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Facebook's latest filing: Insiders are cashing inThe company's latest S-1 Registration Statement reveals that the increase in available shares will come from investors and early shareholders, and not Facebook.
[Read more] Google bringing new smarts to search with Knowledge GraphSearch giant builds a 500-million-item database of people, places, and things. Its content will be appearing in your search results starting today.
[Read more] Retina MacBook screens: Already here -- and priceySo-called "Retina Displays" in Apple's notebooks are already in the supply channel, and bring an increase in cost, experts say. What's unclear is if consumers will pay more for the improvement.
[Read more] Lenovo dumps classic keyboard on new ThinkPad laptopsThe new T-series ThinkPads offer a host of enhancements over the prior models. But the classic-style keyboard has been jettisoned in favor of the chiclet, or island-style, flavor.
[Read more] Nielsen: 1 in 2 own a smartphone, average 41 appsAccording to the latest report published by Nielsen, 1 in 2 mobile subscribers owns a smartphone of some kind and those smartphone owners average 41 apps per device.
[Read more] Hangers with 'like' counts let Facebook dictate fashionEven if you're not popular on Facebook, your clothes can be. Special clothes hangers at a Brazilian store show the number of Facebook likes each item has.
[Read more] Google Music upsetting users with device-deauthorization ruleA forum posting on XDA-Developers claims Google is now only allowing users to deauthorize four devices per year for its Google Music platform.
[Read more] Windows 8 Metro apps freshen up for Release PreviewSeveral of Microsoft's Metro apps will sport changes when the Windows 8 Release Preview debuts next month, says The Verge.
[Read more] Get a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet for $149Forget the pokey old Nook Color. For the same price, this refurb (backed by a one-year warranty) has a faster processor, more RAM, and a microphone.
[Read more] Kodak sticks with consumer printing, unveils ESP 3.2 all-in-one deviceKodak remains strong in consumer printing with today's release of the ESP 3.2 multifunction and an accompanying Pic Flick HD iPad app coming in June.
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Mobile fee dodgers will get away with enough cash to bail out GreeceUS code paranoia lets cash trickle through cracksMobile customers are dodging fees running to hundreds of billions of dollars by a combination of accident and design â both facilitated by badly designed billing systems which aren't up to the task. However, US paranoia plays its part too.⦠
Samsung and SK Hynix shares slide on Apple snubMemory-makers hurt by losing contract to bankrupt ElpidaShares in Samsung have fallen over 6 per cent on news that Apple preferred to place huge chip orders with bankrupt firm Elpida Memory.⦠Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIMEThe one about the oversized Cisco routersPodcast It's the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast â and it's a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia's absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers â it's an incredible story you have to hear to believe.⦠Is there life after ads for St Zuck?Facebook credits, and what they might buyAnalysis As we reported today, the third-largest advertiser in the United States says it's going to stop advertising on Facebook, citing lack of engagement. General Motors is taking the $10m it spunks on Facebook ads somewhere else. This is a tiny proportion of GM's $1.1bn annual advertising budget, but it's hardly a vote of confidence from major brands in boy-child St Zuck's burgeoning global empire.⦠Britain has 10 million twits, tweets TwitterWhy shout at the TV when you can yell at the web instead?There are ten million active Twitter accounts in Blighty, the microblogging wunderkind announced on, er, Twitter this morning. And 80 per cent of UK twits access the site on their mobiles.⦠Three pitches 'cheaper' MiFi mobile hotspotAs good as the current model, but less expensiveThree hasn't said how much cheaper its new MiFi device is than Three's existing one, but that's what the telco is promising.â¦
NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert'Just a rehearsal for the real one', insist rover boffinsNASA boffins have been found at a site deep in California's Mojave desert with a Mars rover of the exact type they say will land on Mars this August, filming the machine as it drove about among the Earthly sand dunes.⦠Logicalis profits throttled by tight-fisted bizUK earnings down a quarterICT jack-of-all-trades Logicalis UK has been hit by a freeze in demand as customers weathered the biting economic storm.⦠BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC OneChildren's TV staple sent away to digitalBlue Peter - home to four-legged rascal Shep, the coat-hanger advent crown and school-boy favourite Janet Ellis, is being turfed out of its home on BBC One.⦠Pure pushes flash stash, mocks spinning disk with YouTube gagCheap as NAND chipsVid Pure Storage is pushing the idea that its deduped flash array is cheaper than tier one enterprise disk array storage but miles faster and more reliable.⦠Google unleashes Chrome 19, flattens 20 bugsHot fuzz spawns QuickTime patchGoogle released a major update to its Chrome browser on Tuesday that tackles 20 security vulnerabilities, eight of which are classified as high-risk bugs.⦠Social Network scribe to turn hefty Steve Jobs tome to popcorn-fodderPlus: Aston Kutcher grows creepy beard for role in the OTHER Jobs filmThe screenwriter who brought a bratty young Mark Zuckerberg to life in the film The Social Network has been appointed as the writer of new Steve Jobs biopic.â¦
Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UKWeights and measures a 'uniquely confusing shambles'Lord Geoffrey Howe of Aberavon has demanded that the UK goes fully metric as soon as possible, describing the current mix of miles and kilometres and pints and litres as a "uniquely confusing shambles".⦠Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook adsWheels fell off 'boring inefficient' car advertsAnalysis In the week that Facebook finally went public, General Motors has axed its paid-for advertising on Mark Zuckerberg's social network.⦠'Catastrophic' Avira antivirus update bricks Windows PCsrundll32.exe? cmd.exe? You clearly don't need thoseSecurity software biz Avira has apologised after its antivirus suites went haywire and disabled customers' Windows machines.⦠Real-time drone videos get GPU-tasticSwimming in sensors, drowning in dataHPC blog Here at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2012), you see a lot of things that you didnât think were quite possible yet. Case in point: cleaning up surveillance video.⦠[NSFW] Watchdog bites bar over 'offensive' Facebook adStoke venue's man oysters leave ASA open-mouthedNSFW The Advertising Standards Authority has sunk its teeth into the Manhattan Bar in Stoke on Trent, for a Facebook promotion "likely to cause serious or widespread offence".â¦
Fasthosts officially not the best in UK for virtual serversBoasts in adverts banned by ASA after rival complainsBrit web biz Fasthosts has been slapped down by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) for boasting that its virtual servers were the "best" in the UK.⦠Confused, pessimistic on G-Cloud? You must work in governmentVMware's ex-G-Cloud man's cure: communicationConfusion and pessimism about the governmentâs G-Cloud and ICT plans is widespread among civil servants running the nationâs technology .⦠Lost Winds 2: Winter of the MelodiasBlow job?iGamer With his Chibi proportions and boyish looks, Toku cuts an extremely familiar figure, as do most of the things around him: talking animals, impish sprites and elemental deities. So pervasive is Nintendo's influence throughout Winter of the Melodias, in fact, that neither the land of Mistralis nor its diminutive hero would seem out of place in a Mario or Zelda game.⦠HTC phones held up at US ports after Apple patent banStocks low as customs search boxes for illicit gearUS sales of two new HTC smartphones have been held up at customs over the company's patent battle with Apple.⦠Dell feeds Xeon E5s to hungry new PowerEdge beastsCheaper duos and quads, so we hearDell has added nine new Xeon E5-powered boxes to its PowerEdge 12G lineup as it chases the booming market for quad-socket machines in Asia.⦠The Incredible 4PB Hulk: EMC monsterises VMAXLast big primary data array push before flash tsunamiEMC has gained top datacentre dog bragging rights with a coming 4 petabyte VMAX 40K storage array, storing 60 per cent more than HDS's biggest VSP array and 74 per cent more than IBM's DS8000. This is possibly one of the last massive primary data arrays before flash takes over the primary data storage universe*.â¦
