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Online maps reveal noise levels across England (Reuters) 16. May 2008

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Reuters - Maps showing noise levels
in towns across England were published on Friday in an attempt
to reduce the disruption caused by factories, planes, trains
and cars, the British government said.
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XP on the OLPC

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Here’s a video of the OLPC running XP, it’s from Microsoft - looks like the OLPC might be a win based system now via Engadget - post up in the comments with your opinions!

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Sharp claims record mobile fuel cell power density

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Shrink it a bit, and it’ll replace laptop batteries

Sharp has claimed the crown for the highest power density mobile fuel cell. The Japanese company’s technology delivers enough power per cubic centimetre, it said, to allow the system to one day replace standard lithium-ion packs. No, this time it really will…

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The Ping Pong Door

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Every office should have a Ping Pong door. Although productivity would go down by at least 80% once this door is installed. No word on price yet, but this should be a fairly easy project to remake for your home or office.

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Demonstrerer rotverktűy for Cisco-rutere

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Ciscos rutere er slett ikke immune mot ondsinnet programvare som rotverktűy, hevder forsker.
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Computacenter coughs to gloomy first quarter

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So who is buying IT these days?

Computacenter has warned of difficult trading in the first quarter of 2008, especially in France and the UK.

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Derfor ble «theGAYERgamer» kastet ut

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MS forklarer Xbox Live-utkastelse.
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Alvorlig hull i Debian

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Samtlige Debian-baserte distribusjoner inneholder et seriűst sikkerhetshull i SSH.
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Hearts Turn to Rainbows in Quake's Wake (PC World)

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PC World - Internet users in China have begun expressing solidarity with the victims of Monday's earthquake via their instant messaging…
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XO fćr dualboot

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Billig-PC-en XO leveres med bćde Linux og Windows installert.
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NATO bygger cyber-bunker

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Skal forsvare oss mot hackere.
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Tekniken som enkelt stoppar piraterna

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Nu Àr det tekniskt möjligt att stoppa den illegala fildelningen. Men metoden gÄr ut pÄ att operatörerna analyserar trafiken, och det fÄr bara ske efter samtycke. - För att filtrera trafik utan samtycke krÀvs en lagÀndring, sÀger Per Bergstrand pÄ PTS.

3 gÄr sin egen vÀg

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Medan Telia, Tele2 och Telenor flaggar för kommande satsningar pÄ lte - Àven kallat super-3g - vÀljer 3g-operatören 3 en annan vÀg. Bolaget satsar pÄ en vidareutveckling av dagens turbo-3g kallad hspa evolution.

Wake up and smell the Doritosℱ - Avril Lavigne’s manager 15. May 2008

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Mmm. Doritos.

Copyright is over, and musicians should make themselves as pretty as they can for big brand advertisers, says top music manager and label boss Terry McBride.

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O2 confirms new iPhone ‘in weeks’

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O2 CEO Matthew Key confirmed that the cellular provider will make an iPhone-related announcement in conjunction with Apple “in the coming weeks.”
MacWorld

Yahoo lets websites customize how searches work (Reuters)

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<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080515/wr_nm/yahoo_search_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080515/2008_05_15t121202_450×280_us_yahoo_search.jpg?x=130&y=80&q=85&sig=6FCoH43t5mCv7rRw6UHFjw–” align=”left” height=”80″ width=”130″ alt=”The headquarters of Yahoo Inc. is pictured in Sunnyvale, California, May 5, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters - Yahoo Inc has introduced a
software development tool that lets outside parties create
customized views of Yahoo Web search results, the company said
on Thursday.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Icahn vows to oust Yahoo directors in shareholder revolt (AP)

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<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_icahn”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080515/capt.98dd0f5306054f97ac6f93f7eca2b803.yahoo_icahn_nybz123.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=86M8zVeARiXdVkXYHXmbew–” align=”left” height=”95″ width=”130″ alt=”This April 30, 2008 file photo shows an exterior view of Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Thursday, May 15, 2008 officially launched a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board, writing in a letter to Chairman Roy Bostock 'the board of directors of Yahoo has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders' and Microsoft Corp. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)” border=”0″ /></a>AP - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors for “irresponsible” and “unconscionable” actions that led Microsoft Corp. to withdraw a $47.5 billion offer to buy the slumping Internet pioneer.</p><br clear=”all”/>
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Ny PS3-oppdatering

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Men den fikser ikke GTA IV.
ITAvisen

Callpod Dragon 14. May 2008

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The Callpod Dragon Bluetooth headset offers a bounty of features, but it doesn’t deliver on call quality.


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Test spin: Google App Engine (InfoWorld)

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InfoWorld - One of the joys of being a Web programmer is heading to a dinner party, a haircut, or a reunion and fielding the pitches for everyone's dream for a brilliant Web application. Everyone is always happy to cut you in for 5, 10, maybe even 15 percent of the equity if you just build out the Web site that's sort of like a combination of Twitter, AltaVista, Eliza, TurboTax, and the corner pharmacy, but cooler.
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