"Wielding the threat of criminal sanctions to punish the pointed, online criticism of public figures is not only bad policy, it is unconstitutional," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "While true threats can and should be opposed, public speech about prominent people must be vigorously protected."
According to the most recent data from market research guru Nielsen, Google's mighty Android platform stands tallest in the U.S. smartphone space with a majority 39 percent share.
That leaves Apple in an almost distant second place with 28 percent, and RIM clinging to relevance with a 20 percent stake. Credit Android's success to Google's...
A few weeks in, the honeymoon period is over for Google+ and it seems like some people are already losing interest.
Yes, the backlash has already begun. But is Google+ going to fail? In a word: No+.
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http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/7/29/five-reasons-google-won-t-die--2
Have you ever wanted to share terabytes of data in public, or just a few gigabytes with a select group of friends? With Diglo you can, totally free.
The site is a mashup between a social network, a file-hosting site and a media search engine, allowing its users to share, search and download files all in one place.
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http://torrentfreak.com/diglo-social-networking-for-avid-file-sharers-110729/
The Kyocera Echo looks like it might be in line for an update to Android 2.3 on August 1. Update 2.002SP is expected to land next Monday and move device from 2.2 to the latest build of Android for mobile phones. The update will also bring some Kyocera Echo specific treats including Swype 3.0.......
Insider sources on Thursday narrowed the launch of all Windows Phone 7 Mango devices, not just Toshiba-Fujitsu's IS12T, to September. Acer, HTC, Huawei, LG, Samsung, and ZTE are all expected by Digitimes contacts to unveil their phones at the same time. Only Nokia's first phone, likely the Sea Ray, would show later, at Nokia World in October.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=b5bbe2ff3d9702d7eb17f61208d10fe4
The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do.
Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week.
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http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/byte-the-app-must-see-apps-of-the-week-728
What happens when you delete your recycle bin (pic)
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http://uberhumor.com/what-happens-when-you-delete-your-recycle-bin/
We're beginning to see alleged images of the upcoming iPhone 5, along with clear shots of what's being called a cheaper iPhone 4S.
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http://mashable.com/2011/07/29/iphone-5-and-iphone-4s-pics/
Just a quick update to let you know that Hardware Revolution now has its own dedicated Twitter account...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/follow-hardwarerevo-hardware-revolutions-dedi
It is getting clearer that Apple want to wave goodbye to DVDs and optical drives.
The recent announcement of the Mac Mini computers last week saw them join forces with the MacBook Air models which are 100% DVD free. Read more.
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http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/are-apple-saying-goodbye-to-dvds
If you thought Startup Weekend was a hackathon, you'd be about half right.
According to a recent report, the event's focus has shifted from executing clever tech tricks to solving problems in a community. It's an exercise in practical entrepreneurship rather than pure coding.
The creation, transfer, and storage of global data has exploded in the Digital Age.
That means opportunity for innovators who can deliver more data for less.
Amazon's decision to cut costs on its tablet might include the sophistication of the touchscreen. An off-hand industry mention suggested the Android tablet would be using just two-finger multi-touch, not the 10-finger touch of devices like the iPad 2 and other more advanced models. Who the supplier was and the cost of the panel were left out by Digitimes' sources.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/amazon-may-skimp-by-using-two-finger-touch-on
About a month ago, talk began to surface that Twitter would soon begin to roll out ads (that is, their Promoted Tweets) in user timelines.
The truth is that they've been talking about this possibility for a while. And they've even tested it with third party partners like Hootsuite. But today comes the true test. Twitter will start placing them on Twitter.com.
To be clear, the sponsored Tweets will only appear in your timeline if you already foll
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/28/promoted-tweets-in-stream/
The Motorola Triumph is off to a rough start.
A flickering screen issue, while annoying, isnt all that bad when compared with what new Triumph owners are complaining about now: Apparently the handset's 5-megapixel autofocus camera forgot how to autofocus.
A new Apple ad tries to make case.
Is the iPad really as revolutionary a product as the company suggests? Or is this just a bit of good marketing? Or both?
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http://ocunwired.ocregister.com/2011/07/27/has-apple-changed-the-way-we-live/9935/
The reason why I stopped pirating...
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http://i.imgur.com/iSVRl.png
An alleged plastic iPhone 4 has popped up with what its finders say are plastic panels on the front and back, as well as a speedier processor.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20084950-248/white-plastic-iphone-4-pops-up-possibly-4s-model/
Once in a lifetime events don't happen very often -- you could even say they happen once in a lifetime. When one of them sneaks up and bites us in the butt, it tends to be something that sticks with the group consciousness; think the moon landing, Princess Diana's death or the first time you played Doom. Another milestone event landed in our laps last night, though no one but the staunchest of geeks probably noticed it. Yes, the Linux 3.0 kernel is here.
Don't pick it up looking for the next big thing, though. When Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 3.0 RC1 a couple of months ago, he said the name change was more for laffs and a milestone effect in celebration of Linux's 20th anniversary. He stayed true to his word; the new changes are mostly tweaks and technical details, like improving the Btrfs filing system, introducing a new implementation of the Berkeley Packet Filter and allowing Xen hypervisor Dom0 priveleges. No KDE-4 here.
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http://techtime.posterous.com/linus-torvalds-releases-linux-30-kernel
Chances are that one out of four of you went to YouTube or Vimeo yesterday.
That's one of the results of a new study published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which also reveals that parents like YouTube even more than people without offspring.
I already spend too much time on Facebook and Twitter, so the thought that Google+ will become another essential social medium scares me, says columnist Jon Friedman.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-scares-me-2011-07-27
It is already known that Apple will be utilizing Nuance's voice-recognition technology in the Siri-based �Assistant� feature. However, thus far little has been known about how Apple may integrate Nuance�s technology deeper into iOS to combat Android. A code string , however, may contain some clues. Some detective work by 9to5Mac seems to have shed more light on how Apple may plan to integrate Nuance Dictation as a system-wide speech-to-text feature in iOS 5.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=a1c3cfff8b7ed91f71950c65099a6b24
Contextual triggers, like boredom, spur users to check their phones more often.
The first smartphone based on the new "Mango" edition of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform was unveiled on Wednesday in Tokyo.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/236637/first_windows_mango_phone_unveiled.html
Apple is working on a 15" ultra-thin Mac notebook, MacRumors has learned. We aren't certain if it will be called a MacBook Air or MacBook...
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http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/26/apple-finishing-up-work-on-an-ultra-thin-15-notebook/
According to Ongo, a curated news service, more than half of Americans go online for news once or twice per day, and nearly one-third check for news three or more times.
