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| Facebook wins 873-million-dollar award against spammer |
San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook has won an 873-million-dollar damages award against a spammer who inundated users of the site with millions of unwanted messages, the company said Monday.
In a blog posting, the company's director of security Max Kelly said the award by the US District Court in San Jose was the largest judgment in history for an... |
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 On Wednesday, Dell gave itself a two-year deadline to reduce by up to 25% its products’ energy consumption. This is not Dell’s first environment-oriented effort as, according to company officials, its OptiPlex desktops have recorded a 50% improvement in energy efficiency since 2005 and the Latitude notebooks’ power consumption went down...
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 On Monday, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched five new quad-core Opteron processors (8347 HE, 8346 HE, 2347 HE, 2346 HE, and 2344 HE), described by company officials as energy-efficient. They run on 55 Watts of AC power and, when compared to the 75-watt Barcelona chips that were released by AMD last year, the Opteron shows a 30...
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 It seems that nowadays nothing is impossible when it comes to electronics and crime fighting is one domain in which computer science has helped a lot. However, a rather surprising case has recently been made public. An apartment shared by three young people in Westchester was robbed on April 27; the burglars managed to get away with...
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 Last year, a nonprofit environmental organization called Climate Counts started to put together, with the help of officially released information, the so-called Climate Counts Company Scorecard, in which the 60 top consumer companies are arranged in a chart according to their environmental efforts. In 2008, in the second edition of the...
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 T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany, announced on Monday that it has launched its third- generation wireless network in the United States, beginning with New York City.Even though rather few phones are able to use the 3-G technology, T-Mobile said that people in New York have are covered for the use of the last...
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 Sezmi Corp has announced its plans to introduce a way cheaper alternative to typical cable and satellite services. According to Buno Pati, Sezmi co-founder and CEO, the customers who will go for the new technology will have their bills reduced to half of what they are currently paying.The system can be quite easily installed, as all it...
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 Boris Rubinsky, bioengineering professor at the University of California, came up with an unique, affordable and simple alternative to currently used medical technology. The mobile phone is in the spotlight again. It seems that the extraordinary potential of this device has barely been exploited until now as the number of functions and...
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 On Wednesday, a group of engineers from Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced in the science journal Nature the completion of a new simple circuit element’s design, which has, until now, only existed in theory.Leon Chua, professor at the University of California at Berkeley, came up with a mathematical theory that a fourth fundamental circuit,...
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 On Tuesday, A123 Systems announced that it has started taking online orders from those Toyota Prius owners who want to switch from hybrid to plug-in hybrid. This can now be done by getting the new L5 battery module. However, it isn’t the cheapest of operations, as the battery and installation cost $9,995, to which $400 are added for...
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 The plan for Europe's global navigation satellite system seems to be coming along nicely, as the second satellite was successfully launched on Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at 4:16 a.m. local time, with the help of a Soyuz-FG launch vehicle. The Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE) satellite will be used by...
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 SanDisk Announces ExtremFFS
SanDisk announced on Wednesday a technology that the company describes
as being able to boost the speed of solid-state drives significantly,
called ExtremFFS. The...
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 Apple’s New iMac
On Monday, Apple finally announced the powering up of its iMac line with new Intel Core 2 Duo processors. This new iMac comes in three versions. The first, a 20-inch...
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