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Amazon Kindle To Debut On Monday - Ugly But Impressive — The speculation over Amazon's new ebook gadget, called the Kindle, ends on Monday afternoon during a special Amazon press conference in New York. Newsweek's Steven Levy claims to have had the device for weeks and wrote …
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Amazon's Kindle: pay to read blogs? WTF?
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Amazon Sets eBook World Alight with Kindle - Finally, Time For Read/Write Books!
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Google Magazine? — An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled "Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications." — A number of blogs picked it up and speculated that Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet content.
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AMD Spider Platform Is Gaming Supercomputer or So They Say [Spiderpig] — AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the AMD 7-Series chipset …
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Like having 2 graphics cards? How about 4? And why not add 4 CPU cores too... About a year ago if you asked a PC building enthusiast what processor to use, he/she would probably have pointed you toward a slick 64-bit AMD chip which at the time was some of the best performance at a sweet price, win-win right?
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Pioneer-backed online TV service launches test — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new online television service aims to offer what U.S. cable TV companies have resisted for decades — pay for only what you want. — SyncTV, a spin-off from Pioneer Electronics, a division of Pioneer Corp …
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Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanzuo.com — Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users. — According to The Times, Jack Zhang, Zhanzuo's chief executive …
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Privacy, please — Some campaigners worry about using social sites such as Facebook — Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders if it is time to create web services that can be trusted. — Like most journalists I know I'm very sloppy about keeping my online communications secure.
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PayPal offers secure way to shop non-PayPal sites — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay Inc, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't accept PayPal directly.
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Software-licensing costs predicted to fall — Software-licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade, as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. — Research firm Gartner predicts that vendors will find themselves increasingly challenged as IT departments look …
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What Steve Said: "HD" vs. "High Quality" — At NewTeeVee Live last week, Om and I asked YouTube co-founder and CTO Steve Chen whether or not YouTube had plans to improve its video quality. There's been some confusion and finger-pointing over Chen's reply, so I just want to quickly clear up what happened.
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Is Apple collecting your iPhone usage data? — It looks like Apple is tracking iPhone users data i ncluding IMEI number, IP address and stock quote preferences (amongst other things) through a hidden string in the Weather.app and Stocks.app iPhone applications.
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Four controllers, $170, and a dream: a review of Rock Band — I don't want to be a guitar hero, I want to be in a band — Rock Band — Publisher: MTV Games — Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 — There is something almost brave about the decision to make a game like Rock Band.
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Xbox Live hopes to press more players into service — Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off Xbox Live, its online game service, in 2002 with ambitions of one day seeing millions of players compete online. — Today, more than 8 million people — about 1 in 5 Xbox and Xbox 360 console owners — subscribe.
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Report: Chinese conduct "aggressive and large-scale" espionage against US — The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released a report to the United States Congress late last week accusing China of waging an "aggressive and large-scale industrial espionage campaign" against American technology.
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A Mobile VoIP Forecast & What's Up With Jajah, Raketu & mig33 — Mobile VoIP is going to become a major force over the next five years, rapidly outpacing voice over Wi-Fi, according to a recently released report by research firm Disruptive Analysis. The report predicts that the number …
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17 More Newspapers Join Yahoo Group — NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary. — Yahoo executives told The Associated Press that The Columbus Dispatch …
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Yahoo Adds 17 New Members To Newspaper Consortium
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