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 Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
Workers scan books for the Internet Archive. Its founder conceived the Open Content Alliance to distribute library books online. By KATIE HAFNER Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into ...
New York Times | Detail

 Hitachi Announces New Approach to Green Hard Drives
Hard drive manufacturers seem increasingly determined that their component not be the cause of serious draws on system power. Western Digital recently began shipping its Green Power http://blogs.
PC World | Detail

 Sprint Nextel hooks up with HP
In a release Monday, HP (NYSE: HPQ), based in Palo Alto, Calif., said that it and Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) will jointly market HP business notebooks that can use the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network.
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 XBLA This Week: Frakkin' Fantastic
By Susan Arendt October 22, 2007 | 1:44:19 PMCategories: Console Games Listen up, nuggets: this week Xbox Live Arcade offers up two games you're not going to want to miss, Battlestar Galactica and Exit.
Wired News | Detail

 Nokia Targets Multimedia Fans With N81 Device
The handheld comes with a new 3D user interface, making it easier to find digital content on the Internet and share it with others.
InformationWeek | Detail

 UN Agency Gives Boost to WiMax
By VICTORIA SHANNON PARIS, Oct. 19 - The United Nations telecommunications agency in Geneva gave the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval, providing a sizable victory for Intel and something of a defeat for competing technologies from ...
New York Times | Detail

 Washington DC Becomes Solar Village
By Paul Sisco Twenty college and university teams from around the world competed in the recent Solar Decathlon that is held every two years in Washington, DC The US Energy Department sponsors the event, and this year's winner was Technische Universität ...
Voice of America | Detail

 Comcast Interferes With File-Sharing
By Blocking BitTorrent, Company Inadvertently Makes Case For Net Neutrality Get ready for your next trip: See if your flight is on time, how much gas will cost, get travel tips and more.
CBS News | Detail

 Apple CEO says Mac has momentum, is outpacing industry: NY Times
By MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market share of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL: , , ) personal computers is surging and Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, ...
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 IBM Chipset Promises HD Downloads In Milliseconds
Dubbed mmWave, the computer component will use so-called millimeter wave radio technology to transmit the data. By Paul McDougall IBM disclosed Monday that it has teamed up with Taiwanese vendor MediaTek to develop computer chipsets that the companies ...
InformationWeek | Detail