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• Driving app Waze turns the highway into a Pac-Man game with ‘Road Goodies’
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 24 2009

  Mobile driving application Waze is adding a little extra inventive for users to help build out its crowdsourced maps. It already offers users points for “munching” up the road — ...

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• White House sends out 'world is flat' message with India visit
  Patrick Thibodeau
  Nov 24 2009

  The California wine served at a U.S. State Dept. lunch today for India's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was called Conundrum, a word that sums up the difficulty trying to decipher President Barack ...

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• Announcing the DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest, sponsored by Flurry
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 24 2009

  We’re holding a contest in conjunction with our DiscoveryBeat event to be held on Dec. 8 at the Automattic Lounge on Pier 38 in San Francisco. The DiscoveryBeat Apps Contest is being sponsored ...

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• Palm, Sprint pursue lost data from Pre, Pixi
  Stephen Lawson
  Nov 24 2009

  Palm and Sprint are trying to solve problems some users have had moving data from one Palm webOS device to another, a task that has caused some to lose contacts and calendar entries, according to ...

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• CSIRO beefs up research with GPU cluster
  Kathryn Edwards
  Nov 24 2009

  A supercomputer which combines the central processing units (CPUs) found in traditional PCs, with more powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) will be launched by the Commonwealth Scientific and ...

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• Amidio launches Touch DJ with ‘visual mixing’
  Tom Slater
  Nov 24 2009

  Mobile music app maker Amidio launched its Touch DJ application for the iPhone today, allowing users to spin and mix music right on their handsets. Since a demo of the app appeared on YouTube on ...

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• Smartphone: From Threat to Asset
  Dan Dearing
  Nov 24 2009

  "Despite a strict policy to use BlackBerry devices, it seems obvious that many of our employees are using the iPhone for both work and play without the knowledge of IT. Apple has made it easy for ...

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• Forensic expert backs Telecommunications Act changes
  Trevor Clarke
  Nov 24 2009

  A call for intercepted data to be destroyed "as soon as it is no longer required" has been described as shortsighted by the director of one of the country's leading forensic computer labs.The call is ...

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• Microsoft CFO to leave at end of year
  Nancy Gohring
  Nov 24 2009

  The update to Tuesday's story "Microsoft CFO to leave at end of year" contained a typo in the headline, which said that Microsoft's "CEO" will leave at the end of the year. It is the CFO who is ...

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• Youtego launches more personal approach to social networking
  Tom Slater
  Nov 24 2009

  Startup Youtego is bringing a new experience to social networking. It’s all about using images to define yourself, your life, and your interests, and in the little while that I’ve been ...

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