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 Nokia hopes to have the first phone that warns its owner of the imminence of a lightning strike in the next decade.According to the patent filed by the IT&C Finish behemoth, the phone would use existing frequency receivers, like FM and GSM tuners, to detect abnormal waves caused by nearby lightning. Typical lightning bolts produce...
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 Joost, the disruptive Internet start-up of Skye and Kazaa founders Ianus Friis and Niklas Zellstrom, has signed an exclusive contract with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the world’s leading talent and literary agency.The deal should “help” Joost choose the best TV content available out there. “Joost takes entertainment to the next level...
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 After unveiling this week its first true quad core platform for high-end PCs (codenamed Barcelona), AMD also announced its plans for the mobile platform during a press conference in Tokyo.Just as the quad core Barcelona is focused on improved performance in the ever-increasing and ever-demanding video domain, so is the newly announced...
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 Those tiny memory chips that fit into our phones, PDAs, digital cameras or even MP3 players just got larger than life: Samsung unveiled the first modules that reach no less than 8 GB in storage capacity.According to Samsung’s estimates, the new fingernail-sized card is capable of storing 2,000 MP3 music files, 4,000 digital photos, or...
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 After reporting in March that the first month of availability for Windows Vista meant 20 million copies sold, the Redmond behemoth is now boasting with 40 million licenses sold in 100 days.The news was reported by Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates himself, during a press conference held in Los Angeles.Vista’s impressive success...
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 The previously known Live Drive that was supposed to compete with Google’s GDrive (both of them being online mass storage devices) has made a short debut this week-end under the name of Windows Live Folders.Google once let the cat out the bag with some details from a CTO meeting about a possible online storage space called GDrive, that...
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 The US Army has ordered its active soldiers serving overseas to cut the chatter. No, really, it’s an order that should be effective starting Monday, May 14, in all areas where the US has deployed soldiers (Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.).US soldiers will not be able to access sites like YouTube, MySpace and 11 other popular social-networking...
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 The University of Missouri has been for the second time this year the victim of a serious data theft that affected the accounts of more than 22,000 individuals associated with the University.The University is unable as of this moment to comment upon whether there was a single attacker or a group of hackers that have accessed one of...
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 While the two giants competing in the interactive Web-content have both revealed their latest weapons (Flash CS3 and Silverlight), Sun is entering the battle with its newly announced JavaFX scripting language.After almost completely open-sourcing the Java platform, Sun announced JavaFX at the JavaOne conference taking place in Moscone...
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 After a year of interviews, reviews, data analysis and mental efforts, Google has announced the redesigned version of its Analytics Web-service.The free tool that provides detailed information about traffic and users’ interests to many site owners all over the world has undergone a face-lift. Jeff Veen, UI Design Manager at Google...
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