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Perpetually Powered DSP Applications Made Possible With THINERGY

LITTLETON, Colo., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Infinite Power Solutions (IPS) announced today that it has teamed with Texas Instruments (TI) to create the world’s first perpetually-powered digital signal processor (DSP) solution using its industry lead…

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AOL taps BofA to explore Yahoo deal: sources

NEW YORK (Reuters) – AOL Inc has tapped Bank of America to explore strategic options including a potential Yahoo Inc merger, according to people familiar with the matter.

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GigaMedia Bringing Hot Game ArcheAge to Taiwan

HONG KONG, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — GigaMedia Limited
(Nasdaq: GIGM) announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to operate
the highly anticipated online game ArcheAge in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

ArcheAge is the…

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Investigator Finds No Evidence That BP Took Shortcuts to Save Money

Fred H. Bartlit Jr., a prominent trial lawyer hired to lead the panel’s inquiry, disputed the findings of other investigators, including plaintiffs’ lawyers and members of Congress.

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Hearings begin on MDU’s ND electric rate rise

North Dakota regulators on Monday began exploring whether to trim Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.’s request for a 10 percent electric rate increase.

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Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood

It may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but scientists now believe they can transform human skin cells into blood cells. That means getting a blood transfusion as part of surgery or to treat cancer could be as simple as borrowing a patch of s…

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LaCie 5big Storage Server NAS Review

Back in March 2010, Intel announced an Atom based platform optimized for storage applications. Using either a D410 or the dual core D510, paired with an Intel 82801IR I/O controller, it was touted by Intel to have been picked up by various NAS ve…

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Seagate GoFlex Desk 3TB External Drive Reviewed. Verdict: Bigger is Better

By Ian ChiuAs with most things in life: BIGGER is BETTER when it comes to portable storage and no company knows that better than Seagate. They were the first to come out with single 3.5″ form factor monster 3TB hard drive and what better way …

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Motus, A Real-Life-3D Camera Hybrid System

That headline makes it sound a little sexier than it is, but this system is pretty cool. It’s actually an application of the Sixense technology we saw at the last CES, which uses magnetic detection instead of visual. Some researchers at Abertay Univ…

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Verizon’s new Continuum phone has 2 screens

Samsung’s Galaxy S line of Android-powered smart phones has been a smashing success, even without a champion at Verizon Wireless. Until now. Today Verizon formally launched Continuum with a second, tiny “ticker” screen.
 

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It Is A Series Of Tubes!

Well what do ya know…the internet really is a series of tubes!

Let me start all folksy with analogies. For simplicity’s sake, let’s consider a medium-sized city that serves water to all its residents through one central reservoir. The reservoir’s c…

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Laptops Could Cause Fried Eggs

This is your public service announcement for the day. If you are trying to have kids, your laptop may not be helping things. Warning! Do not click the link if you don’t want to be reading a tech article that talks about thermometers and nutsacks.

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Scientists collide lead ions in big bang machine

Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher said Monday they have succeeded in recreating conditions shortly after the big bang by switching the particles they use for collisions from protons to much heavier lead ions.

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Bogus Election Net Neutrality Connection Gets More Press, And Is Even More Wrong

Apparently the big mainstream reporters don’t even bother with basic fact-checking any more. Last week, we wrote about how a bogus story was making the rounds, pretending that this last election was a referendum on net neutrality, after a paid cons…

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100 copies of new Call of Duty stolen in armed heist of GameStop

It may sound funny at first: a big-name military game being stolen by armed thugs, but it was a scary reality for those who were held at gunpoint during the robbery of a Baltimore Gamestop. Thieves stole 100 copies of Call of Duty: Bla…

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