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How much would you pay to be the leading video media technology right now? Is $400 million too much? Sony didn't think so and this article speculates that's how they won the Hi-Def format war. 'With billions of dollars in global sales at stake, experts had predicted the Toshiba-Sony battle would go on for years - not unlike the 1980s battle of videotape formats between VHS (Matsushita) and

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eBay through Paypal has acquired fraud detection provider Fraud Sciences Ltd for $169 million. Israel and Palo Alto based Fraud Sciences offers automated anti-fraud systems including SpotLight VFX and SpotLight T2T, merchant solutions the provide transaction verification with fraud prevention. In an October 2007 profile, Israelplug said that Fraud Sciences products “help online retailers verify

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Wal-Mart sells this Everex gPC for $198. It's bundled with speakers, a mouse, and a keyboard, and it comes with 24-hour tech support. The operating system is called gOS, a version of Ubuntu 7.10. Despite the fact that many mainstream consumers have likely never even heard of Ubuntu, Wal-Mart is having trouble keeping the gPC in stock. Mirus and Linspire collaborated on the Mirus Linux PC,

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Gizmodo reports that robots that have the ability to learn and can communicate information to their peers have learned to lie. "Three colonies of bots in the 50th generation learned to signal to other robots in the group when then found food or poison. But the fourth colony included lying cheats that signaled food when they found poison and then calmly rolled over to the real food while other

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The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era in which users can take their data from the websites they use to reuse elsewhere... Good bye customer lock-in, hello to new privacy challenges. If things go right, today could be a very important day in the history of the internet. The non-participation of Google and Facebook, two companies that hold more user data and do more with

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Barely half a year after the introduction of the DMC-FZ8, Panasonic added another model to its popular range of compact 'super zoom' Lumix cameras in the shape of the FZ18. Although obviously based on the FZ8 (they are externally almost identical), the FZ18 doesn't replace it; it's a sort of 'big brother' with a bigger zoom, more pixels and a smattering of new features. The biggest news is the

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Lenovo is branching out into the consumer retail PC market, showing a flair for design with its new line of IdeaPad notebooks--just in time for next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.The first model, available beginning in January, is the IdeaPad Y510, a 15.4-inch wide-screen notebook. It comes in black, with a linenlike textured lid. The screen lacks a bezel, giving it a wider area

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Opera Security Vulnerabilities: Opera Web Browser is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities, including remote code-execution, information-disclosure, and cross-domain scripting issues. Attackers can exploit these issues to execute remote code and obtain sensitive information in the context of the affected application. Attackers may be able to exploit some of the issues to carry out

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The Radeon 3470 HD and Radeon 3450 HD are expected to be outfitted respectively with the following GPUs (graphics processing units): an 800 MHz RV620 Pro and a 600 MHz RV620 LE. The GPUs use a TSMC 55 nm process, have 181 million transistors, and 40 SPUs (Stream Processing Units). They use a programming model that applies a relatively small instruction set to a very large data set. Both models

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Nvidia Corp., a leading developer of system chipsets, has reportedly postponed shipments of its new code-named MCP72 and MCP78 core-logic sets for processors by Advanced Micro Devices. The reasons of the postponements are unclear, but they may be related to both lack of high-performance AMD Phenom processors as well as potential issues with those new core-logic sets. The new code-named MCP72

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) on Thursday announced its new hard disk drive (HDD) for mobile computers. The new drive that features 500GB capacity is currently the largest storage solution for mobile computers and may also be used in small form-factor desktops. Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 offers 400GB and 500GB capacities, features 5400rpm motor, 8MB of cache and Serial ATA-150/

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AMD removed the core count suffix X2, X3 and X4 from the logo and changed its nomenclature instead: 9000 models have four cores, while the upcoming triple cores have a 7000 model number. AMD has had a difficult year. Not only did the long anticipated Phenom processor arrive at considerably lower clock speeds than expected (2.3 GHz instead of 3 GHz), but the current stepping of the so-called

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IntroductionDetailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great - that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.So if you don't have the time to research the benchmarks, or if you don't feel confident enough in your ability to make the right decision, fear not. We at Tom's Hardware Guide

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