War is a terrible thing: Sometimes you have to take the life of your fellow man in the most brutal and extravagant ways...and you just don't have a good enough weapon to do it as hard as you want.
That's when you start strapping every weapon you have to every other weapon you have, and hope that physics is in a good enough mood today to let you fir
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19220_the-6-most-badass-weapons-ever-improvised-in-battle.html
New research from the Nielsen Norman Group finds that although iPad apps have, in the last year, become "less wacky," many interfaces are still confusing for users and usability problems remain.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/the-problem-with-ipad-apps-usability_n_868006.html
Google announced this week plans to shut down its Translate API "due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse." The news raises a question: When dealing with the costly threats of hackers and spam abuse, when should a web company cut its losses?
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/27/the-price-of-hackers-spammers-and-abuse/
Tom West, a pioneer in computing hardware, passed away last week.
West was best known for leading the team that developed the Data General MV/8000, one of the computer industry's first and then widely used mini computers. He is also credited with championing DG's first full-screen laptops at a time when the category was still new.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/30/became.industry.icon.with.his.management.style/
Comcast revealed Wednesday that it was testing a TV-over-IP system for its network. A dry run on MIT's grounds in the fall would prove it can deliver its regular TV service using Internet protocol in a way that would simplify delivering it beyond TV sets. The move as cast by the Wall Street Journal would simplify watching real-time broadcasts on tablets like the iPad, Xbox 360s, and other devices that Comcast can't normally reach....
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Berlin-based Nova Media have introduced a "surfstick" for Mac OS X made in conjunction with Belgium company Option called the iCON 461, a world-wide 3G data stick modem that is completely unlocked and can be used with most 2G or 3G networks around the world.
The modem features an integrated GPS chip as well as a MicroSD card slot, enabling it to double as portable storage.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/nova-media-unveils-icon-461-unlocked-3g-usb-stick-modem/
Its cases having long been a staple of the iPhone world, Mophie's latest product is only the company's second attempt at a battery case for the iPod touch. Is the new Juice Pack Air an essential add-on, or more trouble than it's worth? We find out in a new review.......
Fragmentr is a website that lets you participate in the creation of collaboratively sourced collages.
Designed by Ryan Weafer, the site asks that you simply upload an image�it suggests using one with a variety of colors, pattern and depth� to keep things interesting�and itll get added into the mix.
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http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/fragmentr-lets-you-create-collaborative-online-collages
Now those who see Twitter as a powerful tool for real-time journalism have another example of how it can be done: New York Times reporter Brian Stelter has posted a thoughtful and compelling account of how he used Twitter to report on the aftermath of the recent tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/27/nyt-reporter-shows-the-power-of-twitter-as-journalism/
According to our favorite people, "sources close to the deal", Facebook has partnered with Spotify to bring its music streaming service to American shores.
The service will be integrated with the Facebook website right in the news feed. The real kicker here, the service could launch in as little as two weeks.This deal, if accurate, would be huge for both companies. Spotify gets millions more users to prop up their flagging profits. Facebook gets the music streaming service it has been seeking for years, which will nicely compliment their burgeoning movie rental system. Sources claim no money is changing hands in the deal.
Accessing the internet in your car is nothing new these days.
Using the internet to build your car is rather more special.
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http://www.allcartech.com/news/1060661_vintage-1906-oldsmobile-built-using-google-books-downloads
If you're one of our U.S. readers, you're probably (well, hopefully) preparing for a three-day weekend.
And although gas prices are sky high, chances are good that many of you are planning road trips over the Memorial Day holiday.
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http://www.allcartech.com/news/1060604_memorial-day-6-apps-for-your-3-day-weekend
Here's a phrase PayPal might want to keep in mind as it wages a civil battle against two former executives who defected to Google.
Location, location, location. When it comes to employment breach of contract and trade-secret cases, California is a hard state to win in.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/28/in-legal-battle-with-google-paypal-faces-uphill-battle-in-california/
The recent articles proclaiming that 25 is the peak age for entrepreneurship deserve a considered and factual response.
The demographic and racial profiling that has plagued venture capital and tech entrepreneurship has a new friend�ageism. This has to stop.
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/28/peak-age-entrepreneurship/
Microsoft is getting pummeled by Apple, Google, and others; its phone and cloud strategies are under attack; and its stockholders are grumbling.
Who might be able to turn this struggling behemoth around?
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/228911/15_candidates_to_replace_steve_ballmer_as_microsoft_ceo.html
ASUS is currently showing its upcoming Matrix GTX 580 Platinum graphics card, an overclocked variant of the standard GTX 580. Although the company has yet to detail its flagship Mars II edition, the Platinum model will provide 1.5GB of GDDR5 VRAM, 512 CUDA cores, and a GPU core frequency pushed to 816 MHz.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/asus-shows-off-overclocked-matrix-gtx-580-gra
Protecting business desktops, laptops, tablets and other IT equipment from misuse starts at the end-user level.
It's important that the business defines boundaries for appropriate use and communicates those boundaries clearly and concisely to all employees.
It's been almost a year since the producers of The Hurt Locker filed a lawsuit against 5,000 alleged pirates suspected of distributing the film via BitTorrent.
Now Voltage Pictures has updated its complaint, adding almost 20,000 IP addresses to the list of defendants.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/27/hurt-locker-lawsuit-targets-a-record-breaking-24-583-ip-addresse/
Polywell's latest packs a surprise GPUAgainst our current zero-point rig, a Core i7-920 overclocked to 3.5GHz, there's not much of a contest.
The Polywell X5800 roasts the quad-core 920 in everything by double-digit numbers. The closest the zero-point came was in our Adobe Lightroom benchmark, where the Polywell aces it by just 11 percent. Lightroom isn't very multithreaded and is mostly clock-speed dependent. The Polywell is clocked about 13 percent higher, so the 11 percent advantage is about right. In gaming, the GTX 590 easily surpasses the old dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970 card by huge margins.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/polywell-ignition-x5800-review/
The team that hopes to break the world land speed record in a rocket-assisted jet car could create an important spin-off for the nascent space tourism market: a safer rocket engine.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20520-land-speed-record-bid-could-make-space-flight-safer.html
The social networking giant is looking to develop features that will allow users to share their favorite TV shows, news, music and other media.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/facebook-netflix-talks-partnership-192762
Apple's hard work winning over record labels may well be rewarded.
A new report says that Apple's upcoming cloud music service will offer the ability to scan your hard drive, and then mirror your music collection on its own servers with better versions of some tracks.
