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OnLove - Digital Love: Looking for love on virtual-reality Web sitesA recent study by four academics, including professors from Harvard Business School and Duke University, suggests that online dating sites regularly leave users disappointed because they present potential matches as a rundown of characteristics -- age, race, religion, income -- that in no way emb...
Washington Post Sunday, November 01, 2009Fast ForwardWednesday morning,
google notified manufacturers of GPS navigation units that their services would no longer be needed. It didn't say so explicitly -- the news came in a corporate blog post about an improved Google Maps smartphone program offering turn-by-turn directions -- but the company didn't...
Washington Post Sunday, November 01, 2009Help File: Bungled bundled software on a Dell; yet another phishing fraudQ: My Dell Windows XP laptop keeps showing the same "Windows Installer" prompt telling me to insert a disc I don't have to run some Sonic program. How do I stop it?
Washington Post Sunday, November 01, 2009Apple's new iMacs: 21.5 and 27 inchesMunich - A series of new iMacs is hitting the stores. They consist of models with 21.5 and 27-inch screens and LED backlighting, Apple reports. The displays are in 16:9 ratio, with 1920 x 1080 pixels (21.5-inch), and 2560 x 1440 pixels (27-inch). App...
Earth Times Sunday, November 01, 2009Expensive television and an all-in-one-PC: New tech productsAll-in-one-PC with touch input from MSIFrankfurt - Timed to coincide with the
release of Windows 7, MSI is marketing a new all-in-one-PC working with
microsoft's new operating system. Like with the Mac desktop computers, the hardware on the MSI Wind ...
Earth Times Sunday, November 01, 2009Computer and internet briefs, Sunday 1st November 2009Washington - Run across a web page you don't want to forget? In Windows
internet explorer, you can quickly place a shortcut to it on your desktop by right-clicking inside the page and selecting Create Shortcut from the pop-up menu. Creating shortcu...
Earth Times Sunday, November 01, 2009Digital Domain: Why Google Doesn't Like Its Phone BillSome tiny phone companies can charge higher access fees, and
google Voice isn't happy with what can result.
International Herald Tribune Sunday, November 01, 2009Prototype: Everybody in the Pool of Green InnovationSeveral major corporations are taking a hint from the open-source software movement and pooling their green innovations.
International Herald Tribune Sunday, November 01, 2009Experts Say Verizon-Motorola Droid is No iPhone SlayerIf there is a smartphone capable of trumping the overall experience of the Apple
iphone, from hardware to native software to the 100,000 applications created for it, the world hasn't seen it yet. That's the conclusion we can safely make after early reviews of the
google Android operating system-based Motorola Droid, which Verizon Wireless will begin shipping Nov. 6 for $199 with a two-year contract after a $100 rebate. Analysts from Gartner and Forrester Research on why the Droid is nice, but not
iphone slayer. - News Analysis: If there is a smartphone capable of trumping the overall experience of the
apple iphone, from hardware to native software to the 100,000 applications created for it, the world hasn't seen it yet. That's the conclusion we can safely draw after early reviews of the Goo...
eWEEK Sunday, November 01, 2009iPhone comes to China without key featureBEIJING (AP) -- Apple's
iphone is making its long-awaited formal debut in the world's most populous mobile phone market, without a key feature and at higher prices than widely available black market models....
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