Carphone Warehouse touts cut-price iPadsCatch: they're last year's modelCarphone Warehouse still has plenty of iPad 2s in its stock cupboard and has just knocked up to £50 off the price to shift them.⦠ASA tuts at TalkTalk over broadband speed estimatorTool can stay, but ISP must add warning about potential inaccuracyTalkTalk got rapped on the knuckles by the Advertising Standards Authority today after it upheld a complaint that its broadband speed checker was rather overestimating the actual speed of web surfing.⦠Sony outs 1080p skinny laptopsVaio Z revampedMore updated Vaio laptops from Sony, this time the Z series - the latter the original Ultrabook, introduced before the MacBook Air and long before Intel coined the term.⦠EMC rounds up rival arrays, beats 'em into submissionYou will work with each otherEMC VMAX arrays will team up competing drive arrays with a new version of the VMAX Enginuity OS.⦠Google+ dying on its arse â shock new pollBet-the-company wager goes southGoogle has bet the company on Google+, but itâs dying on its arse. A study by traffic analysts RJ Metrics suggests that public engagement with the social network is weak, and failing to gather momentum.⦠Facebook starting to go big in Brazil. Hmm ...Plus: Monaco and Iceland have more accounts than peopleFacebook's user base is plateauing across Europe and the US and the site has seen losses as well as gains in the developing world, the latest statistics from Social Analytics firm Socialbaked show.⦠O2 dips toe into Groupon's pond with tat discountsPolls punters for special offer ideasTaking a leaf out of Groupon's book, O2 is asking its "Priority Moments" customers which firms it would like O2 to negotiate deals with, tapping the social networks to discover that most O2 users like Nandos regardless of their demographic.â¦
Only global poverty can save the planet, insists WWF - and the ESA!Windfarms for all, but without using steel or concreteAnalysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's wealthy nations should prepare for poverty and that all the human race's energy should be produced as renewable electricity within 38 years from now.⦠Hitachi GST releases skinny spinnerSlim slow sliderWestern Digital's latest acquisition, Hitachi GST, has released a skinny single platter drive for consumer electronics devices.⦠One in two punters don't mind cookie-spewing stalking adsSurvey: Do not track, or do if you wantNearly half of UK internet users are happy for advertisers to track their online activity in order to deliver more targeted ads, according to new survey figures.⦠IT bungle left dole office unable to check benefits for monthsTech delay hit DWP's Work ProgrammeLate delivery of IT to support the Work Programme left it without a system to carry out automated checks on whether people - who had been placed into work by the programme's 18 prime contractors - had stopped claiming benefits.⦠Microsoft touts 400% Asia growth for Office 365SMBs make the leap online but Google benefiting tooMicrosoft is trumpeting impressive 400 per cent growth in adoption of its Office 365 online productivity suite by Asian SMBs over the past three quarters, although analysts pointed out that Google is still taking business from Redmond worldwide.â¦
Nokia Lumia 900 WinPho 7 smartphoneBigger and better?Review So youâre trying to revive the fortunes of what was, until a few weeks ago, the biggest mobile phone manufacturer on the planet. Youâve launched a handset or two with a new operating system and theyâve gone down quite well. So what next? How about taking one of those handsets and releasing a near-identical one, different only in size and capabilities. Bigger and better, you know?⦠75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before AugustDistie says Arduino sales 'overtaken in an instant'RS Components, one of two distributors for the Raspberry Pi, says the 75,000 of the tiny computers are burbling through the manufacturing supply chain and will be ready for release âin July to Augustâ.⦠Telstra denies IPTV shiftEllis review results hold staff in suspenseTelstra has strongly rejected claims that the company will move away from the IPTV market, in a response to The Register's report last Monday that it was reviewing its IPTV strategy and considering moving its 300,000+ T-Box customers to Foxtel.⦠Stuxnet â cyberwar, says US Army Cyber Command officerAusCERT: What is cyberwar anyway?While âcyber* operationsâ are becoming an increasing focus of both government and private research, legal frameworks are failing to keep pace, the US Army Cyber Command operational attorney Robert Clark has told the AusCERT security conference in Queensland.⦠China steps up crack down on hi-tech exam cheatsNo, you may not take that tablet into the exam hall...The Chinese ministry of education has been forced to update its rules prohibiting cheating in college entrance exams to take account of the increasingly ingenious hi-tech methods used by desperate students and their parents to succeed in the hugely important exams.⦠Apple places massive DRAM order at Elpida plant - reportMemory-hungry fondleslabs and iPhones the culpritsApple has taken a punt on bankrupt Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida, placing orders for a whopping 50 per cent of the firmâs production of chips at its Hiroshima facility, according to Digitimes.â¦
Graphics shocker: Nvidia virtualizes Kepler GPUsVGX revs virty desktops, fluffs gamy clouds, changes everythingGTC 2012 You game-console makers who still want to be in the hardware business, look out. You console makers who don't want to be in the hardware business (this might mean you, Microsoft), you can all breathe a sigh of relief: after a five-year effort, Nvidia is adding graphics virtualization to its latest "Kepler" line of GPUs.⦠South Australia plans digital evidence reviewLaws mentioning âtelegram and telegraphâ may not cover Internet adequatelyLaw reform advocates in South Australia are leading a push to have the rules of evidence reviewed to take new computer and communications technology into account.⦠Casablanca to screen for free on FacebookNot the beginning of a beautiful friendship outside the USASeventy year-old flick Casablanca is set to get a free outing in a new medium: Facebook.⦠Button batteries BURN KIDS FROM INSIDEWhereâs that dead CMOS battery you replaced last week?The next time you replace a button battery, do take care to dispose of it thoughtfully lest your kids swallow it and end up subjecting their innards to a damaging electrical current.⦠New Apple keyboard patent may spell trouble for AndroidThreat level hinges on lawyers' cunningThe US Patent and Trademark Office has handed Apple's legal team what may turn out to be a powerful weapon in their ongoing battles against anyone with the temerity to launch products competitive with the iPhone and iPad: a patent on soft keyboards that modify their keys with the tap of an on-screen button.â¦
Baidu touts mobe with 100GB web drive$158 cloud-backed smartphone from 'China's Google'Baidu, the company which dominates China's search business as Google dominates elsewhere, has launched a smartphone using the company's cloud platform to reduce the price and keep the users loyal.⦠Greenpeace targets Apple with 10-foot Pod stuntFanbois drool over prospect of iOS-based homeSilicon Valley cops arrested two Greenpeace activists who sealed themselves into a huge (i)Pod outside Apple HQ today, but chose not to cuff another bunch of activists who were dressed as giant iPhones.⦠Cheques not checking out just yetElectronic payments surge in Oz, but don't bounce paper rivalsElectronic payments surging, but cheques not about to bounce Electronic payments are replacing the humble cheque, but not so fast that the descendants of the promisory note are irrelevant or should be hustled towards a hastened retirement.⦠Nvidia's Kepler pushes parallelism up to elevenHyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism make GPUs sweatGTC 2012 When Nvidia did a preview of its next-generation "Kepler" GPU chips back in March, the company's top brass said that they were saving some of the goodies in the Kepler design for the big event at Nvidia's GPU Technical Conference in San Jose, which runs this week. And true to its word, the Kepler GPUs do have some goodies that will make them considerably more useful for graphics and HPC compute workloads.⦠|
The Value of Social Media DataBroadcom CEO touts tech to target precise location indoorsSalesforce's Rypple puts a social spin on performance reviewsApple launches latest iPad with 4GIn battling cyberattacks, public-private partnerships the best weapons?RSA chief: Today's security models inadequateAt CES, Ballmer highlights Windows phone, Windows 8, Xbox KinectCES 2012: Intel looks to 'wow' with concept Windows 8 ultrabooksKara Swisher demos the hottest (and quirkiest!) tech toysGoogle rolls out music service to massesThe story behind Apple's NeXT OS in 1996Microsoft's Ballmer mocks Android phoneOracle reveals social network for businessSteve Jobs: A life in technologyiPod Nano gets new featuresMarc Andreessen: Dot-com bubble vs. todayFacebook overhauls profiles with TimelineInside the largest machine ever builtMicrosoft previews Windows 8Google's Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs, Microsoft, patents, and moreSalesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff touts 'social enterprise'Steve Jobs retrospectiveA green roof on Black Rock | Eco HeroesFacebook debuts video callingReinventing the lead-acid battery to help power the developing world |
Google Revamps Search With Massive 'Real World Map of Things'Google has built a knowledge base of 500 million persons, places and things - and it's bringing big changes to a search page near you.
Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut?After just eight years in existence, Facebook has more than 750 million users and is on the cusp to becoming a medium unto itself. Can anything take down the social networking giant?
First Impressions: Diablo III Is Beautiful, Addictive NonsenseI get the feeling that Diablo III's story was developed separately from its game mechanics, because they often clash.
Survey: Japan's Interest in Wii U, Vita DeclinesFewer than 8% of Japanese consumers want to buy a PlayStation Vita or a Wii U.
Chrome Offers Tabs To Go With New Tab Syncing FeaturesGoogle's Chrome web browser will now let you take your open tabs wherever you go. Just sign into your Google account and Chrome will sync your tabs from desktop to tablet to phone and back again.
Tracking Ocean Sulfur Could Help Test Gaia HypothesisGeologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory -- the notion that the Earth is one single self-regulating system.
This is turning into a banner day for user interfaces.*Okay, check out these two videos -- the one where computers can register in three dimensions, and the other one where data flows through the human body. It'll take a while. That'll give you time to contemplate the truly weird operational environment you'll be living in as your Minority Report augments flow right through ...
Exploding Liquid Nitrogen: Where Does the Energy Come From?In a new YouTube video, physicists have some fun by dropping a bottle of liquid nitrogen into a garbage can full of water with rubber ducks on top -- and it all goes flying within seconds. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain explains how something so cold can generate so much force.
A Bow to Heritage, With a Hot Rod Under the HoodOlympus delivers a vintage-styled, power-packed digital OM camera for the 21st century.
May 16, 1988: Nicotine Declared as Addictive as Heroin, CocaineSurgeon General C. Everett Koop takes a bite out of big tobacco with his condemnation of nicotine's addictive properties.
Flexible Displays Landing in 2012, But Not in Apple GearFlexible displays have tickled our imaginations for years. And before the end of 2012, we'll finally see companies employing flexible displays in their products. But while the possibilities are tantalizing, don't let your imagination run wild.
11 Jurors Consider Claims of Android Patent InfringementSome have painted Oracle's lawsuit against Google as mere opportunism -- an effort to squeeze some money out of Android, a skyrocketing mobile operating system. But as the Google-Oracle trial reaches the end of its second phase, Oracle lead counsel Mike Jacobs is adamant that this case is about protecting the future of Java, the programming platform that Oracle acquired from Sun Microsystems in 2010.
Why the World Isn't Freaking Out About Iran's Plasma-Powered Spy SatNext Wednesday, Iran will try to launch an experimental reconnaissance satellite into orbit -- just as international negotiators gather in Baghdad for talks about Tehran's nuclear program. The timing couldn't be more inflammatory, and rogue state satellite launches are usually considered to be missile tests in drag. So why isn't the world throwing itself into a tizzy about the mission?
With Space Program: Mars, Tom Sachs Transforms Armory Into Red PlanetStep through the doors of New York's Park Avenue Armory and you'll join a DIY expedition to Mars that's part hard science, part Capricorn One. With new installation Space Program: Mars, sculptor Tom Sachs and his team of 13 astro-artists have crafted an otherworldly fantasy out of common materials, assembling the components of a space program out of readily available materials bought at hardware stores or salvaged from the streets.
Why Fewer Voters Can Mean Better ElectionsPeople don't go to the polls, explains Wired's Joshua Davis. It's time we let a statistical sample of the population choose our fate.
Director's Homecoming Spawns Award-Winning Photo ProjectThe winner of this year's Webby for best use of photography, "God's Lake Narrows," is a multimedia project that takes viewers inside a Canadian Indian reservation and tells director Kevin Lee Burton's personal story of growing up there.
Someone Needs to Buy the 'World's Fastest' Amphibious CarIf you needed more proof that you can win a world record for just about anything, meet the Sea Lion. It's an amphibious car capable of speeds of up to 180 mph on land and over 45 mph at sea, and it's all yours for the bargain-basement price of $259,500.
As Congress Mulls Mandate on Car Black Boxes, Data Ownership Remains UnclearCongress seems set on passing legislation that would make an Electronic Data Recorder (EDR) ? the technical name for an automotive black box ? required equipment on all new cars. And lawmakers also want to settle who owns the data on the devices, although that issue won't be nearly as cut-and-dried.
Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a HologramCharacters on Star Trek suffer frequent misadventures on the holodeck, a room that creates advanced holograms indistinguishable from reality. But now theoretical physicists such as Brian Greene, host of the recent PBS special The Fabric of the Cosmos, are starting to wonder if every object in the universe isn't some sort of hologram. Greene talks physics and science fiction in this week's episode of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. Hear it, or read the entire transcript, here.
Augmented Reality: Chris Arkenberg assesses ARE2012*Grinding it out in the ground game. http://www.urbeingrecorded.com/news/2012/05/15/the-state-of-augmented-reality-are2012/ "Last week I attended and spoke at the Wednesday session of ARE2012, the SF Bay Area?s largest conference on augmented reality. This is the 3rd year of the conference and both the maturity of the industry and the cooling of the hype were evident. Attendance was lower than previous ...
