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| Lenovo unveils three new Android tablets--5, 7, and 10 inchers CNET by Lance Whitney November 29, 2011 7:53 AM PST Follow @lancewhit Lenovo is shaking up the tablet market with three new devices scheduled to hit its home base of China next month. Ranging in size from five to seven to ten inches, the new tablets will be ... | ||
| Macworld Guide to AppleCare Computerworld By Kirk McElhearn Macworld - I'm sure you've had this happen: You're buying a TV, a refrigerator, or a digital camera, and the salesperson tries to pressure you or maybe even scare you into paying for an extended warranty. In some cases, the expense may ... | ||
| UPS Phishing Scam Targets Cyber Monday Shoppers PC Magazine By Sara Yin As soon as you hit "confirm purchase," the anticipation begins: when will your package arrive? Preying on the emotionally charged experience, hackers know many of you will throw caution to the wind and click into an email that says “UPS ... | ||
| Cyber Monday continues as sales figures roll in Washington Post It may be Tuesday, but retailers are milking every bit of excitement they can from Cyber Monday by continuing to offer deep discounts throughout the week. Amazon, Wal-Mart and others are putting up a week of Cyber Monday-like deals on their Web sites, ... | ||
| Cisco: Global cloud traffic will increase 12-fold by 2015 VentureBeat Better grab an umbrella, because it's about to get real cloudy. A new study by Cisco estimates that global traffic generated by cloud computing services will increase a staggering 12 times by 2015 compared to cloud traffic in 2010, while data center ... | ||
| You've Never Heard Of SoJo, But Ellen DeGeneres Invested In Its $8 Million Pre ... San Francisco Chronicle Over the summer we wrote about a startup in stealth mode that was attracting a lot of attention from celebrity investors. We called it a "good natured Zynga." The startup we were talking about is SoJo Studios. It is launching today with its first game, ... | ||
| EU Advocate General: You Can't Copyright a Programming Language ReadWriteWeb By Scott M. Fulton, III / November 29, 2011 7:30 AM / 0 Comments In an opinion which, if affirmed by judges, would have dramatic impact on the definition of software and standards - at least in Europe if not eventually worldwide - the Advocate General ... | ||
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| Cisco, Google, VMware Put Big Bucks Behind Puppet Labs CRN By Andrew R Hickey, CRN A trio of tech titans -- Cisco, Google and VMware -- has made a major investment in cloud and virtualization provisioning player Puppet Labs. Puppet Labs Tuesday said it closed $8.5 million in Series C funding, cash the company ... | ||
| 9 Mobile Health Apps Worth A Closer Look InformationWeek Lisa Henderson 11/29/2011 There's no doubt: Clinicians love their mobile devices. Among many new health apps, here are 9 that healthcare professionals and their patients should investigate. There's no doubt about it: Clinicians are in love with mobile ... | ||
| Exclusive: Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say msnbc.com This time-lapsed image of a screen on an HP LaserJet shows the impact of a rogue print job used to reprogram the device. By Bob Sullivan Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it ... | ||
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| Google Catalogs comes to Android tablets Inquirer By Lawrence Latif Google has managed to sign up a number of big-name US retailers to the service, highlighting how much clout Google has in attracting brands. It doesn't take Mystic Meg to see the firm could link it to retailers' web stores and a ... | ||
| Twitter Buys Mobile Security Startup Whisper InformationWeek (blog) Two-person development shop created software for secure text and voice communications on Android smartphones. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Twitter has snapped up Whisper Systems, a two-person mobile security software development firm that was ... | ||
| Kasich softens search for overpaid welfare recipients Ravenna Record Courier COLUMBUS — Gov. John Kasich said Monday that he doesn't think the state should be hunting down welfare recipients who, through no fault of their own, received too much in public assistance in recent decades. The governor made the comments less than a ... | ||
| European Union wants a universal approach to data protection Inquirer By Dean Wilson EUROPEAN UNION (EU) Commissioner for Justice Vivianne Reding has proposed that EU member states should have a unified approach to data protection in place of national laws. Speaking at a data protection conference at the American Chamber ... | ||
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| iFixit's iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 transparent rear panel kits on sale The Verge By Dieter Bohn on November 29, 2011 08:19 am 0Comments Cyber Monday may be over, but we'd be remiss if we didn't point out one more deal: iFixit's kit that replaces the rear iPhone 4S panel with transparent glass to show off the phone's internals. ... | ||
| HP pairs Autonomy and Vertica software Computerworld By Joab Jackson IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is quickly putting to use its recent acquisitions of Autonomy and Vertica, integrating the software from these companies into a single software package, called the HP Next Generation Information ... | ||
| The future of technology means making the computer disappear ... By Mathew Ingram Whether it's mobile devices like Square's payment system or products that monitor our health and wellness, one of the threads running through the recent GigaOM RoadMap conference was the idea that successful technology involves making ... GigaOM | ||
