Micron Technology today announced its highest capacity laptop solid-state drives (SSDs) based on its smallest circuitry technology; the largest SSD doubles the amount of data that can be stored compared to its predecessor — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The latest version of Meyer’s reset stylesheet dispenses with a few CSS rules that probably aren’t necessary any more — for example, the font selector in the first reset rule — and adds some new rules to handle HTML5 elements in older browsers — via Webmonkey
Peter Jalowiczor is a gas worker from South Yorkshire, England. He’s also the discoverer of four giant exoplanets, according to the University of California’s Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. But he’s not an astronomer and he doesn’t even have a telescope — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today questioned the campaign by major retailers to thwart the rise in overseas e-commerce — via redwolf.newsvine.com
News Corp is still considering a sale of its social networking site MySpace but a person familiar with the matter told Reuters there are no talks currently with potential buyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.
In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops — via pameladrew.newsvine.com
Researchers at a Scottish university claim to have made a breakthrough in the drive towards more powerful processors while conserving energy too. The team, from Glasgow University, led by Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede, have succeeded in squeezing 1000 cores on a single chip — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you’ve noticed some extra bulk on your hard drive since purchasing an iOS device, you’re not alone. iTunes backups can suck up a significant amount of hard drive space; liberate your primary drive by moving the backups — via The iPhone Guru
California’s SB 1411, which adds a layer of criminal and civil penalties for certain online impersonations, goes into effect starting today. The consequences include a fine of up to $1,000, and/ or up to a year in jail. So don’t go and do something crazy like impersonate Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Facebook. There may be consequences — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Patrick Pichette, the unconventional chief financial officer of Google, explains why the internet search giant is definitely not a one-trick pony — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia is facing an unprecedented cyber security crisis with new attacks from global hackers growing at a much faster rate than the federal government can respond — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new spam campaign that appeared shortley before the New Year is part of a new effort by the crew behind the Storm/Waledac botnet and is using some rather elementary tactics–in combination with fast-flux–to attempt to compromise unsuspecting users — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dyson’s latest vacuum cleaner does away with the bag, the cable and most of the appliance as well — via josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com
If you find yourself needing to create multiple duplicate flash drives, ImageUSB makes the process painless with concurrent drive imaging. Batch the process and image as many drives as you have USB ports available
A number of people with Hotmail accounts have posted complaints on Microsoft forums complaining that their emails have been deleted — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The European Commission has put into effect a June 2009 agreement stating that major cellphone manufacturers should standardize their charging/data connection ports to the popular microUSB format. CEN-CENELEC and ETSI provided the standards by which these 14 companies will abide by to make cell phone recharging and data transfer easy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A zombie satellite
that spent months sending out signals while it was adrift in orbit has sprung back to life, resetting itself after its unexplained breakdown in space earlier this year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There aren’t many fairy stories that start at 6pm on a Tuesday evening in Sydney. Even fewer have no mention of dragons, pumpkins or enchanted apples. But this is a new fable, a truly modern tale for the Twitter and social media non-believers. A fairytale 2.0 if you will — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world’s largest daily deals website, Groupon, which Google tried to buy this month for $US6 billion, has confirmed it is entering the Australian market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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