Tumbleweed-style biomimetic space probe for asteroids*It's cute. Even the British think so. via @arcfinity http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/home/feature_cosmos.html (...) "Making Use of Reduced Gravity "At first blush, having a robot ?take a tumble? might sound a bit worrisome ? but that?s exactly how Pavone envisions a way to move about on other worlds. The idea is to make use of the reduced gravity of small ...
Designing Sex Toys for Mitt, Michele, and RickPoor everyone who's not Mitt. Is anyone thinking about the poor losers of the Republican primary? The pain they must be feeling? One guy is! Matthew Epler, a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, has designed a way to bring Michele Bachmann et al. a bit of pleasure. His Grand Old Party is a 3-D data-viz project based on the polling data of Republican presidential nominees. It is also a series of butt plugs.
The Science of "Fringe" Helps Students Explore Real Science TopicsFresh off of watching the season finale of "Fringe" last Friday, I happened upon an amazing discovery: FOX and the Science Olympiad have teamed up to create lesson plans to help students explore the real science behind some of the show's plot devices. Magnetism, combustion, electromagnetism, protein modeling, and more are covered using incidents investigated by the Fringe Division in seasons 2-4.
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 16Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Oracle Goes For Broke In Court Battle With GoogleOracle has made an all-or-next-to-nothing bet in its ongoing court battle with Google. On Tuesday, Oracle said that if Judge William Alsup rules that the Java APIs are not subject to copyright, it will not seek extensive damages from Google for infringing copyrights related to other parts of the Java platform. The move came after a stern rebuke from Alsup, who accused Oracle of going on a "fishing expedition" for damages beyond the standard amount for copyright infringement.
Report: Google Will Unveil Android 5.0 on Multiple Nexus-Branded SmartphonesIn support of its upcoming Android 5.0 operating system release, code-named Jelly Bean, Google will deploy the OS on not a single Nexus smartphone, per Android tradition, but perhaps as many as five Nexus phones this fall -- so says a Tuesday report by Wall Street Journal.
LG's Quad-Core Optimus Phone Heading to Europe But Not the U.S.LG's first quad-core smartphone, the Optimus 4X HD, is launching in Europe next month, taking on other four-core flagships such as the HTC One X and the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III.
The Eagle Has Crashed (1966)NASA tried to anticipate every emergency Apollo astronauts might face. In 1966, a NASA engineer analyzed the potentially catastrophic consequences of an abort just before landing, only a few hundred feet above the lunar surface -- a type of abort that very nearly took place during Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission.
World's Subways Converging on Ideal FormAfter decades of urban evolution, the world's major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form.
ACLU Warns State Dept. Against Firing Worker Who Criticized GovernmentThe American Civil Liberties Union has accused the U.S. State Department of potentially violating the constitutional rights of one of its employees should it proceed with plans to fire him for publicly criticizing the government's reconstruction projects in Iraq, according to a letter the group sent the government on Tuesday.
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Google Will Meet With French Regulators Next WeekFrance is heading up an investigation of Google’s new privacy policy and they represent all of Europe’s 27 union states with their inquiry. Google has agreed to meet with them next week to answer questions about the newly implemented policy. Ideally this meeting will answer all of Europe’s data regulators questions and resolve any ethical issues about the policy. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, heads up the investigation and what is called the “Commission Nationale de l’Informatique”, the group in charge of the inquiry. She spoke with Reuters regarding the upcoming meeting. Here’s what she had to say: “We are not totally satisfied with their responses so we have set up this meeting to discuss the issues with Google,” “We want to untangle the precise way that specific personal data is being used for individual services, and examine what the benefit for the consumer really is,” There has been concerned expressed about Google’s privacy policy in almost every country including the United States, Europe, Japan, Argentina, and Canada. Reuters also heard from Google representative, Anthony House regarding the upcoming meeting and he commented on what Google hopes to accomplish during that time. Here’s what House has to say: “The meeting will give us chance to put things into context and explain the broader actions we are taking to protect our users’ privacy,” We’ll be watching for outcomes from this meeting closely and seeing what France has to report back to the rest of Europe. We’ll keep you updated as things continue to evolve out of Google’s new privacy policy and the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique. The meeting will be held on May 23rd. Samsung Market Value Drops $10 Billion On Apple NewsNews about Apple ordering DRAM chips sent Samsung’s stock price tumbling today, erasing a staggering $10 billion of the electronics giant’s market cap. The report stated that Apple had placed a large order for the chips from Elpida, a Samsung rival that has been enduring financial struggles. According to Reuters, Samsung’s stock price dropped by just over 6% to $1,100 per share. That was the stock’s lowest price in nine weeks, and the worst single-day fall in four years. Surprisingly, the news that appears to have precipitated the crash comes from DigiTimes. DigiTimes reported yesterday that Apple had placed an order with Elpida for approximately 50% of the total DRAM chip output from the company’s Hiroshima, Japan plant. What makes this interesting is DigiTimes’s reputation. The publication has a somewhat spotty record for accuracy, to put it delicately, especially when it comes to Apple-related rumors. If the fact that Apple’s purchasing habits could cause Samsung’s stock to crash seems odd to you, it may help to bear in mind Samsung is a major supplier of components for Apple products. Despite the two companies’ ongoing competition (and legal battles) in the smartphone market, Apple remains one of Samsung’s largest component customers. If Apple really is looking to start purchasing DRAM from one of Samsung’s competitors, it could have significant implications for Samsung. The Pirate Bay Goes Down After DDoS AttackNow this is odd. The Pirate Bay is a priority target to almost every government and media corporation on the planet, but none of them have ever been successful in truly taking down the Web site. It would appear that somebody finally has done the impossible though – restrict access to The Pirate Bay on a global level. Speaking to TorrentFreak, a Pirate Bay insider says that the site is being hammered by a DDoS attack. The attack is leaving the site unavailable to many people around the world. I have tried to access the site multiple times and have had no luck in even reaching the home page. This is uncharted territory for me as I never thought I would have seen The Pirate Bay being attacked in such a way. TorrentFreak suggests that some members of Anonymous may be behind the attack. The Pirate Bay publicly called out the group last week for taking down the Virgin Media Web site. They said that a DDoS attack amounts to censorship and