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When Richard Saville-Smith innocently bought his eleven year old son, Comrie, a domain name for his birthday, he never expected he would involved in a legal war with one of the world?s largest law firms and UN intellectual property regulators.
A special present for the young CS Lewis fan, the ?70 purchase of the domain name [...]

Launching from the Kennedy Space Centre last Wednesday, a Delta 2 rocket fired the telescope to its destination in an impressive 90 minutes. Costing $690m the telescope will pick up where its predecessor, the Energetic Gamma-ray Experiment Telescope, or EGRET, left off eight years ago. The GLAST is much faster that the previous model ? scanning the entire universe in three hours, compared to EGRET?s 15 months.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin was clearly not satisfied with just looking at the earth via satellite as the millionaire has put done a $5m deposit on a flight to space, through a new program called Space Adventures.
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Brin is the first person to reserve a spot, leaving 5 places available in Space Adventures? new Orbital Mission [...]

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HP unveiled 50 new products at the Connecting Your World conference in Berlin yesterday. Among the products are HP?s TouchSmart all-in-one PC, an Ultra thin Laptop from Voodoo PC and a one-billion colour monitor.
Steve Kleynhans, an analyst at Gartner said ?the sheer number of products HP unwrapped Tuesday is unusual in the PC industry but [...]

IBM has designed a new $100m supercomputer named ?Roadrunner?, that is powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop ? that?s 1 thousand trillion calculations a second (beat that Vorderman).? The system is twice as fast as the next closest super computer ? the IBM Blue Gene system - and nearly three times as fast as [...]

Disney and Google have collaborated to create a virtual version of Walt Disney World Resort that allows users to experience the Magic Kingdom from the comfort of your own home. Disney expects that the virtual experience will encourage users to book a real life holiday.
Working with programmers at Google Earth, Disney have created a [...]

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IBM researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, have developed a rather unconventional way to keep microprocessors that are stacked on top of each other cool. The long running problem has now been solved by channelling water through the chips. Yes you heard that right.
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“As we package chips on top of each other [...]

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AMD has released a new mobile processor platform that will challenge market leaders Intel for a piece of the action.
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Named ?Puma? for no apparent reason, AMD?s latest offering includes Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core Mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series Graphic and wireless networking hardware from Atheros, Broadcom and Ralink.
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Nathan Brookwood, research fellow at [...]

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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has unveiled an updated beta release of its Silverlight 2 beta 2 multimedia publishing software at the company?s TechEd conference in Orlando on Tuesday.
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The utility is to be made available for download by the end of this week, and allows developers to rite web-based applications using Microsofts .Net Framework. The company [...]