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In recent years another heated debate has become prevalent in popular culture: Mac or PC?

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Ever wondered how "Twitter" got its name? Apparantly the name Twitter was picked out of a hat. A small group of employees from Odeo, the San Francisco podcasting startup where Twitter initially began, had a brainstorming session. They were trying to come up with names that fit the theme of a mobile phone pushing an update in your pocket. After narrowing down the options (which included Jitter and Twitter), they wrote them down, put them in a hat, and let fate decide. And as we know now: Fate decided on Twitter.

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Mean & Green Drawing under 5 Watts of power, this little palm-sized powerhouse can handle all your biggest tasks while still saving about 96% on energy costs when compared to the average 175 Watt desktop computer. Limitless You can customize your Plug to work in almost any industry - Home Automation, Security/Survellance, Medical Monitoring, Industrial Automation, Smart Grid Electrical, Mesh and Grid Computing. Get Connected You can never have enough storage, not to mention fast access to all that data...

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This is a real nice router for home use, install open-wrt, dd-wrt or tomato on it and you have your own home linux server.

Imagine the power of open source combined with the newest in Wireless-N enabled technology, and you've just come up with NETGEAR's latest and greatest entry into the world of routers: the WNR3500L. Incorporating many of the features of its close cousin, the WNR3500, the WNR3500L adds the additional ability to customize your router with third party open source firmwares such as DD-WRT, OpenWRT, and Tomato - along with gigabit port speeds.

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Espoo, Finland. – The shipments of the Nokia N900, Nokia’s latest mobile computer based on open source Maemo 5 software, have now started. The Nokia N900 will be available in retail stores in November with an estimated retail price of EUR 500, excluding sales taxes and subsidies.

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Nokia stelt release Linux-smartphone N900 uit
Door Arnoud Wokke, donderdag 22 oktober 2009 18:17, views: 10.860 (tweakers)

Levering van de door ons beoogde Nokia N900 mobile internet smartphone als primary remote login-phone voor onze dedicated services (draaiend op Linux open source OS Maemo) is met +/- een maand vertraagd. Lees hieronder:

Nokia heeft de release van de N900, een smartphone op basis van Linux-variant Maemo, uitgesteld. De release stond op de agenda voor oktober, maar de smartphone komt volgens de fabrikant pas in november op de markt.

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Here's a youtube link to an interesting demo of what 24(!) SSD's could mean in terms of.....computer SPEED! The promise is inevitable. Ofcourse we are there for you to engage in any professional SSD project you desire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&eurl=http://mightygadget.co.uk/

Since a few days domain names with the .tel TLD are available for registration. After a sunrise and landrush period it’s possible to register your personal .tel ID for less than $20.

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Last week at CES, Comcast announced their “HD” video on demand download service over its future DOCSIS 3.0 that allows 4 minute downloads of entire HD movies. Attendees at MacWorld this week were told that disk-based HD formats like HD DVD and Blu-ray are essentially obsolete because you can simply download “HD” movies from your Apple TV 2.0 box on demand. Microsoft started offering HD downloads for the XBOX360 starting in late 2006. You can even watch “HD” videos from ABC right from the web. There are even YouTube competitors that offer user uploaded “HD” content.

French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu
A recent report has revealed that France's national police force has saved an estimated 50 million euros since 2004 by adopting open source software and migrating a portion of the organization's workstations to Ubuntu Linux. They plan to roll out the Linux distro to all 90,000 of their workstations by 2015.

By Ryan Paul | Last updated March 11, 2009 7:10 PM CT