that Anonymous was in the wrong. Anonymous is a big fan of The Pirate Bay and have offered protection and tips around censorship on multiple occasions. It’s hard to believe that anybody within Anonymous would turn on The Pirate Bay in such a way. On the other hand, there is no central leadership within Anonymous and members can do whatever they want, even to the detriment of the group. My best guess here is that some splinter cell within Anonymous took personal offense to The Pirate Bay’s message on Facebook last week. It’s happened before and it will happen again. Anonymous isn’t saying anything about the downtime at the moment, however, so it’s still hard to really grasp what exactly is going on. All we can say is that The Pirate Bay will be back sooner or later. They’ve been down before and the team knows how to get it back up. Until then, how about you peruse the thousand other torrent trackers out there. Wolfram Finance Platform Brings Mathematica to FinanceWolfram Research has just released a computational finance tool it calls the Wolfram Finance Platform. The platform will bring the computational power of Wolfram’s Mathematica software and apply it to finance to deliver greater computational integrity, automated workflows, faster speeds, and more accuracy. “As algorithmic agility comes center stage in finance, platform integration and automation become crucial for competitiveness,” said Conrad Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram Research in Europe. “Finance tools often are outmoded compared with modern, smart computation in other fields. That’s a key facet of what Wolfram Finance Platform fixesâinjecting the smartest algorithmic tools into finance workflows.” Finance Platform is actually a suite of solutions that combines computation, data analysis, visualization, and reporting. The Bloomberg feed link feature of the software allows real-time trading data to be fed directly into computations or visualizations. “New integrated capabilities, including CUDA-accelerated pricing calculations, and data feeds, such as Bloomberg and interactive reporting tools, are all just the start of our increased focus on finance,” said Samuel Chen, Product Manager for Wolfram Finance Platform. “But as well as new technology, we are rolling out a new package of professional services, including bespoke onsite training, consultancy, and 24-hour support.” Jon McLoone, Wolfram’s director of business development, announced the product launch in a blog post on the Wolfram Blog. There, he describes how the Finance Platform project came about. From the blog post:
The Wolfram Finance Platform is now available over at the Wolfram website. The price of the package scales with the level of implementation needed, and Wolfram is prepared to provide quotes for both small teams and large companies. Facebook Risks Losing Social Gaming InnovatorsFacebook is on the verge of a $100 billion IPO and it seems lately that more and more info is coming out about how they do business practices and how well their advertising actually works. Now we are getting reports that the lifeblood of the social media’s revenue, social gaming, has the possibility of taking a huge hit in the next coming months. One huge problem that Facebook might face is the exodus of social gaming platforms due to their intolerance of working with developers.âFacebookâs attitude is that it doesnât need to accommodate or work with game developers,â says longtime gaming and technology analyst P.J. McNealy. âWe have talked to a wide range of developers, and they’re frustrated because they perceive that Facebook devotes its resources and its promotions to Zynga, giving little incentive for developers to engage with Facebook.â Zynga gaming currently represents about 12 percent of Facebookâs revenue and likely a larger percentage of profit so it is actually in Facebook’s best interest to make nice with the gaming developers other than Zynga and invent tools to help make their life easier to get bigger profit streams. A few gaming companies have already started to get off of the Facebook train and start to develop for the more competitive world of mobile gaming. âThe trend of moving game development off Facebook to other platforms is already underway,â McNealy added. Zynga is one of these game companies with their recently announced plans to start hosting their games away from Facebook. Google Docs Releases New Research ToolsGoogle is always looking for ways to enhance user experience and they are particularly good at integrating more tools into their existing products. This time they are offering some useful refinements to Google Docs. If you’re a researcher you’re gonna love this. Now when you are composing in Google Docs you will have access to a research pane which can bring up information relevant to what you are writing about. So if you are writing a paper about George Washington and you forgot to document a fact about his life, all you have to do is go into tools and bring up the research pane. Here’s what Google had to say about the Research Pane in their Blog: “You can access the research pane from the Tools menu by right clicking on a selected word that you want to learn more about, or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows or Cmd+Alt+R on Mac. From the research pane, you can search for whatever info you need to help you write your document. With just a couple clicks you can look up maps, quotes, images, and much more.” “If you find something you like, you can add it by clicking the insert button or, for images, by dragging them directly into your document. If appropriate weâll automatically add a footnote citation so thereâs a record of where you found the info.” Here’s what it will look like:
So if you’re a frequent user of Google Docs, this should make your life a little easier and of course, make your papers and articles just a little richer. If you haven’t tried Google docs, you should really take advantage of this wonderful free service. You can compose, save, store, and access your documents from anywhere there’s an internet signal and you never have to worry about losing anything, even if you forget to hit the save button. Gas Prices Worldwide [Infographic]Financial planning firm Credit Sesame has just released a new infographic which describes gasoline prices and usage rates around the world. First off, a gallon of gas is 6 cents in oil-rich Venezuela. The lowest price I can recall in the U.S. was 84 cents, when I was like 7, during the Reagan administration. Six cents is much cheaper than the cheapest of bottled water in this country. Six cents is cheaper than a stick of gum. Six Swedish Fish are six cents. Ridic. Regardless, prices aren’t so bad in the U.S., as compared to the rest of the world. A gallon costs $9.63 in Turkey and $9.16 in Italy. Granted, people in those countries don’t drive nearly as much as those in the U.S. or Canada, which see average gas prices of $3.94 and $5.68 respectively. Gas in China is $4.54 a gallon, similar to what it costs in the U.S., though Americans use about 39 times more. The biggest gas consumers are the U.S., Canada and Australia, which has to do with the sheer vastness of the land masses. Also, driving is a cultural thing in these countries. One of the reasons mass transit might not be so popular, is that people like their cars. And one literally can’t just drive 8 or 30 hours straight in many European counties – there isn’t enough space. In the U.S., gas is most expensive in California, at $4.19 a gallon, and cheapest in Oklahoma, at $3.48. As the presidential election draws near, expect gas prices to fall for a while. Also, a recent study has revealed that 36% of Americans are now having to give something up in order to pay for gasoline.
