Friday, November 26, 2010

IT News HeadLines (CNET) 25/11/2010

Road Trip Pic of the Week, 11/25: What is this?
If you know what this is and where it's located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.
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Green-tech taxpayer Thanksgiving (photos)
Large recipients of DOE American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds may want to be thankful this year to U.S. taxpayers.
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Unix copyrights to stay with Novell in merger
Novell says it will retain its hard-won copyrights to Unix, though the question of how that plays into Novell's acquisition by Attachmate is still up in the air.
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Chevy Volt to pull combined 60 miles per gallon
GM details the EPA fuel economy label for the hybrid Chevy Volt, which will range from 94 miles per gallon equivalent on electric and 37 mpg for gas-only driving.
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Top tech turkeys of 2010 (photos)
We offer our unscientific list of the biggest mistakes and bad ideas of the last year, from the Kin to Mark Hurd to several flaps involving the iPhone.
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IE9 beta patches bring stability, feedback fixes
New updates to Microsoft's beta of Internet Explorer promise to bring better stability, along with fixing a bug that left some users unable to offer their feedback.
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Windows Home Server to lose drive pooling
The next major version of Windows Home Server will arrive without a popular feature that let users pool together storage drives. The company says the decision was consumer-driven.
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For sellers and buyers, a very app-y holiday
The holiday 2010 shopping season is marked by the move of most retailers, especially gadget sellers, to allow purchasing in their own mobile apps--giving deal seekers the upper hand.
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Mythbusters' Savage: I got past TSA with razor blades
In a sobering (and funny) monologue, Adam Savage explains that he accidentally took two 12-inch razor blades through a body scanner screening earlier this year.
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'Avatar': Behind the scenes at Weta Digital
To celebrate the release of the Avatar Extended Collector's Edition, CNET Australia got to go behind the scenes at Weta studios to witness how the movie was made.
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Bing updates its movie search
Bing's movie search now lets you see all the local theaters playing your flick pick and offers trailers and reviews to help you decide if it's worth seeing.
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Angry Birds fly to your game console
Acer unveils a dual-touch-screen laptop called the Iconia; Facebook is close to getting a trademark on the word "face"; and Angry Birds will soon migrate to a game console near you.
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SpaceX scores first FAA license for re-entry
With the space shuttles set to retire, NASA is looking to private companies like SpaceX to transport cargo--and eventually crews--to and from the International Space Station.
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At Cleantech Open, less is more
Biofuel interest wanes while efficiency in size and material, and cleaning the environment takes root as winning trends in the annual contest.
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