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Ben Ames / InfoWorld:
Intel expected to launch new UMPC platform — The company is rumored to be announcing its entry into the nascent small-notebook market at the IDC — Business analysts at Intel's technology conference next week will focus on the company's powerful server chips, but industry blogs are showing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Future of Intel's ultramobile PC? — Update: Infoworld has a long piece on Intel's pending announcement. … Interesting video that outlines what the future of UMPC might actually look like - or at least that's the vision. This could be coming soon... in Beijing next week...who knows!
BBC:
Leopard delayed by Apple iPhone — The next release of Apple's operating system, OS X, is being delayed by four months. — Scheduled to appear in mid-June, the new version of the Mac software, codenamed Leopard before now, will instead be released in October.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's Leopard still plagued by lengthy bug list
Apple's Leopard still plagued by lengthy bug list
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Apple 2.0, Mark Evans, Paul Kedrosky's …, Between the Lines, Herb Greenberg, Micro Persuasion, PR Newswire, parislemon and digg
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Electronics to Release Duo Hd Player — Seoul, Korea - April 13, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., LTD., a leader in consumer electronics and digital media technologies, and the first company to introduce a Blu-ray disc player will introduce a dual format High-Definition (HD) optical disc player in time for the holidays.
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Software HD-DVD/Blu-ray Players Updated
Software HD-DVD/Blu-ray Players Updated
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BBC:
Net reaches out to final frontier — A programme to kick-start the use of internet communications in space has been announced by the US government. — The Department of Defense's Iris project will put an internet router in space by the start of 2009. — It will allow voice …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Papers are said to plan Yahoo deal expansion — A dozen companies that own about 250 daily newspapers are preparing to expand a ground-breaking partnership with Yahoo Inc. to share advertising and editorial content, several newspaper executives familiar with the situation said.
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Lifehacker:
Google Earth adds hiking trails — Want to scout out some hikes before your next trip? Google Earth's new layer has hundreds of them. — Specifically, the Trimble Outdoors Trips layer features GPS-marked trails for activities including hiking, biking, backpacking and running.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (935964) — Vulnerability in RPC on Windows DNS Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution. — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a limited attack exploiting a vulnerability in the Domain Name System (DNS) Server Service in Microsoft Windows 2000 …
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CNET News.com, George Ou, One Microsoft Way, Security Fix, Bink.nu, The Microsoft Security … and Zero Day
Lifehacker:
LH Top 10: Free Computer System Recovery Tools — Your data's trapped on a dead computer. You lost your login password. You never wrote down the product key on a non-working Windows installation. Your Mac won't start. — Don't pay the extortionists at the computer repair shop 800 bucks …
Jayson Otke / newscenter.philips.com:
Philips to acquire Digital Lifestyle Outfitters, a leading supplier of accessories for mobile devices — Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Charleston, South Carolina - Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) today announced that Philips will acquire US-based Digital Lifestyle Outfitters …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Compubeaver case mod: the PC-stuffed beaver — Granted, we were admittedly taken aback when an off-kilter modder shoved a PC into a cow enclosure, but cramming a full-fledged computer into an actual animal takes things to a whole 'nother level. Animal activism aside, this bizarre creation obviously utilizes …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is cable in Verizon's crosshairs? — news analysis A judge's broad interpretation of patents in Verizon's lawsuit against Internet telephony provider Vonage could give the phone company enough firepower to go after cable operators and other voice over Internet Protocol providers.
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
What's Weighing Down Google's Stock? — A funny thing is happening to Google on the way to near-certain immortality. Its stock, it seems, is as fallible as any other. — Consider the year-by-year appreciation of Google's stock price: — 2004: Up 126.8%, from the offering price of $85 to $192.79.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Massive spam shot of 'Storm Trojan' reaches record proportions — It's the biggest spam blast in the last year — A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, security companies said today.
PR Newswire:
CBS Corporation Announces the Creation of the CBS Interactive Audience Network — New Deals Signed with AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media and Veoh, Solidify CBS's Position as the Most Widely Distributed Professional Content Provider Online
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Market Wire:
Mobile TV/Video to Reach $12.7 Billion Globally — But Many Questions Remain in These Early Days — A slew of announcements by mobile carriers, and technology and media/broadcast companies have touted mobile TV and video over the past year. In the US, MobiTV announced its 2 millionth subscriber.