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Lenovo says business will focus on mobile Internet (AP)

AP - Lenovo Group expects wireless Internet products to account for up to 80 percent of its sales within five years as it pursues expansion in faster-growing emerging markets, CEO Yang Yuanqing said Friday.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 12 Mar 2010 | 12:11 am

Appeal filed in Phil Spector case (AP) AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 11:54 pm

iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific, 8:30 Eastern (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:41 pm

iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:41 pm

FCC releases Internet speed test tool (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday launched a broadband test service to help consumers clock the speed of their Internet.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 8:18 pm

A look at February's top-selling video games (AP) AP - The top-selling video games in the U.S. in February, by number of copies sold, according to NPD Group:

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 8:11 pm

Summary Box: Video game sales drop 15 percent (AP) AP - THE GAMES: Video game software sales dropped 15 percent in February compared to a year ago to $624.4 million. "Bioshock 2" from Take 2 Interactive, which launched in February, and "New Super Mario Bros." from Nintendo were the top two sellers.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 8:03 pm

Xbox 360 Outsold Wii in February, Says NPD (PC World) PC World - Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo's Wii in February to claim the top spot in the U.S. monthly sales ranking for the first time in more than two years, analyst group NPD said Thursday. Overall the industry had a poor month with total sales down 15 percent from February last year.

Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:10 pm

Verizon Tips Its 4G Handset Hand

Verizon will have the first handset running on its Long-Term Evolution 4G network by the middle of next year -- about six months ahead of schedule -- according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The development of LTE means faster cellular data transfers than the 3G networks now in widespread use by U.S. carriers, though exactly when LTE will become common has long been a source of uncertainty. "Reports have had LTE available by 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and nobody was quite sure when," Chris Nicoll, a research fellow at the Yankee Group, told TechNewsWorld.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:50 pm

PlayStation's Got the Moves, but Who's Got Game?

Sony demonstrated its Move motion controller for the PlayStation 3 console at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, following up on its first demo at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last June. Together with the Move, Sony will release the Move sub-controller, a one-handed controller that's similar to the Nintendo Wii "nunchuck" and is an optional accessory for some games. Sony said the Move and its sub-controller will be launched worldwide this fall. It says 35 game publishers and developers have signed up to support the Move.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 11 Mar 2010 | 2:12 pm

Ubuntu Dumps the Brown

Color is not typically a topic of much discussion on the Linux blogs, but in recent weeks, it's been drawing a lot of attention. Why, you ask? Simple: Ubuntu recently announced a major change to its longstanding "Human" earthtone-palette theme and branding. "I don't know whether to call it 'poo brown' or 'dirt brown,' but either way it is seriously awful," said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. The new theme is meant to focus on the concept of "Light," and it uses primarily hues in the dark purple and orange ranges.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

Vlingo Faces Off With the Dragon: A Speech-to-Text Smackdown

When Apple enabled in-app purchases for iPhone applications, it seemed as though the days of "free" and "paid" versions of any given app were coming to an end. Soon, I thought, everything in the store would start out free as a teaser and then charge for an upgrade. That hasn't exactly panned out universally, but Vlingo's new voice application does charge in the way I thought all apps would charge by now. You can download it for free, but getting to the premium features costs $10. Vlingo is a speech-to-text app that can use that text in any of six general ways.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

Corel's X3 Photo Editor Paints a Pretty Picture

In the Windows world, photographers looking for an alternative to Adobe Photoshop that will save them cash without skimping on power typically have turned to Corel's PaintShop Photo Pro. The program has consistently kept pace with the evolving needs of shutterbugs over the years and the latest "X3" version of the software continues that tradition. Among the new features in X3 are a number of improvements to enhance a photographer's workflow. Workflow is important to shooters because once an image is captured, they are going to want to find it again eventually.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am

EFF Knocks Apple for Dumping on Devs

The first rule of Apple's App Club is: You do not talk about App Club. Any developer who writes an app for the App Store is forbidden from making any public statements about the iPhone Developer Program Licensing Agreement. Second rule of App Club is: Said developers also can't sell their apps to other app stores, even if that app is eventually rejected by Apple. Third rule of App Club: You can't reverse engineer anything having to do with the App Store software development kit or the iPhone OS.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 10 Mar 2010 | 5:17 pm

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Party Gets Troublesome Surprise

This month's Patch Tuesday arrived with a rather unwelcome security surprise. Microsoft had expected things to be somewhat sedate; however, instead of two vulnerabilities that it expected needed patching, it got hit with four, including a new zero-day Internet Explorer exploit. Further, Microsoft has had to update its Malicious Software Removal Tool to include Win32/Helpud, a Trojan that's been around since 2008. In addition, it's keeping an eye on a VBScript vulnerability that could allow remote code execution.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 10 Mar 2010 | 2:01 pm

Google Maps Out Happy Trails for Bicycle Riders

In a move sure to make the grade with cyclists across the United States, Google on Wednesday added bicycle routes to its Google Maps service. Biking directions and extensive bike trail data are now available for the United States through Google Maps, giving cyclists nationwide a way to customize their trips, figure out the most efficient routes, make use of bike lanes and avoid big hills. More than 12,000 miles of trails are now included in biking directions and outlined directly on maps through the service thanks to a partnership with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

Source: TechNewsWorld | 10 Mar 2010 | 1:46 pm

Cisco unveils next Internet core router Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:55 am

Salesmanship helps Pepsi bottler win over users to unified communications Unified communications technologies haven't caught on as expected, and even though IT managers report some solid productivity benefits, rolling out such new technologies can take some salesmanship at the IT level with end users.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 9 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am

iPad with Wi-Fi to go on sale April 3 The iPad for Wi-Fi will be available in the U.S. on April 3, and later that month for Wi-Fi plus 3G models, Apple said today.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 5 Mar 2010 | 8:47 am

Energy-efficient Ethernet: A greener choice for 2010 Data center managers and equipment vendors looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet equipment. IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 3 Mar 2010 | 10:56 am

Force10 claims 10G Ethernet density lead Force10 Networks this week claimed leadership in 10G density in Ethernet switching by unveiling a 40-port 10G line card for its ExaScale switch.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 1 Mar 2010 | 7:45 pm

Users lament state of Ethernet Vendors have a lot more work to do to make Ethernet ready for large-scale data center duty, according to users at the Ethernet Technology Summit.

Source: Computerworld Hardware News | 26 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am

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