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Automatically compiled digests of SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY news stories
(originally clustered by the Google News):


Saturday


  • Nov-07-2009 -- Switchers Guide: Moving Hardware and Software to Mac
    Office suite Office 2008 , Microsoft's Mac suite, is very different from Office 2007 for Windows.
    Many Windows programs have Mac versions. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
    Most of our concerns with the device are in line with this one -- too many steps or too much lag for far too little of a reward.
    Maybe the people that can't spend $30 a month on a phone plan should stop tweeting and get a job? Sorry if you have a real reason to not pay for it but even in college with no help from mommy and daddy i was able to have plenty of extra money around to go to the bar and whatnot, $30 a month is one night out on the town. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- Google's Obsession With Microsoft Burns Hotter
    Eric Schmidt appeared on Fox Business Network tonight for an extensive interview with host Neil Cavuto, who pressed the Google CEO a couple times over whether the company has the potential to become the next Microsoft when it comes to antitrust issues and its attempts to fend off new Internet rivals.
    "We like cities," said Schmidt when asked what made Google choose Cambridge. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- Rivals to Challenge Microsoft Browser Settlement
    IDG News Service - Microsoft's antitrust settlement offer to the European Commission needs minor, often cosmetic changes in order to restore fair competition to the market for Internet browsers, said some of the software giant's main rivals Thursday.
    Microsoft'''s browser rivals aren'''t satisfied with the tentative '''ballot screen''' settlement that the company came to with the European Commission, which would offer all its European users a chance to download a rival browser. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- Halo Waypoint live, Halo Legends starts tomorrow
    Starting on November 7, you'll be able to watch episodes of the upcoming Halo Legends series .
    Halo Waypoint will also be the place to hear all of the latest Halo related news, and get access to all of the latest trailers, developer interviews, documentaries and screenshots, including fan-created content. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- Applied Materials picks up Advent Solar assets
    Privately held Advent Solar, founded in 2002 in New Mexico, has technology that streamlines the assembly of photovoltaic solar panels, which convert sunlight into electricity.
    In the same year, Applied completed the acquisition of HCT Shaping Systems SA (HCT), the world's leading supplier of precision wafering systems for manufacturing crystalline silicon (c-Si) substrates for the solar industry. More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Impressions: Modern Warfare, Too
    I drove tanks, stormed across the bridge and knocked down walls.
    More...

  • Nov-07-2009 -- The rush that is Bad Company 2's multiplayer
    Having owned Bad Company for the 360, BC2 comes across as an expasion pack that should be $29.99.
    It looks like I just found my replacement for MW2 multiplayer on the PC. This looks really good. More...

Friday (Update 1)


  • Nov-06-2009 -- Europe Gives Up on 'Right to Internet'
    The European Parliament today agreed on a new set of legal protections for those threatened with losing Internet access under anti-piracy rules.
    Innocenzo Genna, chairman of the' European Competitive Telecoms Association ( ECTA ), said that "alongside provisions on users' rights, the package contains important proposals that confirm Europe's commitment to open and competitive telecoms markets. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- getjar: The unknown app store leader
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Thinking of a tummy tuck? Need bigger breasts? There's now an App for that.
    Using your Facebook contacts, your iPhone's address book, other Chorus members (including users physically nearby), and/or your own app collection, Chorus generates recommendations of apps you might like. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Nvidia Lampoons Intel With Cartoon Site
    Intel may have stalled adoption of the USB 3.0 standard for as long as two years, NVIDIA spokesman Brian Burke says .
    The chip maker is currently caught up in a legal battle with Intel over the scope it has to develop chipsets for future Intel processors. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- iPhone App Translates Baby's Crying
    An iPhone application claims to decipher the meaning behind a baby's cries.
    Volkswagen isn't the first to use an iPhone application to launch a product. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Google Rolls Out Commerce Search
    Google has launched Commerce Search, a hosted search engine service for online retailers.
    Whilst as a search engine Google are helping businesses by improving the consumer experience they, as well as others, are failing when it comes to 'business search', something which is high in demand. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- After Mickey's Makeover, Less Mr. Nice Guy
    For decades, the Walt Disney Company has kept Mickey Mouse's appearance and character largely unchanged, afraid that even the smallest alteration might damage a brand that earns the company $5 billion (£3 billion) a year in merchandising sales.
    Back on topic, with the original Disney cartoons easier to obtain on video, we can see that the early Mickey was a much scrappier fellow, more Bart Simpson than meaningless logo. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- A Berkeley Alum at MIT: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Stops By
    Vinter said it'''s important to retain the '''start-up''' feel of the office even as it grows quickly in the coming months.
    HELP WANTED: Google searching for new workers to add to its Cambridge office - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise Your browser either has JavaScript disabled, or does not support it. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Facebook restates ad policy, Offerpal does mea culpa
    Garrick admits that Offerpal made mistakes "I have quickly concluded that regrettably, Offerpal has been guilty of distributing offers of questionable integrity from some of our many advertisers."
    Q+A Douglas Ferguson How will we consume media in five and 10 years' time? Ferguson: When everything is digitized and libraries offer materials, we will have access to anything and everything whenever we choose, at a trivial long-tail price. More...

Friday


  • Nov-06-2009 -- Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin
    In the same way that Google is taking on traditional enterprise search companies with the Google Search Appliance (for searching within your company's files) and Google Site Search opnbrktfor searching your websiteclsbrkt ,'' it now wants to replace the older solutions used by web retailers, said Nitin Mangtani, the company's lead product manager for enterprise search.
    The new features included in commerce search engine include spell checker, query stemming, and synonym recognition. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Google Rolls Out Commerce Search
    In the same way that Google is taking on traditional enterprise search companies with the Google Search Appliance (for searching within your company's files) and Google Site Search opnbrktfor searching your websiteclsbrkt ,'' it now wants to replace the older solutions used by web retailers, said Nitin Mangtani, the company's lead product manager for enterprise search.
    I wonder how this will influence the general SERP landscape; will ECommerce sites still be indexed in general search results or will this act as more of an eBay for Google? GBay? Heh. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Elevator to the Top: Space Elevators Climbing Towards Reality
    NASA'''s Centennial Challenges program and the Spaceward Foundation kicked off the Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert on Wednesday.
    The Kansas City Space Pirates team got within 50 m of the top, but not fast enough to be in the money, and a team from the University of Saskatchewan has yet to compete at all. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Lego Rock Band: When franchises breed
    Lee: The song downloads are what makes me appreciate Rock Band.
    In deference to the impatience of youngsters, you can now play short versions of all the songs in most modes. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Gore's book a toolbox for fixing climate crises
    Former U.S. vice-president, Nobel Laureate and prominent global warming activist, Al Gore, has
    Primordial human wiring is tuned to the likes of carnivorous predators, lightning strikes and blood-curdling rival clansmen. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- 3 Reasons Apple's App Store Will Hit 200000 Apps In 2010
    LOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) - Thinking of a tummy tuck? Need bigger breasts? There's now an App for that.
    The real bummer, though, is the apps. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- Verizon Ups Early Termination Fee to $350
    According to the lawsuit which AT&T filed in Atlanta federal court, a recently launched ad campaign shows maps with white spaces that mislead consumers into thinking AT&T has no network coverage outside of areas where it offers high-speed mobile services, known as third-generation or 3G. AT&T argued that its customers can "fully use their wireless devices outside of a '3G' coverage area and undisputedly have coverage in areas depicted by white or blank spaces on the maps used in Verizon's advertisements."
    According to AT&T, when consumers view it s competitor's maps, many leap to the conclusion that AT&T leaves vast expanses of the U.S. untouched by any wireless coverage, even 2G. Do most consumers really care about 2G, 3G and 4G anyway, and do they know the difference? I don't know of any research results that answer these questions, which are more widely significant. More...

  • Nov-06-2009 -- NVIDIA Uses Cartoons to Harass Intel
    First and foremost among the reasons cited for NVIDIA's alleged plans is the fact that we're about to make another turn on Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation , where graphics functionality will move back onto the CPU die.
    An in-house x86 design may also be necessary for NVIDIA in the future if it hopes to continue developing and promoting integrated graphics. More...

Thursday (Update 1)


  • Nov-05-2009 -- Wolfe's Den: HP Revs Data Center Strategy, Stabbing At Cisco
    '''By leveraging HP'''s Converged Infrastructure approach with our customers, we are enabling''them to improve infrastructure functions, simplify management and lower power costs,''' said Marc Sarazin, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing, AdvizeX Technologies.'''''
    "We've been working with HP on the architecture, on how to bring things together and just getting prepared as a partner," said Mark Melvin, CTO of ePlus. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Microsoft gives the MSN butterfly a makeover
    The new portal includes 50% fewer links than the existing MSN home page and simplified navigation tools.
    Updates from Facebook and Twitter are now central to people's information networks, much like bulletins from news wires or major dailies. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Microsoft Courier: A Feature Breakdown
    Looks like the core of the interface is the Smart Agenda, which pulls all your content together like calendar entries, emails, etc in one starting place, described as "Cliff Notes" to the Pagestream "novel."
    There is also a view called Smart Agenda which summarises the content in your Infinite Journal showing appointments, emails, to-do lists, weather and messages from friends in one place. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- AT&T vs. Verizon: There's a lawyer for that
    According to the lawsuit which AT&T filed in Atlanta federal court, a recently launched ad campaign shows maps with white spaces that mislead consumers into thinking AT&T has no network coverage outside of areas where it offers high-speed mobile services, known as third-generation or 3G. AT&T argued that its customers can "fully use their wireless devices outside of a '3G' coverage area and undisputedly have coverage in areas depicted by white or blank spaces on the maps used in Verizon's advertisements."
    Just switched to Verizon after being with AT&T for three years because the service is cheaper. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Parallels 5 boasts huge speed improvement
    For 3D and graphics performance, tested under the industry standard 3Dmark 2006 Professional test suite the new version performs up to 7 times better.
    I've got a license for Parallels 4 but I'm definitely not going to upgrade to Parallels 5. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Ballmer half heartedly talks up Windows 7
    Sales of Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer has said.
    Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft'''s entertainment and devices business, admitted to problems with Microsoft'''s mobile strategy in a meeting with financial analysts and investors'''reporting that Microsoft'''s share of the mobile phone operating system market had declined. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- BlackBerry Bold 9700 Is Sleeker Version of BlackBerry Experience
    RIM'''s flagship Bold 9700 (a.k.a. Bold 2) follows in the footsteps of the original premium BlackBerry Bold on AT&T and features a slimmer design, better camera, and both 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity.
    The responsive touchpad gives the Bold the feel of a touchscreen device, particularly when you're swiping through pictures More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Verizon to raise early termination fees for 'advanced devices'
    If you're thinking about buying a smartphone from Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) Wireless on a new 2-year contract just so you can pay the early termination fee (ETF) and sell the extra handset for a profit on eBay or Craigslist, you had better get on it.
    One poster mentioned giving the device back. More...

Thursday


  • Nov-05-2009 -- New Modern Warfare 2 Trailer
    PC gamers may find one more reason to grumble about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, as Infinity Ward has confirmed that the maximum number of players in the game's multiplayer mode has taken a hit from 32 to 18.
    You are failing the PC gamers who got you where you are now. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- PayPal looks for developers' applications
    This new PayPal payment experience, which uses PayPal'''s new Adaptive Payments APIs, enables developers to provide an optimal PayPal purchase experience for frequent microtransaction type purchases.
    A couple years ago PayPal introduced the Website Payments Pro program aimed at providing small and medium businesses (SMB) with a platform for conducting secure online transactions. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- T-Mobile to Bill for Google Android Apps, Get Android Market Channel
    T-Mobile will let its subscribers pay for Android applications on their monthly mobile bills starting Nov. 17, also introducing its own section of the Android Marketplace that day.
    If the iPhone gets Google Nav will TomTom be kicked out of the App Store for duplicating functionality?? I also really like the dockable modes that the Droid has. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Researchers Study Great White Shark Migration
    Great white sharks, known scientifically as Carcharodon carcharias, can reach lengths of 20 feet and weigh 3 tons.
    The study, the largest and most detailed study of North American great white sharks , provides evidence contrary to the popular notion of great white sharks swimming aimlessly in the ocean . More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Cisco, EMC, and vmware make alliance official
    Necessity makes strange bedfellows.
    SalesForce.com uses multi-tenant software and Google uses parallel programming. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Bad Apple: Five Classic Apple Marketing Tactics That Lock You In
    Going by a Monday report in The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog, Apple has proposed a new Apple TV service that would facilitate the transmission of TV programs through the iTunes software and store across an array of hardware.
    Guggenheim sees the Apple initiative as a way to spur exploration in music films. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- After Mickey's Makeover, Look for Less Mr. Nice Guy
    Junction Point Studios head Warren Spector might be making Epic Mickey now but don't think he's completely given up on "hardcore" games.
    Though the game generally puts the player in a linear story, the world and its missions can be completed in a number of ways. More...

  • Nov-05-2009 -- Apple's latest 10.6.2 beta packs fixes for vmware, imacs, Apple TV
    Earlier this week, a report surfaced claiming that Apple had apparently disabled support for Intel's Atom processors in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2.
    I most likely does not have an Atom CPU but is something similar so it makes a lot of sense to lock Atom out. More...