The Social Networkâs Aaron Sorkin to Adapt Steve Jobs BiopicAaron Sorkin will be writing a screenplay for a Sony Picture’s biopic about Steve Jobs based on Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs. The studio made the announcement Tuesday. This is not the indie film we have been talking about on webpronews, featuring Ashton Kutcher in the lead role, and Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak. (Both are impressive dopplegangers of their Apple counterparts.) Unlike its indie counterpart, this version has major studio funding ( in Sony Pictures) and Author backing. This is one of those rare instances where we are going to see direct competition in studio and indie film productions. It will be interesting to see how these two approaches tackle the subject. At first glance you might assume that the indie film will be more emotionally charged, with the Sony Pictures version concentrating on the business life of Jobs. But Sorkin is known for driving story through emotionally charged dialog, so this one is up in the air. My guess is that the indie version will be more introspective, while Sorkin’s version will depict Jobs friendships and clashes on his way to making Apple what it is today. Alright, back to the Sorkin version. First a quick rundown of Sorkin’s screenplay and teleplay credentials (A Few Good Men, Malice, The American President, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the upcoming HBO series The Newsroom)). Impressive stuff, but Sorkin isn’t anywhere close to slowing down. Right now he is writing two screenplay adaptations, screenplays for The Newsroom, and making his Broadway librettist debut and motion picture directorial debut. Sorkin won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Social Network. He has also acquired the motion picture rights to The Politician, by Andrew Young about the downfall of former Senator John Edwards. He will adapt the book for screen, make his directorial debut with the film, and produce. He is currently in production on the HBO series The Newsroom, which is scheduled to premiere on June 24, 2012. Sorkin will also return to the theater and make his Broadway debut as a librettist with the 2013-2014 production of Houdini. Based on the life of legendary magician Harry Houdini, the musical will star Hugh Jackman and will feature music and lyrics by 3 time Oscar and 4 time Grammy winner Stephen Schwartz. Joanna Johnson: Soap Opera Star Reveals Sheâs GayIn the world of daytime soaps, romance is what keeps viewers tuned in. Day after day, millions of fans watch their favorite shows (or “stories”, as my grandmother called them) to see who the stars are sleeping with and to get the dish on the latest relationship news. That’s why, Joanna Johnson says, it was so hard for her to be a gay woman on the cast of “The Bold And The Beautiful”. The actress first played Caroline on the show, then was introduced as her identical twin sister after the character was killed off. She says it was tough back then, bringing a character to life which so many people identified with, but one she could never reconcile with her own feelings. “After I started playing Karen, I remember doing a fantasy scene that showed what life would have been like if Caroline had not died of cancer,” she said. “She was married to Ridge [Ronn Moss] and had two kids and a wonderful life. When we finished shooting, I ran to my dressing room and just cried and cried because I knew I was never going to have that kind of life.” Johnson is now happily married to her longtime partner, Michelle Agnew, and has two children. But it took her a while to become comfortable with coming out, even after it started to become more socially accepted in Hollywood. “When Ellen came out she took a big hit. It certainly hurt her career as an actress,” she said. “When Angelina Jolie said she was bi, it was sexy. The industry wanted her even more. It’s quite another thing to say you’re a lesbian. Back then anyway. I really admire the courage of people who have been out and noisy. I had to struggle to become proud.” With the recent announcement from President Obama that he supports same-sex marriage has come a lot of talk about the gay community and the issues they face; LGBT individuals are gaining more and more advocacy, now more than ever. “The Bold And The Beautiful”, which became an instant hit after it’s introduction in the ’80s, is in its 25th year on the air and still counts Johnson in its lineup of stars, although she has a successful writing career as well; she is the creator of several sitcoms, including the Kelly Ripa vehicle “Hope and Faith”. Wii U Details And Launch Titles Emerge From AmazonI love retail outlets. They always get information before the press when it comes to new console launches. One of the more mysterious consoles has been the Wii U with Nintendo remaining tight-lipped regarding their next console’s launch later this year. Barring a leak from Ubisoft last month, there hasn’t been much in the way of details, until now. Amazon.com has an updated Wii U page with more details about the console itself. Under the details, we now know the final size of the Wii U – 1.8 inches tall, 6.8 inches wide and 10.5 inches long. It’s much smaller than what I originally anticipated, but I’m not complaining. The tablet-based controller is also detailed as having a 16:9 display at 6.2 inches. The controller also features a built-in accelerometer and gyroscope, rumble, camera, microphone, stereo speakers, sensor strip and a stylus. While we knew most of those features, it’s still nice to have them confirmed by a retail outlet. For those concerned over the Wii U’s ability to play games and media in high-definition, the listing says that it supports all screen resolutions up to 1080p. It’s compatible with everything from HDMI to composite video. It can also output audio either through AV or six-channel PCM through HDMI. Now here is where things get interesting. We always knew that the Wii U would allow users to expand its onboard memory with SD cards, but Amazon confirms that the Wii U will also have an external USB hard drive. The CPU is listed as an IMB multi-core processor while the GPU is an AMD Radeon-based HD graphics card. All in all, it should be on par, if not a little more powerful, than current generation consoles. The Amazon listing also reveals the current Wii U launch line-up. The games included are New Super Mario Bros. Mii, Darksiders II, DiRT, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Ghost Recon Online, Metro Last Light, Tekken, Ninja Gaiden 3 and other unnamed Mii-based software. The only problem with this list is that Metro Last Light was announced as delayed until 2013 back in February. Unless Amazon knows something that we don’t, the Metro 2033 sequel probably won’t make the Wii U launch. Everything else is entirely plausible though. Amazon is also listing Wii U games as being only $49.99. That’s extremely good news for those concerned that Nintendo would join Sony and Microsoft in the trend of charing $60 for new games. Since the development costs for this generation have gone down since its debut five years ago, it makes sense to keep the prices lower. It will also make people more likely to buy more games. Sure, a lot of the information here was already assumed, but retail information is more than assumptions. Nintendo and other hardware manufacturers regularly meet with retailers to provide the most up-to-date information about their consoles. We can assume that Amazon isn’t just assuming things, but rather got this information from Nintendo themselves. It’s less than a month until E3 and you can expect that Nintendo will reveal more about the Wii U there. For now, we can just look at the Amazon listings and just speculate what the company has in store for us come June. Just going off of this limited information, however, it looks like the Wii U will have one hell of a launch. [h/t: Daily Game Sales] |
Next iPhone will have 4-inch screen: reportNext iPhone will have 4-inch screen: report - msnbc.comFlipboard alternatives for social Android news junkiesAP-CNBC Poll Shows Problems Ahead for FacebookGoogle to centralize Android development and sales - ZDNet (blog)Google to meet French regulator on privacy policyGoogle Chrome 19 Debuts, With 20 Bug Patches - InformationWeekSteve Jobs Is Just Aaron Sorkin's Latest JerkSamsung Dominates Global Android Smartphone Sales - PC MagazineApple readies iPhone with bigger screen: sourcesWhy Facebook ads are different - Washington PostUS Customs is blocking shipments of HTC One X and Evo 4G LTE "indefinitely" - DailyTechFacebook investors to cash out more sharesHere's A Video Of Samsung's Galaxy S III In The Wild - TechCrunchFacebook increases IPO size by 25%Nvidia's Kepler: Changing the world one computer at a time - TG DailyFacebook investors to cash out more shares - msnbc.comHeard about the new Flipboard update?Analysis: Key to Universal-EMI decision: Has music business lost control?SpaceX Re-Schedules Space Station Launch: Here's How You Can Watch - PCWorldAndroid fragmentation gets visualized, againFacebook boosts IPO size by 25 percent, could top $16 billionWhy size matters for Appleâs next iPhone, and what this means for app developersWhy Is Apple So Scared?Report: Nokia loses cellphone top spot to SamsungUnder construction - ITER in LEGOAndroid Jelly Bean on at least five devices by ThanksgivingPre-caffeine tech: Google Docs, panda dogs!Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percentApple patent spats finally pay offNow Facebook Has an Engagement Problem, TooCorrected: Senator seeks expanded visas for foreign high-tech workersAppleâs next iPhone will have a 4-inch display, WSJ says [updated]Appleâs next iPhone will have a 4-inch display, WSJ saysCompanies less wary of personal devices at work-CiscoWhy Sharing Is the New Search [VIDEO]Turner Broadcasting Takes a Bite of Funny or DieWhen Social Gaming Meets Social GoodSony and Panasonic in talks to make OLED TVsBeep on the Cheap: A Hack to Cut Cell Phone ChargesGoogle to Sell Android 'Nexus' Devices Directly to Customers [REPORT]Scientists read a galaxy's entrailsHonda unveils new Segway-like vehicle for indoorsAre Amazon reviewers usurping the role of 'professional' critics?Google fixes 18 Chrome glitches, enables tab syncingNew MacBook rumors: Retina displays, USB 3.0 and moreBill criminalizing viewing child porn online OK'd by NY SenateAndroid 'fragmentation' visualized in 2 picturesAncient 'Loch Ness monster' had arthritisOldest evidence of insect pollination found |
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The latest version of Flipboard, 1.9, now includes an Audio category, its developer has announced. The content is available through the Content Guide, and includes clips from NPR and PRI shows, as well as recommendations from SoundCloud. This includes access to lists and followed users, as well as highlighted content. Once audio is playing a person can continue reading other sections of Flipboard without it being interrupted; a menu option lets users control playback....
