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Stating the obvious: The GT200 is a fraud
Database, Don Sambandaraksa, Published on 10/02/2010
» It's the emperor's new clothes all over again. The GT200 is a fraud, but why are people so scared to say it?
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The right to know - and to condemn to death
Database, James Hein, Published on 18/08/2010
» The posting of secret communications in the Afghan theatre of operations is a case of "the people have a right to know" and technology being used the wrong way.
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What a shame
Database, Published on 18/08/2010
» Oracle, which recently bought Sun Microsystems - and thus the rights to Java - sued Google for using and misusing Java in the Android operating system and the world's new, most-popular smart phones; Google broke seven different patents, and Larry Ellison's Oracle has demanded a jury trial; Google briefly noted what a shame it is that "Oracle has chosen to attack both Google and the open-source Java community with this baseless lawsuit," and a bunch of lawyers are going to get new Mercedes before this one is finally settled with a huge exchange of money.
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Big time loser
Database, Published on 13/10/2010
» The US military began an aggressive push to reduce its dependence on fossil fuel, as Marines arrived in the Afghanistan boonies with solar panels and chargers for their computers; the new orders to move the military quickly to renewable energy have a strong rationale: the Taliban have been attacking oil tankers stalled by political fighting in Pakistan, and burning them; if troops don't depend on oil to move and to supply, no enemy can burn their energy.
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Irreverent and irrelevant
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Microsoft unveiled its most important product of 2010, the Windows Phone 7, a smart phone that puts the company clearly at a make-or-break landmark; not only is the phone itself - which got good early reviews - important for income and prestige, but Microsoft is counting on Windows Mobile 7 to sell a gazillion copies and power a jillion apps; as ICD analyst put it, "On a scale of 1 to 10, this (phone launch) is an 11"; of course, you are far too foreign to be allowed to have a Windows Phone 7; within a day, phone makers HTC, Dell, Samsung and LG all had jumped on the Windows Phone 7 platform, with additional features including pop-out speakers and Qwerty keyboards.
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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 27/10/2010
» ''Change the world, one map at a time'' says ShowWorld _ and that's exactly what it does. Thanks to a clever bit of computer programming, this week's Internet Site of the Week displays a world map containing various facts and figures drawn from reliable sources like Unicef, Amnesty International, World Steel, The World Bank and others.
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'Facebook sting' nets US Muslim in car bomb case
Published on 09/12/2010
» FBI agents used Facebook to nab a young Muslim-American on Wednesday who believed he was about to set off a car bomb at a US military recruitment office, the Department of Justice said.
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ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder
AFP, Published on 14/12/2010
» Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history.
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WikiLeaks, a Napster-style Internet gamechanger for 2010
AFP, Published on 15/12/2010
» If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the Internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks.
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Don't touch his junk
Database, Published on 22/12/2010
» The year 2010 comes to an end. It was the year of social media, the year of Apple and also the year of Google.
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