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Microsoft giving away software developer and design tools to full time students for free

Are you a full time student and a software developer or interested in software development? Here’s your chance to get free copies of Microsoft developer and design tools at no charge. All you have to do is visit Microsoft DreamSpark website and download the tools. To be able to download the free goodies, you must [...]

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Dell debuts ultra-small studio hybrid desktop

Dell has unveiled an ultra-small desktop PC, that it’s calling a ‘hybrid’, which features a laptop processor. The hybrid studio doesn’t compromise on the features that it offers but also offers significant savings in power bills as the hybrid model consumes less power than a regular desktop with similar hardware configuration. Dell claims that this [...]

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Use your home phone number anywhere with Vonage Pro

Vonage has launched a new service called Vonage Pro that allows its customers to use their home phone number to make calls from anywhere they have an Internet connection.
Vonage Pro allows its customers, with good Internet connection (aka Broadband), to make VoIP calls and the recipients of the calls will see the home number of [...]

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Texas Instruments makes it closer to the lamp-free projector

Texas Instruments recently demonstrated the first home theater lamp-free projector ever that utilizes a PhlatLightâ„¢ LED light source and a BrilliantColorâ„¢ chipset. This technology is capable of delivering 1080p picture, which is quite superior for home use.
Being lamp-free eliminates maintenance costs and the charges incurred towards changing lamps over a period of time in conventional [...]

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Two new domains from Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail has launched two new domains for its users who find it difficult to get the email address of their choice. The new domains are ymail.com and rocketmail.com.
Yahoo! recognized the problem that almost all users usually face when signing up for a new email address and end up using a bunch of numbers at [...]

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Samsung Announces Mass Production of the 500 GB Hard Drive for Laptops

Samsung recently announced the mass production of Spinpoint M6, the world’s highest capacity hard drive for laptops and also mass production of Spinpoint MP2 - one of the world’s fastest laptop hard drives. The 500GB storage capacity of Spinpoint M6 hard disk makes it the obvious choice of those who store a vast amount of [...]

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability Found

Less than a day after the Firefox 3 has been launched, a zero day vulnerability has been found that not only affects Firefox 3.0 but also earlier versions such as Firefox 2.0.x. The vulnerability was verified at TippingPoint labs and then it was reported to the Mozilla security team.
The exact details of the vulnerability are [...]

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