Asus intros U1E ultra-portable laptop

Filed under: Laptops

We just caught sight of three new Asus laptops, but it looks like that’s not all the company has up its sleeve, with its ultra-portable U1E model now also making its first appearance. This one boasts an even smaller form factor than the company’s just-announced 12.1-inch, 3.3 pound U6S laptop, in this case [...]

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Will A Google Phone Change The Game? - BusinessWeek

Will A Google Phone Change The Game?BusinessWeek -14 hours agoLike its online ad network, Google's AdSense for Mobile delivers ads relevant to the advertiser's mobile audience. "The sheer volume of users across the …

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Microsoft and Google clash over online ads - mad.co.uk

Microsoft and Google clash over online adsmad.co.uk, UK -10 hours agoGoogle has attempted to add to its commercial offering in recent months, expanding its AdSense tool onto mobile phones and hiring Andy Berndt, co-president …

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iPhone update: facts and fiction

Filed under: Cellphones, Features

If you haven’t already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we’re here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth. Even if you have already updated, or never even unlocked or jailbroke your iPhone to [...]

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Google Buys Zingku, Mobile Social Network (Ionut Alex Chitu/Google Operating System)

Google Buys Zingku, Mobile Social Network  —  Google’s plans to extend in the mobile space could include the launch of a mobile phone.  For now, Google bought another mobile social network: Zingku.  “We’ve entered into an agreement to have Google acquire our Zingku service,” informs us Zingku.com.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut Alex Chitu
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News Corp. Internet Unit FIM Missed July, August Revs - Silicon Alley Insider

News Corp. Internet Unit FIM Missed July, August RevsSilicon Alley Insider, NY -40 minutes agoOur understanding is that FIM's shortfalls in July and August have come from both its display ad sales and lower-than-expected contributions from its Google…

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Robot Museum in Nagoya, Japan: our first and last visit

Filed under: Features, Robots

Those reading Engadget last year might recall our unbridled excitement for the opening of the largest, most extensive (if not the first) museum dedicated to robots and robotics: the Robot Museum (aka Robothink). So you can only imagine how incredibly crestfallen we were to hear that just after a year of entertaining [...]

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Stormhoek produces 'Microsoft wine' - decanter.com

Stormhoek produces 'Microsoft wine'decanter.com, UK -38 minutes agoMark Lewis, Search Engine Optimisation manager for IPC Media (parent company of Decanter) is less cynical. 'I don't know much about wine, and if a friend …

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10 Tips for Writing Better Posts

A blog is only as good as its content. Increasing the quality of our blog posts can bring traffic, inbound links, social bookmarks, subscribers, comments, and other rewards every blogger works hard to achieve.
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Conflicts Of Interest: Why Do Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Red Hat And Others Support The National ID Card?

The REAL ID Act of 2005 is a $17 billion privacy and civil rights nightmare that requires all fifty states to issue standardized ID and drivers license cards. Luckily, it has been stuck in bureaucratic limbo. Congress mandated the cards, passed off the strategy to Homeland Security and stuck the states with the tab for [...]

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Prius No Longer Golden Child of Green Motorists

For the past half a decade, the Toyota Prius has been the poster child for the world-elite, being both green and cool. A hybrid-electric vehicle, developed and manufactured by Toyota, has won car of the year in several countries over its short lifetime
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3Com to Be Sold for $2.2B

3Com Corp., a maker of networking hardware and software, will be sold to affiliates of private equity firm Bain Capital Partners LLC for $2.2 billion in cash, 3Com said Friday.
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International E-business Experts Get Together in Stockholm - Newsdesk

International E-business Experts Get Together in StockholmNewsdesk, Sweden -6 hours agoAll aspects of doing business online will be covered: strategy, content generation, viral marketing, search engine marketing, search engine optimization, …

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Go ahead, just try tickling ElmoSapien

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As you’ve probably already figured out, only one creation can emerge when you combine Elmo and Robosapien: ElmoSapien. This admittedly bizarre mishmash of toys combines WowWee’s Robosapien RS Media and Sesame Street’s famed Elmo (or his costume, at least) into one creature that somehow manages to look innocent and menacing simultaneously. ‘Course, there’s [...]

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Daniel Cooperman to Join Apple as General Counsel (Susan Lundgren/Apple)

Daniel Cooperman to Join Apple as General Counsel  —  Apple® today announced that Daniel Cooperman, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oracle Corporation, will join Apple as the company’s senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Source:   Apple
Author:   Susan Lundgren
Link:   http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/09/28cooperman…
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