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22:38 | Intel's NAS-specific Atom platform hastens PCification

Ars Technica

Intel's announcement last week that the company is planning two versions of its Atom processor specifically for the NAS market was easy to overlook. After all, there are a few Atom-based NAS options on the market already, and the new single-core D410 and dual-core D510 aren't really different from their netbook counterparts in anything other than their target platform. But the roster of vendors that has already signed on to produce Atom-based NAS devices—QNAP, Synology, and LaCie, among others—gives a glimpse at the fact that the home/SOHO NAS market is one place where Intel is definitely poised to take significant marketshare from ARM, and in the near-term. This trend toward x86-based NAS will be great for consumers, because it will hasten NAS's integration into the home network. First, though, a quick note about the Intel hardware. The main thing that makes the new platform specialized for NAS is the amount of I/O hardware on the southbridge: six PCIe lanes, 12 USB 2.0 ports, a port multiplier function, and eSATA ports. This would be overkill for a netbook (compare Pine Trail's two PCIe lanes), but for a NAS that may host a number of peripherals, it's perfect. Read the comments on this post

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22:37 | Microsoft to advertise Bing in the UK with The Simpsons

Neowin.net

Ever since Microsoft launched its updated search/decision engine, Bing, it has been relentless with the advertising, which has certainly been paying off for the Redmond-based software colossus. The website now has a respectable market share of 9.7%, growing steadily with every month that goes by, though that certainly won't stop...

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22:36 | Computer algorithm, MRI used to tap memory

CNET News.com

Brain scans identify which short film clip volunteers were remembering, which could help researchers better understand memory recording patterns and, ultimately, dementia.

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22:23 | EVS-voorzitter casht 4 miljoen euro

Tijd.be Technologie

10:23 Laurent Minguet, de mede-oprichter van EVS, heeft vorige week 100.000 aandelen van het beeldtechnologiebedrijf verkocht voor iets meer dan 4 miljoen euro....

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22:21 | Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update

CNET News.com

Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers that haven't may have their reasons, but today Mozilla starts to pressure them aggressively.

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22:16 | iPhone OS 4.0 Looms, But When Will We See It?

TechCrunch

Apple has set the standard that once every year they will release a new version of the iPhone. It stands to reason that this year will be no different, with a new model likely coming sometime this summer. But arguably just as important as Apple's hardware refresh is the accompanying software refresh that comes with it as well. And that's why it shouldn't be surprising at all that whispers of iPhone OS 4.0 are starting to grow. But this year, the timeline appears a bit off. As AppleInsider reported today, iPhone OS 4.0 is likely to deliver multitasking support. If true, that will make it perhaps the most important OS upgrade for the platform yet. However, in reporting the news, AppleInsider also notes that the software, "remains under development and reportedly has a quite 'way to go' before it's ready for prime time." Looking back at the iPhone OS SDK history you'll notice a constant: Apple has released the beta builds in March the past two years. We're already well into March this year, and so far, no word about Apple being close to doing the same.

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21:59 | Vicarious.ly: SimpleGeo’s One Location-Based Stream To Visualize Them All

TechCrunch

As I've made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don't believe me, here's a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap your head around all this location data? SimpleGeo has an awesome way. Vicarious.ly is a real-time location-based stream of information presented in a nice visual way. While the plan is to eventually launch one for many different cities around the U.S. and eventually the world, the first one is based around Austin, for SXSW. To make it, SimpleGeo partnered with BlockChalk, Brightkite, Bump Technologies, Flickr, Fwix, Foursquare, Gowalla, and Twitter to pull all of their location data and place it both in a constantly-updating stream, and put data points on a Google Map at the top of the page. These data points are represented by the logos of the various companies, so it's easy to follow visually.

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21:55 | Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling

ZDNet News

A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007.

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21:40 | iPhone OS 4.0 may finally bring multitasking nirvana

Ars Technica

One complaint commonly leveled against the iPhone is that it can't run multiple apps at the same time. However, sources for AppleInsider say that Apple is finally planning to incorporate a task manager that will integrate with the established iPhone user interface in the next major revision of iPhone OS, expected to be available this summer. Like Mac OS X on which it is based, iPhone OS is fully capable of running multiple processes at once. In fact, it does run multiple processes—iPod, Mail, voicemail and phone processes continually run in the background. What it doesn't do is run multiple third-party apps at the same time. Want to listen to Pandora while answering e-mails? Run a GPS tracking app while checking your tweets? Sorry, no can do. Apple has given a number of reasons for enforcing this limitation. The company claims that multiple apps running simultaneously will run down the battery faster, or could lead to more out-of-memory errors as apps contend for resources of the iPhone. Also, since non-Apple apps can't run in the background, there's virtually zero chance that malware could run without a user noticing. Finally, limiting the iPhone to one app at a time keeps things simple enough for even the most tech-adverse users to understand how it works. However, the latest rumor says that Apple has a "full-on solution" to the problem coming in iPhone OS 4.0. No specifics were revealed, so there are no details about how Apple has implemented managing multiple running apps. Remember, it took three major versions of iPhone OS before there was system-wide cut-copy-paste functionality, and the interface ended up working extremely well. We expect Apple has likewise put extensive work into making running multiple apps as straightforward as possible while still offering reasonable levels of stability, battery life, security, and ease of use. Read the comments on this post

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21:36 | MSNBC Extends Its BreakingNews Brand To Facebook

TechCrunch

Last December, MSNBC acquired the Twitter account @breakingnews, which was started as a basic newswire by Michael van Poppel and gradually grew to 1.4 million followers (it's now up to over 1.6 million). A month later, MSNBC announced that it had acquired BreakingNews.com, which will has become a web portal for the online newswire. And today, it's completing the triefeca: MSNBC has just launched Facebook Page at Facebook.com/BreakingNews. MSNBC spokesperson Gina Stikes says that the new Facebook account will only send updates for the biggest stories to break (you can still use its other feeds if you want to receive every story to come from the service). The page is obviously still quite new (it only has 645 fans right now), but you can expect that the grow quickly.

