Stories about: Hubbub

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    FAQ: Meet Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 09/09/2008 09:35:00

    With all the hubbub surrounding Google's rollout of Chrome last week, nearly lost in the buzz was the release the week before of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2.
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    Will enterprise IT dump Internet Explorer for Google Chrome? 04/09/2008 11:51:00

    Techies appear to be flocking to Google Chrome, which may lead many consumers and small businesses to follow.
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    Sony DCR-DVD810 24/07/2008 13:30:00

    The DVD camcorder is a funny old beast. A few years ago, everyone with a passing interest in videography wanted one, despite numerous flaws with the hardware (including poor video compression, numerous editing difficulties and ruinous file errors). These days, most DVD cameras have overcome these problems and are vastly superior to their creaky predecessors, yet their popularity has taken a significant nosedive. Go figure.
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    Google pulls real-time chat app 10/04/2008 10:27:26

    The buzz around Google's App Engine hasn't died a day after its launch, although not for the reason that Google probably would like.
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    Poor nations gain more choices in computing 13/03/2008 09:30:51

    The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) has highlighted the need to provide computing to kids in the developing world, but headlines surrounding the group's $100 laptop PC have attracted a growing number of companies and organizations trying to figure out how the digital world can help those most in need.
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    Animals to sleep through zoo's big tech upgrade 27/11/2007 09:14:03

    The 85 tigers and other big cats at the Carnivore Preservation Trust (CPT) in Pittsboro, North Carolina, may scarcely notice the hubbub, but a US$500,000 communications and computing upgrade is under way to help tell their story to the world.
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    iPhone's Bluetooth bug under the hacker microscope 02/10/2007 05:37:43

    Almost lost in the hubbub over last Thursday's iPhone firmware update and whether it would "brick" unlocked phones was the fact that Apple patched 10 vulnerabilities -- twice the number of fixes issued since the phone's June debut.
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    The big guide to USB peripherals 17/08/2007 11:15:01

    The Universal Serial Bus (USB) was originally created to replace legacy parallel and serial ports on PCs, for example, mouse and keyboard connections, printer parallel cables, outboard modem serial cables and so on.
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    Mac worm author receives death threats 19/07/2007 11:20:03

    The beef over news of a worm targeting Macs, and the identity of the researcher who claimed to have created the malware, took an even stranger turn Wednesday as death threats were allegedly posted to his or her blog, which was then reportedly hacked.
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    A small step to improve disk reliability 18/05/2007 10:40:50

    The storage industry isn't necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it's in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the physical block size of disk drives to 4,096 bytes instead of 512 bytes.
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    Creative Labs takes SoundBlaster to USB 08/05/2003 09:54:57

    For the PC user with discerning ears and who doesn't want to settle for the modest audio capabilities of the motherboard, Creative Labs is preparing a pair of new USB SoundBlasters that don't require access to a PCI slot--meaning even a notebook can get better sound.
 
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