Wednesday (Update 1)


  • Nov-04-2009 -- HTC HD2 With Huge 4.3-inch Screen Shipping to Europe, Asia
    The phone is available in Taiwan from Taiwan Mobile, but no carrier deals for the U.S. have been announced.
    Hopefully, Apple will allow all the carriers in the USA to have the iPhone, so at&t will start getting some better phones. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- PayPal Introduces Open API to Put Payments Into Apps
    This new PayPal payment experience, which uses PayPal'''s new Adaptive Payments APIs, enables developers to provide an optimal PayPal purchase experience for frequent microtransaction type purchases.
    PayPal's latest plans are part of EBay's overall strategy of driving more revenue through expansion of the online payment service in e-commerce and mobile applications and in making non-retail payments. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Infinity Ward Says No to the Wii
    I'd rather put it towards Heavy Rain, God of War 3 or Gran Turismo 5.
    "There seems to be a double standard in the gaming industry in regards to things allowed, or accepted into many games. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Critical Reception: EA/bioware's Dragon Age: Origins
    As a game developer, BioWare has done much to bring new gamers into the long-established fold of the role-playing genre.
    "Dragon Age: Origins" which is being released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on Nov. 3 has also allowed the Edmonton, Canada-based BioWare to build a world from the ground up, without the constraints of a licensee like Dungeons & Dragons. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Lawsuit Would Pull B&N Nook E-Reader From Market
    Ereader solutions and products developer Spring Design has filed a lawsuit asserting bookseller giant Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets and violated the firms' non-disclosure agreement in developing its forthcoming Android-powered nook ereader device.
    For one thing, Barnes & Noble would have had to work very fast to copy Spring's design and get it to market in less than a year. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Arrives
    For 3D and graphics performance, tested under the industry standard 3Dmark 2006 Professional test suite the new version performs up to 7 times better.
    Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac enables Apple users to run different operating systems, including Windows 7. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Open University talks clouds with MS and Google
    Microsoft lowered the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which includes online versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications and Office Live Meeting, from $15 per month per seat to $10 per month per seat.
    Balz Wyss, Microsoft's Asia-Pacific senior director of unified communications and SaaS (software-as-a-service), told ZDNet Asia in a follow-up call that enterprises can also choose to subscribe to individual products within the suite. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Best Buy to Launch Digital Movie Service
    Best Buy will license software and infrastructure from Sonic Solutions, which will be available on the company's own Insignia brand of TVs and Blu-ray players.
    The unnamed project hopes to give users buy once, play anywhere privileges: those who buy a DVD in-store will then have access to a CinemaNow-based portal for watching movies both on computers as well as on smartphones and Internet-aware Blu-ray players. More...

Wednesday


  • Nov-04-2009 -- Windows Live Sync for Mac finally updated for Snow Leopard
    Granted, Snow Leopard (aka, Mac OS X 10.6) wasn't that shiny in the first place, as I wrote here at the time .
    If only Apple could release special netbook version of Snow Leopard to run on Intel Atom netbooks, Windows 7 would have tough time. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat
    In the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, climatologists reported that the ice cap crowning Kilimanjaro'''s peak shrank by some 85 in the nearly hundred years between 1912 and 2007.''
    Even a 300-year-long drought around 4,200 years ago made little impact on the mountain's ice fields. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Here's the iTunes TV Service I'd Actually Pay For
    Going by a Monday report in The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog, Apple has proposed a new Apple TV service that would facilitate the transmission of TV programs through the iTunes software and store across an array of hardware.
    As long as content is dispersed across delivery channels (i.e. some shows available via iTunes but others only via cable, Hulu etc.) a la carte might be a more appealing way to use iTunes than subscriptions. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Touch-screen phone use soars, iPhone on top
    For all the buzz surrounding touchscreen phones - much of it from the iPhone - the technology is disappointing too many people.
    Nearly all market forecasters have insisted that integrated hardware and software platforms like RIM's BlackBerry and Apple's iPhone can only possibly be temporary successes that will have to make way for licensed software platforms, where one company or open source group develops software and reference designs that a variety of hardware makers can purchase or use for free. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- AMD discovers several Fusion mantras, disses Larrabee
    First and foremost among the reasons cited for NVIDIA's alleged plans is the fact that we're about to make another turn on Sutherland's wheel of reincarnation , where graphics functionality will move back onto the CPU die.
    It's the NVIDIA rumor that won't die: no, not the one where the GPU maker buys tiny VIA, but the other one, where it jumps feet-first into competition with both Intel and AMD by producing an x86 processor of its own. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser
    Google have released the latest Chrome Beta build 4.0.223.16 which offers 30% faster browsing speeds and useful features such as bookmark synchronising.
    Recently, we announced that we're starting to ramp up hiring for positions across the company, continuing our investment in the future as we imagine it. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Sony Ericsson's First Android Handset, Why Now?
    Sony Ericsson has announced the forthcoming launch of the Xperia X10 Android smart device, which will be the first Android device from the manufacturer.
    HSPA high-speed downloads and uploads are supported, plus WiFi and quad-band GSM. The large screen on the XPERIA X10 means that this is a fairly big device, measuring 119 x 63 x 13mm. More...

  • Nov-04-2009 -- Man Charged for Running Modem-Hacking Biz
    According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Ryan Harris, 26, ran a San Diego company called TCNISO that sold customizable cable modems and software that could be used to get free Internet service or a speed boost for paying subscribers.
    By replacing the unique address with one known to belong to a paying subscriber, Harris's customers were able to obtain internet service for free. More...

Tuesday (Update 1)


  • Nov-03-2009 -- Cisco, EMC, vmware Join Forces In Major Data Center Product Play
    Cisco and EMC have created a joint venture called Acadia that will focus on private cloud build outs.
    The idea is also to have third party application providers, system integrators, and channel partners of the respective companies get a piece of the action. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Apple Splits With Atom Support?
    Apple's latest update to Mac OS X - 10.6.2 - is set to remove support for Intel's Atom processor, breaking hackintosh netbooks.
    I've also found Snow Leopard to be buggy and unreliable compared to other Apple releases. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- New Marvell e-book reader platform promises faster product, lower price tag
    Marvell, the supplier of communications, storage, and wireless chips, has teamed up with E Ink to notch up against competitors by introducing a "highly integrated" turnkey platform, to be powered by the ARMADA 166E processor, for the next-generation of e-readers.
    The fruit of a three-year collaboration, the Armada chip is reportedly smaller, thinner, andcruciallycheaper than the electronics built into previous generations of e-book devices. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Sony Unveils Android-based Xperia X10
    Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10, the first Android-based handset the Japanese-Swedish phone maker is set to bring to the market, has just been officially announced .
    The XPERIA X10 will be Sony's entry into the Android army that has been taking the smartphone world by storm. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Parts shortages crimp Toyota's Prius output
    Hyundai Australia is looking at importing a stand-alone petrol electric hybrid model to compete with Toyota's Prius and Honda's Insight.
    The affected cars are accelerating to around 100 mph, and no amount of braking stops the car. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- 2 Companies Win NASA's Moon-Landing Prize Money
    To Mojave, Calif., to be precise, where there are companies on the cutting edge of civilian space flight, and in 2004 a civilian spacecraft named SpaceShipOne broke a non-military altitude record of 328,000 feet for a manned flight.
    Remember.it took Scaled Composites less than 2 years and 30million dollars to build a brand new ship from the ground up and put it in space WITH human cargo. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Google Chrome Beta Gets Bookmark Sync
    The latest beta version of Google's Chrome Web browser is making it easier for you to keep track of all your favorite Web sites across multiple computers.
    Based on WebKit and released just over a year ago for Windows, Google's Chrome is now at 3.57 percent, up from 3.17 percent in September. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Study: Legendary Man-Eating Lions Really Did Eat Men
    A British colonel hired to hunt the beasts claimed the lions killed 135 people in attacks which eventually became nightly occurrences and shut down work on the 1898 railway expansion.
    "Uncomfortably, that turned out to be us." More...

Tuesday


  • Nov-03-2009 -- GALAXY PICTURE: Cosmic Ray Mystery Solved?
    M82 is a bright galaxy located approximately 12 million light years from Earth, in the direction of the Ursa Major constellation.
    The Fermi probe also saw gamma rays coming from M82 and from the starburst galaxy NGC 253. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Creative's Zii MediaBook eBook Reader
    Creative has stunned technology news sites which were all busy conversing or much rather picking apart ever piece of information available on the Apple iTablet, which for all the information that has come out about it, may not even exist.
    Willie Png, Creative's VP of strategic business says that Creative'''s MediaBook will utilize'' "videos, pictures, text and services in one device that supports a media-rich experience." More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Maingear Announces SHIFT "Personal Supercomputer"
    The other model available is the SHIFT Intel X58 which comes with aqn Intel Core i7 900 series processor, the choice of either ATI Radeon HD and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, an EVGA X58 SLI Classified motherboard, up to 24GB of DDR3 RAM, the choice of up to 6 hard drives, or 12 SSDs, and either a Blu-ray or DVD burner.
    The two diverge on memory specs, with the P55 containing up to 8GB DDR3-1600 low latency RAM and the X58 up to 12GB DDR3-2000 or 24GB DDR3-1600. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Species' extinction threat grows
    The new list features 293 reptiles which were not there last year, bringing the total threatened to 1,677, including 469 that face extinction and 22 are that are believed extinct.
    Science currently recognizes around 1.8 million species on Earth (out of an estimated five million to 30 million total species--the true total remains unknown). More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- What Windows Autorun Has Wrought
    The worm is still circulating, mainly in enterprises, said Vinny Gullotto, general manager of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center.
    Taterf, a worm that tries to steal online gaming credentials, was the second most prevalent threat family, detected by Microsoft on 4.9 million computers worldwide during the first half of 2009, the report states. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- IPhone Gets Tepid Reception in China
    Priced on a somewhat higher side, the Wi-Fi-less China-specific iPhone, on the China Unicom carrier, will be available at a starting cost of 4,999 yuan, or $730 for the 8GB model.
    The company declined to confirm that. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- Motorola Cliq Available on T-Mobile's Network
    T-Mobile USA has officially announced that Motorola CLIQ is available exclusively in their stores starting today.
    The Cliq is available in either Titanium or Winter White for $199 with a two-year T-Mobile contract. More...

  • Nov-03-2009 -- 46% Watch DVR With Commercials
    Out of laziness, habit or interest, people actually sit through commercials even while watching recorded TV on their DVRs.
    Network TV has gotten to the point where I refuse to watch any new shows. More...

Monday (Update 1)


  • Nov-02-2009 -- Sprint launches first netbook
    Customers purchasing Dell Inspiron Mini 10 will also sign up for Sprint's Mobile Broadband Connection Plan offering 5GB of data for $59.99 per month with a two-year service agreement.
    Sprint is pushing a mobile broadband plan with the netbook, giving users 5 GB of data for $59.99 per month. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Music Piracy Wars May Finally Take a Break
    P2P SOFTWARE OUTFIT Bit Torrent is about to be upgraded so that it can deal with attempts by ISPs to throttle traffic by throttling itself.
    I've also read the fact that FiOS up/down rates have become "flatter" (by which I mean the up rate is closer to the down rate in terms of %) suggests that ISPs have accepted torrenters as legitimate, and legitimate use is what underlies the bandwidth issue. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Letter: Global warming 'hoax' lives on despite evidence to the contrary
    Apart from the conflicting data analyses is the eyebrow-raising new book title from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance."
    "To talk about global cooling at the end of the hottest decade the planet has experienced in many thousands of years is ridiculous," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Facebook Wins $711m Judgment Against Spammer Who Hacked Site
    A California court has awarded the popular social networking website Facebook damages worth $711 Million in an anti-spam suit filed by the networking portal against Sanford Wallace, who was the main alleged spammer, along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw.
    Facebook won an unprecedented $711 million dollar legal victory over one of the world's most notorious spammers, Stanford Wallace. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- An entire baby Wiimote peripheral
    The special edition of this child-rearing game aimed at little girls comes with a baby doll with a slot in its back for the Wii remote, which allows the doll to react "by giggling, gurgling or crying through the Wii remote."
    Wow, there's even Balance Board support! Could you just imagine that doll crying through the tinny, distorted Wii Remote speaker? Absolutely terrifying. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Qian Xuesen dies at 98; rocket scientist helped establish Jet Propulsion ...
    Rocket scientist and father of China's space technology program, Qian Xuesen has died at the age of 98 in the capital city of Beijing.
    The handling of components and product will be via a new logistics centre in the province but the fight for Western investment and industry is continuing right across China and voices in the government itself have expressed some misgivings lately with the outright competition as provinces vie for prime targets. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Terrorist Gameplay Artful?
    Private chat between players during online Xbox 360 gaming may soon become a thing of the past, as Microsoft is giving developers the option of leaving out the option for their future games.
    I highly doubt that there are enough cases of people cheating through party chat to warrant that being the reason to take it out of multiplayer games. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Bing's new mobile site wants to be touched
    Flight status ''' Enter the airline and flight number and get the latest departure and landing times.
    The new interface features tabs and is optimized for high-resolution touch-screen devices like the iPhone or Microsoft's own Zune HD. The earlier version of Bing Mobile worked reasonably well , but the interface was rather generic. More...