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20:48 | AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been

TechCrunch

Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say AOL. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com. Like Friendfeed, Lifestream aggregates a number of third party social networks - Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare, Delicious, Digg, Flickr, YouTube, etc., so if you follow a Lifestream user you'll see all of the content that user publishes on those networks, and Lifestream automatically pulls in content from people you already follow on those various social networks, so you don't have to create yet another new friend list. Lifestream isn't yet integrated with Google Buzz, but Aol says it may be coming soon. Users can filter out content from specific networks if they like, on a per user or broad basis. A way to think about this - "noise cancellation for social networks."

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20:18 | CNET News Daily Podcast: Sony busts a move

CNET News.com

Sony's PlayStation 3 motion controller finally gets a name. We also talk Bill Gates' drop into being the world's second richest man, and the results of Pink Floyd's court battles with EMI.

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19:47 | Canonical's design team responds to theme criticisms

Ars Technica

Canonical is burying Ubuntu's traditional brown theme and is adopting a new visual style for version 10.04, which is scheduled for release in April. The new theme was revealed last week as part of Canonical's broader effort to overhaul Ubuntu's branding and visual identity. The new theme includes a richer color palette and a number of stylistic enhancements. The change that has generated the most controversy is the placement of the window management buttons in the left-hand side of the titlebar. In response to some of the concerns that have been raised by users, Canonical designer Ivanka Majic has written a blog entry that describes the reasons behind the change. Majic is also seeking additional feedback from the Ubuntu community. The designers looked closely at the placement and configuration of the window management buttons on other platforms and considered a number of factors, such as the use cases for maximization, the potential advantages of moving the window management buttons into closer proximity with the menu elements, and the challenges of diverging from the configuration that is currently familiar to users. When I first started testing the theme, I didn't really have an opinion because I generally don't use the titlebar for window management. I have keyboard shortcuts configured for all the standard window management operations. To move the window, I typically use alt+click dragging, because it lets me click anywhere inside of the window. That's more efficient than having to aim for the titlebar, which is a much smaller target. For similar reasons, I configured Compiz to let me close a window by using alt+right-click anywhere inside the window's boundaries. (When I use other operating systems that don't have alt+click dragging, I'm always amazed by how profoundly the absence of that feature detrimentally impacts my productivity.) Although I rarely ever touch the titlebar, the new layout consistently confuses me on the rare occasions when I attempt to do so. The resulting disorientation has started to bother me and I'm beginning to sympathize a bit with the critics. It's possible, however, that users who rely more heavily on the titlebar for window management will adapt more quickly. Our readers have already broadly discussed their preferred titlebar button positioning in the threads of our previous articles about the new theme. Unfortunately, I think that the hyper-focus on the minutiae of widget placement has detracted from the opportunity to take a look at the bigger picture. I've become really curious about what strategies other users have devised to manage windows. Are there ways that window manager can be modified to accommodate more productive interaction? Do you use features like minimize and maximize? If you favor alternate window management paradigms like tiling, what do you view as its principal advantages? Do conventional window management concepts translate well to emerging form factors like touchscreen devices and netbooks? Read the comments on this post

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19:40 | Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds

CNET News.com

JetBlue said it had a thousand free tickets to give away to New Yorkers who showed up at a location broadcasted via Twitter. The only complaint so far: Couldn't there be more?

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19:40 | Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest

Neowin.net

For as long as most can remember, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman, Bill Gates, has been the richest man in the world. Weighing in at $53 billion, it's easy to understand why. Forbes, however, is reporting the official dethroning of Bill Gates. This is not the first time he's lost the...

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19:34 | Google Cuts Milo At The Knees With Its Blue Dot Specials

TechCrunch

Google just launched a new feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search which could take local shopping search startup Milo out at the knees. Whenever you do a Google product search from a mobile phone, blue dots will appear next to items which are in-stock at nearby stores. The image at right is from a search I just did for "HDTVs."  The blue dots are subtle, but they certainly distinguish those results. Google has partnerships with Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm to show local inventory, and it is inviting other merchants to apply to participate as well. Highlighting local inventory in product search results is exactly what Milo does, although it works on the Web as well as mobile. Milo will have to try to keep one step ahead of Google now that its business has been targeted as a feature of Google Product search.

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19:29 | Bing use inches up in February

CNET News.com

Share of U.S. search requests for Microsoft Bing rises to 11.5 percent, though Google still leads the pack with 65.5 percent of all search queries, says ComScore.

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19:03 | SecondMarket: Facebook And Zynga Dominate Transactions In February

TechCrunch

In January, private company stock marketplace SecondMarket published data on private company stock sales that they helped complete in 2009. And February's report showed the transactions that took place in January, which showed a strong demand for consumer products and services startups. The majority of transactions in January were sales of Facebook stock. SecondMarket just released its February report, which you can download here. Transactions more tripled in February, from $13 million in sales to $43.8 million in sales last month. A full 48% of the transactions were sales of Facebook stock, compared to 38% in January. And last month, we reported that sales are being completed for as high as $40 per share (or a $17.6 billion valuation). But we learned this week that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the company public. LinkedIn took 18% of the transactions, and sales of both Twitter and Zynga stock were each 15% of the total. LifeLock rounded the group out with 4% of the total.