As we've reported, online news consumption reached a major milestone this year, surpassing newspapers as a preferred news source for the first time.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_more_than_half_of_americans_go_online_for_n.php
Motorola gave Atrix 4G owners a treat at the end of the week by posting its Android 2.3 update. The update brings both the performance, polish, and interface updates of 2.3 itself as well as updates to Motorola's custom tweaks, including ones that haven't shown on other Motorola Android 2.3 revisions. Among the surprises is an upgrade to 1080p movie playback that helps it compete even with newer phones.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=1e1e455b6537d18b1720db0dbb75ae9f
Here are some videos of Battlefield 3�s classes and weapon customization including a whole bunch of in game footage.
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http://gamingbolt.com/battlefield-3-beta-customization-and-gameplay-videos-alpha-build
The FDA has just approved the Viberect, a gadget designed to overcome erectile dysfunction issues without the need for popping pills.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20083677-1/viberect-offers-vibrating-alternative-to-viagra/
While cellphones might be the go-to photographic device for many people these days, Many of us choose to stick with a mission-specific device to capture the moments of our lives. Whether it's a fancy DSLR that cost us more than our first car or a trusty point-and-shoot that simply gets the job done, the investment of time and money that a photographer outs into their camera is substantial enough that seeing it lost or stolen is unthinkable. Should such a crisis ever arise, you can curse the gods of photography for not equipping your shooter with GPS transmitter, or you
Stolen Camera Finder is a site dedicated to--you guessed it--locating stolen cameras. Users are invited to drag and drop a photo taken with their missing camera to the website's interface. Once the image has been uploaded, Stolen Camera Finder will attempt to read the camera serial number information stored in the photograph, matching it against the serial numbers of images found elsewhere online. If you're lucky, a serial number match may lead back to user name or image service account, giving you some vital information to feed to the authorities for investigation.�...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/cool-site-of-the-week-stolen-camera-finder
Google Inc.
General Counsel Kent Walker said the smartphone industry is in an arms race for patents that is hurting consumers and leaving the company to sort through the mess� of litigation.
Here's an interesting tidbit from the Google+ stats trackers: Three quarters (or more) of Google+ users are male.
Boeing is working on a new flat plane that would be able to take off and land vertically using dozens of new pulse jets they call Pulse-Ejector-Thrust-Augmentors.
Of course, these things were originally created by Nazis.
Apple retail guru Ron Johnson may be on the way out, but Apple's retail efforts are as aggressive as they've ever been.
Apple plans to open up the biggest Apple Store in the world in New York City's Grand Central Terminal
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/apple-open-mammoth-23000-square-foot-retail-s
In their ongoing battle with file-hosting service Hotfile, five MPAA studios have asked the court to disallow Hotfile access to information on their anti-piracy strategies.
While drawing an analogy between copyright infringement and drug trafficking, the MPAA studios ask the court to handle their anti-piracy documents as trade secrets to prevent pirates from getting even more sophisticated than they already are.
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http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-afraid-to-disclose-secret-anti-piracy-strategies-110725/
The keyboard requires calibration in the form of various exercises.
The system then senses various variables like finger skin touch area, finger size data and finger position.� It then creates a unique keyboard based on a set of averages.�
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/25/ibm-on-screen-keyboard-matches-your-hand-anatomy/
A leaked image is claimed to show the sensor and mount for an unannounced Nikon camera, referred to as the "X810." Details surrounding the image are slim, however the camera does appear to utilize a relatively small sensor. The picture, which was posted on the Chinese forum Xitek, reportedly represents a prototype camera....
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An Anonymous and AntiSec affiliated hacker has released an alleged 8 gigabytes of data from Italy's CNAIPIC cyber defense police squad.
The dump holds data on defense, corporate, and intelligence agencies from around the world.
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http://gizmodo.com/5824384/anonymous-strikes-back-at-italian-cops-with-8-gigabyte-leak
A number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with real name policy.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/google-plus-deleting-accounts-en-masse-no-clear-answers/567
Read 'China officials find 5 fake Apple stores in 1 city' on Yahoo! News.
Chinese officials have found five fake Apple stores in the southwestern city of Kunming, and ordered two of them to suspend business while they're investigated, a local government website said Monday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/china-officials-5-fake-apple-stores-1-city-033516904.html
Samsung has unveiled a new portable netbook for the Indian market, NotebookItalia found. The 10.1-inch N100 weighs just under 2.3lbs and has a white DuraCase finish that is resistant to scratches and marks. Its 250GB hard drive is preloaded with the Linux-based MeeGo OS, an open-source project originally fostered by Intel and Nokia -- though other companies have since added to its development....
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Apple is working on a fully-integrated voice control feature called Assistant in iOS 5, according to a leaked screenshot uncovered by 9 to 5 Mac.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-5-siri-voice-control-2011-7
Whether you prefer free streaming at your computer, paid streaming on the go, or the ability to host your own music in the cloud, there are more streaming music services coming online now than ever before.
Here's a look at five of the most popular ones.
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http://lifehacker.com/5824193/five-best-streaming-music-services
In the latest development in the first individual file-sharing case to go to trial (three times now!), Judge Michael Davis today reduced a $1.5 million damage award against the defendant Jammie Thomas-Rassett to just $54,000. Though he said he was r...
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/judge-slashes-p2p-award-again-capitol-v-thomas
Some think Google+'s type-all-you-want comment entry field is the way to go for our favorite micro-blogging service.
I disagree.
Read 'Google & Facebook Set Company Records for Lobbyist Spending' on Yahoo! News.
Google and Facebook both spent more money on lobbyists this quarter than they ever have before, according to disclosure documents filed Wednesday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/google-facebook-set-company-records-lobbyist-spending-175837556.html
AT&T Inc. spent $4.9 million in the second quarter to lobby the federal government on its proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA from Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG and other issues, according to a quarterly disclosure report.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9OKLP2G0.htm
Samsung's Series 3 notebook has quietly shipped out to the US. The core system, the 15.6-inch 300V5A-A03, has turned up at Amazon for about $591. It serves as the baseline with a 2.1GHz Core i3, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive.......
Apple has already reached a deal for its Grand Central Terminal store. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to the NY Post that Apple will have the location for 10 years and is refurbishing the space. Apple will start paying rent of $800,000 per year, or almost three times the $300,000 a year of the outgoing Metrazur restaurant....
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Did you know you can rate pages on Wikipedia now? It's new.
And it's meant to get you involved, with the ultimate goal of increasing the site's accuracy, diversity and completeness.
