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En cette fin de semaine, nous retrouvons les tests des Hercules EC-900-H60G/S, Samsung NC10, Samsung R610 et Toshiba Qosmio X300-13K. L’Hercules EC-900-H60G/S possède un processeur Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz), 512 Mo de mémoire vive, un disque dur 1.8’’ de 60 Go, un chipset graphique intégré, un écran 8.9’’ WSVGA anti-reflets d’une résolution de 1024×600, une [...]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LaptopSpirit/~4/460978775" height="1" width="1"/

h4Controversial money transfer service given second chance/h4 pThree directors of digital currency firm e-gold avoided a spell behind bars on Thursday after earlier pleading guilty to offences for money laundering and running an unlicensed money transfer business..../p

PalinFilter: a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_palin"Gov. Sarah Palin/a, back in Alaska after her Vice Presidential campaign, gave a media interview in Wasilla this morning after pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, as is traditional. The Problem: a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27841028/"Two other/a not-so-fortunate turkeys were slaughtered on a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27838743#27838743"video/a as she spoke. Oops. br /

Look, I know the drill. If any element of the Twilight movie varies even slightly from the way you pictured it in your head, then it is the worst film ever made and you hate it and Catherine Hardwicke has ruined your childhood. Or, alternatively, you've built up so much anticipation for the movie that you're going to love love LOVE it no matter what, even if it's bad, you don't care, you refuse to listen to any criticisms LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I know how it goes.

The book's most devoted fans are seeing the film anyway, so I guess I'm talking to everyone else -- those who haven't read the book, or who (like me) read it, mostly enjoyed it, then didn't give it another thought. Is the Twilight movie of any use to those people? Or, as a friend asked me, does it work purely as a vampire movie?

Oh, heavens, no. Noooooo. This is not a vampire movie. This is a somber teen romance that happens to have some vampires in it. Little attempt is made to establish the mythology of the bloodsuckers, and the supernatural elements are downplayed -- a wise move, since the special effects, when they are necessary, are at about the level you'd expect from a movie that is more focused on romance than sci-fi action.

All of which is in keeping with the tone of Stephenie Meyer's book, which is eight parts romance and two parts action/fantasy. That's why it's been such a phenomenal success with women, and why the male-dominated geek industry -- the Nerderati, if you will -- has been so skeptical of that success. "What?" they scoff. "A super-popular vampire book that we, as men, AREN'T interested in? Inconceivable! It must be terrible, and its popularity is probably being over-reported!"

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Wall Street wipes billions off the value of Citigroup as bank's bid to halt decline fails to satisfy investors

It's been a few months since Fujifilm showed off a prototype 3D shooter at the Photokina show in Cologne, and CNET Asia has now managed to spend a little time with the chunky bronze and gunmetal box. Unlike other tech we've seen that does 3D in one shot, this one sports a pair of lenses and sensors to capture light in stereo, while on the back a 2.8-inch LCD alternates between the two images at 60 fps to give an apparently convincing 3D effect. Better, though, should be the 8.4-inch 3D photo frame under development, and Fuji's Frontier photo labs are also being upgraded to produce lenticular prints (the sort you can tilt left and right to see different things) that are said be "really good." The camera itself is scheduled to drop around September of 2009, but since even looking at the results of your work is going to be a bit of a challenge at first we're not entirely sure how popular the thing will be. Regardless, we're glad someone is paving the way.

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Bethesda has confirmed that it is working on a patch for Fallout 3.

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David Nalbandian beats David Ferrer to give Argentina a winning start to their Davis Cup final clash with Spain.

David Nalbandian beats David Ferrer to give Argentina a winning start to their Davis Cup final clash with Spain.

A rapid succession of Blender news for your pre-weekend enjoyment! Blendermade animation takes 2nd place Mats Holmberg wrote: Cheers, we placed 2nd in a competition sponsored by Helsinki Design...br/ br/ [read the full article on blendernation.com]img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Blendernation/~4/460947753" height="1" width="1"/

A rapid succession of Blender news for your pre-weekend enjoyment! Blendermade animation takes 2nd place Mats Holmberg wrote: Cheers, we placed 2nd in a competition sponsored by Helsinki Design Week, Grafia (Association of Professional Graphic Designers in Finland) and Adobe. If you happen to speak Finnish you can find more info here and here. Oour entry (Blendermade [...]

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Google has finally pulled back the curtain on a new feature that until now has been in restricted beta: the addition of wiki-style functions in standard search results. Once logged into a Google account, this allows you to click a small up or down arrow to move a specific result, click and delete it from your search entirely, or click on a small comment bubble and leave your comments on that result. Google will remember those settings the next time you search for the same keywords, and has said it may even work for similar or related searches. In many ways, Google is taking the same principles that power a site like Digg and applying them to search.

