Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- October 14, 2008
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Today's Headlines
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1. Greening Data Center App Delivery
2. Notebook Mania: Has Apple Forgotten the Mini?
3. Cisco Stirs Up AXP Interest With Dev Contest
4. NComputing Undercuts OLPC With Thin-Client Approach
5. Joost Relaunches TV Portal, No Software Required
6. CBS Goes YouTubing With Full-Length TV Shows
7. FCC Tosses Technical Objections to National Wireless Broadband Plan
8. AI Program Texts Its Way to Turing Test Award
9. MySpace Gets Up Front and Personal With Targeted Ads
10. Can Android Blow Wireless Industry Wide Open?
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Story Highlights
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1. Greening Data Center App Delivery
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Even though there is much debate raging over the impact of human
activities on our environment, a diverse group of industry leaders,
government agencies, environmental groups and others do agree on one
thing -- that energy efficiency is the most significant issue facing
technology providers and their customers today.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64796.html
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2. Notebook Mania: Has Apple Forgotten the Mini?
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On Tuesday, Apple will hold a snazzy press conference to unveil its
latest line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros, with the slim possibility of
some sort of new notebook model. The notebook market has indubitably
taken off as consumers replace desktops with increasingly powerful
portables that can fold in half. But what gives with Apple's other small
computer, the Mac mini?
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64804.html
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3. Cisco Stirs Up AXP Interest With Dev Contest
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Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the extension of its Application
Extension Platform as well as a contest for developers to provide new
applications. The Cisco AXP is an open, Linux-based hardware module for
the Cisco Integrated Services Router. Its Linux-based integration
environment comes with a downloadable software development kit. Cisco
also announced two new AXP solution partners.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64801.html
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4. NComputing Undercuts OLPC With Thin-Client Approach
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A Silicon Valley company is claiming a major victory in its efforts to
sell computers to schools that might otherwise be enticed by low-cost
laptops such as the green-and-white XO from One Laptop Per Child or
Intel's Classmate PC. NComputing said Monday it would be providing
computers in 5,000 schools in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64807.html
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5. Joost Relaunches TV Portal, No Software Required
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Forget about the boob tube. Places to watch TV on the Internet are
proliferating, from NBC Universal and News Corp.'s Hulu to Joost -- a
site that plans to relaunch Tuesday to make it a more interactive
experience. Joost's relaunch, which will let users watch shows like
"Friends" or "The Daily Show" directly on the Web, comes as YouTube also
is beginning to offer full-length, commercial-supported television
shows.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64806.html
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6. CBS Goes YouTubing With Full-Length TV Shows
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YouTube and CBS have teamed up to deliver new full-length TV programming
delivered via YouTube's new Theater View style, which provides a larger
video image. YouTube is testing the new format, so it may see some
tweaks in the near future; however, the move represents a significant
departure from the short-clip, user-generated content that turned the
YouTube brand into an international video sharing powerhouse.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64800.html
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7. FCC Tosses Technical Objections to National Wireless Broadband Plan
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While the communications industry waits for the FCC to fill in the
blanks on a white spaces policy, the commissioners are going forward
with another plan that would provide free wireless Internet access
throughout the U.S. Late last Friday, the commission released a report
showing that opening up part of the spectrum for free wireless broadband
access would interfere with existing carriers' nearby frequencies.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64802.html
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8. AI Program Texts Its Way to Turing Test Award
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Researchers at the University of Reading in England awarded the 18th
annual Loebner Prize Sunday. The competition tests the conversational
capabilities of artificial intelligence using text messages, an
examination known as the "Turing Test." The winner of the bronze medal
-- the highest award given to date -- was Fred Roberts of Hamburg,
Germany, whose Elbot program was pegged as the best of the five
participants.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64799.html
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9. MySpace Gets Up Front and Personal With Targeted Ads
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MySpace has launched a new online display advertising tool for small
businesses and individuals called "MyAds." The service is similar to the
Beverly Hills, Calif.-based social network's ad platform for large
businesses, HyperTargeting, which made its debut in November 2007.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64803.html
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10. Can Android Blow Wireless Industry Wide Open?
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A research report is throwing more fuel on the prerelease fire
surrounding T-Mobile's G1 phone using Google's Android open source
operating system. "Success for Android has Little to Do with User
Acceptance," claims the ABI Research headline, and director Kevin Burden
writes that Android can help sell a lot of smartphones only if carriers
and manufacturers recognize the business value of using standard
platforms.
See the Full Story:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/64795.html
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