Monday


  • Nov-02-2009 -- Surge in search innovation
    Have you seen the video of students from Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pa., doing the Microsoft Bing Dance ? The fact that it was apparently a grassroots student phenomenon makes it slightly less disturbing than it would appear on the surface, but still, you gotta wonder how the parents of these children will feel.
    One Flickr user demonstrates how Microsoft featured a glowing quote from a "Twitter User" that, upon further investigation, turned out to work in Microsoft marketing. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Twitter Rolls out Lists Feature to Most Users
    Previously in testing for a limited number of users , Lists has begun rolling out to larger and larger chunks of the Twitter community.
    Each of us is now a content curator. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Capturing coal's carbon to cut greenhouse gas
    NEW HAVEN, W.Va. Eyes around the world were focused on Friday's commissioning of a carbon capture and storage facility at American Electric Power's Mountaineer Power Plant.
    West Virginia's Congressional representatives are loathe to support emissions taxes, cap and trade or other carbon-reducing measures, which the industry warns will be crippling. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Sony Ericsson Rachael X3/X10's UI demoed on video again
    The Japanese-Swedish conglomerate seems not to like all the buzz around the Droid.
    Check out the two minute video below which shows what the Sony Ericsson Rachael UI looks like when doing some of the increasingly more common phone tasks.'' More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Dead Space: Extraction for Nintendo Wii -- Game Giveaway
    Dead Rising on the other hand had a smaller opening week, but benefited from being one of the earlier quality titles on the Xbox 360, and experienced strong sustained sells for an extend period of time especially in the Americas.
    Note: Dead Rising's Others region weekly sales are estimates on Americas/Others total sales ratio. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Read all 'e-readers' posts in Crave
    All the tech news sites (including this one) have dedicated an enormous amount of time, effort, and words discussing the Apple iTablet.
    Basically, Creative is designing a tablet with a 'large' touchscreen that's designed for movie watching, Internet browsing, and e-book reading. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Palm Pixi clears FCC
    Spoiler alert! Updating to iTunes 9.0.2 will break your ability to sync media to the Palm Pre.
    Palm, Android, and Microsoft will all create great phones that would make good phones like Research in Motion obsolete. More...

  • Nov-02-2009 -- Why Google Doesn't Like Its Phone Bill
    Google Voice lets users sign up for one number that can route incoming calls to cell, office or home phones.
    Google said it began blocking certain phone calls in August. More...

Sunday (Update 1)


  • Nov-01-2009 -- An internet that speaks to you
    Kleinrock developed the technology of packet switching, which allowed data to split up and Routed to various points across the internet.
    Kleinrock, Cerf, and Co. had things up and running on September 2, the day after Labor Day, sending bits between the IMP - a Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory - and a 32-bit SDS Sigma 7 host machine. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Blacksn0w iPhone Unlock Is Ready
    George Hotz, aka geohot, posted on his Twitter account that he has found an exploit to unlock any iPhone that contains the 05.11.77 radio baseband found in the 3.1.2 iPhone software.
    More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Twitter Rolls out Lists Feature to Most Users
    Previously in testing for a limited number of users , Lists has begun rolling out to larger and larger chunks of the Twitter community.
    If you're new or just straight lazy (no need to explain), we got you covered. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Club Mixes Are the New Guitar Jam
    In August, during the Beatles: Rock Band mania, The New York Times reported that Rock Band and Guitar Hero have earned more than $3 billion and that a song'''s inclusion in either game can yield a ten-fold increase in iTunes sales.
    Duncan Campbell, 8 ¾, strikes a rock star pose as he plays Guitar Hero: World Tour. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Innovations in Internet search are surging
    At the Oct. 20-22 Web 2.0 industry conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a deal that allows Bing to search up-to-the-minute postings on Twitter, with much of the software engineering done at Microsoft's Mountain View campus.
    The new tools have been integrated into the existing sidebar box displayed with all sets of Google search results, which B2B SEO marketers should bear in mind. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Global is Local
    Apart from the conflicting data analyses is the eyebrow-raising new book title from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance."
    Already there are about 390 parts per million - the highest level in 15 million years. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Motorized La-Z-boy To be Sold on ebay
    State statute, however, determines how money from the auction will be divided, with some going to the state, the court system and the Police Department, Wobig said.
    The former owner, Dennis LeRoy Anderson, pleaded guilty to operating the chair while intoxicated. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Space Challenge Gives NASA Run for Its Money
    Masten Space Systems' Xoie (ZOH'-ee) rocket took off from a launch pad at Mojave Air&Space Port on Thursday and flew to another pad where it set down as flame licked up the side.
    In Level 1 of the NGLLC, teams must simulate a lunar analog mission, and complete two successful flights, with the rocket rising to 50 meters, translating over to a second landing pad, and remaining in the air for at least 90 seconds. More...

Sunday


  • Nov-01-2009 -- US government opens $9m cyber security center
    "Only the office of the president has the authority to ensure that everyone is working off the same playbook."
    The U.S. government is promising a more coordinated approach to cyber attacks, with the creation of a new $9 million cyber security center. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Meta: Bing Jingle Guy Writes Song For Students Who Sang Bing Jingle
    Representatives for Bing also wrote us after our "torture" post to point out the backstory about the students singing the Bing jingle.
    Maybe you'll recall when I ripped apart the Bing jingle winner back in August. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Twitter Rolls out Lists Feature to Most Users
    Previously in testing for a limited number of users , Lists has begun rolling out to larger and larger chunks of the Twitter community.
    Each of us is now a content curator. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Nokia to Pull Plug on N-Gage Gaming Platform
    Nokia will be migrating the N-Gage Arena and community features to the Ovi Store, and does not plan to launch any new gaming titles for N-Gage.
    Over on the official N-Gage blog, Nokia posted an entry saying that the N-Gage publishing platform will effectively be sent to the glue factory in less than a year. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Masten Space Systems takes lead in Lunar Lander Challenge
    The Masten team's "try, try again" effort at California's Mojave Air and Space Port was aimed at winning the top prize in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge's Level 2 contest.
    Armadillo, Masten, Sapcce-X, etc. should not be seen as NASA's competitors for funds for space. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Club Mixes Are the New Guitar Jam
    In August, during the Beatles: Rock Band mania, The New York Times reported that Rock Band and Guitar Hero have earned more than $3 billion and that a song'''s inclusion in either game can yield a ten-fold increase in iTunes sales.
    According to reports, Activision is claiming that additional work is necessary in the creation process of a DJ Hero track. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- Parachute failure only blemish in successful Ares test flight
    Two of three parachutes malfunctioned during a test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, NASA reported on Friday.
    "We did not see any recontact between the upper stage and the first stage. More...

  • Nov-01-2009 -- 'DWI Chair' Bidding Is Over $37000
    Proctor Police Chief Walter Wobig said that Anderson is a '''super-nice guy.'''
    As well as an 8 horsepower engine borrowed from a lawnmower, Anderson installed headlights, steering system, rear roll bars, a cup holder and a stereo, and added a sticker to the rear announcing '''Hell yeah it'''s fast'''. More...





Saturday (Update 1)


  • Oct-31-2009 -- House Bill Would Ban FCC Net Neutrality Rules
    The Federal Communications Commission's decision last week to begin developing open Internet regulation has left a few big-time political donors and lobbying forces within the telecom industry wondering whether their message got lost in transmission.
    Look, for example, at the inside-the-Beltway lobbying groups all chock full of lawyers that Google has, essentially, "purchased:" the New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, Free Press. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Twitter Rolls out Lists Feature to Most Users
    Previously in testing for a limited number of users , Lists has begun rolling out to larger and larger chunks of the Twitter community.
    You can now group your employees or subscribe to whole new segments of the Twitter population. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Masten Space Systems takes lead in Lunar Lander Challenge
    Masten Space Systems' Xoie (ZOH'-ee) rocket took off from a launch pad at Mojave Air&Space Port on Thursday and flew to another pad where it set down as flame licked up the side.
    A rival team is crying foul after a competitor's mock lunar lander was allowed to make an extra flight, putting it in first place for a $1 million prize. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Google, Garmin, And Free Navigation
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is adding Garmin Ltd and TomTom to its growing list of rivals as the Internet search giant weaves technology for driving directions into new versions of its smartphone software.
    The Mapzen suite enables us to bridge the needs of app developers, who serve as a proxy for consumers in a given vertical segment, and the mappers, who are members of local communities or specialists in a certain type of mapping (e.g. mountain biking trails). More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Man Behind '1984,' 'Think Different,' 'I'm a Mac' Steps Down
    Clow is the man behind Apple's iconic "1984" ad, the Think Different campaign, the dancing silhouettes that shill iPods , and the neo-classic "Mac vs. PC" campaign starring The Daily Show guy and Drew Barrymore's sometime boyfriend.
    Clow will be replaced by Duncan Milner, who has worked on Apple ads and been with TBWA since 1990. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- US cyber center opens to battle computer attacks
    "Only the office of the president has the authority to ensure that everyone is working off the same playbook."
    No single agency is currently charged with ensuring government information technology security and lawmakers have called for creating a powerful national cybersecurity advisor reporting directly to the president. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- 'The Wii has stalled' - Iwata
    Interestingly, the number of third party million shippers to first party million shippers is significantly more favorable to third parties on Wii (2:1) than on DS (3:2).
    The first half of 2009, the period described by Nintendo's earnings report, was largely anchored by New Play Control GameCube ports. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Novell to Los Angeles: Drop Dead!
    Google is touting the deal as a major endorsement of its cloud-based approach to computing, but it turns out that some of the funding is indirectly coming from an unlikely source. just over $1.5 million for the project will come from the payout of a 2006 class action lawsuit.
    GE should be making lots of money soon. More...

Saturday


  • Oct-31-2009 -- 'The Wii has stalled' - Iwata
    You may simply be able to chalk this one up to some freewheeling speculation and rumination, but Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata went pretty far out on a limb in talking about the future of the company during a recent sit-down with the Financial Times, and indicated that Nintendo may just be looking outside the gaming industry for a little inspiration.
    While defending Nintendo's marketing strategies is all well and good, it would be nice to see the development of some new titles for the Wii. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- How Cloudmade Will Deal With Google Navigation Monster
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc is adding Garmin Ltd and TomTom to its growing list of rivals as the Internet search giant weaves technology for driving directions into new versions of its smartphone software.
    We wrote this article on the Orange Google Mobile Search Widget deal and this is the response from Orange. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- House Bill Would Ban FCC Net Neutrality Rules
    The Federal Communications Commission's decision last week to begin developing open Internet regulation has left a few big-time political donors and lobbying forces within the telecom industry wondering whether their message got lost in transmission.
    If you have a 10Mb down 1Mb up DSL connection, you can't use more than 10Mb down no matter what you are doing. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Novell to Los Angeles: Drop Dead!
    Google is touting the deal as a major endorsement of its cloud-based approach to computing, but it turns out that some of the funding is indirectly coming from an unlikely source. just over $1.5 million for the project will come from the payout of a 2006 class action lawsuit.
    Some councilmembers were concerned about Google's ability to securely store sensitive data produced by, for example, the Los Angeles Police Department. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Mob Scene At Second Microsoft Store Opening
    Microsoft is a software company with a temporarily, dominant PC operating system that is highly dependent upon a mishmash of outside, commodity hardware vendors. all of whom collectively deliver a confusing and discordant cacophony of competitive communications and offerings to prospects.
    I'll be surprised if the Msoft retail stores can handle the mass amount of issues people have with Window products. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Oracle,Sun Russia Antitrust Hitch Adds To Challenges
    Users have questioned the fate of Sun software and systems under Oracle, with particular concern centering on the MySQL open-source database.
    Incidentally, Barclays Global Investors has 37.6 million shares, which is five per cent of the outstanding shares, and that is worth $357.3m if the Oracle acquisition closes. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Club Mixes Are the New Guitar Jam
    The current undisputed king of music games - at least in terms of pure brand power - is Activision's Guitar Hero franchise.
    Nerds from Microsoft, the University of Washington and the University of Toronto have jointly developed a '''muscle/computer interface''' able to control the music videogame without using the traditional four-buttoned plastic guitar. More...

  • Oct-31-2009 -- Dead Space 2 due in 2010?
    Dead Rising on the other hand had a smaller opening week, but benefited from being one of the earlier quality titles on the Xbox 360, and experienced strong sustained sells for an extend period of time especially in the Americas.
    Gamers (myself included) have demanded Dead Space 2 and several leaks have reinforced suspicions, while EA looks in the other direction. More...

