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HTC Plans Major Assault on Samsung, RIM In 2010

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎25 minutes ago‎
Every year, HTC makes sure that we all get to see a large part of their unlocked smartphone roadmap for the coming year. Through an XDA-Developers user, HTC now reveals several upcoming goodies, including both Android and ...

In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate

Washington Post - David A. Fahrenthold, Juliet Eilperin - ‎Dec 4, 2009‎
It began with an anonymous Internet posting, and a link to a wonky set of e-mails and files. Stolen, apparently, from a research center in Britain, the files showed the leaders of climate-change science ...

Intel Larrabee Graphics Chip Cancelled

InformationWeek - Alexander Wolfe - ‎12 hours ago‎
The plan to field a multicore graphics engine, which would have put Intel into direct competition against Nvidia, has been put on hold for now.

Apple buys music streamer Lala, but what's it getting?

Ars Technica - John Timmer - ‎57 minutes ago‎
Apple has once again dipped into its massive cash hoard to purchase a small company, in this case the music streaming service Lala.

Virgin Galactic Prepares to Unveil Space Liner

FOXNews - Leonard David - ‎17 minutes ago‎
Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo - the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's suborbital fleet.

MIT win darpa's flashcrowd balloon-hunt compo

Register - Lewis Page - ‎2 hours ago‎
An MIT-organised crowdsourced network of spotters was the first to locate ten large red balloons placed around the USA on Saturday, winning a $40k prize from DARPA.

Climate change is a genuine threat

Atlanta Journal Constitution - ‎39 minutes ago‎
With Al Gore's Oscar and Nobel Prize, shared with a UN panel that declared climate change a reality, I had thought the debate over the science of climate change was essentially over and that even laypersons (non-scientists) understood that human ...

Key dates in unfolding story of warming planet

The Associated Press - ‎3 hours ago‎
1750 - Before Industrial Revolution, atmosphere holds 280 parts per million of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2). 1898 - Swedish scientist Svante Ahrrenius calculates that CO2 from coal and oil burning will warm the planet.

With iTunes, Apple Conditioned Us For The App Store

Washington Post - ‎10 hours ago‎
As you may have read by now, Apple decided to grace The New York Times with its presence for a long post about the App Store this weekend.

Tech Broiler

ZDNet - Jason Perlow - ‎2 hours ago‎
Over the last few days I've gotten a number of inquiries about smartphones and vertical market mobile apps, particularly as it relates to compatibility with Android, BlackBerry and iPhone.

Bing search engine site goes down temporarily

Afterdawn.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
Microsoft has acknowledged and apologized for a temporary outage of the Bing search engine this week. The statement says that the outage came after testing and a "configuration change" made to the site.

Google Acquires Appjet To Beef Up Wave

ITProPortal - Desire Athow - ‎1 hour ago‎
Google seems all set to make a mark in the online communication collaboration, as the search engine giant is reportedly snapping up a Silicon Valley start-up to incorporate its technology with the highly sought after Wave communication collaboration ...

Nobel Laureates Call for Gender Balance in Science

New York Times - ‎20 hours ago‎
By AP STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The two female winners of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine on Sunday urged scientific institutions to change their career structures to help more women reach top positions.

How Will Verizon Defend Higher Early Termination Fees?

PC World - David Coursey - ‎13 hours ago‎
What will Verizon tell the FCC about its decision to double the early termination fee it charges customers who quit their wireless contracts early?

Nook Chases Kindle at Snail's Pace: Rich Jaroslovsky

Bloomberg - Rich Jaroslovsky - ‎1 hour ago‎
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Nook is finally here. It turns out to be much less Kindle-killer than Kindle-clone, and a slow one at that.

Apple Powers Up Mac Pro With 3.33GHz Intel Processor, 8TB Storage Space

eWeek - Nicholas Kolakowski - ‎21 hours ago‎
Apple has quietly rolled out super-sized options for its Mac Pro desktop, including a 3.33GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor and the ability to install the device's four hard drive bays with 2TB Serial ATA drives, for a total of 8TB.

Nintendo Delivers a Hand-Held Epic with The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

SYS-CON Media (press release) - ‎15 minutes ago‎
One of the year's biggest adventures is fired up and heading down the tracks. Today's launch of The Legend of Zelda ™ : Spirit Tracks for the hand-held Nintendo DS ™ and Nintendo DSi ™ video game systems marks a fun new chapter in the historic ...

Google Launches Dictionary and Translated Web Search

PC World - Ian Paul - ‎Dec 4, 2009‎
Amid all the hubbub over Google DNS on Thursday, the search giant also released two more helpful tools to help you get a richer search experience and improve your language skills.

'War on Christmas' cools conference?

Politico - Tim Grieve - ‎2 hours ago‎

Testing shows AT&T's 3G network outperforms Verizon's

FierceBroadbandWireless - Lynnette Luna - ‎50 minutes ago‎
Start-up mobile network performance monitoring company Root Wireless said it has mapped out the networks of AT&T and Verizon in seven major markets where both companies offer 3G service and found that AT&T's HSPA network beat out Verizon's EV-DO ...

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