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MSI Announces the GE700 Gaming and Entertainment Notebook

MSI's newest 17" gaming notebook—the GE700, just made its debut. It comes equipped with Intel's latest core i5 processor with ATI Radeon HD 5730 discrete graphics card (with 1GB DDR3 VRAM), two cinema-class speakers and a subwoofer, a HD webcam, and dual hard disk architecture, so you can install two hard drives for maximum memory storage. Its superior multimedia, entertainment, and processing capabilities maximize your experience. MSI Marketing Director Sam Chern points out that the MSI GE700, a 17" gaming and entertainment laptop, utilizes Intel Turbo Boost Technology for dynamic enhanced processing efficiency, a high-end discrete graphics card to increase image processing performance, and cutting-edge SRS Premium Sound™. Furthermore, the GE700 boasts MSI's exclusive ECO Engine Power Saving Technology, Cinema Pro, and GPU Boost Technology to give you just the right amount of battery power you need for the task at hand.

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Microsoft Wants SXSW Festival Attendees to Play Tag

Thousands of festival-goers at next week’s South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film, and interactive festival in Austin, Texas, will be snapping each other – or, rather, snapping each other’s Tags – for a chance to win US$5,000 from Microsoft Tag. Microsoft Tag uses colorful, triangular barcodes and mobile phone cameras as a quick link between real life and digital life. The technology is gaining momentum, and Microsoft wants to give Tag more visibility by sponsoring an interactive contest at one the most popular festivals in the country, says Marja Koopmans, general manager of marketing for the Startup Business Group at Microsoft.

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Play Xbox360 Games On iPhone and Android

Some were waiting with bated breath for the new Windows Mobile for such features, Novell has different ideas.

On Monday, Novell will demonstrate new technology that will allow Microsoft Xbox 360 games to be translated into iPhone apps. It also has the capability to be used to create Android games, potentially taking some Xbox games to the mobile masses.

While this sounds like an interesting idea, we will have to wait to see how this translates to a mobile platform..

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Is the Future of the Internet Criminal in Nature?

All people look at different markers on whether some idea or technology will take off, make a difference, and maintain a foothold. Some even look at the bad guys to see if it is worthwhile, and by this standard the cloud is where it is at.

One of the things that persuades me personally that the cloud is absolutely a viable model and has longevity is that it has already been adopted by criminals," Ferguson said.

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3-D on the Cheap: $50 Makes iPhone Stereoscopic

The Wazabee 3DeeShell autostereoscopic adapter from Spatial View (say that 3 times really fast) is an adaptor that will simulate stereoscopic or near 3-D views. At $50 bucks, it really is 3-D on the cheap.

The Wazabee 3DeeShell autostereoscopic adapter from Spatial View (Toronto) consists of a lenticular lens that fits over the display to divert two images in a stereoscopic pair to the right and left eyes. And voila -- instant 3-D viewing and without the dorky glasses!

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Cyberfraud Doubled in 1 Year

The IC3, Internet Crime Complaint Center, reported that cyberfraud is growing at a significant rate. The significance is more than doubling the losses in 1 year's time. These numbers are alarming as more and more information is getting shoved into the corners of the cyber-world.

The most frequently reported scam was one that used the FBI's own name to try and trick victims into handing over cash or sensitive information. One such scam involved an e-mail claiming to be from FBI Deputy Director John Pistole

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FTC Slams LifeLock with $11 Million Fine

We've all seen the commercials advertising LifeLock as the savior of identity theft and would pay out high sums of money if a breach occurred. Well a breach has occurred and it was a breach of trust on the part of LifeLock. Numerous court suits were filed in 2008 and now the FTC has stepped in. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.

The FTC charged that LifeLock’s data was not encrypted, and sensitive consumer information was not shared only on a "need-to-know" basis. In fact, the agency charged, the company’s data system was vulnerable and could have been exploited by those seeking access to customer information. In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more stringent measures to safeguard the personal information they collect from customers.

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iPad Swapping out the Charge?

So lets say you bought the iPad. You love it. You nourish it. You give it a place at the dinner table. You talk to it by name. Then it starts to lose the ability to hold its charge. Well get ready re-bond with your new Apple kid, because it will be swapped with a different one at Apple.