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http://gigaom.com/apple/report-apples-cloud-music-service-will-mirror-and-augment-your-library/
This is why its called file SHARING.
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http://socialspew.com/post/5895353412/the-difference-between-theft-and-piracy
The bill now moves forward to the Senate, but getting a vote on it will not be easy.
Just a few hours after it was passed by the committee Senator Wyden already put it on hold.
Sony Ericsson has begun rolling out the first software update for the Xperia Arc and Play smartphones.
While it's limited to certain markets and builds, a more widespread release is due next week. It includes Android 2.3.3 and deeper Facebook integration from the new Xperia minis along with more detailed fixes and upgrades.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/27/xperia.arc.play.begin.getting.android.233/
Microsoft has caught a 14-year-old Dublin teenager who hacked into its Xbox online systems.
The story came to light this week when Microsoft�s Ireland General Manager revealed the events during a keynote speech at the Bank of Ireland Business Week. The 14-year-old was directly responsible for millions of users who were alerted after successfully hacking into Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360 platform.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/microsoft-catches-young-xbox-hacker-trains-him-for-good/
Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese.
Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.
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eBay and its payment wing PayPal immediately followed up the launch of Google Wallet by suing Google and two executives for allegedly stealing trade secrets to help create the mobile payment technology. The online auction house accused Google's Wallet project lead Osama Bedier of feeding confidential PayPal information to Google to help it create the NFC mobile payment system and of making former eBay executive Stephanie Tilenius break a contract by having her join Google as its VP of commerce in February 2010, a month before she finished a consulting contract with e......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=c28aa509df0fc656ada6188d2da21ba6
Its millions of users stump up real money to pay for virtual cows as they play online phenomenon Farmville.
Warning! A security researcher discovered a 'cookiejacking' flaw in all IE versions that allows hackers to steal your session cookies, then log onto your password-protected sites such as Gmail, Facebook or Twitter.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ie-flaw-could-allow-hackers-access-your-faceb
The recent rapture stir may have left its biggest advocate with a Rocky sized helping of egg on his face, but that's because he failed to take one thing into account: the world can't end until Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
Now, though, it seems that Duke's finally ready to emerge from his dressing room and clear the way for zombies, robots, manticores, or whatever else�is planning�to swiftly and brutally remove us from this earth. That's right. No doubting it this time. Duke Nukem Forever is 100 percent complete. It's gone gold."Duke Nukem Forever is the game that was once thought to be unshippable, and yet here we are, on the precipice of history,� said 2K president Christoph Hartmann in a press release.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/world-ends-“-no-wait-the-other-thing-duke-nukem-forever-goes-gold/
Your iPhone would much rather be inside of these than rubbing up against your used pocket Kleenex.
At Thursdays Google Wallet Event in New York City, the company is expected to showcase its latest innovations in mobile payments.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/26/live-from-the-google-wallet-press-event/
A Russian software company has created a tool purchasable by law enforcement and forensic agencies to created decrypted images of an iOS device.
Instead of using sticky footpads to climb on walls and ceilings, a new robot takes advantage of fast-moving air that can generate an adhesion force on just about any kind of surface.
The robots grippers, which dont ever actually touch the surface as the robot climbs, operate on Bernoullis principle of fluid dynamics.
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-robot-supersonic-air-jets-climb.html
RIM�s latest Blackberry OS, Blackberry 7, has leaked on the net for download ahead of its formal unveiling on any device.
The software, which was originally going to be called Blackberry 6.1, was re-named as it will not run on devices running version 6. The files that are available on the net will only run on RIM�s next generation of smartphones when they launch in the coming months.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/blackberry-7-leaks-wonit-run-yet/
The hackers just won't give poor Sony a break, will they? Following the infamous PSN breach last month and an attack on the company's Greek
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/25/sony-ericssons-canadian-online-store-hacked-more-than-2-000-cu/
With the help of algorithms designed to guide the Hubble telescopes starscape surveys, conservation-minded coders have designed software that helps biologists identify whale sharks by their spots.
The program enlists the help of citizens with cameras, and lets researchers track Earths biggest fish across time and oceans.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/whale-shark-tracking/
YouTube has just announced some startling new figures: two days worth of video are uploaded every minute to the service, and its now achieving 3 Billion views per day.
Computer desktop and notebook owners now have an extra option for adding a second external monitor to their machines, or connecting their computers to their HDTVs will full 1080p vision and sound -- or adding Bluetooth audio to non-BT receivers, courtesy two new devices from AV peripheral maker Kanex. The Kanex mLinq is a $99 USB to HDMI adapter, while the AirBlue lets users stream music from their portable bluetooth devices to car radios, receivers or anything with an audio input port.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=fea2017a2a2e1f1c582a00226147628b
The modem, the ZTE-made Rocket 3.0, is T-Mobile's first stick to reach the 42Mbps speeds and help out with live video streaming and online gaming.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/24/t.mobile.42mbps.expands.laong.with.rocket.3.stick/
We've been impressed with the Dell XPS 15 ever since we first made it our Editors' Choice, but the new XPS 15z is looking even better.
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http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,3253,l%3D264764%26a%3D264753%26po%3D1,00.asp?p=n
There are two extremely satisfying features of Gotow.net's HexDefense game.
The first is its simple tower defense game play. Setting up your defenses, upgrading your defenses and generally blasting the hell out of those sneaky enemy, umm, things will make your 15 minute wait in the DMV seem like three seconds.The second is the game's vector-like graphics. For any old time gamer, vector graphics will always be the glory days of the coin-op games. HexDefense keeps it fairly simple too. There aren't 45 different weapon systems you can deploy.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/android-game-spotlight-hexdefense/
In 2007, a customer filed a class-action suit against Apple for iPhone's lack of a user-replaceable battery.
Jose Trujillo claimed in his suit that: "Unknown to the plaintiff, and undisclosed to the public, the iPhone is a sealed unit with its battery soldered on the inside of the device so that it cannot be changed by the owner.
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http://www.focus.com/fyi/general-management/most-frivolous-lawsuits-against-apple/
In 1838, Samuel Morse sent the first Morse code message via electrical telegraph, revolutionizing the world of long-distance communication and launching the world into networking bliss.
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http://egotvonline.com/2011/05/24/the-history-of-networks-from-telegraphs-to-twitter/
Negotiations between Apple and music publishers to license an iTunes cloud music service are going well.
Hopes are high that an agreement will be reached soon, but it's not a slam-dunk. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.
In regards to the virtual P2P currency bitcoin, rumors are floating around in IRC that at least one, if not two, bitcoin miners have had cops show up with search warrants, mistaking the power consumption needed to generate bitcoins as an indication of an indoor pot operation.
Inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has questioned whether Twitter is part of the future of social networks
So this is interesting.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Path's co-founder Dave Morin sat down with our own Jason Kincaid to discuss Path's strategy and growth. During the conversation, Kincaid asked Morin about that $100 million acquisition offer from Google that we reported previously.
As our report goes, in early December Path had a signed term sheet with Kleiner Perkins and Index. At that point Google made an acquisition offer for a whopping $100 mill
Closing in on 10 million users, Foursquare is set to be featured as the default location application on the INQ Cloud Touch phone, also known as the Facebook phone.
Founder Dennis Crowley said INQ is implementing Foursquare's API in its phone to offer the location service.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/23/foursquare-found-as-featured-location-service-for-inq-facebook-phone/
An FCC report has shown that the US continues to lag behind the leading countries in the OECD when it comes to the Internet. Out of 29 countries evaluated for their mobile and fixed broadband adoption rates, the US ranked only 9th and 12th, respectively. Fixed broadband has been adopted by 63 percent of US households leaving it behind adoption rates in countries such as the UK, South Korea and Iceland.......
Truly light notebooks have almost always been sacrifices that either shed the optical drive or use low-power processors that could take them out of the running as desktop replacements.
Sony's current VAIO S tosses both ideas aside: at 3.6 pounds, it's nearly a full pound lighter than a 13-inch MacBook Pro yet still has an optical drive, a 2.3GHz Core i5, and even dedicated graphics. But does that necessarily mean it's worth the expense? Our early 2011 VAIO S review finds out.......
Around for a century, Linotype machines were made obsolete in the 1970s by changing technologies -- but they have not been forgotten.
XtremeMac has announced several products combining Bluetooth streaming and charging for iOS devices, the InCharge Home BT and InCharge Auto BT. The two devices support hands-free, wireless connectivity with iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch. The home version plugs into a wall and connects to home audio gear via a 4-foot AUX cable. It then pairs with a Bluetooth-enabled iOS device, streaming music to the home system. It has a Bluetooth LED indicator and offers a 30-pin cable for 10-watt charging.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=6941fe02c1d48937f5ccf7c5fa0439aa
To Harvest Natural Gas From the Ocean, Shell Is Building the World's Largest Man-Made Floating Object | Popular Science
Foxconn has sent us more details about the May 20th explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu factory, saying that a third employee had died in the accident.
The explosion is still under investigation but they suspect it "was caused by an explosion of combustible dust in a duct".
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http://gizmodo.com/5804399/a-third-employee-has-died-from-the-foxconn-explosion
Mobile hardware is progressing at a blistering pace, but to deliver the type of user experiences enabled by awesome hardware software must keep pace.
This goes beyond the need for innovations in OSes and applications, to the underlying software that ties everything together.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/21/mobile-software-driving-innovation-in-the-multi-core-era/
There really is no such thing as a new invention.
Turns out that even something as quintessentially 21st century as iTunes is just the updated version of what people were doing 109 years ago... well, more or less.
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http://io9.com/5804336/people-were-downloading-music-from-their-phones-way-back-in-1892
When you want to share an image on Twitter, over IM, or in the comments of you're favorite blog, full-fledged gallery webapps like Flickr or Picasa are overkill.
That's where these quick image sharing services come in, filling your need for quick, almost disposable image sharing.
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http://lifehacker.com/5804337/five-best-services-for-quick-image-sharing
Marketing materials seen at Best Buy shows that Hulu Plus on TiVo is imminent.
The materials also show that TiVo Premiere owners will get 6 months free streaming through the service when it launches. The Hulu Plus service has successfully launched across a several platforms including the Xbox 360, the iPad and Android devices.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/best-buy-hints-hulu-plus-on-tivo-almost-ready/
The desire for increased social reach has led to a new reality of web design: over subscription, or the over socialization of design.
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http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/20/the-over-socialization-of-website-design/
Yesterday, we asked you to get your tin foil hats on and tell us which cars you thought might have been from another world.
Today, like Scully & Mulder, we attempt to uncover some truth.
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http://jalopnik.com/5803928/ten-cars-that-look-like-they-were-designed-by-aliens/gallery/
iBuyPower has introduced its latest flagship gaming system, the Erebus. The new desktop computer is available in several configurations, each designed for overclocking. Customers can choose from various liquid cooling options for heat dissipation, with up to four radiators and 13mm tubing capable of pumping 4.5 gallons per minute.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/ibuypower-intros-flagship-erebus-gaming-deskt
A coalition of businesses and labor groups, Alliance for Jobs and Sustainable Growth, is now supporting BayWEB (Bay Area Wireless Enhanced Broadband System). BayWEB is a broadband project designed to bring broadband services to the areas in the greater San Francisco Bay area either that are currently underserved or who even lack broadband access.
Signs Mac OS X Lion might be clearer materialized early Saturday as the Australian and New Zealand online Apple Stores listed delays for Snow Leopard.
Anyone trying to order the current OS in the other country faced a delay of five to seven business days instead of the more typical 24 hours. Most other stores, including the US, Canada, Japan, and much of Europe, still showed regular ship times.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/snow-leopard-stock-low-in-australia-hints-lion-getting-near/
The Facebook "Like" and Twitter "Tweet" buttons that appear on so many websites do a lot more than just help you share content with friends.
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http://theweek.com/article/index/215546/is-facebooks-like-button-spying-on-you
Remember Hellgate: London? It was an apocalyptic hack 'n' slasher that rose from the ashes of Diablo II only to make some ugly ashes of its own when its developer went under. Now, though, the game's getting a second lease on life thanks to the helping hand of Hanbitsoft.
Hellgate, of course, was a lot of things to a lot of people. Overly ambitious to some. Rushed to others. And -- to our own David Murphy -- sort of, like, you know, not good. However, the game's actually been hacking and slashing among the living in South Korea for quite a while now, so with any luck, the extra development time has added a few much-needed layers of polish to the proceedings.
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http://techtime.posterous.com/hellgate-london-rising-from-grave-returning-a
As reported earlier today, an explosion at the Chengdu Foxconn factory around 7pm Friday night in southwestern China has left at least two dead and more than a dozen people injured, some very seriously.
A video uploaded to YouTube shows some of the panic and chaos following the explosion. All Things D reports that Apple has provided a statement expressing sadness at the tragedy and announcing they are "working closely" with Foxconn "to understand what caused this terrible event."......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/report-apple-aiding-foxconn-in-explosion-investigation/
Mark Zuckerberg gets a lot of attention for founding Facebook, but if it were up to him, his employees would be joining him on more of the magazine covers.
