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Urban Green Energy pitches green chic of small-wind turbine
Small-wind turbine maker will release a one-kilowatt vertical axis turbine next month, which it says performs well in shifting wind.
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3Par gives Dell three days to top HP's offer
The storage vendor announces it will begin negotiations with HP over its unsolicited bid if Dell can't produce a more attractive offer in three business days.
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Microsoft's Bing Maps gets a food cart finder
Looking for a food cart to get your nosh on? Bing has a new tool for residents of Portland, Ore., that helps sort out the good from the bad, and lets you see what's on the menu before you leave the house.
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Lohan lawyer's amazing, amusing attack on E*Trade
In new court papers, a lawyer for Lindsay Lohan claims that E*Trade's Super Bowl ad, which featured a milkaholic called "Lindsay," could not refer to any other Lindsay.
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Windows DLL bug hits dozens of apps
A flaw in the way Windows handles dynamic-link library and related files likely affects hundreds of applications and has already been used in malicious attacks in the wild.
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$150,000 found in arrested Apple manager's home
Paul Shin Devine, arrested for allegedly taking kickbacks from overseas suppliers, was found to have stored large sums of cash in shoe boxes during a search by federal agents.
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Frog eggs could help robot noses sniff pollutants
Take specially treated frog eggs, inject some insect RNA, and stick the concoction up a robot's nose to give the bot a keen sense of smell.
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Google testing voice calling in Gmail
Gmail users could soon be able to place and receive voice calls from within their Gmail in-boxes as part of a new service integrated into Google Chat.
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Report: Apple music, TV event set for Sept. 7
In a report about Apple possibly adding 99-cent TV show rentals to Apple TV, Bloomberg sources say the annual fall event will be held the Tuesday after Labor Day.
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Keith Rabois slides his way to Square
Bringing on PayPal and Slide veteran Keith Rabois brings some fresh credibility to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's start-up.
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Students spy on teachers, boast on Facebook
Two girls at a Swedish school bug their teachers' staff room in the hope of getting clues to getting better grades. Then one of them uses Facebook to tell others how clever they are.
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RIM buys Cellmania, app store software maker
Cellmania makes software that is used to build application stores at places like Sprint, and RIM may want its know-how for its BlackBerry App World.
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Report: Apple prepping 99-cent TV show rentals
Television shows could be a reality on iTunes. Apple is said to be in talks with Fox, CBS, and Walt Disney to allow customers to rent TV shows for 99 cents.
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Apple Releases Security update 2010-005 for OS X 10.5 and 10.6
Apple has released a security update for OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.5 machines, which addresses a number of security holes for both the client and server versions of these OS X releases. For the client version, the update fixes several problems that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Want a weather report? Watch this music video
In a creative spin on the music video, the background in singer Lissie Maurus' new offering changes according to the local weather.
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Chrome to Phone clone comes to iOS
Want the convenience of Google's "Chrome to Phone" extension with your iPhone? A new solution comes close, letting you send open browser links to Safari on your phone.
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Google defends Android Market licensing server
A blogger has found a simple way to bypass a new copy-protection scheme for Android applications, but Google provides a tip for making the technique much harder.
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Interweb, defriend make it into the dictionary
A slew of geeky terms have made it into the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, not to be confused with the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary.
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Samsung teases with Galaxy Tab video
The iPad competitor will launch on September 2 at IFA Berlin, but Samsung releases a short preview video Tuesday.
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Firefox 4 beta 4 tackles browser tab chaos
Trying to restore a semblance of order to the tab profusion that afflicts some people's Web browsers, Mozilla introduces Panorama. Also in new beta: Firefox Sync.
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