Saskatchewan’s educational TV network will become an ex-broadcaster at midnight Friday night unless a last-minute buyer comes forward.
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Apple’s Now the Biggest Phone Company in the US [Apple]
With Motorola’s latest quarterly sales of 8.5 million, the former biggest phonemaker in the US lost its lead to Apple, who sold 8.8 million iPhones last quarter. A moment of reflection, please. [AppleInsider] More »
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Microsoft: HTML5 is the future of the web, will only support H.264
Microsoft on Thursday reiterated their support of HTML5 and H.264 for Internet Explorer 9. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer, posted on the IE blog that HTML5 will be the future of the web and that IE9 would only support H.264 for its video tag.
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Lesbian student excluded from yearbook
A lesbian high school student in Mississippi who fought with education officials over her wish to wear a tuxedo in her yearbook photograph has found herself left out of the book entirely.
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Microsoft cancels Courier project
Microsoft has canceled their internal Courier project, according to sources close with the project. Gizmodo reports that CEO Steve Ballmer put the brakes on the project this past Wedensday.
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Sony set to launch Google TV in May
Bloomberg reports that Sony is planning to introduce new TVs with Intel chips and Google software next month.
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Youtube rolling out new player design
Though an official announcement hasn’t been made by either Youtube or their parent company Google, the video sharing site has started to roll out a new design for its video player today.
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Canadians healthier, outliving Americans
Canadians tend to lead longer, healthier lives than Americans, say researchers who point to lack of universal health care as one reason.
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HP buys Palm
HP has just announced that it’s acquiring Palm to the tune of $1.2 billion, which works out to $5.70 per share of Palm common stock. The deal is planned to close by July 31, which marks the end of HP’s third fiscal quarter of the year. Current Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein is “expected to remain with the company,” though it’s not said in what capacity. Press release after the break. There’ll be a call to discuss the acquisition in more detail (well, we hope in more detail) at 5PM ET, so we’ll keep you abreast as we learn more.
Update: PreCentral‘s managed to grab a copy of Rubinstein’s letter to Palm employees.
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TorrentFreak To Buy Pirate Bay For $11 Million
Following the announcement that Hans Pandeya is having a second shot at buying The Pirate Bay after last year’s failed attempt, it appears he has a rival bid. Media reports state that the GGF boss will now buy the site for $10 million, but TorrentFreak has managed to get $11 million together and will buy the site tomorrow afternoon at 3pm.
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Samsung Eyes Up Android-Powered Google TVs [Google]
Details have yet to be confirmed about the Google TV service being planned, but Samsung’s jumped the gun and is already talking about full-blown Google TVs which run Android. More »
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Chrome gets desktop notifications through WebKit
Through Webkit’s new draft notification API, Chrome now has support for text and HTML desktop notifications.
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Apple buys another mobile chip designer
The New York Times have confirmed with Apple that they have indeed finalized a deal to acquire mobile chip maker Intrinsity for $121 million.
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World junior hockey brought $86M to Saskatchewan
Hockey players weren’t the only ones who scored when the world junior hockey championship was held in Saskatchewan last December.
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Best Music Discovery Service: Pandora [Hive Five Followup]
Last week we asked you to share your favorite music discovery service, and then we rounded up the top five contenders for a vote. Now we’re back with the most popular music discovery service. More »
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Scott Adams Blog: That Lost 4G Phone 04/26/2010
The Official Dilbert Website featuring Scott Adams Dilbert strips, animation, mashups and more starring Dilbert, Dogbert, Wally, The Pointy Haired Boss, Alice, Asok, Dogbert’s New Ruling Class and more.
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Windows 7 Media Center coming to embedded devices
We love Windows 7 Media Center, but at the end of the day we’d never give one to our mom and expect it to just work the way an embedded DVR like a TiVo or a Moxi would. But dependability isn’t the only concern about using a PC as a DVR, there is noise and how it looks in the living room to consider as well. The compromise before us might just be a thing of the past as Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 Embedded has been released to manufactures and includes many of the great features of the regular Windows 7 family, like Windows Media Center. At this point there aren’t any announcements from manufactures leveraging these new found features, but in the press release Microsoft is certainly bolstering the broadcast TV and other media features in a set-top box. AOpen is the only manufacturer mention by name that we’re familiar with, which also makes good small-form-factor PCs, but that won’t stop us from dreaming of the best, easy to use and dependable whole house DVR ever.
Update: Video of Media Center on an embedded device in action after the jump.
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Windows 7 Media Center coming to embedded devices originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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AMD’s 3.2GHz hexacore Phenom II X6 1090T comes out for a review roundup
How’s your memory today? Specifically, can you remember the last time AMD had a legitimate claim to the desktop performance crown? Don’t hold your breath, the latest and greatest Phenom II still can’t steal the spotlight from Intel’s spectacular top-of-the-line Core i7-980X, but if prices actually matter to you, you’ll wanna read on. Whereas you’d need to shell out $999 to get six cores from Intel, AMD is offering you its flagship 3.2GHz 1090T model at a reasonable $285, or an even more affordable option with the 2.8GHz 1055T at $199. The T in those names stands for Turbo Core, which automatically downclocks half the cores in order to provide a little extra speed (up to 500MHz more) to the other three. Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks. The general opinion by the typically jaded journalists was that AMD has finally regained some pep in its step and that these new 6-core CPUs are going to give Intel’s upper midrange offerings something to worry about. Lest we forget, the 1090T and 1055T also retain socket compatibility with current AM2+ and AM3 motherboards, making upgrades a cinch too. The full reviews await below.
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Read – TechSpotAMD’s 3.2GHz hexacore Phenom II X6 1090T comes out for a review roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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