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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- June 15, 2011

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Chromebook: Big Brother to Netbook, Distant 3rd Cousin to Tablet
Skype Feature Will Require Comcast Users to Think Different About TV
Google Focuses on Voice, Vision and Velocity in Latest Upgrades
Reeling Video Surveillance Into the Digital Age
Email-Reminder Sends Notifications the Good Old-Fashioned Way

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Today's Story Highlights

Chromebook: Big Brother to Netbook, Distant 3rd Cousin to Tablet
Samsung's Series 5 Chromebook hit the shelves Wednesday, selling for
$500 for a 3G version and $430 for a WiFi-only model. A teardown
performed by IHS iSuppli senior analyst Wayne Lam found that the Series
5 Chromebook has hardware attributes commonly found in a full-featured
notebook.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72667.html

Skype Feature Will Require Comcast Users to Think Different About TV
A new partnership between Comcast and Skype will let Comcast subscribers
place video calls through their television sets. The new service will
require some setup -- customers will need to install Comcast-provided
equipment including an adapter box, video camera, and special remote
with a QWERTY keyboard that connects to the service.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72666.html

Google Focuses on Voice, Vision and Velocity in Latest Upgrades
The new search technologies Google unveiled recently put a mobile-
flavored twist in the company's desktop search engine, including a new
voice search capability. Google also announced the ability to search by
an image and a feature called "Instant Pages" that leads to even
speedier search results.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72665.html

Reeling Video Surveillance Into the Digital Age
Fans of "Law and Order," "CSI" and other popular crime shows have seen
their fair share of video surveillance tricks -- but have you ever
stopped to compare Hollywood surveillance footage to what you see on the
11 o'clock news? In the real world, still images or video from bank or
convenient store robberies are often grainy with greenish hues --
terrible image quality for anyone looking for forensic evidence or
identification.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72663.html

Email-Reminder Sends Notifications the Good Old-Fashioned Way
Technology growth has a subtle way of turning useful apps into obsolete
solutions. For instance, Web-based services like Google Calendar,
Remember the Milkand the FireFox Web browser add-on ReminderFox go a
long way to rendering unnecessary standalone apps to send reminders to
your computer desktop.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72645.html

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