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http://gizmodo.com/5823523/ratings-will-ruin-wikipedia
The porn -- um, "privacy" -- modes in modern browsers do a great job of letting workers browse Facebook under the noses of employers with strict Web policies, but privacy modes don't do squat when a heavy-handed regime blocks access to specific websites. Freedom-loving webizens in freedom-hating countries have long turned to TOR as their onion-routing proxy of choice to get around governmental roadblocks, but researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new system that could help Iranians and other censored Web users access "immoral" websites like Twitter and CNN.
Of course, the Telex tag couldn't be obvious or those dastardly dictators would just block all communications that contained the rerouting command. The researchers got around that by exploiting the nature of TLS handshakes that are used to transfer encrypted traffic across the Web. If you indicate that you want a Telex redirection, Telex's public key creates a steganographic tag for the traffic and inserts it into the TLS handshake's "nonce," which is normally a random string. To throw off would-be censors, the Telex tag also appears random, but the code would be recognized by the Telex servers.
Apple said today that customers had downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade's first day of availability.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218585/Apple_touts_1M_Lion_downloads_on_Day_1
The Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (Thunderbolt) is a formidable player in the ultraportable space, thanks to a Core i5 processor, the return of the backlit keyboard, and the addition of a Thunderbolt port.
Just how big is mobile game phenomenon "Angry Birds"?
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/07/21/angry.birds.billion/index.html
In the wake of Tuesday's arrest of Internet activist Aaron Swartz for excessive JSTOR downloads, one of his supporters has released thousands of academic papers onto peer-to-peer networks, telling Ars it's worth it if it means "one less dollar spent in the war against knowledge."
The global organization is investigating claims posted on Twitter that the hacktivist group breached NATO security and has accessed confidential documents.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20081405-83/anonymous-claims-to-have-breached-nato-security/
I've seen some pretty convincing knockoffs in my time.
Lithuanian flea-market tables with immaculately duplicated illicit versions of Microsoft and Norton products. Metro kiosks off Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg with jewel-cased, color-labeled computer games still technically in beta. I've flipped through stacks of fake DVDs, cheap dupes of sneakers and tubes of toothpaste. But [...]
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http://techland.time.com/2011/07/20/fake-apple-store-spotted-in-china/
Apple has been barely able to keep up with demand for its iPad 2 tablet -- exactly the kind of difficulty every manufacturer dreams up. "We sold every iPad we could make," chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer said during Apple's fiscal Q3 earnings call Tuesday.
The company has around 1.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/19/apple-ipad-sales-demand/
Every computer needs antivirus protection, period.
If cost is an issue, try one of these nine free AV apps.
Google announced on Tuesday that it has added support for 3D buildings in 13 additional cities on Google Maps, including London, Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Singapore, Lisbon, Boulder, and 11 cities in South Africa.
A Swedish audio firm, Procella, has turned to an Italian manufacturer to create their latest subwoofer aimed at large home cinemas, commercial cinemas and larger rooms , the re-designed P15. The active subwoofer features dual 15-inch drivers individually powered by 350-watt amplifiers and 28bit/56 bit ADI Sigma DSP controls, for a frequency response well below 20Hz and a maximum output of 127 decibels at 50Hz....
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You use Linux every day but you don't know it.
It's such a fundamental part of our lives.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/linux-based-devices-2011-7
A 15 year-old from Sweden is facing prosecution after sharing movies online.
The boy was tracked on file-sharing networks by so-far unnamed international� film companies. While his alleged actions are clearly illegal, this kind of legal action against a teenager makes little sense and is a PR failure ready to happen.
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http://torrentfreak.com/15-year-old-boy-faces-file-sharing-prosecution-110720/
Back and forth it goes, like the worlds slowest game of tennis.
One study spends 6 months proving that cell phones turn you into a giant walking tumor, and another pops up showing that cell phones cause nothing but an increased need to tell people what youre doing.
After months of watching helplessly while Anonymous and LulzSec pulled down our virtual pants and stuck their tongue out at Internet users worldwide, several members of the two groups are now being taught a crucial lesson: nobody likes a smartass. We reported yesterday that the FBI raided the homes of 3 suspected Anons in New York, but it turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. Authorities in the US and UK say they've slapped the cuffs of 15 alleged Anon affiliates and one person possibly associated with LulzSec. Oh, and one more guy.
One more person was corralled during the roundup: Scott Matthew Arciszewski of San Jose, California, allegedly accessed the servers of Tampa Bay InfraGard, a company associated with the FBI, then uploaded three files onto the company's system. "Arciszewski then tweeted about the intrusion and directed visitors to a separate website containing links with instructions on how to exploit the Tampa InfraGard website," the DoJ says. You may remember that LulzSec took a swipe at InfraGard back in June, but Arciszewki accessed InfraGard two weeks after the other intrusion. *Cough* Moron *Cough*...
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/anonymous_no_more_us_and_uk_crack_down_15_alleged_members
Looking back on his decade as Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said the company should have focused more on connecting people -- a hole that allowed the emergence of rival internet giant Facebook.
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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/07/20/google.chairman.interview/index.html
An American living in Kunming, the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China, came across this fake Apple shop.
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http://www.geekfill.com/2011/07/20/an-entire-fake-apple-shop-found-in-china-pics/
What I want to know is how is this sustainable for Spotify? The Swedish developers have stressed that keeping the program free, or somewhat free, is crucial�bully for them, but who will be compensated and how? Spotify makes its money through ads and premium accounts, but how far can five dollars a month go? The developers will do fine, but what about the artists? Record labels? They hardly get any money under iTunes, and Apple sells records for
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http://www.splicetoday.com/digital/spotify-and-our-degraded-music-culture
As Apple limbers up for the unveiling of the next generation iPhone, some are asking if it has become too reliant on just one product.
Netflix has been facing has been facing a ton of consumer backlash over its recently announced price hikes, and while the company has been fairly tight lipped when it comes to explaining why it was necessary, the Associated Press claims to have the answer. According to sources close to Netflix, the company simply underestimated how long it would take to convert customers over to a streaming only future, and was stuck with a business model that simply couldn't keep up with their long term goals.
This starts to make sense when you consider that Netflix dropped over $406 million into streaming rights for its online library last year, and these fees are expect to climb to over $1.4 billion next year. With such a massive investment required to continue building up its online catalogue, you can start to appreciate why it might want to split off the two business units when the cost of handling physical media continues to rise as well.
Apple landed a crucial blow in its patent fight with HTC Friday when the ITC found that HTC had violated two Apple patents.
