Not an easy time to pick a computer
If you're shopping for a computer now, it may feel like purgatory.
Software
May 20, 2009
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Ford's last-minute cold feet put emissions deal at risk
It had taken weeks of hardball negotiations, but by Sunday afternoon White House officials thought everything was falling into place. In less than 48 hours they would unveil a landmark deal with U.S. automakers to impose ...
Environment
May 20, 2009
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Microsoft ordered to pay $200 mln in patent case
A jury in the US state of Texas ordered US computer software giant Microsoft on Wednesday to pay 200 million dollars to a Canadian company for patent infringement.
Business
May 20, 2009
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Old fashioned bartering in a high tech world
I'm curious to see how something like this works out. TheSmarterBarter.com is launching a new Web-based bartering system that pledges to help people who want to trade things find other like-minded people.
Internet
May 20, 2009
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Will Twitter boost users' taste for coffee brand?
The 150-year-old coffee brand has tapped into new technology to market itself.
Internet
May 20, 2009
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Smart phones become tiny boom boxes
If you've visited a major city during the past decade, you've surely seen the people riding the train or walking the streets with a content but glazed look on their faces, seemingly oblivious to everything around them.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 20, 2009
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Googlefail! The Web reacts to virtual traffic jam
What would life be like without Google? Last week 83 million people found out.
Internet
May 20, 2009
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New memory material may hold data for one billion years
(PhysOrg.com) -- Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton. The denser you pack, the quicker ...
Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009
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Long-sought way to make 'nano-raspberries' may fight foggy windows, eyeglasses
In an advance toward preventing car windshields and eyeglasses from fogging up, researchers in China are reporting development of a new way to make raspberry-shaped nanoparticles that can give glass a permanent antifogging ...
Nanomaterials
May 20, 2009
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Stronger material for filling dental cavities has ingredients from human body
Scientists in Canada and China are reporting development of a new dental filling material that substitutes natural ingredients from the human body for controversial ingredients in existing “composite,” or plastic, fillings. ...
Materials Science
May 20, 2009
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