| Newer Technology Power2U AC/USB Wall Outlet: More power to ... By Steven Sande I'll admit that I'm not the best person to be writing about a do-it-yourself project involving electricity. After all, I've zapped myself more than once. TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog | ||
| Quid makes million-dollar maps of technology's past, present… and ... By Ciara Byrne Iraqi insurgency groups and Silicon Valley startups may not appear to have a lot in common, but according to Quid's Chief Technical Officer Sean Gourley, the mathematics underlying innovation and conflict are not that different. VentureBeat | ||
| The latest advance in smartphone technology -- a corded handset ... By Deborah Netburn Retro headsets for smart phones may reduce cell phone radiation. L.A. Times Tech Blog | ||
| Technology brings new tools to classroom : News : ValleyCentral.com By Astrid Martinez Technology is everywhere, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. These days it is also in our schools, a part of everyday learning in the classroom. Valley Central - KGBT - News... | ||
| Trying to keep up with Technology and Blogging By Dave Campbell Trying to keep up with Technology and Blogging. A little bit of everything... The heading above got changed a bunch during writing and I finally settled on that because this has become a 'stream of consciousness' post... or maybe a stream of ... Silverlight Cream | ||
| Is technology friend or foe to Santa Claus? By Associated Press “I have a love-hate relationship with technology and Santa,” said Kristi Kovalak, a mom in St. Louis. “The beauty of Santa is the not knowing. Technology is all about knowing, and knowing this instant. I swear, Google is the nemesis of the North ... Maryland Daily Record | ||
| Jobs for Bloggers - ProBlogger Job Board - Technology Blogger By Techerator.com Description. Techerator.com is a technology blog that specializes in guides, How-To's, and tips about a broad range of tech-related topics. Techerator was founded in 2009 and has served over 1.3 million pageviews to readers all over the ... ProBlogger Job Board | ||
| The Best Siri Hacks So Far - Technology - The Atlantic Wire By Rebecca Greenfield Dissatisfied with Siri's already impressive personal assistant skills, hackers have taken her to the next level, manipulating her technology to do more than just send text messages. The Atlantic Wire | ||
| New Intellectuals: Technology and Its Augean Stables : Beyond ... By Stephen E. Arnold When one considers technology, I think it is a good idea to have a point of reference. The write up does not offer the type of anchor that even a third tier university lecturer would trot out to a group of students talking in a student center over milk ... Beyond Search |
30 November 2011
Microsoft's Shrinking Window For Tablets
29 November 2011
Google's Graveyard: Dead Products Of 2011
Google's Graveyard: Dead Products Of 2011 InformationWeek By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek As we predicted in January, Google has finally discontinued Knol, the company's attempt to recreate Wikipedia in its own ad-supported image. What we didn't foresee was just how many product funerals would be held in ... | ||
Huh? Galaxy Nexus still listed in Best Buy ads as "Nexus Prime" CNET by Eric Mack November 28, 2011 7:43 AM PST Follow @ericcmack It looks like the new Google phone from Samsung running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich might be showing up very soon, but it seems to be suffering from an identity crisis. ... | ||
Nintendo 3DS (Flame Red) CNET Summary: I bought my 3DS for 124$ at Gamestop. It was the brand new Super Mario Bundle. At first I was a bit skeptical, but decided to buy it since I needed to upgrade from my DS lite. Once I bought it, I decided to buy a Nyko batter pack for it at ... | ||
For Your Eyes Only: Polarizing Privacy Monitor Mod Wired News By Charlie Sorrel If you are currently staring at an old LCD monitor and a pair of discarded spectacles, and are wondering if there's something you can do with them in the next couple of hours, then good news! We have just the project for you. ... | ||
Apple products join cash & clothes atop teens' Christmas wishlists Apple Insider By Neil Hughes More than anything, American teenagers want cash, clothes and Apple products, like the iPhone and iPad, for Christmas, a new survey has found. The latest data from Piper Jaffray, released on Monday, shows that Apple products have been ... | ||
Yandex Acquires SPB Software, Increasing Its Mobile Offerings Wall Street Journal SPB Software, which has 75 employees, develops software for smartphones and tablets from its offices in Russia, Taiwan and Thailand. Financial details on the deal were not disclosed. "Mobile is a vital part of our growth strategy. ... | ||
Feds seize 130 sites in Cyber Monday crackdown Register By Kevin Murphy • Get more from this author US feds seized control of more than 130 websites last week as part of a crackdown on counterfeit goods ahead of the Christmas shopping rush. The seizures make up the largest individual haul yet under the ... | ||
Apple's IPad-Crazed Toddlers to Spur Holiday Sales Rush: Tech San Francisco Chronicle Smith, an American Web designer living in Germany, has two kids vying for their tablet computer. The youngest started tapping and finger-swiping the screen by age 1, leading to tussles over who gets to play with the Apple Inc. device. ... | ||
