Lenovo laptops, Lenovo netbook ultra-mobile personal computers, Seagate portable storage drives, TDK TransitEdge USB flash drives and more help you get an early start on the gadgets for your holiday gift list.
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Pepcom Holiday Spectacular, New York, Sept, 16-19
Pepcom’s annual quot;Holiday Spectacular quot; New York event, coinciding with the Interop/Mobile Business Expo/Web 2.0 shows, showcased a panoply of notebooks, digital cameras and other professional/consumer devices for holiday and IT consump…


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A security hole in Adobe Systems’ software is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com’s video streaming service. NEW YORK–A security hole in Adobe Systems’ software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from…
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A security hole in Adobe Flash video server software, used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com’s video streaming service. The Adobe Flash video server software doesn’t encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players. The Adobe Flash video servers are connected to Adobe’s Flash video players installed in nearly all of the world’s Web-connected PC computers.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A security hole in Adobe Systems Inc software,
used to distribute movies and TV shows over the Internet, is giving
users free access to record and copy from Amazon.com Inc’s video
streaming service.
The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that
plagued…


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Microsoft’s shares rose 5 percent after the world’s biggest software maker said it would pay a quarterly dividend of 13 cents a share, up from 11 cents a share.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft plans to buyback up to $40 billion of its own stock, and raised its quarterly dividend by 18 percent, the software maker said on Monday.
Microsoft’s shares rose 5 percent after the world’s biggest software maker said it would pay a quarterly dividend of 13 cents a sha…


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File this one under “driver tech” instead of “car tech.” The State of New York has started offering driver’s licenses embedded with RFID chips, or enhanced driver’s licenses (EDLs). The news comes on the heels of New York becoming the second state to offer identification that can be …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
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This may seem like a weird time to go to Wall Street to announce a new operating system, but that's what Microsoft did Monday. At a technology conference in New York, the software vendor formally detailed its Windows HPC Server 2008 software, a high-performance computing version of Windows offering some features that may appeal to bailout-seeking financial services firms.
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T-Mobile, Google, and High Tech Computer (HTC) unveiled the highly anticipated Android phone in New York on Tuesday, and I got a chance to try out the new handset at HTC's office in Taipei.
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