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News archive: 14th of November 2009 |
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Working with computers is a complex labor that requires acquiring and perfecting many skills for one to become truly efficient and proficient. Besides the basic knowledge needed for operating software programs, the skillful use of other resources is a must, especially if one needs to employ the PC as their main '... |
14 November 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the Stanford University announce the completion of a new class of electronic devices, fully biodegradable organic transistors. The materials hold great promise for the field of medicine, where they could be used to control temporary medical implants, before being harmlessly absorbed within the organism ... |
14 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Long gone are the days when 10GB of hard disk were more than plenty for any average user. Today’s computer user can’t get enough even with 500GB of hard disk storage, given all the free information and documentation one can find on the Internet. And if you add some more to the mix of data, one thing is fo... |
14 November 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 and its launch have been plagued by quite a few controversies. There was an unfortunate promotional video pulled hours after it was released, there was the terrorist level where the player shoots civilians and we have seen a boycott organized by Direct2Drive initially and then joined by Impulse and G... |
14 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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It was only a matter of time before methods designed to illegally circumvent the antipiracy measures in Windows 7 made their way into the wild. And, in this regard, the latest iteration of the Windows client joins its predecessors, for which a consistent collection of leaked volume keys, key generators (keygens), hac... |
14 November 2009
08:51 GMT |
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Using its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has recently snapped some amazing photos of unique features on the surface of the Red Planet, fluidized-ejecta craters (also known as rampart craters). The geological formations, which result from comet, a... |
14 November 2009
07:07 GMT |
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Microsoft has reacted rapidly to public reports of a zero-day denial-of-service vulnerability in its latest iterations of the Windows client and server operating systems, and is providing customers with guidance on how to block potential attempts to take advantage of the security flaw. In this regard, the Redmond com... |
14 November 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Techus, now a member of Technology Alliance Partner (TAP), released another product in the line of enterprise NAS servers. The N8800PRO from Techus is the successor to the N8800, a high-performance server system meant for business networks. In trying to keep in line with the current demand for high-quality and hi... |
14 November 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Today, November 14, the NASA Dawn spacecraft entered the inner asteroid belt of our solar system for the last time. The probe is scheduled to visit the dwarf planet Ceres, and also the large asteroid Vesta, and to collect scientific readings on as many of the objects' properties as possible. The asteroid belt li... |
14 November 2009
06:50 GMT |
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Computer maker Dell announced recently that it had made the first steps into the smartphone market with the launch of its new Mini 3 handsets. According to the company, the phones are to be launched in China on the airwaves of China Mobile, as well as in Brazil, with Claro, which is part of the largest mobile phone n... |
14 November 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Google is making some people very happy, as it has finally introduced some sort of integration between FeedBurner and Google Analytics. Considering that the vast majority of users have been more than disappointed by the way Google has handled the feed-management service since it acquired it in 2007, this comes as a s... |
14 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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On September 22, 2009, around the time Saturn experienced its once-in-15-years equinox, the Cassini spacecraft imaged peculiar, cloud-like formations hovering above the gas giant's famous rings. The bright clouds contained luminous ice particles, a detailed analysis of the photographs revealed. During the equino... |
14 November 2009
06:35 GMT |
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The newly emerging but promising Hydra technology has been drawing the attention of professionals and customers alike with its innovative way of providing scalable 3D performace in multi-GPU computing environments. In an interview with TG Daily, LucidLogix representative Kymberly Stowe somewhat elaborated on the tech... |
14 November 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm has just released into the wild a new flavor of its latest smartphone operating system, namely webOS 1.3.1. According to the company, the new software version does not come around with any new applications for the devices running under it (namely Palm Pre and Palm Pixi), yet th... |
14 November 2009
06:06 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a spam campaign distributing a new Zbot version is currently in circulation. The bogus emails try to trick users into opening and installing the malicious attachments, which are passed as a tool for checking the account balance. The emails have their header spoofed to appear as origina... |
14 November 2009
06:02 GMT |
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A while ago, we published an article and editorial about the nominations to the Packt CMS Awards. After a long period of voting, the results are in and controversy is out. This year's winners are WordPress, Plone, ImpressCMS and Drupal (yes, again). Considered an equivalent of the “Best New Act” aw... |
14 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Google is getting confident enough in its web-based office suite that it's now claiming that it will be ready to take Microsoft Office head-on within a year. Not just as a low-cost compromise option, but as an actual alternative for most users. These words are coming straight from Dave Girouard, president of Goo... |
