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RIM’s PlayBook OS 2.0 Finally Brings Native E-Mail
Research In Motion has finally made good on a promise to update its PlayBook operating system.
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RIM’s PlayBook OS 2.0 Finally Brings Native E-Mail
Barnes & Noble Unveils New Nook Tablet that Matches Kindle Fire Price
Barnes & Noble opened a new front in the media tablet war on Tuesday with a President’s Week rollout of its latest Nook device. The 7-inch, $199 Nook Tablet has half the internal storage of the last Nook Tablet, 8 GB instead of 16 GB, but costs $50 less. Otherwise the specifications are the same: It’s powered by a 1 GHz dual-core processor, with a slot for up to a 32 GB of memory on a microSD card, and Barnes & Noble says the battery is good for 11-1/2 hours of reading time or nine hours of video playback.
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Oracle Rejects $272M SAP Award, Demands New Trial
Business software maker Oracle Corp.
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Oracle Rejects $272M SAP Award, Demands New Trial
Google’s Bouncer Searches for Misbehaving Android Apps
Looking to bolster confidence in the security of its fast-growing market for mobile applications, Google is posting a bouncer at the door. The service analyzes new applications in the Android Market as well as those already posted, and even developer accounts, looking for known malware, spyware and trojans
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Google’s Bouncer Searches for Misbehaving Android Apps
Investors May Feel Unfriended by Facebook IPO
Investors wanting to get in on the Facebook IPO might soon find out what it feels like to get “unfriended.” When it comes to the initial public offering of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, there’s ironically very little for the masses. Facebook’s IPO, as with most IPOs, will only be sold at the offering price to privileged investors
Internet Breeds Political Incivility, Threats
As campaign rhetoric boils and Americans on both sides of the political divide hurl insults, law enforcement officials are watching social media carefully for threats or signs of violence. The Secret Service says political incivility is nothing new, but the Internet is making more of the venom public
Apple Files Patents for Fuel Cell Computers
A laptop powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, going for weeks without refueling. That vision of the future is described in a pair of patent applications filed by Apple and made public Thursday.
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Apple Files Patents for Fuel Cell Computers
Open source can win the Kindle-Apple tablet wars
Amazon has released a software development kit for its Kindle tablet, with an app store to come. ZDNet bloggers have been weighing in, mostly negatively .
Lee’s 10 favorite free Windows programs of 2009
Filed under: Features , Windows , Freeware , Lists It’s amazing how many apps we review over the course of a year. There’s no way I could count the number of times I’ve run appwiz.cpl (add/remove programs) on my desktop and laptop in the past twelve months. Certain apps, however, stand the test of time
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Lee’s 10 favorite free Windows programs of 2009
‘Augmented Reality’ Is Tech Industry’s Next Step
“Augmented reality” may sound like indecipherable technobabble, but the concept behind this technology is familiar to anyone who has seen any of the “Terminator” movies. In the sci-fi films, a cyborg is able to scan its surrounding area and superimpose data on what it sees, allowing it to get background information on humans. Now, after years of use in academic and industrial circles — not to mention science fiction — augmented reality is coming to consumers, who can expect to see it in their everyday lives in 2010.
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‘Augmented Reality’ Is Tech Industry’s Next Step