Windows XP Refuses to Die (Digital Trends)

Despite earlier promises from Microsoft that XP would stop selling in January, consumer demand has forced the company to extend its life five months.

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iRobot newcomers tackle gutters and personal relationships (TG Daily)

iRobot this week announced two new consumer robot devices, each one taking a big leap from the company's existing product line.

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20 Years of IT History: Connecting Devices, Data and People (CIO.com)

IT's history from Bill Gates to Linus Torvalds. IT's future by the likes of Grady Booch and Larry Niven. On its 20th anniversary, CIO reviews two decades of IT innovation and disruption.

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AOL's Mobile Ambitions (BusinessWeek)

The company once known for bringing the Internet home wants to make its software available on cell phones worldwide.

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Apple 2.0: Amazon vs. Apple: Why Are the Songs So Cheap? (Business 2.0 Beta)

On hearing the news that Amazon (AMZN) had put 2 million songs, free of copy-protection, for sale on its new MP3 music store, I -- like nearly everyone else who writes about Apple (AAPL) -- went straight to the site to do a cost-comparison with the iTunes Music Store. My choice: KT Kunstall's new album, Drastic Fantastic, $9.99 or $14.99 (for the Deluxe Edition) on iTunes, $8.99 on Amazon. Savings: from 10% to 40%.

Which raises an immediate question: why are they doing this?

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Providers Ogle Google Wireless Possibilities (eWeek)

The way the Federal Communications Commission is conducting its upcoming auction of portions of the 700MHz radio spectrum is not unlike the Wild West: It's wide open and anything could happen.

With talk of Google entering the bidding, wireless network equipment providers are salivating at the prospect of a potential nationwide buildout of a brand-new network. But what form that network would take, how widespread it would be and which company Google would choose to partner with to build it are far from clear.

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Nerds To Auction Themselves To Women (AP - kyw.com)

Looking to recruit more women into computer science programs, the largest computer club at Washington State University hopes to hold a "nerd auction."

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Video Game Teaches Kids About Diet - Then Turns Off (Reuters)

Kaiser Permanente, the U.S.'s biggest health maintenance organization, on Tuesday launched "The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective," an online video game designed to teach 9- and 10-year-olds about healthy eating and exercise.

But rather than keep children in front of the computer for hours, the title aims to get kids moving. It has a function that locks players out after 20 minutes -- and another that won't let them back in until for another 60 minutes.

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Folding@home Passes Petaflop Mark (Campus Technology)

The distributed computing project known as Folding@home (FAH) last week passed one of its long-anticipated milestones: more than a petaflop of computational power, reached Sept. 16. The group, run out of Stanford University's Department of Chemistry, placed credit for the surge beyond its 1 Pflops goal on the Playstation 3 and the latest PS3 client app, which is designed to take greater advantage of the floating point power of the PS3's Cell B.E. processor.

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Officials say PR campaign may boost Real ID popularity (CNET News.com)

As controversy rages over forthcoming federal Real ID requirements, state officials should be plotting public relations strategies to counteract the well-publicized rebellion, past and present state motor vehicle administrators advised their colleagues Monday.

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Salary survey: IT pay falls short (Network World)

Typical raises beat national rate of inflation, bringing average base pay to $86,700. Yet network professionals aren’t happy with their salary packages, our annual survey finds.

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Minority Report: Women of Color Are Starting Businesses in Record Numbers (WomensWallStreet)

Minority Report: Women of Color Are Starting Businesses in Record Numbers

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Daylight-saving time issue reappears on IT radar (Network World)

Applications, servers, desktops added after March 11 need check before Nov. 4 to ensure they have daylight-saving time patches

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'Digital Natives' are Driving Web 2.0 Adoption into Your Business (eWeek)

Digital natives — people who grew up using interactive Internet tools — will push the enterprise social software market to grow at a compound annual revenue growth of 41.7 percent through 2011, said Gartner analysts at Web Innovations in Las Vegas Sept. 19.

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The exoskeleton in MIT's closet (Crave)

The 21st-century beast of burden could be you--if the exoskeleton fits.

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Intel Shows Off Next-Gen Mobile Platforms (PC Magazine)

Intel unveiled the Menlow and Moorestown mobile platforms, which the company hopes will replace the iPhone as the cool pocket device.

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Opinion: Why reports of muni Wi-Fi's death are greatly exaggerated (Computerworld)

Municipal Wi-Fi has entered a new and unpleasant phase. Despite reports to the contrary, however, metro-scale Wi-Fi is not dead. True, it's a little shaken and wounded, but it will come back stronger than ever.

