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Cooler Master's latest and greatest full tower enclosure, the COSMOS 1000, gets a good going over.
TweakTown
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Business Week
PC Magazine
The Korea Times
Korea IT News
The Korea Times
Apple reportedly wants to chop per-show prices in half from $1.99 to 99¢ each - the same price Apple charges for DRMed music. Unsurprisingly, Apple is meeting with a lot of resistance from the studios on the idea.
Ars Technica
AOL's venerable Netscape.com site, given an extreme Web 2.0 makeover 15 months ago and transformed into a spiffy social news site, will revert to being a traditional portal again.
PC World
Apple CEO Steve Jobs apologized to customers who paid full price for the iPhone before he cut the cost by US$200 yesterday.
Bloomberg
It was on September 7, 1987 that 15 operators from 13 countries signed a memorandum of understanding that led to the development of the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), the first pan-European mobile standard and, subsequently, the first global mobile standard.
ZDNet UK News
Hewlett-Packard unveiled five new iPaq handheld devices, two 3G mobile phones, a GPS device it calls a personal navigation device, and two traditional PDAs, without cellular connectivity.
InfoWorld
Using a mobile phone inside a hospital may risk the lives of patients by interfering with equipment, according to academics.
Vnunet.com
India and China are top of the class when it comes to global telecom growth rates, with a total of 200 million subscribers between them in the first quarter of 2007, according to a UN report.
Forbes
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Electronics Weekly
CyberLink has announced the release of CyberLink MagicSports 4, consumer software that automatically identifies the highlights of recorded sports programs, and allows users to replay beginning with each highlight.
Computing News
Acer has become the first major global PC manufacturer to become a member of both the North American HD DVD Promotional Group as well as the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA).
TG Daily
The Inquirer
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The particular model we are looking at today is the Shuttle SG33G5 Pro using the latest onboard graphics chipset from Intel, the G33. Where does Shuttle best fit in the market these days? We'll have a look at the SG33G5 Pro and see where in our house its best suited for.
TweakTown
Last night we had the opportunity to experience in person just how easy it is to hack and modify an Apple iPhone to work on networks other than AT&T in the United States. The whole process took 20 minutes to complete - we will walk you through the process we saw.
TweakTown
LG is sticking with the hybrid game, with its new BH200 disc player set to handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD at a somewhat lower price than its predecessor.
Digital Trends
Sony will be offering this fall two new Blu-ray players aiming at enthusiasts, for prices well north of the current sub-US$500 trend in the HD player segment.
TG Daily
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) on Wednesday introduced new 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch hard disks - the same size disk drives as what operate in the iPod classic.
PC World
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