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My favourite media centre software, Boxee, has just launched the highly-anticipated new beta version of its XBMC-based media centre, complete with a redesigned user interface. On top of that, Boxee launched its very first piece of hardware during CES, the Boxee Box, together with D-Link. It's an imp ...

Quite a bit of enthusiasm seems to be building for ARM's upcoming processor for netbooks and other lightweight computing devices. The Cortex-A9 is promised to have substantially better performance than the current crop of AMD processors, and a video released by AMD gives a pretty convincing picture ...

So, today at CES, Palm held its big keynote thing. Palm's CEO, Jon Rubinstein, aided by several others, had a whole lot to talk about for just one hour, and boy, is this good stuff or what. We've got a boatload of stuff to talk about: two new phones exclusive to Verizon, tethering, video support, Fl ...

Microsoft's CES keynote is behind us, and before the thing even started, it was rumoured that Microsoft would unveil a tablet PC together with HP. Well, they did, but to say it was underwhelming would be an understatement. Instant update: El Reg has a nice list of figures presented during the keynot ...

InfoWorld's Galen Gruman writes that the main potential game-changing attribute of the Nexus One - that Google is selling the device direct - does nothing to move the industry past carrier lock-in. "At first, I wanted to credit Google for making a tentative step in the direction of smartphone freedo ...

Iddo Genuth writes "Research conducted by a team of North American scientist shows our solar system is special, contrary to the accepted theory that it is an average planetary system. Using computer simulations to follow the development of planets, it was shown that very specific conditions are need ...

Kligat writes "For the first time since 2003, the International Space Station has utilized the rockets on the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle to dodge leftover remnants of a defunct satellite. The Russian Cosmos-2421 was launched in June 2006 to track Western Navy vessels and is b ...

Ostracus writes to share a new take on the word "treehouse." Engineers and plant scientists from Tel Aviv have taken the application of tree shaping to the next level, designing everything from streetlamps to houses. "A home built from trees, the researchers said, would be a natural storm protector. ...

KentuckyFC writes to mention that new data from the orbiting observatory PAMELA may shed some additional light on the question of dark matter. Still only a preliminary announcement, the new findings apparently support the "Minimal Dark Matter" model where a particle called a "Wino" is responsible. R ...

Anti-Globalism writes to tell us that in a new book titled The Numerati, author Stephen Baker introduces us to some of the math wizardry that is used to label or track our movements through purchases, phone calls, internet usage and other habits. "One of the most promising laboratories for the Numer ...

O Samuel a comer com pauzinhos! Quinta-feira, 17 Julho 2008 O meu puto é despachado e isto de comer com paus, com garfos ou colheres cá para ele vai tudo dar ao mesmo, o importante é levar a comida até à boca, pode não chegar lá à primeira tentativa... mas leve o tempo que levar há-de lá chegar! e ...

Quem precisa do Bob Proctor quando se tem a Julie Andrews? Terça-feira, 8 Julho 2008 Ora cantem lá comigo... sim cantem mesmo!!! Garanto que isto ajuda! I Have Confidence - The Sound of Music What will this day be like? I wonder. What will my future be? I wonder. It could be so exciting to ...

Foi hoje! Segunda-feira, 7 Julho 2008 Foi hoje - que fique registado para a posteridade - que assinei o contrato que nos vai levar nesta aventura que será a Alemanha! Foi hoje também que entreguei no departamento de recursos humanos da empresa onde já trabalho há quase 10 anos uma carta de demissão. ...

Samuel: Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Mais ou menos filho... vamos para aqui! Vídeo promocional da cidade de Düsseldorf, vale a pena ver até ao fim! Depois de ver isto, e como se não bastasse, fiquei ainda a saber que segundo estudos da Mercer (multinacional de recursos humanos) Düsseldorf é a 5ª m ...

Este ano já não vou ter férias! Quarta-feira, 2 Julho 2008 Pois é este ano não há mais férias para mim, foi uma semaninha em Junho e era agora no mês que vem... pois... era... mas ainda que isto pareça um pesadelo não é - é precisamente o contrário é um sonho que está prestes a tornar-se realidade! ...