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26 Nov 2008 03:12:00 EST

Just six short months after Fedora 9 hit the tubes, in flies Fedora 10 to give you something new to tinker with over Thanksgiving break. The latest iteration of the Linux-based OS bundles in OpenOffice 3.0 and touts a "wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualization management, networking, boot time and security." Don't mind us, though -- you can delve as deep as you like in the release notes while your download progresses.[Via PC World] Desktops, LaptopsFedora 10 goes live: your download awaits originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

26 Nov 2008 03:59:00 EST

While we patiently wait to see what Apple has in store with its traditional Black Friday sale, MacMall and Best Buy have already kicked the sale into gear. Better yet, MacRumors has created a handy summary chart that links you directly to the best possible deal. With no hardware updates expected through the end of the year and Apple's own Black Friday discounts typically falling between meager and stingy (and discounts being a rarity in general), this is likely your best-bet opportunity to hop on the switcher wagon or step up to a new unibody MacBook. Just click that read link to get started. Desktops, LaptopsBlack Friday Mac discounts underway originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

26 Nov 2008 20:11:45 GMT

Report Card, Part Three When the original Apple Mactintosh debuted in 1984, it carried a $2495 price tag - roughly $5250 in 2008 money.

26 Nov 2008 18:00:54 GMT

Because while Chrome has more market share than the Netscape Navigator's 0.45% -- which, yes, AOL put to sleep in 2007 -- Google's latest secret weapon is otherwise in dead last place, trailing even the Opera browser 0.74% to 0.75%.

26 Nov 2008 23:02:38 GMT

The National Institute on Media and the Family, a media watchdog group that has spent considerable time taking the gaming industry to task for continually churning out violent titles, turned its attention to parents recently.

26 Nov 2008 18:16:19 GMT

Apple rolled out a QuickTime update Tuesday night that should alleviate some of the concern over the addition of some copy-protection technology to the new MacBooks.

26 Nov 2008 22:52:56 GMT

By VOA News European government ministers have pledged nearly $13 billion to fund an ambitious plan for space exploration, including a mission to place a robotic exploration vehicle on Mars.

26 Nov 2008 13:13:38 GMT

Blockbuster has officially entered the "battle of the boxes" with the launch of its new set-top box yesterday. The box will serve movies to TVs over the Internet and is going against Netflix's set-top box solutions (Xbox, Roku, and Tivo).

26 Nov 2008 21:45:39 GMT

A worm dubbed Win32/Conficker.A is making the rounds on Windows machines, exploiting a security hole that Microsoft released a patch for in October, Microsoft said on Wednesday.

26 Nov 2008 22:22:14 GMT

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Huge plumes of water vapor and ice particles are spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus at supersonic speeds in a way that strongly suggests they come from liquid water down below the icy surface, scientists said.

26 Nov 2008 05:29:09 GMT

by Andrew Mathew A mobile phone is very common these days. It is in every hand, in every trouser pocket and in every ladies' purse.

26 Nov 2008 05:10:36 GMT

By Kevin Wassong NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- There's an old adage: When a debate is raging about a topic or when sentiment wanes and apathy sets in, it is time to reframe the debate.

26 Nov 2008 01:08:32 GMT

By Tom Magrino, GameSpot National Institute on Media and Family's annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card heaps praise on ratings board, reatilers, and platform holders; parents get an Incomplete.

26 Nov 2008 03:14:53 GMT

As the second anniversary of the launch of Nintendo's Wii approaches sales of the console have passed the 7 million mark, according to figures released on Wednesday.

26 Nov 2008 03:23:31 GMT

Three big reports on Apple from financial analysts have hit the wires today. Charlie Wolf of Needham and Co. released his latest WolfBytes report, while Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray asks ?12 Unanswered questions on Apple? relating to the Mac, ...

26 Nov 2008 00:01:16 GMT

By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews The launch two weeks ago of a new server park in the US gives graphical mobile browser users the promise of faster performance.

26 Nov 2008 02:20:24 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jurors suggested in a note to the judge late Tuesday that they had reached verdicts on three of four counts against a Missouri mother accused of conspiring to harass a 13-year-old girl with Internet messages that allegedly prompted ...

