Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops A report by the Commercial Times says that HP will launch their 8.9-inch UMPC in April for "more than" NT$20,000 or about $630 bucks. Sure sounds like the UMPC 2133 we showed you yesterday, eh? That's about right when you compare it to the $300, entry-level 7-inch Eee PC. The paper claims it'll run a "high-end" Penryn processor as well which is fine by us if true. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Powerful, anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may unleash his militia on Iraq again this weekend, ending a six-month cease-fire. Al-Sadr is under pressure from his commanders who say continued U.S. and Iraqi raids are hurting their numbers.

Witness at Diana Inquest Says Princess Feared Being Targeted in Plot by Britain's Royal Family

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Ponca City, We Love You writes "Robert Scoble had an interesting post on his blog a few days ago on obsolete technical skills — 'things we used to know that no longer are very useful to us.' Scoble's initial list included dialing a rotary phone, using carbon paper to make copies, and changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor. The list has now been expanded into a wiki with a much larger list of these obsolete skills that includes re
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians should declare an independent state unilaterally if peace talks with Israel continue to falter, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday.

ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghanaian President John Kufuor greeted President George W. Bush on Wednesday in a former slave fort overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, which millions of Africans crossed in chains on their way to the Americas.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will decide within days whether to extend or scrap his Mehdi Army militia ceasefire, a move that will have big repercussions for security in Iraq.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Australian actress Nicole Kidman wants to improve her work-life balance -- by making films that her children can enjoy.

Here's a test for Web 2.0. Cuba's Fidel Castro announced yesterday morning that he is resigning from his post as ruler of that communist country. What better way to celebrate the departure of an authoritarian dictator than to look at how the free flow of information in online social media provided coverage of the event? Or, depending on your take on Castro, what better way to celebrate a populist leader in the international fight for social ju
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An email has emerged that challenges CNN's journalistic integrity and institutional neutrality and calls all of its Cuba coverage into question.  First reported by The Natural Truth blogger Michael Graham, Babalu Blog's Henry Gomez said he ?independently confirmed? the email which issued marching orders directing the proper ?[g]uidance? on reporting Fidel Castro's resignation. Gomez said he posted the full document, which was sent Tuesday morning
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Reuters - "Monk" will be back on the case for a seventh season. USA Network has given a 16-episode order to the light crime drama, and is targeting a July premiere for the first half of the show, and January for the second half.

Some smart Redditer did a Google search for all the Reddit stories containing the words “It’s Official” in the title. The idea, of course, is to show that the Redditers use this phrase way too much, be it for fun, or to make a story that isn’t actually official in any way more [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Is it Really \"Official\"? Is it Really \"Breaking\"?", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/02/20/reddit-digg-breaking-

Atlantis' astronauts aimed for a morning touchdown Wednesday to conclude a two-week mission that expanded the international space station with the addition of a new European lab

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Sen. Barack Obama decisively won the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, dealing another blow to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose...

More desktop, notebook Eee-alikes on the way Intel has brought forward the launch of its 'Shelton' platform for budget-priced PCs, it has been claimed. Originally due in Q3, the technology for desktops and notebooks will now debut in May.?