Oops. Looks like the new Asus Eee Box mini desktop PC is shipping with a virus on the hard drive which Symantec identifies as the W32/Usbalex worm.
Asus isn’t hiding from the issue and admits that the Eee Box as in fact shipped with a virus but only models sold in Japan.
No word yet on how [...]
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Back in August new AMD CEO Dirk Meyer said that the company was “just months away” from spinning off its manufacturing and fabrication business into its own company and this morning it’s official.
The new company, temporarily named the Foundry Company, will be free to manufacture independently for other companies while AMD focuses on chip design.
AMD [...]
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eBay has announced that it will be laying off 10% of their workforce and that while they do expect to hit their third quarter forecast it will be at the low end.
The cutbacks means about 1,000 employees and several hundred temporary workers will be out of a job.
[Via Reuters]
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You won’t be able to actually go hands-on with the new G1 until October 22nd, but thanks to a new website by T-Mobile you won’t have to wait that long to start playing with it’s Google Android-based operating system.
Just head on over to the G1 site here and select “Emulator” and you’ll be [...]
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The highly anticipated HTC G1 phone on T-Mobile, the first Google Android-based handset to go on sale, won’t be available until October 22nd but has already apparently sold out.
According to T-Mobile even after tripling production on the G1 there were so many pre-sales for the device that it has sold out. You can [...]
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Someone on CNN’s iReport.com, a site where users post unfiltered news as “citizen journalists”, posted a story that Apple chief Steve Jobs had suffered a massive heart attack and had been hospitalized.
Right after the post hit Apple’s stock price fell nearly 10%, forcing Apple to respond saying that it was not true and Jobs has [...]
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At a press even today, cell phone giant Nokia officially announced the 5800 XpressMusic, formerly referred to as the ‘Tube’.
The 5800 is a touchscreen phone running the latest version of Nokia’s Symbian operating system, S60 5th Edition (or S60 Touch) and will include:
Support for Quad-band GSM with 850/1900 WCDMA, Quad-band GSM with 900/2100 and Quad-band [...]
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I can’t imagine when I would ever actually wear any of these but they are pretty cool–meet the Star Wars Collect by Marc Ecko, a series of Star Wars-themed hoodies and t-shirts by Marc Ecko with an urban edge.
The collect includes Storm Trooper and Boba Fett hoodies, a Death Star explosion t-shirt and several designs [...]
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