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$1.5 billion Microsoft Vista-Capable booty hardly ill-gotten
Ars Technica - 28 minutes ago
By Joel Hruska | Published: January 05, 2009 - 09:30PM CT An economist's deposition in the ongoing "Vista Capable" lawsuit filed against Microsoft by claimants insisting that the company fraudulently represented its products has testified that Redmond ...
Microsoft Layoff Rumors Persist PC World
Five things Steve Ballmer won’t tell you about Windows 7 ZDNet
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News Channel 7
Winter Weather Advisory for Tuesday
WKYC-TV - 40 minutes ago
CLEVELAND -- A mix of freezing precipitation will bring icy conditions to the southern counties of the Channel 3 viewing area Tuesday.
Winter Weather Advisory Issued in Area MSNBC
Winter storm headed to the Hudson Valley Times Herald-Record
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AURUM3 NewTech
Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-In-One PC with Motion Remote
Slippery Brick - 42 minutes ago
The IdeaCentre might steal the show at CES 2009 for Lenovo. It’sa thin all-in one PC with an interesting design that has most of the components in the bottom of the computer.
Lenovo rolls out new models VNUNet.com
Lenovo Gives New Meaning to Remote VoIP TMC Net
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An anonymous reader writes "The Milky Way is spinning much faster and has 50 per cent more mass than previously believed. This means the Milky Way is equivalent in size to our neighbor Andromeda — instead of being the little sister in the local galaxy group, as had been believed. One implication of this new finding is that we may collide with Andromeda sooner than we had thought, in 2 or 3 billion years instead of 5."

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Jakarta Post
Data Uncover Bigger Galaxy in Cosmos, and It’s Ours
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By KENNETH CHANG It turns out that Andromeda, previously thought to be the biggest galaxy in this part of the universe, may not have bragging rights over the Milky Way after all.
Milky Way Heavier Than Thought, and Spinning Faster Slashdot
Milky Way _ the galaxy _ not snack-sized anymore The Associated Press
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Product Reviews
Microsoft sold 28 million Xbox 360s by end of 2008
Reuters - 1 hour ago
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp sold 28 million units worldwide of its Xbox 360 video game console through the end of 2008, expanding the Xbox's lead over rival Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 console in worldwide unit sales, the company said on ...
Early returns show strong holiday video game console sales CNET News
Xbox 360 Games Not to Buy in the Bargain Bin - 2008 Planet Xbox 360
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Seattle Times
Microsoft promotes Muglia, raising post-Ballmer speculation
Computerworld - 2 hours ago
By Eric Lai January 5, 2009 In a key symbolic move, Microsoft Corp. has announced the promotion of a long-serving senior executive whose division has been arguably the company's biggest success story of the past decade.
Microsoft names Muglia president of server business Reuters
Microsoft's Muglia Makes Comeback Wall Street Journal
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Baltimore Sun
CNET's live coverage of Macworld 2009 kicks off Tuesday
CNET News - 2 hours ago
If you're interested in live updates from tomorrow's Macworld keynote, we've got you covered. We'll report live from San Francisco's Moscone Center as Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller gives the show's keynote address.
Expo: Livetweeting the Keynote Macworld
Join us for some live Macworld Keynote coverage VentureBeat
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TweakTown
Superscalar ARM SoC runs Linux
LinuxDevices.com - 22 minutes ago
Freescale has launched a new Linux-ready system-on-chip (SoC) family based on ARM's Cortex-A8 core clocked from 800MHz to 1GHz.
Freescale Takes on Intel in Netbooks PC Magazine
Freescale Chases $199 Netbook With New Processor PC World
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ABC News
In tough times, Vegas CES gets smaller
Reuters - 25 minutes ago
By Gabriel Madway SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Even amid the flash and sizzle of the world's premier showcase for consumer electronics, the reality of the economic recession will be hard to ignore.
Video: Loaded: Happy New Year! CBS
HDTV and Mobile Gear to Steal CES 2009 Spotlight PC World
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Javno.hr
Online video viewing jumps 34 percent
CNET News - 2 hours ago
Americans appear to be getting more comfortable watching videos online--and Google is the clear winner. Internet users in the US watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus year ago, according to numbers released ...
77% of US users watched online videos in November TG Daily
Four Predictions for 2009 ClickZ News
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BBC News
Mac fans wish Steve Jobs well
BBC News - 45 minutes ago
By Maggie Shiels The health of Apple boss Steve Jobs was a hot topic of conversation on the opening day of Macworld, the annual tech gathering of the Mac faithful.
Steve Jobs' health now a public matter CNET News
Apple says hormones caused weight loss for Jobs Financial Times
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Baltimore Sun
Expo: Livetweeting the Keynote
Macworld - 47 minutes ago
What would an Apple Keynote at Macworld Expo be without a liveblog from our very own Jason Snell and Dan Moren? Both of them will be typing furiously to cover every single last thing that Phil Schiller has to say.
CNET's live coverage of Macworld 2009 kicks off Tuesday CNET News
First! 14-year-old already in line for Macworld '09 keynote Ars Technica
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Ponca City, We love you writes "For thousands of years, losing teeth has been a routine part of human aging. Now the Washington Post reports that researchers are close to growing important parts of teeth from stem cells, including creating a living root from scratch, perhaps within one year. According to Pamela Robey of the NIH. 'Dentists say, "Give me a root and I can put a crown on it."' In a few years dentists will treat periodontal disease with regeneration by using stem cells to create hard and soft tissue; they will take out a tooth that is about to fall, and reconnect it firmly to the regenerated tissue. Although nobody is predicting when it will be possible to grow teeth on demand, in adults, to replace missing ones, a common guess is five to ten years. Baby and wisdom teeth are sources of stem cells that could be 'banked' for future health needs, says Robey. 'When you think about it, the teeth children put under their pillows may end up being worth much more than the tooth fairy's going rate. Plus, if you still have your wisdom teeth, it's nice to know you're walking around with your own source of stem cells.'"

