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New HP Chief To Face Shareholder Pressure On 'Hurd Premium'
Wall Street Journal
By Rex Crum Now that Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) has picked its new chief executive, Leo Apotheker is about to get educated in the demands of the company's stockholders who grew accustomed to watching their shares more-than-double during the era of CEO ...
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Faster Forward: EA takes 'Taliban' out of Medal of Honor game
Washington Post
By Rob Pegoraro Electronic Arts' upcoming multiplayer combat simulation will still have you engaging in ground combat in Afghanistan. You'll still be able to play as the American side. But if you take the other side, you'll no longer go into battle as ...
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Microsoft, Samsung Partner on Windows Phone 7 Devices
PC Magazine
Samsung on Friday confirmed that it will launch several Windows Phone 7 devices this year in the US, Europe, and Asia. "Samsung's new Windows Phone 7 based smartphones will play a key role to reinforce Samsung's leadership in smartphone market," WP ...
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Ig Nobel prizes awarded for bat fellatio, whale snot sampling, more
Ars Technica
By John Timmer | Last updated October 1, 2010 12:25 PM Each year, just ahead of when the folks in Sweden announce the Nobel Prizes, Boston plays host to the ceremony at which the Ig Nobel Prizes are handed out. These awards are intended to "make people ...
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Microsoft Selects New Xbox, Office, Mobile Presidents
PC Magazine
Microsoft on Friday appointed three new division presidents to head its Office, mobile, and interactive entertainment businesses. Don Mattrick will become president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, which includes the company's Xbox ...
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E-book provider Kobo bets on BlackBerry Playbook
Reuters
By Solarina Ho TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian e-reading service provider Kobo Inc hopes to find success riding on the back of the BlackBerry PlayBook and other tablet computers even as it continues to expand its own line up of e-readers. ...
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If there's life on alien planet Gliese 581g, how do we find it?
msnbc.com
By Mike Wall After spending decades searching for alien planets capable of harboring life, astronomers may have found one. So how can they check to see if life actually exists on this alien world? Yesterday (Sept. 29), a team of researchers announced ...
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Jailbreakers Free Apple TV From Its Maker's Restrictions
DailyTech
Apple TV has been freed of Apple's restrictions, thanks to the hard work of the jailbreaking community. (Source: pod2g) Much to Apple's chagrin, the Library of Congress recently legalized jailbreaking of electronic devices in a clarification to 1998's ...
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Google Debuts New Image Format
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn Continuing its campaign to speed up the Web, Google on Thursday released a developer preview of a new open-source image format called WebP that reduces image file sizes by an average of a third more than what JPEG compression can ...
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