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30Sep/0997

10 minute Google Wave Overview


The Google Wave team put out this 10 minute (more like 7-8) overview of Wave, to give people a quick and compressed description and showcase of the product.

29Sep/094

Microsoft Barrelfish: Not your average OS

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Microsoft Research just announced their experimental OS, Barrelfish. The project is aimed straight at making Operating Systems take advantage of newer multi-core processors, instead of letting their power go to waste.

29Sep/090

100,000 Google Wave invites going out tomorrow

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Back in July Google said they would send out 100,000 invitations to Google Wave in September, and that day is finally just around the corner. Google has confirmed on their blog that 100,000 Google Wave invites will be sent out tomorrow, September 30th.

29Sep/098

Microsoft Security Essentials goes non-beta, free for all

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Microsoft has officially made the full version of its Security Essentials software available to the public, for absolutely free.

29Sep/0912

HP leaks the Pavilion dv3, dm1, and Core i7 dv8

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Through a rough draft of HP's Winter 2009/2010 consumer catalog comes word of three, previously unannounced machines: the touchscreen dv3, ultaportable dm1, and the Pavilion dv8 with the Core i7.

28Sep/090

AT&T releases Real Time IM Relay for hearing impaired

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AT&T has been offering IM Relay since the earlier this year, allowing users to communicate through an operator over the phone. But the company is ready to one-up themselves, announcing an upgrade to the service that will allow real-time communication between callers.

28Sep/090

webOS 1.2 now available

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webOS 1.2.0 has just been released today. The big new features for the update include support for app purchases in the Catalog in addition to a ton of little fixes and improvements.

27Sep/090

New Windows 7 ads

Microsoft has just unveiled some new ads for Windows 7, and they are surprisingly good.

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26Sep/090

Lenovo IdeaCenter Q110 on sale now

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As the wave of NVIDIA Ion-based machines continue to be released, we now have the Lenovo IdeaCenter Q110 nettop. You can grab it now preloaded with Vista for $399, with 2GB of RAM and a 160GB HDD.

26Sep/090

Palm Pre drops to $79.99 at Walmart

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Today Walmart has cut the Pre's price down to an amazing $79.99 (with contract and mail-in rebate). Really starting to feel sorry bad for those who dropped $200 at launch...