25 Nov 2008 22:05:58 GMT

By STEVEN MCELROY It was bound to be more than just a news conference; this is the theater, after all. And so it came to pass that Marcie Dodd, the current Elphaba in the Broadway production of ?Wicked,? in full costume and green makeup, ...

25 Nov 2008 18:24:00 EST

Desktops, Misc. Gadgets, LaptopsHP shows off first hybrid memristor-transistor chip originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

25 Nov 2008 20:18:00 EST

It's no slate PC / digiframe hybrid, but it is a touch unorthodox. HP Compaq is reportedly preparing to launch a mini-Q nettop, though it could ship under a totally less exciting Presario 2030 / 2020 moniker. Packed within the diminutive box will be an Atom 330 / 230 CPU (respectively), Windows Vista / XP (also respectively), 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB 7,200RPM hard drive, dual-layer DVD writer and a 6-in-1 card reader. No mention of a release date just yet, but pricing is expected at around NT$9,900 ($296) / NT$12,900 ($386).[Via Electronista] DesktopsHP shows off Atom-powered mini-Q nettop in Taiwan originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

25 Nov 2008 16:43:06 GMT

by Chris Faylor Nov 25, 2008 10:40am CST tags: The busiest shopping day of the year will see the debut of two new limited edition Nintendo DS bundles, Nintendo of America has announced.

25 Nov 2008 18:08:10 GMT

By Michele Masterson, ChannelWeb Now you can convince yourself that you have more illnesses than you can shake a thermometer at, thanks to the Internet.

25 Nov 2008 18:04:37 GMT

By Nathan Eddy Stolen and misplaced laptops can leave SMBs susceptible to data breaches if the laptop remains on. Lenovo's SMS-based "kill command" gives users the chance to shut down their PC remotely via text message.

25 Nov 2008 23:37:20 GMT

By Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb In a new advertisement, Apple is proclaiming its latest line of MacBooks as "the greenest family of notebooks ever made.

25 Nov 2008 23:00:53 GMT

By DAVID SARNO Abraham Biggs Jr. announced his intention to overdose on pharmaceuticals to members of an online discussion board to which he'd been frequently contributing for two years.

25 Nov 2008 21:30:37 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not just families that are getting together this Thanksgiving week. The three brightest objects in the night sky - Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon - will crowd around each other for an unusual group shot.

25 Nov 2008 22:18:34 GMT

The sophisticated Omnia can do just about everything, but omissions such as a slideout keyboard and a headphone jack prevent it from outshining the iPhone.

25 Nov 2008 19:40:00 GMT

The latest iPhone lawsuit claims Apple is infringing on a patent for how the handset navigates the Web. By Marin Perez Apple's iPhone 3G is generally considered the best browsing experience on a smartphone, as consumers appear to love the ability to ...

25 Nov 2008 21:29:01 GMT

By JOHN SCHWARTZ The machine that is designed to recycle astronauts? sweat, urine and waste water into drinking water aboard the International Space Station seems to have gotten over its initial balkiness, thanks to round-the-clock analysis by ...

25 Nov 2008 16:46:00 GMT

It's the stuff of science fiction and James Bond. Strap a jet pack to your back and fly like a bird--sort of. But jet packs are science fiction no more.

25 Nov 2008 22:15:02 GMT

Facebook has won a $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who sent some four million sex spam messages to users of the social network, AP reports.

25 Nov 2008 17:20:00 GMT

Blockbuster and Netflix have very different visions of how the residential movie distribution business works in the physical world.

25 Nov 2008 01:46:55 GMT

According to a D+Pad report citing "insider sources", Sony has plans to cut the price of the PlayStation 3 console this upcoming March, in an effort to be "more competitive." Sony Europe has so far dismissed the rumor as "rumor and speculation," but Europe president David Reeves is quoted as saying there will be "technical innovations" coming to both the PS3 and the handheld PSP. The same source claims to have seen game footage of both Uncharted 2 and God of War 3 on the PlayStation 3 as well as gameplay for LittleBigPlanet, on the PSP. The insider added that studio Media Molecule has been working on the handheld port for four months. Although dismissed as rumor for now, a price reduction in time for the Easter holiday is not all that far-fetched and has happened many times in the past with consoles.

