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The upshot of this is that its recommendations should be pretty good. Immediately after I entered in my Webware link, Twine recommended to me a video of Eric Schmidt (Google’s CEO), a review of the Web 2.0 Summit [...]
It will launch in September for $49.99, a bargain if you actually use more than one card type. Plus, the Reader’s firmware can be upgraded in the future to support higher-capacity cards.
The basic card types covered are MS/MS Duo, SD/MMC/mini-SD, M2, micro-SD, SmartMedia/xD, and CF/Microdrive, but I was a little curious about how Belkin arrived [...]
Lenovo on Friday said it will replace batteries on several of its ThinkPad laptops that show error messages.
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Some users are reporting batteries are displaying error messages that read “Irreparable damage” or “Battery cannot be charged,” and others are reporting their battery runs only for a very short time or experiences a sudden drop in [...]
The difference, said Dechert, is that the machine would print out the final choices along with a unique bar code. The paper ballot would then be inserted into a sleeve with only the bar code exposed.
On Thursday Alan Dechert, president and CEO of the Open Voting Consortium, Brian J. Fox and Parker Abercrombie of The [...]
Students, on the other hand, do so much reading that they may be thankful for a device that can help save their backs. Instead of schlepping 10 pounds of textbooks, the Kindle can hold about 200 titles and it weighs only 10 ounces.
Another prestigious school is embracing Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.
Princeton University has announced [...]
Microsoft is hoping a new tool can help make the testing process more methodical and, by doing so, speed things up. The company calls it the Experimentation Platform.
A new feature has to be tested to make sure it is better than the old way of doing things and that it doesn’t mess anything else up.
One [...]
But they’re not the only ones jumping into this fray. Asus launched its low-cost, stripped-down Linux-based Eee PC last fall specifically for the U.S., Japanese, and European retail markets, and caused quite the stir. It sold 350,000 units in the first quarter it was available here, and is making some of the biggest names in [...]
“It is our fault,” Bewkes said. “That’s true.”
The grilling is continuing as I type this, and is now on to the AOL merger.
Probably a good idea. In the first 30 seconds, Swisher fired off questions on everything from The Sopranos ending to, “Why the hell did you pay $850 million for Bebo?”
“No,” Bewkes said.
Jeff [...]
Most intriguing is a feature called “Device to Cloud.”
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The “Channels” are programmable music stations that select songs at random from a range of playlists, radio stations, and other sources you preselect. We’re thinking that it bares similarity to how you might program Pandora stations.
Last week, a reader noticed that a new 120GB Microsoft [...]
The organizers of the Solar Decathlon are hosting an event in Second Life on Thursday where people can attend a virtual conference and then get a virtual walk-through of a house designed to be powered entirely by the sun.
Last year, 20 universities from different countries competed and showed off their modular homes on the National [...]