At a recent conference, Zuckerberg said lavishing credit on a successful company's founder is a big mistake.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/20/mark-zuckerberg-me-in-team/
Mind = Sufficiently blown
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http://www.geekfill.com/2011/05/20/mind-sufficiently-blown/
The SplinterBike is a bit of an engineering marvel.
The bike is made completely from wood; no screws, bolts, metal, plastic or rubber. Just wood, and most of it reclaimed!
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/100-wooden-bike-primed-to-set-land-speed-record.php
Apple has reportedly inked a licensing deal with Sony Corp.'s music division to begin offering the label's catalog in the cloud, leaving Universal Music Group as the last holdout among the major record labels.
Instead of ushering in a next-generation interface that could revolutionize peripherals, Intel kowtowed to Apple and created a new socket that only a tiny fraction of Mac OS X users will actually use.
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2385615,00.asp
Ford is developing industry-first voice-controlled in-car connections to an array of health aids from blood glucose monitoring devices and other diabetes management services, asthma management tools and web-based allergen alerts.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216842/Ford_developing_in_car_health_monitoring_tech
The Kindle has been a huge success, no doubt about that, but we are continually amazed at just how big a success it has become.
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/kindle-books-officially-take-over-print-sales-at-amazon-pulp-st/
EFF is proud to support SB 914, a bill that requires the police to obtain a warrant before searching a recent arrestees cell phone.SB 914 is a response to a January decision of the California Supreme Court in People v.
Diaz.
We recently broke the story of a small search software outlet named Masterobjects taking on Amazon.com in a notable patent infringement lawsuit, later also taking Google to court.
Now it's apparently Microsoft's turn to get sued by the company, and my guess is more will follow.
In a new report, the International Trade Commission called out China for its rampant piracy problem and "indigenous innovation policies" for costing the U.S. economy up to $48 billion in 2009.
The report also blames China for costing Americans 2.1 million full time jobs that would otherwise be created if China substantially improved its intellectual property rights policies.The ITC report confirms what the software industry has long known: The Chinese practice of ignoring the intellectual property rights of US innovators harms our nation, puts a drag on our economy and siphons jobs away from Americans," said Business Software Alliance President and CEO Robert Holleyman, who testified before the ITC during its investigation. "The report establishes in clear terms that these practices harm every innovative American industry. We look forward to working with the Senate and the ITC to find meaningful and effective ways to preserve the rights of American innovators in international markets."...
Eric Schmidt said that the technology has advanced rapidly in recent years and that it could be rolled out across the internet by other companies.
According to research conducted by Microsoft, about one of every 14 programs downloaded turns out to be malware.
PC Mag reports that this rather frightening factoid was revealed in blog post intended to praise the SmartScreen Application Reputation feature � a service which��
An Intel executive says Microsoft will make at least four different versions of Windows 8 for devices with ARM processors, but you won't be running older Windows apps on any them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/228132/windows_8_coming_in_at_least_4_versions.html
Apple (AAPL.O) has proposed a standardised SIM card smaller than those it currently uses in the iPhone and iPad to be able to produce thinner devices, an Orange (FTE.PA) executive told Reuters on Tuesday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/17/idUSLDE74G22V20110517
Hackers are increasingly aiming attacks at smartphones, touching off a race among software giants, startups and telecom operators seeking to cash in on ways to help consumers protect
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/18/us-summit-msecurity-idUSTRE74H1NM20110518
We've recommended Dropbox in so many features & how-to's we've lost count.
It's an amazing service that just keeps getting better, but the company has found itself in hot water with the FTC over concerns of anti-competitive behavior related to its file encryption.Company Spokewomen Julie Supan further clarified by saying Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files.� That means that we prevent such access via access controls on our backend as well as strict policy prohibitions. That statement didn't say anything about who holds encryption keys or what mechanisms prevent access to the data. We updated our help article and security overview to be explicit about this. Also, to clarify we've never stated we don't have access to encryption keys. We've made quite a few posts in our public forums over the years about this very fact and we are quite...
Well, well, well, look who's getting into the all-in-one PC market. It's Toshiba, a company that's been mostly focused on notebooks, but has decided to try its hand at AIO desktops with the launch its new DX1210, a 21.5-inch AIO built around Intel's Sandy Bridge platform. Toshiba's aim is to provide the "complete entertainment experience," and towards that end you'll find a built-in DVD player and integrated TV tuner.
Toshiba also said it partnered with Onkyo to provide the built-in speakers, and with Toshiba's Sleep & Music service, you can jam to your favorite tunes even when the PC is turned off. You can also charge devices via USB when the system is powered down.
With apps for iPhones, iPads, Android phones and Android tablets, CNN delivers news and video to on-the-go American consumers on a variety of mobile platforms.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/05/18/nokia.app.launches/index.html
A whopping 99.7% of Android smartphones are leaking login data for Google services, and could allow other access to information stored in the cloud, so claim German security researchers Bastian K�nings, Jens Nickels, and Florian Schaub from the University of Ulm.
Bing is weaving even more Facebook into its search results in a bid to create a search experience that is unmatchable by Google.
Whether it's better is, ironically, a matter of opinion.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/05/17/bing.facebook.search.wired/index.html
Your smartphone is a more powerful computer than early IBM PCs, and it holds sensitive personal information.
Mobile security tools take a variety of paths to protect you, your data, and your phone.
Reid Hoffman is middle-aged, portly and nice � and the atypical billionaire is soon to be one of the richest men in Silicon Valley.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/may/15/linkedin-boss-poised-for-flotation-payout
We've gotten complacent with many of our technological needs, simply putting up with what we have available now, even if it's horribly dated.
In some cases, it's because we're content with what we have, ignoring the thought that something better may actually be within our reach. In other cases, it's because we have no other choice but to get bent over the table by huge corporations who simply want our money and couldn't care less about innovation or forward progress if it means less profits. Other technologies are just so old and so ingrained into our everyday life that weTo make the landlines' case worse, many are built on ancient wiring with some only capable of data transmissions around 14kbps. Considering that nearly everyone owns a cell phone these days, there is a great opportunity to repurpose the archaic landline network and refresh it with fiber optic connections right down to a residential level, and ideally starting with those on the oldest of lines. Even though it's a costly endeavor to upgrade the entire country's infrastructure, companies like Verizon have already started its undertaking, though the rollout will take...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/13-technologies-that-need-an-immediate-upgrade/
The cloud outage season that began with the PlayStation Network outage seems to be having an extended run as web services just can't stop tumbling. Microsoft was one of the companies that encountered problems with their web services last week. Redmond's trouble revolved around its Business Productivity Online Suite . While all issues were resolved quickly, the BPOS team did not forget to apologize for BPOS's relative lack of productivity during the week.