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19:00 | What's in a title? For broadband, it's Oz vs. Kansas

CNET News.com

A push by Net neutrality advocates to reclassify ISPs as telecommunications providers has dangerous implications, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.

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18:58 | Why Google Android is winning

CNET News.com

Google's open-source approach to Android is a key reason that it is quickly gaining ground on closed-source competitors like Apple's iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry. But challenges remain.

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18:57 | Keyware boekt 0,8 miljoen euro nettoverlies

Tijd.be Technologie

06:57 Keyware heeft het boekjaar 2009 afgesloten met 0,8 miljoen euro nettoverlies, een lichte verbetering tegenover vorig jaar. De nettocashflow is voor het eerst positief, zegt de specialist in elektronis...

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18:57 | Keyware boekt 0,8 miljoen euro verlies

Tijd.be Technologie

06:57 Keyware heeft het boekjaar 2009 afgesloten met 0,8 miljoen euro nettoverlies, een lichte verbetering tegenover vorig jaar. De nettocashflow is voor het eerst positief, zegt de specialist in elektronis...

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18:57 | Green Day: Rock Band coming June 8, supports full exports

Ars Technica

Green Day: Rock Band has a release date, so you can finally exhale. The game is coming to the PlayStation, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii on June 8, for $59.99 on the two high-definition systems and $49.99 on the Nintendo Wii. The game features 47 Green Day songs, vocal harmonizing for multiple singers, and you'll have the ability to export every song to Rock Band or Rock Band 2 for an additional $10. Joystiq is reporting that if you preorder the game from GameStop, you'll be able to export the songs to your hard drive for free. A $69.99 special edition version of the game will include the ability to export the songs as well, and will include previously released Green Day tracks from the Rock Band Store. The story mode of the game will take you through Green Day's career, with images to unlock and videos to watch. For the hardcore Green Day fan this should be a day-one purchase. For everyone else? We're just going to have to take a look at how much Green Day we need in our rhythm games. Harmonix has also announced Rock Band 3 for release this year, but has yet to provide any details. Read the comments on this post

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18:55 | Gaming: Green Day: Rock Band wereldwijd vanaf 8 juni

Techzine Nieuws

De Rock Band spin-off, Green Day: Rock Band, heeft van ontwikkelaar Harmonix een wereldwijde releasedatum meegekregen. Het spel moet vanaf 8 juni wereldwijd voor de PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 en Wii in de winkels liggen. Naast de releasedatum is er ook aangekondigd dat je de volledige lijst met 47 nummers kan exporteren naar elk ander Rock Band-spel, inclusief het recentelijk aangekondigde Rock Ba....

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18:50 | Barnes & Noble Uses Crunchies Endorsement On In Store Nook Posters. We Want One.

TechCrunch

We were somewhat sad when Barnes & Noble sent their PR firm to accept their award for the Nook for Best Gadget of 2009 at the Crunchies in January. Traditionally only Apple blows off the awards, and we've always been able to work around that. But apparently Barnes & Noble are at least aware that they won the award. They are using it to promote the Nook on in-store posters, we learned recently. We sent TechCruncher Laura Boychenko over to the local Barnes & Noble last night with strict instructions to rip one of the posters off the wall and run like hell back to the office with it. She failed in her task, but did take a few pictures and a video and promised to ask Barnes & Noble for one of the posters for our office. Less dramatic, but just as effective I guess.

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18:38 | Cell phone inventor swaps iPhone for Droid

Neowin.net

Back in 1973, Martin Cooper created something that would change the world forever--the cell phone. The first cell phone may not have been pocketable, but were it not for Martin Cooper and his brilliant invention, we wouldn't be walking around with phones in our trousers. This man deserves a lot of...

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18:32 | Sen. Reid helps win wind turbine plant for Nevada

CNET News.com

Production and assembly factory producing 1,100-megawatts worth of turbines annually will create 1,000 permanent jobs for the state.

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18:15 | Italy green-lights largest PV solar plant in Europe

CNET News.com

SunEdison's 72-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant finds a home in Italy's Veneto region.

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18:13 | AOL, Intel, And The New York Times Help betaworks Raise a $20 Million Series B

TechCrunch

Betaworks, the New York City-based holding company investing in the realtime Web, just raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led by RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY, Lerer Investments and Founders Collective, also participated, along with investors from the last round, which was $7.5 million The company both invests and incubates realtime media startups, including Summize (acquired by Twitter for realtime search), bit.ly, TweetDeck, StockTwits, SuperFeedr, Outside.in, OMGPOP, and gdgt.

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18:10 | HP aims for 'amazing' with ad campaign

CNET News.com

Hewlett-Packard is ready to go with a new series of ads intended to jazz up its image among businesses, consumers, and even its own employees.

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18:10 | Court nixes individual track downloads of Pink Floyd albums

Ars Technica

Individual Pink Floyd songs will soon disappear from online music stores. The British High Court has ruled against EMI, the band's record label, saying that the band's contract requires EMI to "preserve the artistic integrity of the albums." In this case, that means keeping all the tracks together and in the order they were meant to be in, leading some to worry whether Pink Floyd's music will disappear from popular online music stores altogether. When Pink Floyd signed with EMI back in the late '60s, its members probably did not imagine an age when we would be ditching physical media en masse in favor of cherry-picked songs on a series of Internet tubes. It's unsurprising then that the contract stipulated for the label to maintain the artistic integrity of the album itself—back then (and today as well, but perhaps to a lesser degree), musicians spent painstaking amounts of time crafting the entire album as a whole artwork. Those who only listened to select tracks were totally missing out. Indeed, as EMI has discovered, that still appears to be the case, at least when it comes to Pink Floyd. The High Court ordered EMI to pay £40,000 in court costs with the possibility of future damages and EMI may have to pull Pink Floyd's individual offerings from places like the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3. (As of this writing, the albums with per-track purchases were still available. Get 'em while they're hot.) In addition, EMI must pay Pink Floyd an undisclosed amount in royalty payments. This doesn't mean they wouldn't become available again as full-album purchases, though—iTunes, for example, regularly offers albums that have one or two tracks that only come with a full album purchase. We wouldn't be surprised to see Dark Side of the Moon come back to iTunes with every track marked "Album only." Read the comments on this post

