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Chicago blue-liner Duncan Keith capped off a wonderful season by receiving the Norris Trophy as the top defenceman in the NHL, but his spirit was somewhat subdued because hours before the awards ceremony, the breakup of the Blackhawks had begun.

A Quebec town near the epicentre of a 5.0-magnitude earthquake is calling for emergency help after tremors felled the steeple of its church and damaged several other buildings, including the town hall.

Apple’s latest gadget, the iPhone 4, is due to go on sale on Thursday, but early adopters are reporting display discolourisation bands or spots and major reception issues.

Gadget blog Gizmodo has two stories regarding early issues. The first is that some iPhone 4 Displays have yellow discoloration bands and spots across their…

If Steve Ballmer’s still pumped eight months later, there’s a good reason — Windows 7 has reportedly sold its 150 millionth copy, just two months after crossing the 100 million mark. If you run the numbers — and we have — that translates to roughly seven licenses sold per second since launch, a very convenient number for Microsoft to tout in their marketing communications from here on out. Perhaps execs can celebrate with a nice Windows 7 Whopper, topped with a fresh .dll pickle.

Windows 7 hits 150 million licenses: that’s seven copies a second originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Heritage Minister James Moore has stirred a hornet’s nest by saying that opponents of his proposed copyright reform bill are “radical extremists.”

Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when they work cooperatively with copyright holders to help them manage their rights online.

This is an important victory not just for us, but also for the billions of people around the world who use the web to communicate and share experiences with each other. We’re excited about this decision and look forward to renewing our focus on supporting the incredible variety of ideas and expression that billions of people post and watch on YouTube every day around the world.

UPDATE 2:12PM: This decision also applies to other parties to the lawsuit, including the Premier League.

Posted by Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel

The Edmonton Oilers have announced that Tom Renney will take over as head coach, with Pat Quinn to be moved into the position of senior hockey adviser.

Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite blogging platform, we tallied up the nominees for a Hive Five, and now we’re back to highlight the winner and runners-up.
Leading the pack by a landslide was WordPress with 55% of the vote. Following behind was Blogger (17%), Tumblr (13%), Posterous (8%), and SquareSpace (4%). Check out the full Hive Five for more information about each entry or check out the results in graph form below. More »









WordPress – Tools – Publishers – Hive Five – Templates

It’s been long known that Adobe has been working on Flash for the Android platform. In spite of all the drama surrounding their move into the mobile space, Adobe has stood firm in their commitment to providing users with the content they’re accustomed to on their PCs, even when they’re…

Google has added a new feature to their Google Docs platform; OCR for PDF and images files. OCR or optical character recognition will read the the text embedded into a PDF or image so that you can edit the document in a normal text editor.

OCR is not completely accurate though….

In a discovery likely to fan the flames of climate change debate, a team has concluded that the thinning ice on one of Antarctica’s major glaciers is not caused by global warming.

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Jolicloud promises touch support in version 1.0, gives a demo now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An Ontario company has won the bidding for the Saskatchewan government’s television network, the province says.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Today, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced an exciting limited edition dual touchscreen netbook/umpc called the Libretto W100.

Specs:

• Intel Pentium U5400 processor (1.2GHz)
• 2GB DDR3 memory
• 62GB Solid State Drive
• Dual 7″ multi-touch displays (1024 x 600)
• 6-mode virtual keyboard with haptic response
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 1.0 megapixel HD Webcam with Toshiba Face Recognition
• 802.11 b/g/n wireless
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• MicroSD card slot
• One USB 2.0 port
• 8-cell battery
• 7.95″ x 4.84″ x 1.2″
• 1.8 lbs

Toshiba says this mobile device is just a concept, and will only be available in limited supply in August, both from select retailers and on Toshibadirect.com. Though the company did not state pricing in the device’s announcement today, it is reportedly going to cost $1,099.

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It’s true that iOS4 and Android are the mobile operating systems of the day. But MeeGo, a mash-up of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo OSes, could be a strong contender. Based on this demo, at least. More »









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Saskatchewan RCMP pulled a man’s body from a river just east of the town of Pelly on Sunday afternoon.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have announced that the CFL club made a record profit of $3.1 million in 2009.

The largest lottery prize pool in Canadian history will be up for grabs in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

If you’ve been bragging about your all-encompassing 7.2 surround-sound system to of your friends, prepare for a mighty dose of humble pie. Audi has hand-crafted what it calls the Sound Concept, an in-car sound system so excessive it should be able to cause your soft, fleshy bits to pulsate in new and exciting ways. There are five tweeters scattered across the dash and the doors, five woofers (four in the doors and a monster in the back), and then a whopping 52 mid-range speakers encircling the entire enclosure, creating a package that’s not likely to show up in the options catalog anytime soon. All these have been wedged into the interior of a Q7 SUV in the interests of Wave Field Synthesis, minimizing a user’s ability to hear specific speakers — and blowing Audyssey’s paltry 11-speaker DSX system right out of the water.

Audi’s Sound Concept cabin defines auditory excess: 62 speaker surround-sound originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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