According to a recently-posted FAQ, Apple will replace your iPad if it "requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge," for $99 and a $6.95 shipping fee.

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The Internet's Richest People

Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you had thought of Google, eBay, Yahoo or Paypal? If you had followed through on your dream, you would be on the list. What does a 25 year old man do with 4 Billion dollars anyway? I could easily live on half of that

The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn.

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Apple, Why Do You Hate Me So?

If you haven't heard of the "tension" between Apple and Google over the past few months, you must have been living under the proverbial rock. Well if you haven't this article brings you up to speed and then some.

It looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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Robo-Surgeons?

At the University of Utah engineers are working on a Robo-arm of sorts. It is a computer-controlled support device that can be used to aid surgeons, artists, electronic repairs, and of course other tasks.

The Active Handrest allows a person to maintain a steady hand while it senses the position of a hand-grasped tool or the force exerted by the hand -- or both

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Happy Pi Day

Today is special not only because it's the first day of Daylight Saving Time, it's also Pi Day. No not that kind of pie, not American Pie, not the Revenge of the Nerds pie, but the ratio.

It's hard to pinpoint who, exactly, first became conscious of the constant ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, as human civilizations seem to have been aware of it as early as 2550 BC.

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Big Brother sticking its Head in the Cloud?

As everyday goes by the Federal Government is moving more and more data into the cloud. With the droves of security professionals warning of the sketchy cloud security I ask if this is a good thing. It may save us on costs, but will it cost our country?

High-profile pilot programs generated more buzz about cloud computing, including the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Rapid Access Computing Environment and NASA Ames Research Center’s Nebula, a shared platform and source repository for NASA developers that also can facilitate collaboration with scientists outside the agency

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Most Expensive EA Game

With the 2011 release date approaching quickly EA is banking on Star Wars fans around the world.

The BioWare-developed MMO is the "largest ever development project, period, in the history of the company," he said, adding that the project costs "significantly more" than EA’s average, $30 million packaged game.

While no exact figure has been disclosed, I would expect the highly anticipated game to reach over the 100 million mark. Now let's hope that they spent their money wisely...

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New Rules Sought on TV Retransmission

A group of television providers including big hitters like DirecTV, Time Warner Cable and Verizon, have asked the FCC to take another look at the rules governing retransmission of stations. The present agreement was reached in 1992. This action was brought about due to the 21 hour cessation of transmissions last week, notably blocking out part of the Oscar Presentations.

The retransmission rules "have repercussions for what Americans can view and how much they pay for it," Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, wrote in a letter last week to the F.C.C. chairman, Julius Genachowski. Mr. Kerry, who has been vocal about the cable fee issue, asserted that the current rules were outdated, adding, "we need to fix the system."

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US Regulators To Announce Major Broadband Policy

The higly anticipated plan is said to make recommendations to drastically increase the average broadband speed, among other things. T-minus 10 years for this to actually occur.

"This is a fairly unique event," said Paul Gallant, an analyst with Concept Capital. "The FCC really has never been asked to design a broad regulatory shift like this.

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Sales of Video Games Continue To Plummet

While Xbox hardware sales figures were on top this month as reported earlier, Nintendo's overall sales continued to lead. While sales are still down over 15% from last year.

With February sales down 15 percent compared with the same period last year... Microsoft and Nintendo led console sales for the month with 422,000 Xbox 360s and 397,000 Wii consoles sold, respectively. Nintendo’s portable player, the DS, led overall hardware sales with 613,000 units sold

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has some news here too,

Modern Warfare 2 has become the third-best-selling game of all-time, now at just under 10 million units life-to-date.

Which we can assume they mean best selling non-handheld game, as games like Nintendogs and Pokemon have sold more than 14 Million units.

Wow...really? Nintendogs?

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Digg 2.0 Unveiled At SXSW

If you are a Digg aficionado and were indiggnant (sorry, I couldn't resist) over the speed of it's operation, there is hope on the horizon. An announcement was made Saturday night on a complete upgrade of the system is in the works to Version 2.0. Let's just hope it wasn't the liquor talking

Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb's BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was "five years" of major work on the popular headline aggregation system.

