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POPSBad Translation Sparks International Incident This account as warning with everyone due to be used for which could try to consume fish of Babel in a professional context. Machine translation useful for, the general fortuitous ends, but for important anything is not due being used.
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POPSLCD Makers Admit To Price Fixing The price fixing occurred prior to the end of 2006 -- while it's impossible to say if anything similar is still happening, the price of LCD screens has fallen significantly since then.
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POPSCisco Invests In WiMax I get chided by coworkers for my boosterish attitude towards WiMax, the next-generation city-wide wireless protocol. But it's cool stuff: When these networks are installed, providers will be able to beam a broadband data signal over an entire city, and users will be able to get online wirelessly anywhere, any time. Problem is I've been pointing that out for about three years, and not much has happened. But the fact that Cisco is now dropping $330 million on the technology provides a lot of validation. Wimax is real, and it's coming, and it's cool.
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POPSWhy You Can't Find A Wii You might want to blame the continuing Wii shortage on the evil machinations of Wario or King Koopa. But the fact of the matter is that Nintendo just can't make enough of the devices to meet demand --even though the company has increased production from about 1 million to 1.8 million a month.
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POPSVista Update Makes Things Worse Vista users can not get a break! The new OS is sluggish and buggy enough as is -- and then an update that's supposed to fix it makes things worse.
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POPSWhy Your Electric Bill Is So High You know those little black power supply boxes that sit on the cord between your gizmos and the outlet? Those things suck up power even when the device isn't in use, and that drain can add up. It's a good idea to put all your consoles on a power strip and shut them off at the source when you're not using them -- why pay all that money to fuel a device you're not enjoying?
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POPSLondon Is The World's WiFi Capital A cool detail: home network users are more security-savvy than companies. 90% of Londoners have encrypted their home networks, but only 80% of corporations.
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POPSThe Virtual Girlfriend Yes, this is creepy. But technology that can make a projection react to your movement has plenty of other applications -- think virtual receptionists and computerized coaches or dance instructors.
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POPSMicrosoft's $528 Mil Tax Break Keep in mind these numbers are all estimates, and that Microsoft is definitely not the only company that does this sort of thing. But I figure that doesn't make it any less sleazy.
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POPSInternet Group Buys Soccer Team Representatives for Ebbsfleet United have yet to comment on rumors that matches will now be interrupted every five minutes by ads for Viagra, or that the Star Wars Kid will be their new goalie.
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POPSDon't Believe The Second Life Hype According to Yankee Group, the growth rate of Second Life users has stalled since October '06, and average time spent per user is just 12 minutes per month. That hardly sounds like a revolutionary, booming, incredibly important cultural force for change.
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POPSGoogle's New Active Search It's interesting to see the ways Google is evolving -- there's so much hidden data out there that hasn't been indexed, and they're going to have to come up with new ways to find it.
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POPSFirefox Launch Blows Up On The Pad Mozilla has made a big deal out of their plan to rack up a gazillion downloads on launch day; it's not a good sign that they can't keep the site up for the first hour.
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POPSMom Puts Microsoft's Ballmer On The Spot The anti-Vista backlash is strong, and growing. It's nothing new for a Microsoft OS upgrade to be met with complaints and moaning, but this time it seems unusually extreme. People are actually uninstalling Vista and going back to XP... will the trend get even bigger and continue to hurt Microsoft?
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POPSWhy Microhoo Won't Work Fake Steve Jobs (aka Dan Lyons) nails it again. This is some of the best analysis I've seen of the potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger yet, thanks to real insight into Steve Ballmer's thinking and personality.
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POPSA Reprieve for Windows XP Ballmer can spin the stats however he wants, but there is still tremendous resistance to Vista both from corporate and home users. Keeping XP as an option would be a smart use, because if consumers are forced to choose Vista, they might buy a Mac instead.
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POPSGoogle Hits Your Gas Station This is a pretty cool idea, certain to be a hit with those drivers who find it embarrassing to ask for directions. But how long until we see brawls at the gas station because some jerk's hogging the pump while he surfs for directions to Aunt Mabel's?
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POPSYahoo! Launches Digg Clone This is such a dull move.. yet another Digg rip-off. Even though Netscape already tried stealing Kevin Rose's cheese and failed... Yahoo might actually pull this off. They have an exponentially larger user base, and that's really important to drive interest in this sort of social network. Of course, even if it works, it's nothing new, and it isn't going to be so amazing as to pull the company out of the doldrums.
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POPSBeer Monday: Hot Brew? At first blush this sounds kind of gross... but if it's a really thick, creamy stout, I can see it working. The beer and vanilla ice cream combination is already tried and true -- for a most excellent booze sundae, try Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate Stout.
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POPSHalo 3 Hits $300 Million Everyone knew Halo 3 would be a big hit, but these numbers are really stellar. If the sales hold up, this carries Microsoft a long way towards catching up with the Nintendo Wii -- and towards meeting their promise that the Xbox division of the company would turn a profit this year.
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POPSCisco Loses Another Top Exec This is a big loss. Giancarlo is a very smart guy and one of the folks most responsible for Cisco's embrace of (and success in) advanced technologies. Coming on the heels of SVP Mike Volpi's departure earlier this this year, it could all signal the beginning of a crisis.
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POPSMonkeys Control Robot With Their Thoughts I, for one, welcome our new cyborg monkey overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted Internet personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their hydroponic banana gardens.
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POPSIs Google Buying Digg? Digg would be a great buy -- but I'm skeptical of Rose & crew accepting a price too far "below $200 million." They've got a huge site with an insanely dedicated audience.
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POPSCourts Strike Down Net Censorship Both First Amendment and pro-tech groups have been hugely critical of COPA, saying that the law is too broad, and would affect news or informational sites talking about mature issues, not just porn.
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POPS10 Billion Videos A Month Americans are never going to give YouTube up. They'll never let YouTube down. They're never gonna run around and desert YouTube.
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POPSDolly Parton Vs. Google I sympathize with event producers, and it feels wrong to disagree with Dolly -- but come on. If we make that spectrum available to the public, the benefit to consumers is huge, and it's easy enough to regulate them to avoid interference.
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POPSApple killing Micro-USB standard? Apple makes lots of money selling charger cords, converters and docks, so they're resistant to adopting Micro-USB. But this could come back to bite them; come 2012, if the iPhone is the only device with a proprietary charger, don't you think that's going to turn off consumers?
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POPSIn-Game Advertising Picks Up Most in-game ads appear virtually the same way they would in the real world -- like a billboard on the side of the road in a racing game. But if advertisers really do see positive results from these ads, expect to see them in more creative formats: * Mario wearing Nikes * Master Chief pounding down a Red Bull * Sonic The Hedgehog eating at a Sonic drive-through
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