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A number of companies showed off design concepts at the 2008 New York auto show, including the third in the Kizashi series from Suzuki, a rare one from Scion, and a coupe from Kia.

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TradeVibes, a site that aggregates information, news, and views about start-ups, raised $900,000 in seed funding from a group of angel investors that includes serial technology investor Ron Conway, early Google employee Aydin Senkut, and the Kinsey Hills Group.

Mill River Labs, the company behind TradeVibes, is certainly well-connected, …

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Go ahead, send that all-important message

Australian teens will be pleased to hear that later this year Qantas will grant passengers to send and receive text messages and e-mails on domestic flights. Voice calls will not be permitted, but passengers will be able to tap away to their heart’s …

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What do you do when some of the biggest names in consumer electronics might be in violation of your patents?

Why, try to take away their right to sell their products in the U.S., of course.

Blu-ray players like this one from Samsung uses technology a former Columbia professor

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Lockdown Networks, a network access control (NAC) appliance vendor, shut its doors earlier this week. In just a few days, I’ve read a number of statements about the meaning of this event. A tech meltdown? The end of the NAC market?

Nope, it’s nothing that bold or startling. …

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After Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s announcement this week that the commission is indeed getting closer to making a decision on Sirius Satellite Radio’s proposed acquisition of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings, the stock prices of both companies climbed and everyone interested braced for, well, a little …

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I was reading a news item about the resignation of Mathstar’s chief financial officer. I was surprised to see a publicly traded semiconductor company I’d never heard of, so I checked it out.

Turns out that Mathstar is like a number of companies I’ve come across over the years: they come in under the radar screen and, as such, investors think they’ve found something special.

Sure, these companies are special, but not in a good way.

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Mathstar markets itself as a development-stage fabless semiconductor company. Its products are called field-programmable object arrays, or FPOAs, and are targeted at high-performance, data-intensive applications like defense, security, medical imaging, and video.

Sounds good, right?
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Gibson is none too happy about Activision’s ‘Guitar Hero’ pictured here.

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Legendary guitar manufacturer Gibson Guitar has sued six major retailers–Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Amazon.com, Gamestop, and Toys-R-Us–for selling Activision’s Guitar Hero video game series, MarketWatch reported Friday.

The decision was made “reluctantly,” according to a …

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Apple has started offering Windows users its Safari 3.1 Web browser through the same on the internet updater it utilizes for iTunes and the QuickTime video player.

With the release of Safari 3.1 on Tuesday, Apple started giving Windows users the option of downloading Safari via the Apple Software Update …

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John Battelle knows tech booms and busts. He’s been at the forefront of them for almost two decades.

In 1993, he co-founded Wired, a print magazine that set a standard in technology coverage and spawned popular sites like Hotbot and Suck in a move to build an online Cond&#…

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