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Apple fanbois get app to summon store staff Register By Anna Leach • Get more from this author Cutting right back on the annoying wait for human interaction while in a shop, Apple stores in the US are test-driving an iOS app that lets fanbois hit a button to alert store employees that they want to talk ... | ||
Brier Dudley Comcast gets makeover to hold off challengers The Seattle Times Cable giant Comcast is getting offensive, and I'm not just talking about rates. As Americans surround themselves with video screens that... Thanks for the update Mr.Dudley. I am always interested to see how Comcast can contriv. ... | ||
Phobos-Grunt 'crippled by US aurora station', 'is a bio-weapon' Register By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author "As to Mars - it is a planet that does not like earthlings. Only 30 per cent of Soviet-Russian launches to Mars were successful, the Americans have had 50 per cent success, while all attempts by Japan ... | ||
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Gas prices dropping; may stay down through 2011 Atlanta Journal Constitution By Fran Jeffries Here's an early Christmas gift for motorists that may last until the end of the year. Average retail gasoline prices in metro Atlanta have dropped 6.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.18 per gallon on Sunday, ... | ||
FBI Tips on Safe Cyber Monday Shopping Patch.com If that offer seems too good to be true, it probably is, according to the bureau. FBI warns for scams on Cyber Monday. Istock Photo Before you hit that "checkout" button for that Cyber Monday bargain, beware! Scammers try to prey on Cyber Monday ... | ||
Possible Assassin's Creed 3 Settings Named In Survey Gaming Examiner Now that Assassin's Creed: Revelations is out and we see the storyline of Ezio and Altair wrapped up, where will the franchise travel to next? How about Medieval China, Victorian England or The American Revolution; does that sound good? ... | ||
Review: Zelda Skyward Sword Montreal Gazette One of the downsides of new consoles coming along is the often stunted lifespan of existing consoles. Such is the case with the Nintendo Wii this holiday season. With the Wii U advanced console coming next year, there just doesn't seem to be a ... | ||
Hootsuite: Social media's neutral zone Montreal Gazette HootSuite allows businesses to manage and publish to a range of social media accounts including Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn, without having to log on to separate accounts. Business users can also monitor the success of their social ... | ||
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Technology event - The Nation Technology event. King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) is inviting people interested in technologies |from Thailand and Germany |to visit... NationMultimedia.com - National | ||
Technology Unites Food and Knowledge | News | The Harvard ... By Jane Seo With his love of food and interest in advanced technology, Rosenfeld developed a website called Tasted Menu for fellow choosy epicures. Tasted Menu, which officially launched to the public in October, contains user-generated content, ... The Harvard Crimson | Latest Stories | ||
'Nigeria needs indigenous technology' In this interview with Vanguard in Lagos, Dr Henry Boyo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Hardware Development Laboratory, University of Lagos says that for Nigeria to move forward, it needs its own indigenous technology, tailored to meet its ... Vanguard News | ||
SOPA: It's Technology v. Congress By Alex Wilhelm What this means is quite simple: The world of technology, and to a small extent the realm of communications (Microsoft owns Skype, Google runs Android, etc) are against SOPA. Microsoft and Apple (who opposes the Act by proxy, as it ... The Next Web | ||
A Look At Apple's Spot-the-Shopper Technology By The Huffington Post News Editors A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technologyApple is using to speed purchases. The Huffington Post | Full News Feed | ||
Brazil, Ukraine to Boost Cooperation in Space, Technology and ... By Doug Messier McTier PR:Brazil and Ukraine have decided to deepen the strategic partnership and strengthen cooperation in the spheres of space and military science. This was discussed at the meeting of the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation ... Parabolic Arc | ||
World Technology Network: Collins Likely to Change the Future | BU ... By David Keefe Collins, a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering, beat out four peers, including two Nobel laureates, for the 2011 World Technology Award for Biotechnology, one of 20 in various categories given this year by the World ... BU Today | ||
Estimating the Impact of Web Technology Conferences By Tim Finin WWW, ISWC and WebDB are the top three conferences on Web technologies in a set of 26 based on a simple analysis of citation data from Microsoft Academic Search (MAS). Last week HCI researcher Antti Oulasvirta has an interesting post ... UMBC ebiquity | ||
Job seekers turning to mobile technology to get an edge By Phone Arena In a recent infographic released by career network, Beyond, as much as 77% of job seekers are now using mobile job search apps. That 77% is comprised of 17% who say it is a discreet way to search for a job, 23.79% who enjoy being. PhoneArena - News | ||
Expat technology: iTunes Match launched – Expat - My Telegraph By chrismarshall Expat technology: iTunes Match launched. By chrismarshall. iTunes Match, part of the iCloud suite that launched earlier month, stores the entirety of your music library in the cloud, at a cost of $25 per year. Unlike competing cloud storage ... Expat
