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  • July 2007

    • Intel, Third World Laptop Initiative Join Forces

      Associated Press  |  Jul 13, 07 5:40 PM CDT

      Intel, Third World Laptop Initiative Join Forces

      (Newser) - Intel and the One Laptop per Child initiative are making peace and embracing the notion of synergy. The chip maker and the pioneer of the $100 laptop concept will stop competing for deals with governments in the developing world and team up, the AP reports. The partnership is a big step on the road to the elusive $100 goal. More »

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      technology  • computer  • MIT  • One Laptop Per Child  • developing world

    • Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      PC World  |  Jul 7, 07 6:44 AM CDT

      Best of the Blogosphere: 10 to Read

      (Newser) - PC World chooses the best blogs in 10 categories: Technology News:  Slashdot (slashdot.org) Specialty Tech Site: John Battele's Searchblog (battellemedia.com) Company Watcher: Microsoft Watch (microsoft-watch.com) Corporate Blog: The Official Google Blog (googleblog.blogspot.com) Politics and Business: Policybeta (blog.cdt.org) More »

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      list  • technology  • media  • blog  • blogger  • blogging  • blogosphere

    • Tech Companies Cool on Indian Outsourcing

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 3, 07 10:12 AM CDT

      Tech Companies Cool on Indian Outsourcing

      (Newser) - India, the destination of choice for American tech companies looking for sophisticated but cheap labor, is beginning to lose its appeal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rising pay scales are making it  too expensive to justify the complications of globalizing. Now some are outsourcing their outsourcing to slower climes like Vietnam and even Poland. More »

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      India  • technology  • Silicon Valley  • globalization  • wages  • Bangalore

  • June 2007

    • Battle for Tech-Savvy New Grads Heats Up

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 29, 07 9:36 AM CDT

      Battle for Tech-Savvy New Grads Heats Up

      (Newser) - Demand for students and recent grads with top-notch tech skills is higher than it's been in over a decade, thanks in part to banks and securities firms waging the recruiting wars alongside Silicon Valley giants such as Google. Bloomberg goes inside the process of wooing the so-called millennials, born between 1982 and 2002 and currently writing their own tickets. More »

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      Google  • Wall Street  • technology  • finance  • Silicon Valley  • recruits

    • 3-D Format Will Foil Film Pirates

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 28, 07 6:24 AM CDT

      3-D Format Will Foil Film Pirates

      (Newser) - Movie makers are preparing to launch a major assault on video piracy—in 3-D.  In two years, more than 4,000 theaters will be 3-D-ready, and top studios are gearing up to create films in the new format, which can't be recorded off the screen. Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are using it, and James Cameron is filming his first feature since Titanic in the format. More »

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      movie  • film  • Hollywood  • technology  • theater  • piracy  • movie theaters  • George Lucas  • DVD piracy  • 3D  • Jeffrey Katzenberg  • Dreamworks

    • Top 10 Tech Toys That Flopped

      Emerging Technologies  |  Jun 26, 07 6:10 AM CDT

      Top 10 Tech Toys That Flopped

      (Newser) - CueCat: A cat-shaped device that would scan magazine barcodes and send you to corresponding websites. No one bit. DigiScent's iSmell: Sending scents across the internet turned out to be a stinky idea. DIVX: A special system to play DVDs that destruct after one viewing. Obviously a keeper. E-books: If only it was more portable and durable . . . like a book. Facial Recognition Systems: Would have been brilliant if it had worked. More »

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      list  • technology  • toys

    • Kodak Sets Sights on Flashless Future

      Reuters  |  Jun 14, 07 3:55 PM CDT

      Kodak Sets Sights on Flashless Future

      (Newser) - Kodak showed off a new technology today that enables digital cameras to capture clearer pictures in low light—without a flash. Kodak revealed the innovation just as the enduring photography company finishes up its long and costly transformation to digital and begins to tap into its valuable portfolio of patents. More »

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      film  • technology  • photography  • digital photography  • patents  • digital camera  • camera  • flash  • Kodak  • Eastman Kodak  • images

  • May 2007

    • Gates and Jobs Banter in Rare Face-to-Face

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  May 31, 07 12:18 PM CDT

      Gates and Jobs Banter in Rare Face-to-Face

      (Newser) - Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Steve Jobs quipped and reminisced their way through their first joint public appearance in two decades at last night's D: All Things Digital conference in San Diego. The two tech kings ditched their traditional rivalry for a cozy, back-and-forth love fest. We've been "secretly married for 10 years," Jobs joked. More »

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      Microsoft  • Apple  • technology  • Steve Jobs  • Bill Gates

    • First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

      New Yorker  |  May 20, 07 9:02 PM CDT

      First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

      (Newser) - An unknown scientist in the first century B.C. may have invented the world’s first computer. Discovered by Greek divers in 1900 on the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Antikythera, the so called Antikythera Mechanism lay in the National Museum in Athens mistaken for an astrolabe until the late 1950s. More »

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      technology  • computer  • Greece  • shipwreck  • archeology  • Antikythera

    • Engineer Guilty Of Attempted Espionage

      CNN  |  May 10, 07 9:01 PM CDT

      Engineer Guilty Of Attempted Espionage

      (Newser) - A Chinese-American engineer could get up to 35 years for trying to funnel classified U.S. defense technology to China. A federal jury in California convicted 66-year-old Chi Mak, a naturalized citizen who worked for an Anaheim defense contractor, of conspiring to send top secret plans for submarine propulsion technology to Chinese authorities over several years. More »

