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One-touch GarageBand Sound Effects
- Congratulations! You saw the name GarageBand in the title of this story yet continued reading. That makes you part of an...
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Mobile Finance: Indigenous, Ingenious or Both?
- In Ghana, it's popularly known as susu. In Cameroon, tontines or chilembe. And in South Africa, stokfel. Today, you'd most...
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Multifunction Printers
- Multifunction printers--also called all-in-one printers--combine a printer, scanner, copier, and sometimes a fax machine into...
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Apple Posts 'iPhone Your Life' Web Pages
- Apple has posted some new pages to its Web site, specifically targeted to help iPhone 3G users get the most from their iPhone...
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Wrath of the Lich King Sales Break One-day Record
- Blizzard Entertainment notes that its recently-released World of Warcraft expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, sold 2.8...
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Freeway Web Editing Tool Adds 'iPhone Actions'
- Softpress Systems on Thursday announced the release of Freeway 5.3, an update to its Web design software. A free update for...
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IShowU HD Pro Screen Recording Utility Updated
- Shinywhitebox updated its screen recording application, iShowU HD Pro, releasing a new beta version.
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Google, Others Call for New Broadband, Energy Policies
- Google and other groups call for a national broadband policy in the U.S.
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OmniFocus 1.5 Expands Mac to IPhone Sync
- The Omni Group has released OmniFocus 1.5, an update to their task management software for Mac OS X. A free update for...
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DiscLabel Adds Holiday, Business Designs
- SmileOnMyMac has released DiscLabel 5.4, an update to its CD and DVD label design software for Mac OS X. A free update for...
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Speck Offers 'satin' Case for New MacBook
- Speck on Thursday announced the forthcoming expansion of its SeeThru hard shell case line with a new "SeeThru Satin" model...
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OmniGraffle 5.1 Improves Visio Compatibility
- The Omni Group has released OmniGraffle 5.1, an update to their diagramming and layout program for Mac OS X. It's a free...
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Alpine HD Car Radio Offers ITunes Tagging
- Alpine has introduced the TUA-T550HD tuner, a new HD Radio tuner for automobiles. It costs US$230 and is available now.
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Apple TV Update Adds Several New Features
- Apple on Wednesday night released an update to its Apple TV software.
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Growth in US Online Advertising Slows Down Further in Q3
- The slowdown in U.S. online ad spending growth continued in the third quarter.
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Nokia and IBM join forces on mobile e-mail
- Nokia and IBM are linking mobile phones to Notes, the companies announced Thursday.
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Microsoft: Zune music subscribers can keep tracks
- Microsoft revamped the music subscription program offered with its Zune players to allow customers to keep up to 10 tracks per month, even if they later cancel the deal.
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Google shutters its Lively virtual world
- Google yesterday said it is closing its Lively 3-D world to better focus its development resources on core products.
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Opinion: Obama's Blackberry Is No Security Threat
- A lot of the stories about President-Elect Barack Obama possibly having to relinquish his BlackBerry when he takes office Jan. 20 are, for a variety of reasons, just plain dumb.
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Profile: Microsoft hires noted database researcher to help scale SQL Server
- David DeWitt retired from the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin last year, but he's already returned, this time as head of a new database research center located on the Madison campus and funded primarily by Microsoft.
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Sun updates NetBeans with PHP support
- Version 6.5 of the open-source NetBeans IDE has support for the PHP scripting language and a preview of Python support. Sun Microsystems on Wednesday introduced a version of the open-source NetBeans integrated development environment IDE, with expanded support for web and Java software development. The...
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Mozilla to end support for Firefox 2
- Stability and security releases for the browser will end next month, despite ongoing problems with Firefox 3 The Mozilla Foundation is planning to end support for the Firefox 2 browser in mid-December, despite the persistence of significant flaws in the most-recent version of the popular browser. ...
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Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- The GSM Association has called on manufacturers to build technology for contactless payments into their handsets by the middle of next year The GSM Association has called on phone manufacturers to build RFID technology into handsets from mid-2009, in a bid to kick start the mobile-payment industry. ...
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Greening the data center
- Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas  are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
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Jaquar chases Roadrunner for fastest supercomputer
- Two systems, including one based on x86 chips, have become the first ever to break the petaflop/s barrier in the latest Top500 supercomputer list. Cray's XT5 Jaguar supercomputer has narrowly missed displacing IBM's Roadrunner system as the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the results of the bi-annual 'Top500' supercomputing...
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SuperSpeed USB 3.0 unleashed
- The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB, which is said to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0, has been published by the USB Implementers Forum. Version 3.0 of the universal serial bus specification has been released. Unveiled on Monday by the USB Implementers Forum,...