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Boston Globe
HDTV and Mobile Gear to Steal CES 2009 Spotlight
PC World - 2 hours ago
From multi-display laptops, HDTVs wired for broadband, to Blu-ray players that can deliver Web content, the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has it all.
Video: Loaded: Happy New Year! CBS
In tough times, Vegas CES gets smaller Reuters
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IGN
Super Thin LCD TV
IGN - 2 hours ago
by Chris Iaquinta January 5, 2009 - JVC has announced that it has developed a groundbreaking technology for 32-inch televisions. This week, the company is premiering a super-thin LCD display that features a significant reduction in thickness at only ...
JVC to showcase “super-thin” LCD at CES TG Daily
Samsung to unveil 7mm thick TV at CES NetworkWorld.com
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EndSights
Early returns show strong holiday video game console sales
CNET News - 1 hour ago
Though the retail economy suffered what appears to be one of the bleakest holiday seasons in recent memory, it looks as though the video games industry bucked that disastrous trend.
Xbox 360 sales top 8 million in Europe GameSpot
Xbox 360 Achieves Record Christmas Sales in Europe 1UP.com
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Hackers hijack Obama's, Britney's Twitter accounts
Computerworld - 3 hours ago
By Gregg Keizer January 5, 2009 (Computerworld) Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News, early on Monday, the company confirmed today.
Twitter's veracity chewed up by Britney's four-foot vagina Register
Spears, Obama hit by Twitter tampering United Press International
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The Inquisitr
Phishers Hit Twitter Users
InternetNews.com - 3 hours ago
Obama, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly among reported victims of phony Twitter messages that also included an iPhone scam. By Richard Adhikari: More stories by this author: Users of the Twitter micro-blogging service are being warned to change their ...
Twitter Celebs Fall For Widespread Phishing Attack CRN
Phishing Scam Targets Twitter PC Magazine
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CWmike writes "Amazon.com has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to users. Until now, individuals or businesses with information stored on S3 had to pay data-transfer costs to Amazon when others made use of the information. Amazon said the new Requester Pays option relieves data providers of that burden, leaving them to pay only the basic storage fees for the cloud computing service. The bigger question with the cloud is, who really pays? Mark Everett Hall argues that IT workers do."

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