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LG KF600 dual-display sliderphone 2008-03-17 19:15:15 LG has dreamed up a novel twist on the touchscreen concept that adds a dash of Viewty - reviewed here - and a splash of Chocolate to create an original look that combines two front-panel displays: a touchscreen and a standard display.
The lower, touch-sensitive screen - LG calls it the “InteractPad” - displays context-dependent buttons [...]
Japan turns its back on 2G 2008-03-17 19:07:41 Japanese customers didn’t buy a single 2G handset during January, which could be why Japanese network operator NTT DoCoMo has decided to stop providing sub-3G connectivity by 2012.
Although just over 4m mobile phones were shipped to Japanese stores during the first month of the year, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITIA) [...] Read more:Japan
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Toshiba sued for cloning Fujitsu’s phone 2008-03-17 18:55:41 You know how China is a land of freedom in terms of copyright laws, with all those small brands copying Nokia phone
s and iPhones with the sole consequence of making (good) money. Now how about a big brand copying another big brand, this time being staged in the land of Japan? Jump for more drama.
This [...] Read more:Toshiba
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GreenFuel Technologies signs deal to build algae fuel plant 2008-03-17 18:49:00 As we’ve seen already, algae is big business these days, and it now looks like the alternative source of fuel is getting another shot in the arm, with GreenFuel Technologies recently announcing a deal to build an “algae-to-fuel” plant in Europe. The company, as you may or may not know, is now headed (at least [...] Read more:signs
HP out and proud with 8-socket server beast 2008-03-17 18:44:42 HP has jumped back into the beefy 8-socket x86 server
game with the new ProLiant DL785 G5.
The system will initially run on quad-core Opteron chips from AMD. HP pitches the server as a database and virtualization darling, since it offers a ton of horsepower along with vast amounts of memory. HP’s willingness to produce an [...]
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems 2008-03-17 08:42:38 Why we care about file systems
Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X’s file system as “complete and utter crap, which is scary.”
What did [...]
Kazaa downloads cost one man $750 per song in RIAA suit 2008-03-17 07:12:47 Even as Tanya Andersen refilled her malicious prosecution lawsuit last week, the RIAA won a victories in two unrelated lawsuits. One involved a case where the defendant never showed up in court; the other a defendant who admitted to using KaZaA to download and distribute music.
James V. Lewis was sued by [...] Read more:Kazaa
Spam doesn’t pay: man faces 26 year sentence for spamming 2008-03-17 07:06:05 Spamming can pay big bucks, but it hasn’t paid off for a Seattle man who was once considered the eighth-largest spammer in the world by Spamhaus. Robert Soloway, 28, pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud, “snail” mail fraud, and not filing a tax return in 2005—when he reportedly made over $300,000 from [...] Read more:faces
Microsoft cuts European price of Xbox 360 2008-03-17 06:08:38 Microsoft Corp cut the price
s of its Xbox
360 video game console in Europe by up to 28 percent on Monday to try to spur sales in a key battleground in the fast-growing industry. The 80-euro decrease results in cuts of 18 percent to 28 percent across the three Xbox 360 models, [...] Read more:Microsoft
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Airport security couldn’t believe MacBook Air is a laptop 2008-03-17 06:06:01 The TSA has been known to take issue with products designed in Cupertino before, but for one particular traveler, it was Apple’s thinnest laptop ever that caused the latest holdup. Upon tossing his ultra-sleek slab of aluminum underneath the scanner, security
managed to find enough peculiarities to remove it from the [...] Read more:believe
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P4P: faster P2P downloads from Verizon 2008-03-17 06:02:33 After achieving much faster than usual download and data delivery rates in a field trial with Verizon
and Pando, the P4P Working Group is now looking at doing trials with other ISPs and P2P network providers, said Haiyong Xie, a working group member who is also a Ph.D. student at Yale. [...]
Google’s buy of DoubleClick for $3.1 bn approved 2008-03-14 03:34:32 Google Inc.’s long-anticipated acquisition of online ad service DoubleClick Inc. is expected to turn the Internet search leader into an even more powerful marketing vehicle that’s fueled by better insights about consumers. The $3.1 billion deal, completed Tuesday after nearly a year of regulatory wrangling, also may intensify the pressure [...] Read more:Google
Anonymous comments may become illegal in Kentucky 2008-03-14 03:21:20 Although it’s not exactly clear how the law could be enforced, the lawmaker said outlawing anonymous posting could curb online bullying. Kentucky
Representative Tim Couch introduced the bill in the state’s Legislature last week. Under the policy, anyone who contributes to a Web site will have to submit a name, e-mail [...] Read more:illegal
iPod Nano cought on fire in Japan 2008-03-14 02:27:38 Reports of iPod
Nanos shooting sparks while recharging have government officials in Japan
investigating reported incidents. The iPod in a question in an older-generation iPod Nano that is specific to the Japanese market. Its model number is MA099J/A, reports the Reuters news agency. The cause of the sparking, it is believed, [...]
Hackers already jailbroken iPhone 2.0 2008-03-14 02:04:15 It hasn’t even been released yet, but iPhone
hackers claim to have already figured out a way to jailbreak Apple’s iPhone 2.0 software. The iPhone Dev Team said yesterday it has figured out a way to hack into the iPhone’s bootloader by taking advantage of the way the iPhone authorizes code that [...] Read more:Hackers
AOL bought social network Bebo for $850m 2008-03-14 02:00:25 AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business. Bebo is one of the largest social network
s in Britain, is ranked No. 1 in Ireland and New Zealand and has a global membership of more than [...] Read more:social network
Apple sued for iTunes technology 2008-03-14 01:59:59 Apple Inc. was sued Wednesday over allegations its iTunes
online music store and iPod music players are illegally using a patented method for distributing digital media over the Internet. Atlanta-based ZapMedia Services Inc. sued Apple in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the Cupertino-based company of violating [...] Read more:Apple
Comcast Slam Dunks High-Def Entertainment With March Madness® Mania 2008-03-13 04:41:18 Sports Lovers and Entertainment
Buffs Alike Can Find Thousands of Viewing Options Just a Click Away on Comcast
On Demand
Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, announced its upcoming roster with special NCAA® MarchMadness
® programming features. High-definition NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship sports-themed specials from CBS Sports and movies [...] Read more:Mania
Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 2008-03-19 05:09:25 British science fiction writer Sir Arthur
C Clarke
has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.
The Somerset-born author came to fame in 1968 when short story The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick.
Sir Arthur’s vision of future space travel and computing captured the popular imagination.
Sri [...] Read more:Writer
LG’s LH2300 Touch Web phone says “Hello UI” in Korean 2008-03-20 17:04:58 Want the Internet in your pocket? Good, because that’s what LG is offering to South Korean
s with its new LG-LH2300 Touch Web phone
. This ain’t your father’s baby Internet mind you, the LH2300 features a new “Hello
UI” riding atop 800 x 480 pixels spread across a 3-inch touchscreen LCD. LG didn’t stop with the [...]
MacBook Air hack unearths more relatively inaccessible USB connectors 2008-03-22 15:12:31 Unfortunately, Apple’s MacBook
Air still only arrives with a lone USB port. Save for using a dongle / hub, there’s really been no other way to connect a bevy of USB peripherals to the lappie — until now. Thanks to a curious hacker with a thing for perusing microchip documentation, he discovered that the internal [...] Read more:connectors
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