China Mobile is in talks with Apple to offer the iPhone, confirms Mobile chairman Xi Guohua. The executive made the statement on Wednesday at a shareholder meeting in Hong Kong, his first since replacing Wang Jianzhou, who retired in March. Apple has refused to comment, and Xi didn't elaborate much further at the meeting, saying he couldn't predict if a deal would be reached this year. "China Mobile and Apple both have the will to strengthen cooperation," he commented. "When there is more specific news, we will disclose it."...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has placed orders for iPhone displays measuring ëat least 4-inches diagonallyà for its sixth generation iPhone expected in October. Citing ëpeople familiar with the situationà production on the new displays is set to begin next month. Apple is said to be working with LG, Sharp and Japan Display (a newly formed partnership between Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba) on the new screens, which can be expected to be Retina Display-class....
Samsung and HTC stock have both taken a hit thanks to separate actions instigated by Apple. SamsungÃs stock saw $10 billion wiped off its value following a report by DigiTimes indicating that Apple had placed a large order for DRAM from its struggling Japanese competitor Elpida. Separately, HTCÃs shares also slumped by over 6 percent following an Apple initiated ITC injunction being enforced by US Customs, stopping the importation of its hotly anticipated One X and EVO 4G LTE handsets....
In addition to the lawsuit from the Department of Justice and 17 states against Apple and two major publishers alleging the companies conspired to keep e-book prices artificially high, a US District Court judge yesterday approved a class-action civil lawsuit targeting Apple and five major publishers on the same charges, filed "on behalf of e-book customers." The judge rejected a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in a strongly-worded opinion....
Toshiba has added two higher-capacity models to its Canvio line. The line is now buttressed by the Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0, which now offer up to 1.5TB of storage space. The Canvio 3.0 includes software allowing OS X to both read and write the NTFS file system....
The same California jury that couldn't decide on the "fair use" aspects of the Google versus Oracle is now debating Oracle's patent claims. Oracle began this suit in 2010, claiming that Android infringes on its Java patents. Google says that it has not infringed and furthermore, Oracle can't copyright certain parts of Java, an open source language. Closing arguments were made today in phase two of the three-phase, multi-year trial....
Apple has filed to dismiss a range of lawsuits filed against it over the performance of Siri, the digital assistant featured on the iPhone 4S. Apple contends in its motion that the plaintiffs in the case lack standing to pursue their case, have improperly interpreted Apple's advertising of Siri, and have failed to pursue other means of redress beyond litigation....
In a surprise move, Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington DC today and met with US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). The speaker's office released a picture of the two men in mid-conversation, but did not release any details about what they talked about or the length of the meeting. Apple has recently been criticized by Washington insiders for its historically low (but rising) spending on lobbying....
Fresh off the announcement of its new mobile phone, Chinese search company Baidu has told TechCrunch that it has big plans the Baidu Cloud Smart Terminal system that runs its new phone. Baidu wants to see Baidu Cloud make an appearance on all major mobile operating systems, including Windows Phone and iOS....
An unnamed app developer informed 9to5Mac earlier today that users accessing its software had been identified as running iOS 6 by analytics. Other unidentified developers polled have also been seeing the hallmarks of the new iOS version since late April. Versions of iOS 5 appeared prior to the 2011 Apple World Wide Developer's Conference in the same manner....
The Walt Disney Company's network executive Sean Bratches said in an interview today that Disney would consider allowing the WatchESPN service application on the Apple TV set top device. Prior authentication of cable access would be required to view. No deal is imminent....
Apple has issued an updated version of QuickTime 7, now at version 7.7.2, for Windows systems in order to address a number of security flaws. The vulnerabilities listed either do not exist on the Mac version of QuickTime 7, or are already addressed in Lion. Most but not all of the flaws were discovered by researchers working in conjunction with HP's "Zero Day Initiative" and are duly credited. A total of 17 flaws are addressed in the update....
A new line of iPhone-controlled RC Cars has been launched by iHelicopters.net. Models include a range of popular Audi and BMW cars such as the Audi Q7, Audi R8, BMW X6, and BMW 5 Series. Each car includes a RF transmitter that connects to an iOS device via the headphone jack and allows users to control the car from up to 20 meters away. The new BMW and Audi models are set at $60 each including free worldwide shipping....
Netgear has released its first 802.11ac router using the new Wi-Fi specification. The R6300 router, which is said to be capable of combined Wi-Fi speeds of up to 1750Mbps, ships at the same time as announcements for a more budget-conscious R6200 router and the A6200 Wi-Fi dongle, aiming to be the first 802.11ac dual-band USB adapter to market....
Apple will also announce Retina display-equipped MacBook Airs at this year's WWDC, supply chain sources for 9to5Mac say. The company is already believed to be preparing news of Retina MacBook Pros and iMacs, and an Air would complete the lineup of Macs with built-in displays. 9to5 claims that unlike the Pro, though, the Air's update will be almost entirely about the display, rather than incorporating any major design changes....
Google has announced that Chrome 19 is now available as a stable build, enabling users to try out the new features that were announced early last month. The latest overhaul to the company's browser broadens sync capabilities between devices and platforms. Users can open multiple tabs on the desktop browser, then pick up their Android 4.0 phone and access the same content from the mobile Chrome beta....
The BBC has explained how it will cover the London 2012 Olympic Games. The home-nation broadcaster will stream 24 live feeds in HD to cover every event, matching the increase in video feeds for digital broadcasts in the UK during the event....
App developers got a brief glimpse into the workings of the review process yesterday when photos emerged of what appeared to be the work desk of an App Store reviewer. As ReadWriteWeb discovered, the photos -- posted on a test Facebook account -- showed an iMac, several Apple products, and what appeared to be app review guidelines....
Environmental activist group Greenpeace has staged a protest at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, notes AppleInsider. Images were projected onto the main building overnight, including supportive messages from users on Twitter and Facebook. Activists also secured themselves inside a so-called "survival device," measuring 8 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Four activists dressed themselves as iPhones, complete with screens again displaying messages from Twitter and Facebook....
Two new reports may reinforce claims that Apple is switching back to NVIDIA GPUs for the new MacBook Pro. The Verge cites a "trusted source" as saying Apple is migrating away from AMD video. ABC News is echoing the same view from its own sources, but further suggesting that Apple will use the GeForce GT 650M....
Yesterday in the MacNN forums Mac Enthusiast bojangles points out a quiet bug fix in Mac OS X 10.7.4 that affects Screen Sharing on multiple displays, click here to read more. Also Yesterday one forum member was replacing a G5 Xserve with a late 2008 Xserve and had some questions, read more here....
Google is likely to launch a version of its Chrome browser for Apple's iOS line of devices in the coming months, according to analysts at Macquarie Capital. Macquarie sees the iOS Chrome launch as the opening salvo in a new round of Browser Wars, the likes of which the Internet hasn't seen since the late 1990s....
