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December 31
- Transportation Department Restricts Loose Lithium-ion Batteries On Airlines
- Senator Wants Tax On Video Games
- Digital TV Coupon Program Starts Tomorrow
- This Year Scored Record Data Breaches
December 28
- Text Messaging Driver Charged In Hit And Run Death
- The Inquirer: Year End Predictions For 2008
- First Visible Extra-solar Light Detected From Orbiting Planet 60 Light Years Away
- San Francisco Auction Raises Money For OLPC
- Rob Enderle: 2008's Apple, Dell, Google, HP, Lenovo, Sony, Microsoft And Linux
- Nvidia Delays MCP72 Chipset Until January
- DRAM Industry Suffering From Lowering Prices, Curbs Output
- Super Thin Blu-ray Disc Drive Now Available
- Cell Phones Now Work In Key Subway Stations In Boston
- GPS Helps Recover Baby Jesus
December 27
- FBI Prepping Comprehensive Biometric Database Network
- Analog Cell Phone Network Going Off-air Feb 18, 2008
- Congressman Feels Uneasy About XM/Sirius Merger
- U.S. Army Introducing Macs Into Server Arsenal
December 26
- Russia's GPS Going Global In 2009
- Japanese Navy Blasts Ballistic Missile From Sky
- Do Intel's Delays Hint Of 45nm Woes?
- Blu-ray Site Hacked To Redirect To Promotional HD DVD Address
- Week Before Christmas Spark In Online Sales
December 21
- Big Asteroid On Collision Course With Mars
- Asustek Launches Power Efficient Server Board
- First-tier Notebook Vendors Pushing 4 GB Products Next Year To Lift DRAM Market
- Possible Safe Fuel Storage Method Found For Hydrogen Powered Cars
- Original Knight Rider Car On EBay
- Commercial Jet Aviation Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- Notebook Makers Look To Have 4 GB RAM Next Year
- Windows Explore's A Virus, Says Kaspersky's Anti-virus Software
- Carbon Sheets Could Save Earth's Limited Indium Supply
December 20
- Samsung Ships 320 GB 2.5" Hard Drive
- Silicon Nanowires Boost Li-ion For 20-hour Notebooks
- CrossFireX Still A Go On Intel P45 Chipsets
- Growth In Handset LED Market To Slow In 2008
- Report: Manmade Carbon Emissions Are Killing The Coral Reefs
- UCLA Finds Layout Design Important In Transistor Performance
- Hybrid Semiconductor Material Found For High-temps
December 19
- AMD To Focus On Multi-GPU Cards For The High-end Market
- Falling Global Demand For CD-R Discs Lessens Willingness To Renew Licensing Among Taiwan OEM Makers
- Polysilicon Supply Strain Sparks Interest In Buried Scrap Wafers
- Silicon Wafers For Solar Cells Too Pricey
December 18
- Lodestone Exhibits Electric Phase-switching Ability At -250F
- Survey: Linux Outpaces Generic Open-source Software Adoption
- Broadband Usage Expected To Hit 1 Billion Users In 2008
- Phishing Cost The U.S. $3.2 Billion In 2007
- DRAMeXchange Believes DRAM Industry May Rebound In Q1 2008
- MSI Launches NForce 780i And 750i Motherboards
- NAND Flash Contract Price Incentives Worsening Spot Price Slump
- Optical Zoom To Become A Standard Feature Of 5-megapixel Camera Handsets
December 17
- Honda's Asimo Robots Learn To Interact
- Electric Dragster Sets World Record Quarter Mile
- Ontrack Publishes "top 10 Of Data Disasters"
- Intel Pads MID Launch With Tiny Solid State Drives
- 1394 Trade Association Announces FireWire 3200
- Global PDP Market To Grow 27% In 2008
- Japan And South Korea Leading In Mobile Advertising, Says ABI Research
December 14
- International PC Vendors Hesitant Over Blue-laser Optical Drive Market, Say Taiwan Makers
- Garmin And TomTom To Both Ship Over 10 Million PNDs In 2007
- Osram Introduces Transparent White OLED Lighting Tile
- ITRI Debuts 10.4" Color Flexible Display
- Amazon.com Wins JK Rowling Stories In Auction For $4 Million
December 13
- Massive New Genus Of Dinosaur Discovered In Antarctica
- NBC Unveils 2008 Successor To Knight Rider's KITT
- Toshiba Increases Capacity Of Slim 1.8" HDDs To 120 GB
- Spirit Getting Ready For Long, Cold Martian Winter
- Nvidia Announces 3-way SLI
- Albatron Unveils GeForce 8800GTS Card
- Shortage Of 26" And 32" TV Panels Continues In H2 December
- Microsoft Access Falls Victim To Serious Flaw
- Physicists Put A New TWIST On Ultra-cold Molecular Research
December 12
- "w00t" Crowned Word Of Year By U.S. Dictionary
- Iomega To Acquire ExcelStor
- Microsoft's Zune Short In Supply?
