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Article | 10/08/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 7th August, 2009

In this week’s show Defcon attendees hack their badges, Google CEO resigns from Apple's board, Nissan intros an electric vehicle, T-Mobile's myTouch 3...

Article | 30/07/2009 Computers rival pencil and paper at Campus Technology

Exhibitors at this year’s Campus Technology Conference in Boston dropped the pencil and paper in favor of tablet PCs, netbooks and full fledged laptop...

Article | 30/07/2009 DormNoise syncs student calendars together

The on-campus calendar service DormNoise that pulls student calendars together and then syncs with any calendar application is displayed at the Campus...

Article | 30/07/2009 Microsoft signs search deal with Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo struck a long-anticipated search deal Wednesday under which Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yah...

Article | 29/07/2009 Microsoft rushes to fix IE kill-bit bypass attack

At Black Hat this week researchers will show a way to bypass kill-bits; Microsoft is releasing a patch for the bug on Tuesday

Article | 27/07/2009 Nintendo creates an island in Times Square to promote Wii Sports Resort

Amid the concrete canyons of New York City, Nintendo built an oasis this week to promote the US launch of Wii Sports Resort, a new game for the consol...

Article | 27/07/2009 Microsoft finalizes Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 code

The company has released both OSes to manufacturing, giving customers time to prepare for general availability in October.

Article | 24/07/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 24th July, 2009

In this week’s show a mobile phone offer sounds too good to be true and probably is, MIT students work on building an electric car with rapid recharge...

Article | 22/07/2009 Qualcomm demos technology that can stream high def video

Last week, Qualcomm demonstrated special technology that the company said can stream high-definition video from a central video server to any room in ...

Article | 21/07/2009 Google Earth puts users on the moon

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Google Earth users can now search the moon.

Article | 20/07/2009 NASA releases restored videos of Apollo 11 moonwalk

To mark the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first mission to place humans on the moon, NASA released partially restored videos of memorable moments...

Article | 17/07/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 17th July, 2009

In this week’s show Microsoft hosts its Worldwide Partner Conference, a survey reveals many IT professionals plan to skip Windows 7, a new LG Black La...

Article | 17/07/2009 Palm confirms that iTunes update kills Pre sync

Palm confirmed Thursday that Pre owners can no longer use Apple's iTunes to sync their smartphones to Macs or PCs after Apple updated iTunes to Versio...

Article | 16/07/2009 WPC: Microsoft reveals Office 2010 timing, technical preview

Microsoft revealed this week a test version of Office 2010 which will be available in the first half of next year.

Article | 10/07/2009 Weekly Tech News Update: 10th July, 2009

In this week’s show Google announces its Chrome OS, the internet survives Michael Jackson, China turns off the web, a botnet takes down government web...