The ruling on Apple's original complaint would block the import of infringing devices and would force it to take those devices off the market in the US. Most of those devices in the original dispute included older Android hardware like the Nexus One but also some Windows Mobile-era hardware.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/itc-finds-htc-to-be-violating-two-apple-patents/
What do you do when your hobby is building computers, and you have a keen desire to build a highly energy efficient computer that can be utilized by supercomputers for computations for medical research? Oh, and you have a ton of Legos laying around? Well, for one computer geek, that created a perfect opportunity for making an energy efficient, but incredibly powerful PC out of, yes, Legos.
Here, we have gathered a list of useful instant messaging clients which every Linux users should try.
As anyone who has ever used a Windows based computer for any length of time knows, the longer you have it, the slower it goes; this is because of the accumulation of data files and entries in system logs; information that in many cases isn�t really necessary.
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-scientists-treatment.html
The new PADD app brings the sights and sounds of the Enterprise onto Apple's tablet, along with a wealth of information about Gene Roddenberry's seminal sci-fi franchise.
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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/star-trek-padd-ipad/
Microsoft's Imagine Cup account on Twitter inadvertently gave away timing for the first Windows Phone 7 Mango devices through a Twitter post .
The company promised that the finalists in the student competition would all get "Windows Phone 7.5 Mango." Every winning student would get a phone with the new OS "by September."......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/microsft-slips-windows-phone-mango-ready-by-september/
Boriss, a Firefox dev, went to the mall to find test subjects to help improve the browser.
He expected to meet people with a range of tech savvy, but he was't expecting a man who'd never before touched a mouse. Boriss stumbled upon Joe, a 60-year-old cafeteria employee, in the food court:
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http://gizmodo.com/5822143/a-man-whos-never-used-a-computer-in-his-life-tries-internet-explorer
HTC recently bought S3 Graphics, a graphics company, and S3 Graphics recently won an infringement suit where Apple was found guilty. S3 also owns patents for systems and methods for compressing images� and image data formats.�
According to results from a new ChangeWave survey released on Monday, 48% of those looking to buy a new smartphone during the next 90 days plan on buying an iPhone.
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http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/18/48-of-smartphone-buyers-want-iphone-next-survey-says/
The DoD cyberspace strategy calls for five strategic initiatives to sustain "good cyber hygiene," but also maintains a destructive cyberattack could be considered an "act of war." While it also further empowers the NSA, will even the super secret spy agency be able to plug all the holes in DoD?
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cyberwar-strategy-will-dual-hatted-nsa-plug-h
How Ethernet Went From 3 Mbps to 100 Gbps � and Beyond
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/speed-matters/
An organization which claims to protect the rights of Indie labels across 25 different countries is squeezing what is left of LimeWire for millions of dollars.
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http://torrentfreak.com/indie-labels-lose-patience-and-sue-limewire-for-millions-110717/
Growth in US software patent lawsuits means independent developers are turning away from it as a place to do business - as Indian software company sends warning to tech giants
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/appsblog/2011/jul/15/app-developers-withdraw-us-patents
Yesterday in Righthaven v.
Democratic Underground a federal court in Las Vegas ordered the notorious copyright troll Righthaven to pay $5,000 in sanctions and to file the court transcript containing its admonishment in hundreds of other copyright cas...
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/righthaven-order-pay-5-000-sanctions-its
The US Army is near finishing a largely successful test of smartphones on the battlefield. In an interview this week, project director Michael McCarthy told CNN the six-week trials in Fort Bliss, Texas and White Sands, New Mexico were 'encouraging' in gauging the effectiveness of Android, iPhone, and Windows Phone hardware for communicating information in the field. They had also been testing iPads as well as unspecified Dell and HP tablets....Presented By:Get Ready for Tomorrow Today with Cisco��The way the world consumes and shares data will dramatically change in the next five years. Is your network ready to...
Synology has added a network-attached-storage unit to their lineup, aimed specifically at photographers, pro video and other creative professionals with large storage needs.
The 12-bay Disk Station 2411+ can hold up to 36TB of storage and is compatible with an expansion module that offers another 12 bays for a total of 24 drives or 72TB of storage capacity. The unit offers up to 165MB per second write speeds and up to 195MB per second reading.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/synology-launches-12-bay-nas-unit-aimed-at-photographers/
The 200 millionth Tweep has signed up for a Twitter account, and this infographic traces the history of the microblogging platform leading up to that mind-boggling number.
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http://mashable.com/2011/07/16/twitter-accounts-200-million/
Its been some time since we heard about Motorolas high end Android phone, the Motorola Atrix 4G.
Now we caught news that Motorola is looking for beta testers to test the Gingerbread build. The company had sent links to a survey and was on the lookout for 1,000 beta testers.
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http://www.devicemag.com/2011/07/16/motorola-atrix-4g-to-begin-beta-testing/
Onkyo has announced that its 2011 lineup of network-attached AV receivers will support Spotify's music streaming service.
The feature is already available for the TX-NR609 via a firmware update. Other receivers in the series will eventually receive similar updates to expand the range of supported music-streaming services.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/onkyo-network-av-receivers-to-support-spotify-streaming/
If you're not feeling those faux Latin phrases, we've got 10 alternatives that are guaranteed to boost the fun factor on your place holding text.
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http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/lorem-ipsum-generators/
Cowon is now offering owners of the D3 Plenue multimedia player the option of upgrading it to Android 2.3, up from the Android 2.1 OS it began shipping with. Other than improving system stability, the free upgrade brings with it new features, including a music sleep timer, plug-in code support, a search widget and VoIP. The performance is also said to be faster and more responsive.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/cowon-d3-gets-long-awaited-upgrade-to-android
We're all human, you know? That's roughly the trick that the hackers most likely relied on when, earlier this year, they managed to steal over 24,000 files from a defense contractor. ..
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1767327/breach-of-the-week-how-the-pentagon-hack-was-done
If there's one thing everyone dreads, it's rebooting their computer.
It may only take a minute or two, but it can seem like forever. Here are our top 10 tweaks that'll make your computer boot a little faster.
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http://lifehacker.com/5821865/top-10-ways-to-speed-up-windows-boot-time
As of 2008, there were more devices connected to the Internet than there were people on the planet.
And there are soon going to be a lot more. How many? Networking giant Cisco Systems would like you to know that, well, let's just say it's a lot and leave it at that.