Friday (Update 1)


  • Oct-30-2009 -- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 for $20
    October 29, 2009 - The Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM), which looks into "building and maintaining a media environment that fosters the health, safety and well being of Australian children," has called on the Classification Board to review its 15+ rating given to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 earlier this month, reports The Age (via GamePolitics ) Controversy erupted earlier this week when a leaked video showed a level in Modern Warfare 2 in which presumed terrorists are seen killing civilians in an airport.
    The amount of soccer mums i've seen buying GTA4 for a 10 year old is bad enough. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Twitter rolls out Lists feature to most users
    Previously in testing for a limited number of users , Lists has begun rolling out to larger and larger chunks of the Twitter community.
    Just follow the lists, either Maryland news sources (including us, Pat Stevens, InsideMDSports, among others) or Maryland players/coaches (including Gary Williams, Chris Turner , and Greivis Vasquez), and you'll follow everyone worth following. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- GM Exec Hopes Sales Better Than His Race Time
    Most if not all the challengers Thursday looked under the age of 50; most of the non-journalists heard about the challenge through YouTube videos and blogs.
    Lutz couldn't be happier with the campaign's early results. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Buy.com teams with Amazon in taking online payments
    The new service aims to replace the user names, passwords and the multiple clicks needed to purchase an item online today with a unique, simple-to-remember catch phrase - say, "Brad's Home."
    Facebook De-friends Its App Verification Program Facebook has decided to end its Application Verification Program. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Apple execs not enthusiastic about 'unattractive' online print market
    A number of senior Apple engineers are reportedly taking an extraordinarily high number of trips to China right now, with more scheduled throughout November.
    Company officials are also reportedly unfazed by the recent launch of Windows 7. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- SuperFreakonomics Redux: Even Congress is Riled Up
    I think it was the desperately flip tone.
    Bizarrely, Levitt and Dubner never once mention the one policy area that is universally recognized as being "cheap and simple" by economists and scientists alike boring energy efficiency . More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Asus Unveils USB 3.0 Motherboard
    Todays desktop platforms can deliver support for the latest high-end components, enabling computer enthusiasts to take advantage of an increased computing performance.
    The latest internal hard disks, such as Seagate's Barracuda XT, support the new SATA/600 (or SATA 3.0) standard which runs at 6Gb/s. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- LG: OLED will fall to LCD price levels by 2016
    Unfortunately, OLEDs still are too expensive to bring to the home theater system.
    LG Display plans to use fluorescent materials until 2011 and phosphorescent materials thereafter. More...

Friday


  • Oct-30-2009 -- Juniper: Product, Platform Upgrades Will Boost Partners
    The company is saying that the rebrand and repositioning ''' which includes a new logo ''' is desgined to emphasise the '''future of networking that is open, scalable, simple, secure and automated to address the exploding scale of internet services for personal and business productivity'''.
    NEW YORK ' Juniper Networks is planning to release new networking hardware and software that will not only allow the networking company to better compete against Cisco Systems and other competitors but also help it delve deeper into the enterprise data center market, as well as cloud computing. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- GM's Bob Lutz Takes Jalopnik to School
    Most if not all the challengers Thursday looked under the age of 50; most of the non-journalists heard about the challenge through YouTube videos and blogs.
    The best time belonged to John Heinricy , a retired GM test driver who had already taken the CTS-V around Germany'''s Nurburgring in less than eight minutes (that'''s fast). More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Snow White and the Disney vacation
    In Spector's game, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - Walt Disney's first cartoon star created in 1927 - becomes the earliest inhabitant of Yen Sid's Cartoon Wasteland after Mickey Mouse is created.
    A heroic tale of redemption and discovery, Disney Epic Mickey is an action-platforming game for Wii, featuring an iconic and retro Mickey Mouse inspired by cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Sony Power Problems Continue: 69000 AC Adapters Recalled
    These past few weeks seem to have been riddled with product recalls, yesterday we posted regarding Belkin's SurgeMaster recall , and recently we have also seen the recall of portable DVD players and Acer Laptops .
    Sony Electronics has announced a voluntary recall of the AD Adapters for the Sony VAIO computer. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- iTunes 9.0.2 improves app sorting
    Disney Interactive Media Group's Disney.com unit announced the launch of a new mobile application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, offering access to family-friendly news and entertainment as well as branded content including music, video and games.
    Well the millions of gamers who have an Xbox 360 and PS3 do pay $60 a game and that is the bottom line. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Do these genes make me drive poorly?
    About 30 percent of Americans have the genetic variant.
    BDNF supports brain cell communication and helps it to function optimally, which keeps the memory strong. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- The Earth Cools, and Fight Over Warming Heats Up
    Just two days before 350.org'''s International Day of Climate Action on October 24th, a new Pew poll found that Americans''' concern with global warming is declining. (Only 35 percent of the Pew respondents expressed strong concern about global warming, compared with 74 percent of the U.S. participants in World Wide Views.)
    By 2005, the graph had been exposed as invalid, and it is now disavowed by climate scientists. More...

  • Oct-30-2009 -- Google Adds Bing-like 'Similar Images' Feature
    Consumers: Perhaps the most obvious benefit of these partnerships is the ability for consumers to access a rich, personalized data stream of real-time updates about the world around them.
    About the Author: Nav is the founder and CEO of PageTraffic , a premier search engine company known for its assured SEO service, web design and development, copywriting and full time SEO professionals. More...

Thursday (Update 1)


  • Oct-29-2009 -- Sony Power Problems Continue: 69000 AC Adapters Recalled
    In a statement, the company said, "Sony has initiated a voluntary recall for certain AC power adapters which may short circuit and pose a potential electrical shock hazard."
    The defective AC adapters were sold at SonyStyle stores and Web site, authorized electronics retailers, and authorized dealers nationwide from September 2005 through October 2009, the CPSC and Sony said. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Apple TV software 3.0 on its way with itunes LP, Extras support
    Today, Apple have made a change to their iTunes Store terms and conditions, and somebody with a sharp eye and a lot of time on his hands, discovered something useful after ploughing through all the legal mumbo-jumbo apparently Apple's TV 3.0 software update is coming soon.
    Two things suggest new hardware: indications of a possible software update and a change in the design of the Apple remote. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Wicka-wicka-wicked: DJ Hero new, fresh, triumphant
    For my part, I found DJ Hero to be fresh by every conceivable definition of the word.
    Creating set lists with your friends and jamming out a few songs while the meat is still on the braai is effortless. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Video Game Review | Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
    Whether played as an appendage to Grand Theft Auto IV or as half of a standalone disc, the latest GTA installment offers a full game's worth of a series at its most intriguing and sexual, wild in ways not advertised.
    PROS: Long and interesting GTA experience; perfect for gamers who just want to revisit Liberty City again. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Sony Ericsson touts sleek and sexy Aino phone
    For unlocked purists and style seekers, the Sony Ericsson Aino''' phone is a 3G-enabled mobile phone that offers on-the-go entertainment and rich multimedia features.
    Providing a superior user experience, the Aino''' phone offers integrated Wi-Fi'' connection, an intuitive touch screen display and a dazzling 8.1 Megapixel camera. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Scientists Grow Sperm and Eggs From Stem Cells
    The scientists built on previous research in the mid-1990s by Reijo Pera that identified a number of genes involved in male infertility.
    The breakthrough means that scientists are on the road towards making sperm and eggs out of cells taken from previously infertile couples. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Nintendo profits freefall as iPhone cuts into portable game sales
    Disney Interactive Media Group's Disney.com unit announced the launch of a new mobile application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch, offering access to family-friendly news and entertainment as well as branded content including music, video and games.
    Walt Disney Co will soon be launching free touch applications for iPhone and iPod, which will enable the users to have access to Disney content whenever they want to. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Facebook De-friends Its App Verification Program
    To improve application discovery and engagement, Facebook will provide simplified navigation, prominent new dashboards including a new Apps Dashboard and Games Dashboard, and a new counter channel.
    Ethan also says that "the death of the platform is greatly exaggerated," ultimately referencing our past post. More...

Thursday


  • Oct-29-2009 -- Facebook woos developers with a roadmap
    Facebook has just announced at their Facebook???s Developer Garage that developers on their platform will be given access to their users email addresses.
    Facebook Wednesday threw its software developers a bone, releasing a '''roadmap''' of forthcoming features to help them plan their products. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Intel's next-gen memory closer to reality
    PCM uses chalcogenide glass and the application of heat to change states between crystalline and amorphous.
    In the race for next-gen storage supremacy, PCM is up against the likes of Spin Torque Transfer (STT-RAM) - a technology seen as a potential successor for the modern hard drive. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Why Ditching 'Family Guy' Deal is Good for Microsoft (and Us)
    Microsoft has canceled its sponsorship of Seth MacFarlane's upcoming variety special, citing content concerns, Variety reports.
    Find any mention of "Windows 7," cross it out with a pencil, and replace the term with the phrase "Snow Leopard." More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- Google's 'Gov Cloud' Wins $7.2 Million Los Angeles Contract
    Google is touting the deal as a major endorsement of its cloud-based approach to computing, but it turns out that some of the funding is indirectly coming from an unlikely source. just over $1.5 million for the project will come from the payout of a 2006 class action lawsuit.
    The Los Angeles City Council today approved replacing the city's crash-prone e-mail system with a Google-based application. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- The methane makers
    "Lord Stern, whose 2006 report set out the consequences and costs of various levels of global warming, has now called for humans to stop eating meat.
    Farming animals for meat does not necessarily require deforestation (countries like New Zealand produce meat without further deforestation). More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- rim's 'Much Improved' blackberry Storm2 Goes Live
    There are currently two versions of the Storm2 on the market: one that runs on U.S. CDMA networks as well as GSM networks (Storm2 9550); and another with only GSM frequencies (Storm2 9520).
    RIM has updated the Storm a number of times since it was originally released but now it was time to see if the SurePress technology was actually usable. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- 'hallowscreen': Classic spooky Disney cartoons
    In Spector's game, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - Walt Disney's first cartoon star created in 1927 - becomes the earliest inhabitant of Yen Sid's Cartoon Wasteland after Mickey Mouse is created.
    Oh, and the studio has trimmed three dollars off the original list price. More...

  • Oct-29-2009 -- How Twitter Search Will Help Google, Microsoft Bing
    The integration of Twitter's content into search results on Google and Bing is set to make an impression on corporate images online, as the immediacy of the results sets a new precedent in the industry.
    What are the implications? eWEEK solicits insight from search guru Danny Sullivan, social media expert Charlene Li and Gerry Campbell, CEO of real-time search startup Collecta. More...

Wednesday (Update 1)


  • Oct-28-2009 -- Robust climate deal still possible in December-UN
    Few believe that Congress will pass final legislation on any climate and energy bill before the end of the year, but as with COP15 in general, the hope is that Congress will have at least set a framework signaling what is acceptable at COP15.
    A deal then would be struck just in time to finalise a negotiating position for the UN climate conference, the final days of which EU leaders will attend before the conference ends on 17 December. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Modern Warfare 2 casting players as terrorists?
    At the beginning of the game, there are two 'checkpoints' where the player is advised that some people may find an forthcoming segment disturbing.
    Elsewhere, consumers can pick up the Hardened Edition, which features a copy of the game, a Steelbook case, an artbook and the downloadable version of the first Call Of Duty. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Comcast: FCC Action Unlawful, Should Be Reversed
    The rules have been sought by many large Internet companies such as Google , Facebook and Amazon.com, many consumer advocacy groups such as Free Press and Public Knowledge, many members of the FCC, and Internet pioneers like David Reed and Vint Cerf.
    The site offers Chairman Genachowski's recent speech on net neutrality and encourages the posting of comments in the style of a typical new site. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Mozilla releases SeaMonkey 2.0
    The Firefox 3.0.15 release notes list fewer items but still mention several security and stability fixes for that version of the web browser making it a recommended update as well.
    There's a heap-based buffer overflow in Mozilla's string to floating point number conversion routines. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Bing and Google announce Twitter Search
    "We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.
    On the corporate side of things: it launched about a year ago, and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Apps of the week: Getting the best read on your smartphone
    Just earlier, the online retailer has confirmed that an OS X version of the application is coming too, as reported by TUAW , though details are unfortunately bare currently.
    The new Amazon Kindle e-book reader could be "incredibly useful" for people on gap year adventures this year. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- MSN Music to Add Content From MySpace?
    The company that deserves credit as the first blockbuster social networking site has been overtaken by Facebook in terms of traffic and legitimacy, and Twitter by measure of rate of growth and hype.
    AllThingsD said the talks were preliminary and it was not clear what the financial terms would be in any tie-up between MSN and MySpace. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Ubuntu bug subjects TG Daily hack to wrath of fanbois
    Ubuntu 9.10's launch five days after Windows 7's is no coincidence.
    Until you start working on the desktop, using gui tools that joe average uses everyday, you will not realise how easy Linux makes it for the user to interact with the underlying hardware etc. As for driver support, its better than Windows. More...

Wednesday


  • Oct-28-2009 -- Latest Facebook redesign, I hate you most of all
    The changes once again shake up the information that you see by default when you visit your home page on the social networking site.
    "News Feed picks stories that we think you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors including how many friends have liked and commented on it and how likely you are to interact with that story," Facebook wrote on the company blog. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Lessons for nook from Zune
    In America, the Nook will cost $259 (£157), the same as Amazon's entry-level Kindle device, while the Alex has yet to be priced.
    Last week a pair of advanced e-book readers were unveiled in America. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Talk of "global cooling" based on bogus statistics
    Apart from the conflicting data analyses is the eyebrow-raising new book title from Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance."
    Statisticians who analyzed the data found a distinct decades-long upward trend in the numbers, but could not find a significant drop in the past 10 years in either data set. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Kindle For PC Could Trigger E-Book Piracy
    Just earlier, the online retailer has confirmed that an OS X version of the application is coming too, as reported by TUAW , though details are unfortunately bare currently.
    Sales of electronics and other general merchandise sales climbed 44 percent to 2.36 billion dollars. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Banks and auto sector got bailed out, are telecom providers next?
    The rules have been sought by many large Internet companies such as Google , Facebook and Amazon.com, many consumer advocacy groups such as Free Press and Public Knowledge, many members of the FCC, and Internet pioneers like David Reed and Vint Cerf.
    Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute recently explained at a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "National Broadband Plan Workshop" that it is necessary to have "a common space with shared facts." More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- VMware Fusion hits version 3.0
    VMware today announced that it has begun shipping VMware Fusion 3, the next generation of its virtualization software that allows users to run Windows applications alongside Mac OS X applications.
    In Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) you can click once on a file in Finder, then press the spacebar to see a preview. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- RIM blackberry Tour 9630
    There are currently two versions of the Storm2 on the market: one that runs on U.S. CDMA networks as well as GSM networks (Storm2 9550); and another with only GSM frequencies (Storm2 9520).
    The first Storm was plagued by poky performance, which made for murderously slow menu browsing; not so on the Storm2. More...