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Gartner: 85 percent of companies using open source
- The analyst house warns that, although take-up of open-source software is widespread, most companies do not have formal procurement or governance policies in place for such software. Eighty-five percent of companies are already using open-source software, with most of the remaining 15 percent expecting to do so...
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Ubuntu to run on ARM-based netbooks
- Canonical and the chip designer are to collaborate on a version of Ubuntu tailored to ARM's architecture, with a focus on low-cost subnotebooks. Canonical has announced it will be developing a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. ...
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Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
- Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. Online networks suffered their heaviest brute force attacks to date this year, with more sites than ever coming under sustained assault. IP networks were...
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Study: BlackBerry has twice the failure rate of iPhone
- Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by a mobile-phone warranty firm has found. Apple's iPhone has half the failure rate of RIM's BlackBerry in the first year of use, a study carried out by...
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A fraud ring or social networking - it's the same thing
- Silicon.com sat down with SAS's CEO in Las Vegas this week to find out his thoughts on cloud computing, succession planning and the iPhone. SAS is unique among tech heavyweights for its private ownership - the business intelligence BI company has been run for more than 30 years by...
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It's up to tech to save the world
- Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, says the IT industry has a major role to play in tackling climate change and global disease. The technology industry can play a major role in tackling global disease and battling climate change, according to the executive...
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Ballmer calls Google's Android 'way behind'
- Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Sydney, Australia--Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Speaking at Telstra's annual investment day, Ballmer said that Android was...
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Ubiquity of location intelligence is near
- Businesses rely on location technology to plan store and office placement and logistics - and to learn about their customers, says Ventana Research's Mark Smith. Commentary--Information about location has never been more available or more widely used. Businesses rely on it to plan store...
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Schneier slams US border biometrics
- The Department of Homeland Security has disputed Bruce Schneier's claim that the US-Visit program has had no impact on reducing criminal and terrorist threats. Security expert and BT chief security-technology officer Bruce Schneier has attacked the US-Visit border-biometrics program, saying it has had "zero benefit" in terms of security....
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MiniTube Adds Music Videos to Winamp [Featured Windows Download]
- Windows only: Winamp plug-in MiniTube adds YouTube videos to your music playlist. Fire up MiniTube when you want to see your music as well as hear it, and it searches YouTube for a video that matches...
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Mozilla Serves Its One Billionth Add-on [Firefox]
- Mozilla announced yesterday that they've served up their one billionth add-on since 2005—and that only includes add-ons hosted on Mozilla's servers. Mozilla applications like Firefox and...
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Challenge/Response Beats IM Spam [Featured Mac Download]
- Mac OS X only: Free Adium plug-in Challenge Response prevents instant messaging spam by requiring unknown users to answer a quick challenge question before interrupting you with their message....
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Free Version of TouchType Email App Now Available [Featured IPhone Application]
- iPhone and iPod touch only: A free, "lite" version of previously mentioned email composition app TouchType—which sells for 99 cents in the iTunes Store—is now available. TouchType offers...
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Google Shutters Second Life-Like Lively [Google]
- If you've been enjoying Google's 3D virtual experience Lively—which they released in July—we've got some bad news. By the end of December, Lively will be no more, according to the...
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Ammyy Admin Shares Screens in Three Steps [Featured Windows Download]
- Windows only: If you're eager for a simple, non-browser, quick-starting app that will let you get remote desktop access to your mom's desktop, your struggling friend's laptop, or nearly any other...
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Safer Places to Stash Your Cash at Home [Money]
- You shouldn't let the uncertain economy drive you to a crazed bank run, a la It's a Wonderful Life, but it might make sense to keep a decent stash of legal tender at home these days. Consumer...
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SkyDrive Will Upgrade to 25GB of Online Storage [Online Storage]
- The Windows Live SkyDrive Team announces that the online storage service will jump "soon" to 25GB, with lots of photo-friendly tools like slideshows, people and place tagging, and Live Photo Gallery...
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Freepath is a Free File Sharing and Presentation Solution [Featured Windows Download]
- Windows only: Create and mix your own file and media playlists with Freepath. Users can create file playlists from a variety of sources: files from their own computers, video files found on YouTube,...
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Make Gmail Your Productive-Minded Web Gateway [How To]
- Web PR worker Steve Rubel has a great post at his Micro Persuasion blog detailing how he adapted Gmail to serve as his ideal start page for nearly anything he needs to get done. Lots of stuff is...
