On2 Video Compression Technologies | Image Source : On2.com Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video. The deal closed after gaining approval from On2 shareholders and was valued at $124.6 million, Google said in a brief statement late Friday.

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Google closes On2 acquisition for $124.6M

Baby Boomers | Image Source : Smallbiztrends.com In 2011, approximately 30% of the U.S. population will be over the age of 50. Yet, in 2010, they are expected to outspend younger adults by $1 trillion

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What Baby Boomers Want From Technology

Text Messaging, SMS | Image Source : Softwarenewsdaily.com Text messages and mapping tools are helping victims of the earthquake. Geeks and technologists around the world are creating tools to help earthquake victims in Haiti.

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Technology Saves Lives In Haiti

Image Source : Silicon.com London: A group of computer scientists have come up with a system that deciphers the templates a botnet uses to create spam, and these templates are then used to teach spam filters what to look for. This can be used to block the most common kind of spam. Most spam messages originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets, and owners are unaware that the machines quietly run malicious software in the background that pump out spam, reports New Scientist

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A system to cut down computer’s spam diet

Touch Screen Table : Image Source : siliconindia.com Washington: Researchers have designed Pictionaire, a 1.8 meter long table, which is placed directly beneath a ceiling-mounted camera and projector, which can “read” and respond to items placed on the table.

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Niket Chandrashekar Developed a Portable Operating System (OS) | Image Source : Siliconindia.com The 20-year old engineering student Niket Chandrashekar from New Horizon College in Bangalore, has developed a portable Operating System (OS) that can be stored and operated on any device.

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20 yr old Indian unveils portable Operating System

Software giant issues patch to prevent attacks like the one that hit Google in China. Google China | Image Source : Media.macworld.co.uk Microsoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to protect Internet Explorer users from attacks like “Operation Aurora” which targeted Google Inc.

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Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks

TATA-Nano Car | Image Source : Theautochannel.com The Nano is one of the most talked about cars in the automotive universe. You may recall stories over the last couple years about this Indian company building the cheapest real car in the world to sell for $2,500 – the same Indian company, by the way, that bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford

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Tata Nano in Detroit

Apple Netbook | Image Source : Gizmodo.com BAYBORO — Pamlico County Primary School students will have some of the latest technology at their fingertips when iPod touch devices from Apple Inc.

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Apple technology to aid Pamlico students

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