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Panasonic's first 3-D TV set in $2,900 package
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:50:51 GMT
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| AP - Panasonic Corp. on Wednesday revealed the price for its first 3-D TV set, confirming that $3,000 is about what it takes to be among the first to watch 3-D movies in the home. |
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Google to digitize old books from Rome, Florence
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:53 GMT
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| AP - Google said Wednesday it will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in Rome and Florence, including works by astronomer Galileo Galilei, in what's being described as the first deal of its kind. |
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Google opens Web store for business applications
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:48:26 GMT
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| AP - Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet. |
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MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:33:15 GMT
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 AP - Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly.
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HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash
(PC World) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:44:00 GMT
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| PC World - With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Each platform has pros and cons, but so far the debate seems to center entirely around support for Adobe Flash. |
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China Mobile buys 20% stake in mainland bank
(AFP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:59 GMT
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 AFP - Phone giant China Mobile said Wednesday it will pay about 5.8 billion US dollars for a 20 percent stake in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank as part of its bid to enter the wireless banking market.
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Review: `Final Fantasy XIII' falls flat
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:43:33 GMT
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 AP - During the 1990s, the Square brand was synonymous with the role-playing video game. A generation of gamers got hooked on the challenging quests, quirky characters and sweeping story lines of Square RPGs like "Chrono Trigger," "The Secret of Mana" and, of course, the "Final Fantasy" series.
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HP Turns Steve Jobs' Flash Snub Against Apple's iPad
(NewsFactor) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:12:09 GMT
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| NewsFactor - No watered-down Internet. No sacrifices. That's the promise Hewlett-Packard Vice President and CTO Phil McKinney offered consumers in a blog post about the PC giant's upcoming tablet computer. HP's iPad competitor, he promised, will offer a full web browsing experience in the palm of your hand. |
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Top free troubleshooting tools for Windows
(InfoWorld) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:00 GMT
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| InfoWorld - No computer runs perfectly forever. Somewhere along the line, something will go wrong. While each successive version of Windows has been that much more reliable and self-healing, that's never been an argument to forgo a good collection of software tools. |
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Correction: Botnet Busted story
(AP) | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:17 GMT
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| AP - In a story March 2 about the arrest of three suspects in the virus infection of nearly 13 million computers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the spelling of the last name of a captain with Spain's Guardia Civil, which is investigating the case. The captain's correct name is Cesar Lorenzana, not Lorenza. |
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Rackspace Hires to Align With MySQL Offshoot
(PC World) | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:19 GMT
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| PC World - A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday. |
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