Google Plus is looking like more of a hit with each passing day. Independent analysis by Ancestry.com's Paul Allen indicates that Google's new social network has already passed 10 million users, and it is estimated to pass 20 million by next weekend.�
20 million users would be a real accomplishment, but that's nothing compared to Facebook's 750 million worldwide users. By adding hints of Google+ throughout the Google ecosystem, the search giant is hoping to hook users and encourage them to invite their friends. It is worth noting that Google+ only just opened up to any and all users. Is this just the beginning for Google+, or is it going to peak soon?...
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/google_passes_10_million_users_could_hit_20_million_weekend
Last week marked the final official mission of the Space Shuttle.
It's over: No more manned space missions on the agenda. As of now, America is pursuing a "flexible path" space-flight program, which essentially means we have nothing.
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http://www.cracked.com/blog/7-awesome-images-that-will-make-you-mourn-space-shuttle/
Samsung has announced that its foundry division has successfully fabricated its first ARM-based chip using a 20nm process and High-K Metal Gate technology.
The chip maker was working with several partners to validate a new design infrastructure for building 20nm system-on-chip components. Details are includes in a process design kit, which is geared for customers designing chips using such technology.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/samsung-fabricates-first-20nm-arm-based-chip/
With the US launch of Spotify, many are experiencing the music service for the first time.
As such, we'd like to give a run-down of the feature for those who aren't familiar with it from Europe.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/14/spotify.premium.gets.our.test.in.the.us/
There is only so much a corporation or individual can do in response to online defamation.
While many sites such as Yelp! appear to encourage honesty, many people are interpreting the CDA as a safety net for website owners and Internet service providers.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/do-you-care-what-people-say-about-you-online-infographic-2011-7
Cloud storage provider Box.net is unveiling a new set of code libraries that will let app developers quickly embed company's storage and collaboration tools in their apps, the company announced today.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/14/box-net-app-libraries/
Google has just released their Q2 2011 numbers, and after a slightly-off Q1, it looks like Q2 is right back on track for the search giant.
They beat the number the Street was expecting across the board. The key one being revenue: Google earned $9.03 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2011 (a new record for quarterly revenue). The street had been expecting about $8.6 billion.
The revenue numbers were up 32 percent over the year-ago period. As
At first glance this image appears to show how light pollution blights Manhattan.
But this is no satellite photo from space. Instead, it is a map that reveals how keen New Yorkers are on social networking.
Created by Eric Fischer, the map combines data from the photo-sharing website Flickr and the micro-messaging network Twitter, which is notoriously favoured by celebrities.
You don't care or don't have time to read reviews and you just want to know which video cards are the best? This article is for you ;)...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/the-best-video-cards-for-your-money-july-2011/
The 21st century has seen China set a new standard for engineering innovation.
From bullet trains to jaw-dropping architectural achievements, here is a sampling of China's amazing engineering feats.
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http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/chineseengineeringfeats
Apple Inc's Korean unit has paid compensation to an iPhone user after collecting location data without consent, lawyers and court officials said, in the first such payout by the US company over these complaints.
According to the Wall Street Journal, police departments across the nation will soon adopt handheld facial-recognition systems that will let them identify people with a snapshot.
These new capabilities are made possible by BI 2 Technologies, a Massachusett
Dr Brooke Magnanti and Zoe Margolis both allege that The Sunday Times tried to lift information from their computers using 'trojan' viruses.
Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versions.
A symbolic break in an editorial Monday illustrated a possible backlash against Android.
Veteran PhoneDog author Taylor Martin gave up an HTC Thunderbolt for an iPhone 4 after using the Android phone for four months. The Thunderbolt had been "driving me crazy" for three of those months, he said, and it was "time for a break." Poor battery life couldn't be helped by software, Sense was "bug-ridden" and to blame for many issues, and especially a reduced app selection were to blame.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/tech-vet-trades-thunderbolt-for-iphone-driving-me-crazy/
The end of the internet comes not with a bang or a procession of four lolcats of the apocalypse, but just with two blinking lights on a modem.
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http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/seattle-comcast/
It is official; Electronic Arts has purchased PopCap Games for $750 million in cash and stock. You might not know PopCap by name, but they are responsible for making some of the most addictive casual games of the last few years. Their titles include Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle, and Bejeweled.�
PopCap was previously rumored to be investigating the possibility of an IPO for late this year, but EA apparently made them a juicier offer. PopCap hopes that EA's scale and deep pockets will help them get their games in front of more people. EA is gaining additional mobile gaming expertise as that sector continues to explode.�...
PopCap could net a total of $1.3 billion if it hits certain targets in the coming years.
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/12/technology/ea_popcap/index.htm
Adam Segal, one of the Council on Foreign Relations' top experts on China and technology, talks to Fast Company about what's special about Chinese cybercriminals, Chinese fears of NSA backdoors, and bored East Asian teenagers.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1766812/inside-the-chinese-way-of-hacking
The material that lets us record on DVDs has a far more tantalising property: it can mimic the nerve cells of the brain and the junctions between them
"My CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer."
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http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/11/british-researchers-design-a-million-chip-neural-network-1-100-a/
It was January 2010 when investigators with the International Atomic Energy Agency realized something was off at the uranium enrichment plant outside Natanz in central Iran.
Months earlier, someone had silently unleashed a sophisticated and destructive digital worm that had been slithering its way through computers in Iran � to sabotage the countrys uranium enrichment program and prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from building a nuclear
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge.A Reuters review of
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/12/us-facebook-idUSTRE76B49420110712
When you buy a product or invest in a service, it's reasonable to assume that you're going to get what you paid for.
Sadly, this doesn't always happen. Computers break down. Credit cards get stolen and baggage gets lost. Often. At stressful times like these, the last thing any of us wants to do is navigate the byzantine phone system of a multi-billion dollar corporation to get the assistance that we, as their devoted customers, deserve.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/cool-site-of-the-week-nophonetrees/
We found 20 projects on Kickstarter that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from thousands of people in a matter of days
Military email addresses, passwords, and some other data from military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton are exposed by the hacker group Anonymous.
Dell had, a few months back, hinted about their Windows 7 Tablet, which was scheduled for a Q3 release, as well as a Windows 8 tablet for the next year.
Now, we hear, the company has narrowed their fall release of the Windows 7 slate to October.
It has been over three months since we first broke the news on the existence of Disco, the group messaging app made by the Slide team within Google.
Google still refuses to talk about it. But work continues nonetheless.�Today brings version 3 of the app � and the app is starting to get really good.
