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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday struck down a California law that restricted the sale of violent video games to minors, declaring it unconstitutional, and affirming an earlier District Court ruling.
The law was signed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in October 2005 but was immediately challenged by [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Google Earth 5.0, or rather its new Google Ocean oceanographic feature, might have found Atlantis. At least that’s what aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford hoped when he found this grid pattern of lines (above) in the ocean floor, at the coordinates N31.381 W24.375. But all hopes were dashed, by Google.
No, although [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Yelp is back in the news, but this time as a sidebar in a lawsuit filed against one of its users for a negative review. No, this time it’s front and center, and accused of asking for kickbacks in exchange for removing negative reviews for a business.
A detailed report by the [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Intel has filed a suit in the Court of Chancery in Delaware, alleging that the 2004 cross-licensing agreement the companies signed ”does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with ‘integrated’ memory controllers, such as Nehalem.” NVIDIA, in a press release, begs to differ.
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA said:
“We [...]
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Liberty Media has come to the rescue, so to speak, of troubled satellite radio provider Sirius XM, in the form of $530 million in loans to be delivered in two phases, as announced on Tuesday.
The first phase includes a $280 million senior secured loan from Liberty Media to Sirius XM, $250 million [...]
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Contributing Writer, RealTechNewsÂ
Without a doubt, the Zivio Boom headset is one of the best looking bluetooth headsets available in the market. It garnered a lot of attention and envious looks when the unit arrived, from designers to geeks alike. DigitalReviews got to take this sexy piece of hardware out for a test drive, [...]
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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
On Monday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, NVIDIA introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series PC-on-a-chip. This platform, according to NVIDIA, will enable creation of a $99, always-on, always-connected HD MID (mobile Internet device) that can go days between battery charges.
Hmmm, if you ask Apple [...]
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None of this is unexpected, but at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft finally took the wraps off the Windows Mobile 6.5, their new App Store (called Windows Marketplace) and My Phone, a free sync service along the lines of Apple’s ($99 annually) MobileMe.
Microsoft is also taking another tack in terms [...]
