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Sony to recall 440,000 VAIO TZ laptops worldwide due to overheating

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2008-09-04 13:05:26 by dhiram in Fareastgizmos.com
...due to overheating. According to Sony, seven people have sustained burns due to overheating around the world including Japan Of the 440,000 laptops to be recalled for free repair about 67,000 units are sold in Japan. Sony has confirmed 83 cases of overheating in Japan and 126 such cases overseas since August 2007.The Sony VAIO TX series in...
 
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Debunk: Xbox Live was down, but not due to DDoS attack

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2008-01-04 03:21:00 by Ryan Block in Engadget
...due to the fact that while GM of Xbox Live Marc Whitten did offer a free game for peoples' trouble in his public memo a few hours ago, he didn't speak to the cause of the outages. We did, however, get some conclusive inside information from a trusted source, and confidently relay to curious Live users that the issues were not at all related...
 
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Phone Company Shuts Down FBI Wire Taps Due to Unpaid Bills

2008-01-10 18:42:38 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies. Too bad it's too late to work this into season five of The Wire FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills [WashintonPost.com via Crime Scene KC
 
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MPAA says 44% of movie losses due to piracy on college networks, number could be closer to 3%

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2008-01-23 17:31:33 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...due to a human error, according to the MPAA. Thats a pretty big difference. Whats more, that figure may actually be closer to 3 Whats not taken into account is that many students live off campus. Mark Luker, vice president of IT group Educause, says that it doesnt account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live off...
 
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AUDEO: Talk on your mobile phone without talking; thought-controlled conversations due later this year

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2008-03-13 20:47:59 by willpark in IntoMobile
...due to illness and disease would be able to once again communicate their thoughts without computer/keyboard aid Audeo is currently limited to a 150 word vocabulary, but Ambient plans to improve on the system to the point that vocabulary limits are a non-issue. Future versions of AUDEO will be able to recognize the phonemes associated with...
 
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NASA Leaving Spirit Mars Rover to Die Due to Budget Cuts [Space]

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2008-03-25 12:00:00 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...due to budget cuts. UPDATE: Looks like NASA has changed their mind. Physorg reports that "it has rescinded a letter that recommended budget cuts in the Mars Rover program to cover the cost of a next-generation rover on the Red Planet." Yee haw Yes, due to a budget cut of $4 million, only one of the Mars rovers will survive, and that one is...
 
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Rumor Du Jour: MacBook & MacBook Pro Re-Design Due Mid-year

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2008-04-08 02:33:28 by Wayne Schulz in Gear Diary
...due-mid-year Heads up to anyone eyeing a MacBook Pro or MacBook purchase. Appleinsider is circulating a rumor that a major re-design of Apples two flagship computers is due by the third quarter of 2008. Both products went through a minor refresh in February which saw increased processor speed and larger hard drives. The site is speculating...
 
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ABI Research: Global GSM subscriber growth rate to slow in 2008 due to migration to 3G

2008-04-08 16:48:55 by dusanb in IntoMobile
 
...due to the increased migration of subscribers to UMTS 3G technologies. UMTS (including HSDPA) experienced a nearly 83% year-on-year growth rate in 2006/07, and the research company expects global GSM subscriber numbers to show a negative growth rate starting in 2013 Within the GSM subscriber population, EDGE is expected to maintain a high...
 
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Dell Studio XPS 13 and 16 leak out, due in November?

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2008-08-26 17:18:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...due in November, will be Intel Centrino 2-based machines with hybrid SLI support, slot-loading Blu-ray drives, edge-to-edge glass displays with optional LED backlighting, backlit keyboards, and WiMAX and UWB support. We're digging the funky woodgrain on the Studio XPS 16, but it'll be interesting to see how much these