Just a little over a month after Disco was updated to version 2.0 with Push Notifications, today's update brings a range of key new features. The
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/google-slide-disco-google-plus/
An inside source revealed this weekend that US federal antitrust officials were looking into possible anticompetitive practices from Nortel's patent selloff. The Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, or both are being asked to see if the "Rockstar" coalition formed by Apple, Microsoft, RIM, and others may have been unfairly trying to stifle Android. The Washington Post's associate didn't know who had prompted the investigation, although the American Antitrust Institute had called on one this week....
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Microsoft is planning a subscription video service that would go beyond the live Xbox TV it promised during its E3 keynote, insiders uncovered Friday.
The service mentioned to The Daily would be badged as a Zune service much like the existing pay-per-title store and compete with one of Microsoft's frequent partners, Netflix. The service would "most likely" not be locked to the Xbox and would show up on Windows Phone 7 and Windows PCs.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/microsoft-video-subscriptions-get-zune-label-go-past-xbox/
The crowded e-book market just squeezed room for one more contender as iriver has created an eInk reader that works with the Google Books store.
Priced at $139.99 and available from Target, the iriver Story HD can access 3 million free titles plus various paid content.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-books-iriver-story-hd-ebook-reader/
They're back! Anonymous AntiSec celebrated "Military Meltdown Monday" by "mangling" Booz Allen Hamilton and leaking 90,000 military email addresses.
The pwned defense contractor personnel included former NSA Director, former National Intelligence Director, and head of the CIA
Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have attempted to get their newly-founded religion accepted by the authorities.
The Church of Kopimism, which currently has close to 1,000 members, hope that official recognition of their values would make them immune from prosecution. However, the Swedish authorities have denied the request for the second time in succession.
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http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-denied-official-religion-status-in-sweden-110710/
No breaking announcements, policy updates, or major gaffes occurred during Wednesdays #AskObama Twitter Town Hall, but we wouldnt go as far as to call it a news-less� affair like The Washington Posts Chris Cillizza did.
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http://blogs.forbes.com/jessethomas/2011/07/08/who-didnt-participate-in-twitters-town-hall/
While canceled on broadcast TV, daytime soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live will continue to live on online.
Two-year old production company Prospect Park has struck a deal with ABC to license the shows and make them available for streaming on the web and on devices like connected TVs. But will TV audiences follow the soaps online?
AMD currently has two Llano desktop APUs on the market, with four more chips scheduled for release later this year.
A product roadmap recently discovered inside MSI marketing material has already shed light on three of the four upcoming chips. As for the fourth one, our friends over at Fudzilla now claim to have all the details.The APU in question is called E2-3200. It's a dual-core chip scheduled for release in the fourth quarter. According to the site, the E2-3200 has a clock speed of 2.4GHz, 1MB of L2 cache and a 65W TDP. It is said to feature an on-die Radeon HD 6370D graphics core with a 443MHz GPU clock and 160 stream processors.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/dual-core-e2-3200-llano-desktop-apu-detailed/
Samsung late Wednesday warned that its profit would drop 26 percent lower than it was a year ago. The company pinned the continued shortfalls on an ongoing slump in LCDs, where poor sales of TVs and Windows PCs was weighing the company down. Early success with the Galaxy S II might help offset the drop, Samsung said.......
In the last several weeks, a host of makers of Android devices have agreed to pay Microsoft fees for alleging using Microsoft patents when deploying Android on their devices.
Why is that happening? It appears that Microsoft may have found a way to legally game the patent system.
It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion's interface feels like a failure.
Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn't happen
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http://gizmodo.com/5819418/mac-os-x-lion-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-hoping-for
Motorola's Droid 3 hits the Verizon network and looks to be a worthy addition to the Droid line.
Google Talk for Honeycomb tablets are gaining video stabilization while the Google+ app is winner for Android users. A new Labs feature adds downloadable maps on Android smartphones.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/android-this-week-droid-3-launches-better-google-talk-google-plus-boosts/
Child pornography is great,� the man said enthusiastically.
Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public. Once we get them to filter child pornography, we can get them to extend the block to file sharing.�
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-lobby-absolutely-loves-child-pornography-110709/
Klas Strom, Nokias marketing manager for Nokia N9 has insisted on reassuring potential customers that the company will support MeeGo in the future.
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http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/nokia-will-support-meego-for-n9-for-the-future
Remember when thin and light laptops were underpowered machines incapable of all but the most basic of tasks? Neither do we, not since the deluge of ultraportables with Core i5/i7 guts and other modern amenities, like USB 3.0. Both of these technologies have been shoved into MSI's X460 and X460DX, the newest additions to the company's X-Slim Series of notebook computers.
The 14-inch X460 and X460DX measure less than an inch thick and weigh about 4.3 pounds. The systems come packed with an Intel Core i5 2410M or i7 2630QM processor, up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, 500GB/640GB/750GB hard drive, DVD burner, two USB 3.0 ports, a single USB 2.0 port, 4-in-1 memory card reader, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, GbE LAN, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI, VGA, and Windows 7.
YouTube is testing a gorgeous new redesign of its website called Cosmic Panda, which features an overhauled user interface, less white space and additional customization of YouTube channels.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/08/youtube-redesign-cosmic-panda/
Oh, Microsoft, why have you abandoned PC gamers? Don't get us wrong, Age of Empires Online looks awesome, but the company's almost complete lack of PC gaming news at this year's E3 left a bitter taste in our mouths, and Microsoft's been conspicuously silent on the PC front ever since -- until now.
Lower your heads and mourn, PC gamers. The continuously half-baked Games for Windows disappears on July 11th, swallowed by the all-consuming console-centric blob that is the Xbox brand.While many gamers might just shrug and go back to the free Team Fortress 2 action on Steam, ditching Games for Windows is sure to irritate PC fanatics who hate the encroaching tentacles of Xbox Live. On its end, Microsoft's Games for Windows website says "Games for Windows Marketplace will fully transition over to Xbox.com. Now you can get all of your gaming needs in one place. It's convenient, it's concentrated, and it's a whole lot of great games." We're all for convenience, but we can't help but wonder when Microsoft will stop trying to shoehorn PC gamers and console...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/games-for-windows-dead-consumed-by-xbox-com/
According to recent Cisco research, global Internet traffic will grow nearly four-fold from 2010 � 2015. However, that increase in traffic wont be dominated by one region.
How much will each region contribute to the worldwide traffic expansion?
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http://blogs.cisco.com/news/global-internet-expansion-who-will-lead-the-way/
Yes, pirates steal your bandwidth.