Today's deals from DealNN include discounted keyboards, headphones, and more. Newegg.com has recently lowered the cost of the SteelSeries Shift Gaming Keyboard with eight programmable hotkeys, two USB 2.0 ports, multiple media controls, and on-the-fly macro recording. Currently featured at DealNN, the gaming keyboard is now available for the discounted price of $34.99 and offers savings of up to $55....
Apple's often-reported 7/7.85-inch iPad will use "G/F2" thin-film touch technology, a rumor from DigiTimes claims. The site says that Nitto will supply thin-film materials, while Nissha Printing and TPK will produce touchscreens. For Apple the advantage should not only be a thinner display, but also reduced costs, which may be essential if the tablet has a $200-250 pricetag rumored elsewhere....
At Apple's online store today save on refurbished MacBook Airs, MacBook Pros and more. The refurb. 11.6-inch MacBook Air with a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM and a 128GB of flash storage is now only $799 after a $300 price cut. A $180 price cut is offered on the refub. 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz Intel dual-core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive, now $1019....
Nokia's Lumia 900 represents the pinnacle of the company's new smartphone strategy, pairing premium components with a unique design and Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. In our full review, we try to determine if the LTE radio, large display and other high-end features will help Nokia and Microsoft fulfill their dream of finally reestablishing themselves in the US smartphone market. ......
Apple is not only working on Retina MacBook Pros, but also Retina-equipped iMacs, says ABC News. The site quotes "its own sources," which also back up the upgraded MacBook Pros, but offer no other details. It's generally believed that Apple will introduce one or more upgraded systems at this year's WWDC, which starts June 11th....
In a case that many thought long-settled, the US Supreme Court today closed the final chapter in the winding saga of would-be legal "hackintosh" seller Psystar. The court refused a request to review the lower court decision, which granted a permanent injunction preventing the company from selling any previous or future versions of Mac OS X along with its "Rebel EFI" hack to allow installation on non-Apple PCs....
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed a previous judge's ruling that there was no merit to Apple's copyright complaint against Samsung. Prior judgements on iPhone versus the Galaxy Nexus phone were left untouched. The original ruling against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was that Apple's patent was "obvious", meaning that the original patent should never have been granted....
The group of developers that had begun and maintained the Perian video-codec project over the last six years is calling it quits, and will release one more version of the popular video translator before shutting down support and posting the code on a public repository for others to (perhaps) take over. The final version "may or may not" work under Mountain Lion, and the code will eventually be posted on Google Code or Github....
Apple has won a scheduling victory over Motorola and HTC in the latest round of the giants' patent battles in Florida today. An exasperated judge consolidated the disparate trials, which consist of of patent infringement claims by Apple against both companies and counter-claims from them, in part because of a lack of cooperation between the parties. The new combined trial will take place in April 2014....
As the e-book lawsuit from the Justice Department against Apple and two other publishers expands, some recently-unsealed evidence shows that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs personally intervened to convince a holdout major publisher that the "agency model" -- a standard pricing model in the book industry that lets publishers set prices for books -- was the way to go, and succeeded in convincing the publisher....
A new version of the subscription streaming music service Rdio has launched, bringing with it a native Mac OS X application for the first time. Previous versions were web-based. The new version is available on browsers, and applications Windows, the iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7. All versions allow listening to over 15 million tracks on the Rdio service....
Recent rumors of a refresh in Apple's MacBook Pro line received a bit of support today, with Bloomberg now reporting that the new line is indeed on its way. Bloomberg has the new line of MacBooks arriving in June, sporting many of the features earlier rumors have suggested....
Oracle and Google continued the debate over how to proceed with the ongoing Java patent infringement suit. During the discussion and filing with the Judge William Alsup, Oracle presented a document summarizing why it is entitled to Google's profits from the case -- "super shady" contractors from Noser in Google's Android team. Google disputes the relevance of the filing....
Tomb Raider: Underworld, the eighth in the series of games features adverturess Lara Croft, will debut on the Mac on May 31st. The game, originally released for the PC in late 2008, is a direct sequel to Tomb Raider: Legend game (never released officially for Mac) but also contains plot elements drawn from the Tomb Raider: Anniversary reboot, which reinvented the original game with a modern game engine....
Apple has posted two separate security updates for OS X Leopard. The first, Leopard Security Update 2012-003, disables versions of Flash without the most recent security updates, and instead provides a method of getting the latest release from Adobe. Apple's update is 1.11MB and requires at least OS X 10.5.8....
Security firm Kaskpersky Lab is denying claims that Apple has asked it to research vulnerabilities in OS X, a statement reveals. "On Monday, April 14, computing.co.uk published an article titled 'Apple OS 'really vulnerable' claims Kaspersky Lab CTO' that includes an inaccurate quote regarding Apple and Kaspersky Lab," the company writes. "The article reports that Kaspersky Lab had 'begun the process of analyzing the Mac OS platform at Apple's request' to identify vulnerabilities. This statement was taken out of context by the magazine -- Apple did not invite or solicit Kaspersky Lab's assis...
A Monday morning iCloud outage affected 12 percent of subscribers, or about 15 million people, according to the service's status page. Between 8 and 9:30 AM Pacific time, iCloud email was inaccessible for the affected group. As of 9:42 AM, all services were listed as online....
The coming years could see bending, twisting, and even wearable iPhones and other devices, if The Korea Times is right in its interpretation of one Samsung executive's remarks. Samsung reports sizable offerings for its bendable OLED displays, and analysts believe the quantities on order could signal that Apple is interested in bringing the technology to future devices....
Foxconn is disavowing suggestions that chairman Terry Gou leaked news of an Apple TV set, writes The Next Web. Last week, Foxconn chairman Terry Gou was believed to have confirmed the existence of an Apple-branded TV. The executive was misquoted, Foxconn now says, and the company can neither confirm nor speculate about any such hardware....
Apple will announce several new iCloud feature upgrades at June's WWDC, claim sources for the Wall Street Journal. One of the highlights is expected to be photo sharing. While users can currently sync photos via Photo Stream, these are only accessible under the same Apple ID. The sharing feature would not only allow people to make photosets public, but to make comments on others' collections....
Sparrow has released a new version of its iPhone email client, bringing it up to 1.2. The release makes several important changes, for instance allowing landscape composition for the first time, and navigating between messages by swiping up or down. Users can now edit or create labels and folders, and the app has been localized for nine languages in total: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese....
Social gaming giant Zynga has bought casual games company Wild Needle. The female-oriented startup was bought for an undisclosed amount following the release of its first title Shoptown Hero in March, which was pulled from the App Store two weeks ago....
The unofficial iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of redsn0w, its jailbreaking utility for iOS devices. The v0.9.11b4 update lets users restore old IPSW files to A5-based Apple devices, including the iPhone 4S, third-generation iPad, and iPad 2; previously, only devices prior to the iPad 2 could be downgraded, thanks to the limera1n exploit. The update means that A5 devices can now be downgraded from iOS 5.1.1 or 5.1 to 5.0.1....
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