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Latest News - February 2009
- ASUS Announces Atom N280 Eee PC 1000HE Pre-Order
- Sony Develops New Finger Vein Authentication
- Crackulous Gets a Public Beta
- Hulu: An Evil Plot to Destroy the World
- Flash Development for the iPhone is Hard: Adobe
- Google Earth: Terrorism's not our fault
- Britain Promises Broadband Access For All
- Hardware Roundup
- BART Signs Deal for System-Wide Wi-Fi
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ASUS Announces the Upgraded Eee PC 1000HE, Available Now for Pre-Order-- First netbook to feature Intel Atom N280 processor, the new Eee PC offers more power, 9.5 hours of battery life, and comfort and style -- FREMONT, CALIFORNIA (February 2, 2009) - ASUS, the innovator who revolutionized the mobile computing landscape with the original Eee...
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Sony Corporation today announced the development of a finger vein authentication technology called "mofiria." The user-friendly technology offers quick response and high accuracy and comes in a compact size for mounting on mobile devices such as a personal computer or mobile phone.With the increase of networked products and services, a user-friendly...
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Crackulous is a one-click iPhone / iPod Touch app cracking tool. Previously it was only available to a select few, but it's now been released as a public beta. Obviously not good news for developers, it adds yet another reason to the list of reasons to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch. Some of them are legitimate, such as being able to...
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Hulu.com anted up for some prime Super Bowl viewership with a deliciously evil commercial featuring NBC sitcom 30 Rock's Emmy award winning actor Alec Baldwin. The ad, called "Alec and Huluwood" starts with the star stepping into the Hollywood sign and taking an elevator below to what appears to be an underground laboratory. "...
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Well, duh. In a Bloomberg Television interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen admitted that developing Flash for the iPhone was "hard." Specifically, he said: "It's a hard technical challenge, and that's part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating. The ball is in our court. The onus...
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Should cell phones, GPS devices and, heck, even cars be banned just because the bad guys use them?John Hanke, the man in charge of Google Earth and Google Maps, invoked those three pieces of modern technology in defense of his company's satellite imagery application, which has been blamed by some for helping terrorists plot their acts of destruction.A...
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While US lawmakers hew and haw over providing Internet expansion tax credits to telecommunications outfits willing to bring broadband to the outback, British officials are doing them one better. Believe it or not, every last home in Britain will be "guaranteed access to broadband Internet under plans unveiled by the government on Thursday,"...
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Video:BFG Tech's GeForce GTX 285 OCX graphics card @ bit-techASUS 9800GTX+ Dark Knight @ t-breakMotherboards and Chipsets:DFI LanParty JR X58-T3H6 Motherboard @ CPU3DMemory and Storage:SimpleTech [Re]Drive - 500GB External Hard Drive @ TechwarelabsCSX 3GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory @ PhoronixRAID 1 for the time-challenged @ TR-NewsThecus N4100PRO...
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Last year SF's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) began talks with startup Wi-Fi Rail, Inc. to provide system-wide wi-fi service, after successfully running three phases of trials. It's taken more than six months, but on Friday a 20-year deal between the two was announced. Tests on the BART line were run on 2.2 miles of Hayward track and in the...
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