But today the RIAA, MPAA and all major U.S. Internet providers launched a new plan to curb piracy.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirates-steal-your-bandwidth-110707/
As first reported by CNET, some of the country's largest Internet service providers have agreed to step copyright enforcement on behalf of copyright owners.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20077492-261/top-isps-agree-to-become-copyright-cops/
If there was one thing Lulzsec was good at, it was making headlines: The shadowy hacker group entered the public consciousness with the spark of a lit match, only to extinguish back into obscurity as soon as its one-and-a-half-month-long stick ran out.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/hacktivist_history_rise_and_fall_notorious_lulzsec
Sprint is quitting its one-time hope of a completely unique iPhone rival and dropping webOS from its lineup, contacts revealed Friday night.
A reliable source for This is my next understood that the carrier was not only declining to carry the Pre3 but that HP doesn't have future hardware on the platform in the known schedule. It's not clear which side had quit the other.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/sprint-backing-away-from-pre3-webos-in-blow-to-hp/
For years BitTorrent sites have remained untouched by the RIAAs legal battles, but recent court filings indicate that this may change.
After settling their dispute with LimeWire earlier this year the RIAA is now targeting several BitTorrent indexers.
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-starts-going-after-bittorrent-sites-110708/
Download the latest official drivers for your PC, fix driver problems and keep them updated This is one of the highest ratings of all the...Source:http://respectedadmins.com/reviews/driver-smith-review/
That video artist whose software grabbed pictures of Apple Store computer users? He's been tracked down by Apple and raided by the Feds.
He had to see this coming.
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http://gawker.com/5819029/apple-sics-secret-service-on-spy-cam-artist
Apple on the verge of the Independence Day weekend asked a Northern District of California court for a preliminary ban on four of Samsung's most important Android devices in the US.
The injunction request is the result of a successful exploration and would have the court halt US sales of the Droid Charge, Galaxy S 4G, Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Infuse 4G until the lawsuit is resolved. Apple picked four alleged violations that it said needed the ban, three of which focused on "electronic device" designs and a fourth for list scrolling and manipulating documents on a touchs......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/apple-asks-for-early-ban-on-samsung-android-phones-tablets/
American ISPs, including AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, agreed today on a new scheme to help copyright owners crack down on infringement.
Get ready for "copyright alerts."
Research firm Gartner predicts we'll pay out 10% more on games this year than in 2010.
And spending is set to top $100bn in 2015!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2011/jul/06/gartner-global-game-spending
The long awaited partnership between Facebook and Skype finally became real.
However, someone at Skype was a tad over-eager to share the news and tweeted it out about minutes before Zuckerberg got on stage.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/07/06/did-skype-just-preannounce-facebook-deal/
Hacker group Anonymous said late Wednesday that its Antisec movement hacked and defaced Turkish government websites, in protest against new Internet filtering rules that come into force in the country in August.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/235184/anonymous_attacks_turkish_websites_again.html
It may be just days before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, but you can prep your Mac now to make the upgrade go and faster and more smoothly.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218158/How_to_prep_your_Mac_for_Lion
Click through to learn more about application acceleration, from Internap, an IT infrastructure services provider.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/slideshows/show.aspx?c=91034
Google is lawful good.
It will find anything for you, especially boobies.
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http://cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/012011/Website-alignment-chart.jpg
Mark Zuckerberg may be the most followed user on Google+, but good luck trying to find any of your Facebook friends on Googles new social service.
Facebook is making it difficult for anyone to import their friend contact information into Google+.
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http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/05/google-facebook-friends-yahoo/
Using the Internet for emails, web browsing, enjoying streamed content and playing games one of the most popular activities around the wired world, but its quite possible that not everyone is getting the best out of the experience.
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http://www.broadbandexpert.com/blog/advice/which-mobile-internet-device-is-for-you/
In case you're not a sports a fan, or at least not a fan of the NBA, here's the prerequisite information you need before reading ahead.
The NBA and the NBA Players Association failed to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement last week to replace the one that expired, and the NBA decided to lock out its players, forcing a work stoppage. What's interesting about this, and relevant from a technology perspective, is that webmasters had to remove all images and videos of NBA players from team websites, almost as if the players no longer exist.According to ESPN, depending on you interpret "fair use," teams could get in trouble just for mentioning a player's name on an NBA-owned website, though different teams interpret this stipulation differently. Plenty of other gray areas abound, such as social networking. Yahoo News is reporting that team owners who communicate with players using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter face a million dollar fine from the league, as well as potential loss of draft picks. The ban on Facebook extends beyond team owners and also includes coaches, managers, and front office personnel.
When you think about space exploration you assume our astronauts are on the cutting edge of technology right? Turns out this is only partially true, and modern space explorers have a number of challenges to deal with that have been solved here on earth. During an uncensored question and answer period in Edmonton, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield admitted to a young onlooker that the Internet is space is too slow for gaming, but that he finds plenty of other ways to fill his time.
Asking if astronauts play online games in space no doubt had the parents chuckling in a somewhat embarrassed fashion, but the fact that our modern space fleet has to make do with so little bandwidth is certainly an interesting bit of trivia. I wonder if the NASA marking team calls it 4G and caps them at 5GB?�...
Ding! Ding! Ding ding ding! We've come a long way since the early days of America Online, a time when instant messaging was but a one-ISP fad and that unnatural blast of noise from your sound card was the run-to-the-living-room signal that a new message awaited.
When you set up an account with Digsby, your account settings for the various services the program supports will follow you wherever you happen to install the application. That includes a portable� option that can even install a self-contained version of Digsby on a USB key. One of the first things you'll notice about actually using Digsby is the ads. Yep, alongside Digsby's centralized instant messaging services you get, by default, ads at the bottom of your IM windows. While this initially seems like a sizeable...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/im-showdown-2011-four-chat-clients-face-off
Apple paid up, but Amazon and Google did not, announcing cloud music services without the major labels' blessing.
Who was right? Ars digs into the history of music lockers and explores when they might be legal under copyright law.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/are-google-music-and-amazon-cloud-player-illegal.ars
Google has suddenly and quietly stopped its Realtime Search service.
The move comes after the two-year contract with Twitter, the primary content provider for this particular search engine, expired. There is no indication if a new arrangement is under discussion at this time.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/05/timing.and.shape.of.return.is.unclear/
If you follow Maximum PC in print or online, it's no secret that we loves us some Evernote.
