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This morning I have put aside a couple of hours to try out the new personal product from Xero, which is currently being provided and marketed by BNZ. On the whole it’s a slick and attractive offering that is easy to configure and provides useful information for those wanting to get a clearer picture of their spending habits
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Xero Personal – First Looks
For those of who looking for some great Dell laptop coupon deals starting today and through most of May 2010, check out some of these awesome Dell laptop coupons : Dell Inspiron 15 only $399 after $90 instant savings + get a $15 Dell gift card use your purchase! Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! 14″ laptops starting at $499 after instant savings! Plus add a Mini 10 Netbook for only $199 while supplies last! Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! Find an Inspiron Mini 10 netbook to inspire you starting at $279! Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! Studio 17 $889 after $289 instant savings + get a $50 Dell gift card use your purchase Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! While Supplies Last! Ultra portable Inspiron 11z use ATT broadband card just $399 after $173 in instant savings. Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! Dell Studio 17 only $849 after $374 instant savings! Coupon Expires: 05/06/10 5:55 AM CT Click Here to Use Coupon! Post from: Laptop Pimp Blog – Laptop Reviews for Laptop Whores Dell Laptop Coupons for May 2010! dell laptop coupons , Dell Laptops , dell may coupons , Laptop Deals Related posts No related posts
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After release BenQ E1260 camera, today BenQ revealed a new compact camera named BenQ DC T1260 with 3-inch touchscreen display, 12M pixel CCD, 4x optical zoom wideangle, and 12MB internal memory. The shutter speed range from 1-1/2000 second with ISO range from 100 to 3200. The BenQ DC T1260 allow to focus the camera, using the crop function and cut the part of picture by only using your finger
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BenQ DC T1260 TouchScreen Digital Camera
Phone sales grew 19 percent in the first quarter, according to a new report from ABI Research , which noted that sales of 3G handsets overtook those of 2G handsets. The company is predicting 1.3 billion phones will be sold this year.
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Phone sales up 19 percent, Apple up 130 percent, report says
McCaw Cellular veterans Wayne Perry and Cal Cannon are building an 89-acre “innovation center” in Richland, the cornerstone of a 325-acre research park that’s being developed in the Tri-Cities.
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McCaw vets building cleantech "innovation center" in Tri-Cities
Rumors of Sony integrating Intel hardware and Google software into a television are heating up once again, thanks to the WSJ and Bloomberg . Sony is apparently moving forward with integrating a custom Atom processor (usually found in netbooks) and a special version of Android (codenamed Dragonpoint) in TV’s. Why
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A Sony TV With An Intel Atom Processor And Google Services Coming Soon
O2 ( www.o2.co.uk/laptops ) has added two new laptops with built in mobile broadband to its range of mobile broadband free laptop packages. Exclusive to O2, the two new laptops with embedded SIM cards are the Samsung N150 netbook, which is available online now and the Asus UL30A laptop which will be available in May. The Samsung N150 netbook is a great starter laptop or second device and comes well specified with a 250GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, 10.1″ screen and 6 hour battery life.
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O2 Add Laptops With Built In Mobile Broadband
One of the new features in Dell OpenManage (OM) version 6.2 is that we have separate bundles compiled specifically for each of our supported Tier 1 Linux OS distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).
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Dell OpenManage 6.2 for Linux distribution-specific RPM packaging
If you’ve been trying to keep track of Facebook’s privacy policies, check out the ” eroding privacy policy ” timeline published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From the privacy group’s summation: Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls…
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Facebook "eroding" privacy timeline, yikes
ZDNet blogger Ed Bott’s comparing Microsoft Office 2010 to Windows 7, saying it gives the productivity suite the same kind of polish and upgrade that Win7 gave to Vista. Bott’s invested in Office – he’s written 10 books on the software suite and six months using the new version launching May 12. A sample of today’s post : It is true that the core programs in Office–Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint–are mature, as befits their age
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Bott dives into Microsoft Office 2010, sees Win7 parallel
Kirkland game studio Bungie, the creator of the hit “Halo” franchise for Microsoft, today announced a mondo publishing deal that will make Activision Blizzard the exclusive publisher of its next franchise for 10 years. Bungie spent two years developing an entirely new game that will be released sometime after its “Halo” finale, “Halo: Reach” is released by Microsoft this fall. A value wasn’t placed on the deal, but the entertainment franchise at stake is likely to be worth more than $1 billion and consume millions of hours of people’s time.
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Kirkland’s Bungie signs huge post-Halo deal with Activision
By Clive Portman Clive Portman Blog: Mr Portman http://mrportman.co.uk Clive Portman teaches part-time at Trowse Primary School, Norwich, and spends the rest of the week running his own business developing websites.
