Apple just flashed their new iPad 3 on their Wednesday 7 event invite.
You can clearly see its new Retina display in all its glory. Compare the top (invitation) to the bottom (a photo of iPad 2). The top has a lot more definition. It's clear on the typography in the Wednesday and the edges of the icon.
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http://gizmodo.com/5888989/this-is-the-ipad-3-hiding-in-plain-sight
Some iPhone users have been creating their own ringtones for years, which sometimes comes as a surprise to friends and family.
For those users, we've put together a how-to on making your own ringtones without plunking down extra cash every time you want to change things up.
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2012/02/how-to-create-your-own-iphone-ringtones.ars
Firefox Browser Extension Detects and Notifies Users of Encryption Weaknesses
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https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-https-everywhere-version-warns-users-about-web-security-holes
Google is offering $1 million worth of cash prizes for Chrome Hacks at next week's Pwn2Own contest.
ZTE has confirmed that the Orbit should be the first Windows Phone with NFC. Both the booth display and zpokespeople confirmed both to The Verge and Electronista that it would have the short-range wireless when carriers ask for it. Specific use cases weren't outlined, although providers' requests could point to mobile payments....
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Google has posted a new update for its Chrome browser beta running on Android mobile devices . The latest release promises faster loading and the ability to recognize links associated with applications. It also supports Android Beam, an application that allows users to transfer webpages between devices just by touching them together....
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WikiLeaks is trumpeting its latest release, a cache of millions of internal emails from StratFor -- a security-consulting firm with ties to the U.S. government.
But the nature of the emails, and a partnership with the hacker collective Anonymous, raise questions about WikiLeaks' continued relevance.
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http://gigaom.com/2012/02/27/does-wikileaks-still-matter/
Best Buy is offering Apple's tablet for $50 less this week, and iPad and iPad 2 values are dropping in anticipation of the iPad 3 announcement in March.
But with a little bit of effort and searching, you could find a deal that puts extra money in your pocket.
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http://gigaom.com/apple/selling-an-ipad-10-minutes-could-fetch-an-extra-100/
Telus set out to claim the earliest Canadian release of the Nokia Lumia 800 on the weekend by with a teaser confirming a March 2 date. The network didn't want to give out prices for the Windows Phone, but it did expect to have all three worldwide colors so far made public, including black, cyan blue, and pink. The Telus edition should be close in spirit to the European make.......
Steve Jobs, a few years ago, called up Warren Buffett seeking advice as to what Apple should do with its ever growing stockpile of cash.
Do you think Jobs paid attention?
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/steve-jobs-ignored-warren-buffets-advice-stock-buyback
After launching data monitors, to show you which apps on your Android device were consuming mobile data, Onavo today took the wraps of its new data crunching app � Onavo Extend � at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to provide Android device owners with a way to lower their data bills without changing their tariff.
Just a year after Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership, Nokia is shipping more Windows Phone 7 handsets than any other manufacturer.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes. The clich� looks to be in full effect in Windows 8. No, Microsoft hasn't suddenly and miraculously decided to drop the contentious-to-some Metro UI for its upcoming operating system, but it will be killing two other branding efforts. Windows Live and Zune are all rumored to be going the way of the Dodo, dropped in favor of Apple-esque simplified program names.
According to The Verge, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Calendar, Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Contacts will be replaced by the creatively named Mail, Calendar, Photo and People apps, respectively. Dumbed down for the masses? Sure, but we always thought the "Windows Live" branding seemed a bit superfluous anyways. Windows Live IDs will be shoved off the proverbial cliff as well and replaced with "Microsoft Accounts," a term that grandmothers and other casual users are sure to confuse with standard Windows user accounts.
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http://techtime.posterous.com/windows-live-zune-brands-purged-from-windows
Adobe will officially launch its Photoshop Touch iPad app at the Mobile World Congress on Monday, months after Android users first got their hands on the app.
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http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/26/photoshop-touch-ipad/
Verizon Wireless has toyed with VoLTE (voice over LTE) before...
This particular method enables mobile phone calls to sound as clear as talking to another person in the same room, at a quality level that is equal to that experienced by consumers on any other audio/video device.
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http://hothardware.com/News/Fraunhofer-IIS-Demos-FullHD-Voice-Over-LTE-On-Android-Handsets/
Computer companies need to step up their game. Temkin Group set out to rate the customer experience of 206 large companies across 18 industries, and� computer companies didn't exactly impress. Collectively, they fell to the bottom of the pack, receiving the fourth-lowest average, edging ahead of health plans, Internet service providers, and TV service providers.
Temkin Group's research is based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers conducted last month. When it was all said and done, Apple emerged as the top-rated computer firm with an "Okay" rating of 65 percent and the 89th overall spot across all industries. Lenovo , Toshiba , and Hewlett-Packard also received "Okay" ratings, while all others fell into the "Poor" category, including:...
Pretty much every modern smartphone on the planet can upload videos to YouTube so you can share those impromptu and/or embarrassing moments caught on camera, but what if you want to relive those comical incidents instantly with a group of offline friends and family? One of your few options is to huddle around your phone's 4+ inch display and...
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http://hothardware.com/News/Samsung-Stuffs-a-Pico-Projector-into-Galaxy-Beam-Smartphone/
If Hollywood has it right, machines will one day kill all humans.
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http://www.livescience.com/18620-robopocalypse-human-extinction.html
The voucher system envisioned by a Red Hat developer is the latest proposal for preventing the kinds of devastating attacks that hit certificate authority DigiNotar last year.
Like its predecessors, it's getting a chilly reception, suggesting there's little agreement abut how to filx the ailing SSL system.
Now one developer has taken a new approach to fighting the pirates - by offering them a job.
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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/02/video-game-developer-offers-jo.html
Samsung as one of its last preludes before Mobile World Congress has brought out the Galaxy Tab 2 . A direct upsizing of the seven-inch version, it shares Android 4.0, the unnamed dual-core 1GHz processor, three-megapixel back camera, and VGA front camera of the smaller device. Its primary differences are the 1280x800 resolution and a frame more conspicuously meant to avoid treading on Apple's design rights in Germany.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-2-arrives-as-mild-upgrade
When it comes to managing their social media profiles, women, on average, behave more like mature, responsible adults while men act like impulsive adolescents.
Women and young adults are more unfriendly than men � on social networks, that is.
