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8/27/2010
2:46 PM
Garmin has issued a voluntary recall of 1.25 million Nuvi personal navigation devices. The company says that “in rare circumstances” the Nuvi could be a fire hazard. The devices have a battery that may overheat when used in models with a certain circuit board.Garmin will replace the battery in all affected products. The recall includes models 200W, 250W, 260W, and 7xx (xx is a two-digit number). “Garmin will replace the battery and insert a spacer on top of the battery next to the PCB before returning t...
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5/25/2010
12:29 AM
Twitter has been hit by what is being described as a major bug that interrupted members’ service as well as erased all of their friends and followers.
4/16/2010
9:23 PM
President Barack Obama told a gathering of staff and guests at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that astronauts could orbit the planet Mars by the mid-2030s.
11/25/2009
8:15 PM
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is reportedly investigating claims that Apple Inc.’s popular iPod series can overheat and potentially catch fire.
9/4/2009
4:42 PM
Madden NFL 10, the latest edition of the Madden NFL video game brand, will be released nationwide on Friday, August 14.
The cover features Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, marking the first time two players have ever graced the cover of the game at one time. The two faced on in Super Bowl XLIII.
The game, which was created by EA Sports and EA Tiburon, will be released on iPhone, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable (PSP), Wii, Xbox 360 consoles, as well as mobile devices.
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8/6/2009
10:35 PM
Popular micro-blogging site Twitter has been taken offline following a cyber attack described as a “denial-of-service.”
According to Twitter’s official company blog the site was “the target of a denial of service attack.” The blog, written by Biz Stone, went on to say “Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users.’
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7/8/2009
2:43 PM
Television stations across the United States will officially make their transition from analog to digital signals on Friday, the FCC's deadline.
The switch will be the end of a technology that has lasted 60 years and will likely leave more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service, according to the Associated Press.
The Federal Communications Commission has placed 4,000 operators on standby for calls from concerned viewers, and set up demon...
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6/5/2009
1:33 PM
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) revealed its motion-sensing technology Project Natal at their E3 Conference on Monday.
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5/14/2009
9:41 PM
Google has admitted that the curious outage in a number of their services early Thursday morning was caused by an upgrade error on their part.
According to several reports Google had been attempting to make changes to Internet routing numbers as part of its conversion from an older networking standard to a newer one. While undergoing this process Google experienced a hardware failure which in turn prevented Internet service providers from locating Google’s new routing numbers, thus the shutdown.
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2/28/2009
11:24 PM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the social networking site will return to its previous terms of service following an outcry from members regarding a new policy that concerned user data.
Changes made to the terms of service stipulated that Facebook could maintain possession of all data uploaded to their site even after a user deleted their profile. While Zuckerberg stated that the move was made to ensure comments or messages sent by a member weren’t deleted when their profile was removed the explanation didn’t sit well with members, many of whom left the popular networking community.
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