USA, their European equivalents report that things are definitely picking up across the pond. But if you're an entrepreneur, make sure you get all of ...

8. Japanese first lady abducted by aliens

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... on live TV, she once described how she 'eats the sun' every morning, closing her eyes and miming picking pieces of the star from the sky and placing them in her mouth: "Yum, yum, yum. I get energy from ...

9. US Telcos call for lower broadband speeds

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   ... streaming video if it bit them and that there was no real need for a telco to provide a pipe to a banjo picking part of the back woods.   According to Reuters, Comcast said that "simpler ...

10. Yahoo buys Arab online community

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in the Arab world. It didn't say how much it had payed for maktoob.com, which has over 16.5 million users. Yahoo said that aside from picking up the 16.5 million users, it will allow it to deliver Arabic ...

11. Car texting video too shocking for YouTube

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    ... it can be and what devastating consequences it can have. "I hope that after watching this film motorists will think twice before picking up their mobile phone when behind the wheel and realise that a ...

12. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... while past conflicts, like Microsoft kicking IBM into the PC weeds a generation ago and Google more recently knocking Microsoft down a peg or two, typically involved relative newcomers picking off established, ...

13. Panasonic creates a robotic drug dealer

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... that the robot will be connected to electronic medical records and will scuttle around Japanese hospitals picking the prescriptions for the patients. The report says that in a hospital with 400 beds, the ...

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

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... outlets such as Escapist Magazine are picking up our stories but I would just wish they would leave the stories as they are and not add more speculation than is necessary and I just don’t appreciate being ...

15. Monkeys mind losing at Deal or No Deal

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    ... representing a prize, with green bringing the best reward - a sugary drink. After picking a square, the animals were shown the prizes they had passed up. The test was similar to the television show Deal ...

16. Giant 'sea snake' harvests wave power

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    ... wave rather like a surfer, picking up energy as it increases progressively in size. At the end of the tube the bulge wave energy surge drives a turbine in the power take off after the flow has been smoothed. ...

17. G2 and entirely new Android cellphone code-named Fiesta spotted in the wild

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... news outlets started picking up the news. Fiesta is allegedly aimed for launch in the U.S., Asia and Europe.  ...

18. Firefox hits 35% market share in Europe, 22% globally

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... every month and was down 1.33 points by the end of March. If this statistic is somewhat correct, then we know that more than half of the IE losses go to Firefox (53%), while Safari is picking up about ...

19. Complexity kills the computer industry

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... gaming to the web Why am I picking gaming as the example application you ask? Because gaming has a variety of elements that servers aren't known for doing well. It has graphics, physics, and artificial ...

20. Hollywood panics! X-Men Origins: Wolverine pirated, hits web a month before official release

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... not picking up nearly fast enough to counter its losses. Most promoted movies already generate the most illegal downloads. For instance, the Batman sequel The Dark Knight, which raked in well over $1 ...

21. Review: BeamME for iPhone beams contact cards via email or SMS

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... picking an existing address book contact or by entering as much contact information about yourself as you want. Create your vCard If you opt to do it manually, beamME lets you pull in all the same fields ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Final thoughts... So, why pay a premium for Apple? While this is hard to explain to someone who's used to picking off-the-shelve parts and building his or her own PC for a few hundred dollars, Mac users ...

23. Search engines: Diving into the "Deep Web"

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... to search 99% of the hits that other search engines aren't capable of picking up. Other search engines typically return pages based on their popularity and how easy they are to find. If there is content ...

24. Cox cable company to show bandwidth favoritism

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    ... this: anybody picking up a phone anywhere has just as much chance as the next person of their phone call getting through - regardless of who they are or how important the call is. Net Neutrality brings ...

25. Macworld 2009: Cisco brings WebEx virtual meetings to iPhone

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... join in by picking up the call. Although the application is not compatible with Cisco's MeetingPlace that provides LAN-based meetings, the company promised to bring this feature in upgrade scheduled for ...

26. Google tells users to drop IE6

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... are switching to newer browsers. What makes Google’s Chrome promotion especially interesting is the fact that Mozilla is picking up two out of three browser users that Microsoft surrenders. Fast JavaScript ...

27. How serious is the market share loss of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... clear that IE7 is not picking up the market share IE6 drops, but what about IE8 (beta)? The browser is showing strong growth, but the growth is based on a base line market share of just 0.48%. There is ...

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

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Disabilities Act had been passed. Other passengers have soon started using ramps since it was easier to roll suitcases using the rams than picking it up over the ledge. "In much the same way," he said, ...

29. Intel Core i7 processor demand will not pickup until Q3 09 - motherboard makers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... demand will see difficulty in picking up until mainstream segment CPUs show up in the third quarter of 2009. More here at Digitimes.  ...