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18:00 | Gaming: Nederland spendeerde 45 miljoen aan MMO's in 2009

Techzine Nieuws

Door GamesIndustry en TNS is er een onderzoek gedaan naar het bedrag dat verschillende landen uitgeven aan het spelen van Massively Multiplayer Online-spellen. Ook Nederland kwam in het onderzoek aan bod. Het onderzoek werd gehouden in zes westerse landen. De Verenigde Staten, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië, België én Nederland. De Verenigde Staten steekt er met 2,8 miljard euro, wat ge....

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17:58 | Mobile tycoon edges out Gates as richest man

CNET News.com

Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion.

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17:51 | Consumer Reports Says Apple Has The Best Tech Support, Acer/Gateway/eMachines The Worst

TechCrunch

Consumer Reports has a new report on which computer company has the best tech support. Apple wins! That's what happens when the same company controls the hardware as well as the operating system (and several of the most prominent pieces of software). The highest ranking PC manufacturer is Dell for desktops and Lenovo for laptops.

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17:50 | Evri Acquires Radar Networks In Semantic Search Consolidation

TechCrunch

After shopping itself around to all the major search engines, Radar Networks finally found a buyer in another semantic search startup. Today, Evri is announcing that it will be acquiring Radar Networks, along with its core technical team and its main product, Twine. Rumors surfaced yesterday on ReadWriteWeb that Evri was being acquired, but that is not the case. Evri is the acquirer.

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17:48 | IRIS mikt komende jaren op groei

Tijd.be Technologie

05:48 IRIS, de specialist in de automatisering van documenten, belooft de komende twee jaar een omzet- en winstgroei. In het moeilijke 2009 wist het bedrijf uit Louvain-la-Neuve zijn brutomarge licht te doe...

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17:42 | Euro Startup Competition Plugg Names Fits.me Its Winner

TechCrunch

Fits.me, a virtual fitting room for internet clothing retailers based on robots (yes really) has won the European startup competition in Brussels, Plugg. It's actually even cooler than it sounds. By creating robotic shape-shifting manakins and testing how people reacted by seeing clothes on the robot with their dimensions, sales actually went up. Only 7% of all clothing is sold online today, a $36bn market It's $20bn for computers), because you can't see how the clothes look on a human body. The fits.me trial with partners showed these pictures of adjustable manakins wearing clothes increased sales three times and dramatically reduced returns by 28%.

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17:38 | Brusselse politie infiltreert op Facebook

ZDNet.be news

De politie van Brussel-Noord heeft rellen tussen Turken en Koerden kunnen verijdelen dankzij Facebook. Enkele agenten infiltreerden in een groep die opriep tot geweld tegen Koerdische demonstranten.

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17:37 | iPhone OS 4.0 will support multitasking

Neowin.net

According to AppleInsider, the next version of the iPhone OS, 4.0, will support multitasking, allowing users to switch back and forth between third party applications.  The inside source said they have provided a “full-on solution” to multitasking.  The much anticipated feature will put the iPhone and iPod touch in-line or...

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17:33 | Code voor lek Internet Explorer openbaar

ZDNet.be news

De aanvalscode om een onopgeloste bug in Internet Explorer te misbruiken is online gepubliceerd. De exploit zit nu in Metasploit, een tool om software op securityfouten te testen. Daardoor is de kans groot dat er misbruik van het lek wordt gemaakt.

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17:28 | Researcher publishes exploit for new IE hole

CNET News.com

Clues in McAfee blog post led researcher to existing exploit code which he analyzed to write his own code.

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17:28 | feature: Safely whitelist your favorite sites and opt out of tracking

Ars Technica

So there was this article on the Internet recently about how ad blocking is devastating to sites that you love. You may have read it and there's a good chance that you participated in the frank and lively discussion that took place afterwards. One of the things we learned from all of this is that not all people who use ad blockers are actually out to block our ads, and that many of you didn't realize that blocking ads hurt us and the other sites you love. Many care deeply about their privacy, personal information, and the well-being of their computers. Many were more than happy to unblock Ars, but many others had difficulty doing so due to the complicated nature of many ad blocking solutions. Dozens of you asked for help, so here it is. Read the comments on this post

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17:20 | New King of Donkey Kong crowned

CNET News.com

Donkey Kong, the arcade game that dates back to the '80s and has launched numerous Mario related spin-offs, has a new world record high score.

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17:07 | Google Street View ontsluit Nederland

Webwereld

Een groot deel van Nederland is sinds vandaag in Google Street View te zien. Ook elders heeft de om privacyredenen bekritiseerde dienst een fikse update gekregen.

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17:01 | Dolby bringing 3D voice chat to consoles, Mac

CNET News.com

The audio specialist is bringing its 3D Axon technology to video game consoles as well as the Mac to enable a bunch of neat new voice chat tricks for console games.

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17:00 | Gaming: Meer informatie over PlayStation Move bekend

Techzine Nieuws

De PlayStation motion controller heeft al verschillende namen gehad, geen van die namen werd echter officieel bevestigd. Zo is de controller al de PlayStation Arc genoemd en de PlayStation Gem. Sony deed recentelijk uit de doeken dat de officiële naam van de controller de PlayStation Move is. Enkele uren voor de persconferentie van Sony op de Game Developers Conference gingen de geruchten over ....