25 Nov 2008 02:25:29 GMT

In just a few days after Apple has released its iPhone 2.2 firmware update, the QuickPWN team has already jailbroken it. QuickPWN 2.2, available for free for both Mac and Windows users, will allow iPod Touch and iPhone users to jailbreak their device to the latest firmware, version 2.2. With each update, Apple fights against jailbreakers, as a way to protect their exclusive contract with AT&T. An unlocked phone can work with any GSM carrier. Whenever Apple updates the firmware, previous jailbreaks are broken in terms of the App Store, because most applications require the latest firmware to even run. You can visit the site here: QuickPWN.com

25 Nov 2008 01:02:00 EST

DesktopsAcer yells "me too!" while shoving Core i7-based Aspire M7720 out the door originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

25 Nov 2008 06:22:57 GMT

AP LOS ANGELES?Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed a plan Monday to generate a tenth of Los Angeles' power through solar energy by 2020.

25 Nov 2008 07:09:58 GMT

OAKLAND -- The city of Oakland has the dubious distinction of ranking fifth in a nationwide ranking of crime. New Orleans was first.

25 Nov 2008 05:55:28 GMT

TiVo is launching a cell phone-friendly web site that will allow users to search programming and set their TiVo DVRs remotely. TiVo Mobile will be a free service available "with any Internet-enabled phone through any network, regardless of carrier," ...

25 Nov 2008 03:00:49 GMT

A company owned jointly by Intel and memory maker Micron Technology started mass producing NAND flash memory chips using tiny 34-nanometer technology, the companies said Monday.

25 Nov 2008 05:57:51 GMT

By Richard Adhikari: More stories by this author: A CNN story quoted an unnamed source at Verizon as saying the employees in question could not have read any text messages Obama sent or received, and would not have been able to access the content of ...

25 Nov 2008 05:04:35 GMT

Sure, you want to get in the game for the holidays, but which gaming platform is right for you? We break down the major competitors.

25 Nov 2008 06:21:20 GMT

BY TODD HALVORSON ? FLORIDA TODAY ? November 25, 2008 Spacewalking astronauts wound up a week-long bid to boost electrical power production at the International Space Station on Monday, work aimed at maximizing the amount of scientific research that ...

25 Nov 2008 00:41:21 GMT

By Damon Poeter, ChannelWeb Facebook added nearly $1 billion to its imaginary coffers Friday when a federal judge ordered a spammer to pay the social networking company $837 million in damages, the largest fine ever issued under the US CAN-SPAM Act of ...

25 Nov 2008 02:40:26 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury was given the case Monday of a Missouri mother accused of conspiring with her daughter and an assistant to harass a 13-year-old girl on the Internet, allegedly precipitating the teen's suicide.

24 Nov 2008 15:32:06 GMT

So maybe it wasn't just egregious Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter.

24 Nov 2008 22:32:55 GMT

YouTube has begun testing out HD-quality videos on their site, finally giving users the ability to watch 720p resolution videos and not the degraded quality of current YouTube uploads. The new videos are over 80MB large and are assumed to be H.264 encoded mp4 files, the same format as those available from the iTunes HD store. According to Wired, all that it takes to have standard videos upgraded to the 720p resolution (if they were taped at a high enough quality) is a small "hack." To do so, take the URL of the video and add &fmt=22 to the end. A good example to try this on is this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&fmt=22 As you can see, I have added the &fmt=22 to the end of the URL. The quality is very good and it is good to see YouTube taking a step forward. Obviously the video sizes will be larger and make take longer time to stream if you have slower Internet connections, but the quality is much improved.

24 Nov 2008 23:00:45 GMT

by Mark Hachman eBay's PayPal unit and VeriSign said Monday that the two companies have extended their partnership to allow two-factor authentication via mobile phones.

24 Nov 2008 19:13:34 GMT

Weak or non-existent signal As has been with the case with virtually ever iPhone OS update, some users are reporting a degradation of signal after the release of OS 2.2.

24 Nov 2008 20:28:45 GMT

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24 Nov 2008 20:25:03 GMT

Apple appears to have upped the processing speed of the iPod Touch in order to help it go after the portable gaming market. Touch Arcade reports that the applications processor inside the second-generation iPod Touch unveiled in September is actually ...