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Election '08: Seeking a 'Tech President' (BusinessWeek)

Technology companies have much at stake in 2008. Here's where the candidates stand on the issues of crucial importance to Silicon Valley

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:-) turns 25 (CNN.com)

It was a serious contribution to the electronic lexicon.

:-)

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Expert Voices: Convergence, Yes; Alignment, No (CIO Insight)

Aligning IT with business is a fundamentally flawed and limiting concept, says Faisal Hoque, chairman of the Business Technology Management Institute. Instead, companies should achieve a true melding of IT and business minds–what he calls convergence.

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Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks (Network World)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone -- the first time the company has officially said it would fight attempts to use the popular device on unauthorized networks.

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I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft’s Line (New York Times)

I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft’s dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.

The company is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, at an event today in New York. The programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.

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Google Adds Presentations App to Hosted Suite (CIO.com)

Google plans to add a presentations application to its Web applications suite on Tuesday, delivering on a promise made in April. The suite, until now known as Docs & Spreadsheets, will also be renamed Google Docs on Monday.

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Princeton DoIT Digit-Heads Take Hoi Polloi to Lunch (Campus Technology)

Princeton University's Office of Information Technology has invited the public to lunch to meet some of its premier technology researchers and experts. The idea is to teach them tricks of the trade--"instruction ... on complex ways technology has helped scientists make discoveries"--over sandwiches.

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An Application That's Buggy by Design (Baseline)

Dow Chemical isn't putting tiny RFID chips on the backs of termites and zapping them with radio frequencies, but its use of the technology does demonstrate that companies may find uses for RFID that were never conceived.

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SpiralFrog debuts with free, ad-supported music downloads (ars technica)

Digital music service SpiralFrog has officially launched and brags that it has almost a million tracks available for download. What's unique about the service is that it offers legal downloads, but for free. There are, however, a few catches.

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Cirque technology brings imagination to life (CNN.com)

Cirque du Soleil has been amazing audiences for more than 20 years with its fantastical human circus shows. Las Vegas has become synonymous with Cirque, boasting five shows -- "O," "Mystere," "Zumanity," "Love," and "KA," one of Cirque's most expensive and technological shows to date.

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New Google Earth Satellite to Launch (PC World)

DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google's interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.

The new spacecraft, dubbed WorldView I, is to be launched on Tuesday.

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Virtualization homes in on desktops (CNET News.com)

When Parallels Desktop was released in June 2006, it opened the door for hundreds of thousands of Apple users to run Windows at the same time as they ran the Mac operating system.

It also introduced the masses to the notion of desktop virtualization.

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EU Courts Strikes Down Microsoft Appeal of Antitrust Ruling (eWEEK)

The European Court of First Instance upheld on Sept. 17 the findings of the European Commission that Microsoft abused its dominant position by refusing to make its products interoperable with those of its rivals and by tying Windows Media Player to the Windows operating system.

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Clothing Shop Tweaks RFID Tech for Hip Shoppers (TechNewsWorld)

There's no quick phrase that can describe Industry Standard, a business that opened this month near Ohio State University in Columbus. It's part urban clothing store, part recording studio, part skateboard shop, part art gallery. It's a pioneer for the in-store application of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, technology that allows customers to communicate with store employees as they shop.

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Navigation devices set to take mass market route (Reuters)

Portable navigation devices are poised to take off this holiday shopping season as market leaders Garmin and TomTom race each other to make deeper inroads into the mass market by pushing out cheaper models.

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Full-On Rock Band Makes Jamming Follow-Up to Guitar Hero (Wired)

Night has fallen in West Hollywood, and it's the rocking hour at the Troubadour, the legendary club that helped launch the careers of Pearl Jam and Guns N' Roses. A band on the tiny stage is crunching out a surprisingly faithful rendition of the Hives' "Main Offender." It's the first night of E3, the yearly trade show for the videogame industry, and this concert is crawling with game developers, executives, journalists, and retailers.

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Say cheese: Sony technology focuses on smiles (Reuters)

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then how much is a smiling photo worth? About 40,000 yen ($350), based on Sony's new "smile shutter" cameras.

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Prince to "reclaim the Internet" by suing YouTube, eBay, Pirate Bay (ars technica)

Prince is planning to make some doves cry over at YouTube headquarters. The symbol-loving singer has announced that he wants to go after the video-sharing site, along with eBay and the Pirate Bay, for hosting unauthorized versions of his music and merchandise.

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Test drive: ajaxWindows leaves nasty streaks (ars technica)

Former Linspire CEO Michael Robertson has released a new web-based "operating system" that attempts to simulate the entire desktop computing experience in a web browser. ars technica reviews the application and sees if it foretells a shift in how people interact with computers.

