Month: November 2007
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Google Purchases Shortest Domain Name Ever
Google has purchased the shortest possible domain name to make it easier for Chinese users to find Google: g.cn. read more | digg story
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Apple Researching Touch Surface Keyboard
During the build up to Leopard’s release, we overlooked a very interesting patent application from Apple that appeared last week. This latest application is another product of Apple’s Fingerworks acquisition from 2005. Fingerworks had commercialized versions of multi-touch interface input devices,… read more | digg story
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Gphone 2.0 Megapixel Camera?
Leaked images yesterday, show that the google phone may have a 2.0 megapixel camera. read more | digg story
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Ubuntu Developer Summit lays out vision for strong Hardy Heron release
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Boston, developers are making plans for Hardy Heron, the next major release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution —one that will be supported for three years on the desktop. Ars attended the Hardy Heron desktop roundtable session to bring you the inside scoop. read more | digg story
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Intel’s QX9650 Marks Birth of 45-NM Era
Intel’s QX9650 Marks Birth of 45-NM Era read more | digg story
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Seagate offers refunds on 6.2 million hard drives
Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to settle a lawsuit by offering customers who purchased a hard drive from the company during the last 6 years a cash refund or free backup and recovery software because it allegedly mislead customers on the amount of capacity the drives contained. read more | digg story
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DARPA Grand Challenge: A Battle of Wits (Robot Cars)
[Jalopnik’s desert stringer Curtis Walker is following the DARPA Grand Challenge, an annual race of autonomous ground vehicles, with a serious case of the techies. We’ll have his reports today on the National Qualifying Event semifinals, like this one, as soon as he can type them into his digital audio-visual receipt and transmission unit. –…
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Intel releases first 45nm processor – Core 2 Extreme QX9650
This article covers everything you would ever want to know about Intel’s new Penryn architecture and goes into detail on the kind of performance you can expect from it. Lots of technical information, lots of benchmarks, a stable 30%+ overclock and power consumption in line with 65nm dual core processors! read more | digg story
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Faster USB 3.0 Is Coming
USB 3.0 should deliver more than ten times the speed of the existing USB 2.0 standard. read more | digg story
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Messenger 9: GTalk Integration, Messenger API, New Client for Mac OS X
“In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology’s IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech graduate Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store” read more | digg story