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WordPerfect Case : U.S. Supreme Courtrejects Microsoft antitrust appeal 2008-03-17 14:39:00 The U.S. Supreme
Court on Monday denied a Microsoft
appeal to an antitrust case that dates back to Novell's desktop PC software business in the mid-1990s.
The move leaves standing a lower court ruling that says Novell can sue Microsoft under federal antitrust laws. Novell argued that Microsoft used its monopoly power to sink Novell's QuattroPro spreadsheet and WordPerfect
word processor.
AirPort Express to support 802.11n promises speeds five times 2008-03-17 14:29:00 Apple's tiny wireless base station has been updated with technology to support the high speed connectivity for the full satisfaction as customer demand .
The iPod gets a lot of credit for Apple's success, and rightly so, but another Apple device deserves more attention than it has received: the humble Airport Express
. If you use iTunes, have WiFi, and have a stereo somewhere in your house -- a
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Microsoft to license Adobe's Flash Lite 2008-03-17 09:29:00 Support for Flash
videos has been pretty disappointing on mobile devices. This is because Adobe
's support is not at the same level as on the desktop, so Flash sites on your PC browser don't look exactly the same as on your mobile phone. Flash Lite for mobile devices has been around for a while, but only the latest version 3 supports FLV, the most popular format for video streaming on the
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The world's smallest diamond ring measures 300 nanometers thick and 5 microns across 2008-03-17 09:23:00 Diamond's got just a little, itty-bitty bling
It won't win ‘oohs’ or ‘ahhs’ from admiring friends, but it can help scientists
The world's smallest diamond
ring measures 300 nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick and 5 microns (millionths of a meter) across. It was made by carving out a circular structure in an artifically made diamond.
Scientists have created the world's smallest diamond
Wall Street news : IT M&A provides opportunities 2008-03-17 08:18:00 Now the global economy is really largely controlled by Technology. Though many tech vendors are suffering as the widening U.S. financial crisis slows down consumer and business spending, IT mergers and acquisitions including bellwethers such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Electronic Arts and AOL continue to reshape the technology landscape and provide opportunities for investors.
AOL's
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Dexter To Become A Video Game 2008-03-17 08:12:00 The life and adventures of the dark serial killer Dexter
Morgan from the Showtime’s “Dexter” will be the subject of a new video game produced by Marc Ecko Entertainment.
In a press statement, Marc Ecko Entertainment said it will create the game in close collaboration with Showtime Networks to guarantee its faithfulness to the spirit of the show.
In the “Dexter” TV show Michael C. Hall, of “
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, Video Game
Second Life creator changes role ,new roleAs Chairman 2008-03-17 08:05:00 The man behind Second
Life is stepping down from his role as head of the company that created the virtual world.
Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale will become the company's chairman once a new head for the firm has been hired.
In a statement Mr Rosedale he would stay at the company and work on strategy and design for Second Life
.
He added that he would contribute more to Linden Lab doing
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Microsoft has licensed with Adobe's Flash Lite 2008-03-17 07:55:00 Adobe Systems has announced that software giant Microsoft
has licensed
Adobe Flash
Lite software to enable Web browsing of flash player compatible content within the Internet Explorer Mobile browser in future versions of Windows Mobile phones.
Adobe Flash Lite is an award-winning Flash Player software from adobe which has specifically been designed for mobile devices.
Besides Adobe Flash Lite,
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The great writer Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Died 2008-03-19 13:15:00 Visionary science fiction writer Arthur
C Clarke
, who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died on the morning of Wednesday March 19, 2008. The author who was ninety years old died at his adopted home in Sri Lanka.
Clarke, who had battled post-polio syndrome since the 1960's and sometimes used a wheelchair, died after suffering breathing problems.
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Study sees mental link between drug price, effectiveness 2008-03-28 08:28:00 A higher-price
d medication with a brand name might work better than a generic version--even if the pills are exactly the same--simply because the patient thinks the expensive prescription should work better, according to a recently published MIT study.
