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Lawmakers struck a compromise between governments seeking to impose tough anti-piracy laws and consumer groups looking to enshrine Internet access as a right.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China denounced as protectionist new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes and launched its own investigation into imports of U.S.-made automobiles on Friday, a week before a visit by President Barack Obama.
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Update: TSMC wins major victory over China's biggest chip maker
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has won a major victory over China's biggest chip maker in a court case that could have wide ranging implications for the loser. A jury at the Superior Court of California in Alameda County voted in favor of TSMC in the case against Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC). TSMC had sued SMIC in ...
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The J-Walk Blog
How Would Obama Dress?
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Here's a site that checks the local weather, and then tells you how the President of the U.S. would dress: Obama weather . If he visits Tucson tomorrow, this is how he'll be dressed (just like me!): (via The Presurfer ) Comments | Posted in Interactive
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Virtualization may seem new, but it was around when eWEEK (then PC Week) made its debut. The roots of today's data center virtualization are easily traced to early mainframe systems of the 1970s and 80s. eWEEK Labs' Cameron Sturdevant connects the dots between his current virtualization coverage and his network management past. - Virtualization ...
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EWeek
EWEEK at 25: Wi-Fi Has Gone from Extravagance to Mission-Critical Enabler
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As eWEEK looks back at its 25 year history, eWEEK Labs analysts considered the most important innovations in their respective coverage areas. For Senior Analyst Andrew Garcia, the choice was a no-brainer: Wi-Fi, a gargantuan success story. - On Christmas Day 2000, I had to tear myself away from family festivities to get back to the Foster City, ...
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EWeek
EWEEK at 25: The Web Changed Everything
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EWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza was saddled with reviewing then-nascent Web technology when he started in the Labs. This was a lucky break for him, as he got to start working with Web technology very early in its development. And it's pretty safe to say that the the World Wide Web is one of the most important technologies of the century,
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KILLEEN, Texas (Reuters) - An Army psychiatrist opened fire with two handguns at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, killing 12 and wounding 31 others, Army officials said, adding the suspect was shot several times but survived.
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The J-Walk Blog
Fort Hood Shootings
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It's being reported that 12 are dead, and 31 are wounded at the Fort Hood military base in Texas. It appears to be an inside job -- shooters are victims are all military. Comments | Posted in General
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The easiest way to develop the art of making things fun is to start with things that are meant to be fun in the first place. Since games and toys are purportedly for that very purpose, they are the best tools to use in your exploration of fun-making. I concluded The Well-Played Game with a semi-poetic, long-winded, in-depth exploration of that ...
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Bernie DeKoven
Learning to have fun - part four - embracing the grump
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With the apparently unlimited opportunities for fun offered to us every moment, it is often puzzling that there are times when we actually choose not to have it. Fun is so, well, fun. Why, when we could so easily be having fun this very minute, would we choose to have anything else? Sure, there are many, many things to be worried about, to be ...
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Engadget
If you think cellphones have become overbearingly complex , look away now. A partnership of tech companies and content providers, known as the ng Connect Program, has revealed a prototype "LTE Connected Car," which, as you might surmise, combines 4G mobile broadband connectivity with a bunch of cloud-sourced facilities, such as video on demand, ...
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GigaOM
One Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIP
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A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next-generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls would become VoIP calls. The standard is necessary to ensure you can call people on 3G [...]
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Robots sports stars are being sought for an international robot Olympics to be held in China in 2010.
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government has proposed that "indigenous Zimbabweans" take 51 percent ownership of all foreign companies, including mines and banks, according to a draft law seen by Reuters Friday.
Nintendo DS uber-RPG Dragon Quest IX won't reach US shores until sometime next year, but it's already leading Wii Sports Resort, Madden NFL 10, and Halo 3: ODST in key international markets. A new report from Top Global Markets combining third quarter sales data from trackers NPD Group (US), GfK Chart-Track Limited (UK), and Enterbrain, Inc. ( ...
The phenomenon, called the uncanny valley, describes the disquiet caused by synthetic people which almost, but not quite, match human expressiveness. Experiments with macaque monkeys show they too are suspicious of replicas that fall short of the real thing.
The incredible range of USB peripherals available and the shortage of free ports on many machines – particularly laptops – means that a USB hub is practically a necessity if you don’t want to waste precious time plugging and unplugging devices. Sanwa’s 12-port offering doesn’t quite match Brando’s effort in ...
If you’re looking to shave every last cent off your next electricity bill then this gooseneck lamp is for you. The lamp is so energy efficient its eight white LED lights are powered by the trickle of electricity flowing from a RJ11 socket – or garden-variety telephone socket. This means that, even if you’ve fallen behind on ...
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NYT
Federal prosecutors charged 14 hedge fund employees, lawyers and other investors in criminal complaints that seem to be connected to the Raj Rajaratnam case.
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With New York's attorney general filing antitrust charges against Intel this week, industry watchers say the Federal Trade Commission will join the fray against the chip maker, maybe even before the end of the year. Andrew Cuomo leveled New York's suit against Intel on Wednesday , it was just one more log on the legal pile for Intel, which has ...
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Last week I took a look at the latest release of Ubuntu. This week, I thought it would be a good idea to continue with Kubuntu Linux 9.10. For those who aren't familiar with Kubuntu, it's basically the KDE version of Ubuntu. (Ubuntu uses Gnome as its desktop environment.)
Most seat belts are designed to stretch during a crash to reduce the force of impact on the wearer while still preventing contact with the interior of the vehicle. Ford has gone one step further with plans to introduce inflatable seat belts designed to reduce the pressure on the chest and help control head and neck motion in rear seat passengers,
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NYT
Several manufacturers are putting Web connectivity into their TV sets as movies streamed directly from the Internet have become more popular.
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Engadget
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Matt, who badly, badly needs to give his digits something to do on a trackpad whilst enjoying media from the couch. "I'm looking for a wireless trackpad to use with my older (2. ...
If you are at all familiar with Ubuntu then you know that it is based around a bi-annual release cycle. This latest release, going by the name of Karmic Koala (aawwww, ain't that cute :), is currently creating an internet storm of accusations of er, shall we say, incompetence? I think that that is a very harsh word and it hasn't actually been used,
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