14 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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CyberPower specializes in gaming platforms and, now, it seems it plans to populate the IT market with low- to high-end mobile platforms capable of meeting the requirements of even the latest PC games. The California-based manufacturer introduced its three latest such notebooks using the Intel Core i7 mobile CPU and I... |
14 November 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is reportedly preparing for the launch of a new software for the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, the latest version of its platform for mobile phones. The new software is none other than Office Mobile 2010, which might not make users of a WinMo-based device wait too long be... |
14 November 2009
05:40 GMT |
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For a while, as Twitter was taking off, URL shorteners were all the rage all of a sudden. New services were popping up left and right to the point where saying the market was saturated was an understatement. Soon enough, Bit.ly became the de facto URL shortener after Twitter chose it as the default service for the si... |
14 November 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Regardless of how much larger Intel's market share is compared with AMD’s, the latter is still the one boasting the highest possible processing power attained so far. Now on video, the capabilities of Advanced Micro Devices CPUs are plain for all to see, showing off clock speeds of no less than a little ov... |
14 November 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently moved ahead of the “pack” in terms of piezoelectric research. The effect refers to traits that certain types of ceramics and composite materials have, of producing electrical potential wh... |
14 November 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Google's ranking system is a closely guarded secret. Sure, the company lays out general guidelines and reveals the factors that go into determining a site's relevance, but knowing the exact algorithm would be worth a lot of money to a lot of people. That's not going to happen anytime soon, but somethin... |
14 November 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just made a series of updates to some of the software solutions it offers to its users. The new updates come in the form of the Nokia Ovi Player, a software solution previously known as Nokia Music, and a new 7.1.40.1 version for the Nokia PC Suite, which comes with a series of en... |
14 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Arguably the biggest challenge in the life of a couple is fight. As spirits heat, one or the other may drop some words that he or she does not necessarily mean, but that are uttered precisely because the other will undoubtedly be hurt. Many otherwise happy couples split and marriages ended following such arguments, e... |
14 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Douglas Melamed, well-known antitrust and corporate government relations specialist, was hired by the Intel Corporation yesterday. He was appointed nothing less than the position of senior vice president and general counsel. This move by the IT enterprise seems to suggest that it is nowhere near the end of its lo... |
14 November 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced not too long ago the official existence of BlackBerry Bold 9700, also known around the Internet as Bold 2. While the handset already became available for purchase in its home land, mobile phone users in the US still haven’t got the chance to taste its cap... |
14 November 2009
04:21 GMT |
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Google Books has been the source of much controversy for Google over the years and the problems aren't gone just yet, despite the company having reached an agreement more than a year ago with the author and publisher groups with which it was in litigation over the service. After delays and concerns from governme... |
14 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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32nm technology is just a step away from truly widespread marketing and Intel seems to want to take the lead from the very beginning with its plans to introduce not one, but four central processing units based on this type of circuitry. Set to enter commerce in January, no more than two months from now, are the A... |
14 November 2009
03:54 GMT |
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Our ability to recognize shapes and patterns is something that scientists believe was an acquired trait, spawned from the environment in which a new individual was born. But a new scientific study, published this week in the online issue of the journal Psychological Science, seems to show that people have a sense... |
14 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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The Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the application storefront Redmond-based software company Microsoft has put in place for the owners of any handset running under Windows Mobile 6.5, has been recently updated with a series of new features. Among them, the company included new anti-piracy protection features for the... |
14 November 2009
03:42 GMT |
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For many years, a large number of scientists have argued that human evolution may have come to a standstill, and even that we may be regressing. These ideas were mostly founded on the lack of observable evidence to support the claim that we were still moving ahead on the evolutionary ladder. More recent data pointed ... |
14 November 2009
03:35 GMT |
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On October 9, NASA slammed its $79-million LCROSS space probe into the surface of the Moon, in a quest for discovering water-ice in the Cabeus Crater at the south pole. At the time, as the world watched this endeavor live, the impact crater and the ejection plume that the spent Centaurus rocket stage created as it im... |
14 November 2009
03:14 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta is currently en route to meet up with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on the fringes of the solar system. The two are scheduled to first see each other in 2014. The probe was launched back in 2004, and it has completed about 4,500 million kilometers of its 7,... |
14 November 2009
02:26 GMT |
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