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28 November 2011
U.S. Authorities Seize Domain Names
| U.S. Authorities Seize Domain Names - Technology - The Atlantic Wire By Bryan Hood In preparation for Cyber Monday, the Department of Justice and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have seized 130 domain names over the past 24 hours, according to Torrent Freak, a popular BitTorrent site. The seizures come just days ... The Atlantic Wire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Microsoft Exec: We've Had Siri-Like Technology In Windows Phones ... By Jay Yarow Except, Microsoft's voice recognition technology doesn't work nearly as well as Apple's. Business Insider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Google Reins in Spending on Renewable Energy Technology at Oil ... By burgessj@oilprice.com (James Burgess) Google recently cancelled further development on their big green initiative, RE. OilPrice.com Daily News Update | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Need for Goal-line Technology Continues: Tomas Jun (Austria ... By Arthur Antunes Coimbra With alarming regularity, fans throughout planet football suffer from the lack of technology in the sport. Whether it relates to “goals” that have been granted without the ball actually crossing the line or, in the reverse, decisions not to award a ... Latest football (soccer) goals,... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister Teta And The Angolan Technology Scam By Pambazuka News By Rafael Marques de Morais Angola's vice-minister of Science and Technology, Dr Pedro Sebastião Teta, has been energetically promoting projects aime. Eurasia Review | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cryptogon.com PayPal's Links to Palantir, a Metasearch Technology ... By Kevin PayPal's Links to Palantir, a Metasearch Technology Used by Intelligence, Law Enforcement and Military Organizations. November 27th, 2011. And guess where they're located? That's right: Facebook's former building. I couldn't make it up if I ... cryptogon.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instapundit » Blog Archive » TECHNOLOGY: iTunes flaw allowed ... By Glenn Reynolds ... Professor Falls For Plastic-Turkey Hoax…. AT AMAZON, Black Friday deals in Tools & Home Improvement…. » November 26, 2011. TECHNOLOGY: iTunes flaw allowed spying on dissidents. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 5:04 pm. Tweet ... Instapundit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NH planetarium adds hearing aid technology | The Associated Press ... By The Associated Press The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord is making it easier for people with hearing loss to enjoy its planetarium shows. Examiner RSS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UN telecoms agency urges use of technology to tackle climate ... By AfricanBrains Modern advanced technologies can transform social, industrial and business processes to effect the changes needed to achieve environmental sustainability, ITU said in a statement ahead of the 17th Conference of Parties (COP 17) to the UN ... AfricanBrains | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Debate Over Technology in the Classroom | Beyond Montessori ... By Beyond Montessori School At the heart of the matter are three questions: “Do we need technology to learn?”, “Why is it implemented in our schools at such a rapid rate?” and “What is the best way to use it?”. In the article Matt Richtel carefully examines (among other ... Beyond Montessori School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Latest Technology Regarding Memory Cards | Web SLR ... By Craig White Whenever people acquire new digital cameras, among the first things they'll buy for it will be a storage card that allows these to handle far more images... Web SLR - Digital Camera Info... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South African Museum of Science and Technology - Virtual ... South African Museum of Science and Technology - Virtual Globetrotting. Virtual Globetrotting: Latest Maps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Networked Politics » Blog Archive » Data Technology | Certification ... By BurdaShriner187 Laptop coaching is classroom training with scheduled courses or on-line coaching about the career field pertaining to information technology. Permit me give an explanation for! You may also want to turn out to be a Server Administrator. ... Networked Politics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indus Net Technologies Ranked 43rd as the Fastest Growing ... By Contributor Indus Net Technologies, the prime name in Internet Consulting, has won the prestigious “DeloitteTechnology Fast 50 India” award in 2011. PowerHomeBiz.com News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish ... By repec We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the ... PoliEcon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Proform Treadmills and iFit Technology – The Right Combination for ... By RicardoM We all want to achieve the toned and slender look that working out gives our body, right? Strong and sleek and ready to be shown off what’s not to love! Unfortunately, achieving that gorgeous body can sometimes be harder work than ... Travel News Syndication | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| KURU KuruSole: World's Most Ergonomic Technology for Active ... Revolutionary Technology. Imagine a shoe that is shaped like your feet out of the box. Imagine the promise of true performance and all day comfort. ... www.kurufootwear.com/technology/kuru-midsole.html
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