But the problem reared its ugly head on Thursday, this time joining hands with a related problem to cause a delay in the delivery of around 1.5 million messages. In fact, BPOS wasn't the only Microsoft service that encountered problems that day. A DNS failure led to Outlook Web Access hosted in the Americas becoming inaccessible for a brief while, ``and partially impacted some functionality of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync devices.�...
An Israeli couple name their baby daughter Like, taking inspiration from a social networking site, reports say.
HP helped wrap up a week's worth of introductions by rolling out three new Pavilion desktops.
The more gamer-oriented HPE h8, mainstream p7, and Slimline s5 all get redesigned looks, carrying a much cleaner and minimalist look that HP suggests would work as much for a home theater as a desk. All have accordingly moved to the most recent processors, topping out with AMD Phenom II and Intel Core i7 chips in the h8.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/hp-intros-hpe-h8-p7-slimline-s5-desktops-with-new-design/
Lodsys, the company suing iOS developers for patent infringement over in-app purchases, has created a blog in response to the situation.
The blog posts reveal a very good grasp of patent law, but likely won't satisfy developers or keep Apple from trying to stop Lodsys.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/apple/lodsys-speaks-out-about-ios-in-app-purchase-threats/
After bowing down to Google Talk this week, AIM is effectively dead.
Most buddy lists are ghost towns. Chatters fled to Google, Skype and Facebook for their conversational needs. But at its pinnacle, AIM was something singular and amazing.
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5800437/remember-when-aol-instant-messenger-was-our-facebook
Microsoft's upcoming Mango update for Windows Phone 7 had even more features unveiled Sunday through the latest episode of the Windows Phone Dev podcast. The release is now due to have built-in instant messaging not just for Windows Live Messenger but AIM and Facebook as well. Microsoft's system would be smart and weave into the people hub, automatically detecting whichever is the best network and create group messages.......
Source:
http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=fe6e44668d50debaa8c2c1f4b169aba0
Network censorship and surveillance is a booming business.
Censorship schemes continue to fragment the Internet and new censorship proposals are constantly introduced around the world, including in liberal democracies.
Source:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/documenting-tools-beating-internet-censorship
Microsoft has detailed some new, business-oriented features that will arrive in the upcoming Mango update for Windows Phone 7 phones.
Source:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/16/mango.to.bring.new.business.features.for.phones/
Since sitting is apparently killing us all slowly, here's a web app to keep track of how much time you spend standing.
Samsung is getting ready to show off a 2560 by 1600 resolution 10.1-inch LCD display designed for tablets, approaching Retina-like pixel density, though the display would likely need some work if it were to make its way into Apple's iPad 3.
People now share bikes, cars, and entire homes; it's time to start sharing our internet.
You've got nothing to fear.
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http://www.good.is/post/tear-down-this-wall-why-open-wifi-is-safer-than-you-think/
Samsung are developing a new 10.1 inch LCD display that has been designed especially for tablets. With a resolution of 2560 by 1600 pixels, the display has 300 pixels per inch, which gives it a resolution within the Apple Retina� range.
Source:
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/samsung-developing-new-tablet-displays
We talk a lot about Wi-Fi offload as the next big thing for mobile operators, but a recent conversation with an AT&T executive put that into doubt.
How can we make the reality match the perception of Wi-Fi as this fabulous place for offloading mobile traffic?
Historically, Japanese companies and the PC have gone together like Godzilla and human civilization, but that may well be, er, history if Capcom has anything to say about it.
The Japanese giant has cast a favorable shadow on PC in recent years with games like Street Fighter IV and Dead Rising 2, but -- according to senior vice president Christian Svensson -- that's only the beginning.PC gaming's profile is growing at Capcom. Both the US and our European teams continue to request PC SKUs for new titles. We've got more titles coming with PC versions than ever before . At green light meetings, our Japanese COO and the head of the consumer and online software business increasingly request a PC version if one is not being proposed at the outset of a project,� he wrote on Capcom's Unity blog.
Source:
http://respectedadmins.com/blog/capcom-talks-increased-pc-focus-future-of-pc-gaming/
Samsung after a false start last month has officially started rolling out Android 2.3 updates for virtually all of its Galaxy devices. Every Galaxy S phone, the Galaxy Tab, and its budget Galaxy mix should all get the extra performance and user interface updates, including copy-and-paste text. The update is being pitched as especially helpful for 3D games and media playback, likely due to the much improved OpenGL graphics....
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The fact, or at least poorly hidden rumor, that Amazon.com is going to unveil an Android tablet "sometime," and probably sooner, rather than later.
That's pretty exciting to many. How would you feel if you were to learn that the company is planning a line of Android tablets?
Source:
http://hothardware.com/News/Amazoncom-Plans-Whole-Line-of-Android-Tablets-Report/
Plenty of adults send racy text messages and cell phone pictures, too.
Source:
http://news.discovery.com/tech/are-adults-having-good-sexts-110514.html
Should you go through with it? What about those lingering MySpace and Friendster profiles? Our flowchart has the answers!
A robot restaurant, using Japan technology, has opened in Thailand.
Robot restaurants also exist in China, South Korea and Japan. It's an official trend. Should the rest of the world brace itself for the rise of the robot waiter?
With Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft has been making some big strides in the quality of Windows's native search.
For regular, targeted searches , it does a great job of giving you near-real-time results. Unfortunately, that's not always good enough.When you finish the installer, Everything will launch. You're given another chance to review the options, but for now just click OK. At first, Everything will be blank, except for a search bar up top and the words Scanning Drive C:� below. Give Everything a moment to index all the files in your system, and in a short while, you'll see a list of every single file on your whole PC .
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/how-to-instantly-search-for-files-with-everything/
Students at Cal Arts built this army of drum-banging, bleeping and blooping bots.
Researchers at Ohio University are studying a new energy source you can produce yourself.
Theyre studying the power of pee.
Its something everyone does, every day. Even though urine is nearly 99 percent water, there is a lot of hydrogen in the remaining one percent from an organic compound called urea.
To break it down, if you could collect the urine from all 24,000 students at Ohio University, you could power 60 buildings every day.
Resear
Nintendo faced a hurdle in its hopes to retake some of its share in mobile gaming from Apple on Thursday after NPD results showed that the 3DS wasn't outselling its predecessor. The company shipped 194,000 3DS systems in April but moved 257,000 of the DSi the same month. A statement from the console maker argued the gap, despite it being the first full month for the 3DS, was due to the "staying power" of the older systems and the recent dual Pokemon games driving sales.......
