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- New phones are too big for pockets
Something weird is happening to mobile phones: After shrinking from enormous Zack Morris proportions in the '80s an ... - The KIN phone is dead -- 'buy now!'
At the end of June, after much hype and a major mass-media ad campaign, Microsoft pulled the plug on KIN, its famil ... - At $139, is the new Kindle 'cheap?'
Prices in consumer electronics tend to fluctuate wildly.
[Courtesy of CNN.com - Technology]
- Google site fools interwebs into China blockage scare
It's fully blocked! Google's China search is working just fine, despite breathless claims from countless news organ ... - 'Suspicious' Android wallpaper app nabs user data
Up to 4 million downloads An Android wallpaper application that collected data from users' phones and uploaded it t ... - Data for 100m Facebook accounts published to BitTorrent
Forever is a mighty long time Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher ...
[Courtesy of The Register]
- World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production
- Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games
- Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games
[Courtesy of Slashdot]
- McAfee to Buy Mobile Security Vendor tenCube
For the second time in as many months, McAfee announced plans to push into the mobile security market via acquisiti ... - Intel, Infineon Negotiate Over Wireless Business: Reports
Intel executives are negotiating to buy Infineons wireless chip business for about $1.3 billion, according to publi ... - Cloud Awakens Microsoft's Server and Tools Giant
Has the cloud awakened a sleeping giant at Microsoft? The cloud is the future of IT and Microsofts Server and Tools ...
[Courtesy of eWeek - RSS Feed]
- Facebook data hoarder speaks out
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook u ... - Google cleared of wi-fi snooping
No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection ... - Amazon offers new look UK Kindle
Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look ...
[Courtesy of BBC News - Technology]
- Pennsylvania Police Departments Connect Wirelessly to School District Camera Feeds to Aid ...
Pennsylvania school districts give police direct access to their video camera feeds to aid situational awareness in ... - Los Angeles to Test Simulation Model That Predicts Criminals' Reactions to Increased Policing
Math-based computer simulation model analyzes how different crime hot spots respond to increased policing. - Industry Experts Detail Current Technology Trends and What They See Farther Down the Road
Future IT visions from experts at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, IBM, Accela and TerreStar Networks
[Courtesy of Government Technology Emerging Technology and Inno ...]
- Fort Collins, Colo., Pays School District to Manage E-Mail Services
In an unusual example of shared services, Fort Collins, Colo., will pay the Poudre School District to maintain and ... - State CIOs Want Better IT Governance and Strengthened Organizations, Survey Finds
2010 State CIO Survey: Respondents see IT governance imbalance over authority and accountability, want IT portfolio ... - Texas Officials Await IBM Response to Data Center Contract Warning
Texas Department of Information Resources weighs options for moving forward if IBM outsourcing deal fails.
[Courtesy of Government Technology Enterprise Technology News]
- Alt Text: Library of Congress Rulings That Could Have Been
Being able to legally jailbreak your iPhone is cool and all, but think where this type of legal reasoning could tak ... - WikiLeaks Suspect's YouTube Videos Raised 'Red Flag' in 2008
An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for up ... - Gallery: How to Build an Earthquake-Resistant Bridge
San Franciscans gets a peek at what's involved in building a new bridge when builders place the first segment of a ...
[Courtesy of Wired Top Stories]
- Jury Dumps Patent Used To Sue Facebook
Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a company, called Leader Technologies with an incredibly broad patent (7,139,7 ... - Don't Read Too Much Into The Claims That Intellectual Ventures Returns Are Negative
A bunch of folks have sent over the story from TechCrunch, based on a tweet from Chris Dixon that patent hoarding g ... - White House Seeks Easier FBI Access To Internet Records, Blocks Oversight Attempt... Just As FBI Caught Cheating On Exam To Stop Abuse
We're still at a loss to explain why there's been so little outrage over the fact that the FBI got a total free pas ...
[Courtesy of Techdirt]
- Google changes tune, search still working in China
(AP)
AP - Google says its search engine and several other services are working normally in mainland China after previous ... - US suing Oracle alleging software contracts fraud
(AP)
AP - The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it is joining a fraud lawsuit against Oracle Corp. related to softwa ... - Adult industry sees iPorn potential in new phone
(AP)
AP - It's a maxim of technology: Invent the newest gadget and the porn industry will find a way to cash in.
