January 5th, 2008

Bloggers anticipate surprises at widget show

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The the new TVs, MP3 participants, computers and pretty much any early shiny and expensive gadget you can consider of volition be on display next hebdomad in Las Vegas, Silver State, long earlier they make their way to your local big-box electronic store.

Arrangers of the International Consumer Electronic Show say more than 20,000 new merchandises will be on display.

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Intel quits One Laptop Per Child

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SAN JOSE, Golden State Citing dissensions with the organisation, Intel Corp. informated Thursday it has given up the One Laptop Per Child program, transaction a big blow to the challenging project quest to take millions of priced laptops to children in germinating countries.

The radioactive dust ends a long-simmering applauded that commenced even earlier the Santa Clara-based chipmaker united the OLPC board in July, concurring to lend money and technical expertness.

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More delays for shuttle Atlantis

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Ness CANAVERAL, Florida NASA on Thursday delayed the flying of infinite shuttle Atlantis until late January or, more likely, February to supercede a suspect connection in the fuel tank.

The connection is thought to be responsible for for consecutive launch time lags last calendar month.

Deputy shuttle program managing director John Shannon informated the missionary station to the international space station is dispatched until at least January 24.

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Cell-phone exploiters slow traffic, study finds

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Capital of the Drivers talk on cell phones are belike making your commute even retentive, concludes a new study.

Automobilists yakking away, even with handsfree device, just don’t keep up with the flowing of dealings, said study author David Strayer, a psychological science professor at the University of Utah.

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Convenience show locomoting green

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Consumer electronics aren’t precisely easy on the surround — they down electricity that brings to worldwide warming, and toxins leach out of them when they end up in landfills.

But the manufacture that’s inviting us to acquire a new cell phone every year and toss out that old TV in favor of a great new flat panel is alsoed trying to demonstrate that it cares.

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Communist China limits Internet picture

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HONG KONG, PRC

It wasn’t forthwith clear how the new rules would affect YouTube and early providers that host Web sites based in early countries that are approachable from China.

A spokesman for San Bruno, California-based YouTube articulated the limitations “could be a reason for concern, reckonning on the reading.

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Shatner, Priceline savor 10 eld together

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LOS ANGELES, Calif They don’t oft compete for part, but William Shatner beat out Bill Cosby for his longest-running function.

Ten age ago, line travel company Priceline.com Inc. narrowed its list of potential spokesmens to Shatner and Cosby. The former Captain Kirk gained out because he was more “futurist,” and because “anyone keeping a recognition card maturated 18 to 95 had got heard of William Shatner and cognized who he was,” stated Brett Keller, the company’s chief selling officer.

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