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3 hrs ago | KCEN

Twitter co-founder takes aim at mobile payments

Jack Dorsey revolutionized online socializing by co-founding Twitter in 2006. Now he wants to transform the way people exchange money.

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Related Topix: Twitter, iPhone, Gadgets, VeriFone, Computers, Apple

8 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Android Event Scheduled For Jan. 5th; Nexus One Announcement?

It looks like the Jan. 5, 2010 date for a Nexus One launch has been confirmed. At the very least, the new device, the so-called "Google Phone" will be announced that day, as Google has announced an Android event for that day.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, iPhone

12 hrs ago | Reuters

Nokia opens new front in Apple patent battle

The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia launched a new patent broadside against Apple, escalating a battle for control of the smartphone market that has already led to a flurry of lawsuits.

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Related Topix: Music Players, Apple, Cellphones, Cell Phones, Electronics

16 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

GPS First Strands, Then Saves Couple

Here's yet another example of why you shouldn't just blindly follow the directions you are given by your GPS unit. An elderly couple, John Rhoads, 65, and Starry Bush-Rhoads, 67, were led astray by their GPS unit, and stranded in snow, but their GPS-enabled cell phones relayed their position to 911, which saved them.

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17 hrs ago | technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

iSlate, iGuide, iTablet; How Many Apple Kindle-Killers Will Be Sold?

In the 2009 holiday season, th Kindle became Amazon.com 's most gifted item ever , but next year, who knows how it will do? That's because the rumored Apple Kindle-killer tablet PC will be out, if all plays out as it seems, and an analyst believes Apple could sell as many as 1.6 million of the "Kindle Killers" in 2010.

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Related Topix: Computers

18 hrs ago | The Huffington Post

Illinois Wind Power: Commission Moves Forward On Exploring Renewable Energy

CHICAGO a ' The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a plan that would allow the agency that buys electricity on behalf of utility customers to seek proposals for long-term wind-power contracts.

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Related Topix: Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

23 hrs ago | WBT-AM Charlotte

Phone points illegal border crossers to water

A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S. Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated migrants where to find water and pipes in poetry ...

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Prison, UC San Diego, GPS, Arts, Poetry, US News, Illegal Immigration

Mon Dec 28, 2009

TechSpot

Rumored Chrome Os netbook packs Arm Cpu, Tegra

Rumored specifications have hit the Web detailing Google's forthcoming Chrome OS netbook.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Wi-Fi

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

GSM Encryption Broken; Code Published To The Web

It is evident from the recent Predator drone hacking that the only way to protect over-the-air transmissions is some sort of encryption. Meanwhile, eighty percent of the world's phones are GSM-based, meaning, they use SIMs and operate on networks like the U.S.'s AT&T and T-Mobile, but on Monday a German security expert announced that he and a group of contributors had broken the primary encryption code protecting GSM phone calls.

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Related Topix: Computer Security, Cellphones, Cell Phones, Electronics, Science, Computer Science

The Industry Standard

Psystar halts sales of Mac cloning tool, will peddle Linux PCs

Mac clone maker Psystar last week indefinitely suspended sales of its only product, a $50 utility that lets customers install Apple's Snow Leopard operating system on generic Intel-based computers.

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Related Topix: Computers, Apple

Reuters

U.S. retail holiday sales up 3.6 percent: report

U.S. retailers posted a better performance during the 2009 holiday shopping season, with sales as tracked by MasterCard Advisors unit SpendingPulse up 3.6 percent.

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Related Topix: Internet, Life, Holidays, Christmas

IBJ.COM

Indiana lawmakers hopeful about renewable energy bill

Legislation that could bring more wind turbines and solar power projects to Indiana has a good chance of passing in the upcoming legislative session after failing in the last session's closing hours, two state lawmakers say.

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Related Topix: Indiana, Indiana Government, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Solar Energy

Deseret Morning News

China enacts law to promote renewable energy

China's utilities will be required to buy all the power produced by wind farms and other renewable sources under a new law meant to promote the industry and reduce heavy reliance on coal.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Wind Power

Sun Dec 27, 2009

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

"New York Is Not Ready For The iPhone" - AT&T Customer Service

According to some reports, AT&T has apparently stopped selling the iPhone in New York City. If you listen to certain customer service representatives, it's because "New York is not ready for the iPhone." It may not be all that cut and dried, however.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Economy, green energy interest turn auto showrooms into places for skateboards, artwork, yoga

With hard times in the auto industry and car dealerships closing around the country, the gleaming showrooms that once featured next year's models are becoming this year's new store, restaurant, school, day care center or yoga studio.

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Related Topix: Yoga, Fitness, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Auto Dealers, Family, Teenagers

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

Smaller Antivirus Firms, Microsoft's Free Offerings, Outperform Top Firms

AV Comparatives, one of the well-respected independent testing houses of security software, has released not one, but two tests in December of 2009. Both of them showed pretty impressive results for smaller antivirus firms, as well as freeware solutions, including the new (and free) Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) product.

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Related Topix: CPU, Computers

KTXL-TV Sacramento

Exploding growth of mobile Internet services sets off tussle over access to the airwaves

In this May 13, 2009, file photo, Jonathan Hutcheson works on his laptop as his iPhone lays beside it at a coffee shop in Columbia, Mo.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Wi-Fi, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rick Boucher

technologyexpert.blogspot.com | Iria

HP "Racist Computer" Critics Speak Out

After a YouTube video resulted in HP laptops being snarkily called "racist," the creators of the video have spoken out. Much like Fake Steve Jobs and Operation Chokehold, it's all in good fun, and not meant to cause a real controversy.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, Computers, Steve Jobs, Waller, TX

www.huliq.com | Iria

Full Body Scans Only Way To Stop Flight 253-Type Attempts: Expert

As the world continues to reel in the aftermath of the flight 253 incident, in which Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, attempted to set off PETN explosive on a Northwest Airlines flight (Delta Airlines is NWA's parent company), a security expert says there is an answer. The backscatter machine, which provides a full body scan, could have prevented the incident, but at the cost of privacy for many.

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Related Topix: Northwest Airlines, Transportation, Airlines, Northwest Airlines

Wausau Daily Herald

CWBusiness: Patent delays slow company

The federal government says it takes an average of 34 months to approve or deny a patent, but one Wausau businessman is not letting that delay keep him from developing his innovation.

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Related Topix: Wausau, WI, Wausau Metro, Inventions, Patent / Trademark Law, Law

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