30. We (barely) survived the Wrath of the Lich King launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... handed out numbered wristbands to people in line and at 11 PM the doors opened.  Thousands of Collector’s Edition boxes along with the regular expansion packs were available.  After picking up ...

31. To go where Google has not gone before: The promise of a new search engine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... that other search engines aren’t capable of picking up. Other search engines typically return pages based on their popularity and how easy they are to find. If there is content hidden behind firewalls, ...

32. Yahoo stock slaughtered on Microsoft comments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Investors reacted to news that Yahoo is obviously hoping that Microsoft will buy the company, but Microsoft apparently has lost all interest in picking Yahoo up. Yahoo’s stock dropped another $2.03 ...

33. LCD panel demand rising, but not enough to cheer up makers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... sources. Although demand is picking up in October, prices remain weak, with the market being plagued by global economic woes, the sources noted. More here at Digitimes.  ...

34. Why Acer can't be Apple

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... a substantial advantage over their peers.    Wrapping up Apple and Acer are vastly different and I have a hard time picking the customer that would easily move between them. Acer does better ...

35. Microsoft life outside the walls of Apple

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... way that "Hi, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" does to the regular, average Joe and Jane User people. And the image of Gates and Ballmer riding around in a Volkswagen with the heads bobbing picking up used PCs ...

36. VIDEO - Speedtraps meets social networking in ultimate iPhone app for lead foots

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... you would think hard core speeders would be the main users, but so far 60% of the users have been basically soccer moms who are always rushing around picking up kids and groceries. “They’re always being ...

37. Panel makers cut output, expect prices to stabilize in August

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    LCD panel makers are reducing their utilization rates while expecting prices to stabilize in August, as clients' inventory levels should start running low and related orders will begin picking up ...

38. Apple's favorite journalists post iPhone reviews

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... isn’t Walt Mossberg. But cherry-picking reviewers raises questions over Apple’s PR strategy and may prompt question whether the company is trying to skew reports.  Imagine Microsoft doing this. Steve ...

39. Ice-free North Pole ... maybe

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... it’s certainly feasible, but it’s not guaranteed.”  So here we have a situation of two publications cherry picking quotes to prove their respective cases. Despite the differences, most of the scientists ...

40. PCB makers mixed toward low-margin low-cost notebook segment

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Spurred by Asustek Computer's Eee PCs, the low-cost notebook market is picking up growth momentum fast. But printed circuit board (PCB) makers hold mixed views about the segment, which offers rather ...

41. LED market slow in Q2 08

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    The LED sector in Taiwan generally had weaker-than-expected sales in April despite players' optimism that orders would be picking up in the second quarter. LED packagers Unity Opto Technology and ...

42. Grand Theft Auto 4 surpasses $500 million in retail sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... but all this attention seems to have fueled the buying frenzy.  People who wouldn't have bought the game before are now picking up copies just to see what all the big deal is. The game is available ...

43. Asustek announces second-gen Eee PC

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... original Eee PC has been a tremendous success and Asus estimates that it sold 400,000 units in 2007.  The Asus Eee PC 900 will be available in Asia this week (and we’ll likely be picking one up in ...

44. No notebook demand pickup until July - channel vendors

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... which has caused notebook demand to slow down, according to sources at channel vendors, who added that they expect demand will start picking up in July after Centrino 2 and Windows Vista SP1 show up. The ...

45. Surprise: No Blu-ray for the Xbox 360

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... wrong foot when Toshiba announced to shut down HD DVD, but the company surely should have seen (and certainly did see) the trend. While it is picking up the pieces from the failed external HD DVD drive ...

46. Game console players set themselves apart at GDC

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... idea, the Xbox 360 is going to become a hotbed for creativity. PS3: Picking up steam The Playstation 3 has been an interesting product to watch.  From the beginning, it was essentially an Xbox 360 ...

47. Patent for textile-based electrodes awarded

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... sensing fibers that “move comfortably with the body,” picking up the heart’s electrical pulse and sending it to a compatible wristwatch or exercise machine via a tiny transmitter that ...

48. Shortage of 26" and 32" TV panels continues in H2 December

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... ended, demand from China is now picking up prior to the Lunar New Year holiday in February, the panel makers explained. More here at Digitimes. ...

49. Orange Box opens up on Steam

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the motivator of excitement for the new software bundle, picking up where Half-Life 2: Episode 1 left off 16 months ago. Also included is Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer team-based warfare simulation game.  ...

50. SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle: A Conclusion

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... as I was about to discover. When CMP asked me to do a monthly column, I took this piece and rewrote the beginning to make it an example of why you need to make measured decisions when picking any technology. ...