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Desktop Factory begins taking orders for 3D printer (TG Daily)

It kind of sounds like something from a Ray Bradbury novel. Create a three-dimensional figure in the form of a specific image format, and the 125ci printer will create a physical representation of the model before your eyes.

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Running the numbers on Vista (CNET News.com)

Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.

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Discovering the Power of Social Networking Sites (CIO.com)

You’ve probably received an invite to LinkedIn, a popular corporate social networking site. Or maybe you’ve heard your teenage son or daughter talk about the coolness of Facebook or MySpace. Social networking—interactive, collaborative online communities created by technology—has certainly gone mainstream. And now it’s becoming a value-added feature of the corporate landscape.

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Does 802.11n spell the 'end of Ethernet'? (Network World)

Is the advent of the 802.11n wireless standard the “end of Ethernet” - at least in terms of client access to the LAN?
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What Do Women Want? Less Pink, More Tech, "Lady Geek" Survey Says (Wired)

Bring on the tech gear, but don't make it girly: That's what women want, according to a recently released "lady geek" survey.
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100 Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2007 (Business 2.0 Magazine)

Despite talk of froth and bubbles, the tech sector continues to surge. The 100 companies on our annual list are all posting impressive results.
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FAQ: Inside the FCC's High-Stakes 700-MHz-Spectrum Auction (Wired)

The FCC's 700-MHz-spectrum auction, now set for January 16, 2008, has the potential to affect everything from the cost of your wireless service to the competitive landscape among U.S. mobile providers for years to come.
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Going Topless at 170 MPH in the Porsche Turbo Cabriolet (Wired)

The Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet is certainly not just the 911 coupe with the roof sawed off. Plenty has been added: The model drives like a hard top, except you can blast up to 192 mph in open air.
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Windows Worm Targets Skype Users (Wired Compiler)

The VoIP service, Skype, is warning users about a new Windows worm spreading through the company's chat message service. A post on Skype's Heartbeat Blog says that computers already infected by the worm will send a chat message to other users, which, according to Skype, is "cleverly written and may appear to be a legitimate chat message."
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Drexel Hosts 'PodCamp Philly' on New Media Apps (Campus Technology)

Drexel University hosted a conference last week on new media applications, a "PodCamp" to "promote the use of new media to television, newspapers, radio, businesses, educators, and individuals." The conference was free to "podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in new media."
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Apple iPhone Sales Hit 1M (eWEEK)

The milestone comes just 74 days after its launch and three weeks ahead of schedule.
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Engineering a new curriculum (CNET News.com)

Engineering and social sciences--it sounds like a bad mix for a dinner party. But S. Shankar Sastry, the dean of the college of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, says it's the wave of the future.
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Prototyping for a Web 2.0 Target.com: A Mini-Case Study (Baseline)

'Wireframes' become a thing of the past, replaced by interactive mockups that give planners a richer preview of new features.
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Google boosts enterprise Apps with IT support from Capgemini (Computerworld)

The search company teams with Capgemini to provide big companies with service, support for the Web-based office suite
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Eudora e-mail program reborn as open source (Reuters)

Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, is rising from a technical grave as an open source program after owner Qualcomm Inc quit selling the product in May.
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Apple, partners announce iTunes Tagging for HD radios (ars technica)

If you keep forgetting that one song by that one artist while on the road, a new iTunes Tagging feature coming to HD Radios will make it even easier for you to remember and buy tracks once you get home.
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Talks under way to put Intel inside OLPC's $100 notebook (Network World)

Discussions are under way to put an Intel microprocessor inside a version of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project's "$100 laptop" for children in developing countries, according to representatives from both parties.
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Opinion: The Fox and the Hedgehog (Campus Technology)

There's a business management principle known as the "hedgehog concept." The whole thing apparently comes from a Greek poet, Archilochus, who wrote: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Okay, so right away I think, "I want to be a fox!" But, no. Apparently, in the business world, the thing to be is a hedgehog.
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Microsoft opening up on the Web (CNET News.com)

On the PC, Microsoft may not be writing every program that people use, but by controlling the operating system, the company has maintained a dominant position. The company is in the early stages of trying to carve out a similar role on the Internet.
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Microsoft whips up virtualization spin ahead of VMWorld (Network World)

Microsoft Thursday went on the offensive saying its first virtual machine management tool would ship next month and spinning its virtualization wares and strategy days ahead of rival VMware’s annual conference scheduled for next week.
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iPod gets touchy, with price cut (CNET News.com)

Apple announced on Wednesday a complete overhaul of its line of iPod portable music players and a significant cut in the price of its recently released iPhone.
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