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PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products of 2006 233

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 27, 2006 @10:07PM from the top-20-list dept.

Craig Sender writes "PC World has put together a list of their choices for the 20 Most Innovative Products of 2006. The List includes Office 2007, Nintendo Wii, Sony Reader, Sony PlayStation 3, the BlackBerry Pearl, and some other interesting choices."

Former Spy Poisoned By Radiation In UK 432

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 24, 2006 @04:34PM from the fishy-quite-fishy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC new is reporting the death of the ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with a major dose of radioactive polonium-210. But nobody knows how it got there. Suspicions have fallen upon the Russian security services (who deny involvement). The task of the pathologists now is to unpick what really killed him and how it was administered. Quite what techniques they will use to solve this puzzle is unclear." From the article: "A post-mortem examination on Mr Litvinenko has not been held yet. The delay is believed to be over concerns about the health implications for those present at the examination. But Roger Cox from the HPA said a large quantity of alpha radiation emitted from polonium-210 had been detected in Mr Litvinenko's urine."

A Memory Card Torture Test 309

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday July 22, 2006 @08:35AM from the kicking-the-tires dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Would you buy a Ferrari and put regular gas into it? I don't think so. So why are most of us buying expensive digital cameras and using cheap memory cards? If you want to find out how much better a high speed memory card is, check out this group test of high capacity compact flash and SD cards."

New Caldera Promised 291

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday June 17, 2006 @04:29PM from the people-you-love-to-hate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SCO has announced their plans to release a new version of Caldera Linux by the end of the year. From the announcement: 'To provide extensive reliability and performance features, the Linux Kernel 2.5 codebase has been merged with recently developed additions to SCO's world leading UNIX core operating system. Already contained code owned by SCO is still included benefiting the stability and overall experience opposed to recent Linux kernel releases.' The question is, is anyone listening?"

Warner Bros. to Sell Movies Over BitTorrent 319

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 09, 2006 @08:07AM from the a-little-looser-rules-please dept.

martinmarv writes "The BBC is reporting that Warner Bros. is to sell movies over BitTorrent. Disappointingly, the pricing is set to be about the same as the DVD, even though the download will only become available at the same time as the DVD release, and can only play on one machine. In distributing films via download, Warner will join the ranks of MovieLink and CinemaNow. Perhaps they should wait to see how their $1.50 experiment works out first?." From the article: "Other Hollywood studios are now likely to launch similar services. They believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie rather than risk illegally swapping a computer file that could contain viruses or be a poor quality copy of a film. "

Self-Serve Car Rental 143

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 05, 2006 @05:56PM from the web-2.0-in-realspace dept.

abb_road writes "Claiming 'Web2.0 values meet Brick and Mortar,' BusinessWeek is reporting on an entirely self service car rental company. Zipcar customers make all reservations online or using a cell phone, then use a card-key to pick up their car from the parking garage--no attendants needed. According to the article, one of the other important attractions of the system is transparency; the reservations system allows you to see exactly what cars in the area will be available at what times, and then reserve or adjust your plans accordingly. From the article: 'If the nearest Mini convertible is booked until 3 p.m., the customer might postpone plans by an hour to get it -- or decide the Mazda with a sunroof on another lot will do.'"

Comment Re:Ad blocking? (Score 1) 189

by GraemeL on Wednesday July 20, 2005 @11:08AM (#13114100) Attached to: The Future of RSS is Not Blogs

You might want to look at Bloglines. It's a free, web based, RSS aggregator.

This has the advantage of remembering which articles that you've already seen if you view your feeds from multiple locations. As it's web based, your Firefox AdBlock is built in.

It also offers a simpler interface designed for mobile devices if you have the capability of accessing the web on the move.

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