- Micron Creates "world's Smallest" DDR2 Memory Chip
- Leadtek Announces TV Capture Card And High-end Graphics Card
- PC Market Rebounds With Strong Demand For Portables, Says IDC
- Medium-size Panel Prices To Raise 3-5% In H1 08
- Memory Module Makers Sharply Reduce NAND Flash Inventory Amid Price Slump
- Google Exceeds 65% Of Online Searches Last Month
- Server Electricity Use To Grow Faster In Asia-Pacific And Western Europe Than In The U.S.
December 11
- Dell's Flagship Tablet PC Unveiled
- Sun Open-sources T2 Processor
- Boeing Prepares Tactical Laser Weapon For Series Of Tests
- Boeing Plans To Power Up First 787 Jet At The End Of January
- AMD RS780 Chipset To Launch In January
- Slight LCD Component Price Drop In Q4
- Is There Room For OLED Technology In The TV Market?
- OSD Releases QVGA 5.7" TFT LCD
- TSMC Reports First 32 Nm Technology With Functional SRAM
- Taiwan Makers Consider Forming Standards-setting SSD Alliance
- Ask.com Launches Privacy Control Today
December 10
- Toshiba Preps 128 GB SSDs For Q1
- DisplayLink, Alereon Cut The Cord Between The PC And The Monitor
- Real-time Traffic Information To Become Key Feature For Navigation, Says ABI Research
- JetBlue To Offer First In-flight E-mail In The US
December 7
- Hackers Launch Major Attack On US Military Labs
- Sage: A Free, Open-source Complex Math Tool
- Analysis: The YouTube Effect - Changing The Face Of Elections
- Intel To Release Dual-core Celeron E1000 On January 20
- Rise Of LCD TV Brings Seasonality To Large-size LCD Panel Market, ISuppli Says
- PSC Chairman Optimistic About 2008 DRAM Market
- Nokia To Group Its Target Markets Into Two Mega Distribution Areas
- Proposal: 50 Gigawatts If They Dam The Red Sea
- In-flight Internet Coming To US Airlines
December 6
- ASRock Creates New Motherboards Out Of Old Parts
- OLED TVs Save On Energy But Not Yet Cost Efficient, Says Sony
- New Technologies For Television Backlighting Point To Better Performance, Says ISuppli
- Major LCD Panel Makers Accelerate 8G LCD Investment
- Google, Time Warner Bring AOL Instant Messenger To Gmail
December 5
- Possible New Hydrogen Storage Breakthrough Discovered For Future Hydrogen Powered Vehicles
- Motion C5: Mobile Technology Helping Real People
- Genetic 'super Rice' Promises To Resist Almost Everything
- Gigabyte Launches GeForce 8800 GT Card
- Intel Adds Low-end Member To 4 Series Chipsets
- Dual-layer DVDs Expected To See High Demand In 2008
- Yahoo Refreshes Flickr With Photo Editing Tools
December 4
- Art Lebedev To Offer LED Keyboards From $462
- Taiwan Makers Conservative About 6x BD Burners
- LED Players Raising Funds For Capacity Expansion
- Adult Involved In Myspace Suicide Won't Be Charged
- Organic (plastic) Transistors Heal Themselves Over Time In A Vacuum
December 3
- China Remains World's Top Malware Hosting Country
- Venus Express Mission Probing Deeper Into Our Twin Planet Than Ever Before
- Six Fold Reduction In Semiconductor Power Loss, A Faster, Lower Heat Process Technology
- IPhone, Prada Phone Increase Demand In Touch Screen Panel Film Capacity
- Despite Dominance Of LCDs, Opportunities Remain For Emerging Display Technologies, Says ISuppli
- Red Light ... Green Light ... 5 Millivolts