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    Magellan Triton 200 30/07/2008 13:00:00

    At the bottom end of Magellan's Triton range, the Triton 200 offers only the most basic handheld navigation functions for hiking and other outdoor activities. Those features it does have are implemented well, but the absence of expandable memory severely restricts its use as a handheld GPS device.
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    Magellan Triton 400 28/07/2008 13:00:00

    Magellan's Triton 400 is a mid-range handheld GPS device with a number of features that make it useful for hiking and other outdoor activities. As the cheapest device in the company's handheld range to support expandable memory, the unit is certainly worth the retail price. However, a steep learning curve may deter novices.
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    Logitech Quickcam E 3500 23/07/2008 14:20:00

    The Quickcam E 3500 is a midrange webcam that would be most charitably described as a jack-of-all-trades. It performs its primary function fairly well, and offers a decent assortment of effects and features for the asking price. While by no means a bad product, it's completely devoid of anything special. If we were forced to sum up the E 3500 in one word, we'd have to go with "meh", accompanied by an ambivalent shrug of the shoulders.
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    After Bill Gates, five possible futures for Microsoft 25/06/2008 09:56:13

    For most people, Bill Gates and Microsoft are one and the same. Gates has led Microsoft to global dominance in the 33 years since its founding, combining a strong opportunism -- getting the code for DOS to sell to IBM for the first PC and aping Apple's visual interface for the first Windows are the two best examples of Gates' moving where the wind was soon to blow -- with a steady vision of desktop computers being as powerful as the mainframes that captured techies' imaginations in the 1970s.
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    Battlefield: Bad Company 24/06/2008 13:20:00

    Dynamic action, tons of features, and highly detailed visuals come together for the first significant step forward of console first-person shooters since Halo: Combat Evolved. While there are a few minor quibbles, you're assured to become addicted to Battlefield: Bad Company's twitch gameplay.
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    Discovery Earth Live gives 3-D view of weather patterns 11/02/2008 07:13:04

    The Discovery Channel has launched a cool Web application that gives users a three-dimensional view of planet Earth and lets them manipulate the globe with near-real-time views of the clouds, water vapor and rainfall.
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    Apps accelerators tackle security 30/11/2007 11:01:12

    Companies that specialize in helping businesses speed delivery of their applications and Web content are increasingly involving themselves in IT security as the continued proliferation of systems-defense technologies has become a potential roadblock to the performance and quality of the services they already provide.
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    Microsoft wants to put a Windows server in your house 13/11/2007 08:08:37

    As part of its Windows 2008 Server reviewers gathering this week in Redmond, Microsoft outlined how it will deliver the editions of the long-awaited Longhorn server with a few surprises.
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    E3 - Halo 3 single-player unveiled 13/07/2007 09:26:04

    Frank O'Connor and Brian Jarrard from Bungie stood next to the recently revealed limited-edition Halo 3 Xbox 360 and an enormous high-def television. Over the next ten minutes, we saw the first public demonstration of Halo 3's secretive single-player campaign. Consider this your backstage pass!
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    White hats and black boxes 14/06/2007 15:17:56

    Jeremiah Grossman wants you to know that firewalls and SSL encryption won't prevent a hacker from breaking into your e-commerce website, compromising your customers' data and possibly stealing your money. That's because most website attacks these days exploit bugs in the Web application itself, rather than in the operating system on which the application is running.
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    Blue Lane: Patching servers in the network 14/05/2007 11:03:06

    For managers of enterprise datacenters, the endless stream of security patches from Microsoft, Oracle, and other software vendors (not to mention open source projects) has been a prime source of frustration. For Blue Lane Technologies, it has provided a golden opportunity.
 
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