The study--conducted by researchers including graduate student Rebecca Waber and Dan Ariely, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral
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, mental
, effectiveness
A tangled web: CEE researchers unravel the secrets of spider silk's strength 2008-03-28 07:45:00 This figure shows the structure of a beta-sheet protein, Z1-Z2 telethonin complex, in the giant muscle protein titin. The inset shows the orientation of the protein backbone of three beta strands (in purple) with hydrogen bonds (yellow) holding the assembly together. Buehler and Keten found that hydrogen bonds in beta-sheet structures break in clusters of three or four, even in the presence of
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Engineers have created the first "active matrix" 2008-04-02 07:15:00 Purdue postdoctoral research associate Sanghyun Ju, sitting, and professor David B. Janes work at a "micro-manipulation probe station" in research using nanotechnology to create transparent transistors and circuits. The innovation represents a step that promises a broad range of applications, from e-paper and flexible color screens for consumer electronics to "smart cards" and "heads-up"
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Large hadron collider V Big Bang and 1 New Snapshot Of The Universe 2008-04-02 04:03:00 To know the reality of invention ,to to the reality of time, to know the reality of universe and future Large Hadron Collider is innitiating to introduce the dark facts,
Deep in the bowels of the earth --100 metres below ground in Geneva, Switzerland -- lies a supermachine of 27 km circumference called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that has been built to unlock the mysteries of the universe.
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Sprint Unveils iPhone Killer, Samsung Instinct 2008-04-02 02:06:00 Sprint Nextel Corp. has announced its iPhone
killer, the Samsung
Instinct. The device features a touch-screen, and looks similar to the design of the popular Apple phone.
The Samsung Instinct will be offered on the Sprint network and will feature a virtual keyboard which will appear in a very similar manner to how the iPhone keyboard works.
There will also be a built-in Web browser as well as
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, Killer
Microsoft is going to help to avoid Traffic Jam 2008-04-11 11:16:00 Microsoft on Thursday plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams.Microsoft's Live Maps Integrates Complex Clearflow Traffic Modeling Data To Tell You To Avoid Busy Streets
The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, was developed over the last five years by a group of
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Tonya Engst at Tidbits.com decided it was finally time to make the switch from Eudora to Apple Mail. 2008-04-16 13:39:00 Leaving Eudora for Apple
Mail: A Difficult Switch to Make
A long-time Eudora user blogs about her experience switch
ing from the no-longer-supported e-mail client to one that's more up to date: Apple Mail. The experience was challenging, and Tonya Engst has advice for others interested in making the switch.
Tonya Engst at Tidbits
.com decided it was finally time to make the switch from Eudora to
Girlfriend Via Video Game 2008-04-16 13:32:00 Bernie Peng's girlfriend Tammy checks out the version of 'Bejeweled' he wrote for her Nintendo DS....
Hiding a ring in a bouquet just wasn't enough when a computer programmer decided to pop the question.
Bernie Peng reprogrammed Tammy Li's favorite video game, "Bejeweled," so a ring and a marriage proposal would show up on the screen when she reached a certain score.
Li reached the needed
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Passwords are not the best of security solutions 2008-04-16 13:24:00 fingerprints and palms.
A Burgeoning Bevy of Biometric Barriers.Biometric access control was one of the hot themes among exhibitors at the recent RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. Several companies showed off their wares, which include a back-end system for integrating biometric authentication into existing systems as well as readers for fingerprints and palms.
Passwords are not the
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, solutions
MIT team refines optical 'lab on a chip' 2008-04-18 07:13:00 Figure illustrates "lab on a chip" technique developed by MIT researchers to allow immobilization and imaging of a live C. elegans worm: (a-i) worm moves freely in chip's microfluidic channel; (a-ii) partial immobilization of worm; (a-iii) full immobilization; (b) low magnification image of worm immobilized in the device; (c) close-up of immobilized worm showing animal's neurons
Live-animal
Apple Inc. has changed its software update tool for Windows users 2008-04-18 06:59:00 Apple makes minor concession on pushing Safari to Windowsusers
Separates updates and new offers, but Mozilla wants more.
Apple Inc
. has changed its software update tool for Windows users so that it separates updates for already-installed programs from offers to install new software.