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A Fresh Approach to ICT decision-making in the UK
Brother wins in court against providers of compatible ink cartridges A The District Court of Düsseldorf has confirmed the decision under appeal. Affected are certain Pelikan and Geha compatible cartridges for Brother cartridge type LC 1000 – 970th and LC Brother sees injured since 2008 a protected utility model. In the dispute with Pelikan and Geha compatible ink cartridges for Brother before the Regional Court Düsseldorf has won another stage victory (Photo: Brother).
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Considering a regular windows user who likes to keep his windows turned on even during night to that he can download softwares, movies in free hours there is lot of power in turn electricity consumed even if he is not using his computer for certain hours. For example he works from 10 to 6 and then starts downloading from 2 PM at night to 6 in morning, since he cannot stay awake till that time computer is kept on and softwares like uTorrent which can be scheduled to start download at nay particular time does the job for him.
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Save money by Automating Power consumption of computer
This is idea for all fans of Star Trek and in particular, those people who love the original series from the 1960’s. This webcam is really cool and makes brilliant addition to science fiction fans desk, its ideal for using with Skype or an instant messaging service. Here are the specs and features of the Enterprise webcam: Product Specifications •Webcam in Star Trek U.S.S.
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Star Trek Webcam
The computer maker Samsung have launched a new model of the N150 netbook, the main difference being that it comes with a 3G modem ready to be used with the Verizon mobile broadband network. Product Features of the 3G Samsung N150 netbook: 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 Processor 1GB DDR2 Memory; 160GB Hard Drive Longer battery-powered performance of up to 7 hours*.
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The children of the Gaza Strip are busy working on their new OLPC machines that were recently delivered through United Nations project which is aiming to get half a million of these useful little laptops into the area and into the hands of these children. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) arranges for the children in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to get schooling and these computers make that job a little bit easier. Here are some of the features and specs of the OLPC machine: CPU: x86-compatible processor with 64KB each L1 I and D cache; at least 128KB L2 cache; AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W (datasheet); CPU clock speed: 433 Mhz; ISA compatibility: Support for both the MMX and 3DNow! x86 instruction-set extensions; Athlon instruction set (including MMX and 3DNow! Enhanced) with additional Geode-specific instructions; Companion chips: PCI and memory interface integrated with CPU; North Bridge: PCI and Memory Interface integrated with Geode CPU; AMD CS5536 South Bridge (datasheet); Graphics controller: Integrated with Geode CPU; unified memory architecture; Embedded controller: ENE KB3700 or ENE KB3700B; DRAM memory: 256 MiB dynamic RAM; Data rate: Dual — DDR333 — 166 Mhz; 1024KB SPI-interface flash ROM; Mass storage: 1024 MiB SLC NAND flash, high-speed flash controller; Drives: No rotating media; CAFE ASIC (Camera, Flash Enabler chip, provides high-performance Camera, NAND FLASH and SD interfaces); Marvell 88ALP01: (CAFE specification).
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OLPC Deliver 2,100 Machines To Gaza
The latest offering from Asus, the Eee PC 900 AX has been given the go ahead from the FCC, so after the guys at Asus have stopped partying we can expect deliveries of this machine very soon. Here are the specs and features of the new Asus Eee PC 900 AX: 9 inch netbook – Processor: Intel Atom N270 – Memory: 1GB DDR2 SO-DIMM – Screen: 8.9 “LED Backlight WXGA (1024 × 600) – Networking: WLAN 802.11b / g – Hard Drive: 160GB 2.5 “ – Audio: Integrated speaker, microphone – Ports: 1 x VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ-45 LAN, 1 x Audio Jack – Expansion: Memory Card Reader MMC / SD (SDHC) – Battery: 4 cell Li-ion – Dimensions: 170mm (W) x 225mm (W) x 34mm (H) – Weight: 1.127Kg No details of the prices yet Source [Eee PC] Post from: Laptop Pimp Blog – Laptop Reviews for Laptop Whores New Netbook From Asus 4 – Featured Netbooks , asus netbook , ASUS Netbooks , passed by fcc Related posts The Asus Eee PC 900 HA 8.9” Netbook
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New Netbook From Asus
I’ve been reviewing Office and SharePoint 2010, and trying out Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, so I thought I would put the two together with a small experiment. I borrowed a document from Microsoft’s press materials for Office 2010. Perhaps surprisingly, they are in .doc format, not the Open XML .docx that was introduced in Office 2007.
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Office Web Apps better then Open Office for .docx on Linux
I’ve upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, and I’m using it to type this post. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is a “long term support” edition, making it suitable for businesses. The upgrade from Karmic, the previous version, went relatively smoothly.