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17:00 | InstantAction to offer embeddable console games

CNET News.com

At GDC 2010, InstantAction follows rival OnLive in announcing a service that lets gamers quickly rent or buy console games over the Internet.

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16:58 | Browser ballot not on tap for Asia

CNET News.com

Opera won't be lobbying for a browser choice screen to be implemented in Asia-Pacific, while Mozilla's Open to Choice campaign stays within Europe.

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16:48 | FlyScreen Adds Foursquare To Its Android Lock-screen App

TechCrunch

FlyScreen, the mobile phone lock-screen replacement from Israeli startup Cellogic, has added Foursquare integration to its Android app ahead of this year's South by Southwest festival. The new Foursquare widget lets users of the location-based social network access its main features, including the ability to quickly find places nearby, "check-in", share their location with friends via Foursquare, Twitter and/or Facebook, as well as access their foursquare friends-list.

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16:46 | Perseids, John Hughes, And G.I. Joe Are Trending Topics On Wikipedia

TechCrunch

Google has Google Trends, Twitter has trending topics, and now so does Wikipedia. Pete Skomoroch at Data Wrangling built a trending topics page for Wikipedia. The homepage ranks the top-25 Wikipedia articles with the most pageviews over the past 30 days, as well as the fastest rising articles in the past 24 hours. Some of the most popular Wikipedia articles in the past month include ones on the Perseids meteor shower, Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, director John Hughes, and G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. These are quite different than the types of search trends you would find on Google trends or realtime trending topics on Twitter.

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16:45 | 0-day exploits for IE flaw another reason to switch to IE 8

Ars Technica

Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday a new flaw affecting version 6 and 7 of its Internet Explorer web browser that could allow remote code execution. The security advisory noted that targeted attacks using the flaw were already in the wild. This information was confirmed by McAfee, reporting that exploitation of the flaw was originating from the domain topix21century dot com over both HTTP and HTTPS. The drive-by attacks install a backdoor which connects to a command-and-control server. Analysis by Symantec reveals that the exploit works effectively on IE 6. IE 7 tended to crash instead, and IE 8 is, as stated in the Microsoft advisory, immune. The attack loads some malicious code, and then makes repeated changes to the HTML document eventually provoking execution of the malicious code. The best solution is to upgrade to IE 8, as one of the many improvements found in this browser also seals off the security hole. Failing that, enabling Data Execution Prevention in IE 7 should provide some level of mitigation, as the current exploits do not circumvent DEP (though they could probably be combined with DEP bypass techniques). Removing access to the file iepeers.dll using either of the mechanisms described in Microsoft's advisory prevents Internet Explorer from loading the flawed code, but may also break print and web folder functionality. Finally, disabling of scripting and ActiveX in the Internet and Local Intranet security zones should also provide protection against exploitation. Microsoft has still made no indication whether this flaw will receive an out-of-band update, but with exploits in the wild and documented analysis of the exploit, clearly this flaw is something that needs fixing, and soon. Read the comments on this post

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16:37 | Sex.com sells

CNET News.com

Target starts a coupon program for mobile phones, Google launches a fancy new RSS reader, and Sex.com is up for grabs.

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16:28 | Google lanceert speelse RSS-lezer

ZDNet.be news

Google lanceert met Google Reader Play een speelse variant van zijn populaire RSS-lezer. Maar het is niet de bedoeling dat Reader wordt vervangen.

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16:09 | Pink Floyd wins court fight on downloads

CNET News.com

Britian's high court sides with famed British rock band and tells EMI no more selling individual song downloads without Pink Floyd's permission.

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16:05 | FCC Commissioner rips ISPs on broadband prices, competition

Ars Technica

Federal Communications Commissioner Mignon Clyburn solidified her role as the agency's tail gunner on Wednesday with a warning to the big ISPs that the FCC's patience with rising broadband subscription rates is wearing thin. "When prices rise across the industry, and where there are only a limited number of players in the game, we have to ask ourselves whether there is any meaningful competition in the marketplace," Clyburn declared in a public statement. "Moreover, when executives from major broadband providers indicate that they will only roll out faster speeds in the few markets where they have competition, our fears about whether meaningful competition exists should grow." Read the comments on this post

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16:03 | Target offers mobile coupons

ZDNet News

Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products.

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15:49 | New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

CNET News.com

The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.

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15:47 | Porno krijgt nieuwe kans op .xxx

ZDNet.be news

Icann, de organisatie die de topleveldomeinen van internet beheert, gaat opnieuw het .xxx-domein overwegen. Dat is bedoeld voor pornosites.

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15:46 | Beltonensite Jamba weer in de verkoop

Emerce Nieuws

Uitgever News Corp. wil zijn beltonensite Jamba kwijt en onderzoekt welke partijen belangstelling zouden hebben.

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15:25 | Microsoft verliest rechtszaak Word opnieuw

ZDNet.be news

Microsoft heeft in de VS opnieuw de rechtszaak tegen i4i verloren. De rechter bevestigt de eerdere uitspraak dat het programma Word een patent rond de XML-technologie van i4i schendt.

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15:16 | HP klaagt vervalsers en patentschenders aan

Webwereld

HP daagt vier bedrijven uit Hong Kong en Taiwan voor de rechter vanwege patentinbreuk en verkoop van omgekatte printerkoppen.