Last month, John Lilly, Mozilla Corp.'s CEO, took Apple to task for using the update tool, familiar to Windows
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MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains 2008-04-18 06:55:00 MIT's team competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.
A team of MIT students was named regional
champions--and placed second overall--in 32nd annual International Collegiate Programming Contest, held recently in Alberta, Canada. The IBM-sponsored competition, also known as the "Battle of the Brains", challenged students to solve a semester's worth of computer programming
20 Percent of Scientists Admit Using Brain-Enhancing Drugs -- Do You? 2008-04-20 09:06:00 Nature released the results of an online survey in which 20 percent of respondents, largely drawn from the scientific community, admitted to using brain-enhancing drugs like Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Provigil (modafinil).
Sixty-two percent of the scientists who had taken drugs used Ritalin while 44 percent reported using Provigil and only 14 percent had tried beta blockers like propranolol.
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Fitting MySQL into Sun's orbit 2008-04-20 08:57:00 Sun recently experienced a hail of criticism when the company hinted that some add-ons for the popular open source database, MySQL
, might be available only for paid customers.
Today Marten Mickos, former CEO at MySQL AB and now senior vice president of Sun’s database group, backed off the statement, saying that Sun has not made an official decision.
Sun, which acquired MySQL earlier this year
Google shares soar 20 percent to record- only 1-day gain 2008-04-20 08:44:00 Google Inc.'s stock soared 20 percent Friday, restoring $28 billion in shareholder wealth as Wall Street renewed its love affair with the Internet search leader after weeks of worry about an online advertising slowdown.
Driven by stellar first-quarter results that surprised industry analysts, Google shares
surged $89.87 to finish at $539.41. It marked the biggest one-day gain since Google's
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CEO of the Year : Mark Hurd has earned a name at Hewlett-Packard 2008-04-20 08:35:00 When Mark Hurd was named chief executive officer of Hewlett
-Packard
Co. in March 2005, the first question on some observers' lips was: Mark who?
The top spot at HP was formerly occupied by Carly Fiorina, the jet-setting favorite of magazine covers who had orchestrated the merger with Compaq Computer Corp. in 2002. Her replacement was the chief executive of NCR, a much smaller, Midwestern
10000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive by Western Digital 2008-04-21 09:42:00 The latest hard drive
s to tout the high-end Raptor name get a 3.0 Gbit/s SATA interface and supposedly outperform their older brothers by 35 percent.
WesternDigital
picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive
. Dubbed the VelociRaptor, this new drive screamed through the PC World Test Center's performance tests. Velocity is clearly the raison
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Search Engine Optimization 2008-05-12 09:46:00 Search EngineOptimization
The tools you need to optimize your press release for maximum online reach. Our EON: Enhanced Online News services are key parts of your search engine marketing strategy.
Business Wire and EON: Enhanced Online News bring you the tools you need to be found on the web and bring your PR, advertising and marketing efforts to Web 2.0 audiences. The EON: Enhanced Online News
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Easily insert social features to make "any app, any site, any friends" a reality with google 2008-05-12 09:38:00 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features
for its visitors.
Websites that are not social networks may still want to be
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, insert
, reality
Large Hadron Collider is gearing up to slam protons together at energies that have not yet been studied on Earth. 2008-05-21 09:12:00 A visitor snaps a picture of the Large Hadron Collider's underground beamline during an open house in April, which was the last opportunity for the public to see the facility before the scheduled start of operations.
BIG-BANG BATTLE PLAN SET
The schedule is taking shape for the startup of the world's biggest particle-smasher — and for the lawsuit seeking to shut it down.
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Shuttle's mission to repair Hubble telescope delayed till Oct. 8 2008-05-23 02:37:00 An Aug. 28 mission to repair the Hubble
Space Telescope has been moved to Oct.8 because of delays in building fuel tanks needed for the mission, NASA officials announced Thursday.
The shuttle's external tank was redesigned for safer launches after the 2003 Columbia accident. Falling foam from the tank punched a hole in the shuttle's wing, later exposing it to dangerous gases and heat on
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