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Sept 2008 |
The GeoEye-1 satellite that launched into orbit Saturday is on a mission from Google.
Well, not just Google. The GeoEye-1 is part of the NextView program of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a dot-mil organization that, odd as it may seem, wants access to commercial satellite imagery to support its national security mission. GeoEye, the company, won its $500 million NextView contract four years ago.
But the search titan does have the exclusive rights among online mapping sites to the G... |
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Sept 2008 |
Amazon.com Inc. this week rolled out a video-on-demand service that offers users ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs.
Amazon Video On Demand updates the company's Unbox application, which allowed users to watch videos on a PC or on TiVo digital video recorders. The updated system lets users access 40,000 movies and TV shows via their Web browsers and download them using the Unbox application.
In addition, the system provides the option of renting or buying movies and TV shows directly t... |
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Sept 2008 |
The long-awaited $300 million ad campaign that Microsoft launched to counter Apple�s successful �I�m a Mac, I�m a PC� campaign aired during the Thursday night kickoff to the NFL season. Did you see it? I missed it on TV but caught it on YouTube.
I don�t get it. And seeing how the punchline was, ummm, Bill Gates adjusting his shorts, I don�t think I want to get it.
Check out the commercial and tell me if I�m wrong here. For 90 seconds, it�s two middle-aged guys in a discount shoe stor... |
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Sept 2008 |
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) kicked off a $300 million marketing campaign on Thursday, aimed at improving the image of its Windows Vista operating system and strike back at Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) "Mac vs. PC" ads.
The first commercial of Microsoft's new marketing push, being created by advertising agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, aired on Thursday featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld and company co-founder Bill Gates at a shoe store.
Despite selling more than 180 million licenses since its launch in 2007, Windo... |
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Sept 2008 |
Sony is voluntarily recalling about 73,000 VAIO TZ-series notebook computers because of a potential burn hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday. "Irregularly positioned wires near the computer's hinge and/or a dislodged screw inside the hinge can cause a short circuit and overheating," the agency said. "This poses a burn hazard to consumers." Sony "has received 15 reports of overheating, including one consumer who suffered a minor burn," the CPSC said. The recalled computers ha... |
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Sept 2008 |
Looking to put pressure on Intel once again in the high-end market, sources say AMD plans on releasing the AMD Phenom FX in mid-2009 on its new AM3 socket platform. AMD previously acknowledged that AM3 processors will work in AM2 sockets but not the reverse.
ZoomAMD is attempting to bring back their FX-line of processors in mid-2009 according to documents Tom’s Hardware saw. Although little is known about the specifications of these processors, we do know they will be based on the Deneb FX core, feature ... |
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Sept 2008 |
A low-cost XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) that carries both Windows and Linux will be out within the next month or so, according to an OLPC official.
The dual-boot XO laptop was expected to be available in August or September. The new device will allow users to boot-up the OS they prefer, either Microsoft Windows XP or the Linux-based Sugar OS originally found on the XO.
The new device is important to the spread of the XO around the world. OLPC started as an attempt to build a ... |
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Sept 2008 |
Yahoo dipped to $17.81 a share on Thursday morning, marking a 52-week low for the Internet pioneer and raising the question of whether any near-term catalyst exists that could revive the battered stock.
Yahoo, which was Nasdaq's most actively traded company on Thursday, had closed at $18.76 on Wednesday.
The new figure is below the previous 52-week low of $18.58, which it reached in late January--just before Microsoft announced its unsolicited buyout offer of $31 a share on February 1. Yahoo rejected ... |
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Sept 2008 |
In California last week, Chinese researchers unveiled details of a microprocessor that they hope will bring personal computing to most ordinary people in China by 2010. The chip, code-named Godson-3, was developed with government funding by more than 200 researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology (ICT).
China is making a late entry into chip making, admits Zhiwei Xu, deputy director of ICT. "Twenty years ago in China, we didn't support R&D for microprocessors," he s... |
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Sept 2008 |
A San Diego-based lawsuit filed late last week alleges that Apple and its carrier partner AT&T have knowingly oversold iPhone 3G, promising fast speeds only to see a glut of customers bog down the network with devices that themselves are flawed.
The 18-page complaint from customer William Gillis primarily relies on Internet reports of problems as the foundation of its argument and asserts that leaked information contradicts public statements by either of the defendant companies regarding 3G network perfo... |
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Sept 2008 |
Intel's investment arm has put another chunk of change into WiMax, a wireless technology that has not lived up to its billing as the successor to Wi-Fi.
This time Intel Capital has sunk $3 million into the start-up Aicent with the hope of accelerating the wireless technology's adoption.
Intel will push WiMax in its laptops and mobile Internet devices
Aicent provides data network, messaging, and roaming solutions for GSM and CDMA mobile operators and operates one of the world's first and largest multi... |
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Sept 2008 |
Nvidia recently reacted to increased demand for cheap discrete desktop graphics cards with the 9400 GT model to reduce the company’s exposure in the $60 segment. But AMD is readying the third wave of its 4000-series GPUs and told TG Daily that the company has no intentions to hand Nvidia the competitive edge in the entry-level segment.
It took Nvidia only less than three weeks from an announcement to investors that there is what the company described as an unexpected high demand for cheap discrete graphi... |
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Sept 2008 |
The number of compromised zombie PCs in botnet networks has quadrupled over the last three months, according to figures from the Shadowserver Foundation.
Shadowserver tracks botnet activity and the number of command and control servers. It uses a variety of metrics to slice and dice its figures based in part on the entropy of botnet infections. The clear trend within these figures is upwards, with a rise in botnet numbers of 100,000 to 400,000 (if 30 day entropy is factored into equations) or from 20,000... |
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Sept 2008 |
Nokia on Tuesday officially launched "Comes With Music," a service that gives users a year of unlimited downloads from the Nokia Music Store and the freedom keep downloaded tracks for the life of the device.
First launching in the U.K., Comes With Music will be available on the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Comes With Music edition. Users who buy the device will have access to all of the music available in the mobile phone giant's music store. The device is available exclusively through Carphone Warehouse in th... |
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Sept 2008 |
Intel is commemorating Labor Day this year with a trio of new processors aimed at different market segments. In the mainstream quad-core market, we have the new 45nm Core 2 Quad 8200, at 2.33GHz, 4MB L2 cache, and a 1333MHz FSB. Intel lists the chip at $224 in 1K quantities; Newegg has it up for sale for $229.99.
The new chip's lower price tag, however, comes at the cost of several features that are otherwise standard on Core 2 Quad processors. Older Kentsfield (65nm) and most Yorkfield (45nm) processors... |
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