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Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that showcases the latest in free and open source software. Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute. It is built by people across the globe who work together as a community: the Fedora Project. The Fedora Project is open and anyone is welcome to join. The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.
The operating system is Fedora. It comes out twice a year or so. It’s completely free, and we’re committed to keeping it that way. It’s the best combination of robust and latest software that exists in the free software world. The mindset is doing the right thing. To us, that means providing free and open software and content, at no cost, freely usable, modifiable, redistributable, and unencumbered by software patents.

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project. Its goal is the rapid progress of free and open source software and content. The Fedora Project makes use of public forums, open processes, rapid innovation, meritocracy, and transparency in pursuit of the best operating system and platform that free and open source software can provide.

Download : Fedora 9.0.0 Final

The idea of a tactile touchscreen may be appealing, but the technology hasn’t quite made its way to cell phones. Designer Roman Tubl has other ideas. The “EGG” sports “standard data ports like Bluetooth, USB, and Wi-fi in addition to a 3.2 megapixel camera and a snazzy amount of memory - up to 4 GB.”

Samsung has just updated its PAVV HD Plasma TV series with two new models, one with 50-inch display and other with an 58-inch screen. Both PDP TVs boaast a Cell Light Control, DNIepro (Digital Natural Image engine-pro), a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1, four HDMI ports, and one USB port for playback media for external storage.

ICQ (or ‘I Seek You’) instant messaging service is used by millions worldwide to make the complicated work of finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests, as straightforward as calling across a room and starting a friendly conversation.
With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If you’re away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts, even where the ICQ client is not installed, by using the web-based ICQ2Go that works from any computer.

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Dell unveiled Volstro 1310 laptop yesterday. Being the company’s first business-oriented 13.3-inch notebook PC, the laptop is powered by either an intel Celeron or a 45nm/65nm Core 2 Duo processors, up to 4GB of main memory, up to 320GB of hard drive, and either an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 or a 128MB nVidia GeForce 8400M GS graphics engine. It is also equipped with a 1280 x 800 anti-glare (or glossy, depend on your choice) display, a slot-load optical drive, an optional 1.3 megapixel webcam module, microphone, and an integrated 2W speaker.

Other features include 4 x USB ports, an ExpressCard slot, an 8-in-1 media card reader, VGA output, security cable slot, fingerprint reader, and a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) 1.2. Regarding connectivity, Volstro 1310 comes with support for 802.11n WiFI, Bluetooth, Firewire, and optional external 56K modem.

Priced $749, Dell Volstro 1310 laptop weighs 4.45lbs (including 4-cell battery) and ships with either Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system.

So you’ve purchased the ticket for best position in the stadium to watch your favourite team play. But sadly, they’re play is really really bad. In this situation, all you can hope is that the person in front of you has bought and brought this Stadium Seat TV/DVD Player with him.

If only it was a REAL stadium seat.

Unfortunately not.

It’s just the latest creation of Brionvega, called the Alpha. Basically, it’s a 19-inch LCD TV with a built-in DVD player and an iPod-like remote control. And a stadium seat-like shape.

Available in orange, silver, or black, the Alpha LCD TV/DVD Player is available for €1,950 or about $3,000.

Raining kitty this week. After the laptop and the USB Flash disk, here goes the fridge. Yup, a Magnificent Hello Kitty Fridge! Eventhough it can only store two bottles at once, it is already enough to make your friend amazes.

Skype is a program allowing telephone conversations via the Internet. Calls to other Skype users are free as well as calls to regular telephone and mobile telephone numbers all over the world are at a low rate. 

Download : Skype 3.8.0.115

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system.

Download : Windows XP Service Pack 3 Build 5512 Final (316.4 MB)

Along with FMV F/A50, Fujitsu also refreshed their Biblo MG series laptop. This notebook PC now comes in two different sizes, 13.3-inch and 14.1-inch. The former is powered by a 550Mhz Intel Celeron processor, while the latter has three different CPU option: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100, T8300, and T9300. Moreover, the 14.1-inch Biblo MG features up to 4GB of main mmeory, up to 320GB of SATA HDD, a DVD-DL Multi burner, WiFI a/b/g/n connectivity, and either Windows XP Professional or Vista Business operating system.