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15:05 | OpenGL 4.0 Comes Out To Play

TechCrunch

With Microsoft becoming increasingly marginalized in areas like mobile media, DirectX is becoming less of a must-use toolset and more of a gaming-specific one. The other side of the coin is, of course, the increasing relevance of standards like OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL: powerful cross-platform systems for graphics, audio, and parallel processing. You may remember OpenCL from its debut on the Mac in Snow Leopard, and OpenGL ES of course powers the UI on the iPad. OpenAL is still a ways from being brought under the public eye, but it's getting there. In the meantime, OpenGL 4.0 was announced today at GDC, and clearly it has DirectX in its sights.

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14:58 | Motally Brings Mobile Analytics To Smartphone Games

TechCrunch

As mobile gaming takes off, developers will need in-depth analysis to determine consumer behavior with their games and adjust their games accordingly. Motally, which provides user-action tracking services for the mobile web and apps, is expanding its product base today offering a targeted analytics service aimed towards mobile games on the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms. The service is currently in private beta, but developers will be able to sign up to use the service. Motally's game-oriented analytics platform allows publishers to track in-game data including where users drop out in-play and which levels users interact with most. Motally also allows for the dynamic changing of the game's design, allowing developers to measure the impact of changes immediately. As a result, publishers can tweak their games including design, performance, and ad placement by pinpointing areas of the game with the most traffic and identifying trouble areas.

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14:50 | Thuis virtueel wandelen in de Efteling

De Standaard Online

Het Nederlandse attractiepark de Efteling is toegevoegd aan Google Street View, zo heeft de directie van het park donderdag bekendgemaakt. Je kan dus voortaan vanuit je luie zetel een digitale wandeling maken langs Langnek of De Vliegende Hollander.

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14:47 | Motorola bringing Bing to China, via Android

CNET News.com

Microsoft's Bing search engine hitches a ride to China aboard handsets from Motorola.

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14:44 | Opera releases Mini browser beta for Android

CNET News.com

Google's phone operating system gets a new browser choice as Opera begins the upgrade process for its lower-end mobile browser.

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14:44 | Limbo is quiet, subtle genius... coming to XBLA

Ars Technica

The problem with dreams is that things never work the way you think they should. Try turning on a light... nothing happens. The branches of that tree may turn out to be the legs of a spider. You never feel safe, not exactly, because anything can happen. That feeling of uncertainty and unease is what Playdead had in mind when developing Limbo, a game that's coming to the Xbox Live Arcade, hopefully this summer. Read the comments on this post

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14:42 | Google Street View UK now covers 96% of the country

Neowin.net

  On Thursday, Google went live with its expanded Street View for the UK.  The street level service now covers approximately 96% of the 246,985 miles of thoroughfares. This major update comes on the back of a ruling from the EU that Google can only keep unblurred images for a maximum...

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14:41 | The Magic Mouse, Fixed At Last

TechCrunch

I handle a lot of mice in this job (right now I'm using the Mionix Naos 5000) and I have to say that if a mouse were, like the Magic Mouse, shaped completely wrong for human hands, I would throw it away and never speak of it again. Others, while perhaps more crafty, are far less principled, and will go so far as to fabricate a silicone crutch to rest their hand on. There, I fixed it!

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14:30 | Motorola To Replace Google With Bing On Chinese Android Phones

TechCrunch

If I were a spit takin' man, I'd do a spit take right now. Motorola, stalwart of freedom, will work with Chinese carriers to add Bing to Chinese Android-based phones, ousting Google Search and Maps from the scene. Now this isn't meanness on Motorola's part although Reuters notes that this move could have something to do with that whole Great Chinese Google Hacking Incident a few weeks ago.

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14:03 | Kleine uitgever met grote plannen naar Amerika

Emerce Nieuws

Four People, de Nederlandse exploitant van spaarprogramma's als Zinngeld, Surfrace en Jurkjes.nl, gaat van start met een nieuwe vestiging...

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14:00 | Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere

CNET News.com

One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can "tag" with anything.

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13:53 | Browser choice not coming to Asia

ZDNet News

Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region.

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13:45 | Dells nieuwe tablet heet Streak

ZDNet.be news

De nieuwe 5 inchtablet van Dell zal Streak heten en samenwerken met Amazons online video- en muziekhandel. Dat blijkt uit een uitgelekt document.

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13:35 | Internetvrijheden en slachtschapen (column)

Webwereld

Er wordt aan alle kanten en op alle mogelijk manieren aan uw internetvrijheid geknutseld en u doet helemaal niets. Ik ben niet boos, maar verdrietig.

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13:30 | Chasing Groupon, LivingSocial raises $25 million

CNET News.com

Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding.

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13:28 | Congress wants big NatSec exemptions for spectrum inventory

Ars Technica

A newly revised version of a House bill requiring the government to inventory the nation's radio spectrum would give Federal agencies and private license owners a national security pass on publicly disclosing information about their spectrum holdings or related data. The proposed bill, as now amended by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, would let government agencies duck out on releasing such intel if they can prove that doing otherwise "would reveal classified national security information or other information for which there is a legal basis for non-disclosure and such public disclosure would be detrimental to national security, homeland security, or public safety." Read the comments on this post

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13:23 | Internet: 'Myspace ondergaat transformatie'

Techzine Nieuws

'MySpace zal de komende tijd een transformatie ondergaan. De transformatie zal plaatsvinden over een periode van 12 maanden. De komende 6, 9 en 12 maanden zullen er op meerdere gebieden veranderingen aangebracht worden', aldus co-president Jason Hirschhorn. MySpace is een sociale netwerksite met een groot aantal gebruikers waarop je onder meer weblogs, profielen en groepen kunt bijhouden. Sinds....

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13:22 | 'Concurrentie gebruikt gestolen HP-onderdelen'

ZDNet.be news

HP beschuldigt zes concurrenten ervan dat ze gestolen onderdelen gebruiken om inktpatronen te maken. De onderdelen zijn buitgemaakt in een overval van HP-vrachtwagens.