Or at least thats what a new study released today by the Pew Research Center reveals. According to the report, two-thirds of Internet users are on social networking sites and a good chunk of them � 63 percent � have deleted friends.� And not only is de-friending up from 2009 by 19 percent, but women and young adults are the ones hitting the unfrie
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/02/women-more-unfriendly-than-men-says-pew-study/
Think Digg is deader than a doornail? Think again.
The news aggregation site is showing new signs of life and has Facebook to thank for its recent resuscitation.
LG's pre-MWC smartphone rollouts culminated Wednesday with the Optimus 4X HD. The device is the first officially unveiled smartphone to run NVIDIA's Tegra 3 quad-core processor. At 1.5GHz, it can both help Internet access as well as improve the ability to juggle multiple apps at once.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=635426bac0fe61643ed8a9f0b7a8a3ae
Goddammit if we haven't heard too much about Pinterest�the word itself is irksome.
But for many, that annoyance is doubled by the fact that we don't even really know what it is.
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http://gizmodo.com/5888097/pinterest-the-last-article-youll-ever-need-or-want-to-read
Creating the Board of Awesomeness was a labor of love for the Labs team, but we were blown away by how much you loved it as well.
So well that it went everywhere -- and eventually needed to be rebuilt. Well, the labs team hates to waste an opportunity to make anything better, so we started thinking about what they could do to improve it. So here it is, your 'Board of Imagination'.
February 21, 2012: Buffalo Kokuyo Supply Inc. has announced they will release a new USB hub sometime in the end of February. What sets this USB hub apart is th...
The UK High Court has reportedly ruled that file sharing site The Pirate Bay has violated copyright laws. In a judgement that was presented on Monday, Justice Arnold concluded that "both users and the operators" of the site infringe on copyrights in the UK.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/uk-court-moves-closer-to-blocking-the-pirate
Apple's iPhone TV Ads.
Every iPhone ad, ever
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http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/apples-iphone-tv-ads-complete-campaign-138229
In January the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block access to The Pirate Bay.
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http://torrentfreak.com/more-dutch-isps-sued-over-pirate-bay-blockade-120224/
Sony has finally launched a Facebook app for the company's PlayStation Vita handheld game console. The native app enables users to take advantage of the social networking feature without using the web-based interface in the Vita's browser.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=2cce5acf4b50fed2c7c4dcfe2c3545b4
Image via Wikipedia Apple's Tim Cook, addressing shareholders for the first time since he took over as CEO from Steve Jobs in August, said today the company will introduce mind-blowing products this year. "You can be assured we are working as hard as ever this year to deliver an incredible year and [...]
Flash is not dead, as far as Adobe is concerned.
So they have rolled out a road map for Flash and AIR Runtime for the next 5-to-10-year period.
The Obama administration plans to announce voluntary guidelines for Web companies to protect consumers privacy online, a win for Google, Facebook and other Internet giants that have fought against heavier federal mandates.
Attorney General Kamala D.
Harris has struck a privacy agreement with the top six companies she believes facilitate the creation of the most applications: Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, Microsoft, and Research in Motion.
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http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/22/privacy-policy-apps/
Sweden's second largest torrent site has shut down its operations with immediate effect following threats from Antipiratbyr�n.
In closing, the site - which appeared in Google's 2010 Zeitgeist report - bemoaned the
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https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-piracy-crackdown-2-torrent-site-calls-it-quits-120223/
Motorola's Ice Cream Sandwich development may have been exposed ahead of schedule, as several leaked images are claimed to show the company's Blur interface running on Android 4.0.3. The images, which surfaced on a DroidRzr forum, appear to show the Ice Cream Sandwich and the Blur UI running on a Droid Razr from Verizon.......
Google Inc. will allow a do-not- track� button to be embedded in its Web browser, letting users restrict the amount of data that can be collected about them.
No one likes sounding stupid. Unfortunately, it's dead simple to do exactly that when you're talking about computer hardware or popular culture. One slip of the tongue or a single misused piece of terminology can land you a one-way ticket to Moron Hollow with six days and two delightful nights of luxury accommodations. In an effort to keep you from having to take such a shameful trip, we've put together this list of commonly misused and misunderstood terminology from the worlds of computing and geek culture.�
Phasers are a directed energy weapon made famous introduced by the Star Trek television back in the 1960s, and seen in every iteration of the franchise since.� The business end of a phaser deals death, destruction and headaches by emitting a beam or burst of rapid nadions, which is an imaginary sub-atomic particle. In order to weaponize the rapid nadions, a phaser refracts them through superconducting crystals. Depending on the task at hand, a phaser beam can be altered to produce a number of effects, allowing the individual wielding the weapon to stun, kill, incinerate, melt or atomize a target.
Research in Motion on Tuesday finally brought e-mail to its tablet computer, the BlackBerry PlayBook, which initially could send or receive e-mails only by being connected to a BlackBerry phone.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/technology/an-e-mail-app-arrives-for-the-blackberry-tablet.html
Site says it will bypass attempts to shut it down with a more covert system for illicitly downloading films and music.
By Josh Halliday
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/21/pirate-bay-defy-crackdown-filesharing
It looks like the Internet sex site, YouPorn, just took one in the eye.
A years-old coding error has exposed the emails and passwords of over a million of its smut-loving chat users.
In a surprise move, court releases Kim DotCom today.
There seems to be something new on the ultrabook front almost everyday, with the ultrabook models that were announced at last month's Consumer Electronics Show now hitting store shelves one by one. Lenovo's IdeaPad U300e, one of several models showcased by the vendor at CES, is the latest, having gone up for for pre-order on the company's website. Hit the jump for more.
The SKU currently listed on Lenovo's website does not appear to be the base model, which is supposed to rock a 1.4GHz Core i3-2367M and carry a $799 price tag. This particular model not only has a more powerful 1.6GHz Core i5-2467M processor but also sports a higher price tag. The specs of the U300e 269224U are as follows:...
Geordie Rose has a Ph.D. in quantum physics, but he's also a world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and a Canadian national champion wrestler...
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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/dwave-quantum-cloud/
By 2016, over 90% of new vehicles sold in America are expected to come equipped with Internet-connected technology features.
As car manufacturers wage the next automotive arms race to build the "iPad on Wheels", are we heading towards safety through hands-free technology or a new wave of distracted drivers making the roads more dangerous?
A group of more than 30 rightsholders have won their case targeted against Grooveshark in Denmark.
A court agreed that both the streaming music service and its users infringe recording label copyrights and granted an injunction forcing an ISP to initiate a block of the service. The anti-piracy group behind the action hopes that other ISPs will now follow suit.
