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Even though this is has been one of the few weeks of 2008 when Apple hasn't introduced a new product, Apple-focused blog activity has hardly slowed down. Instead, it's thriving on 3G iPhone order rumors, more software developer kit talk, Karl Rove, Samsung's South Korea Anycall Haptic launch, the arrival of Photoshop Elements for Mac 6, and the notion that someday most everyone may actually hate Apple.

The college gossip Web site says that it's not breaking the law.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hackers have defaced the Web site of Indonesia's information ministry in response to a government move to restrict access to pornographic material on the Internet, an official said on Friday.

In June, the rock star dreams of Wii-owners will be realized.

Aperture 2.1 will allow third-party developers to add plug-ins to Aperture that let photographers take advantage of specialized image editing tools they might need from time to time.

astwon sends us to a blog post by parallel computing pioneer Bill McColl speculating that, with the cooling of Web 2.0, parallelism may be a hot new area for entrepreneurs and investors. (Take with requisite salt grains as he is the founder of a Silicon Valley company in this area.) McColl suggests a few other upcoming "new things," such as Saas as an appliance and massive memory systems. Worth a read.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Stony Stevenson sends a report from the Institute of Physics' Condensed Matter and Material Physics conference, where researchers predicted that the reign of the silicon chip is nearly over. Nanotubes and superconductors are leading candidates for a replacement; they don't mention graphene. "...the conventional silicon chip has no longer than four years left to run... [R]esearchers speculate that the silicon chip will be unable to sustain the same pace of increase in computing power and speed as it has in previous years. Just as Gordon Moore predicted in 2005, physical limitations of the miniaturized electronic devices of today will eventually lead to silicon chips that are saturated with transistors and incapable of holding any more digital information. The challenge now lies in finding alternative components that may pave the way to faster, more powerful computers of the future"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Much of the trouble stemmed from a computerized baggage handling system that used wireless infrastructure designed by Aruba Networks and powered in part by IBM logistics software.

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