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Why news like this comes when I am off-line (damn fried hard drives)???

You should have probably already heard it: Oracle decided to acquire Sun Microsystem for $7.4 Billion.

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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday evening that the Linux Kernel 2.6.29 has been released.

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The new Intel Core i7 family of CPUs will hit the stores by the end of November starting at $284.

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After months of speculations, some news about the new Amazon’s Kindle 2 start to come out.

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Test Patch Notes Disclaimer: The test realm patch notes only apply to features that exist on the public test realms. We provide these patch notes to players who wish to know what features and changes exist in the test environment in order to more effectively test these features.

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SanDisk is introducing slotMusic, a microSD card preloaded with DRM-free music.

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Bad news for the 3G version of the popular iPhone: Apple is recalling the USB power adapted because of a risk of electric shock.

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Apple has released yesterday, but officialized today, the update 2.1 for the iPod Touch and it is planning to release Friday a similar patch for the iPhone.

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The timer is running out for the first model of the Google Android phone, as it is planned for late 2008, and some considerations about it are raising around the net, like the worrying that it will lack support for Microsoft Exchange.

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Palm accidentally posted a presentation about the Palm Treo 850 on one of its web sites. Palm obviously removed it immediately, but not quickly enough to prevent the leak of the new Treo’s features.

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