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News: Technology News]
- Google says China search block may be tech glitch
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could ... - Google says search cut off from mainland China
(AP)
AP - Google Inc. said Thursday that its search engine and other services were abruptly cut off from mainland China, ... - Analysts' View: Google says search service blocked in China
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said its Web search and mobile services in China were blocked on Thursday, weeks after Beijing ...
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News: Internet News]
- CrossOver, CrossOver Games 9.1 released
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - CodeWeavers, makers of utilities that bridge the software chasm between Windows and the Mac, has rel ... - Microsoft talks up tablets, shows off new phones
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows ... - Apple iPhone 4 no show for New Zealand launch
(AFP)
AFP - The latest Apple iPhone went on sale in several countries Friday, but although New Zealand was listed to be a ...
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News: Personal Technology]
- New app promises wireless sync for iPhone — if Apple approves it
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Zune users have been able to sync their music and videos over Wi-Fi for years now — not so f ... - BlackBerry's new Pearl 3G goes old-school with 14-button keypad
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - What's the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to a BlackBerry? For me, it's Research In M ...
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News: Wireless and Mobile Technology]
- Lab tested: 21.5- and 27-inch Core i3 iMacs/3.2GHz
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - With AppleâÂÂs recent update of the iMac line, all new models now feature discrete graphic ... - EZchip Semiconductor
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - EZchip Semiconductor (NMS:EZCH), a developer of network processor chips, swung to a Q2 ... - TSMC Sales, Profit Hit All-time Highs in Second Quarter
(PC World)
PC World - Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported its best quarterly net profit and sale ...
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers]
- Creating Navigation Structures in Silverlight (Silverlight TV #38)
In the first of 2 navigation videos we filmed, David Poll joins John Papa to demonstrate how the Silverlight navig ... - Andrew Miner’s – What is in a Static Collection?
Last month we held an invitation-only Silverlight Pivot Summit on campus. They were kind enough to let us record it ... - endpoint.tv - Workflow and Custom Activities - Best Practices (Part 5)
In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guide ...
[Courtesy of Channel 9]
- Personal PBS Turns PCs into Compute Cluster
Altair Engineering has announced availability of the Personal PBS application. The freely-downloadable Personal PBS ... - RNA Networks Introduces Memory Virtualization Technology
RNA Networks is providing a "third wave" of virtualization with its Memory Virtualization Platform (MVP). RNA's pro ... - Data Processing in the Cloud
In this conference presentation, Parand Darugar (Director of Software Architectyre at Yahoo) provides an explanatio ...
[Courtesy of GridSummit.com: Articles and News about Grid Compu ...]
- Panasonic's Wi-Fi Lumix Digital Camera Uploads Photos to Google's Picasa
- RED announces SCARLETT 3K Digital Cinema Camera
- Toward a Quantum Internet
[Courtesy of T E C H T R I B E S]
- SOA Dead, Not Services
Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group, believes the state of the world economy will lead to the demise of SOA. She sugg ... - Amazon Enhances EC2 Offering with Public Data Sets
Amazon Web Services is extending its cloud computing service, EC2, to support processing with large public data set ... - Silicon Valley Spotlight Shines on Data Services for SOA, WOA and Cloud Computing
The focus of developers has moved to distributed, client-server applications with data services for architectures s ...
[Courtesy of WebServicesSummit.com: XML and SOA in the Spotligh ...]
- Kodak - Interview with Photographer John Sexton and Kodak's Scott DiSabato About the New T-MAX 400 Film
Download Podcast Here After meeting both John Sexton and Scott DiSabato at the 2007 Photoplus Expo in New York, I ... - PhotoWorks - Interview - Lanae Weir
From a simple and unusual mail order processing house to a major player in the digital imaging marketplace, PhotoWo ... - Interview - Chris Orwig - Photographer
Chris Orwig and I sit down for a chat on photography, passion, and the nature of photography today.Chris Orwig is a ...
[Courtesy of Photo News Today]
- Quality Control Success Stories
34 KAIZEN reports of successful quality improvements in 10 Industries are contained in five volumes of proven measu ... - Industry Success Stories Offer Instant Improvements
Industry-specific application guides describe cutting-edge sensor applications for productivity improvements that c ... - Digital Barcode Readers Decipher Low Quality Codes
Did you know that digital barcode readers can reliably scan faint, cylindrical, or uneven codes that typically caus ...
