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HP Accused of Illegal Exportation To Iran 287

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @05:50PM from the trade-tends-to-bring-people-together dept.

AdamWeeden writes "According to research done by the Boston Globe, HP has been secretly using a third-party company to sell printers to Iran. This is illegal under a ban instituted in 1995 by then US President Bill Clinton. The third-party company, Redington Gulf, operates out of Dubai and previously stated on their web site that the company began in 1997 with 'a team of five people and the HP supplies as our first product, we started operations as the distributor for Iran,' though now the site has been changed to remove the mention of Iran. Has HP unknowingly been supplying Iran with technology or have they been trying to secretly get by the US government's export restrictions?"

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Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests 371

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @04:15AM from the there-fixed-that-for-ya dept.

ThinSkin writes "So many Web browsers, so little time. The folks at ExtremeTech have assembled the ultimate browser test to determine which Web browser is king. From speed tests to rendering tests, different browsers traded off wins, but Google Chrome came out on top."

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Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs 211

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @12:14PM from the doc-oc-uber-alles dept.

Garimelda writes "Scientists have discovered what they believe is an eight-armed creature which colonized a large section of the world's oceans over 300 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged."

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Comment Old tech, new name (Score 1) 90

by Mr_Perl on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @09:28AM (#25024315) Attached to: Cognitive Radios Could Increase Wireless Spectrum

Dynamic allocation of frequencies has been around for quite some time, it's called a trunked system.

I guess the hype here is that they're using SDR technology to do it and a few neat tricks with wifi as well. Must be about time to sell the next generation of new radios to the gov/corp worlds.

I tend to agree with the earlier poster who said simpler is better. At least having a simpler backup system seems reasonable here for the early adopters anyway.

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Submission + - Google mistakes own blog for spam, deletes it (itworld.com)

Submitted by

narramissic

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:49PM

narramissic writes: "Oops! They did it again. Google mistakenly identified its own Custom Search Blog as a spam site and handed over the url to the general public, as they typically do when blogs are disabled. Google's process when it identifies a site as spam is to notify the blog owners to give them a chance to clear up any misunderstandings. However, that didn't work out in this case."

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Submission + - An Optical Solution For an NP-Complete problem? (opticsexpress.org)

Submitted by 6 on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @11:51AM

6 writes: Tobias Haist and Wolfgang Osten have proposed a novel idea for solving the traveling salesman problem...

We introduce an optical method based on white light interferometry in order to solve the well-known NP-complete traveling salesman problem. To our knowledge it is the first time that a method for the reduction of non-polynomial time to quadratic time has been proposed. We will show that this achievement is limited by the number of available photons for solving the problem. It will turn out that this number of photons is proportional to NN for a traveling salesman problem with N cities and that for large numbers of cities the method in practice therefore is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. The proposed method is meant purely as a gedankenexperiment.

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Submission + - Schedules Direct to support XMLTV and MythTV

Submitted by MitchInOmaha on Tuesday August 07, 2007 @10:08PM

MitchInOmaha writes: From an email from a Tribune Media source announcing an agreement with Schedules Direct to continue providing schedule data to users of XMLTV and MythTV. From the email, "Today we are pleased to announce an agreement that will allow for many of you to continue to have access to your personal television listings data." And goes on to say that although it will be a paid service, it will be for non-commercial use only, and will not be available for use with commercially supplied devices. "As of September 1, 2007, there WILL BE an alternative television listings source for certain Zap2it Labs users who become members of Schedules Direct, which includes a membership fee." More available on the Schedules Direct website.

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