Adding these kinds of features isn’t a universally popular move. When Wikia Search — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s attempt to do the same thing to search, with editing of results and comments (or “annotations”) encouraged — launched earlier this year, there was plenty of criticism aimed not just at the execution and the lack of usable results, but at the very concept of wiki-style search. Many said that opening search results up in such a way would leave the system vulnerable to the inevitable SEO gaming and trick-playing that hampers many other “crowd-sourced” services such as Digg.

This is a little like complaining that the furnace heating your house is too hot, and that you’re afraid it might burn someone. In many ways, wiki-style search is just an extension of the way that Google has always worked: that is, by aggregating the choices of millions of users and then using the PageRank algorithm to produce something approaching the best result. Voting and commenting features simply give Google more pieces of data they can use to arrive at the best result). They will also provide a fairly rich trove of activity-based information that the search engine could use to improve its regular results — that is, the ones that users who aren’t logged in will see — or to tweak its overall search algorithms based on the behaviour of wiki-search users. Why did so many people move that result up? Why did they move another down? Why did some delete that result and not others?

Will these new wiki-style functions be subject to rampant gaming and manipulation? Of course they will — just like everything else that the search giant touches. When you wield as much power online as Google does, gaming and manipulation follow in your wake like pilot fish following a shark. Presumably, the company has taken that into account, and will use their resources to reduce gaming as much as possible. And meanwhile, they will use the results of all that clicking to teach their engine a thing or two about human search behavior.

“It's a bit of a relief rally, you can't just go down all the time,” says Barend Saayman, a trader at Thebe Securities.

The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones are still not mainstream. It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location (which we have thanks to GPS chips and even the ability to triangulate using Wi-Fi networks), software that can make sense of geographic information and do something with it (which are out), and cooperation between handset makers and carriers to enable developers to access such services easily.

It’s the cooperation piece that fails, but the article points to several companies such as Nokia, uLocate’s Where application and SkyHook Wireless that are attempting to bridge that gap by offering a platform that will sit between carriers and smaller developers. For example, uLocate has signed a deal with Sprint to act as the LBS platform for its WiMAX network. Smaller developers can sign on through Where and get access to WiMAX subscribers without worrying about working with Sprint or getting the location information form a provider. I suppose since we’ve waited this long for LBS, most of us can wait a little longer.

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The Wall Street Journal this morning had a short article pointing out the somewhat obvious reasons why location-based services on cell phones are still not mainstream. It also helpfully pointed out that carriers were working on it. To recap, LBS services need three main things: a way to get location (which we have thanks to GPS chips and even the ability to triangulate using Wi-Fi networks), software that can make sense of geographic information and do something with it (which are out), and cooperation between handset makers and carriers to enable developers to access such services easily.

It’s the cooperation piece that fails, but the article points to several companies such as Nokia, uLocate’s Where application and SkyHook Wireless that are attempting to bridge that gap by offering a platform that will sit between carriers and smaller developers. For example, uLocate has signed a deal with Sprint to act as the LBS platform for its WiMAX network. Smaller developers can sign on through Where and get access to WiMAX subscribers without worrying about working with Sprint or getting the location information form a provider. I suppose since we’ve waited this long for LBS, most of us can wait a little longer.

image courtesy of Where

To promote its new album "Folie à Deux" Fall Out Boy will perform at the Chicago Theatre on Dec. 2. The performance will then be broadcast exclusively on Fuse Dec. 16, the day the album is released.

The chief executive of Europe's largest entertainment group Vivendi says he is cautious on prospects and was monitoring costs because he had "no clue" how the downturn would affect his different divisions.

It's one of the most highly-anticipated Blu-ray releases of the New Year, and we've got a sneak peek at the box art and final confirmed specs for 'The Bourne Trilogy.' As announced earlier this week, Universal...img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/highdefdigestallnews/~4/460793746" height="1" width="1"/

Warner Music's catalog label Rhino Records will allow New Order fans to exchange copies of new reissues after numerous sound problems were discovered on the bonus discs.

In China, they're currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let's just say that you could put the Empire State...

In this extended Qamp;A with Warner Bros. Records chairman/CEO Tom Whalley, the label's top executive offers in-depth comment on 360 deals, talks about signing a deal for North America with Oasis, and reflects on his first encounters with Mo Ostin, the legendary executive who led Warner Bros. for three decades.