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or http://iosafe.com/

It's BBQ approved!
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/370119/iosafe_solopro_christmas_bbq/

That of course is the real confusing issues, what is a laptop and what is a netbook. generally the Laptop around the 15" screen, seen as being a little to heavy for real portability and too pricey for the high drop risk. The netbook with 12" screen or less, being lighter and of course being cheap enough to face high drop factor risk (replace yearly).

The netbooks of course ate into the road warriors ultra portable high margin laptops, which held them out of the 12" screen size for a while, to preserve that high profit market.

So the push is now to get past 10" and get to 12" at a much lower price that 15" or larger notebooks. Here is an interesting article http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/381033/asustek_hold_netbook_shipments_flat_tablet_sales_grow/, which shows the limited sales of tablets and the shift to the 12" netbook, the tablet at less than 10", with the assumption that laptops will be larger than 15". Interesting point screen real estate is the driver.

Will we see a Windows Phone 7 from Motorola soon?

http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/362876/patent_protection_key_windows_phone_license/

and Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor to specialise in media processing

and Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor to specialise in media processing

LG's new Optimus line will include smartphones running on Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual-core chips.

In other Pirate Bay-related news: "The case against the four people involved in the running of Pirate Bay is heading back to court at the end of September. The appeals trial is tentatively scheduled to start on Sep 28., the Svea Court of Appeals said on Wednesday."

According to this article: "Just hours after Internet service providers severed network connectivity to Troyak, an ISP associated with the Zeus botnet, the ISP has regained connectivity after peering with a new upstream Internet service provider."

Here's a timeline of the case. Also the full ruling has been posted online.

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A. Tapir

"Why would you need an app store specifically for Linux on netbook?"

'you' wouldn't but it would promote sales and services for the Mobile carriers, as they wouldn't be paying the Microsoft tax or 'share download revenue with the OS designer'

'Does the Linux foundation want to do an oversight .. No oversight needed'

Fallacy: Straw Man

Don't look now, but the advertisements are watching you. No, it's not a scene from the movie "Minority Report" where digital signboards served up personalized ads depending on who was passing by, but a real-life example at a Tokyo railway station. Above a flat-panel display hawking DVDs and books sits a small camera hooked up to some image processing software.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of one of those, controlling a Beowulf cluster of these!

There's another article about it here. Interesting snippet: "Earlier this year, Sun received a US$44 million contract from DARPA to boost computing performance by enabling chip communication using lasers over silicon and to reduce power consumption by placing chips close to each other."

Version of the story without the crazy formatting that makes it work to read: E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems.

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