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Bender Forms Group to Promote OLPC's Sugar UI

Gadgets & Tech – Former One Laptop Per Child President of software and content Walter Bender has launched Sugar Labs, an organization that will promote the development of the open-source user interface originally developed for the XO laptop.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 04:45pm

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Record audio with the MSP430 microcontroller pt. 3

Do-It-Yourself – In the first few segments I developed a digital audio recorder prototype that plays raw audio files from an SD card. This time we finish up the introductory segments by recording audio to the SD card.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 04:34pm

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AT&T reverses one-iPhone policy

Gadgets & Tech – Just one day after instituting a policy of one iPhone sale per customer, AT&T said Thursday that it has ended the policy both on its Web site and in its retail stores. Customers will now be able to buy three iPhones per person, a limit that the carrier enacted when the device first went on sale almost a year ago.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 03:12pm

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U.S. helps China with satellite data on quake

Gadgets & Tech – The United States has provided China with satellite images of earthquake-stricken areas, and will provide two planeloads of relief for quake victims this weekend, the State Department said on Friday.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 01:55pm

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Fifty Years of DARPA: A Surprising History

Gadgets & Tech – From the Internet to GPS, DARPA's Biggest Successes and Greatest Failures

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 12:26pm

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France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple

Gadgets & Tech – French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 12:12pm

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Mono offers open-source spin on Silverlight

Gadgets & Tech – The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime.

Submitted and Voted for on May 16, 2008 12:03pm

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'$100 laptop' embraces Windows XP

Gadgets & Tech – Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the "$100 laptop" to make Windows available on the machines.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:25pm

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Google gathers 3D data with Street View

Gadgets & Tech – Google confirmed today it's gathering 3D data along with the photographs it takes for its online Street View service, a potential boon for those of us who fantasize about flying like Superman through urban landscapes, at least virtually.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 07:09pm

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The Hum of Summer

Gadgets & Tech – IT'S time to go outside, take a deep breath of fresh air, and . . . mow.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 01:05pm

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Thunderbird 3 fledges with first alpha release

Gadgets & Tech – Mozilla Messaging announced today the first official alpha release of the next generation Thunderbird e-mail application. Although this release offers some improvements over its predecessor, it isn't intended for production use yet. We tested some of the new functionality to see how it is shaping up.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:55am

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Phone-wallets still years away

Gadgets & Tech – The new technology which enables small payments from mobile phones by just flashing the handset is likely to reach masses only around 2012, when one phone from five sold will be equipped with the technology.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:42am

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Reversing trend, cable modems win over DSL

Gadgets & Tech – Cable companies attracted more Internet subscribers than phone companies did in the first quarter, reversing a 3 1/2-year trend, according to a research report Thursday.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:34am

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WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin

Gadgets & Tech – A long-term battle is brewing between two emerging high-speed wireless technologies, WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Each would more than quadruple existing wireless wide-area access speeds for users.

Submitted and Voted for on May 15, 2008 11:28am

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Comcast to Buy Plaxo for Social Networking

Gadgets & Tech – Comcast will acquire social-networking company Plaxo to power upcoming community features on its TV, broadband data and phone services.

Submitted and Voted for on May 14, 2008 10:21pm

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