Source:
http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=e42151af66c3fbc20585d8075e997540
Acer shot back at its ex-CEO Gianfranco Lanci's claims that their nationalism held the company back with a statement later on Tuesday.
The PC builder rejected the notion that Lanci had been thwarted in countering the iPad by Taiwan executives' refusal to hire more foreign engineers. It also didn't see the CEO's nationality as a problem and cared only about whether its leader could foster long-term growth, which Lanci couldn't based on Digitimes' account of events.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/acer-pins-failures-in-ipads-wake-on-ex-ceo/
In the midst of their jury trial, the company behind the defunct LimeWire client and the RIAA settled their dispute out of court.
Limewire will pay $105 million to compensate the major music labels for damages suffered. A moment of justice for the music industry, but not necessarily for the artists.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-pays-riaa-105-million-artists-get-nothing-110513/
Comcast denies it's blocking the site that is often used to pirate digital content The Pirate Bay.
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/227725/the_pirate_bay_blocked_by_comcast_isp_says_no.html
Google Inc. is close to settling a U.S. criminal investigation into allegations it made hundreds of millions of dollars by accepting ads from online pharmacies that break U.S. laws, according to people familiar with the matter.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319572448399628.html
Human-sized with soft curves and silky skin, Luna the robot runs on Linux and even has her very own app store.
With a touchscreen and cameras and microphones, she can react and respond, and take commands over Wi-Fi if needed.
Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers to find.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513/ap_on_re_us/us_bin_laden
As the software giant's 2002 consent decree with the Justice Department ends, Windows continues to generate billions in cash fueling forays into new markets.
While the big news from Google I/O was today's official launch of Chromebooks, other Google partners are thinking about new mobility paradigms.
Take iRobot, the folks behind the Roomba. Their new Ava robot uses an Android tablet for sight, sound, speech and, of course, apps.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/mobile/forget-the-chromebook-get-ready-for-android-robots/
Google revealed that it has set aside half-a-billion dollars to settle a mystery investigation by US regulators.
No one is talking.
Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/whats-behind-googles-500m-mystery-reserve/1802
More than 5 million children ages 10 and under--well below Facebooks minimum age of 13--use the service, Consumer Reports has found in its 2011 State of the Net Survey.
The company defends its cloud-based music service and says that it was designed to ensure that it does not violate copyrights.
Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
Talks on implementing a Europe-wide firewall to censor and block illicit websites has caused concern among many Internet users in recent weeks, and today one of the targeted sites has joined the discussion.
Quoting one of Churchills most famous speeches, The Pirate Bay team is rallying the public to defend the free Internet and end the threat posed by the entertainment industries copyright lobby.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-the-battle-of-internets-is-about-to-begin-110509/
So you bought a new phone and you want to sell your old phone, but you're worried about the buyer finding personal information on your phone.
In a new computing lab at Stanford, engineers and industry representatives are pursuing some fundamental questions about the marriage of mobile communications and social networking.
Source:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/may/mobisocial-050911.html
Google has announced an interesting new feature for Google image search.
Users will now be able to sort image results by subject to better find the picture they are after. This feature has the potential to take a random pile of images, and help users make sense of it all.As the feature rolls out over the next week or so, you will notice that the sidebar has a new "Sort by subject" option. If you click this, your results will be reorganized with headers for the subject of the image. Google used the example of London in their blog post. If a user searches for London, then organizes by subject, they can get all the images of Big Ben in one place, and all the snapshots of Tower Bridge in a separate row.
Source:
http://respectedadmins.com/blog/google-image-search-gets-sorted-out/
Microsoft is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for between $7 billion to $8 billion.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported the news yesterday. The deal is especially good for Microsoft's partners including Nokia and Facebook.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/09/why-microsoft-is-buying-skype-for-8-billion/
The bane of any iDevice user's existence is Apple's barely usable iTunes software.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20110509/tc_pcworld/10majorappleitunesannoyances
Adobe's three Photoshop CS5 companion applications for iPad -- Adobe Ezel, Nav and Color Lava -- are now available for purchase on the App Store.
Facebook features some 7.5 million users under 13 years of age, according to Consumer Reports, with some 5 million under the age of 10.
Ford on the evening of Google I/O's first day showed off a way to use the search engine's new Prediction API for better driving. Research from the car designer would measure a driver's behavior over time and calculate more efficient trips for the future. An electric or hybrid car could ask where the driver is going and optimize the route to make sure the car gets to its destination mostly or solely on electric power, Ford said in one example.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/ford-uses-google-prediction-api-to-make-eco-f
Microsoft has acquired Skype, both companies have announced.
Source:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/microsoft-acquires-skype/
But you aren't familiar with PHP, so you try to hire a programmer to help and haven't found rates under $125 per hour ...Source site:http://respectedadmins.com/reviews/simple-php-review/
According to the latest figures, Nvidia still dominates the discrete desktop GPU market and managed to grab a 59.4 percent share in the first quarter of 2011. That's a good clip higher than AMD, which served 40.6 percent of the discrete desktop GPU market in Q1, and had it not been for AMD's performance in notebook graphics, Nvidia would be sitting way out in front.
On a related side note, Nvidia recently licensed its SLI technology to AMD, and starting with the 990FX, 990X, and 970 chipsets, AMD system builders will finally be able to run multiple Nvidia graphics cards. While all parties stand to gain from this, Nvidia will likely benefit the most, at least in terms of further increasing its discrete desktop GPU market share.
As Chinese and American political leaders meet in Washington today, consider this example of U.S.-Sino exchange that could become a model success story�but only if we can keep it in the public eye.
Source:
http://www.good.is/post/foxconn-chinese-apple-supplier-cleans-up-its-act-now-needs-to-make-money
Will a new metric for measuring the energy efficiency of individual servers take off? On Monday, startup Power Assure unveiled a new metric and accompanying standard for measuring the energy consumption of individual servers.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/power-assure-pushes-standard-for-energy-consumption-of-servers/
HP finished off its introductions Monday with a new, atypically luxury LCD and an alternative approach to 3G data on a notebook in the US.
The 21.5-inch Elite L2201x breaks from most design and moves the power supply outside to slim the screen down to 0.4 inches thick and save space on the desk with an easel-like shape. Its metal finish makes it a fit for the new EliteBooks and Macs, and its only video input is DisplayPort.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/hp-intros-ultra-thin-elite-l2201x-display-prepaid-3g-data/
The Grand Old Party is keen to look a little less, well, old: Republican politician Newt Gingrich plans to officially announce his candidacy for President on Wednesday through messages posted on his Facebook and Twitter accounts, signaling a sea-change in how Republicans run for President.
