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'Sonic boom' golf club may 'damage hearing'
h4Fore!! - the new sound of fear/h4
pGolf isn't exactly known as a sport of deafening noises, but a provocative (albeit suspiciously anecdotal) study is a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7811143.stm" target="_blank"making/a a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24877137-662,00.html" target="_blank"the/a a href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/01/04/Study_Titanium_golf_clubs_may_harm_ears/UPI-31011231117276/" target="_blank"rounds/a claiming golfers may risk losing their hearing by using newfangled thin-faced titanium drivers.…/p
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Apple unveils 17-inch MacBook, iLife tweaks, Tony Bennett
h4Jobs-free keynote fails to inspire/h4
pstrongMacworld Expo/strong In one of the least eventful keynote speeches in recent memory, Apple's SVP Phil Schiller, filling in for the a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/05/jobs_speaks_health/" target="_blank"ailing Steve Jobs/a, announced upgrades to iLife and iWork, an upgraded 17-inch MacBook, and iTunes Store pricing-structure changes and DRM-removal plans.…/p
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A crack in the madness of clouds
h4Sanity check 09?/h4
pBesides providing some of the biggest technical innovation of 2008, the cloud also wins the award for most amorphous product definition. Few people define "the cloud" or "cloud computing" the same way, leading to market noise and a wealth of misinformation.…/pa href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=12345678922?" target="_blank"img src="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/ad/reg.rss.4159/main;sz=336x280;ord=12345678922?" border="0" alt=""/a
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Best Buy punts resurrected Jesus Phones
h4Answers ATamp;T, Wal-Mart/h4
pFollowing in the a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/29/refurb_iphone/"footsteps of ATamp;T/a, US electronics retailer Best Buy is now selling resurrected Jesus Phones at a discount.…/p
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IBM approves Obama's IT stimulus package
h4$30bn will create 900,000 jobs, healthy IBM/h4
pIf you were the incoming president of the United States, and you wanted to gauge the effect of an economic stimulus package geared to information technology as a means to create jobs, who would you ask for advice? The economists at the Labor Department? The hot shots at IDC and Gartner? Or maybe the economists at MIT, the University of Chicago, or Stanford University? Nah. Forget that. President-elect Obama's transition team went right to the source: Sam Palmisano, chairman and chief executive officer at IBM.…/p
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