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Amateurs reach for high-end digital camerasDec 26, 2006 - in News
A professional-quality digital camera is at the top of Nate Paulson's wish list this holiday season, and while the price tag of nearly $3000 is still a little steep, he expects it to fall within his budget soon.
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IBM slows flow of light to accelerate silicon chipsDec 26, 2006 - in News
IBM researchers announced that they have developed a device that is capable of delaying the flow of light on a silicon chip, which is considered a critical milestone in creating silicon chips that leverage optical communications to achieve better performance.
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PC makers to see delay in Vista benefitDec 22, 2006 - in News
Microsoft's latest upgrade to the Windows operating system was a long time coming. Analysts are expecting the makers of the PCs that run the system and the chips that execute its commands will have an additional wait before seeing any significant boost to their bottom lines.
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Blogger finds the beta exitDec 22, 2006 - in News
Google's Blogger service has been running a couple of versions in parallel: the old Blogger they picked up from Pyra Labs, and the new beta built to replace it. The new Blogger has shed its beta tag and is ready for all those people who make blogging a New Year's resolution.
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Samba developer quits Novell in protest at Microsoft dealDec 22, 2006 - in News
ne of the lead developers behind the open source Samba project has resigned from Novell in protest at the company's recent interoperability agreement and patent deal with Microsoft.
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BBC to BitTorrent old showsDec 22, 2006 - in News
In a bid to expand its viewing base and make old programming available to more people, the BBC has decided to release some of its popular older shows over BitTorrent.
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Math takes Science's spotlight in 2006Dec 22, 2006 - in News
A controversial proof of a 102-year-old mathematical puzzler has taken the top spot on the journal Science's annual list of scientific breakthroughs.
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Price/Performance Analysis: AMD increases pressure on IntelDec 22, 2006 - in Reviews
It is our final processor price/performance article before Christmas, and just because the big day is right around the corner, it doesn't mean we're going to skimp out on this week's installment. In fact, we've added AMD's 4x4 processors to our ranking. The FX-70 FX-72, and FX-74 pairs have been added, and you may be surprised how they affect AMD's overall position.
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New Internet start-up hopes for last-minute shoppersDec 22, 2006 - in News
A new online shopping search engine may have missed most of the critical holiday shopping crowd, but it hopes to entice the many procrastinators with its advanced slate of search tools.
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DirectX 10 will not take off until H2 2007, AMD executive saysDec 22, 2006 - in News
Despite that Nvidia recently launched its DirectX 10-compliant GPUs (graphics processing units), demand for DirectX 10 graphics cards will not pick up in the market in the first half of the year because of a lack of games to support the technology, according to Edward Chow, AMD graphics marketing director for the Asia-Pacific region.
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iBuypower Dream 2006 CrossFire Gaming SystemDec 22, 2006 - in Reviews
When Comparing GeForce Quad SLI and Radeon X1900 in CrossFire, Radeon is the DX9 King: Part 2
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Avid rolls out Softimage XSI 6Dec 21, 2006 - in News
Avid today released a new version of its 3D animation and character creation software Softimage.
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Nano-welds herald new era of electronicsDec 21, 2006 - in News
The world's smallest construction site is taking shape in a laboratory in Switzerland, thanks to the development of new welding techniques that work at scales of a billionth of a metre.
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Emirates to become first cell phone-friendly airlineDec 21, 2006 - in News
After years of getting used to the taboo of mobile phones on airplanes, Middle East-based Emirates Airlines is aiming to shake things up, by becoming what CNN claims is the first commercial air transportation company to allow passengers to use their cell phones during flights, with a current plan to start offering the service next month.
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Samsung develops 1/4" 3-megapixel CMOS image sensor for ultra slim camera phonesDec 21, 2006 - in News
Samsung Electronics has announced its 3-megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1/4" lens aperture for ultra slim camera phones.
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Femtocells set to challenge Wi-Fi cellphonesDec 21, 2006 - in News
Low-cost femtocells could emerge as an attractive alternative to voice over Wi-Fi (VoFi) in future homes, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
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ASP for large-size LCD panels continue to fall in H2 DecemberDec 21, 2006 - in News
The ASP (average selling price) for large-size LCD panels continued to drop in the second half of December, according to research firm WitsView Technology.