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http://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-isp-to-block-grooveshark-120221/
Google Chrome developers are working on a system to randomly generate user passwords�and say they may one day be able to automatically change all of a user's passwords after the user has been hacked.
Huawei in a series of teasers on Weibo and its forums has provided the first official look at the Ascend D1 Q. While they don't confirm the internal hardware, they do show a thicker design than the Ascend P1 S. The body would support talk of the "Q" referencing NVIDIA's Tegra 3 quad-core processor....
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One more new scoop has hoped to fill in the seemingly few remaining details of the third-generation iPad. A MIC Gadget "confirmed" example of the new iPad's back casing was put in a direct comparison with the iPad 2 and provided more details than recent leaks as to how it would compare: other than a more pronounced taper at the edges and a very slightly deeper 1-1.5mm thickness, the design was virtually identical to that of the outgoing tablet. It was close enough that some third-party cases could still work, the site found.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/ipad-3-tips-show-case-in-more-detail-claim-sa
Last week, Apple took most Mac users by surprise when it released a developers preview of Mountain Lion, the company's upcoming desktop OS.
We're here to fill in some of the blanks about the new cat.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224400/FAQ_What_s_what_in_OS_X_Mountain_Lion_
With 25GB of absolutely no strings attached free storage, SkyDrive has always been an amazing value. Of course that's not to say its best in class, far from it actually for one key reason; it's painfully difficult to access. Logging into the SkyDrive site using Windows Live is easy enough, but having to add files one at a time is painfully in-efficient. If you modify a photo for example, you need to download it fully, make your changes, upload the new version, and then manually delete the old one. Office Web Apps integration and batch file adding have helped, but
The PC and Mac clients will join the recently released iOS and Windows Phone offerings, and while the exact functionality they will offer is not known, we can only speculate it will only be storage access only, and not sync. Dropbox for example gives users the option to edit files offline, and then have them sync to the cloud and other devices when they come online. Microsoft's current sync offering comes in the form of Live Mesh, and is a completely separate offering from SkyDrive. Microsoft could merge these two services of course, and would be wise to do so,...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/rumor-skydrive-planning-to-offer-paid-storage
The filesharing website The Pirate Bay has come a step closer to being blocked in the UK after the high court ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/20/pirate-bay-blocked-uk-high-court
A software development student from the UK has been sentenced to eight months in prison, after infiltrating the servers of Facebook between April and May last year.
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http://gizmodo.com/5886478/student-facebook-hacker-jailed-for-eight-months
The Pirate Bay, one of the worlds most popular filesharing websites, could soon be blocked in Britain after the High Court ruled it illegally encourages users to infringe music copyright.
Are we peering inside the iPad 3, while seeing design tweaks to the outside too? Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57381081-64/photos-claim-to-expose-inside-outside-of-ipad-3/
As the former CEO of OpenTable, Jeff Jordan can attest that most CEOs believe they intuitively know which product developments will make the biggest impact.
In this article, Jordan makes a compelling case for letting data � and not the CEO � drive product development.
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http://gigaom.com/2012/02/18/data-killed-the-hippo-star/
Google in a report Thursday night was accused of circumventing the cookie privacy settings in Apple's desktop and mobile versions of Safari. Web ad code seen by Wall Street Journal advisor Ashkan Soltani allegedly bypassed blocks in Safari's settings on about a fifth of the top 100 websites. Google wasn't alone as Media Innovation Group, PointRoll, and Vibrant Media were also using the strategy, but Google through its size and status was the most significant.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/google-others-said-bypassing-safari-cookie-pr
Intel is announcing today several advances in chip technology that show it is keeping up with the demanding pace of Moore's Law, which predicts a doubling of semiconductor performance every two years.
Formulated in 1965 by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore, Moore's Law isn't guaranteed.
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http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/19/at-chip-engineering-conference-intel-continues-to-obey-moores-law/
There are update-everything-everywhere-Facebook-users.
There are tweet-as-much-boring-bs-as-possible-Twitter-users. There's the good ol'
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http://topcultured.com/avid-tumblr-users-may-be-the-most-annoying-people-on-social-media/
An African administrative chief uses Twitter to help solve problems and maintain order in his Kenyan village, showing another example of how social media h
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http://mashable.com/2012/02/19/african-twitter-peace/
Can you tell we're pumped about Minecraft-themed Legos? We've been anxiously following their development, breathlessly reporting when the petition to create the set passed the needed 10,000 signature mark -- and when the project got the official green light. Lego and Mojang must be pumped about the Minecraft Micro World, too; in less than a month, the set has flown through the design process and is headed to the production line. In fact, Lego started selling preorders for the set yesterday.
Help Steve survive his first night in a strange new world. Avoid the creeper and start mining for resources that will help you survive and thrive. Configure your four micro-scale LEGO Minecraft modules any way you like. Build your own mines and hills, and expand your world with multiple sets. Includes four LEGO Minecraft modules, hidden resources, extra pieces for wood, dirt, and stone, two "Micro Mobs;" Steve and a creeper.
And now, it's time for a few tasteful jokes (and at least one tasteless one) about the week's tech headlines.
Here are the stories we highlighted this week: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launched a startup focused on caregivers.
The FBI is currently scheduled to take several temporary DNS servers offline on March 8th; an action that could result in the disconnection of millions of Internet users. This dilemma stems from a nasty trojan that was circulating back in 2011 called DNSChanger. This bug was used to alter a user's DNS settings, and law enforcement used temporary DNS servers to give everyone time to fix the problem. Experts fear that many systems are still infected, and risk failure on March 8th.
DNSChanger used the modified DNS server settings to route users to malicious domains instead of the ones they intended to visit. The feds worked with Estonian authorities to apprehend the creators of DNSChnager, but that left millions of computers still infected. The fix was to set up a few DNS servers to intercept the traffic from these systems and keep the data flowing. Now that the servers are due to be taken offline, some people might suddenly have busted connections.
Android apps on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will not be able to support mobile advertising at launch, RIM said.
That means Android developers who make free apps will have even less incentive to bring their apps to the PlayBook through the Android App Player.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/android-apps-on-playbook-wont-support-mobile-advertising/
Pricing details for Samsung's 2012 HDTV lineup may have surfaced ahead of schedule. A leaked price list, which was posted by HD Guru, suggests that the company may be raising the minimum advertised price for many of its latest LCD and plasma televisions. The high-end 8000 series LED-backlit LCDs are said to start at $2699 for the 46-inch variant, while the 75-inch model is expected to command $7299.......
