Last year I had to rant how Classmates.com nickels and dimes its users. While every other social networking site (at least that I’ve seen) doesn’t charge its members to read messages, Classmates.com does just that. So, if have a free membership (as I did) and some …

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More Windows Mobile 6.1 news! This time a patched and spliced together “6.1″ release for the Sprint Mogul by the people on PPCGeeks and XDA-Deelopers has been released, so if you want to get in on the 6.1 action before it’s officially available, here it is. [PPCGeeks via Boy Genius]

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Yesterday, Motorola laid a bit of a bombshell on the cell phone world. The company announced it was considering a “structural realignment” to rejuvenate its mobile device business. Though the company had a huge hit with its ultrathin Razr V3 …

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Georgia Tech is going to create the nation’s interdisciplinary Ph.D program in Robotics, pulling from various engineering (mechanical, electrical, biomedical, aerospace) and computer science disciplines to form a more focused program. Other schools tend to offer a concentrated look at one area of robotics. The idea behind Georgia Tech’s program is to get students to think about robots holistically, rather than only focusing on one aspect of a bot with minimal knowledge of the rest.
The university will begin the program with 15 students, eventually bolstering it to 60, and currently have 30 faculty working in robotics. This announcement goes hand in hand with the launch of Georgia Tech’s new center specifically designated for robotics. Maybe Carnegie Mellon should worry about their distinction as the robotics school. [Gizmag]

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