Friday, January 9, 2009

09-Jan-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

US Unemployment claims mount to the point where they have crashed online application servers in 4 states:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/07/unemployment-claims-crash-state-web-sites/

Chinese-based computer manufacturere Lenovo, says it is to cut about 2,500 jobs worldwide, or 11% of its workforce:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7817093.stm

The EFF's Patent Busting Project, having had 6 out of 6 patents reexamined so far, goes for Seer Systems' network-distributed audio:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/36941

With a 64GiB SD card on the way from Panasonic, and 128GiB coming, the SD Association announces SDXC - good for up to 2TiB @ 300Mib/s:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/accessories/0,39101000,49300513,00.htm

Palm show off their new Pre mobile phone and the WebOS operating system that goes with it:
http://blog.treonauts.com/2009/01/palm-pre-webos.html

Can I interest Sir in a wafer-thin television? Samsung use an LCD panel with LED backlighting - not OLED which expects to be thinner:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/4159682/Worlds-thinnest-television-unveiled.html


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