Posted on February 22, 2008 by Dan
At just 0.73 to 0.92 inches thick and 2.9 - 3 pounds, the new Lenovo ThinkPad X300 slim, ultraportable notebook computer can’t help but draw comparisons to the Apple MacBook Air.
Both are thin both are light, both feature an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, both are expensive. Which is better?
Walt Mossberg, tech editor for The [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Dan
A Utah couple has filed a lawsuit against Apple and Starbucks over the recent ‘Song of the Day’ promotion which offered Starbucks customers an iTunes gift card good for a specific song download from the iTunes online store.
What’s the problem?
They claim to have a patent over what they call “RPOS”, or Retail Point of Sale [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Dan
Yesterday Apple updated their iTunes software to version 7.6.1 which includes a few bug fixes and improves compatibility with the Apple TV Take 2.
Along with the this update, Apple is doing something else to help drive adoption of movie rentals: weekly $0.99 rental specials.
Each Thursday a new movie will be featured as a $0.99 rental [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Dan
The first review of the recently announced Nikon D60 DSLR has hit the web over at Pocket-lint.
The subtitle of the article reads “is this the answer to Canon 450D” but the Canon is never mentioned in the story, no feature comparison tables, nothing, which is too bad. That would have been interesting.
Skipping to the end [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2008 by Dan
Researchers at Princeton University have published a paper on a new way of recovering encryption passwords using little more than a can of compressed air and a screwdriver.
Sure, that sounds like an oversimplification, but the early steps of their exploit doesn’t really need much more than that.
When accessing encrypted data stored with programs like BitLocker, [...]
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