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Submission + - SPAM: Ten times more energy-efficient microchip recharge

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on Monday March 17, 2008 @09:20AM

WirePosted writes: "Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have designed a new chip that they claim could be up to 10 times more energy-efficient than the current generation. The power consumption in the new chip is so low that devices using them may even be able to be recharged by human body heat."
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Submission + - SPAM: Got Sleep? CDC says 1 out of 10 Americans are slee

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on Sunday March 02, 2008 @09:46PM

WirePosted writes: "A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research study, released February 28, 2008, states that ten percent of adults are not getting sufficient rest or sleep every night. Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders also raise the risk for additional health problems."
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Submission + - SPAM: Is this the future of news? Unedited

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on Sunday February 17, 2008 @07:19AM

WirePosted writes: "Wikipedia has been a huge success providing useful, user-generated information with no central censoring or editing but relying instead on the user community to review and correct information. Now CNN is trying to do the same for news."
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Submission + - SPAM: Expedition to track down extreme living creatures

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on Saturday February 09, 2008 @11:38PM

WirePosted writes: "Antarctica is filled with tiny organisms that love conditions too extreme for most other living thing. And a team of international scientists is looking for more of them at Lake Untersee in the cold confines of Antarctica."
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Submission + - SPAM: Apple cannot afford to keep single carrier policy

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on Saturday February 02, 2008 @11:58PM

WirePosted writes: "When iPod global marketing director Steve Joswiak was asked at Macworld 2007 why Apple had chosen to restrict iPhone to AT&T in the US, he replied that Apple could not have delivered functions such as visual voicemail without AT&T. That was no doubt true when iPhone was still under development but how can Apple afford to stick to exclusive carrier deals as it takes iPhone global?"
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Submission + - SPAM: MacSpeech drops iListen, launches Mac version of D

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on Tuesday January 15, 2008 @08:22PM

WirePosted writes: "MacSpeech, the leading supplier of speech recognition software for the Mac has canned its long-running iListen product and has launched a Mac version of the top selling Windows speech recognition product, Dragon NaturallySpeaking through a licensing agreement with Dragon's developer, Nuance Communications."
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Submission + - SPAM: Eestor ultracapacitor to power Lockheed Martin mil

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on Sunday January 13, 2008 @08:59AM

WirePosted writes: "A secretive power storage startup that claims it has developed a revolutionary super battery based on ultracapacitor technology may wipe the smirks off the faces of skeptics by signing an exclusive deal with defence giant Lockheed Martin. News of the Lockheed deal with Texas based Eestor also sent the stock of Canadian electric car maker Zenn Motor Company soaring because it has an exclusive license to use Eestor ultracapacitors in small electric vehicles."
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Submission + - Xbox 360's jamming wireless signals? (itwire.com)

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on Monday December 17, 2007 @10:25AM

WirePosted writes: "A report has emerged suggesting the Xbox 360's inbuilt wireless system for communication with wireless controllers and headsets is transmitting over a wide area of the 2.4Ghz spectrum, causing interference to WLAN's and other 2.4Ghz devices."

Submission + - Where are Wii? (itwire.com)

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on Sunday December 09, 2007 @06:51AM

WirePosted writes: "Santa is in trouble, it looks like supplying the Christmas need for a Nintendo Wii game console is in jeopardy as stocks wither under constant and heavy demand. Conspiracy believers suggest this is an orchestrated move on behalf of Nintendo."

Submission + - Asus eeePC violates GPL say Linux stalwarts (itwire.com)

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on Sunday November 25, 2007 @05:53AM

WirePosted writes: "Members of the Linux community have complained that the hot new sub-notebook from Asus, the eeePC, may have violated the spirit of the Linux General Public License (GPL). Some Linux advocates claim the eeePC has not included required source code with the installed Xandros Linux distribution and does not easily enable users to install another distro. However, there are indications that eeePC fans probably don't care."

Submission + - Dell Ubuntu computers cost more than Windows equiv (itwire.com) 1

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on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @08:30AM

WirePosted writes: "It's hard to believe that Dell is serious about its well-publicised program to put Linux computers on the global market when there are blatantly obvious instances where the limited range of Ubuntu notebooks and desktops are more expensive than their Windows equivalent. However, is pricing as important as some may think?"

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