If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything.
In this case, its Chitika, Techcrunch, and others who are raising alarms about something thats relatively meaningless, particularly to Microsoft.
Eastern Europe's tradition of political revolt has met the digital age.
This time it's not communists or food shortages fueling fury, but an international copyright treaty that opponents say threatens freedom on the Internet.
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http://news.yahoo.com/eastern-europeans-fuel-fight-internet-freedoms-083904407.html
Can Android tablets match the iPad in usability? Yes, if they apply an important lesson from Apple's approach.
Read this blog post by Brooke Crothers on Nanotech - The Circuits Blog.
We've seen workstations before, and we've seen plenty of all-in-one PCs, but according to Hewlett-Packard, there has never been a 27-inch AIO that qualified as a workstation. Until now. HP claims its Z1 Workstation is the world's first to combine both types of systems into a 27-inch form factor, and what's more, the OEM says it's a snap to swap out parts without using any tools, a feature that's few and far between in the AIO sector, but critical if it's to be taken seriously as a workstation.
The Z1 can be configured with an Intel Core i3 2120, Xeon E3-1245, or Xeon E3-1280 processor. It supports up to 32GB of DDR3 memory, integrated and discrete level graphics , various HDD and SSD options, and up to a Blu-ray writer for optical duties. The Z1 also ships with six external USB 2.0 ports, FireWire, 6-in-1 media card reader, GbE LAN, a single PCI-E x16 slot, three mini PCI-E slots, and a 400W power supply.
With a few exceptions, most Android users are still patiently waiting for their device manufacturer and/or wireless carrier to unwrap Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0).
Be that as it may, technology marches on and the sweet toothed engineers at Google are hard at work cooking up code for Android 5.0, which will be known as Jelly Bean. According...
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http://hothardware.com/News/Google-Mulls-Launching-Android-50-Jelly-Bean-in-Second-Quarter-of-2012/
The long hair.
The mustache. The lack of a turtle neck. 32 years ago, Steve Jobs gave a presentation that wasnt like the ones he has been famous for the last decade and a half but there are definitely flashes of the bravado and intellect that made him an icon.
Empowering your workforce to work flexibly and remotely requires trust and accountability on both sides, says Microsoft International's president
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was feeling the wrath of unknown hackers with the Anonymous� movement on Friday morning, after seven different government websites managed by the agency vanished from the Internet. Calling the FTC the Fuctarded Troglodyte Clusterfuck,� hackers chide the government agency for lax enforcement of the national Do Not Call Registry, and for recently allowing search giant Google to merge data-sharing practi
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/17/anonymous-dramatic-take-down-of-ftc-sites/
LTE phones are fastest things on the airwaves, but they can also suck a battery dry in a few hours.
Here are five reasons why your new Samsung Galaxy Nexus or HTC Vivid is going dead right after lunch time.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/why-lte-sucks-your-battery-that-is/
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly ordered AT&T, Verizon and Sprint to allow net neutrality proposals to be included in annual shareholder votes. The move is said to be partially inspired by pressure from shareholder groups such as Trillium Asset Management, which represents high-profile AT&T investors including Mike D of the Beastie Boys and his wife Tamra Davis, director of "Half Baked" and "Billy Madison."......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/beastie-boys-mike-d-pushes-att-to-embrace-net
eth Israel Deaconess Medical Center didnt set out to build a healthcare cloud.
When the Boston hospital adopted electronic health records (EHR)in 2007, it needed to find a way to include its physicians in the effort. However, this proved to be a substantial challenge.
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http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/02/15/the-accidental-healthcare-cloud/
Apple Announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion [Breaking]
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/16/2801047/mac-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-preview-photos-video
Artist Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind.
Here, he explains how a camera attached to his head allows him to hear colour.
Watch vintage Steve Jobs footage on Apple.
This is a rare 22 minute presentation given by Steve Jobs on 1980. This video was gifted to Computer History Museu...
Android 4.0�aka Ice Cream Sandwich�is such a lovely and tasteful software update for Android phones that I'd be kicking and crying if my phone didn't have it.
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http://gizmodo.com/5885391/motorola-phones-have-a-pitifully-long-wait-for-android-40
Up until late last week Windows 8 on ARM was a complete mystery. We know the product existed, that it would launch at some point in the future, and it would sport the Metro interface Microsoft has been showing off for almost a year now. The silence on just about everything else had led many to wonder if Microsoft was further behind on the ARM version than they were letting on, but this week they finally opened up the information floodgates. That might sound like a bit of an exaggeration, but 9000 words is a bit more than we were
Microsoft claims that all WOA-based systems will receive updates through traditional updating tools built into the OS, but we remain a bit skeptical. This isn't an easy promise to make given how many variations there are of ARM hardware. Even Windows Phone 7 has begun to fragment as Microsoft struggles to maintain a common set of features across dozens of different phone implementations. In the case of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft even laid out strict hardware restrictions which should have made updating easier, but turned out to be more difficult than originally intended. �...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/windows-8-on-arm-everything-you-need-to-know
Accessory maker Snow Lizard Products are developing a waterproof, rugged iPhone 4/4S case that features a battery pack that is recharged by solar power. The company has opted to fund the project through Kickstarter, hoping that outdoor sports enthusiasts who would need a case that combined extra power and rugged endurance.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/snow-lizard-planning-solar-charged-iphone-4-4
The Valentine's Day Google doodle animation is sure to melt anyone's "Cold, Cold Heart." But is it the best Google doodle video? Here are five of our past favorites.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/0214/Valentine-s-Day-and-5-other-great-Google-doodle-videos
The fees levied by mobile firms on calls from landlines need to come down more quickly, says the Competition Commission.
This is the official promo clip of the Nikon D800 in Bangkok.
This is a mega-DSLR with a massive 36 megapixel capacity, an enhanced 51 pt AF system, 91,000-pixel 3D Matrix Metering system, and an FX-format CMOS censor. Wow. Other features according to IBT include "support for speedy USB 3.0, dual CF and SD card slots and has uncompressed HDMI out with owners able to record H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format video for up to 29:59 minutes per clip, and the ch
According to new research, Google+ is still definitely male-skewing, but students outnumber software engineers by a wide margin.
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http://mashable.com/2012/02/15/everything-about-google-plus/
Mobile backend as a service StackMob is announcing a hosted HTML5 solution that will make it easier for developers to build HTML5 and hybrid apps that use HTML5.
