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Computers & Office
Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Read, write, and watch DVDs on the go with the Samsung Portable Optical Disc Drive. The winner of a 2010 iF product design award, this versatile multimedia storage device and DVD writer is 20 percent smaller and 25 percent lighter than conventional optical disc drives. Samsung’s TruDirect software allows you to burn DVDs quickly and [...]
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World
Thursday, June 30th, 2011

John and his longtime friend and ex-partner, Peter Fox, go waaaaay back. Before they founded Fox & Fluevog in 1970, they worked at Sheppard’s, a venerable Vancouver shoe emporium, albeit a tad on the conventional side. As you can imagine, John and Peter felt a wee bit constrained, selling brogues all day to businessmen in [...]
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Sci/Tech
Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Astronomers said on Wednesday they had snared light from a bright, ancient galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its core, a finding that would help explain aspects of the young Universe. The phenomenon is called a quasar, which are very bright but very distant galaxies with a mighty black hole at their heart. Until [...]
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Featured
Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Phase Change Memory (PCM) technology–one of the new forms of faster, smaller, and denser memory chips destined to replace flash–has been on the table for a while now. Now IBM has come up with a breakthrough making PCM data transfer “instantaneous” and 100 times faster than flash memory. Solid-state flash memory is widely used as a storage [...]
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Sci/Tech
Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Little green pigs across the nation are cowering in fear now that Angry Birds has finally come to Windows Phone 7. It’s certainly been a long journey, as All Things D points out: the first we heard of the popular mobile game hitting Windows Phone 7 was beforeWindows Phone 7 even launched, way back in October 2010. [...]