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13:17 | Provider sneuvelt in actie tegen botnet

Webwereld

Een grote provider waarbij een groot aantal ZeuS command-and-control servers draaide is uitgeschakeld. Daardoor is een derde van deze botnetservers offline gehaald.

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13:00 | Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A)

CNET News.com

Canonical veteran Jane Silber took over from founder Mark Shuttleworth on March 1. She has more of an operations focus, but the same patient approach to profitability.

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12:52 | Razer kondigt Mac-ondersteuning voor gehele productlijn aan

Tweakers.net Nieuws

De in invoerapparatuur voor gamers gespecialiseerde fabrikant Razer heeft op de GDC aangekondigd dat het voor al zijn producten Mac-drivers uitbrengt. Tot nu toe werd Mac OS X maar voor enkele Razer-producten ondersteund.

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12:28 | Vanaf juni concurrentie op kabel UPC/Ziggo

Webwereld

Analoge tv-abonnees van UPC en Ziggo kunnen vanaf juni overstappen naar een rivaliserende nieuwkomer. Ook heeft toezichthouder OPTA de wholesaleprijzen voor doorgifte definitief vastgesteld.

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12:27 | Hardware: Cisco kondigt nieuwe super-router aan

Techzine Nieuws

Afgelopen dinsdag heeft Cisco een nieuwe router voor grote internetaanbieders onthuld. Deze router heeft een capaciteit van 322 Tbps en wordt de CRS-3 genoemd. Volgens John Chambers, algemeen directeur van Cisco, is hiermee de basis gelegd voor een nieuwe generatie internet waarin video de hoofdrol heeft. Deze capaciteit is gigantisch aangezien het volgens berekeningen mogelijk is met die capac....

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12:14 | Motorola kiest Bing voor Android-telefoons

Webwereld

Google krijgt op het eigen smartphoneplatform concurrentie van Microsoft. Motorola gaat zijn Android-telefoons uitrusten met Bing.

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12:08 | Google voegt Efteling toe aan Street View

ZDNet.be news

Google geeft het Nederlandse toerisme een duwtje in de rug: het voegt beelden van onder andere de Efteling, de Apenheul, Paleis het Loo en de Zaanse Schans toe aan zijn Street View.

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12:06 | Overig: E-books grootste categorie in App Store

Techzine Nieuws

Het aantal games in de App Store is afgelopen maand voor het eerst ingehaald door het aantal eBooks. In de App Store waren games lange tijd de prominente categorie, afgelopen maand kwam daar verandering in, aldus Mobclix. Uit onderzoek bleek dat er 27.000 eBook apps in de App Store aanwezig zijn, games nemen de tweede positie in met 25.400 apps. De afgelopen maand zijn er meer dan twee keer zo....

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12:00 | MyEdu Will Be Your Curriculum Guide And Virtual College Advisor Rolled Into One

TechCrunch

Do you remember to the days of college, when you were required to sort through your curriculum and career goals with your designated college advisor? Education startup MyEdu aims to replace this by helping students virtually access their academic information and create a roadmap tailored to their career goals. To date, over 2 million students at 750 universities have used MyEdu to earn their degree. MyEdu's suite of online products try to streamline the entire process of a college student's lifecycle, from selecting a college through to earning a degree. The suite includes detailed course descriptions, grade distributions, official course evaluations, and student reviews to pick the right classes; and schedule Planner to build the best schedule that fits a student's time constraints and goals.

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11:54 | Adobe Reader vaakst doelwit van hackers

ZDNet.be news

Reader, de pdf-lezer van Adobe, is het programma dat het vaakst onder vuur wordt genomen door verspreiders van malware. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van beveiligingsbedrijf F-Secure.

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11:53 | RTL: betaal-tv wordt tweede financieel fundament

Emerce Nieuws

Het Europese tv-bedrijf RTL Group serveerde vorig jaar 49 procent meer videostreams uit dan in 2008. In Frankrijk begon het reeds met...

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11:52 | Sony introduceert PS3-motion controller 'Move'

Tweakers.net Nieuws

Sony heeft op de Game Developers Conference het uiteindelijke ontwerp en de naam van zijn bewegingscontroller officieel bekendgemaakt. Een kit met de PlayStation Move-controller en de benodigde webcam kost maximaal 100 dollar.

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11:44 | Sony onthult Move-controller voor PS3

ZDNet.be news

Sony brengt zijn eigen bewegingsgevoelige controller voor de PlayStation3 op de markt. De Move, zo heet het stukje hardware, ligt eind dit jaar in de winkels.

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11:37 | Gaming: Nieuwe F1 2010 komt uit in september

Techzine Nieuws

De F1 2010 zal in september te verkrijgen zijn voor de Xbox 360, PC en PlayStation 3, dit heeft Codemasters bekendgemaakt. Sinds Codemasters in 2008 de rechten van Sony heeft overgenomen is dit de eerste racegame die gebaseerd is op de Formule 1-licentie. F1 2010 is hiermee dus de officiële racegame van de FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) en beschikt dus over alle teams, cour....

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11:34 | Startup beveiligt backup met papieren sleutel

Webwereld

De Nederlandse startup Safeberg beveiligt zijn nieuwe online backupdienst met een beveiligingssleutel op papier. Dat zou veiliger zijn dan het gebruik van digitale sleutels.

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11:32 | Business: ATI beschuldigd rivaal nVidia van omkoperij

Techzine Nieuws

ATi, de grafische afdeling van AMD, heeft zijn aartsrivaal nVidia beschuldigd van het maken van deals met game-designers om nVidia's nieuwe PhysX programmeer interface te promoten. Richard Hubby, senior manager van AMD, zegt dat ontwikkelaars deze PhysX helemaal niet willen, maar toch over de streep getrokken worden doordat nVidia ze er geld voor bied. Eerder dit jaar gaf AMD al aan dat nVidia ....

