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TMZ is reporting that Charlie Sheen is going to plead no contest to misdemeanor assault and serve 30 days in…

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Given the increasing proliferation of video content online, the Federal Court of Appeal is being asked to rule whether internet service providers can be considered broadcasters and, hence, be subject to Canada’s Broadcast Act.

Quick Thought: I’m looking at the current crop of Windows powered tablets showcased at Computex (above is the MSI WindPad 100 featuring the WindTouch UI layer), as well as thinking about HP’s previous Slate efforts, and one glaring piece of the puzzle is missing: a consistent tablet UI layer for Windows 7 and/or Windows Embedded […]

Check out this video that the gang at Victoria’s Secret made to celebrate Rosie’s new role!

You’re really coming full circle at this year’s Computex, aren’t ya, Intel? It was at the Taipei show two years ago that Chipzilla introduced the first Atom netbooks, and though it’s taken awhile, the company is finally announcing dual-core Atom processors for the category (not to mention slightly changing its party line on the power of the sub-laptops). While the details on the speeds and feeds of the new Pine Trail N series CPUs are being kept under wraps for now, we’ve been told that they’ll support DDR3 RAM and provide comparable performance to the dual-core desktop Atom processors, yet still maintain similar battery life to current netbooks. Intel still plans to keep these Atom chips in 10-inch systems, and told us that users will see the speed benefits in multitasking and browsing, rather than in HD playback and gaming.

But netbooks aren’t only about to get faster, they’re also going to go on a serious diet. Intel also unveiled its new “Canoe Lake” innovation platform for netbooks, which is what’s behind that 14mm thick machine pictured above. The platform can support single- and dual-core Atom processors, but provides significant cooling to allow for 50 percent thinner systems. However, “Canoe Lake” is merely a reference guideline for other manufacturers to use, so there’s no telling what the machines that use this could end up looking like. The dual-core Atom for netbooks goes into production next week and should be shipping in netbooks before the holiday season. And as for that super thin laptop you’re inevitably still peering at? Intel expects its partners to use the platform and have products out by the end of this year. We don’t know about you, but the pictures below may keep us salivating until then.

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According to a report in the Financial Times, Google is making a full-throated move away from Windows PCs for the company’s workforce. Apparently the big G is now giving staffers the option of a Mac or Linux rig as an alternative to a Windows computer. The FT article suggests that the move is spurred on by security concerns — some specifically related to a flurry of attacks against the company which emanated from China, a country Google has recently been at odds with over censorship. Although security could be at issue, some of the employees interviewed for the article seem to suggest the changes — which mean staffers require CIO approval for a Windows PC — might actually be geared towards bringing Chrome OS into the Googleplex full-throttle. “A lot of it is an effort to run things on Google product,” said one unnamed source, “They want to run things on Chrome.” Another employee is quoted as saying that, “Before the security, there was a directive by the company to try to run things on Google products. It was a long time coming.” Regardless of the reasoning behind the move, if Google is moving the company to Macs and Linux instead of the world’s most popular computing platform, it’s certainly notable. We’ve reached out to both Microsoft and Google for comment, and will update you if and when we have word.

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It took six decades, but a Saskatchewan production has finally won the top prize at the Yorkton Film Festival.

Apple’s latest smash hit is the iPad, selling two million iPads in less than 60 days (59 to be exact).  Apple originally sold 300k units in the first day and one million iPads in 28 days, after releasing in the United States.

The iPad went on sale internationally last week…

Oddly MSI didn’t officially talk about its Android-powered WindPad 110 during the press conference, but it definitely exists. The 10-inch slate runs Android 2.1 and is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. It’s got a different design to the WindPad 100, but retains the same 10-inch capacitive touchscreen and will have a USB port and video-out capability. While the tablet runs just stock Android, we’re definitely digging the curved form factor and the ability to swap out the back cover for a more “stylish” option. We heard very conflicting things about the availability of the tablet — one product manager told us that the company hasn’t decided if it will bring it to market, while another told us that they plan to sell it for $399 by the end of the year. Hopefully we’ll clear that up soon, but we’ve got some hands-on pictures below, along with a video after the break.

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Police in Florida this week said 56-year-old Stephen Perry, who wrote for the 1980s cartoon series Thundercats, was murdered….

About 100,000 people gathered in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Sunday to denounce South Korea and the U.S., heightening tensions over the sinking of one of the South’s warships.

For those, who dont know how big is a yottabyte, this infograph will definitely help you.

Dennis Hopper, known as the rebel of Hollywood for films such as Easy Rider and Rebel Without a Cause, is dead at age 74.

While a few extensions have had desktop notifications for a little while now, Google has finally built a desktop notification API for extensions, making it easier for developers to add it to their extensions and keep them universal across extensions (and operating systems). While there doesn’t seem to be a list of extensions that have added this new functionality, we tested it with the Gmail Notifier extension and found that it worked quite well. Of course, we would have preferred they add support for already existing desktop notification solutions like Growl for Mac and Windows, but if you’d rather get notifications from your browser than a separate system tray application, it isn’t a bad solution. More »









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Gary Bettman said on Friday he didn’t want to raise expectations, but made some of his strongest comments in favour of one day seeing NHL hockey in Canadian cities other than the current six.

A Melville-area man has been charged with internet luring and sexual exploitation of a young person, in a case Saskatchewan police say has an Australian connection.

Remember when I said Project Natal losing its code name in favor of being called “Wave” made no sense? Well, if I was probably right before, I’m almost certainly right now that this site (pictured above) has been brought to my attention.  Yep, that’s Microsoft Wave, “the site that brings you the freshest developments and products to come out of Microsoft.” And one of the featured fresh developments is Natal. Yeah, Natal is not gonna be called “Wave.”

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Google has released an exhaustive list of the 1,000 most visited sites on the Web. Facebook, Yahoo!, Live, Wikipedia and MSN made up the top five, pulling in over 1.99 trillion unique visitors every month. With the list, Google is giving advertisers the option to cherrypick where they want their ads in order to improve placement for their products or services. What’s fascinating, though, is the traffic breakdown by scale and type. A brief glance reveals Facebook’s dominance over the Web’s attention with over 570 billion monthly page views. (Web powerhouses Google and YouTube are both excluded.) Social networks, portals, online apps, e-mail and search reign over the first 100 spots.

Search Engine Land reports that Google used data that was taken from its Ad Planner tool and aggregated from millions of users (who opted-in), content publishers and its own Google Analytics service. Google will continue updating the list monthly as traffic changes. [From: Google and Search Engine Land]

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An employee of a Prince Albert, Sask., school division has been suspended after being charged with two sex-related offences.