General
Author:
Mark Dixon
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
2:00 am
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"In the battle for e-book reader domination, Samsung's Papyrus—a new touchscreen model—proves to be a formidable foe against the Amazon Kindle and Sony PRS-700 behemoths."
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Acer will launch its first phone running on Google's Android platform in September, according to the Philippine BusinessMirror.
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A little more than a year after the launch of the MacBook Air, a new luxury laptop has arrived from Dell. This calls for another look at the notebook versus Netbook argument, the computer equivalent of bourgeoisie versus proletariat. In this case, Air versus Aspire; Adamo versus Eee."
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"The Overland Park, Kan., company is now talking with companies such as GPS device maker Garmin Ltd., Eastman Kodak Co. and SanDisk Corp., which makes storage devices, about delivering wireless Internet service for their products, according to a person familiar with the matter."
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"Smart phones — beefed-up cellphones such as Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry and Apple Inc.'s iPhone — come with an operating system, do email, and surf the Internet. They also offer digital music, digital camera and personal-navigation features."
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"Capping "Operation Dual Identity," arrest warrants for 17 people were executed in Tampa and Miami, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; and in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico. They were accused of "cloning" vehicles, which is making stolen cars look like legal ones."
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"Komodo dragons, the world's heaviest lizards, can grow up to 3 meters (10 feet) in length and have a toxic bite that they use to kill prey such as buffalo, returning to feast when the animal succumbs to the poison.
"Despite their ungainly appearance, the carnivorous reptiles can run as fast as a dog in short bursts, jump up on their hind legs, and kill animals with a blow of their powerful tails."