  • Oct-28-2009 -- Apple Travels Down Under to Shop Mysterious Tablet
    Mentioned is the Kindle, which had previously attempted to make the same kind of overtures in Australia that Apple is supposedly now making.
    Bill Keller of the NY Times has dropped the bomb by mentioning the upcoming Apple Slate tablet computer. More...

Tuesday (Update 1)


  • Oct-27-2009 -- Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative
    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, is relieved that Windows 7 is out.
    The first was Shuttleworth's description of Ubuntu as becoming an "end-to-end solution" -- not just a desktop, but a desktop, a server, a cloud infrastructure, and so on. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Latest Facebook redesign, I hate you most of all
    The changes once again shake up the information that you see by default when you visit your home page on the social networking site.
    Most developers will not be happy about the latest change because an unfiltered stream is always better than a filtered one. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- No such thing as free Internet bandwidth
    The rules have been sought by many large Internet companies such as Google , Facebook and Amazon.com, many consumer advocacy groups such as Free Press and Public Knowledge, many members of the FCC, and Internet pioneers like David Reed and Vint Cerf.
    The problem is that neither the principle of network neutrality ''' which deals with how broadband providers may charge differential rates for preferred business customers ''' or the need to preserve an '''open internet''' are precise words. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Did a Meteorite, or Nerdy Hoaxsters, Strike Latvia?
    A meteorite-like object crashed into a meadow in northern Latvia, creating a crater 27 feet (9 meters) wide and 9 feet (3 meters) deep, a geologist who visited the site said Monday.
    While many think the object was probably a meteorite, the authorities have suggested that it may have been space junk. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Yahoo Puts geocities Out Of Its Misery
    Practically the first mainstream model of an open, participatory and personal Internet, GeoCities enabled all Web users the free construction of a custom Web page, along with reserving some virtual storage capacity for keeping documents as well as pictures.
    Yahoo had purchased GeoCities for $3.57 billion and as of today, the site will no longer be accessible, bringing an end to an era. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- ICANN Wants To Fast Track Non-Latin Character Domain Names
    The Internet will get ready for Web addresses written completely in non-Latin characters - such as Korean, Chinese or Arabic - when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) finishes its 36th International Public Meeting this week.
    A translation system that allows multiple scripts to be converted to the address would make the change possible. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Apple Fan Fires Back With 'iDon't' Spoof
    In what seems as a major boost for Google's mobile Android mobile operating system, a number of leading mobile phone manufacturers have initiated plans to come up with devices that are based on the popular open source platform.
    Technology always catches up and leaders who use exclusive strategies get overrun by competitors with better distribution and advancing technologies solved for by multiple resources vs. single source, closed loop solutions. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- The Yes Men Get Sued
    The activist group, called the "Yes Men," on October 19 issued a press release and held a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and falsely saying the Chamber of Commerce had decided to support climate change legislation currently before the U.S. Congress.
    Judge Aurelio Munoz in Los Angeles Superior Court denied Love's motion to dismiss the case under California's anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law, which provides for speedy dismissal of lawsuits that aim to squelch people's right to speak about public matters. More...

Tuesday


  • Oct-27-2009 -- US Chamber Files Suit Against 'Yes Men' For Fake Briefing
    The activist group, called the "Yes Men," on October 19 issued a press release and held a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., posing as members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and falsely saying the Chamber of Commerce had decided to support climate change legislation currently before the U.S. Congress.
    A spokesman for the Chamber broke into the fake news conference and alerted the news media, but Reuters and other outlets had already issued reports. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- BlackBerry Storm 2 to blow in this week
    There are currently two versions of the Storm2 on the market: one that runs on U.S. CDMA networks as well as GSM networks (Storm2 9550); and another with only GSM frequencies (Storm2 9520).
    The BlackBerry Storm2 smartphone, a successor to the original Storm, will be available by the end of the month, Verizon Wireless announced today. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Mass. energy projects get $33.2m
    Liquid metal batteries, bacteria that convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into gasoline, and artificial enzymes for carbon capture represent just a few of the 37 projects that have received $151 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's new ARPA-E agency.
    Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations." More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Modern Warfare 2 getting third-person MP view
    Rumors starting flying around the Internet along with a video indicating "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" might feature a third-person shooting mode.
    The video below is supposed footage of the third person perspective in play. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- Facebook Becomes Erstwhile Digg Destroyer With Live Share Counter
    To further help Web site publishers measure the value of the Share content, Facebook today also opened up the analytics associated with sharing habits on Facebook.
    Obviously being asked to get back in touch with someone who's died is distressing, but I think the big picture here is that FB's made a really annoying faux pas in acting as though facebooking constitutes social interaction, instead of supplementing it. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- AT&T and astroturf: is "following the money" enough?
    Genachowski last month proposed new rules that would require Internet providers, including wireless carriers, to treat all web traffic equally.
    Andy Schwartzman, president of the Media Access Project, said '''I would say that the biggest change in the net neutrality debate has been the emergence of high speed wireless networks. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- 'Super Freakonomics' by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
    A wide spectrum of attendees from kicks-sporting teens to elderly couples and coworkers packed the hall for the authors' only New York appearance.
    "A lot of the best and brightest women stopped becoming school teachers in order to become bankers, lawyers and doctors," Dubner added. More...

  • Oct-27-2009 -- New York Times preparing for 'impending Apple slate'
    We're not expecting the Apple tablet until some time next year, but Bill Keller, executive of The New York Times, may have spilled the beans on the name for it.
    Sibling site Gizmodo has already reported a tip that representatives from the New York Times and other publishers have met with Apple to discuss content delivery for a new device. More...

Monday (Update 1)


  • Oct-26-2009 -- Tilera Unveils The First 100-Core Processor
    Looking to make its way into a market dominated by Intel and AMD, Tilera Corporation, a five-year-old fabless semiconductor startup focusing on scalable multi-core embedded processor design has unveiled the new Tile-GX series of server CPUs.
    AMD will shortly follow with a 12-core Opteron chip code-named Magny Cours. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- BlackBerry Storm2 Available Wednesday
    There are currently two versions of the Storm2 on the market: one that runs on U.S. CDMA networks as well as GSM networks (Storm2 9550); and another with only GSM frequencies (Storm2 9520).
    In the world of mobile technology, November 21st 2008 belonged to the BlackBerry Storm and Verizon Wireless. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Apple Tablet: Did The New York Times Spill the Beans?
    Apple's plans to launch a tablet in coming months may have gained credence today through a pair of possible leaks.
    Sibling site Gizmodo has already reported a tip that representatives from the New York Times and other publishers have met with Apple to discuss content delivery for a new device. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Facebook's New Front Page Looks DOA
    The changes once again shake up the information that you see by default when you visit your home page on the social networking site.
    Instead of offering a chronological view of what's been going on, it presents users with what it thinks are the most interesting updates at the top of the list moving down to the least important ones at the bottom - if you really want to go back through that many years worth of notifications that is. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- White House Web site makes open-source move
    The switch to Drupal, which is replacing a customised proprietary system installed during the Bush Administration, was meant to be transparent to users, but it has been noted that for example, official's names are now listed with announcements.
    As best I can tell -- and the best source seems to be the site techpresident --'' when it came into office, the Obama administration put out a request for proposal (RFP) to update the previous administration'''s version of the whitehouse.gov Web site.'' More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Could Apple wind up paying Nokia $1B over iphone patents?
    Nokia filed the lawsuit in the Federal District Court of Delaware claiming that the patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.
    As a leading innovator in wireless communications, Nokia has created one of the strongest and broadest patent portfolios in the industry, investing more than EUR 40 billion in R&D during the last two decades. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- us seen needing more health preparedness for climate change
    Now Williams is back, forced to step up again to report the lingering demise of yet another celebrated SuperMegaRockStar member of the Progressive Family, Global Warming.
    I prove that global temperature changes with respect to time to a statistical relevant level and I've proven the trend. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Daylight Savings Time 2009: When and Why We Fall Back
    Two years ago, Daylight Savings Time 2009 was switched from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday of November.
    When does the Daily Savings Time 2009 begin and end? A few might find it controversial that this phenomenon ever existed but yes it does. More...

Monday


  • Oct-26-2009 -- Apple dumps Sun's ZFS
    While most of the world is united today, rejoicing over Microsoft's release of Windows 7, Mac users will need to hang on to their party hats and streamers for just a little longer.
    With Windows 7 barely settled on store shelves ' and regardless of largely favourable reviews ' Apple's latest volley of smirk-covered criticism attempts to shine a humorous but negative spotlight upon Windows 7 to push disgruntled Windows users towards the secure simplicity and dependable reliability of Apple hardware. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Get an early taste of Dragon Age
    Originally dated for October 20, then pushed to November 3 for Xbox and PC, PS3 owners waiting for Dragon Age have been left in the dark for a while now as to when they could look forward to engaging in the latest of BioWare's epic RPGs.
    Along with the recently released character creator, Dragon Age Journeys should keep you busy until the game's official release on November 3. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- The View from the Climate Crossroads
    Now Williams is back, forced to step up again to report the lingering demise of yet another celebrated SuperMegaRockStar member of the Progressive Family, Global Warming.
    The emerging scientific evidence continues to strongly indicate that climate change models are too conservative if anything. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    In all, the environmental destruction caused by the fast food hamburger industry is at least 7 times worse than what burger munchers might have ever suspected. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Amazon Drops Kindle Pricing Again
    Amazon has dominated the market.
    The device, which could be out by the end of the year, will work on Wi-Fi or 3G, EDVO/CDMA and GSM mobile networks. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- How High Will Real-Time Search Fly?
    Revenue from online services, where Microsoft is battling Google and other Web giants, fell to 490 million dollars from 520 million dollars a year ago.
    With News and Blog results being drawn from a wide range of disparate sources it'''s difficult for search engines to get a consensus opinion of what'''s really newsworthy, and despite the speed with which many bloggers and news websites can publish new content, it'''s not always fast enough. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Why Challenging Apple's iPhone Is Possible for Verizon Motorola Droid
    In a Sunday post, technology blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch called the Droid "the first phone that will pose a significant threat to Apple's iPhone."
    Total BS coming from Verizon -Their marketing its based on totally misleading statements. More...

  • Oct-26-2009 -- Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner: review
    A wide spectrum of attendees from kicks-sporting teens to elderly couples and coworkers packed the hall for the authors' only New York appearance.
    With the help of technology, innovation and "SuperFreakonomics," here are five simple solutions to global problems. More...

Sunday (Update 1)


  • Oct-25-2009 -- Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You
    A business that sells HD video downloads over the Internet might sell less if customers have to buy premium Internet access in order to enjoy a movie.
    As promised by Chairman Julius Genachowski, the proposed rules governing wireless networks took into account that wireless networks have different network architectures, market structures, patterns of consumer usage and regulatory history than wired networks. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Who will foot bill for wolves?
    People need to decide how hunting's going to occur on the park boundaries," Smith said.
    An analysis from Montana's 2003 wolf management plan puts the state's annual cost for wolves in the $907,000 to $948,000 range. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Critical habitat in Alaska is proposed for polar bears
    The U.S. Department of Interior proposed Thursday to designate nearly a quarter million square miles of land, ice and sea along Alaska's north coast as "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act.
    The agency proposes that 200,000 square miles (518,000 sq km) of coastline and shallow Arctic Ocean waters be designated as critical habitat, a status of heightened protection afforded under the Endangered Species Act. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- 5 Ways I'd Pay for Hulu
    Disconcerting news, Hulu users: Broadcasting and Cable reports that new board member (and News Corp. Deputy Chairman) Chase Carey says Hulu must start charging for at least some of its content.
    Currently the only way to see that programming is to pay carrier fees via subscription. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- A Couple iPhone Apps Named "Twitter" Are Tricking Users
    U.S. Space Agency NASA has released their official mobile application on the Apple App Store.
    The NASA App facilitate users to track the current positions of the International Space Station and other spacecraft currently orbiting Earth in three views: a map with borders and labels, visible satellite imagery, or satellite overlaid with country borders and labels, informs NASA. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Modern Warfare 2 shipping with Steamworks
    The PC version of the game now has 162 one-star reviews on Amazon.co.uk - which is sure to make an impact on potential purchasers.
    I don't have nothing againest you Pc gamers (just like the Wii moms) Yes I think what IW is doing to ya is fucking wrong! I know games like Gears of War,Call of Duty 4, and alot more! RUNS super duper better and can go above 1080p!!! More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Get an early taste of Dragon Age
    Players explore the underground Dwarven realm of Orzammar .
    Apparently, BioWare "wanted more time to get PS3 to 'BioWare standards.'" More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Judge Throws out Craigslist Lawsuit
    A federal judge this week threw out Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's lawsuit seeking to force Craigslist to pull online ads Dart says sell sex.
    Grady added that Craigslist '''does not cause or induce anyone to create, post, or search for illegal content.''' More...