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      China  • United States  • technology  • espionage  • Chi Mak

    • Tech Guru Takes Mass Approach

      New Yorker  |  May 8, 07 4:39 PM CDT

      Tech Guru Takes Mass Approach

      (Newser) - The New Yorker profiles columnist and technology prophet Walt Mossberg, whose word has decided the fate of many a digital revolution. Mossberg's mantra is that technology should be easy and elegant, and he tells Ken Auletta that companies like Mac and Microsoft still have a ways to go in satisfying him. More »

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      Microsoft  • Apple  • technology  • Wall Street Journal  • Walt Mossberg

    • Pentagon Woos Tech Startups

      New York Times  |  May 7, 07 11:38 AM CDT

      Pentagon Woos Tech Startups

      (Newser) - Infant tech companies are fast becoming a tributary in the pipeline between the Pentagon and big contractors, the Times reports. And in a new, official initiative, Defense is tasking venture capitalists to harvest ideas and technologies from the fast-moving tech startups they monitor, and small companies are winning coveted contracts. More »

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      technology  • Pentagon  • national security  • intelligence  • Defense  • Raytheon

    • Court Relaxes Patent Test

      CNET  |  May 1, 07 7:36 AM CDT

      Court Relaxes Patent Test

      (Newser) - Tech companies are thrilled with a Supreme Court ruling yesterday that relaxed the "obviousness" test for patents—the standard for deciding when a combination of existing elements deserves patent protection. No longer will Silicon Valley giants have to wrangle with patent "trolls"—people who anticipate minute improvements to products, then cry  infringement, CNET reports. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • technology  • law  • intellectual property  • patents

  • April 2007

    • "See the Ball, Hit the Ball"

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 23, 07 9:34 PM CDT

      &quot;See the Ball, Hit the Ball&quot;

      (Newser) - Top-level athletes are using technology to sharpen their vision—and their games—even if it's not weak to start with. Not only laser surgery, but amber-tinted contacts, and special pitching machines now help baseball and Olympic softball players hone their eyesight, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      technology  • sports  • vision

    • BlackBerry Blackout Lasts 12 Hours

      New York Times  |  Apr 19, 07 8:57 AM CDT

      BlackBerry Blackout Lasts 12 Hours

      (Newser) - Five million BlackBerry scrollers in the U.S. and Asia were stymied for 12 hours over Tuesday night and yesterday morning while Research in Motion frantically fixed a service outage. Early-riser Wall Streeters working on deals with London were particularly annoyed by the downtime. Experts surmise the blackout was a side effect of rapid expansion. More »

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      US economy  • United Kingdom  • technology  • wireless  • BlackBerry  • Research In Motion

    • New OS Delay Shows Strains At Apple

      San Jose Mercury News  |  Apr 13, 07 2:21 PM CDT

      New OS Delay Shows Strains At Apple

      (Newser) - The iPhone is coming on time, but at a price: Apple's new Leopard operating system is on hold until October. The decision reflects an overstretched company that's expanding faster than its small staff can handle, analysts say. Apple's talent for innovation, showcased by products like the iPod—and more recently, AppleTV and the iPhone—may be overwhelming its ability to produce. More »

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      Apple  • iPhone  • technology  • iPod  • operating system  • Leopard  • AppleTV

    • Google Earth Digitizes Genocide

      Wired  |  Apr 13, 07 2:12 PM CDT

      Google Earth Digitizes Genocide

      (Newser) - Google Earth has teamed up with the Holocaust Museum to bring the realities of genocide to your MacBook. "Crisis in Darfur" employs Google Earth wizardry to help users visualize the scope of the atrocities currently unfolding in Sudan. Viewers can see over 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages up close. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • technology  • media  • Sudan  • Darfur  • human rights  • genocide  • Crisis in Darfur  • Google Earth  • humanitarian  • Holocaust Museum

    • Google Dials 411

      BusinessWeek  |  Apr 12, 07 9:06 AM CDT

      Google Dials 411

      (Newser) - Google has unleashed an 800-pound-gorilla in the the $8 billion market for U.S. directory assistance: a free 411 service. 1-800-GOOG-411 launched last week as part of an initiative to bring Google's power to voice searches. And unlike traditional 411, customers can call in with search terms ("pizza Upper East Side") rather than the name of their local pie shop. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • technology  • communication  • Tellme

    • FCC: Shut Up and Fly

      Associated Press  |  Apr 4, 07 9:19 AM CDT

      FCC: Shut Up and Fly

      (Newser) - Chatty frequent-flyers were disappointed yesterday, as the Federal Communications Commission refused to lift its ban on cell phone use during flight. The two-year old proposal had prompted a massive outpouring from airline customers who called  airborne conversation  "a recipe for a lot of anger" and "torture." More »

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      cell phones  • technology  • FCC  • airline  • airplane  • FAA  • flight

    • They Pay the Price of Warming

      New York Times  |  Apr 3, 07 5:37 PM CDT

      They Pay the Price of Warming

      (Newser) - The obligation of people who live in countries that contribute the most to climate change--the developed nations— to those who will suffer most from it —the poor ones—is the subject of a provocative piece in the New York Times. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • India  • Australia  • technology  • science  • flood  • aid  • Netherlands  • carbon dioxide  • drought  • Malawi

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