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“Never let go”
Yahoo is treading on dangerous waters. Amidst a hostile takeover attempt by Carl Icahn, CEO Jerry Yang and Yahoo’s board struggle with the ramifications of their campaign to keep their company from Microsoft at all costs. Their decisions may in the end have sealed their […]

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Firefox’s 3 much heralded launch campaign appears to have worked, with the company reporting that in the first few hours of release 14,000 people were downloading the software every minute.
With each copy of Firefox 3 clocking in at 7MB, that means the company’s servers were dealing with a staggering 13 gigabits of data every second. […]

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As you guys have already known, Google loves “dressing up” on particular occasions. For example, they had a Christmas Theme, Halloween themed search page and many more. This upcoming week will be Gay Pride Week. Hence, Google has already dressed up some of their pages to commemorate the occasion.
Try Google-ing “gay” and you’ll be greeted […]

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Seagate doesn’t currently have any drives in the SSD market. Seagate currently is one of the largest makers of traditional hard drives and while it foresees a time when the solid state drive (SSD) is a better value than traditional HDDs; that time is not now.Seagate announced that next year it will double its highest […]

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Don’t be alarm by it. There is nothing new about these restrictions and there are so many ways in bypassing it. I was curious and wondered whether an old trick that I used to play around with when I was 15, still worked (I couldn’t find a reason otherwise). And in less than 1 minute, […]

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An inspiring video on how this self-taught computer hacker created one of the today’s best operating systems.
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The next big thing with über sleek & thin laptops with crystal clear displays will be the Samsung AM-OLED (Active Matrix OLED) 12.1 inch laptop.  Move over MacBook Air because the Samsung SDI comes with a sleek touch sensitive keyboard which allows the laptop to be extremely thin. However, the keyboard is yet to be […]

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Seven out of ten orders for the Eee PC are going unfulfilled according to reports, as the notebook falls victim to its own popularity and a shortage of components. Asus is struggling to source batteries for the Eee PC following a fire at an LG Chem plant earlier this month claims Kevin Lin, vice president […]

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As promised before. Here’s the link to the IT Show 2008 brochures and price lists. Currently, there are only a few (obviously). There should be more updates and contributions tomorrow.
Credits: coldfreeze @ HWZ

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The IT show is just hours away. You’d probably have something in mind to splurge on in these 4 days of non-stop bargains. To help you further with the agony of finding out the prices, here are some of the preview bargains that will leave you baffled.
MacBook Air
For those who haven’t seen it, feel it […]

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