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Intel's Unclear Laptop Program for Children in Developing World

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intel_logoNicholas Negroponte, head of the charity, stated that Intel repetitively undetermined its non-for-profit scheme, meant to provide cheap laptops to children living in developing countries.

 

Cosmetic Surgery Clinics Criticized for Pressure Advertising

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cosmetic_surgeryThe consumer magazine entitled Which? states that today cosmetic surgery provides various procedures available at low and in less time spending.

 

According to the magazine its representatives were able to find 8 clinics that presumably violate the rules by doing, what is called, "pressure advertising".

Samsung Hopes to Restrict Sharp's LCD Panels on the U.S. Market

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samsungThis time Samsung is the one to fill in the United States a countersuit against Sharp.

 

The patent-infringement lawsuit that Sharp filed some time ago against Samsung Electronics presumably served as the reason why the biggest producer of semiconductors recently decided to fill a patent-infringement lawsuit against the manufacturer of LCD panel. The lawsuit is filled with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the Tokyo District Court.

1.5 Billion Pounds Spent on Games

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games_industry_wii_super_mario_galaxyStatistics registered that gamers from the United Kingdom spent not less than a record £1.52 billion on titles this year. This is a 25 percent increase in comparison with the last year and still more than a week to count till 2008.

 

A $1 Million Award for Developers of Open Source Software

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sun_microsystemsOfficials from the American vendor of computers, components, software, and IT services, Sun Microsystems, have stated that the company started a new program aimed towards independent software developers. The winner of the program will receive a prize of $1 million. Companies willing to take part in the program will have to contribute to the open source software projects launched by the company.

 

AMD Says Sorry in Front of Financial Analysts

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amd_logoThe annual meeting with financial analysts, held by AMD, turned into a wave of apologies from the company's representatives to experts from Wall Street. AMG said sorry for the mistakes that occurred this year. The company stated that in 2008 it would get in full shape by launching its renewed version of Barcelona quad-core line, the functionality of which is seriously crippled due to its design flaw.

 

More Privacy Guaranteed by Ask

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ask_eraserInterActive Corp.'s search engine, Ask, announced the introduction of a new online tool that will be able to help people who surf the Internet keep their history of search private. The new tool was entitled AskEraser and with its help users will be able to delete any data regarding the searches they made on the Ask website, this includes the elimination of information from the company's servers.

 

One More Complaint over Microsoft

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A Norwegian company that develops Web browsers, being supported by an industry coalition, has filed a complaint against the software giant to the European Commission. It is worth mentioning that this is the first complaint after earlier this year Microsoft lost a case regarding the landmark antitrust.

 

Yahoo to Use Content from CNBC

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yahoo_financeOne of the most popular news websites, Yahoo Finance, on December 12, will start the distribution of its content from CNBS, a channel for business news.

 

According to the executives, the deal between the two parties will serve well for the video options of Yahoo as well as for the visibility of CNBC.com.

 

China and India Registered Huge Growth in Mobile Service Industry

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cell_phone_china.jpgStatistics for the last year show that Chinese users of mobile phones sent about 429 billion text messages. At the same time India registered an enormous growth of mobile service subscribers. Both countries joined the group of the two fastest growing countries if the field, Brazil and Russia.

 

 

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