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3 hrs ago | Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

Eye-Fi Launches Three New Wireless Memory Cards: Eye-Fi Explore, Eye-Fi Share, and Eye-Fi Home

“We understand that each photographer has his or her own way of sharing memories”

Eye-Fi Unveils Family of Products BURLINGAME, Calif., May 12, 2008 Today Eye-Fi , makers of the world's first wireless SD memory card, announced an extended product line-up designed to make photo sharing easier ... via Cameratown.com Digital Imaging News

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8 hrs ago | The Age

Lavish praise for free WorldWide Telescope

“In terms of pushing the envelope, this really pushes the envelope.”

A free program launched today will effectively turn every computer that downloads it into a mini-planetarium capable of displaying high resolution images of millions of stars, planets and other celestial ... via The Age

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Related Topix: Astronomy, Science

12 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Facebook raises $100m to cope with growth

Facebook gets $100m to expand This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday May 12 2008. via Guardian Unlimited

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software

17 hrs ago | CBS 11 | Posted by CBS 11

HP In Talks To Buy Plano's EDS

Hewlett-Packard is negotiating to buy Plano-based information technology services provider Electronic Data Systems in a deal that would expand the world's largest personal computer maker's reach in the corporate consulting market.

Palo Alto-based HP confirmed the discussions Monday after The Wall Street Journal's Web site reported a deal is in the works. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, The Journal said the sales price is expected to range between $12 billion and $13 billion. Read more

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21 hrs ago | WACH-TV Columbia

Children to receive free laptops in poor, rural schools

About 500 elementary and pre-kindergarten students in one of South Carolina's poorest areas will begin receiving free laptop computers this week. via WACH-TV Columbia

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Yesterday | The Associated Press | Posted by The Associated Press

Fujitsu quarterly profit down 40 percent

Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu on Monday reported nearly a 40 percent plunge in profit for the January-March quarter, largely on costs to restructure its computer chips operations.

Declining prices of its stock holdings, slightly weaker sales and an absence of cash that had inflated profits a year earlier from the selling of shares it held in Fanuc Ltd., a robot-maker, also contributed to the drop, Fujitsu Ltd. said.

Net profit in the fiscal fourth quarter totaled 51.92 billion yen ($502.1 million), down 39.9 percent from 86.41 billion yen the same period the previous year. Read more

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Related Topix: Computers, Business News

Yesterday | ExtremeTech

Gaming Performance - Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3

Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. via ExtremeTech

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Yesterday | CNET News.com

FBI probe nets counterfeit Chinese networking parts

“This unclassified briefing was never intended for broad distribution or posting to the Internet”

The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million. via CNET News.com

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Yesterday | PC Magazine

Chil Plans to Take PC Power Digital

“Digital power has been this buzzword for a bunch of years, where it equals state of the art, which equals high cost, which equals we can't really use it”

In June, a startup plans to revamp the way PCs handle power, saving cost, improving their efficiency and offering more fine-grained control for overclocking the PC's components. via PC Magazine

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Sunday | Denver Post

Next generation of business software could get more fun

“Those kinds of things make you forget there's an interface mediating you and the other people at all”

Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler. via Denver Post

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Related Topix: Outsourcing, Social Software, IBM

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