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Lockheed Martin introduces ‘PC on a stick’ flash drive — yes, Lockheed Martin originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This digital instrument has 24 frets combined with a large touch screen. The open-source software is Linux-powered, and programmers have the ability to alter the interface for specific functionalities.

We’ve heard (ever-so-briefly) about ENUM before, which is generally described as an IETF-sanctioned standard for converting traditional phone numbers into IP addresses. But for the most part, even techies would say that they aren’t exactly up to speed on what the protocol offers and / or promises. ArsTechnica has spent a good while underneath the mire, and it has arisen with an in-depth article that spells out how the standard can neatly collate a variety of contact options (email address, mobile number, home line, Facebook account, ICQ name, etc.) into a single address that’s recognizable by the internet that we so dearly love. In fact, user ENUM even has the capability to rank contact options by priority, so you could hit someone up via the mobile first and their Twitter account second should they not answer. The issue, however, is that the ‘”ENUM standard (RFC 3761) demands that ENUM is a public service and that the control of the telephone number lies in the hands of the end-user,” and it doesn’t take an economist to understand why ISPs and carriers wouldn’t be fond of this. Indeed, just nine nations have an ENUM registry in production, and the future isn’t looking too bright for the rest of us. Don’t fret, though — chances are Google will have this whole “multiple contact” thing ironed out before the next decade rolls around.

ENUM: it’s the new telephone number, but it’s going nowhere fast originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Somehow we missed giving the Samsung MU200 a groping at CES, and we’re pretty sure we’d forgive ourselves for that if NewGadgets.de hadn’t caught some pretty incomplete video of the 20-inch touchscreen all-in-one. Though it has some responsive touch buttons, we’ve got no idea how its multitouch display performs since the German-chap forgot to test it out. We know CES can be an exhausting time, but we’re not sure how you forget to try out the most important part of the machine (there’s even a big cartoon finger demanding onlookers to touch it!). But we do learn from the video that the system packs a 2.2GHz Intel Pentium T4400 processor, 2GB of RAM, 320GB of storage, and GeForce G310 graphics and that it got a fair share of ports along the backside and an optical drive on its right side. For now we’ll just be left wondering what’s its like to drag our fingers over that digital fish pond, and if the MU200 will making it past the Korean market. Hit the break for the video.

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Samsung MU200 caught on camera, begging for its screen to be touched originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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