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IDG World Tech Update
Welcome to the first installment of IDG World Tech Update, a five-minute recap of the week's technology news. This week: HD DVD falls to Blu-ray; Bill Gates speaks against Internet censorship; Microsoft promises greater transparency; Palm introduces a new smart phone, and San Francisco introduces a green hi-tech bus.
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- World Tech Update: Computex, Gates' Goodbye, and More From Taipei's Computex: new version of the Eee PC, production shortages of Intel?s Atom, Microsoft's extension of XP, and much more.
- Supercomputer Passes Petaflop Barrier A computer built by IBM and commissioned by the U.S. government has surpassed the petaflop barrier and can perform more than one thousand trillion calculations per second.
- Goodbye From Bill Gates Bill Gates delivers his last scheduled speech as a full-time Microsoft employee.
- Super Hi-Vision System Equals 16 HDTV Screens A recently-developed 33-megapixel image sensor creates a single SHV image equal to 16 tiled HDTV screens.
- Computex Preview Asia's biggest IT show, Computex, gets under way this week in Taipei.
- Tegra Chipset For Mini-Laptops Nvidia launches the all-in-one Tegra chip set to compete with Intel's Atom.
- Clarion: Internet-Enabled GPS Prototype Clarion's new personal navigation device: Web access, digital TV and GPS--all in one gadget.
- Greenpeace Says Game Consoles Play Dirty Environmental lobby group Greenpeace releases a study that details hazardous materials in game consoles.
- Microsoft Demos New Touchscreen Interface LaserTouch is a new sensing technology that uses computer vision techniques to sense multiple contacts on an LCD screen.
- World Tech Update: Dell's Guilty, Intel's Delays, and Sony's Speakers Vodafone�s CEO resigns, the Mars Lander touches down, Dell is guilty of fraud, Google I/O kicks off, and Microsoft demos a new touchscreen interface.
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- Obama Beats McCain as Spam Target A spam-off shows bulk mailers are far more likely to use Obama's name in the subject line.
- Hotels a Geek Can Love Here are nine geek hotels offering futuristic conveniences and tech amenities at a reasonable rate--sometimes in luxury.
- Vendors, Cops, Profs Team to Study Cybercrime Tech vendors and the Secret Service are among those working with an evaluation of trends and best practices for security.
- Voter Hot Line Upgraded for Election A Web-based Virtual Call Center program will power the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- Microsoft Sues DHL After Train Dumps 21,600 Xboxes Microsoft is suing cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a Texas train derailment.
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