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World Tech Update: Gates Retires, Cell Phones, and Laptops

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In this week's show: 3G iPhone is made on the cheap, Bill Gates readies for retirement, Microhoo is back, Google delays Android, Panasonic introduces a new Toughbook, Sony delivers content, and Toshiba shows off new laptops.

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  • World Tech Update: Reports From IFA Tech Trade Show in Berlin In this week's show: a virtual mirror that makes trying on clothes a snap, a network attached storage system, a super slim prototype LCD TV, and more...
  • Solar-Powered LCD TV Set At the IFA conference in Berlin, Sharp displayed a prototype solar-panel that could power a LCD TV. The technology is at the stage where a single panel can provide sufficient energy to watch 4.5 hours of TV per day.
  • The Next Generation of Scrabble At the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, developers used RFID technology with the Scrabble tiles and board. Each Scrabble tile contains a small RFID tag that can be read by the tile holder.
  • Samsung's Laptop is Lighter Than Air The latest laptop from Samsung, the X360, competes in the same 13.3-inch screen class as Apple's Macbook Air but is a little lighter. Running an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 128GB solid-state drive, it should start and shutdown faster than laptops with hard-disk drives.
  • Who is that Red-Haired Woman at IFA? At the IFA show in Berlin, everywhere you look you'll see the conference's red-haired spokesperson. But who is she? We tracked her down and found out.
  • Three New Sony Walkman MP3 Players Sony has launched three new models of Walkman players that will be available in the United States in September. Costing between $60 and $180, the MP3 players range in capacity from 2Gb to 8Gb, with the high-end model including noise-canceling capabilities.
  • World Tech Update: Thin TVs, Upscaling DVDs, and More... At IFA in Berlin thin televisions were on display, Fujitsu Siemens showed off a new netbook, Toshiba demoed a DVD player with better upscaling, Garmin added to its GPS line-up, and LG put Bluetooth inside a TV.
  • Celebs, 3D TV and Cars at Nvidia Conference At Nvidia's first conference, NVISION'08, there was something for everyone: Sci-fi celebrities, 3D gaming on your TV, new car dashboard interfaces, and the Tegra mobile chipset.
  • World Tech Update: Google's Android, OlympicsTechnology, and UnCool Cuil This week: Cuil proves to be not so cool, a look at the technology behind the Olympics, Google readies Android, and Taiwan investigates Microsoft.
  • Balloons: The New Tool for Hackers The newest tool for network sniffing is a balloon! Attached to the bottom of the balloon is a special antenna and a small party cooler that houses the sniffing hardware and software that sends data back to PCs on the ground.

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