Sunday


  • Oct-25-2009 -- Dragon Age Origins Also Releasing on PS3 November 3
    Players explore the underground Dwarven realm of Orzammar .
    Consider me tuned in this Friday, October 23 at 11am PST. I greatly anticipate whatever it is that BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk have to say about the PS3 release of your spiritual sequel to the Baldur's Gate series. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- 5 Ways I'd Pay for Hulu
    How much would you be willing to pay to watch your favorite TV shows online? Not for the first time, the corporate suits behind online video-streaming Web site Hulu have suggested that the service might start charging in the future instead of relying on the ad-supported model it currently uses.
    Claire Atkinson, of Broadcasting & Cable, suggests that Carey'''s plan may be to reduce the free content and add some pay-to-view options--content specially created for the Internet or television previews. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Critical habitat in Alaska is proposed for polar bears
    The U.S. Department of Interior proposed Thursday to designate nearly a quarter million square miles of land, ice and sea along Alaska's north coast as "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act.
    Conservation groups said the habitat designation was a step forward, but it did not achieve significant strides to protect the bear without addressing the major threats to the species. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Judge Throws out Craigslist Lawsuit
    A federal judge this week threw out Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's lawsuit seeking to force Craigslist to pull online ads Dart says sell sex.
    Grady added that Craigslist '''does not cause or induce anyone to create, post, or search for illegal content.''' More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music
    All music videos will now be available through a "hub" on MySpace Music.
    MySpace Music now offers Buy links to iTunes as well as Amazon. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Church bells ring in unison around Denver Saturday
    The 350 is significant: According to NASA climatologist ]] climatologist James Hansen, 350 parts per million is the "safe upper limit" of carbon dioxide for the earth's atmosphere.
    Hall will be joining a group at St. Thomas''' Church, at the corner of Bridge and Church Streets, on Saturday at 3:50 p.m. to ring bells 350 times. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    In all, the environmental destruction caused by the fast food hamburger industry is at least 7 times worse than what burger munchers might have ever suspected. More...

  • Oct-25-2009 -- Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You
    A business that sells HD video downloads over the Internet might sell less if customers have to buy premium Internet access in order to enjoy a movie.
    Net Neutrality FAQ: What's in it for You Here's the status and some straight answers on the proposed rule change regarding ISPs' responsibilities and access. More...





Saturday


  • Oct-24-2009 -- Real Racing GTI
    A free version of Firemint Real Racing contains the new VW car -- players can also compete for one of six fully customized, limited edition GTIs via the Real Racing GTA App. "With the personalization of media and the challenges inherent with reaching constantly connected consumers, we tasked ourselves to rethink the way we launch vehicles in order to engage our consumers in a meaningful way," said Tim Ellis, Vice President of Marketing, Volkswagen of America, Inc. "The GTI customer is a tech-savvy consumer who enjoys social networking, playing games and spending time on mobile devices -- most often an iPhone.
    Sleaze ball or sweetheart? A new iPhone app claims it can help singles tell the difference. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Judge Throws out Craigslist Lawsuit
    A federal judge this week threw out Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's lawsuit seeking to force Craigslist to pull online ads Dart says sell sex.
    Grady added that Craigslist '''does not cause or induce anyone to create, post, or search for illegal content.''' More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Critical habitat in Alaska is proposed for polar bears
    The U.S. Department of Interior proposed Thursday to designate nearly a quarter million square miles of land, ice and sea along Alaska's north coast as "critical habitat" under the Endangered Species Act.
    Conservation groups said the habitat designation was a step forward, but it did not achieve significant strides to protect the bear without addressing the major threats to the species. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- MySpace Trying To Regain Lost Ground With Games and Music
    All music videos will now be available through a "hub" on MySpace Music.
    MySpace Music now offers Buy links to iTunes as well as Amazon. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Sex and Smartphones: 5 Apps Edgier Than Pepsi's 'Amp Up'
    MILWAUKEE — PepsiCo Inc. has removed the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping.
    AMP UP Before You Score--a free application touting PepsiCo's Amp Energy drink and touted as a "road map to success with your favorite kinds of women"--generated user reviews calling the app "sexist and stupid" and "a great new case study for branded apps gone wrong." More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Getting Blu-ray on a new 27-inch iMac
    October 23, 2009 - Yesterday in an interview with Gizmodo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked if the company had any plans for adding a Blu-ray drive to the Xbox 360 and set the internet ablaze with his response, suggesting that consumers will eventually be able to purchase Blu-ray drives as accessories .
    If Sony can afford to make a PS4, there will probably only be a couple of games worth having on it, a far cry for the dozens on the PS1 and PS2 that were must buys. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Kindle software coming to Mac; Google Chrome hits milestone
    Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, Google's co-founder and president of technology, Sergey Brin, fielded questions on a variety of touchy topics ranging from the Yahoo/Microsoft search deal, legal battles with news and book publishers, and whether or not Google planned to buy Twitter.
    Brin also defended Google against traditional news industry titans that accuse the Internet firm of cashing in by indexing stories in search results pages featuring online advertising. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    Now with 7 times more E-Coli. More...

Saturday


  • Oct-24-2009 -- Watchdog: DHS followed rules on stimulus spending
    "NIISO has never been and is not now operational," said DHS spokesman Matthew Chandler, confirming that a different program with the same name was initiated at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2005.
    Despite Obama's promises that the $787 billion stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the department used a selection process for renovating border crossings that is secretive and vulnerable to political influence. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Getting Blu-ray on a new 27-inch iMac
    October 23, 2009 - Yesterday in an interview with Gizmodo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was asked if the company had any plans for adding a Blu-ray drive to the Xbox 360 and set the internet ablaze with his response, suggesting that consumers will eventually be able to purchase Blu-ray drives as accessories .
    Ballmer's got quite a reputation for getting things wrong (he comes over as an idiot, to be honest) so I wouldn't be surprised if he's misspoken here and actually means people can buy a stand-alone Blu-Ray player. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Judge Throws out Craigslist Lawsuit
    A federal judge this week threw out Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's lawsuit seeking to force Craigslist to pull online ads Dart says sell sex.
    "Craigslist unabashedly facilitates prostitution, then ultimately makes a profit from it," Dart said in a release, pointing to the annual $80 million in revenue Craigslist generates. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Sex and Smartphones: 5 Apps Edgier Than Pepsi's 'Amp Up'
    MILWAUKEE — PepsiCo Inc. has removed the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping.
    AMP UP Before You Score--a free application touting PepsiCo's Amp Energy drink and touted as a "road map to success with your favorite kinds of women"--generated user reviews calling the app "sexist and stupid" and "a great new case study for branded apps gone wrong." More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- NASA iPhone app full of surprises for space geeks
    Video game rental service Gamefly launched its GameCenter App in the App Store Thursday.
    Nasa's iPhone app, matter-of-factly named "NASA app for iPhone," aggregates it all, including Twitter feeds, orbit trackers, images, video and mission updates. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Miller says MySpace will focus on music and gaming to turn itself around
    All music videos will now be available through a "hub" on MySpace Music.
    Mobile is going to be a key part of News Corp.' s strategy going forward, Miller said. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    Coming soon, the Chic-fil-a OS X ten-slab leopard chicken sandwich. More...

  • Oct-24-2009 -- Google Chrome for Mac "developer preview" now official
    Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, Google's co-founder and president of technology, Sergey Brin, fielded questions on a variety of touchy topics ranging from the Yahoo/Microsoft search deal, legal battles with news and book publishers, and whether or not Google planned to buy Twitter.
    Apple Applies for Patent on OS With Embedded Advertising "Want to launch Microsoft Office? Sure, but first a word from our sponsor." More...

Friday


  • Oct-23-2009 -- Pepsi Removes "Amp Up" iPhone App, Humanity Rejoices
    MILWAUKEE — PepsiCo Inc. has removed the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping.
    Personally, I thought AMP should capitalize on the publicity and perhaps release an iPhone app for women that stereotypes men, but it appears that the company decided to take the path of least resistance instead. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Mozilla Releases Raindrop, a Prototype Messaging Tool
    Raindrop in development - one design for the email and messaging manager Mozilla Labs developers have revealed project Raindrop , an approach to handling a large number of messages from email and RSS to YouTube and Twitter.
    Mozilla has introduced a new inbox program called Raindrop. They refer to it as an "exploration in messaging innovation" to "explore new ways to use Open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences." More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Big in Japan: Burger King Sells Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    If you want the meat cooked, that's Whopper 7 Home and costs 10 bucks. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- News Corp. digital chief: MySpace 'kind of stopped'
    All music videos will now be available through a "hub" on MySpace Music.
    New York, October 22 -- The three most fierce competitors on the World Wide Web have locked their horns again, this time to provide various services to people to discover and buy new music online. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Carbon advantage of biofuels may be overstated
    Indirect land use will be responsible for substantially greater carbon losses (up to twice as much) than direct land use.
    A long-standing forest might be clear cut in Indonesia and replaced with a plantation of palms to make biodiesel. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Despite Windows 7, Linux raps harder at company doors
    For it the two software creators have stacked the IBM Client for Smart Work, a collaboration and productivity package that was released just a month ago, on top of Canonicals well-known Ubuntu Linux operating system.
    How well do popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE stack up against Microsoft's new desktop flagship, Windows 7? eWEEK Labs identified 10 features new in Windows 7 and put them head-to-head with popular Linux distros to see how the platforms compete. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- BioWare's Flash-based Dragon Age Journeys Available Now
    Game developer BioWare and EA 2D, a new game development team at Electronic Arts focused on browser-based games, have just launched Dragon Age Journeys.
    As I understand it, the Blood Dragon Armour is included for DA when you buy that. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- A Fifth of Internet Users Now Share Status Updates, Pew Says
    WASHINGTON — Sharing status updates on online services such as Twitter or Facebook is becoming increasingly popular among Americans, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
    We've also included a few more graphs depicting data on internet users status updating and mobile behavior from the Pew report. More...

Friday


  • Oct-23-2009 -- Microsoft opens first-ever retail store in Scottsdale
    As Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT ) released its much-talked about Windows 7 operating system, the software giant quietly opened its first retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona.
    People camped out overnight in sixty degree temperatures (brrr!) to be among the first to enter the store, and the line persisted in being almost a quarter of a mile in length hours after opening. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Canonical Takes on Win 7 With Ubuntu 9.10 RC
    For it the two software creators have stacked the IBM Client for Smart Work, a collaboration and productivity package that was released just a month ago, on top of Canonicals well-known Ubuntu Linux operating system.
    I will say I used linux and ubuntu allot but you do need to use the terminal a fair amount if you want to be able to do stuff efficiently (mainly to install new software not in the repository's etc.) More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Full Motorola Droid Specs Leak Before Announcement
    In an aggressive new ad campaign teasing a mystery phone with the potential to slay Apple's leading smartphone, Verizon Wireless appears to have thrown down the gauntlet.
    The Cliq won't eclipse Apple's iPhone, but it shows Motorola is serious about carving a new niche in a fiercely competitive market. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Ballmer Discusses Natal, Blu-ray on Xbox 360 - Hyrb Clarifies
    Blu-ray disc sales would have to overcome sales of DVDs, as well.
    The two-disc Blu-ray and DVD versions are also packed with bonus features created especially for home entertainment audiences by Judd Apatow and his entire production team, including actual footage of Adam Sandler's and Apatow's personal prank phone calls, additional stand-up comedy performances by the cast, and in-depth video diaries chronicling the filmmaking process. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Pepsi's Amp app will no longer 'help' men seduce women
    MILWAUKEE — PepsiCo Inc. has removed the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping.
    PURCHASE, New York - PepsiCo is removing the iPhone application that promised to help men "score" with different types of women about a week after it was criticized for stereotyping. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- WiMax Coming to Chicago Next Month
    Clearwire and Sprint will also launch 4G service in Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina; and Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio, Texas in November.
    In November, Clearwire, Comcast and Sprint will begin sales in Chicago, and all three providers will begin selling in Seattle/Tacoma area in early December. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Obama & Google (a love story)
    The company publicly maintains that it is first and foremost a resource on technology issues in Washington -- going so far as to provide actual technological support to legislators and agencies that want to learn more about downloading online applications and other web services.
    The most visible appointee is Google's former head of global public policy, Andrew McLaughlin, who was named deputy chief technology officer in June. More...

  • Oct-23-2009 -- Carbon advantage of biofuels may be overstated
    Indirect land use will be responsible for substantially greater carbon losses (up to twice as much) than direct land use.
    In a key difference, bioenergy has been seen as preferable for combating climate change because overall emissions are -- in theory -- reduced, because biomass results from additional plant growth. More...

