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Microsoft to release fix for Windows Shortcut flaw on Monday
Jul 30th
Microsoft has announced plans to release of an out-of-band update on Monday to address the Windows Shortcut flaw revealed less than two weeks ago. The software giant has been keeping a close watch on the use of .LNK files exploiting the vulnerability and has concluded that it needs to act faster than usual. Microsoft typically releases security patches on the second Tuesday of each month, with the next slated for August 10
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EVO 4G getting Android 2.2 this weekend?
Jul 29th
Engadget is reporting that HTC EVO 4G owners may be getting Android Deuce Deuce as soon as this weekend. The blog received a whole heap of Sprint corporate slides that detail a launch plan; the plan includes an official announcement scheduled for tomorrow and code rollout beginning on August 1st.
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Windows 7 trounces Windows XP at green computing
Jul 29th
Mindteck , a company that offers embedded software development and consultancy services, has released power consumption data after testing sleep, idle, low-use, and high-use scenarios of various Windows PCs. The researchers also built a model to estimate cost savings (pictured above) by using a centralized power management policy
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Windows 7 trounces Windows XP at green computing
Creative launches X-Fi MB2 software on Asus gaming mainboards first
Jul 29th
Creative has announced that it is launching new software for mainboards to give gamers better sound quality with onboard audio solutions. The new software is called Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2 with Trustudio Pro and EAX Advanced HD 5.0. That is a mouthful for sure.
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Creative launches X-Fi MB2 software on Asus gaming mainboards first
Apple conducts probe into iPhone 3G iOS4 issues
Jul 29th
Apple fans still rocking the iPhone 3G and 3GS who were fast to grab up the new iOS 4 operating system when it was made available for the smartphones were also the first to realize the new OS has some issues on older handsets. The WSJ reports that Apple is currently probing reported issues with iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G.
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Week in Apple: iPhone 4 antenna-gate
Jul 17th
This last week in Apple news has been intense, with a short-notice Apple press conference, a software update to adjust the iPhone signal display, and disappearing discussion threads on Apple’s support boards. What more is there to say? Read on for the bite-sized summary.
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Week in Apple: iPhone 4 antenna-gate
Inside Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
Jul 17th
Hardly had our liveblog finished when Apple sprung the second half of their iPhone 4 antenna event, the “show” companion to Steve Jobs’ presentation “tell”. SlashGear was among eleven journalists and analysts – both print and online – to be taken around the company’s wireless lab, formerly one of the best kept secrets on the Cupertino campus, and now a multi-million test facility featuring custom hardware, fake brains and kit that wouldn’t look out of place in a sci-fi film. Read on for full details of our tour
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Inside Apple’s Antenna Design and Test Labs
Apple : Free Bumper case to all iPhone 4 owners
Jul 17th
In Apple’s press conference, Apple concluded that it was a common problem that most smartphones would face signal problems while holding them. According to Apple, the iPhone 4 only drops slightly more calls then the iPhone 3GS – it’s just a very small fraction – less than 1 more call per 100. So there was nothing about any software/hardware fix or recall of the iPhone 4s to resolve the antenna problem
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Apple : Free Bumper case to all iPhone 4 owners
Overbite Project brings Gopher protocol to Android
Jul 5th
The Overbite Project is an open-source effort to produce browser plugins and client applications that enable support for Gopher , an early network protocol that preceded HTML and the contemporary World Wide Web. The lead developer behind the project is retrocomputing enthusiast Cameron Kaiser, one of the few remaining champions of gopherspace.
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Overbite Project brings Gopher protocol to Android
NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video)
Jul 4th
Robonaut2 may have fantastic biceps , but raw muscle won’t put a man humanoid on the moon — that takes rockets. Rockets like the one in this RR-1 prototype lander, recently outfitted with a Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment (GENIE) system to let the craft safely descend to the lunar surface
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NASA successfully tests autonomous lunar lander navigation system, codename GENIE (video)
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