Blast From The Past: Nook Touch Hacked to Run Mac OS 7 | The Microsoft Surface, A 10.6-Inch Windows 8 Tablet From Microsoft | Vodafone will buy telecom oldster CWW for $1.6 billion | Samsung Galaxy S III reviewed: The defining Android phone | Google: Use the Cloud, Save the Planet

Blast From The Past: Nook Touch Hacked to Run Mac OS 7

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Missing the old Macintosh software you grew up with? Now you can use it again--on your touchscreen tablet[...]
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The Microsoft Surface, A 10.6-Inch Windows 8 Tablet From Microsoft

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“It embodies hardware and software working together. People want to work and play,” Steve Ballmer said today amid much fanfare at Milk Studios in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft has officially entered the ring with Apple.Microsoft views the Surface as a “stage for Windows 8.” It’s 9.3mm thin, has full size USB 2.0 jacks, a massive kickstand and weighs only 1.5 lbs. The casing is made out of magnesium (MS calls it VaporMG) and screen is covered in the Gorilla Glass 2 and optically bonded, a feature Microsoft brags was specifically made for the Surface. The Surface is directly aimed at consumers, and with that, the iPad[...]
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Vodafone will buy telecom oldster CWW for $1.6 billion

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Investors in Cable & Wireless Worldwide have finally given the thumbs-up to an acquisition offer from Vodafone. The deal values the 152-year-old telecom company at $1.6 billion.
Vodafone is currently the second largest mobile company globally, and the CWW acquisition will only add to its stature among the telecommunications giants of the world.
According to Reuters, one institutional investor in particular had been holding back a vote on the deal. When that party was in favor of the acquisition, that gave Vodafone 99 percent of the votes from voting shareholders to proceed with the acquisition.
CWW controls more than 12,000 miles of optical fiber, which means Vodafone will no longer have[...]
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Samsung Galaxy S III reviewed: The defining Android phone

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Taking a play out of Apple’s book, Samsung has introduced one phone model for the world: The Galaxy S III. The new Android 4.0 smartphone arrives on five U.S. carriers in the coming weeks and I’ve had a few days to use two Galaxy S III models: One for AT&T and one for Sprint.
With a single model around the world, the only differences in the U.S. versions are operator services, software and the carrier name on the back of the phone. So will Samsung’s new phone become as successful as its predecessor? I have no doubt for a number of reasons.
Although smartphone experiences are influencing sales as much as, if not more than, the actual hardware specifications, it’s w[...]
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Google: Use the Cloud, Save the Planet

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You have to think about security issues, but the potential energy savings of using the cloud are crystal clear[...]
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