The move allows the company to become a more full fledged platform as a service.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/stackmob-looks-beyond-backend-to-the-future-of-connected-devices/
Recorded on the new Livestream today. Our current global economic crisis is symptomatic of a deeper secular change.
Evidence that we need to rethink and rebuild the organizations and institutions that have served us for decades continues to rise. Society has at its disposal the most powerful platform ever for bringing together people, skills and knowledge to ensure growth and social development in a just, sustainable world. This new medium of co
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http://new.livestream.com/smwnychange/TapscottRe-Civilization
Daemon Tools is cataloging all your disc images, without permission Within Windows
Samsung's Indian branch brought out four dual SIM card phones with the surprise introduction of a genuinely new model. The Galaxy Ace Duos keeps the original Ace's 3.5-inch, 320x480 display and defining form but adds the Duos line's twin SIM slots to let GSM users keep two lines. It still uses Android 2.3 and hinges on an 832MHz processor with a large 1,650mAh battery, but it adds CDMA and EVDO Revision A 3G for some local carriers, like Reliance and Tata.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=6f34a9abafa5e0963bf59f5fd97a30cf
For those of us who've always dreamed of traveling more, but need a bit of inspiration, Afar's new iPhone app may be just the ticket.
Hackers loyal to Anonymous claim attack on US tear gas company, website taken down
If there was any uncertainty that Google's acquisition of Motorola would be approved by regulatory agencies across the world, one only has to look at the fourth quarter ...
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/02/the-dangers-of-apple-and-samsu.php
Organization and productivity go hand-in-hand.
Learn even a few of these keyboard shortcuts for Windows PCs or Macs to improve your efficiency.
Tim Cook has responded to criticism by saying Apple has nothing to be ashamed of.
Now the company is trying to get proactive.
Tor network connections, which people in Iran use to avoid Internet censorship, plummeted from 50,000 a day to nearly zero last week.
But Iranians are getting back online, due in part to a new obfuscated bridge built by Tor.
These tech-based Kickstarter projects are all looking for funding and, hopefully, on their way to becoming a reality.
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http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/294050/cool-kickstarter-projects
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence.
By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network. BFA Thesis CCA Graphic Design
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http://vimeo.com/34750078
Charlie Oppenheimer may be a fan of Amazon Web Services.
But, as he explains here, he's long felt that the economics of the choice between self-hosted and cloud provider had more texture to it than the patently attractive sounding 10 cents an hour."
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http://gigaom.com/2012/02/11/which-is-less-expensive-amazon-or-self-hosted/
When synchronized sound ended the era of silent films, live musicians were no longer hired to play in movie theaters.
They fought back with an ad campaign against soulless machines.
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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/02/musicians-wage-war-against-evil-robots/
The Mission
Central to my build, of course, is AMD's top-tier Bulldozer part, the 3.6GHz FX-8150. It'll rest in Asus's Sabertooth 990FX motherboard, which has USB 3.0, six SATA 6Gb/s ports, and plenty of PCIe x16 lanes. The 990FX isn't markedly different from 890FX except for one glaring change: Board vendors are now offering SLI support� in the BIOS. I was originally going to use Cooler Master's Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler, but in the course of overclocking I decided to swap it out for AMD's Asetek-built Bulldozer FX liquid cooler, which bears a very strong resemblance to Antec's...
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/step--step_guide_how_build_gaming_pc_amds_bulldozer_cpu
Google's SUndar Pichai says Chrome for Mobile will push the web forward.
When most developers make tweaks to their games, it's included in the next patch.
When Fallout: New Vegas Lead Designer Josh Sawyer does it, it's just too hardcore.
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/fallout-new-vegas/1218427p1.html?RSSwhen2012-02-09_232400&RSSid=1218427
Windows has a ton of great utilities, and while we can't live without some of them, there's a special place in our heart for programs that merely improve Windows, rather than adding new software.
Here are our top 10 apps that take Windows' built-in tools and make them better.
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http://lifehacker.com/5884261/top-10-downloads-that-enhance-windows-built in-tools
It doesn't look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari.
For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has lost a third of its market share, from a worldwide peak of around 30% down to 20%.
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116885-the-death-of-firefox
We no longer have to imagine a future where robots walk among us as police, girlfriends, and slaves.
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http://www.forkparty.com/22071/10-creepy-robots-videos
A pair of sources claimed Tuesday that Google was about to send a formal pledge to standards bodies that it would license and Motorola's standards-based patents fairly if its......
A new report from the Wall Street Journal is shedding some light on recent rumors that Googlers have been testing a mysterious entertainment device in their homes. According to WSJ, we can expect a system that can wireless stream music throughout the home, and will be marketed under the Google name. This would be a completely consumer-oriented device built in-house, a first for Mountain View.�
The system does not have a name anyone is willing to mention yet, but there are hints that Google will be using Android as the base of the system. Past devices like the Google TV and Nexus phones have been built with partners, but this new streaming device will be all Google. Sources say that the system will be controlled via smartphones and tablets, and that leads many to suspect an Android@Home tie in. Android@Home was a home automaton service demoed at Google I/O 2011.
When I was 9 years old I got my first computer, an Amiga 500.
It was the best computer ever built, with great graphics, amazing sound and se...
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/peter-sunde/
Just one year ago, HP officially introduced the TouchPad, Pre 3 and Veer to its lineup.
Much has happened in the 365 days since
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/10/hp-veer-4g-pre-3-and-touchpad-celebrate-a-melancholy-birthday/
It's been six weeks since Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales took to Twitter to announce that his organization would be removing its domain name registrations from GoDaddy over what was then the latter's public support for SOPA.
Yet as of today, www.wikipedia.org remains nestled in the GoDaddy bosom.../ what's the deal?
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/no-wikipedia-has-not-forgiven-godaddy-backing-sopa
Apple to disrupt notebook space with radically redesigned MacBook Pros
Okay everyone, Path is really sorry that they did something really creepy and didn't think tot ell anyone first. The mobile start up is attempting to talk its way out of the outrage stepping from a discovery recently that user address books were being uploaded to the Path servers without any notification. CEO Dave Morin has posted a lengthy apology on the Path blog explaining what the company has done to smooth things over.
According to Morin, Path was using the address books to help improve the functionality of the Add Friends� feature. Path would also use the stored data to notify users when a contact in their address book joined Path. The company feels these are useful features, but recognizes that users should have more control. Path has pushed out an Android and iOS update that gives users the option of uploading their contacts. All previously saved contacts ahve been deleted from the servers.�...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/path-is-officially-super-sorry-no-hard-feelin
Even the most tech-savvy among us can induce the occasional face-palm by getting tripped up over pretty basic stuff that they just aren't familiar with.
