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Th Jan 4 -

DIVERS IN THE NEWS -

# SPEED BOOT: Flash Memory on a microchip is going to be used to speed the initial boot-up of new computers, shortening the startup time. *A laptop with a hybrid hard drive could see up to a 20 percent improvement in the time it takes to boot up and open an application, the alliance said.*

# SoFlo: Miami lawyer Kendall Coffey's Best and Worst in Legal News for 2006, from CNN.

# SNAPS: Some discussion of the effect of mobile camera phone technology on the News, using the Saddam hanging as an example, from the BBC.

# HOME DEPOT BLIP: Ouster of CEO Robert Nardelli, criticized by investors for collecting a $225 million pay package while the stock dropped, from Bloomberg.

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