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The Tech Headlines of this week
Taiwanese computer maker Asus on Tuesday launched a tablet-style computer designed to rival Apple’s hot-selling iPad.
Asus calls its Eee Pad EP121 “a full-featured slate computer that serves as a multimedia player, e-reader, compact PC and Internet device,” according to a statement from the company.
The device, unveiled at Computex 2010 in...
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LAS VEGAS – The French company Parrot has showed a ‘quadrocopter’ on CES in Las Vegas the AR.Drone, that can be used for gaming. The flying gadget has two build in cameras where the images can be viewed on the iPhone or iPod.
The helicopter with four protected rotors, films the environment below it and...
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The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade.
Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences which bestows the annual Webby Awards were Iran’s election...
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Intel’s Core i9 chips won’t hit the market for a few more months, but that hasn’t stopped Polish site PCLab from putting the new 32 nanometer processors through its paces in a recent series of benchmark tests.
While testing pre-release 2.8 GHz Gulftown chips, PCLab found a significant speed increase with certain applications. According to...
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Google is to limit the number of news articles users can read for free on its website.
The search engine said it was changing its First Click Free programme so that readers would not be able to look at more than five pages in one day.
The move follows scathing criticism of Google by Rupert Murdoch...
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iPhone users are suffering from delusion akin to Stockholm Syndrome, says Strand Consulting in a weird little slice of research released this morning by this particular team of generally anti-iPhone analysts.
Below is a selection of some of the arguments that various hard-core iPone fanatics have been using since the iPhone initially launched:
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A cyber-expert who has worked with such agencies as the FBI and Scotland Yard is warning that hackers and cyber criminals are targeting social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin, the The Observer in London reports.
“It’s happening all over the world,” said the expert Mikko Hypponen, who refuses to use Facebook, the Observer reported.
“These...
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