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http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-to-transfer-apps-from-iphone-to-itunes-20120210/
When Apple announced its initiative to bring iPads into schools, the reaction among many was enthusiastic.
But there are major reasons why iPads are too expensive for schools.
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http://mashable.com/2012/02/10/ipad-textbooks-infographic/
At long last, Motorola's Droid 4 smartphone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard is available at Verizon. Motroloa's newest smartphone runs $200 with a two-year service contract and includes free overnight shipping if ordered direct from Verizon, or $550 sans contract. It's been a long wait for those who've been holding out for this particular phone, which was first rumored to drop on December 8, 2011.
It's here now and it brings a dual-core 1.2GHz processor to the Android party. It also has a 4-inch qHD display, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage supplemented with a microSD card slot, 8MP rear-facing camera, 1.3MP front-facing camera, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and the aforementioned slide-out QWERTY plank with five rows of keys.
A new ad from Amazon attempts to make fun of the cost of Apples iPad by highlighting the cheaper price of its own mobile devices.
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http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-ad-pokes-fun-cost-apples-ipad-082011477.html
Social media sites such as Facebook make people feel better about themselves, according to a US study.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/9073790/Facebook-makes-people-feel-close.html
This new concept displays a 3-D animal avatar as your reflection, mimicking your facial expressions in a horrifying, mocking way.
Wireless carriers have us right where they want us.
When there are only four significant national providers in the US, theres only so much competition for our business. So when they all band together (even if only in mindset) and decide on a new rule,� customers are forced to play along.
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http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/the-best-iphone-tethering-apps-2012029/
The most performance-minded camera in Canon's lineup for the CP+ show Tuesday was unveiled as the SX260 HS. While the model name is slightly off from leaks, it confirms talk of a leap from 14X to 20X zoom in the body. The design comes outfitted with both a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor that helps in low light as well as a DIGIC 5 chip that improves image quality and allows for 1080p video.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/canon-sx260-hs-stuffs-20x-zoom-into-compact-b
In the midst of outcry over the changes in Google's privacy policy, the search giant has announced that it will start paying some users to share their search history as part of a new project dubbed Screenwise.
Search Engine Land reports that people who sign up to be on the Screenwise panel will receive a $5 credit on Amazon for installing a browser extension that allows all of the data from their Chrome browsing to be collected.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/google-screenwise-project_n_1263128.html
The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation's
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/patent-troll-trial/
Google is said to be close to launching its own cloud-storage service that is set to compete with Dropbox.
The tip-off was offered to the Wall Street Journal, which says that it has talked to people familiar with the matter. The long-rumored service dubbed 'Drive'
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/09/google.to.take.on.dropbox.in.cloud.storage.market/
Even as the Patriots' hopes and dreams were strangled in the Super Bowl, the iOSsphere rumors for iPad 3 mounted anew on wings like eagles.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/020712-ipad3-rumor-255859.html
Amazon announced a deal with Viacom today that brings it one step closer to truly competing with Netflix as a streaming video service. Amazon Prime Video will soon be streaming TV shows from MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central to Prime subscribers. The 2,000 new titles will push Amazon's Prime offerings to roughly 15,000.
Both Netflix and Hulu can boast more content than Amazon, but the retail giant sweetens the pot with the Prime shipping service. Anyone that drops $79 for a yearly subscription to Prime gets free 2-day shipping on most items from Amazon, and free streaming video. As Amazon continues to push into tablets, and possibly phones, video content will become increasingly important.�...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has selected some of the best submissions from the Copyright Office's review of whether it should continue to be legal in the USA to "jailbreak" your devices in order to make them more suited to their needs.
In this post, we hear from a deaf man who jailbreaks his phone so that he can use it as an assistive device at work; a military worker in Kuwait who jailbreaks his phone so he can quickly access the flashlig
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http://boingboing.net/2012/02/08/americans-explain-why-jailbrea.html
Scientists working out of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have invented a robot that powers itself by collecting its own food and water, digests it, then poops out the waste, according to Scientific American.
It may sound unconventional, but scientists hope that a new generation of these "ecobots" will not only be self-sustaining, but may even help recycle and reuse food waste.
A letter from Apple's legal team reveals that the firm wants Europe to revise rules covering patents that are essential to industry standards.
The breakup between Acer and its former Chief Executive Officer, Gianfranco Lanci, was mildy tense, but swift and free of any drama when the two parted ways almost a year ago. And it probably would have stayed that way too, except Lanci accepted a gig with Lenovo, a move that prompted Acer to file a lawsuit in Italy for an alleged breache of a non-compete clause Lanci signed with his former company.
Acer brought Lanci on board in 1997. Over the course of the next decade and beyond, Lanci proved instrumental in Acer's rise to the near top. But things came to a head when he and Acer's board disagreed on a product strategy in the emerging mobile handset landscape, and specifically the amount of focus that should be put on smartphones and tablets.
Apple may have hitched its star to HTML5 with iOS-based devices like the iPhone and iPad, but Flash is still more secure, more available, and used for more multimedia overall.
GameStop stores as promised have started carrying PlayStation Vita demo units. Depending on which of the 3,300 stores showing the Vita gamers visit, they should have access to a handful of the 25 launch titles to try. Among the mix will include FIFA, Uncharted: Golden Abyss, and Wipeout 2048.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=4638fe5415b98671faa47604e66f395c
iTunes Match subscribers late Friday reported a problem with iTunes Match playback failing. Anyone on a desktop, whether Mac or Windows, couldn't play cloud-stored songs unless they were already matched with the iTunes Store. The problems didn't appear to be limited to particular app or OS revisions, and iOS users could still access the service.......
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http://techtime.posterous.com/itunes-match-desktop-playback-bug-hits-may-cl
Last week, a blog called Console Cowboys exposed a security vulnerability in some models of Trendnet home security cameras.
Following the instructions on the site, thousands of streaming personal IP cameras can be accessed.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/06/trendnet-hackers_n_1257027.html
Facebooking has its benefits, but it also holds mental-health pitfalls, especially for competitive young men and people with low self-esteem.
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http://www.livescience.com/18324-facebook-depression-social-comparison.html
High drama in cyber realm after hackers wanted $50,000 from Symantec or else the hacking group would leak the security firm's source code.
