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This year's Microsoft shareholder meeting wasn't a lot of fun for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, thanks to shareholders grilling him about Apple and the iPhone with questions like the above. Ballmer smacked him right back: There's certainly always opportunities for improvement. There is a group of peo (Read More)
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I know Microsoft has only recently broken ground on Internet Explorer 9, but why would you ever release a graph in which you were the admitted worst at a task? The graph above is a JavaScript performance comparison in which the same machine ran the SunSpider test (so shorter bars are better). Microsoft is comparing one, spe (Read More)
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Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be updating it all week. Doorbuster items marked with an * Cell Phones AT&T Sony Ericsson W518a - Free (Read More)
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We've teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you'll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. Panasonic Z1 Panasonic's flagship HDTV is its thinnest 54-inch plasma HDTV ever, with only 1-inch depth. They did it by el (Read More)
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eReaders are getting powerful enough to become fully-fledged Internet tablets, but gaming devices? That's a new spin. Turns out Qualcomm has a detachable game controller add-on for that Snapdragon-powered eReader prototype we first showed you on Wednesday. Take a look: Qualcomm says it'll be up to the various manufacturers (Read More)
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Microsoft recently banned a whole lot of modded consoles. Was it to prevent piracy, or was it a conspiracy? A new lawsuit is positing the latter theory. Here's what Texas-based law firm AbingtonIP says to justify their new suit: Although modification of Xbox consoles is arguably against the terms of use for Xbox/Xbox Live, (Read More)
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Also known as the entire technology press amirite? Ha? In all seriousness though—Maclife asked various bloggers, journalists and tech personalities what their dream Apple products would be, and mocked them all up in detailed renders. Here's what happened: Veronica Belmont, of Tekzilla/Mahalo/BOL fame/general video on the in (Read More)
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Bad news for Dell. With quarterly earnings reports in, their year-over-year revenue has dropped 15% to just shy of $13 billion, and their net income dropped 54% to $337 million. Surprisingly, Dell's home PC business is up 17% from last year, but they're making less money off it, with revenue in that sector down 10%. (Read More)
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Google is bringing its Google Voice speech recognition tech to YouTube, creating automatic captions for deaf and hearing-impaired users. Get ready for hilariously incorrect captions! Because the speech-recognition technology is still a work in progress, Google is launching the automatic captioning service on the YouTube ch (Read More)
iphone - fresh news by plazoo.com:
App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a company ... (Read More)
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Conservative government will stick with its two-year economic pump-priming strategy but won't be enhancing it with any new spending programs when he delivers the 2010 budget early next year. (Read More)
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The federal government is taking a wait-and-see approach and downplaying efforts to discredit the diplomat who says Canada's handling of Afghan detainees likely broke the law. (Read More)
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App developers have it hard enough on the iPhone; on Android, they've got to keep prices just as low, and sell to a much smaller audience. So how are some of them coping? By packing up and leaving, like Gameloft. Finance director for the company, Alexandre de Rochefort, says that even a company that's done extremely well on (Read More)
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There are two ways for a device to access YouTube: either through the regular web interface, i.e. Flash, or for cleaner integration, through its back end APIs. As of December, Google is shutting off the tap. UPDATED The news comes from the COO of Syabas, the company that makes the Popcorn Hour set-top box. Up until now they (Read More)
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Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. Lego: It's not really a secret that Lego building bloc (Read More)