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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
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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
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AFP - Michelin guides, lauded as roadmaps to the world’s finest cuisine, will be delivered to iPhones and other “smart” mobile devices as the century-old publication embraces the Internet age.
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Vaunted Michelin guide adds mobile Internet to its review menu
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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
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NewsFactor - The Tokyo Game Show is, to put it mildly, a noisy event as game manufacturers crank up the volume on their latest racing or military combat products. But the loudest sound may have come from Kazuo Hirai, president and group chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment, who told the Financial Times that Sony has no plans to cut prices on its gaming consoles for the holiday season.
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Sony Says PS3 Price Will Remain Firm for Holidays
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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
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AP - An inflatable gorilla beckoned from the roof of Don Brown Chevrolet in St. Louis, servers doled out free bowls of pasta and a salesman urged potential customers to “come on up under the canopy and put your hands on” a new set of wheels.
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Is the era of easy credit over for the long haul?
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AP - The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
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Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers
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Terabytes are slowly starting to replace gigabytes as the data measure of choice. 1 TB hard drives are already available for public use. 4TB hard drives for desktops and 1TB for laptops are on the way.
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Information in the Tera Era
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
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posted by on Oct 10
CNET - With a tough economic climate figuring to put a crimp on IT spending, Microsoft is already working on honing a message that it can help businesses save money.
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Microsoft exec: Challenging times play to our strengths
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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
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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
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NewsFactor - Mozilla is doing its part in the battle against clickjacking. The open-source company is offering an updated plug-in for the Firefox browser that blocks what security researchers call one of the most dangerous problems on the Web.
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Firefox Plug-In Updated To Fight Clickjacking Attacks
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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
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All PC’s and networking devices use clocks to maintain an internal system time. These clocks, called Real Time Clock chips (RTC) provide time and date information. The chips are battery backed so that even during power outages, they can maintain time.
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Basic Time Server Information
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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
AP - IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.
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IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds
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posted by on Oct 9
AP - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There’s just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.
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Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms
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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)