Archive for November 28, 2007

Caderna, a laptop with Japanese stamp

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It is a global trend, both in Japan and the rest of the world. I am talking about personalization, the need for each product offered in the market to respond accurately to the needs of its owner.
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Tamagochi, one of the worst gadgets history

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There was a time in which children are sumían into a deep depression when her favorite pet, this kind of adopted son finally died after agonizar for several weeks. Do you remember the fury of the Tamagochi? I grabbed me when it was big enough to succumb to the demands of this little being manufactured by Bandai but many children in the world demanding their own Tamagochi to care, pamper and sleep, of course, without knowing that the little monster one day leave this world and abandon forever.

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MedionMD8828, a Mulitmedia PC

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Just as there are computers for the jugones usual, there are other dedicated to entertainment. This is the case of MedionMD8828, a team with a good performance which has been designed to be used as an entertainment center.
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Google to play clean power broker

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Search giant Google on Tuesday pledged to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make renewable energy cheaper than coal.

The effort, dubbed RE<C (shorthand for “renewable energy less than coal”), calls for Google to invest in companies developing clean-energy technologies and for Google itself to next year invest tens of millions in research and development in renewable energy.
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Top Internet Security Risks of 2007

hacker.jpgCyber criminals and cyber spies have shifted their focus again, successfully evading the countermeasures that most companies and government agencies have worked for years to put into place. Facing real improvements in system and network security, the attackers now have two new prime targets that allow them to evade firewalls, antivirus and even intrusion prevention tools: users who are easily misled and custom-built applications. This is a major shift from prior years when attackers limited most of their targets to flaws in commonly used software.
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Minister pushes broadband agenda

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The government is to draw up a battle plan on the best way to roll out next-generation broadband networks.

It will share best practice from high-speed pilots around the UK as well as lay out the business case for future investment in high-speed networks.
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The FBI continues Following more people thanks to mobile phones

Since it appeared phones with GPS there are all kinds of service that uses the geolocalizations and began concerns about privacy… but the reality is that before GPS, technology enabled call aGPS you locate someone with less than 30 meters from mistake depending on the amount of cellular antennas that were in the place where that person was located.

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OLPC Just Can’t Catch a Break This Week

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Joy of Tech’s apparently drinking the same OLPC haterade everyone else is this week, though it rags on OLPC’s triumphant aftermath rather than the program’s recently harped on shortcomings. Hit the jump to see the one year later snap/potshot.

[via All Things D]

Sony announces PSP Extended Life Battery Kit

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Some three years ago, everyone and their PSP-lovin’ cousin was moaning about the miserable battery life of Sony’s PlayStation Portable, and while the outfit did unveil the Stamina Battery for the original PSP-1000, we’re quite pleased to see an extended pack being offered up for it and the new, oh-so-slim PSP-2000. … continue reading this entry.

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