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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
It’s been discussed before: in this information-filled age with all our personal data in databases that are vulnerable to leaks, as well as much of our behavioral data being gathered by corporations, is there really any privacy? On Wednesday, in response to a lawsuit, Google said no.
In April, Pittsburgh couple Aaron [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
In June, Pure Digital unveiled the Flip Mino, a still-smaller addition to their extremely popular line of flash memory camcorders. Since then, not only has Pure Digital sold its one millionth Flip, according to a new report just released by market research firm NPD Research, it now has the #1 selling [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I wrote earlier that Yahoo! was going to be shutting down its Yahoo! Music Unlimited licensing servers after September 30th, which would have the effect of shafting customers who had purchased music from that store as all its music was saddled with DRM.
While it appeared that Yahoo! was going down the [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
As I indicated earlier, Microsoft put up a teaser website for Mojave, their new OS – which doesn’t exist. The idea was to do a blind “taste test” for users who had negative views of Windows Vista (and listening to the video, they sure did), tricking them into using Vista, to [...]

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By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Cuil is pronounced “cool” and what makes it potentially cool is the participation of former Google search architect Anna Patterson and her husband, Stanford professor Tom Costello, as well as other prominent search tech folk. (Where have we seen that minimalist home page before, eh?)
Cuil purports to have a larger search [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Earlier this month NVIDIA gave laptop owners with NVIDIA GPUs headaches. The company filed a report with the SEC (.PDF) stating that the company was taking a $150 – $200 million charge to cover (emphasis mine):
… anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I first wrote about Microsoft’s attempts to get Windows XP on the OLPC last December. You may recall that James Utzschneider, the general manager of Microsoft’s emerging market unit, was just about the make at trip to the OLPC Foundation.
Microsoft was having to write a series of drivers and new code [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Now we know: Microsoft and Yahoo! are perfect for each other. Despite watching Microsoft’s recent debacle when it announced it was going to shut down the licensing servers for their defunct Music Store – a debacle which resulted in Microsoft reversing its decision – Yahoo! decided to try to do the [...]