Planet Lowyat

This Windows Mobile smartphone for CDMA networks sports a QWERTY keyboard and a familiar slab form factor. Key features include HTC’s Inner Circle feature, GPS navigation, MMS, memory card slot, and a 2-megapixel camera with video capture. Other features include Microsoft Office, voice command, and push email.
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Today Intel is finally releasing new Core i7 models and speed bins to the market, as well as announcing a new flagship chip, the Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. Though it will definitely command a hefty price tag, at a stock clock speed of 3.33GHz and Intel Turbo Boost speeds at 3.45GHz (all cores) and 3.6GHz (single core), you can bet this new Core i7 is one hot-rod of a quad-core CPU. In the pages ahead, we’ll wind it out around the test track and show you what the fastest desktop processor on the planet can do when it’s tuned up for a touch more horsepower at the factory and made ready for production.
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According to Wikipedia,

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

The name “PageRank” is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.

Page Rank add-ons for Chrome shows the Google PageRank for the current website.
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Samsung and U.S. Cellular have announced the availability of the Samsung SCH-u440 Gloss, a new compact flip phone that features a QWERTY keyboard, 1.3 megapixel camera, and more.

The device features a full-QWERTY keyboard that is revealed when it is opened. Music listeners can skip through tracks in the Gloss’ music player and listen to music using stereo Bluetooth technology. Pictures can be taken with the phone’s 1.3 megapixel camera, and they should look good on a 2.2-inch 262k color TFT display.

The Gloss also has support for U.S. Cellular’s easyedge wireless data application services. Easyedge gives customers access to voice-guided turn-by-turn directions, news and weather applications, games and more.
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Zune HD is official!

Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertainment Service to New Platform and Markets; Confirms New Zune HD Portable Media Player

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