Nook: Tantalizing but Unfinished
The Barnes and Noble Nook evokes images of curling up in a corner with a good book near a cozy fire, perhaps with a mug of hot cocoa close at hand. And the Nook ($259, as of December 17, 2009) will indeed let you read electronic books; but unfortunately, not everything about this e-book reader makes for a comfortable reading experience.
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Don't Lose Everything When You Lose a Laptop
The FireFound add-on for the Firefox browser adds tracking and remote wipe features that can help with lost or stolen computers.
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Mozilla ships Firefox 3.6 Beta 5, pushes final into 2010
Mozilla has issued a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 rather than move on to a release candidate, a decision that will push the final code ship date into early 2010, a company executive said Friday.
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Contrary to report, Psystar not shutting down, lawyer says
Although Mac clone maker Psystar has turned off the lights at its Web site, the firm is not shutting down permanently, the company's lawyer said today.
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Mike Elgan: Why 3D will fail in 2010
Mike Elgan predicts that people will largely reject 3D consumer electronics products next year.
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Philadelphia plans to buy its Wi-Fi network
The city of Philadelphia plans to buy a controversial Wi-Fi network that was built by EarthLink in 2006 but sold only two years later as the struggling ISP pulled out of the municipal wireless business.
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Microsoft, Intel, Google legal news prevails
It was a week where competition regulators danced with IT industry behemoths: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, while the European Commission gave approval to Microsoft's proposed browser "ballot screen" and pushed the proposed Oracle-Sun Microsystems deal forward. Meanwhile, a French court slapped down Google for what it saw as a copyright grab in a book-scanning case.
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InfoWorld news quiz
What's on your holiday gift list? If you said a Google Phone or a 27-inch iMac, you may have to wait 'til next year (or longer). Still, there's plenty of holiday cheer to go around. This week Steve Jobs received yet more awards, Comcast launched a Web video service, McDonald's supersized its Wi-Fi offerings, and YouTube and Twitter revealed what the world was watching and tweeting about in 2009. Have you been a good tech newshound this year? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. Now let's get jolly.
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Gov't broadband project to compete with existing service
A $33.5 million broadband project in northern Georgia, funded by the U.S. government and touted by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as bringing huge new benefits to the region, will instead compete with existing service in large parts of the area.
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Twitter's own account caused blackout, says DNS provider
Hackers redirected Twitter.com's traffic to a rogue Web site for more than an hour early today by accessing its DNS records using an account assigned to Twitter, the company that manages Twitter's DNS servers said today.
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