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posted by on Oct 14

Reuters - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia’s N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday.

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3 UK to sell Nokia’s N95 music phone: source
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 14

AFP - A Canadian company has unveiled software crafted to prevent people, particularly mobile device-loving teenagers, from making telephone calls or text-messaging while driving.

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Software thwarts mobile phone chatting while driving
(AFP)

posted by on Oct 13

Reuters - The Internet has the potential to save the book trade instead of dealing it the near-fatal blow it dealt the music industry, the more optimistic participants at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair believe.

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Frankfurt book fair seeks hope in Web’s embrace
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 13

NewsFactor - The Federal Communications Commission has released an engineering report that opens the door for the FCC to apportion a chunk of wireless spectrum for free Internet services across the nation.

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FCC Green-Lights Wireless Free Internet
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 10

NewsFactor - When Apple released its MacBook Pro laptop, reviewers called it an evolutionary improvement and touted its new GeForce 8600 GT mobile graphics processor, made by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia. Now some models may have faulty chips.

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Apple Will Fix MacBook Pros with Faulty Nvidia Chips
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 10

Reuters - Wannabe rock stars will have a greater choice of instruments and songs to choose from as videogames like “Guitar Hero World Tour” and “Rock Band 2″ introduce new features.

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A virtual battle of the bands
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 10

NewsFactor - For people who worry that it’s impossible to escape from Google’s amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite’s first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.

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Yoo-Hoo! Google’s Satellite Can See You Much Better
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 10

NewsFactor - Research In Motion and its U.S. carrier, AT&T, are being careful to avoid the problems Apple had with its launch of the iPhone 3G.

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RIM, AT&T Want Bold 9000 To Avoid iPhone Woes
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 10

InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company’s DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.

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Microsoft elaborates on Oslo
(InfoWorld)

posted by on Oct 9

NewsFactor - Microsoft is raising Xbox 360 forecasts in Japan amid rumors Sony might drop the price of its PlayStation 3 even more. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning to release an Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive, putting it on more equal digital-media footing with its main rival.

Microsoft, Sony will Launch Competing Virtual Worlds
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 9

The Motley Fool - Back when houses were making money hand over fist and everyone looked like a stock market genius, who had time to read all the fine print on that other stuff — you know, like cell-phone contracts and car lease clauses?

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Save Money by Dumping Dud Deals
(The Motley Fool)

posted by on Oct 9

Reuters - IBM posted a higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and affirmed its full-year outlook, calming some fears that the financial crisis is sparking a meltdown in technology demand.

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IBM’s earnings strength calms tech jitters
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 8

AFP - Microsoft’s research arm and a set of US universities are creating a first-of-its-kind institute devoted to using videogames to teach math, science and engineering to school children.

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Microsoft backs using videogames as teaching tools
(AFP)

posted by on Oct 8

Reuters - IBM reported on Wednesday preliminary third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations, and it affirmed its full-year profit outlook, sending shares up 4 percent.

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IBM preliminary profit beats expectations
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 8

AP - In the world of sports video games, not much can really change year to year. The game at its core is the same, but it’s what video-game developers add that makes it worth spending the cash.

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‘NHL 09′ first star in hockey franchise
(AP)

posted by on Oct 8

NewsFactor - Google is getting in the game. The Internet search giant is putting its assets into play by introducing AdSense for Games.

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Google AdSense Now Manages Ads in Online Games
(NewsFactor)

posted by on Oct 8

InfoWorld - Red Hat is expanding its open-source JBoss SOA platform with the unveiling Wednesday of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1.

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Red Hat boosts open source SOA
(InfoWorld)

posted by on Oct 7

AP - For a self-effacing, portly little plumber, Mario may be the most ambitious guy in video games. It’s not enough that he has the most recognizable face in the industry; his parents at Nintendo have promoted him everywhere, from T-shirts and lunchboxes to cartoons and cell-phone ringtones. He’s probably more familiar to kids of a certain generation than Mickey Mouse.

Wario, Kirby, Sonic return in new adventures
(AP)

posted by on Oct 6

Reuters - Dish Network Corp and EchoStar Corp will pay $104 million in damages to TiVo Inc after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Dish’s appeal of a patent infringement case.

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Dish to pay TiVo $104 million after court ruling
(Reuters)

posted by on Oct 6

NewsFactor - The NPD Group, a market-research firm, reports that 30 percent of the U.S. consumers who purchased Apple’s iPhone 3G from its release on July 11 through August switched mobile carriers in order to join AT&T, which holds exclusive U.S. sales rights for the red-hot device.

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iPhone 3G Entices Mobile-Carrier Defections
(NewsFactor)