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Systems Engineer Deemed Best Job in America

How well do you like your job? Do you wish you had made a different choice of majors in college? If you elected to be a Systems Engineer, you could have not made a better choice....literally. Welcome to the top of the Super Geek heap.

The site first looked at more than 7,000 jobs. It then poured its eyes over numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It selected jobs that would grow by 10 percent or more in the next decade, according to these statistics. Oh, and it had to be a job that required at least a bachelor's degree.

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Super-Soft Toilet Paper Flushing Boreal Forest Down the Toilet

This is not at all technology related story, although an important topic to cover. While we are targeting Third World countries for clear cutting forests, Canada is doing the same all for the comfort of soft toilet paper. I suppose you could say they really do give a crap, but not for their forests.

And the ancient trees, some hundreds of years old , are being cleared for the production of disposable paper that is used for the messiest of jobs, says Bennett. Greenpeace, which has led a campaign to drastically reduce toilet-paper usage, says that if every household in Canada replaced one roll of regular tissue with 100 per cent recycled paper, 47,962 trees could be saved.

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Warp Speed Will Kill You

I guess somebody forgot to tell Zefram Cochrane

I'm not saying that we know everything and that it's impossible. I'm saying it's kind of impossible based on what we know right now.

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Facebook Games Translated for People Who Don't Care About Them

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. I laugh at it, but then I realize I know some of these people.

Peter has no actual bowling friends.

Apple's iPad Could Kill The Mac

Would this be considered patricide or just the natural order of things.....progression without feeling for your ancestor? Well I for one hope not. I still have friends with Macs and I haven't used up all of my jokes yet.

Netbooks and nettops have been popular in the Windows world, and it looks like Apple will try to seize some of those buyers with iPhone OS-running mini-PCs. (The iPad is just the first.) If that market explodes and Apple takes its focus away from the Mac, the Mac platform very well might wither in favor of this new, smooth, controlled experience.

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Move Over Jetsons, I Got Me a Jetpack

Bored of your morning commute? Planes, trains, automobiles not doing it for you? Well later this year you'll be in luck! Maybe one of you knuckleheads won that eBay auction a while back?

With a range of 31 miles and a maximum speed of 63 miles per hour, you'll be able to jaunt to the store at will, or to the gas station for a fill-up.

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Move over Band of Brothers and Make Way for The Pacific

It looks like Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have collaborated again in an attempt to eclipse arguably the best war movie ever made. The Pacific is a miniseries airing on HBO tomorrow night and from the previews, it could very well replace Band of Brothers as the best. The series will be airing each Sunday through May 16th.

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Google to Shut Down Search Engine In China

The battle between search engine giant Google and the Government of China to allow freedom for its users in China has not surprisingly gone awry.

Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world’s largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times said on Saturday. It said in a report on its website Google had drawn up detailed plans for closing its Chinese search engine.

No Google, even you can't bring freedom of speech to China.

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Behind the Wheel of the Volt.

The Chevy Volt has been electrofying the car world since its infantile concept debut. The Volt is a 110v re-chargeable electric car that is rumored to run 40 miles between charges. Here are some pictures of the the headline making vehicle.

You can plug it into any three-pronged household outlet, and it'll take about eight or nine hours to charge, or about three hours at a specially built 240-volt charging station. GM is working with some third-party charging-station companies as well.

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Awesome Avatar Review Spoof

I’m not sure who is behind the animation of GregMutt, but this video is just full of awesomeness.

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Nvidia Launches Anti-Intel Web Site

The gloves have officially been off for a long time. . . but I just cant get enough of these two going at each other.

The site is a one-stop resource for those looking to get up to speed on actions being brought against Intel for impeding competition, stifling innovation and for not living up to its agreements which were filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

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Supermicro hits Super Effecient.

Super Micro took the news of their TwinBlade solution to the CeBit computer show in Hannover, Germany. The Twin Blade suports 20 dual-socket server blades per 7u enclosure. What sets the industry-leading bar though is its 94 percent power supply efficiency.

The company’s new Double-Sided Storage system also pays special attention to the power supply: they also operated at Platinum level efficiency.

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