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Posted: Aug 18, 2010 3:58 PM by Melissa Canone
TECHBITS
NEW YORK - Video game publisher THQ Inc. hopes to draw in
artistically inclined fans when its uDraw GameTablet is available for the Wii this year.
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NEW YORK - Think you need another TV in the home? Maybe the iPad, Apple Inc.'s tablet computer, will do the job instead. In the latest example of the slim device attracting the attention of the
TV industry, Verizon Communications Inc. demonstrated an application that turns the iPad into another screen for its cable-TV service.
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SAN FRANCISCO - AOL intends to grow its Patch network of community news sites to include more than 500 neighborhoods by the end of December - a move the struggling Internet company hopes will
strengthen its online advertising business.
TECH TESTS:
DIGITAL LIFE-TECH TEST-SAMSUNG GALAXY
SAN FRANCISCO - The more phones that hit the market using Google's Android operating software, the harder it is for each handset maker's offerings to stand out from the black-and-silver crowd. Samsung is the latest company trying to turn heads, hoping
consumers will snatch up its new Galaxy S smart phones. With bright, crisp screens, 5-megapixel cameras and speedy processors,
these very well may be the 'droids you're looking for.
BLACKBERRY CRACKDOWN
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - With threats to bans key
BlackBerry features over security concerns, many users fear their
work routines could be sorely crimped and are scrambling for
alternatives, at least while on the road. Many BlackBerry devotees
interviewed by The Associated Press at airports and offices around
the world this week struggled to remember how they ever got by without the devices. By Adam Schreck.
BLACKBERRY-CRACKDOWN-ENCRYPTION
NEW YORK - Threats by the governments of India, the United Arab
Emirates and Saudi Arabia to shut down BlackBerry's encrypted
corporate e-mail services reflect unease about a technology that
the U.S. government also took a while to accept. The U.S. State
Department is hoping to broker a compromise that addresses
governments' security concerns while ensuring that the free flow of
information is not impeded.
TAIWAN-TRADITIONAL TYPE-PHOTO PACKAGE
TAIPEI, Taiwan - In an age when Chinese can text and tweet in their native script, Chang Chieh-kuan is engaged in a labor of love
- saving old-fashioned print from the digital onslaught. "Lead type makes an impression on paper that digital printing cannot,"
he explains. "It allows people to feel the weight and power of the character." These things still matter greatly in a culture that invented movable type 400 years before it reached Europe.
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