If you didnt think computings future was both visual and mobile, then Nvidias decision to buy wireless radio startup Icera, clinches it.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/05/09/its-a-weird-wireless-world-why-nvidia-wants-icera/
Successful for a time, but failed in the end: looking back at Digital, WorldCom, Netscape, Nortel and General Magic.
Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011/25thanniversary/050911-anniversary-companies-wrong.html
Japan: Tokyo Kajimoto Laboratory is working on a kissing device that, when you hook it up to the internet, facilitates a kissing experience with someone remotely.
Source:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/kissing-japan-invention
Songtrust is a new service helps US artists track how their music is used worldwide and collect royalties.
And it's coming to the UK.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/06/behind-music-songtrust
Just in time for Mothers Day, Jessica Amason and friends at the ad agency Mother New York made a website that contains a menu of email forwards � the kind mom just HAD to pass along � and lets you send them back to mom, all day long.
How wonderfully cruel.
Source:
http://motherboard.tv/2011/5/6/fight-mom-spam-with-mom-spam
Google is testing a new UI for its biggest product: web search results.
Source:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/06/google-redesigned-search/
Sony in an update said that its PlayStation Network restoration would take longer than expected.
The company was still in final testing but said "additional comprehensive system checks" were needed before it went back up. The company explained that the estimate given at its media conference in Japan of a week-long process hadn't factored in the then-unknown SOE breach and needed extra time.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/sony-delays-psn-revival-says-2500-users-names-leaked/
MaximumPC.com has given birth to an audacious new offspring. It's called MaximumTech.com, and it aims to deliver kick-ass coverage of smartphones, tablets, home entertainment gear, and sundry personal technology products you can't even imagine -- all in the minimum B.S. style you know and love, and possibly even fear. Here's a brief FAQ.
Maximum PC editorial director Jon Phillips is currently the content lead for MaximumTech.com. Jon helped launch boot magazine, which was later renamed Maximum PC, and was the editor-in-chief of Maximum PC from 1999 to 2003. Michael Brown is the Maximum Tech reviews editor. Markkus Rovito has just come onboard to serve as Maximum Tech features editor. The content for MaximumTech.com is developed side-by-side the content for MaximumPC.com, and editors for both websites work together in story development, product testing, etc. Likewise, all of MaximumPC.com news bloggers and freelance contributors have been invited to write...
Word of an Apple deal with Nuance may have gained momentum early Saturday as hints have emerged that a deal is underway.
Rather than the previously dismissed buyout, Apple would forge an agreement to bring Nuance's voice recognition system into iOS, most likely iOS 5. While options were open, TechCrunch understood that the determination of Nuance chief Paul Ricci and a high valuation dependent on licenses were likely deterrents to buying Nuance outright.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/apple-said-talking-to-nuance-for-voice-recognition-in-ios-5/
The bin laden family owns part of Microsoft as well as of the well-known aircraft manufacturer Boeing, amongst various other companies.
Last week, Facebook formally announced "Hackamonth," an internal initiative that allows some engineers to leave their team to work on a side project of their choosing.
The goal is to prevent burnout among the staff and should result in some cool new products.
Washington Post publisher Philip Graham called journalism the "first rough draft of history," but as a new research paper from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism notes, that role is increasingly being played by social media such as Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/06/how-social-media-creates-a-rough-draft-of-history/
The first numbers are in, and it looks like the Galaxy S II is a sales success.
Sammy has sold nothing less than 120,000 units the first three days!
With an exhaustive analysis of 15 million tweets by New York company Social Flow, we can see the news exploding into the Twitterverse.
Source:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/07/bin-laden-visualization/
Google, Facebook and a platoon of advertising companies are reading the riot act to a California State Senator who has proposed "do not track" legislation.
The letter calls the bill unnecessary, unconstitutional, and a blow to the state's economy.
Sure, the M15x might have gone AWOL, but Dell has been kind enough to finally ship the beastly M18x to interested parties.
This is not your run of the mill laptop. This is a full scale desktop replacement that weighs in at 16 pounds. The upside of all that mass is the amazing hardware packed into the unit.The base model of the M18x has at its heart, a Core i7 clocked at 2GHz and a GeForce GTX460m. If that just won't cut it, Dell offers options all the way up to a Core i7 overclocked to 4GHz and dual 2GB Radeon 6970m GPUs. All models have the same 18.4-inch 1920x1080 screen.
Source:
http://respectedadmins.com/blog/alienware-m18x-is-now-shipping/
The Internet vigilante group Anonymous denied responsibility for a cyber-attack on Sony Corp's networks that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million video gamers.
"Let's be clear, we are legion, but it wasn't us.
You are incompetent Sony," the group Anonymous said on its Blog (anonops.blogspot.com) Thursday.
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42919262/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/anonymous-sony-it-wasnt-us/
The unsung computers that put the first American into space
Source:
http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/the-unsung-comp.php
Italians are the least active Europeans users of the Internet according to new data released by ComScore, Italians spend the least amount of time online compared to members of most other European countries.
Source:
http://www.popjolly.com/siesta-bunga-bunga-–-why-are-italians-the-least-active-online-2526
Lucasfilm & others are the target of a lawsuit that claims the companies conspired "to fix & suppress the compensation of their employees."
Source:
http://mashable.com/2011/05/05/class-action-no-solicitation/
When the Kinect first launched last November, gamers were a bit skeptical.
Here was a device with incredible technological potential, and the most impressive game that came out with it was a dance simulator. But first, why do we need middleware? Early Kinect hacks relied entirely on rough-around-the-edges drivers that could extract the raw images and depth maps captured by the Kinect sensor. People were able to make some cool hacks using those data streams, but you had to be familiar with image-processing programming in order to do much of anything. OpenNI, from PrimeSense , is middleware that allows developers easier, more abstracted access to sensor data, without having to do the low-level stuff themselves. It's hardware-agnostic, so OpenNI software will...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/how-to-hack-your-kinect/
The day where you dont have to plug your iPhone, iPad or iPod into your computer to update its operating system might be close at hand.
Theres a report that iOS 5 will be capable of over-the-air updates.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are being used by the U.S. intelligence community to spy on users.
For a very long time, technology industry's future has been determined by the capabilities of tech's building blocks - chips, memory, storage and networks.
