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As Techies Drool Over Amazon Silk, Privacy Questions Are Raised

Report: Kindle Success Creates Big Room for Amazon Smartphone Next Year
Amazon rolled out its new line of Kindle tablets in New York Wednesday morning, adding the seven-inch $199 color Android Fire, the $99 keyboard-free 4GB Touch model and a $79 2GB non-touchscreen version to its ranks. Yet the Amazon product causing the most stir was not an e-reader or tablet, but Amazon Silk, the company's new mobile web platform powered by Amazon's incredibly extensive web services platform.
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Google Las Out at Apple, Microsoft, RIM, Oracle

Cooperation Between Intel & Google is Promising?

Intel ended its 30-year partnership with Microsoft, which was named the Wintel era, and has now joined hands with Google. The new partnership is a big news as it will bring new development in technology.
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Vitamin D Not Tied to Fibrillation

Despite some research linking low vitamin D levels to heart disease, a new study suggests that lacking D does not increase one's risk of an irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
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NASA Plans to Build World's Largest Rocket (VIDEO)

NASA is working on a 320-feet multi-billion-dollar Space Launch System (SLS), which is also the world's largest rocket, aiming to explore nearby asteroid around 2025 and then on to Mars in the 2030s.
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Windows 8 Adopts ARM Chip, Android Embraces Intel

Intel has woken up to demonstrate a Medfield-based smartphone running on Android Honeycomb, to be a part of the fast growing mobile sector, after a long era of dominance in the computer and server market.
North Korea Cruise (1 of 9)

Chuseok— A Festival With Two Faces

The day is almost half-way over as the sun slowly fades in brightness over Hongdae, where hundreds of restaurants, bars, night clubs, and shops cover the streets and become an important center for night life in Seoul, South Korea.
September 11, 2001 - 10th Anniversary

The Towers - At the Center of the World

Originally viewed in the 1970s as a project that added too much office space to Lower Manhattan, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center became a symbol not only for New York, but for the United States, for capitalism, for the cosmopolitan / urban life, for modernity itself.
Acer Aspire S3 and Apple MacBook Air

Apple's MacBook Air Contender: Acer Aspire S3

Apple Inc., known for being a trendsetter, has continued along those lines with its new lighter and thinner MacBook Air. But the Cupertino company is facing competition in notebook category from Taiwan-based Acer, which has released its thin and relatively inexpensive Ultrabook called Aspire S3.
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Unraveling the Mystique of Kathmandu, Nepal

Ever since the hippies flocked to Kathmandu in the 1960's, the town has held an almost mythical appeal in the Western mind. But, what's the Kathmandu of 2011 really like?

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