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Microsoft Begins Another EU Anti-trust Fight

Nerdmaster — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:01:00 +0000

��Decides to appeal its latest hefty fine - despite conceding the charges.
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JVC Everio GZ-HD6EK

Nerdmaster — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

��Does a 120GB hard drive give JVC’s GZ-HD6 camcorder a foothold in a growing flash memory market? James finds out.
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Activision on New Call of Duty, Tony Hawk

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:56:00 +0000

Shooter to enter new theater of war, while Hawk will skip consoles in 2008.
1Up.com - PSP

Circuit City runs up the white flag

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:48:56 +0000

Of course you can look at our books, Mr. Corporate Raider, sir

Circuit City’s days as an independent are numbered. The ailing US electronics retailer last month received an unsolicited bid from Blockbuster, the ailing video store operator.

TheRegister

Vote for my boot!

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:39:23 +0000

Keeping with the CRAFT shoe theme — Dr Martin’s has a “design your own boot” contest, so I made a boot I always wanted, one with a circuit board on it, specifically one with the Wave Bubble open source RF jammer - vote it up if you’d like to see this become a real boot one day!

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Adobe fixes Photoshop Express

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:16:00 +0000

Adobe has released an updated version of Photoshop Express, its online photo sharing software, days after delaying the update because of a last-minute bug discovery.
MacWorld

Botanical communications kit

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:15:00 +0000

You’ve read about it - now you too can follow your own pet vegetation on twitter! -

The Botanicalls Twitter kit includes all the hardware you need to create a networked communication system for your plant. A moisture sensor placed into the soil will send information to simple electronic detection circuitry you solder together yourself. Twitter updates are then sent out via an onboard Ethernet connection to the Internet, where they can be viewed online or routed to your mobile phone.

The pricetag seemed a bit a high before I realized all the hardware included in the kit - it even comes with an Arduino! - Botanicalls kit

Unfortunately, the dog still communicates via unfashionably messy methods.

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Part II: How a pair of American spies created the Soviet Silicon Valley

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:07:19 +0000

Affairs, social security checks and the mini-fab

Radio Reg Based on the rather insane number of messages I’ve received over the last couple of weeks, you guys really, really wanted part two of our interview with Steve Usdin, author of Engineering Communism. Well, here it is.

TheRegister

Virgin Mobile USA and Korea's SK in talks: source (Reuters)

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:53:24 +0000

<p><a href=”http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/wr_nm/virgin_sktelecom_dc”><img src=”http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080510/2008_05_09t175250_450×326_us_virgin_sktelecom.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=md3h4XnvmvMZLU6GbuOXvA–” align=”left” height=”94″ width=”130″ alt=”Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson poses with a mobile phone during the launch of Virgin Mobile services in Mumbai March 2, 2008. (Punit Paranjpe/Reuters)” border=”0″ /></a>Reuters - Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile USA
Inc and South Korea's SK Telecom Co, which controls U.S. mobile
service Helio, are in early talks on a deal, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Friday.</p><br clear=”all”/>
YahooTechNews

Apple to issue refunds for sparky, prematurely dying products

Nerdmaster — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:48:22 +0000

Canadian iPods and US power adapters get what’s coming

Apple has agreed to give US and Canadian customers two separate settlement offers to make charges of faulty and misrepresented products go away.

TheRegister