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Intel wants AMD dead, claims lawyer

Companies will constantly battle over patent issues, agreement breaches, and anything which allows them to collect a higher profit. This time it is Intel and AMD.

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Acer to launch a non-Windows smartphone

With the smartphone market booming, Acer is going for a piece of the pie, but much to Microsoft's chagrin, they are not doing it with Windows Mobile.

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IE8 launched by Microsoft

Microsoft has finally delivered the browser that its fans have been anticipating, hopefully.

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Man implants USB drive in finger

Technology has become so advanced that it can now be utilized in creepy and intriguing manners in the body.

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Twitter gets a TV show, sort of...

Like satirical humor? Like watching mainstream culture being bashed? You'll love Twitter's new TV show!

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Hackers start P2P Bank

Borrowing money from a bank is tough at the moment, but not for hackers -- they have simply started their own bank.

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94% of Facebook users hate new design

Users are outraged by the Facebook redesign and Facebook doesn't really care.

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New worm can infect home modem/routers

A new botnet, “psyb0t” is the first known to be capable of directly infecting home routers and cable/DSL modems.

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Commonwealth Bank launches mobile internet banking

Commonwealth Bank is offering full-functionality mobile banking. And for once, it's not just for the iPhone!

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TomTom gets muscle in patent spat with Microsoft

When Microsoft sued TomTom for patent violations in its Linux-based navigators, it probably didn't figure what would happen next.

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Facebook could surpass Google by 2011

A new report suggests that Facebook has the potential to surpass Google in terms of total worldwide unique visitors by late-2011 or early 2012.

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Aussie Tivo users outraged over $200 fee

Users are outraged over the high price of a TiVo upgrade -- that users get free in the USA.

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Symantec leaks credit card data

Did you buy or renew software over the phone from Symantec? Check your statements carefully -- your credit card details may have been leaked by a rogue staffer.

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Facebook gets face recognition

A new app promises no more laborious manual tagging of people in photos on Facebook.

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"I'm not cool enough to be a Mac person": Microsoft ad

Microsoft has turned the tables on Apple, featuring people in ads who are "not cool enough to be a Mac person".

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Canon unveils 6th gen DSLR: EOS 500D

Canon has unveiled its latest edition of its popular consumer DSLR line: the EOS 500D, with high definition video recording.

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Fennec -- Firefox for Mobiles -- reaches Beta

Mozilla has launched a Firefox-like browser for use on mobile phones.

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500GB holographic disc storage unveiled

If you think storage is cheap now, how does ten cents per gigabyte sound?

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MIT developing virus powered batteries

Scientists at MIT have engineered a virus which is potentially capable of forming a battery which is three times more powerful than all batteries available today.

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Aussie movie pirate faces court; walks free

Despite worldwide attention, a 26 year old Australian man has got off a movie piracy charge with little more than a slap on the wrist from Blacktown Local Court.

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Apple sued over iPhone camera chips and onboard app-store

Apple’s iPhone may be a smash success, but it's also proving to be a honeypot for lawsuits.

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Aussie research leads to better Google search results

Research by a University of NSW student has been incorporated into the search giant's main search algorithms.

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Pirate Bay operators jailed

A court in Stockholm has found the four founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site guilty of providing access to copyright works over BitTorrent.

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Hacker “Weev” takes credit for Amazon anti-gay glitch

A hacker has come forward claiming he was responsible for duping Amazon into delisting gay/lesbian books.

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Brazil plebs hijacking US military satellites

What do you do if you can't get a home phone with decent long distance rates? Hijack a US military satellite, of course.

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COOL CONCEPT: Apple Mac Folder netbook

If you're like me you're always eager to see just how interesting different Mac concepts can be. This, is quite possibly one of my favorite.

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Old Sierra adventure games go web-based

A developer has got a bunch of old Sierra games working in modern web browsers, providing a multiplayer redux of Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest.

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Adobe pushes to pump TVs with Flash

Adobe says by the end of 2009, we'll all be using Flash apps right on our TVs.

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First Android netbook to cost a mere $250

Google's Android OS is coming to a netbook near you.

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Hackers break into stealth fighter jet project

The Pentagon computer hack which gave access to the Joint Strike Fighter Project, could have been prevented.

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iPhone 3.0 may have video chat

A new Apple patent filing suggests the next iPhone may have iPhone-to-computer video chat.

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Microsoft dumps Auto Play due to Conficker

The Conficker virus has prompted a rethink in Redmond, and Auto Play in Windows will be largely disabled in Windows 7 as a result.

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Game developer asks pirates nicely to stop

One video game developer is working to combat piracy by asking pirates nicely.

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Smart Installer Pack: download Windows apps automatically

Just bought a new PC? What... you're dreading downloading and installing all your favorite software?

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Firefox to get multicore boost

Firefox is poised to get core software features that will allow it to make full use of multicore CPUs for faster performance.

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Cheeseburger powers 15,000 Google searches

It's so wrong, and yet, so right. Just one cheeky little cheeseburger can power 15,000 of your toughest Google searches.

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Quad-core MacBooks on their way

Intel has announced its intent to release the next generation Calpella notebook platform to its partners, which can only mean one thing...

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Palm Eos: it's a slimmed down Pre

With the Palm Pre yet to be revealed to the world, word on the streets is that Palm is already working on another version of its WebOS phone: the Eos.

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Google announces Codename Donut: Android 2.0

Mmmm... donuts. Google has kicked off its dev conference with a demo of the next generation of Google's young mobile OS, Android.

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SHOCK: No major changes in next iPhone

Here's an Apple rumour we didn't expect: the new iPhone will see no significant changes.

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Five years on: Google ready to end Gmail beta

Google admits customers are getting sick of everything being in perpetual beta.

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Onslaught of 18 Android phones coming

Google's free mobile phone OS is about to flood the market on new handsets of all shapes and sizes.

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Fighting credit card fraud, one GPS coordinate at a time

Mobile phones beaming their owners' locations back to banks could dramatically cut credit card fraud, Ericsson says.

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Church of Scientology banned from editing Wikipedia

In an effort to protect its online history Wikipedia.org has announced what could be considered the biggest ban in history.

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Is this the next iPhone?

Are these leaked photos of the new iPhone?

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Microsoft blames economic crash on search engines. WTF?!

Microsoft has launched its first ad in a $100 million campaign for its newly rebranded search engine, Bing.

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Google Street View gets dramatic improvements

Google has given its Street View system a major update with a system that lets you "walk" roads in 3D without having to click-click-click to advance a screen at a time.

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US President Obama's Blackberry hacked

President Barack Obama was the first BlackBerry toting commander in chief; even the first to utilize e-mail.

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Hacker places anti-Apple ad in front of Apple store

The guy that broke DVD encryption, then Apple's Fairplay DRM, has done it again -- this time breaking into Apple's reality distortion field.

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Google's answer to Wolfram Alpha goes live

What is Google’s response to the newly released Wolfram Alpha? Google Squared.

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