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More Than Just a 'Paper Launch': 680i Motherboard Comparison, Part 1Dec 21, 2006 - in Reviews
Over a month has passed since Nvidia announced the official release of its long-awaited 680i chipset to support Intel's Core 2 desktop processors. Part 1 of our comparison features a few early motherboard examples, as we continue to wait for the release of other products.
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Shuttle's Extreme XPC Gaming SystemDec 20, 2006 - in Picture Story
Shuttle's new SDXi system has a hand-painted case.
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Preview: Sun Looking Glass
Dec 20, 2006 - in Picture Story
The basic appearance of Looking Glass shows a familiar face that shows similarities to MacOS X and Windows Vista. The thumbnail preview is close to the Flip-3D that Microsoft will introduce with Visa in early 2007. Looking Glass however, showed this idea
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Canadian police post YouTube video to solve murderDec 20, 2006 - in News
Hamilton police may have solved a murder by posting surveillance tape footage to YouTube. 22-year-old Ryan Miller was stabbed to death at a hip-hop concert on November 17th. Hoping to reach the teenager and early 20-year-old demographic, police posted up surveillance footage of security guards searching concert goers. The one-minute video apparently spooked the suspect so much that he turned himself in yesterday.
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Researchers demo 100 Mb/s MIMO cellphone technologyDec 20, 2006 - in News
Most cellphone users are still waiting for 3G cellphones, generally referred to as the next generation or future cellphones. Researchers in Germany now claim that they have invented the "next future," sort of the future beyond the future, cellular technology, which enables data transmission rates of up to 100 Mb/s.
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Americans favor news broadcast over YouTube citizen video newsDec 20, 2006 - in News
A recent Zogby poll showed that most Americans still like the regular evening news broadcast over citizen video news reports posted on YouTube. Citizen news reports are basically where a regular Joe records a news event with a small camcorder or even a cellphone camera. However in the 25 to 34 demographic, one out of four would watch citizen videos over regular broadcasts.
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Your "digital living" will be worth $300 billion per year by 2010 - reportDec 20, 2006 - in News
According to a new report out by technology research firm Parks Associates, the amount of money spent on digital living products and services, like mobile phone and Internet costs, will reach $300 billion within four years.
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Samsung tops LCD TV maker in Q3 06, says DisplaysearchDec 20, 2006 - in News
Samsung Electronics was the top LCD TV manufacturer with a 13.2% share of the market in the third quarter of 2006, closely followed by Sharp.
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Multimedia to boost memory storage in handsets, says IMS ResearchDec 20, 2006 - in News
Embedded and removable memory capacity demands for cellular handsets showed a dramatic increase in 2006, primarily driven by consumer interest in music-enabled handsets, according to research firm IMS Research.
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First look: Adobe Photoshop CS3 betaDec 19, 2006 - in News
Adobe has released a beta version of the next version of its image editing software Photoshop. We've had some time to play with the software and are quite certain that it is one of the most significant updates in Photoshop history.
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DVD players now more common in U.S. households than VCRsDec 19, 2006 - in News
After having been the symbol for home video entertainment for more than 40 years, the U.S. market penetration das dipped below the penetration of DVD players for the very first time. Nielsen Media Research reports that 81.2% of U.S. households owned a DVD player in Q3 of this year, while 79.2% are still using video recorders.
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Intel or Nvidia? nForce 680i Challenges Intel P965 and 975XDec 19, 2006 - in Reviews
Motherboards with Nvidia's nForce 680i chipset are now hitting the shelves, so we decided it was time for a chipset battle. The goal? To find out what is the best solution for your Core 2 Duo system.
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TG Daily Top-10: Tech lawsuits of 2006Dec 19, 2006 - in Reviews
Round 3 in our top-10 series to wrap up the past twelve months. Much of our daily reporting involves talking about lawsuits. In the tech business, lawsuits are the new black. Individuals, lawyers and companies, it appears, sue for anything, anywhere. Click back with us through the most significant and outrageous technology suits of the year.
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