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Gamers Eye the iPhone, As SDK Approaches (Wired)

As Apple prepares to release a software development kit that will give programmers greater flexibility in creating applications for the iPhone, some are wondering whether this might be the company's first step into the handheld videogame market.

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Ashes2Art: Modeling the Past in 3D (Camput Technology)

A collaboration between two universities called Ashes2Art has students themselves using three-dimensional modeling software to create exact renderings of ancient structures and study ancient ruins.

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Multifunction Printers: The Forgotten Security Risk

That networked multifunction printer sitting innocently in the corner of your office just might be the most significant entry point for hackers to hijack sensitive data from your business. Are you paying attention?

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Comcast FCC filing shows gap between hype, bandwidth reality (Ars Technica)

In a lengthy FCC filing, Comcast offers its fullest explanation yet of how it "delays" certain P2P traffic. If you thought that your 6Mbps connection entitled you to actually use 6Mbps of bandwidth all the time, Comcast begs to differ.

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Is it time to consider PDF a threat? (Ars Technica)

The 8.12 patch for Adobe Reader that Adobe released last week fixed a number of security holes—but not before malware capable of exploiting them had been on the market for weeks. The end result is tough questions on whether it is time to consider PDF a security threat.

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Hands on With the GooglePhone, aka Android Phone (Wired Gadget Lab)

Several companies at GSMA are showing prototypes running the Google-backed open-source Android operating system (aka the "GooglePhone"), and judging by the crowd reaction, these "phones" are the hit of the show.

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EarthLink's citywide Wi-Fi biz for sale (CNET News.com)

EarthLink is selling off its municipal Wi-Fi business, the company's CEO said Thursday night during its fourth-quarter 2007 conference call. The move won't make it any easier to finish Philly's big wireless project, but don't write off muni Wi-Fi altogether just yet.

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Mobile Phones Help Developing Nations (Digital Trends)

The mobile phone, along with Net access, is helping to narrow the digital divide between rich and poor countries, according to a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

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Flash Ads Serving up Malware on Popular Sites (Campus Technology)

Malicious Flash banner ads have been surfacing on major web sites including Expedia.com, Rhapsody.com, and MayoClinic.com in the last month, according to media reports. Users who click on the banners are redirected to Web sites that proceed to install malware on their PCs.

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Apple patches Quicktime flaw for Vista, Mac OS X (TG Daily)

Apple has released an update for Quicktime to fix a potentially dangerous flaw that affects most versions of Mac OS X and Windows Vista, as well as Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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Comcast tweaks Terms of Service in wake of throttling uproar (Ars Technica)

Comcast has changed its ToS to mirror the FCC's Internet Policy Statement. The newly-revised ToS spells out what its users figured out several months ago: that the cable ISP actively manages traffic on its network.

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ARM to show off Android platform at trade show next week (Computerworld)

ARM Ltd. will demonstrate Google Inc.'s Android on an early prototype device at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, one of several demonstrations of the mobile platform that will occur at the conference, Google said today.

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Google Apps adds work group features for businesses (Reuters)

Network administrators, the custodians of an organization's passwords and privileges, may want to find another job as Google Inc helps business users set up and manage their own work groups.

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ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses (ZDNet)

The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.

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LinkedIn Set to Become Financial Research Broker (eWEEK)

Looking to leverage its base of millions of professionals, LinkedIn this year will launch a primary research service to help financial services employees tap experts for advice on the social site's network of 18 million-plus users.

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Apple unveils iPhone, iPod touch with more memory (Reuters)

Apple Inc on Tuesday introduced models of its iPhone and iPod touch devices with double the memory available in previous versions. The products come on the heels of Apple's launch last month of a service that lets iPhone and iPod users rent and download movies to watch on their devices.

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2008 CPU forecast: Quad-cores for everyone! (Computerworld)

Penryn. Nehalem. Phenom. Fusion. Inside these four cryptic code names lies the future of computer desktop processing for 2008. Ultimately, however, it's all about the epic, age-old battle between chip giant Intel Corp. and underdog Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for desktop dominance.

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Windows Server 2008, Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing (Campus Technology)

Microsoft today announced that Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 were released to manufacturing (RTM), marking a dual milestone in the history of both products. It also means that Windows 2008 will be officially shipping by the "Global Launch Wave" of enterprise products on Feb. 27.

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Wireless whiz weighs in on pervasive computing, muni Wi-Fi, RFID and 802.11n (Network World)

Dipankar "Ray" Raychaudhuri, a professor at Rutgers University and director of its Wireless Information Network Laboratory, is excited about cognitive radio, and frustrated by too many buzzwords.

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Microsoft-Yahoo Faces an Approval Gauntlet (BusinessWeek)

U.S. and EU authorities will inspect the proposed acquisition, but thanks to Google's dominance, the merger should get a green light.

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Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish (Wired)

The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.

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First and 10: the technology behind the Super Bowl broadcast (Ars Technica)

The iconic images of pro football are low-tech, but technology dominates the sport and its broadcast. Here's a reprint of a classic article looking at the tech behind the most-watched television broadcast in the US.

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Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion (Reuters)

Microsoft Corp said on Friday it has offered to buy Yahoo Inc, the popular Web portal, for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google Inc in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger.

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