Thursday


  • Oct-22-2009 -- New Acer Aspire gives gamers a 3D perspective
    Featuring advanced display capabilities, high-definition graphics engine, premium Intel'' Core''' 2 Duo processor and Dolby'' surround sound, the Aspire 5738DG delivers cinematic images that literally pop from the screen, while maintaining the performance and productivity features of a desktop replacement notebook.
    ''The 1820PT Timeline has 4GB of DDR3 memory, either 250GB or 320GB storage, GMA X4500MHD graphics and supports up to 8GB of RAM. Connectivity includes gigabit ethernet, WiFi a/b/g and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, with optional UMTS/HSPA. ''There are also three USB 2.0 ports, both VGA and HDMI, and audio in/out, together with a multiformat card reader, while the whole tablet measures 285 x 208.9 x 28.5-34.5 mm and weighs 1.72kg. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- RIM develops a better blackberry browser
    Specs on the new model include the following: a 624 MHz processor with 256 MB of Flash memory; 3.2 megapixel camera; and GPS capability to use AT&T's Navigator directions service that includes real-time traffic data.
    The BlackBerry Bold 9700 improves on the original Bold upping the camera to 3.2 megapixels and a 480 x 360 screen, packs in the new BlackBerry OS 5.0 and the new trackpad first seen on the BlackBerry Curve 8520, and will ship in 900/1700/2100 and 800/850/1900/1200 3G models. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Japan's Toshiba launches fuel cell for mobiles
    We can hardly believe it but the day has finally arrived: Toshiba just launched the first Dynario fuel-cell for portable consumer electronics.
    Toshiba has been promising to release a fuel cell product since January this year. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Obama & Google (a love story)
    The company publicly maintains that it is first and foremost a resource on technology issues in Washington -- going so far as to provide actual technological support to legislators and agencies that want to learn more about downloading online applications and other web services.
    Infoconnect Web Technologies India Pvt Ltd can not be held responsible for errors or omissions in content, nor for the authenticity of the user/company name or email addresses associated with posted messages. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Springfield joins global action for climate change
    STRATTON MOUNTAIN -- In recognition of 350.org ]] 350.org ]] 350.org ]] 350.org , Bill McKibben's climate change initiative, Stratton Mountain Resort is organizing a hike to the summit with Hubert Schriebl, a renowned photographer and mountaineer, on Saturday starting at 8 a.m. The round trip hike is approximately four miles.
    In Poland, panelists at the UN Climate Change meeting in Poznan advocated urgent action on climate change mitigation, saying that reductions in SO2 concentrations, which have a cooling effect on the planet although causing acid rain, have unmasked new dangers from black carbon that is trapping heat in the atmosphere and, after falling top the ground, is reducing the reflection of heat by ice and snow. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- To complete your day, the Windows 7 Whopper
    Microsoft sure has taken some strange advertising techniques for the Windows 7 launch, and none more than its latest deal with Burger King in Japan.
    Which is where the Windows 7 Whopper comes in. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Twitter hits tweenhood
    Despite boasting its 5-billionth tweet recently, Twitter 's not "looking in the couch cushions for a revenue model," according to CEO Evan Williams.
    Evan Williams, the chief executive of micro-blogging service Twitter, says it's time to kill the service's controversial 'Suggested User List'. More...

Thursday


  • Oct-22-2009 -- Not much to tweet about in Twitter CEO talk
    Despite boasting its 5-billionth tweet recently, Twitter 's not "looking in the couch cushions for a revenue model," according to CEO Evan Williams.
    SAN FRANCISCO — If you're trying to figure out who to follow on Twitter, you might soon be turning to fellow users for help, rather than the company itself. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Acer goes deep with 3-D laptop for gaming, movies
    Featuring advanced display capabilities, high-definition graphics engine, premium Intel'' Core''' 2 Duo processor and Dolby'' surround sound, the Aspire 5738DG delivers cinematic images that literally pop from the screen, while maintaining the performance and productivity features of a desktop replacement notebook.
    If you've ever wanted to put on funny glasses to use your laptop. Acer's Aspire 5738DG notebook packs 3D technology. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Another Try for a Windows Phone, but It's Still Clunky
    The best improvements come in new features and apps, not in the interface design, and the new WinMo touchscreen interface is only a short step better than the non-touchscreen Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard interface we saw on the Samsung Jack.
    Some of the especially jarring UI elements, like the Windows 3.1-esque radio buttons and aging contacts app, have been given a bubbly, antialiased skin, which, like it or not, is at the bare minimum less retro than what was there before. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Will Verizon really open its Droid?
    Network World - Just because Apple's iPhone can't be killed doesn't mean Verizon is going to stop trying.
    Submitted by Anonymous on October 19, 2009 - 12:18 P.M. Maybe that will put some pressure on Apple to support things like Java and Flash? Right now it's like a working with a device 5 years behind the rest of the world in application portability. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- AT&T sues LCD manufacturers over price fixing
    AT&T has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday against Samsung, LG Display, AU Optronics and other LCD makers for allegedly colluding on fixing the price of display panels in the U.S. According to a Wednesday Bloomberg report, AT&T claimed Samsung and six others have formed an illegal international cartel meant to '''restrict competition in the United States in the market for LCD panels.'''
    Use AT&T to set an example to ALL the U.S. Telcoms be careful when filing lawsuits. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- IBM Teams With Ubuntu For Windows 7 Alternative
    IBM Client for Smart Work includes the free word processing, spreadsheets, presentations from IBM Lotus Symphony; e-mail from IBM Lotus Notes or the company's new LotusLive iNotes cloud-based e-mail application, which starts at $3 per user per month; and the LotusLive.com social networking and collaboration tools, which cost $10 per user per month.
    Most of the comments about IBM's release of a Linux desktop package have been about timing it to compete with Windows 7's release. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Web 2.0 Summit: GE Introduces Handheld Ultrasound Device
    SAN FRANCISCO — General Electric (GE) on Tuesday unveiled an ultrasound device about the size of an iPhone, saying the gadget could become "the stethoscope of the 21st century."
    Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. More...

  • Oct-22-2009 -- Apollo-Era Crawler Carries Test Rocket to Launch Pad
    Nasa's new rocket arrived at the launch pad yesterday for a test flight next week at a time when the future of the country's space-flight programme is uncertain.
    Members with close links to NASA, like Shelby, do not want to see any changes to the agency'''s Constellation Program that could cost jobs or upset contractors building the Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule. More...

Wednesday


  • Oct-21-2009 -- ASA to probe drowning dog climate ad
    The number 350 refers to parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. 350 ppm is the level that scientists have identified as the safe upper limit of CO2.
    The report concludes that we need to take a far more sophisticated approach to ensure that biofuels are developed in an environmentally friendly way. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- 'Borderlands' a blast for shooter, RPG fans
    The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned is in development at Gearbox Software and is the first in a series of downloadable expansions that will enhance the Borderlands mayhem in fun and exciting ways.
    Like everyone else is saying, it's perfect for the games w/o demos. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- New White Unibody MacBook Torn Apart, Aluminum Case Revealed
    The bottom of the casing also no longer sports rubber feet in the corners, but is instead coated entirely in non-slide rubber.
    The difference is a notably brighter output, although when viewed next to each other, the new MacBook shows a significant yellow color shift when changing your horizontal viewing angle (the previous model simply got more washed out). More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Apollo-Era Crawler Carries Test Rocket to Launch Pad
    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL -- NASA took another step to returning man to the moon Tuesday morning with the rollout of the first Ares I-X rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. Next Tuesday's launch of the Ares I-X is NASA's inaugural test flight of its Constellation Program which will eventually take astronauts and a payload to the International Space Station, the moon, and Mars.
    In the meantime, experts will discuss existing programs and projects at the symposium at the Von Braun Center this week while they prepare for Ares' launch next week. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Details on Verizon's Second Android Phone Leak Out
    The Motorola Droid Phone that will be available on the Verizon network by the end of the month will come with the much talked about Google Android 2.0 OS. BGR has already spent a little time with the phone and thought they would offer a mini review; the in-depth review will come later.
    Of course, the fact that the Droid beats the iPhone on a number of spec- and feature-related fronts doesn't make it a breakthrough. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Halley's Comet fragments cause autumn meteor spectacle
    Reports of fireballs falling from the sky have been coming in around the nation over the past few days and it's no coincidence.
    The Orionids happen each year, and is located near the constellation Orion, and are created by the debris left over from the orbit of Halley's Comet. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Gartner Predicts IT Spending Rebound In 2010
    In a statement cautioning the IT leaders, Sondergaard said: "While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012."
    Gartner estimates that 2009 worldwide enterprise IT spending will total some $2.3 trillion, compared with $2.5 trillion in 2008. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- GE shows off handheld ultrasound device
    Computerworld - Someday in the not-so-distant future your doctor might take an ultrasound of a patient with a handheld device that's just a bit bigger than a Blackberry.
    The Vscan is aimed in part at primary care doctors, who could use it instead of sending patients to get an ultrasound at a specialist's office. More...

Wednesday


  • Oct-21-2009 -- Video-Game Stocks Fall On Disappointing Sales Data
    While complete sales figures across all platforms were not available as of press time, commentary by Frazier revealed that the former came out on top. "We know all eyes are going to be on the Rock Band and Guitar Hero sales since the music/dance genre has been so closely followed by many this year," said Frazier.
    ODST had some stiff competition in September, with new top ten software appearances from games like Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the only portable game to chart, Madden NFL 10 and The Beatles: Rock Band. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Nvidia Aims For A 3-D Cloud With RealityServer 3.0
    The NVIDIA RealityServer platform is comprised of an NVIDIA® TeslaopnbrktTMclsbrkt RS GPU-based server running RealityServer software from mental images.
    The dataset, typically too large to reside on the client, would live remotely on the RealityServer, a solution that NVIDIA has been pushing for some time now. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Video: The Rejected Windows Marketplace Apps (Humor)
    Microsoft Corp.' s first store looks ready to open in an upscale Phoenix valley city in the next few days, as the software maker takes its first step in trying to match rival Apple Inc.' s successful venture into retail.
    In addition to Windows 7 PCs, the Arizona store will also reportedly feature mobile phones running Microsoft software and Xbox 360 game consoles, as well as a massive 94-inch video screen, according to The Wall Street Journal. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- We're going to need guns: Ars reviews Borderlands
    The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned is in development at Gearbox Software and is the first in a series of downloadable expansions that will enhance the Borderlands mayhem in fun and exciting ways.
    Quest items will always be in the same spots, vendors will never move, and even the chests, safes, and weapon caches will always be in the same locations in every playthrough. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Gartner: Brace yourself for cloud computing
    In a statement cautioning the IT leaders, Sondergaard said: "While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012."
    The previous worst year was 2001, when the bursting of the Internet bubble resulted in a 1.5% decline, says Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Twitter CEO Evan Williams Vaguely Discusses Revenue Model at Web 2.0 Summit
    For an overview, Battelle at first focused on revenue.
    Wired has just reported , in a piece on the rocket-ship microblogging service Twitter, that they will be bringing in revenue of "a modest $4 million or so this year." More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- AMD Reveals Microprocessors for Windows 7 Desktops.
    The new chips are aimed at mainstream computer users looking for bargains on new PCs during the holiday season and include two quad cores (the X4 2.3GHz '605e' and 2.2GHz '600e'), four triple cores (the X3 2.9GHz '435', 2.7GHz '425' and 2.3GHz '405e') and two dual core processors (the X2 2.8GHz '240e' and 2.7GHz '235e').
    We already know that, at $120, the Phenom II X3 720 BE is one of the best performing CPUs for the money. More...

  • Oct-21-2009 -- Canon Responds With Its Own New Super D-SLR
    Canon has announced the next evolution in its EOS 1D series of cameras: the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV Digital SLR camera, a high-speed multimedia performance monster with a 16-megapixel Canon CMOS sensor, Dual DIGIC 4 Imaging Processors, and 14-bit A/D data conversion, all at 10 frames-per-second (fps), with the widest ISO range Canon has produced to date.
    Aside from smooth video and more sensitive focusing, the EOS-1D Mark 4 offers 16 megapixel images and 802.11n file transmission. More...

Tuesday


  • Oct-20-2009 -- Gartner: Loosen up on social networks, security
    In a statement cautioning the IT leaders, Sondergaard said: "While the IT industry will return to growth in 2010, the market will not recover to 2008 revenue levels before 2012."
    Analysts at Gartner noted that emerging regions will resume strong growth in the coming years and are expected to have increasing influences on the future of the IT industry. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Richard Stallman Joins Call for Oracle to Divest MySQL
    Monty Widenius, the Finnish software pioneer who founded MySQL, offered Monday a new solution to protect open source database management provider MySQL from vanishing into the belly of a giant software vendor: set it free.
    MySQL creator Michael Widenius urged Oracle on Monday to commit to selling MySQL in order to resolve antitrust concerns. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower Peak Begins
    Composed of dust left behind when Halley's comet passed by, the Orionids are one of the most consistent meteor showers every year.
    The first known Orionid shower was recorded by the Chinese in AD 288, when "stars fell like rain." More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Get Free Wi-Fi on Virgin America
    How do you ease the pain of holiday travel? How about free in-flight Wi-Fi? Virgin America is teaming up with Google to offer free Internet service on every flight during the holiday season.
    Airlines have increasingly been introducing Wifi to their flights so that passengers can browse the internet while traipsing the planet. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Brisk iPhone Sales Bode Well for Social Game Makers
    Our Apple-focused affiliate, MacWorld , discovered earlier today that an update to the iPhone Developer Program has allowed the use of in-app transactions in free apps, a practice that was previously limited to paid apps.
    There's plenty of potential outside the house, too. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Athlon II X3 435 and more
    There are two big differences: the Phenom II X3 710 lacks a fourth CPU core and it retains the Phenom II line's 6MB of L3 cache.
    Even Intel fanboys benefit if AMD get back in the game. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Google Now Hides Google Voice Voicemail
    After transcripts of some voice mail messages from Google Voice users appeared in search results, Google has modified the telephony management service to prevent this from happening, the company said Monday.
    Google Voice is an online service designed to simplify the management of telephony tasks by, for example, generating automated transcripts of voice mail messages. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- ITunes Launches New Twitter Accounts
    Apple is a company that doesn't often jump bandwagons; they rather have everyone else jump on theirs.
    Apple has cross-promoted the Twitter accounts, with a background that advertises to the other iTunes-related pages. More...