[Courtesy of KEYENCE AMERICA - Sensors, Microscopes, Vision Sys ...]
- BVS Awarded Multiple Contracts for North American 2.5-2.7 GHz WiMAX Deployment
- GL Releases Near Real-Time Voice-Band Analyzer
- VMETRO provides free host exerciser utility for PCIe, PCI-X and PCI
[Courtesy of eTesters News Feed]
- PDFtypewriter 6.3 Released
New version of PDFtypewriter further improves PDF compatibility and rendering - PDFtypewriter 6.2 Released
New version of PDFtypewriter improves PDF compatibility and Windows 7 support - PDFtypewriter 6.1 Released
New version of PDFtypewriter makes PDF form creation even easier and improves the user interface
[Courtesy of CTdeveloping and PDF News and Releases]
- tfttf474 - Review Assignment “Spring, with no flowers” and next “Time, but no clocks” - Tech Guy
The first one is from Pixel Pusher and is called Spring. A very colorful shot of two ladybugs getting “randy.” ... - tfttf473 - Taking pictures of people - Tech Guy
First, always try and shoot images that are candid. Natural shots of people being themselves and don’t realize th ... - tfttf472 - Depth of Field in Macro Photography
A true macro is where the image is as big as the picture itself. With DSLRs, you can get a dedicated macro lens whi ...
[Courtesy of Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor (Audio ...]
- Pakistan fighting Taliban on two fronts
The BBC's John Simpson visits the city of Peshawar in Pakistan to see how the country is dealing with fighting two ... - Bollywood version of Austen's Emma
A modern Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma is set to hit the big screen. Anna Holligan went to meet its st ... - Fire engulfs tour boat off Turkey
A Spanish tourist remains missing after a Turkish tour boat was engulfed by flames while sailing in the Mediterrane ...
[Courtesy of BBC News - News front page]
- Online Predator Bills Signed Into Law Today
President Bush signed into law two bills that will make it much harder for child molesters to lurk with anonymity o ... - Goodbye, Kind PC World
This is my 952nd Techlog post. It's also my last one--because today is my last day as editor in chief of PC World. ... - Live From Google's "Factory Tour" of Search
I'm at the Googleplex in Mountain View for a Google Factory Tour--which involves neither a factory nor a tour. But ...
[Courtesy of PC World's Techlog]
Pod & Videocast
- Conference Presentation Podcast: Grid, Semantics and 5G networks
At the LinkedData Planet conference in New York, m2mi CEO Geoff Brown discussed grid computing, cloud computing and ... - Podcast Interview: Ward Cunningham Discusses Social Software and Global Collaboration
In an exclusive interview, Ward Cunningham discusses social software and global collaboration for software developm ... - Security, Web Services and Distributed Systems
Network Resonance CEO Kevin Dick presents a security taxonomy of web services and distributed systems. He discusses ...
[Courtesy of GridSummit.com Webcasts and Podcasts: Streaming me ...]
- KI_20100603 Interviewing Robert Scoble (@scobleizer)
Phil interviews Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) talking about growing up in silicon valley, the early days of corporate ... - KI_20100401 Interview with Bob Metcalfe - Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com
A series of interviews with innovation thought leaders. In this interview with Bob Metcalfe, we discuss the invent ... - KI_20100315 Live Speech - Practical Innovation Skills
A recording of a live speech on the topic of practical innovation skills - how to enhance your skills to compete in ...
[Courtesy of Killer Innovations]
- The MacReviewCast #248: Fotomagico, MacKeeper, GoodSync, Chillingo, LaCie
This week we look at Fotomagico, MacKeeper, GoodSync, Clonezilla, Chillingo, LaCie, iCasual, Freeware and more. I w ... - The MacReviewCast #247: LaCie, iDocument, Anime Studio Debut, Chandler
This week we look at LaCie Network Space 2, iDocument, Anime Studio Debut, Chandler, iCasual, Freeware plus much mo ... - The MacReviewCast #246: Radium, HanDBase, Padsync, Targus, iCasual
This week we look at Radium, HanDBase, Padsync, Targus, iCasual, Freeware plus much more. I want to thank you for d ...
[Courtesy of Surf-Bit's Mac ReviewCast » Podcasts]