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Digital media player goes on sale June 13
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One of my favourite iPod speaker systems is the Logitech mm50 Portable. I've had it for a few years. Slim with surprisingly great sound, the mm50 system is my constant companion on the road.
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Tom Hanks is supporting presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
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 Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University, said placing enough carbon filters around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century, like a climatic time machine.
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|  Worst IP offenders: China, Russia, and... Canada?
Late last week, the US named and shamed its list of the worst offenders when it comes to protecting intellectual property; China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela topped the "Special 301 Report"
| Posted: | 2:29 PM on Monday the 28th, 2008 |
| Topic: | Tech |
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| Poster: | RUEZ |
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080427-worst-ip-offenders-china
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Late last week, the US named and shamed its list of the worst offenders when it comes to protecting intellectual property; China, Russia, Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela topped the "Special 301 Report"
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 ACOA Minister Peter MacKay, left, was in Summerisde today to announce $2 million in federal funding over three years for the Wind Energy Institute of Canada at Holland College in Slemon Park. Joining MacKay were Michael O'Grady, centre, vice president of
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The NDP is urging the government to introduce net neutrality and stop Canada's large telecommunications companies from throttling internet speeds.
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 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In Brent Swanson’s basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about “Battlestar Galactica.” He’s got a high-end projector that beams the picture onto a wall painted like a silver screen, and speakers loom in the corners, flanki
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 The breadth of a smile can be measured by new technology from Japanese electronics and health care company Omron Corp.
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 TORONTO -- Whether motivated by pragmatism or profit, Internet service providers and experts agree that consumers are likely to suffer most from "traffic-shaping'' policies implemented by some of Canada's telecom giants.
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Download movies in 5 seconds. Holographic video conferencing. Social networking could become the main way we communicate.
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 Boeing said Thursday it has successfully test flown a manned, hydrogen-powered plane — a first in aviation
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An invitation.
Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So, starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one of the grandest adventures i
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 NEW YORK -- Yahoo Inc. is launching a new site for women between ages 25 and 54, calling it a key demographic underserved by current Yahoo properties.
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even as ISP interference with BitTorrent traffic is easing in the US, the issue is heating up in Canada. Major Canadian ISPs are limiting access to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's shows, made available online using BitTorrent.
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 SAN FRANCISCO -- The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop on Thursday launched a basic version available for free online.
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 A California aerospace company plans to enter the space tourism industry with a two-seat rocket ship capable of suborbital flights to altitudes more than 60 kilometres above the Earth.
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Intel’s researchers have come up with a way to send Wi-Fi signals up to 60 miles (100km), while maintaining a usable throughput of up to 6.5Mbits/s.
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 MONTREAL - Space engineers are anxious to see their latest toy perform now that Dextre the Canadian robot is fully assembled on the International Space Station
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 Increasingly autonomous, gun-toting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.
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WATERLOO, Ont., - Universities need to "be smarter" about how they attract math and science students in the wake of declining university enrollment in those fields, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Thursday during a speech at the University of Waterloo
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 While all those juicy Canadian money jokes are sadly behind us, the dropping US dollar does have one nice side effect, at least for those pesky squatters north of the border. That's right, Canadians are finally getting an Xbox 360 pricing scheme on par w
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