Tuesday


  • Oct-20-2009 -- Rock Band for iPhone doesn't exactly rock
    EA Mobile has launched its Rock Band iPhone game, complete with a four-player Bluetooth mode for simultaneous rocking out on vocals, drums, bass and guitar.
    We thought we'd be treated to a host of pre-release hype, but no, none of that. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Hands On with Facebook and Twitter for Xbox LIVE
    Speaking in a video interview with GTTV, Pachter said that Microsoft would raise the cost of access to the Xbox 360 online service in a bid to drive profits.
    They should put their competitors on the Xbox instead. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Microsoft To Leap Back Into Retail This Week
    While still consigned to the realm of rumour ' mainly because the Redmond-based software titan has not actually officially dated its store opening ' a related report by technology watchers Engadget suggests Microsoft's first bricks and mortar outlet will indeed welcome customers on Thursday.
    In addition to Windows 7 PCs, the Arizona store will also reportedly feature mobile phones running Microsoft software and Xbox 360 game consoles, as well as a massive 94-inch video screen, according to The Wall Street Journal. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Verizon's Quad-Play Bundle
    For customers served by Verizon's copper network, the lead quad-play bundle consists of the national Verizon Wireless calling plan of 450 minutes, a Freedom Essentials calling plan, HSI service with downstream connection of up to 3 Mbps and the DIRECTV® PLUS DVRÔ package for $124.99 per month.
    The easiest way to see the effect of Verizon'''s new price plans is to look at the baseline service for FiOS customers. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Ballmer: Sidekick outage 'not good'
    "The Danger/Microsoft team is continuing to work around the clock on the data restoration process," Microsoft said in a statement Sunday.
    Over the long term, the Sidekick incident could potentially affect More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- New App Store Rules Good News for iPhone Users
    Although Apple's return of EyeTV 1.0 might have been simply an oversight, maybe it represents yet another step by Apple toward greater leniency with developers in the face of rising competition from other mobile development environments, most notably Google's Android.
    Sometimes even a do-gooder company flubs something badly enough that it deserves to take some crap. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Microsoft Preps Sharepoint 2010, Office 2010 Public Betas
    LAS VEGAS, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- K2, a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV partner, today announced planned support in its products for the upcoming releases of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
    By extending SharePoint Server'''s portal capabilities, viewPoint accelerates time-to-deployment while reducing the costs associated with complex BPM user applications, aiding in quicker user adoption. More...

  • Oct-20-2009 -- Study: The Internet Is Altering Our Brains
    Study author Dr Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behaviour at UCLA, said: "We found that for older people with minimal experience, performing internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can change brain activity patterns and enhance function.
    The first scan of participants with little internet experience demonstrated brain activity in regions controlling language, reading, memory and visual abilities. More...

Monday


  • Oct-19-2009 -- 2012: Eh, It's Not the End Of the World
    The site suggests "that in 2012 a series of cataclysmic forces will wreak havoc on our planet."
    It seems a confluence of events--the coming end of the Mayan calendar, for one, and the marketing of a new apocalyptic movie, for another--is fueling hysteria that Armageddon is just a few years away. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Verizon Adds Wireless For 'Quad-Play' Services Bundle
    The company has been pushing so-called triple-play service discounts for customers who use Verizon home phone, broadband and video.
    Additional bundles feature different broadband speeds, TV and calling plans. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Apple unbans banned 3G TV app
    Apple has announced that they will be allowing free apps to enable in-app purchases.
    ''So when you start posing on the cover of Fortune and talk about becoming a multibillion-dollar company, well, the honeymoon is over, even if you are great for the environment. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- NASA moon crash did kick up debris plume as hoped
    The plume of debris would have had to climb about three-quarters of a mile out of the shadow of Cabeos crater's wall into sunlight for that to happen, Colaprete said in an e-mail.
    During the Oct. 9 crash in to the Moon s Cabeus crater , the nine LCROSS instruments successfully captured each phase of the impact sequence: the impact flash, the ejecta plume, and the creation of the Centaur crater. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- The Android-Based E-Reader Is Real
    The Alex livens up text with multimedia links, adding a new dimension to the reading experience and potentially creating a whole new industry for secondary publications that supplement and enhance original text.
    No pricing information has been provided. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Global Kindle Strengthens Amazon's E-Reader Lead, But For How Long?
    Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.
    Tom Turvey, head of Google Book Search's publisher partnership program, said Thursday the e-book market is evolving to allow access of books from anywhere and from any device. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- WHNT NEWS 19 Debuts New iPhone App
    EA Mobile has launched its Rock Band iPhone game, complete with a four-player Bluetooth mode for simultaneous rocking out on vocals, drums, bass and guitar.
    Rockband for iPhone and iPod touch is now available in the iTunes App Store. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Mario voice actor confirms new Mario game
    Early debate over Nintendo's patent for built-in help systems in upcoming titles brought the relevance and necessity of such a feature into question.
    Mario Party 9 - The title fits in with the family and friends theme of the Wii and the last one was in 2007. More...

Monday


  • Oct-19-2009 -- US TV Body Approves Mobile Standard
    The current network of broadcast transmission towers that carry TV signals to your home will be retrofitted to also deliver a Mobile DTV signal.
    After plenty of half-hearted attempts at mobile video from wireless carriers and Qualcomm , the ATSC has defined a standard that should, at long last, bring live streaming video to our phones. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Uncharted 160GB PS3 Bundle Drops To $299 At Sony Style - PS3 News
    T he soul of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Naughty Dog/Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment/Rate Teen), a PlayStation 3 exclusive from Santa Monica-based Naughty Dog studios, isn't its graphics, which are beautiful, believable and more often than not quite spectacular.
    Though games that try to pull together so many strands often feel disjointed, Uncharted 2 manages to feel completely coherent at all times. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Why 'Modern Warfare 2's' campaign skips the co-op
    Yesterday Infinity Ward Creative Specialist Robert Bowling went on an information dropping streak about the upcoming PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
    Infinity Ward unsure of Modern Warfare 2 PC delay Earlier rumours suggested that the PC version of Modern Warfare. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- 12 Phones Strong, Android Army Mobilizes for Explosive Growth
    Available on the Hero (with the Tattoo to follow), it includes widgets,'scenes' to offer different homescreens based on the time of day, more social network aggregation, and a visually arresting 'perspectives' content interface.
    Has it? Not yet, but as the year has gone on, there have been more signs that Android is picking up traction with handset makers, operators and application developers. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- PepsiCo iPhone 'app' is blasted as sexist
    PepsiCo'''s (PEP) tweeted an apology for its new Apple (AAPL) iPhone app that is designed to help guys pick up the ladies.
    The Before You Score app is full of pick-up lines with women neatly categorized under Celebrity, Punk, Athlete, Businesswoman. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- AT&T finds a double-edged sword in iPhone
    Strong iPhone sales should boost AT&T's third-quarter subscriber numbers in next week's results report, providing growth for a company whose top executive recently warned that sales to the business market won't recover for another year.
    The truth is that Verizon is conducting business as usual and consumers are paying a premium for service. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- Voice of Mario hints at new game, not Galaxy or NSMB
    Miyamoto: I think that a lot of times people will buy a video game and if they can play through the end, they'll play through the end but some people will buy a strategy guide or go online.
    ""Miyamoto is human like all of us, people act like the next thing he makes is better then the last. More...

  • Oct-19-2009 -- First Borderlands DLC to drop this year
    In what's sure to get everyone up in arms, the first batch of downloadable content that will be made available for Borderlands has been announced. before the game has even hit store shelves.
    You know that $10+ you are so pissed about goes in M$and $ony's pockets right and has zip to do with the developer. More...

Sunday


  • Oct-18-2009 -- Mystery Space "Ribbon" Found at Solar System's Edge
    The solar wind engulves our solar system like a cocoon: This continuous plasma flow that emanates from the Sun is protecting us from the interstellar medium, especially from the cosmic rays.
    A telling bit of overstretch to compare my comment to obeisance to a religious belief. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- 12 Phones Strong, Android Army Mobilizes for Explosive Growth
    Available on the Hero (with the Tattoo to follow), it includes widgets,'scenes' to offer different homescreens based on the time of day, more social network aggregation, and a visually arresting 'perspectives' content interface.
    Mobile Support - just about every one of my favorite tools also has mobile support' and hopefully not simply basic web access via a mobile web browser but a full-blown mobile application. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 bundle gets November 10th release date
    The tides have definitely turned this past month in Sony's favor.
    Life's good for everyone. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Bigger Oracle Targets IBM As Main Rival
    With his trademark cockiness, Ellison led the conference audience through some of the latest Oracle offerings.
    When you look at the size of ours it has a couple of extra digits." More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Week in Apple: failing Time Capsules, Snow Leopard bug, Google-Apple ties
    You see, a number of people, and let me just say I agree with them, think it's unfair and maybe even a bit paradoxical to say that''Windows 7 runs slower or performs poorly on an Apple MacBook Pro computer.
    Rather than negatively impacting Mac sales, a new report provides evidence that the impending launch of Windows 7 could actually be a boon for Apple. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- PepsiCo iPhone 'app' is blasted as sexist
    PepsiCo'''s (PEP) tweeted an apology for its new Apple (AAPL) iPhone app that is designed to help guys pick up the ladies.
    The Before You Score app is full of pick-up lines with women neatly categorized under Celebrity, Punk, Athlete, Businesswoman. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Google Now Crowdsourcing Street View With A Trike
    Dan Ratner, a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Google Streetview recently decided to combine his hobby (mountain biking) and his work to build a bicycle-based camera system for Street View.
    For the trike project, Google says that for any privately-owned or operated location, like a campus or theme park, it will "work directly with the relevant organization prior to collecting the imagery." More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Delta Airlines Accused of Hacking Passenger Rights Group
    An airline passenger advocate has accused Delta Airlines of hacking her e-mail accounts and computer in order to sabotage her organization'''s lobbying efforts to pass federal legislation to help stranded fliers, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas Tuesday.
    Delta Air Lines has been charged in a federal lawsuit with conspiring to obtain emails and computer files of the founder of a group that has been urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would protect rights of airline travellers. More...

Sunday


  • Oct-18-2009 -- Walker: Pepsi falls flat
    PepsiCo'''s (PEP) tweeted an apology for its new Apple (AAPL) iPhone app that is designed to help guys pick up the ladies.
    An app as an attempt to help awkward guys pick up girls, what's not to love? If anything we'll get more videos on failblog. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- First Microsoft store looks set to open
    Software giant Microsoft will open a store in Scottsdale, Arizona to coincide with the launch of Windows 7, according to the Wall Street Journal.
    The newer source adds that a 94-inch screen will be in place for shoppers to try out Xbox 360 games. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- 12 Phones Strong, Android Army Mobilizes for Explosive Growth
    Available on the Hero (with the Tattoo to follow), it includes widgets,'scenes' to offer different homescreens based on the time of day, more social network aggregation, and a visually arresting 'perspectives' content interface.
    All I have to do is key in my Gmail address and password to set up the account on the phone and the device downloads my contact list from Google. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Verizon Not Liable for Ringtone Performance Fee
    A federal court has ruled against the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in the ringtone argument, stating that cell phone providers do not have to pay royalties for each time a ringtone is used.
    In June, ASCAP asserted that playing snippets of copyrighted songs as cell phone ringtones constituted "public performances." More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Zero recalls some motorcycles because of defect causing unexpected...
    The recall has been issued by Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for all 2009 Zero X and MX electric motorcycles.
    "We ran into the problem during testing and decided to go ahead with the recall." More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Week in Apple: failing Time Capsules, Snow Leopard bug, Google-Apple ties
    You see, a number of people, and let me just say I agree with them, think it's unfair and maybe even a bit paradoxical to say that''Windows 7 runs slower or performs poorly on an Apple MacBook Pro computer.
    Yeah, Windows 7 on Apple's Bootcamp benchmarks is a good indicator of how it will run on other PCs. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Win $10 Million From Larry Ellison!
    With his trademark cockiness, Ellison led the conference audience through some of the latest Oracle offerings.
    Ray Wang, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, said the time is not right for Oracle to bulk up IT services. More...

  • Oct-18-2009 -- Why 'Modern Warfare 2's' campaign skips the co-op
    Spec Ops was born from the good parts of the ditched co-op mode, Bowling said.
    As far as controls go, wisely, Infinity Ward has been smart enough to leave well alone, and any seasoned Call Of Duty player will feel right at home. More...





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