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ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.669

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0.669

NOD32 Antivirus System provides well balanced, state-of-the-art protection against threats endangering your PC and enterprise systems running various platforms from Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP, through a number of UNIX/Linux, Novell, MS DOS operating systems to Microso

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Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

With Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems, it also acquires MySQL, the poster child for open-source applications. (Not to mention Solaris, which Sun says is a larger Linux distribution than Red Hat.) Vivek Ranadive, CEO of Tibco Software, says the term “Oracle and open source has always been an oxym

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The Slim Acer Aspire 3935, and the Behemoth Aspire 8935G

The Slim Acer Aspire 3935, and the Behemoth Aspire 8935G

It could be the best 80s-style comedy you've seen in years. The Acer 3935 and 8935G are about as biologically related as Danny DeVito and the Governator. The Aspire 3935 (above) is a 13.3-inch (16:9, 1366x768), 4.1-lb lightweight, featuring 3GB of RAM, a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, DVD burner, wi

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Tornado Tower Looks Like a Cloud, Makes Its Own Energy

Tornado Tower Looks Like a Cloud, Makes Its Own Energy

The Tornado Tower is a design for a performing arts center in Taipei, Taiwan, and man is it crazy. That huge bubble on top is where the theater sits, and the whole thing harnesses the wind for energy. The entire exterior is covered with curved fins that generate wind energy while also making it loo

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Sugar From Trees and Grass Will Be Made Into Plastic in Next 5 Years

Sugar From Trees and Grass Will Be Made Into Plastic in Next 5 Years

Those scientist types have been very active of late, between making ethanol fuel from orange peel and now tree-derived sugar being used to make plastic. Who'll be first to make trees from fuel? The latter project is being worked on at the Imperial College of London, and unlike plastic made fr

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South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm

South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm

Human skin is apparently a very energy-efficient conduit for transmitting data. A recent experiment achieved a rate of 10Mbps, which may put my Internet connection to shame. The experiment used small, flexible electrodes and took place at Korea University. The finding may lead to a new genera

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Google Chrome 1.0.154.39

Google Chrome 1.0.154.39

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favor

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Why More Megapixels Isn't Always More Better

Why More Megapixels Isn't Always More Better

Between all the new digital cameras pooped out before the upcoming PMA show and the crazy cameras buried inside cellphones at MWC, it's a good time to go over why more megapixels isn't necessarily better. So, the nutshell explanation of how a digital camera works is that light lands on a sens

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Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.2162

Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.2162

Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!, that allows you to see when friends come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when y

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K-Lite Codec Pack Full 5.1.0 (Full)

K-Lite Codec Pack Full 5.1.0 (Full)

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all

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This Is Sony’s $1399 Google TV-Powered Internet TV & Sony’s Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

This Is Sony's 99 Google TV-Powered Internet TV

Sony's Google TV Blu-ray Player Is 400 Bucks

We’re live at ’s TV press conference, where we’re seeing the “world’s first HDTV powered by TV” (and its gnarly remote). Not bad at all, $1400 for the 46-inch model, available this weekend. Updated.

Check out our first impressions. We like!

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What Is Google TV?

What Is Google TV?

Google TV was announced. But what exactly is it?

It’s a software

You know how the Nexus One is a piece of hardware by HTC that runs , a piece of software by ? That’s how TV will work. At its heart,(…)

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Acer’s Big Ass Aspire 8940: 18.4-inch Screen, Core i7 Processor

With an oversized -backlit 18.4-inch display, Core i7 720QM processor, and , the Aspire 8940 is set to face off with HP’s Pavilion dv8 and Toshiba’s Qosmio X500 in the uber desktop replacement stakes. And it’ll probably cost less.

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Intel Light Peak Optical Tech Achieves Insane 10Gb/s Speeds


Today at IDF, unveiled Light Peak technology, a plan for an extremely high-speed optical cable they hope will land on consumer products in 2010. Imagine transferring an entire Blu-Ray disk in 30 seconds. And that’s just the beginning.

In Intel’s words:

Existing electrical cable technology in mainstream computing devices is approaching practical limits for speed and length, due to electro-magnetic interference (EMI) and other issues. However, optical technology, used extensively in data centers and telecom communications, does not have these limitations since it transmits data using light instead of electricity. Light Peak brings this optical technology to mainstream computing and consumer electronic devices in a cost-effective manner.

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Toshiba Qosmio X500 Has Ferrari Looks, Core i7 Speed


This big 18.4-incher with has plenty for gamers to drool over. A Core i7 mobile processor and 1GB GeForce GTS 250M graphics should crunch out respectable framerates, and the Blu-ray drive and Harmon/Kardon speakers are nice, too.(…)

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