Why, in the past few days we featured the data collecting wunderkind as our Windows Phone 7 App of the Week. It shouldn't come as any surprise then that given how smitten we are for what Evernote has to offer, we've also decided that Evernote Web Clipper should also be hoisted up on our geeky shoulders and declared our Browser Extension of the Week.In order to rock Evernote's Web Clipper extension in Chrome or Firefox, you'll need to have either a free or premium Evernote account. It's only fair: It is their extension after all. After installing Web Clipper and signing in, users are given the ability to save content� any website they're visiting with the click of a mouse. How much content you save on a given page is up to you--Just want to clip a single article? Web Clipper can do it up.
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/browser-extension-of-the-week-evernote-web-clipper/
After a long absence from the category, iRiver has come back to the large media player field with the arrival of the P8 in Russia.
The five-inch player focuses on video first and can play HD video, either at 800x480 on its own screen or at native resolution through HDMI out. iRiver has freshened up its interface with a Mac OS X-like interface that has both a "dock" of common tasks as well as widgets for top-level access to media controls, photos, and other parts of the interface.......
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/iriver-quietly-slips-out-upsized-p8-media-player/
Between Lulz and yesterday's Fox News hacks, cyber criminals are on a roll.
But the scariest online threats are the ones you haven't even heard of.
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http://www.askmen.com/entertainment/better_look_3700/3799_cybercrime.html
Motorola's DROID continues its run on the rumor wagon, even as the release of its newest member, DROID 3, is nearing.
First on the cards is a bunch of leaked images of the DROID 3, from Verizons site. See them here.
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http://www.devicemag.com/2011/07/05/motorola-droid-3-images-surface-before-launch/
Did Apple's retreat earlier this year signify that the shine has come off? Or was it the pause that refreshes? The top performers weigh in, and provide 10 tech stocks that they like more than Apple.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-tech-stocks-more-attractive-than-apple-2011-07-05
Protect your family from internet pornography - it's that important This is slightly above the averge of all the products we list - it could...Source:http://respectedadmins.com/reviews/my-porn-blocker-review/
Google has introduced redesigned interfaces for its web-based Gmail and Calendar utilities. The revamped layouts, which are currently available for users to preview, offer a modernized appearance with functional improvements alongside aesthetic tweaks. The Gmail interface brings a red, black and white color scheme, closely resembling the new Google Plus presentation....
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=97c5791053bc79ee0a02167684b11dcf
Tablets are taking our entertainment experience in a new direction, and in the next two-to-five years, the tablet could serve as your secondary video screen or universal remote control.
All of which means that the future of the digital home is already here.
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http://gigaom.com/video/the-tablet-will-be-the-center-of-the-connected-lifestyle/
When streaming video site Hulu announced it was adding a new, first-of-its-kind feature (one that will become a staple going forward), it was not talking about giving its users the ability to access random strangers accounts instead of their own.
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http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/01/facebook-connect-hulu-privacy-breach/
Sabu, a member of the notorious hacking group LulzSec and prominent in AntiSec (the antisecurity movement) talks exclusively to New Scientist
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20649-exclusive-first-interview-with-key-lulzsec-hacker.html
A former IT manager writes to Microsoft with an idea for Windows 8.
Despite the fact that Windows 7 was based on customer input, a service rep tells him that the company doesn't accept ideas for new products.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20076667-71/microsoft-windows-8-will-not-be-your-idea/
Chinese tablet makers making white box (no-name) iPad clones are in many cases getting millions of Apple's own leftover iPad screens, the Taiwan supply chain detailed this weekend.
With LG Display and Samsung making between 12 million to 15 million of the 9.7-inch IPS panels, no more than nine million go to Apple and leave millions that haven't met Apple's standards but which are often good enough to use, Digitimes said. Android tablets like Smar
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/07/03/chinese.clone.tablets.get.excess.android/
Remember yesterday when we told you of the horrible dystopian future California faced as they considered forcing online retailers to collect state sales tax? Well, they're going ahead with it, causing an outcry from Internet retail giants including Amazon and Overstock. The change goes into effect Friday.
In conjunction with the move, the state's tax rate is going down 1-point to 7.75%. The California law takes advantage of the affiliate programs that many sites run where people can get commissions by referring buyers to a site. The law in California now considers those people employees of a sort. In response, Amazon and Overstock have cancelled their affiliate programs in the state.�...
Moving ever closer to control of autonomous platforms using gesture based commands an excellent piece of video from The Flying Machine Arena at the�In...
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http://www.suasnews.com/2011/07/6006/interaction-with-a-quadrotor-via-the-kinect/
CloudFloor, which launched at Structure 2011 last month, has raised $3.1 million from undisclosed investors to build out its software which purports to show both IT workers and business managers how their cloudy assets are performing against business goals.
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http://gigaom.com/cloud/cloudfloor-could-be-a-security-blanket-for-the-cloud/
Apple is on track to topple HP as the most popular portable computer maker when iPads are factored in, new tips from the industry hinted Thursday night.
Apple is now estimated to be shipping 15 million MacBooks of all kinds in 2012 and, combined with raised external estimates of 60 million iPads the same year, would amount to 25 to 30 percent of the estimated portable market. HP is expected to ship no more than 50 million notebooks in 2011 but, because it can't count on rapid PC growth or on the TouchPad, isn't considered likely by Digitimes'...
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http://respectedadmins.com/blog/apple-may-oust-hp-as-top-portable-maker-in-2012-through-ipad/
Text isn't the most glamorous type of media on your computer, but it's one that everyone creates and consumes frequently and it's not as boring as it sounds.
To make the best use of the text you encounter and generate on your own, there some tips and tricks you should know.
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http://lifehacker.com/5817628/top-10-awesome-things-you-can-do-with-text
Gmail's getting a makeover.
According to a post on the Gmail Blog, Google's popular email service will soon roll out updates to the Gmail interface that are designed to streamline the appearance of the tool to make it easier for users to manage their mail.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/01/gmail-redesigned-google-email_n_888539.html
According to the industry sources, the Taiwan based companies have started developing the materials for the iPhone 5 and iPad 3, that are expected to make their
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http://www.techoncept.com/iphone-5-and-ipad-3-material-production-started-by-suppliers/
Olympus finished off a series of launches early Tuesday through the addition of a pair of very bright Micro Four Thirds lenses and a new flash. Both a 12mm f2 ED lens and a 45mm f1.8 lens give the PEN camera line bright lenses more flexible than the 17mm pancake that has defined the line. Olympus envisions the 12mm being used for wide-angle shots and darker street photography, while the 45mm is more a portrait lens that can produce bokeh while still keeping a typical distance.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=2b6fd758f9dd5b736b094702841059e6
The Nielsen Company reported that of all those who purchased a new mobile phone in the preceding three months, 55 percent bought a smartphone instead of a feature phone.
