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Damn I hope someone out there got the movie reference in the title.  Otherwise, I’m going to feel sad.  Sad and old.  Or, sadder & older than usual.
Anyway, over the past ten days there has been a fairly fascinating debate about Intellectual Property Laws, Computer Fraud, and plain old bored college geniuses.  (Or is it [...]

Where has the weekend gone? Between the Olympics and the Massachusetts tax-free holiday, I’m spent (literally!)! Here is what you’ve missed:

First Android phone to be shipped in November… without Microsoft Exchange? - Engadget
Intel to release 160GB solid state hard drives, faster, bigger and use less energy - Tom’s Hardware
Dell’s Mini Inspiron laptop specifications [...]

A while back I told you about a new technology in the making that uses treated glass to pull in the power of the sun’s beautiful rays, well s**t just got real: The U.S. Department of Energy in Idaho just did 2 things; first, they designed something called nanoantennas that can efficiently draw power from [...]

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon for everyone that enjoys downloading their media. Music, movies, software; they’re all being targeted by state legislators. Their goal - taxation. That’s right, folks, you may be seeing pennies added on to your dollars.

Some quick updates on what you’ve missed this weekend:

Video card wars! Intel vs. Nvidia vs. ATI - Tom’s Hardware
Motherboards with dual-core Atom processors are being made! - Guru3D
Intel’s new processors to be called “Core i7″ - Guru3D
MIT hackers break down subway fare system - Techdirt

I don’t care how rich you are, what program for a phone is really worth $1000?
Let me list some programs that are around $1000:

Photoshop CS3 (graphic design, web design, movie editing): $975.99
Final Cut Studio 2 (Mac movie editing): $1299
TurboCAD (graphic design): $973.99

What do all these programs have in common? They are geared towards high [...]

Weekend recap but first some quick TNMS updates.
We won’t be publishing the grand opening of the Boston Apple Store video as it is way too big of a file (to edit as well) so instead, I will take screen shots of the store and post additional pictures. But we will have another “How to…” [...]

While American Auto Manufacturers are currently blowing exhaust up our.. bums about their plans to increase standards to 35 mpg by 2020 (Wow really?!?! That’s TWELVE YEARS! Twelve years ago I would have just spent 5 minutes connecting to Prodigy online service on my Pentium 133 Mhz processor at 28.8 baud per second, you cheap, [...]

Gizmodo informs us that Microsoft is prepped to launch a $300 million advertising campaign for Windows Vista. Their goal is to combat the popular Mac commercials that continuously beat the idea into our heads that Vista is one craptacular piece of software. Microsoft’s VP of Windows Consumer Products had this to say about [...]

Although this story falls more under the business side of technology that the truly “geeky” side (unless you’re one of those business geeks who drools over spreadsheets, business models and risk/reward analysis), it is still worth noting.  It looks like Apple has finalized their decision to not use Intel’s line of microprocessors in the next [...]

Not a whole lot this weekend… Hit the links for the full stories.

Comcast misleads customers and public about service - Yahoo!

Ice found on Mars! - CrunchGear
A tent that charges cell phones off of wind and solar energy doubles as temporary shelter - Gizmodo
Finally, a viral video. This one is very interesting first found on [...]

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Here are some of the stories of interest this past weekend!

New Transformers 2 pictures here, first found on Digg
Intel releases news on a new quad core processor for budgeted computers
Google will be developing software to let you know if your ISP (internet service provider, such as Comcast, Verizon FiOS, Charter, etc) is slowing down your [...]

So, let me be up front with you readers out there - I don’t care much for Apple. I’m not looking to bash them; I just don’t use their products. A great deal of the software I work with on a regular basis isn’t available on Macs, and I get enough smudges on [...]