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Again iPhone Price Cut! For New 3G Model? 2008-04-05 15:06:56 Germans can now get an iPhone
for just €99 (US$155). It will also fan the flames of rumors about an imminent new 3G model.
It’s interesting both because the iPhone hasn’t been subsidized before, and because it could mean the launch of a new 3G capable model is getting close, according to Wood.
“That could mean T-Mobile [...]
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Microsoft got Fined US$367.4m by Alcatel-Lucent for Illegal use of MPEG2 DVD Playback in Windows 2008-04-05 14:54:16 Adding a new chapter to a long-running dispute between the companies Microsoft
and Alcatel
-Lucent
. Court in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent US$367.4 million for infringing on two patents, adding a new chapter to a long-running dispute between the companies.
The jury, in U.S. District Court in San Diego, found that Microsoft had infringed on [...]
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Vista Fails VB100 Tests, Out of 37 Tests 17 Failed 2008-04-05 01:57:44 A new test of anti-malware products running on the Visat has found that many don’t work as well as they should.
The latest independent Virus Bulletin tests looked at 37 different Vista
-based security programs to see which could manage to reach the level of threat detection required for ‘VB100′ Certification. Out of 37 tested, 17 failed [...]
MSV Makes Touchscreen Satellite/cellular Phone “LOST” 2008-04-05 01:44:35 A new sat-phone company, MSV (Mobile Satellite
Ventures) has developed a prototype phone that looks like the touch-screen satphonev
The L-Series satellite phone will be available in 2010, according to MSV spokesman Tom Surface. It will use a new hybrid satellite/cellular
system based on two satellites that MSV is launching in 2009, and it will slide [...]
New Compiz 0.7.4 & Skype 2.0.0.68 Released 2008-04-04 15:10:46 New Compiz
0.7.4 and Skype
2.0.0.68, two of the most popular applications among Linux users
around the world released. While Skype has only one important future (uPnP support), Compiz has jumped from the 0.7.2 release to this one and includes some important enhances and improvements!
New in Compiz Fusion 0.7.4
• Configurable handling of overlapping output devices;
• Enhanced [...]
Googl May Buy Skype? 2008-04-04 14:45:29 Rumors are abounding that eBay is looking to offload Skype
and Google would be only to happy to step in. New information, however, suggests that they are in current talks and that a partnership or outright acquisition may be announced in the near future.
Skype, acquired in late 2005 for $3.1 billion, has been a financial [...]
Intel Anti-Theft Tool For Laptops Soon 2008-04-04 14:29:24 Intel says an anti-theft technology for laptops during the fourth quarter of this year, but the company not offering any details about it.
Intel Anti-Theft Technology, the new capability will be added to Intel’s Active Management Technology, which is part of Centrino vPro and allows IT managers to remotely access and configure computers.
In the event of [...]
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At Last Pizza Sold for $2.6m!! 2008-04-04 14:13:03 Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.He sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m
The online auction was launched on 27 March. The first bid was $100, jumping to $2.6m a week later.
He sold his business in 2000, but kept paying the $20 annual fees for maintaining the [...]
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Intel Unveiled Low-Cost Laptops for $300 2008-04-04 02:04:36 Intel Corp. unveiled new low-cost laptops for schools on Wednesday, adding bigger screens and more data storage capacity as the chip maker ratchets up its rivalry with the One Laptop per Child organization, which sells a competing machine.
Intel’s new Classmate PCs - slated to go on sale in April for between $300 and $500 - [...]
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Yahoo! OneSearch 2.0 with Voice Search Service Unveiled 2008-04-04 01:28:23 Yahoo’s new version of its mobile search service has unveiled oneSearch
2.0, that includes features like voice-enabled search, search assist, idle screen access and open search results.
To make voice-enabled search possible Yahoo! is partnering with vlingo, a leading speech-recognition company. With the voice-enabled version of Yahoo! oneSearch, consumers can search for anything, including flight numbers, [...]
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, Voice
, Yahoo
The Hummer Fly’s Most Awaited Phone Launches 2008-04-04 01:14:51 Fly today launched its most awaited phone, the Hummer
. For this French handset maker ModeLabs has carried over General Motors Hummer license to the mobile phone. This design has been styled after the Hummer car and comes in three colors — Yellow, Military camouflage and Black.
Also present for the occasion was Malaika Arora Khan, who [...]
HDR-TG1 Sony’s Smallest HD Video Recorder Yet in World 2008-04-03 15:15:08 The HDR-TG1 is 1.3 inch thick by 4.7 inches high by 2.5 inches wide and weighs 10.6 ounces. It’s a tall and thin camcorder with a fold-out display — a design along the same lines as Sanyo’s Xacti line of high-def camcorders, but the Sony
camcorder is about two-thirds the volume of Sanyo’s latest full [...]
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, Video Recorder
, World
Sanyo Pro-200 and Sanyo Pro-700 Direct Connect Handsets Released 2008-04-03 14:40:44 Fresh out of the FCC’s lair comes a new pair of QChat-enabled mobiles ready to launch on Sprint, the Sanyo
Pro-200 and the Sanyo Pro-700. These new Nextel DirectConnect
devices will expand the reach of the industry-leading Nextel Direct Connect push-to-talk (PTT) service and will incorporate the speed of Sprint Mobile Broadband and Sprint’s [...]
Amazon TextBuyIt Service for Cell Phones Launched 2008-04-03 00:14:57 Amazon starts a New service ‘TextBuyIt’ this lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones.
Amazon TextBuyIt, which launched late Tuesday, lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones [...]
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, Cell Phones
, Launched
, Phones
, Service
Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Available for Download 2008-04-02 23:53:56 Adobe on Wednesday announced the Photoshop
Lightroom 2.0 beta program, Lightroom 2.0 beta will include many enhancements including being the first Adobe application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel Macs.
New features like Suggested Keyword aim to make the mundane task of keywording images more intuitive. The application suggests keywords based on your [...]
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Microsoft Will Soon launch a Wii Remote Imitator for Xbox 360? 2008-04-07 21:47:49 Microsoft will soon launch a WiiRemote
imitator for Xbox
360, replete with Mii knock-offs, in an effort to capitalize on Nintendo’s raging success as Source close to MTV News.
“They want the usual assortment of ‘Halo’/ ‘Gears’/ ‘Forza’/ whatever, just in waggle form,” the nameless developer said. “Microsoft is trying to decide how to get [...]
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Patches for Critical Bugs in Windows ActiveX System Released 2008-04-08 20:10:15 Microsoft issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities in the core graphics subsystem of Windows
. One of eight fixes released Tuesday as part of its monthly security updates.
Microsoft released a total of five critical patches in its April security bulletin. Two of them fix bugs in Windows, two fix bugs in Windows and Internet Explorer [...]
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App Engine Google’s New Host Enterprise Web 2008-04-08 12:15:18 Google offering New host enterprise Web applications on its own infrastructure with a new tool for developers, App Engine
.
App Engine will compete with similar services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and Salesforce’s Appexchange but it may be the cheapest, as Google’s basic services will be free.
Google’s goal is to make it easy to get [...]
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HTC to Unveil Google Android Platform Handset In May? 2008-04-08 11:57:07 Taiwanese company is planning two or three handsets based on Google
’s Android
platform for 2008, and this May HTC launch could well fit the timing.
Although other manufacturers have not promised Android devices until later in the year, as a founding member of the Open Handset
Alliance, HTC, who provided Google with the prototype Android handset, [...]
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