With the emergence of social and mobile, it seems technology's future will be defined by we the people.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/05/03/will-we-define-or-limit-the-future/
Compatible with all Microsoft products and third party applications, RegCure seeks out those remnants left behind on your registry from failed installations, incomplete un-installations, disabled...Read more below:http://respectedadmins.com/reviews/regcure-review/
Every time I receive a call, my cell carrier takes note of the incoming telephone number, the time, date and duration of the conversation, and---because the call is sent through a network of cell towers---my location. As it turns out, I'm also carrying the right kind of smart phone, which means my device itself jots down my spot on the earth, as well.
On top of that, not all cell phone data is created equal. Text messages newer than 180 days? Probable cause and a warrant. Text messages older than 180 days? Relevant and material for an order. What's the difference, you ask? Well, this new fangled cell phone business doesn't come bundled with an updated set of standards, so the government has been forcing twenty first century technologies into a decades-old framework. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986-the year of IBM's first laptop computer-is one of these. Long long ago, checking your email meant that you had to download it. Leaving...
Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing the takeover of the much popular Skype, in a deal that might cost Facebook close to $4 billion.
Source:
http://www.devicemag.com/2011/05/05/facebook-buying-out-skype-4-billion-deal-being-talked-about/
Chatroulette is plotting another comeback!
Source:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/chatroulette-parts-with-private-parts-looking-for-a-new-look/
Just over a month ago, American Airlines said it was installing Wi-Fi to its entire domestic fleet.
Now, they're going to allow streaming video to be played
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http://www.techi.com/2011/05/american-airlines-to-stream-video-to-personal-devices/
Weve have long opposed these and similar efforts to misuse copyright to stifle speech.
And were very glad that a new site, called Doctored Reviews, is explaining in detail why the business model promoted by Medical Justice is bad for patients, bad for doctors, bad for review sites � and especially bad for online free speech. As Doctored Reviews points out:
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/medical-justice-stifling-speech-patients-touch
According to Albert Einstein the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Adult media company Perfect 10 see it rather differently. Having sued Google, RapidShare, Microsoft, MegaUpload, Mastercard and Visa without success thus far, they now have Usenet service provider Giganews in their crosshairs.
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http://torrentfreak.com/never-give-up-perfect-10-sues-giganews-usenet-service-110503/
Gaming PCs today have gotten pretty high-tech.
If you order a custom machine from a boutique PC vendor, you can expect the works: custom cases, water cooling, massive overclocks and a handfull of enormous video cards, to boot. But it wasn't always that way--once upon a time a gaming computer was just a beige box like any other PC, complete with 72 lb CRT monitor and a stock cooler.We got to wondering about when exactly boutique gaming PCs became an excercise in excess, so we did a little research. We've compiled scans of Maximum PC system reviews for the last 13 years, sampled once every 6 months, and put together a gallery. Hit the jump to see how gaming PC's have evolved since 1998, and watch all the bells and whistles appear one by one.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/32-key-stages-in-the-evolution-of-the-gaming-pc/
Researchers from Intego have intercepted a new scareware sample targeting the MAC OS X.
Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/new-mac-os-x-scareware-delivered-through-blackhat-seo/8614
Samsung's Galaxy S II handset has reportedly reached sales numbers exceeding 120,000 in just three days of availability, industry sources have told Yonhap News Agency. Although the numbers appear to be easily eclipsed by initial sales from other high-end smartphones, such as the iPhone 4, the Galaxy S II report is limited to three carriers in South Korea.......
This guy goes onto one of his buddys facebook page, downloads his pictures, photoshops his face ever so slightly, re-uploads and tags them, and hilarity ensues.
Source:
http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/trolling-your-friends-on-facebook-done-right/
There is no doubt that we are in the middle of an unprecedented epoch that marks the very zenith of our electronic technological progress.
Today's tale of robots is a double feature.
That is right, we are going to look at not one, but two of the bots who are making our lives not only more interesting, but safer.
Source:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-robots-dirty-video.html
We heard yesterday that Sunday nights announcement of Osama Bin Ladens death drew the highest sustained rate of tweets ever according to Twitter and Google has revealed an impressive stat showing the impact of the event on Google search.
Google says that between 7:30 and 8:30 pm PST (which was right around the time the news broke over Twitter), Google saw an one million percent increase in searches for the term 'bin laden.'
Wait, wait, we know.
Don't freak out yet. In order to show off some cool new mobile features integrated into Photoshop, Gordon�had�to use an iPad during a video shoot. The app wasn't available for Android yet. He was visibly distraught throughout the experience, which we think you can see in this photo.�So, for the sake of brevity, we've decided to let you guys caption this picture. We'll read through all the captions on Monday, and the five funniest will get Maximum PC coins or t-shirts .�...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/photo-awesome-29-gordon-mah-ung-uses-an-ipad/
We set out to build a Sandy Bridge box that takes up little space in our entertainment center and fulfills all our streaming needs
We decided to subject our petite 3D HPTC to the same tests we've been running on HTPC-class machines for the past year. The tests aren't always apples-to-apples comparisons, as the amount of RAM varies and the storage subsystems are different, but they give a good feel for what kind of performance to expect from a given processor/graphics combination. The AMD Phenom X4 quad core in the Mvix Minix 890GX represents well in the multithreaded tests but it isn't as far in front of the Core i3-2100T as we would have expected. The mobile GeForce GT 425M in Asrock's...
Observations that the white iPhone 4 was thicker than the black model were given an unusual challenge on Sunday by Apple's VP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller. In a direct message to Ernesto Barron, he insisted that the white model was the same size despite hands-on tests. "Don't believe all the junk you read," Schiller said.......
Google really likes to spend money on clean energy projects.
But $40 million on Windmills?
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-weird-uses-of-money-2011-5#google-blew-40-million-on-windmills-1#ixzz1LCdlurJz
The stream of smartphone-related patent lawsuits -- more than 40 since the start of 2010 -- could be a sign of a healthy market, or a deterrent to innovation.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216223/Smartphone_patent_fight_World_War_III_
NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer��a $1.5 billion cosmic ray detector��will blast off with Friday's Endeavour shuttle launch.
Last year anti-piracy company AiPlex Software hit the headlines after their threats to DDoS torrent sites led to them being DDoSd back by Anonymous.
Now another pair of companies from India are tackling piracy in their own inimitable styles, one by delivering preemptive warnings to the FBI and dozens of torrent sites and another by hijacking file-sharers webcams � and photographing them in the act.
Source:
http://torrentfreak.com/crazy-warnings-and-hacking-webcams-anti-piracy-indian-style-110501/
