(Reuters) – Internet auction and services company EBay Inc has reached a deal to sell its online telephony unit Skype to a group of private investors, the New York Times said, citing two people briefed on its plans.
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Will NETGEAR’s long-awaited dual-band, dual-radio draft 11n router live up to its hype? We take a first look at the odds.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Norway’s Opera Software released on Tuesday a new version of its browser, Opera 10, promising faster downloads, new design and new features.
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In this, our second installment of the Best Gaming CPUs For The Money, we roll out another batch of recommendations, plus add a couple of other attributes readers wanted to see last time, such as platform longevity and overclockability.
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A man robbed of his wallet and iPhone at gunpoint used the gadget’s location feature to alert cops to the crooks’ location.
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All Sony Vaio PCs sold in the USA will come pre-installed with Google Chrome, the company said today.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia has delayed to next year the launch of its music service in the United States, the world’s largest music market, Forbes magazine reported online on Monday, quoting a Nokia spokeswoman.
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Hugh Pickens writes “Studies of reproduction in space have previously been carried out with sea urchins, fish, amphibians and birds, but Brandon Keim writes in Wired that Japanese biologists have discovered that although mammalian fertilization may take place normally in space, as mouse embryos develop in microgravity their cells have trouble dividing and maturing. The [...]
A rather unusual residence is starting to take shape in Dorking, UK. A British television presenter is building a two-storey house from Lego, and says he plans to live in it.
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The Register is reporting that EMC co-founder Richard Egan has committed suicide. The article has an interesting look back at some of his accomplishments. “Egan had an amazing life, encompassing involvement in the Apollo space program, the US Marines, starting and building the most successful storage company on the planet, and becoming the US ambassador [...]