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Georgia law aims to lure video game makers
Grand Theft Auto: Atlanta, anyone?That title may not be far off, if the state of Georgia gets its way. Its latest goal, in the name of economic development, is to become the video game production capital of the United States.
Sonny Purdue, governor, Georgia
(Credit: Georgia Governor's2008-05-16 15:59:00 source: CNET News.com
Google Translate speaks 10 new languages
Google Translate just got more useful for a Prague citizen visiting India.The online translation function now can understand 10 more languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish. That brings the total to 23 languages, Google said in a blog posting Thursday.
In addition, Google ...
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Hacker confab 'Last HOPE' to track attendees with RFID
People attending the Last HOPE hacker conference in New York City this July will be getting more than just an agenda and badge when they check in.
(Credit: The Last Hope)2008-05-16 01:02:00 source: CNET News.com
Apple reaches settlement for Canadian iPod owners over battery lawsuits
Apple is offering a $45 credit to Canadian owners of older versions of its popular iPod, a move that strikes of deva ju over a similar settlement agreement reached in 2005 with U.S.-based iPod owners.Under the proposed settlement, as reported in the The Gazette, Apple Canada plans ...
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Circuit City retains Goldman Sachs to explore 'strategic alternatives'
Circuit City has retained Goldman Sachs to help it explore "strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value," the electronics retailer said Friday.The struggling company recently became the target of a roughly $1 billion takeover bid from movie rental giant Blockbuster. Circuit City said Friday it has received a letter from ...
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Steve Jurvetson: The constant search for disruption
Few people have played as big a role in recent tech booms and busts as Steve Jurvetson, managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Menlo Park, Calif.One of the leading venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, Jurvetson is best-known for his involvement in Hotmail, Interwoven, Kana, and ...
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Apple working on its own Wiimote?
Microsoft may not be the only one looking to develop its own Wiimote-like game controller. Apple is researching a 3D remote of its own, according to AppleInsider.
The Apple TV and its current remote control.
(Credit: Apple)The research, reportedly outlined in a November 2006 patent filing disclosed this week, ...
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Former RIAA chief advising Project Playlist
SAN FRANCISCO--Jeremy Riney, CEO and founder of Project Playlist is optimistic he will eventually license music from the big four record companies.
"There is no money in shutting down companies," says Project Playlist CEO Jeremy Riney
(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET News.coml)He continues to harbor these hopes
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Musician sees irony in industry 'takedown' letter
Former Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen at the MusicTech Summit
(Credit: Greg Sandoval)
SAN FRANCISCO--Apparently nobody--not even an artist--gets a pass from the music industry when it comes to copyright laws.
After unwittingly posting an unauthorized music file on his blog, Dave Allen, former bassist for Gang of Four,
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What is your stolen data worth?
You think your personal information is priceless. But everything has a price, even your stolen bank account information.McAfee Avert Labs has discovered a price list that criminals use to buy and sell credit card numbers, bank account log-ins, and other consumer data that have been filched from unsuspecting Web ...
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Another team joins race to advance chip software
Clock speed is no longer the most important measure on processors prowess.
It has been supplanted by performance per watt, which addresses the greening of the chip industry. The performance bump that formerly came from cranking up clock speed is now the province of multicores. The only problem is that
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Latest quad-cores creep into consumer desktops
Quad-core processors boasting lower power and packing more transistors are arriving at mass-market retail.
HP Pavilion Slimline desktop s3430f uses a low-power AMD quad-core processor
(Credit: Hewlett-Packard)These latest quads from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are now populating consumer desktops from Hewlett-Packard and Gateway, among other prominent PC makers. ...
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Report: Microsoft earmarks $1.5 billion to keep Yahoo employees
Microsoft plans to set aside $1.5 billion for employee retention at Yahoo, should it succeed in its unsolicited buyout bid for the Internet search pioneer, according to court documents in a shareholder lawsuit cited by theThe documents include transcripts of a March 24 conference call ...
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Chipmakers team up for home-networking standard
Leading chip and consumer electronics companies say they are pursuing powerline networking on the road to the completely connected digital home.Intel, Texas Instruments, Infineon, and Panasonic said Tuesday that they are working on a home-networking standard that uses electrical and phone lines and coaxial cable that consumers already have ...
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Nvidia to make all your PC games 3D (if you so choose)
Thanks to a new software driver Nvidia is cooking up, any PC game can be played in 3D, with no extra work on the part of game developers.Beginning this summer, any PC with an Nvidia graphics processor will have the ability to run a game in normal mode, or ...
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iPhone as electronic airplane boarding pass
Some airlines have been allowing BlackBerrys to be used as electronic boarding passes and soon standard cell phones will follow.Now there is news of the iPhone being used to board a plane. Blogger Gerald Buckley writes about how he was allowed to board an American Airlines flight from San ...
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Roost launches home buying search engine
To buy or not to buy? That is the question.Regardless of where you stand in that debate, there is no dearth of Web sites to help you research, or just drool.
Joining the growing list of real estate sites is Roost, which was set to launch publicly on Wednesday. ...
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Dell, Microsoft looking for some Red ink
Microsoft and Dell are seeing Red.The two companies planned to announce on Friday that they were teaming up to offer three (Product) Red PCs, supporting the charitable effort that benefits women and children affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa. However, their news dribbled out early, after the New ...
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Get an upconverting DVD player for $34.99 shipped
(Credit: Coby)Many people erroneously assume that an HDTV automatically makes everything look better: TV, movies, their living rooms. The reality, of course, is that without high-definition video sources, images can look rather disappointing. A typical DVD player, for instance, produces only 480 horizontal lines of video; HDTVs are optimized ...
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Baidu.com CFO dies in accident
Shawn Wang, chief financial officer for Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, died Thursday in an accident while on vacation during the holidays, the company said in a statement.
(Credit: Baidu.com)The company did not elaborate on the details of the accident.
"We are all completely shocked ...
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