Email negotiations between hackers and feds posing as a Symantec employee went down in flames. Now a file claiming to be Symantec's pcAnywhere source code has set sail into the wild from The Pirate Bay.
Twitter's policies change worldwide as the world changes because of Twitter.
"Mrs.
Chen," as CNN calls her, works in a Foxconn plant installing iPad screens for virtually every waking hour of her life. Despite this, she never actually saw an iPad until CNN whisked her away.
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http://gizmodo.com/5882603/woman-who-assembles-ipads-shown-ipad-for-first-time-in-her-life
Anonymous' gutting of Puckett & Faraj, the firm that defended the Marines behind the Haditha Killing, might have been more than a major embarrassment.
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http://gizmodo.com/5882717/anonymous-may-have-completely-destroyed-military-law-firm
Several major Hollywood studios dont care that LimeWire is all but dead and buried, nor that the service was a pretty poor way to share large files such as movies.
After the record companies of the RIAA settled with LimeWire last year for $105 million, Twentieth Century Fox, Viacom, Disney, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. [...]
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http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-sues-limewire-back-from-the-dead-120206/
The BitTorrent community used to think that law enforcement had better things to do than hunt them down, but that all changed in mid-2005, when US-based EliteTorrents was raided by the FBI and ICE. The site had over 130,000 users, and was run by a small number of dedicated staff, including one 19 year-old who recently spoke about the ordeal. He gives a peek inside the first big Torrent bust of what has become an ongoing war on piracy for US law enforcement.
May 25th 2005 was the day the FBI and ICE went after EliteTorrents. After shutting down the site, agents arrived at the homes of the EliteTorrent staff, StonyVision included. The 19 year-old lawyered up and started fighting back. The prosecutor had ample evidence, and was seeking a prison sentence as high as 5 years. StonyVision is the first to admit he was lucky to get a sympathetic judge, and was able to avoid jail time. He payed a $3500 fine, served 6-months house arrest, and 3-years of probation in which he was unable to touch a computer.
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http://techtime.posterous.com/confessions-of-an-elite-pirate
Technology will only become more integrated into our lives and, most importantly, as an essential part of America's infrastructure.
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http://techland.time.com/2012/02/06/why-technology-and-innovation-are-critical-to-americas-future/
What's worse than one more ridiculous "you might be a terrorist if" list? 25 Communities Against Terrorism flyers designed by the FBI and DOJ to promote suspicious activity reporting.
Use Skype, VPN, Tor, or PGP for security and privacy reasons? Buy components at an electronic store? That's right, you guessed it, you potential terrorist you!
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/25-more-ridiculous-fbi-lists-you-might-be-terrorist-if
A new Facebook scam tricks people into downloading malware by using a fake CNN report about World War III.
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Trinity will use the company's new Piledriver cores and is expected to increase performance 25 percent over an equivalent Llano processor with a new graphics core offering a 50 percent performance increase. AMD says Trinity will offer twice the performance-per-watt and promises all day� use with more than 12 hours of battery life. It is a mobile versions of the Trinity that AMD is pushing for its Ultrathin initative -- an alternative to Intel's Ultrabooks. AMD says Trinity will allow notebook makers to push out quad-core APUs with 50 percent better graphics and better battery life than even Intel's upcoming...
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http://techtime.posterous.com/amd039s-new-direction-for-2012-heterogenous-c
You may remember the name "Tucows" from early downloading days of the '90s.
Now, you'll be familiarizing yourself with a slightly different project of theirs. The company just introduced "Ting," a new mobile service that'll run on Sprint's network and enable yet another option for those seeking a contract-free mobile provider.
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http://hothardware.com/News/Ting-Another-ContractFree-Mobile-Carrier-In-The-US/
Do apps that run on Apple's iOS crash more than Android apps? We take a close look at some data.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/02/02/does-ios-crash-more-than-android-a-data-dive/
Canadian cellular provider Wind Mobile has confirmed that it is set to launch several new smartphones, including Samsung's Galaxy Nexus and RIM's BlackBerry Bold 9790 and the BlackBerry Curve 9360 in white. The announcement marks further expansion of the Nexus into the Canadian market, following on the heels of Rogers, Telus, Bell and Virgin Mobile.......
On average, 100 million people watch the Super Bowl.
With connected devices everywhere, we'll be tweeting about it and sharing thoughts on social networks. So will fans at the game. Here are some staggering numbers showing how Super Bowl 46 is ready for such mobility.
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http://gigaom.com/mobile/super-bowl-46-mobility-by-the-numbers/
Photos that you think you're deleting from Facebook are still remaining on their servers years later.
Ars has been following this story for nearly three years now; Facebook says it's still working on fixing the problem, but that a solution should be ready within months.
Whether you're looking for a way to catch the big game this weekend when you're away from your living room, or you just like to catch live TV when you're trapped somewhere without either cable or a television, you have plenty of options to help you catch a broadcast on your mobile phone or computer
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http://lifehacker.com/5882209/five-best-ways-to-stream-live-tv
Undisputed fact I just made up: The more time we spend online, the dumber and more myopic we get.
Hacker Noah Litvin set out to combat that observable phenomenon with DailyPag.es, an app that wo...
Android users were on the top of the list with 87% of their owners admitting they have used their smartphones while sitting on the throne. 84% of the BlackBerry users admit to doing it (smartphone use in the bathroom) and iPhone users checked in at 77%.
All eyes are on Tim Cook since assuming the role of Apple's chief executive officer after Steve Jobs' health took a turn for the worse, and now that the co-founder is gone, the world is eager to find out how Cook intends to fill those shoes.
Perhaps ironically, Cook has chosen to fill the mighty big shoes Jobs left behind by putting a bigger...
Internet millionaire Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, has appeared in a New Zealand court, describing unwanted approaches from a forger, a fake prosecutor and various female inmates wanting to be pen pals.
Watch the video here.
With the month of January coming to an end, I decided that I'd share with you news regarding builds updates, the schedule for February 2012, news regarding sponsorship, upcoming videos and more!
If you're curious about when the builds will be updated, how often I plan to update them, how you can receive them via email/RSS or get updated via Facebook/Twitter and what ideas I have planned, this post is for you.
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You may be familiar with the iPads split keyboard, introduced along with the roll out of the iOS 5.
The wonderful keyboard has some more hidden features...
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http://www.devicemag.com/2012/02/04/apple-ipad-split-keyboard-features-a-few-hidden-buttons/
Breaking: a faction of Anonymous has released an MP3 recording of an FBI conference call which took place on January 17th.
