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If you have been following the Microsoft Hardware Twitter account you may have noticed that the team maintaining the account slipped a few hints of a new Microsoft Hardware product among the tweets.

A total of two images that show part of the device where posted in the last days, along with cryptic messages that may hint at the device’s functionality.

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Post the Twitter-based revolution in real-time data mining and serving for trending topics and events, Foursquare is now trying to sell it’s own services as something that shows the trending locations, in real-time. Foursquare co-founder David Crowley gave and exclusive interview to The Telegraph and said that they have approached all players in the search market, including the big three — Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (Bing!).

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What do you get when you take a flash drive and stuff it into a super tough metal pipe? You get LaCie’s new XtremKey over the top protected rugged USB flash drive. And when I say over the top, I mean it in a run-a-10 ton-truck-over-it kinda way. You can literally run it over with a truck, freeze it, and boil it without damaging it and the data inside. Seems like LaCie is aiming for military-grade protection. Not that it already is not out there.

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And you thought that the PC industry had one foot in the grave. Intel has just had the best quarter in the 42 years in which it has existed. They generated US$10.2 billion in revenue and they earned US$2.9 billion. If Intel is doing this well, I think we have reconsider our verdict about the PC industry dying and all.

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Apple has released Safari 5. With this new version, Apple brings a lot of features that Mac users have been asking for since a long time. We finally get third-party extensions, open-to-tab and also get something called Safari Reader. The address field is now the smart address field. And all of it makes me think — these are the exact things I like about FireFox. Nonetheless, having them on Safari means that the Apple browser is ready to go mainstream. Continue reading “Safari 5 Releases With Bing, Safari Reader, Safari Extensions, Safari Developers Program And More” »

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Google has decided that it will no longer use Windows-based machines for its operations. Hence, it has begun a purge of everything Windows and the sound of hearts breaking is echoing a long way from Redmond. Google has stated that this decision is based on low security level that such a mass market operating inevitably ends up suffering form. Despite the ongoing feud with Apple, Google has named Mac as one of the replacement platforms. The other is of course Linux, which they have been using for quite some time now.

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Steve Jobs appeared on News Corp’s D8 conference and answered surprisingly probing questions with relative openness. He talked about burning issues such as flash, app approval, Google’s competition, Siri acquisition, the whole iPhone at the bar incident, AT&T and more. If that topic list doesn’t tell you already, this interview of Steve is definitely one of the most revealing ones of recent times.

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Intel is looking into Google’s newly released WebM format and considering adding hardware acceleration for the format on its specialized Atom chip. WebM is a new video format released by Google, which is based on the VP8 codec. Intel is one of the partners who are working with Google to bring about the Google TV platform to the world and the WebM format is meant especially for that platform.

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As if banning Flash on the iPhone was not enough, Apple is now working on a Flash alternative that will allow rich web applications to be built. Apple’s alternative is called Gianduia. The name is from an Italian hazelnut chocolate. The connection? Gianduia is basically a combination of browser-side Cocoa with CoreData along with WebObjects and JavaScript. At least that is is how one developer described it in his tweet.

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Okay, so it is not like Google has become self aware (yet) and seized all the leading research in bionic machinery but if it did, this new Bionic arm would look like a pretty tasty piece of technology to acquire. This is an advanced version of Touch Bionic’s i-Limb prosthetic hand and it has some very special features to set itself apart from the previous generation. For one thing, it can lift 200 pounds, if that is what it take to tickle your fancy.

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