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Yahoo Glue Gives You Everything But the Web Search [Yahoo]
- Yahoo is rolling out a search service that aggregates an interesting mix of non-web search results across a page. Glue has been available through Yahoo India with customized results for about seven...
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MuvEnum Address Bar Replaces the Quick-Launching Taskbar in XP SP3 [Featured Windows Download]
- Windows only: Service Pack 3 for Windows XP removed the ability of that operating system's users to keep a quick-launching address box on their taskbar session after session. MuvEnum Address Bar aims...
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Etherpad Tracks Group Editing or Coding with Colors [Online Documents]
- Etherpad, a collaborative-minded text editor forged by a group of ex-Google employees, focuses on making documents live and easy to collaborate on. That means that, at this point, the interface is...
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Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]
- If your manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down?...
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Create "Speakers" from Earbuds and Paper Cups [How To]
- It's hump day and I was looking for a quick, fun project to try out. So I figured I try something easy I found over at the Make Magazine blog earlier this week—a set of speakers made from paper...
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Where Do Hard Drive Heads Come From?
- A few days ago we were lucky enough to visit Seagate's Springtown, Ireland factory, where it manufactures 80% of its read/write heads. We'll show you some of what we saw there and explain how a hard drive head comes to be.
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Radeon HD 4870 X2: Four Cards Compared
- Not only do we have four super-fast Radeon HD 4870 X2s to test, but also a list of 31 other graphics configurations including CrossFire and SLI setups. If you're in the market for AMD's fastest card available, you'll want to see this.
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The Hardware Behind Overdrive
- Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000.
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Synology's DS408 Reviewed: Fast NAS For Pros
- Does a NAS device with high data transfer rate and a Web interface that is easy to configure actually exist? Synology shows how it should be done. But the enclosure is not without its faults, either.
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Google Will Shut Down 'Lively' Virtual World
- The search giant announced today in a blog post that Lively, Google's virtual worlds initiative, will shut down by the end of the year.
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Microsoft Lowers Zune Prices, Tweaks Zune Pass
- Microsoft cuts the price of its Zune media player and tweaks the Zune Pass model so that users can now own some songs permanently.
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Readers Overwhelm Europe's New Digital Library
- Europe's heritage went digital Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Beethoven's 9th Symphony just a mouse click away.
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'World of Warcraft' Has Rivals Racing for New Worlds
- "World of Warcraft" has become a phenomenon among role-playing interactive online games with its unrivaled success leaving competitors racing to draw gamers into new virtual worlds.
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Nokia to Add IBM's Lotus Notes to Smartphones
- Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, as the world's top handset maker battles Blackberry-maker RIM.
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McCartney, Guns 'N' Roses Debut on MySpace
- Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and Guns N' Roses released their biggest hits on vinyl records and compact discs, but on Thursday, their new albums will debut online on MySpace.
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Experts: Cybercrime as Destructive as Credit Crisis
- Cybercrime is likely to wreak as much havoc as the credit crisis in the coming years if international regulation is not improved, some of the world's top crime experts said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo, T-Mobile Announce Search Deal
- Yahoo announced an expansion of its mobile Web portals to T-mobile, so its smart phone users who get data will have Yahoo search by default.
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Sonic Buys CinemaNow in Movie Burning Deal
- Sonic Solutions said Wednesday that it had agreed to buy the assets of streaming movie provider CinemaNow, an existing partner. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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The BlackBerry Storm: Your Top 20 Questions, Answered
- On Monday, we asked Gearlog readers to ask me everything they wanted to know about the new BlackBerry Storm 9530 for Verizon Wireless. Now we have the answers.
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Idle Game Consoles Costing Consumers $1B/Year
- Feeling the pains of your monthly utilities a bit more in these troubled economic times? You might want to think about switching off your gaming system every so often.
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Analysis: The Best CEO for Yahoo Is… Nobody?
- The best candidate to take over for Jerry Yang as chief executive at Yahoo may be a dealmaker, or nobody at all.
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HP Transplanting Support Forums in Service Revamp
- Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it has overhauled its online consumer support system, adding forums and how-to videos to provide additional information to customers. In the short term, however, you'll find much of the data archived in its support forums has effectively disappeared.
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Sony PSP Infringes Agere Patent, Court Finds
- In a case dating back to July of 2006, Sony has been ordered to pay $18.5 million to Agere Systems after a jury found Sony guilty of infringing on Agere's patent for a "wireless local area network apparatus."
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Judge Tosses Out Psystar's Antitrust Defense
- A California district judge on Tuesday dismissed a counterclaim filed by Psystar that accused Apple of violating federal and state antitrust laws.
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