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002309.html
This is a change for a government agency.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) had nineteen different email systems and over 25,000 email addresses they wanted to consolidate under one system to cut costs. Surprisingly, they didnt spend millions of dollars on a study or a consulting firm to do the move.
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." HAL; 2001: A Space Odyssey Editor's note: this is a longer version of ReadWriteWeb Editor-in-chief Richard MacManus' article for the SAY Media newsletter.
The newsletter is delivered weekly and features SAY Media's take on media, culture, venn diagrams and the occasional Kubrick homage. You can sign up for it here. Over half of all devices at this year's CES, the world's larges
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/get_ready_for_a_world_of_connected_devices.php
Under the aegis of their nonprofit, eHealth Nigeria, Castle and Thompson have built a digital records system meant to eventually serve healthcare facilities across northern Nigeria, but it doesn't use the sort of specialized health care software in U.S. or even everyday database software.
There's no Kaiser software. And no Microsoft. The system is based on OpenMRS, an open source health records system designed specifically for use in underdevelop
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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/ehealth-nigeria/
Although Samsung actually sold almost as many smartphones than Apple globally in the holiday quarter of 2011 , the company took a beating in the US market and saw Android lose marketshare for the first time. While Samsung continues to do well in the market with its Apple-inspired designs, Apple's growing success is changing the way its competitors think, reports BusinessWeek....
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Hey, are you "overly concerned about privacy" online or use anonymizers and Web portals? Do you like to check your ISP-provided email account on the road? How about talking to your cohorts in PC games? Yeah? Well, here's some bad news: according to the FBI and DoJ, there's a good chance that you're a terrorist if you do any of that in an Internet caf� -- and they encourage others to track your license plate, ethnicity, name� and more if you exhibit any of those "potential indicators."
Slashdot pointed us towards the Public Intelligence website, which first reported on the issue. Public Intelligence hosts a copy of the cyber-terrorist flyer that the DoJ/FBI created as part of their "Communities Against Terrorism" initiative. Checking Google Maps or paying in cash means you're probably a terrorist, too, by the way, so you might consider switching to plastic to keep The Man from breathing down your neck. ...
French court rules that it's illegally anticompetitive for Google to provide free maps
Last month, many SSDs saw their price cuts, while a few went up in price.There were also firmware updates for the Crucial M4, Corsair Force , OCZ Octane and Samsung 830 SSDs, so make sure to update your firmware if you have one of those SSDs.
It Shouldn't Take a Letter from Congress for Google to Give Straight Answers About Privacy Policy Changes
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google's-privacy-policy
One might think that a mannequin in a store window that suddenly starts pulling a few moves would be enough to make shoppers jump out of their skin, but looking at a video of one that has recently appeared in the window of a department store in Tokyo shows shoppers appear to be unfazed.
Perhaps their nonchalant reaction should come as little surprise in a country where robotic technology is the norm.
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http://news.yahoo.com/moving-experience-robotic-mannequin-debuts-tokyo-031324269.html
These novel contact lenses allow users to focus simultaneously on objects that are close up and far away. This could improve ability to use tiny portable displays while sill interacting with the surrounding environment.
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http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2012/01/31.aspx
After reading this story in the LA Times, we decided Apple Scotland needed their own commercial. http://lat.ms/z2w1Mj
A Nissan Juke -R racing a Lamborghini Gallardo, Ferrari 459 Italia and a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
In the streets of Dubai, of course. (Where else?)
On the carriers deck are 281 solar panels that power on-board amenities including LED lights in the ships hold and crew areas.
The ship also features a low-friction coating on its hull that improves the fuel mileage it can achieve on the sea. Nissan estimates those efficiencies would save up to thirteen tons of fuel for each round trip. For those thirteen tons, what do you get?
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http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/02/slippery-solar-car-carrier-saves-13-tons-of-fuel-each-trip/
A few days ago the petition reached its goal of 25.000 votes, and the Obama administration has now issued an official response.
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http://torrentfreak.com/white-house-declines-comment-on-mpaa-bribery-120201/
Lenovo has confirmed that its ThinkPad Tablet will receive an Android 4.0 upgrade sometime in the second quarter of the year. The company already promised an Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Tegra 2-equipped device, however until now the release timing was unclear.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=683b3ed166ae39e6d66bdf97fdc8c81c
Milestones come and go, but hitting the big ten is always a feat worth applauding.
It seems like just yesterday that the first beta of Mozilla's Firefox was rolling out, but today -- millions of users later -- the tenth iteration is available for download. Firefox 10.1 is now ready to be used by Mac, Linux and PC advocates, with a number of...
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http://hothardware.com/News/Mozilla-Releases-Firefox-10-To-The-Masses-Massive-Changelog-In-Tow/
One more set of Coolpix updates from Nikon on Tuesday has focused on the budget end but included a new category of camera for the company. The S30 is one of the least expensive rugged cameras yet and can take going underwater, down to 9.8 feet, or drops of up to 2.6 feet. Its lens shoots at just 3X but is self-contained to minimize the impact.......
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http://feeds.electronista.com/click.phdo?i=12d7c2eb73a29b688549085b33e2067b
Surprise, surprise: Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman says he's unhappy with how SOPA and PIPA turned out.
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http://allthingsd.com/20120131/viacoms-philippe-dauman-says-mob-mentality-doomed-sopa-and-pipa/
Need a mini-version of Wikipedia for your own notes, your workgroup, or just for fun? Here's what you need to know.
An anti-piracy group says they have monitored decreased usage of cyberlockers that withdrew their rewards programs in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown and increases for those that maintained them.
What is required now, the Hollywood-backed group says, is a "burden of proof reversal" which would require hosts to prove that their businesses are not built on piracy, or face being held liable.
Apple is the king of the PC heap, so long as you consider the iPad among those devices.
Research firm Canalys does, and its most recent look at PC sales, focusing on the fourth quarter of 2011, shows the PC market growing with the iPad included.
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http://gigaom.com/apple/ipad-propels-apple-to-top-of-pc-market-as-growth-stalls-without-tablets/
IBM today announced an agreement to acquire Worklight, a privately-held Israel-based app development studio, along with bringing Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices out of beta. The new app will leverage its existing BigFix infrastructure to integrate security and management of mobile devices using the same controls that are already in use for desktops and notebooks. The moves are expected to help IBM expand its mobile credentials in the enterprise market.......
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