Source: Wired |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,53895,00.html
Xbox Got More Than Game - Microsoft wants to control the living room, with the Xbox gaming console as its centerpiece. Linux hackers want a cheap computer, with the Xbox as its shell...
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Source: ZDNet |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-945169.html
Earthlink wins $24 million from spammer - EarthLink has won more than $24 million in a claim against a spammer, but the real victory is in preventing members from being spammed, the company says.
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Source: The Register |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://www.theregus.com/content/35/25677.html
Apple must raise prices - This week Steve Jobs' altruism won out over his business sense, as Apple's decided to charge $100 a year for iTools (dot.Mac) and $129 for the upgrade to OS X 10.2.
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Source: ZDNet |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-945112.html
A glowing plastic compound is being used to create televisions on plastic sheets than can be rolled up--and to build lightweight information screens for soldiers in the field.
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Source: EETimes |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20020718S0058
Even before the next generation of DVD takes shape, a Japanese venture company already is betting on what comes after that: a system based on holographic technology, which can hold 1 terabyte on one side of a CD-size optical disk
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Source: AOpen |
by maximum3d on Sun Jul 21 2002 |
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http://club.aopen.com.tw/News/News_showAnswer_New.asp?RecNo=713&Language=English
AOpen Inc. announced today that it is introducing the world's first vacuum tube motherboard, coinciding with Intel's announcement of the Pentium 4 845E chipset. The new AX4B-533 Tube Motherboard incorporates the novel, modern-day adoption of an idea that was spawned by the invention of the electric light bulb by Thomas A. Edison back in 1879 - the vacuum tube.
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Source: MSNBC |
by maximum3d on Thu Jul 18 2002 |
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http://msnbc.com/news/781431.asp?cp1=1
The Volvo Safety Car running Win98 - It's billed as a $10 million James Bond-mobile. (I hate to think what happens when you get a BSOD)
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Source: CNN |
by maximum3d on Thu Jul 18 2002 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/07/18/computer.security.ap/index.html
PCs part of national cyberspace protection plan - Richard Clarke, the president's computer security adviser, said Wednesday that an upcoming national plan to protect cyberspace will include expectations for home users, as well as large companies and the government. "Every American relies upon cyberspace and every American has to do something to secure their part of cyberspace," Clarke said of the plan, which will be released September 19 in Silicon Valley.
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Source: vnunet |
by maximum3d on Thu Jul 18 2002 |
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http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133697
Symantec bought SecurityFocus - Antivirus firm Symantec rocked the security world yesterday with the announcement that it is to acquire independent security company SecurityFocus. The $75m cash transaction is expected to be complete by mid-August.
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Source: The Register |
by maximum3d on Thu Jul 18 2002 |
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http://www.theregus.com/content/54/25659.html
Hitachi creates splash with water cooled P4 notebook - Hitachi has begun selling a wondrous-sounding water-cooled notebook computer in Japan, according to a report by IDG Tokyo correspondent Kuriko Miyake. The machine runs a 1.8GHz mobile Pentium 4, and has a flexible tube which carries water over the chips in order to dissipate heat.
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