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11:32 | Business: ATI beschuldigt rivaal NVIDIA van omkoperij

Techzine Nieuws

ATI, de grafische afdeling van AMD, heeft zijn aartsrivaal NVIDIA beschuldigd van het maken van deals met game-designers om NVIDIA's nieuwe PhysX programmeer interface te promoten. Richard Hubby, senior manager van AMD, zegt dat ontwikkelaars deze PhysX helemaal niet willen, maar toch over de streep getrokken worden doordat NVIDIA ze er geld voor bied. Eerder dit jaar gaf AMD al aan dat NVIDIA ....

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11:30 | Wereldkampioen robotvoetbal gaat open source (video)

Webwereld

Op de Cebit in Hannover gaven de Duitse wereldkampioenen robotvoetbal een demonstratie. Wegens gebrek aan competitie geeft "Der Robotmannschaft" nu de broncode maar vrij.

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11:20 | Google: kranten verdienen niet aan nieuws

ZDNet.be news

De inkomsten uit reclame op het internet bedragen minder dan vijf procent van de opbrengst van krantenadvertenties. Zo weerlegt Googles hoofdeconoom de aantijgingen dat zijn bedrijf verantwoordelijk is voor de crisis in de krantenindustrie.

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11:04 | 2.6 GHz-veiling trekt negen bieders

Webwereld

Er zijn negen bedrijven die azen op frequenties voor onder meer Wimax en LTE. De veiling van de vergunningen voor de 2.6 GHz band vindt eind april plaats.

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10:58 | Motorola partners with Bing Search for new Android phones in China

Neowin.net

Motorola said Wednesday that it will be deploying Bing services on Motorola devices powered by Android in China. Devices are expected to be available in the first quarter this year with a pre-loaded Bing bookmark on their mobile browser and an enhanced search widget with Bing integration. Motorola says...

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10:58 | Microsoft verliest weer beroep in Word-patentzaak

Webwereld

In hoger beroep heeft een Amerikaanse rechtbank opnieuw geoordeeld dat Microsoft patenten van i4i-heeft geschonden in Word. En dat gebeurde moedwillig, werd benadrukt.

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10:45 | Google digitaliseert oude Italiaanse boeken

ZDNet.be news

Google gaat bijna een miljoen oude boeken, waaronder werken van de astronoom Galileo Galilei, uit de nationale bibliotheken in Rome en Florence digitaliseren.

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10:32 | Internet genomineerd voor Nobelprijs Vrede

ZDNet.be news

Het internet is een van de 237 genomineerden voor de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede. Het Noorse Nobelcomité zegt dat het nominaties voor 199 personen en 38 organisaties heeft ontvangen.

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10:27 | PVV stemde tegen openheid ACTA

Webwereld

De PVV wil geen achterkamertjesonderhandelingen rond ACTA. Ook moet het verdrag zich niet tegen de burger keren. Maar in het stemgedrag besloot de partij precies het tegenovergestelde.

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10:27 | PVV stemt tegen openheid ACTA

Webwereld

De PVV wil geen achterkamertjesonderhandelingen rond ACTA. Ook moet het verdrag zich niet tegen de burger keren. Maar in het stemgedrag besloot de partij precies het tegenovergestelde.

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10:24 | OCZ brengt budget-ssd Onyx uit

Tweakers.net Nieuws

OCZ komt wederom met een nieuw ssd-model. De 2,5" OCZ Onyx is een budget-ssd waarmee de fabrikant mikt op de thuisgebruikersmarkt. De 32GB-schijf biedt betere prestaties dan conventionele harde schijven en is relatief gunstig geprijsd.

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10:18 | Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too

CNET News.com

The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application

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10:00 | UZ Leuven plaatst aanraakterminals naast alle bedden

Datanews

Alle 2035 ziekenhuisbedden op de 5 campussen van het universitair ziekenhuis (UZ) van Leuven krijgen terminals met aanraakschermen. Telecomspecialist Nextel en Televic, dat communicatiesystemen bouwt, hebben dat contract in de wacht gesleept.

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10:00 | Welke BI-oplossing is het meest geschikt voor kmo's?

Datanews

Element61, gespecialiseerd in consultancy rond business intelligence, en de Katholieke Hogeschool Mechelen (KHM) hebben samen een project gelanceerd om de BI-noden van en de beste SaaS-oplossing voor kmo's te definiëren.

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09:58 | Nederlandse Wimax-veiling begint 20 april

Emerce Nieuws

Over ruim vijf weken begint de veiling van de Nederlandse Wimax-licenties. Daarmee wordt de basis gelegd van een nieuwe infrastructuur voor...

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09:43 | MySpace krijgt paar nieuwe functies

ZDNet.be news

MySpace, moeder van alle sociaalnetwerksites, gaat in de zomer enkele updates doorvoeren. Dat besluiten Hirschhorn en Jones, de opvolgers van de opgestapte directeur Van Natta.

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09:20 | Draadloze 1080p-mediahub van LG vanaf april te koop

Tweakers.net Nieuws

LG heeft voor het eerst zijn Wireless Media Box getoond. De mediahub streamt draadloos 1080p-video naar een nieuwe Infinia-hdtv en maakt hiervoor gebruik van de nieuwe whdi-standaard. De box is vanaf april te koop voor 299 euro.

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09:03 | Dell Adamo XPS na drie maanden weer weg

ZDNet.be news

De Adamo XPS-laptop die Dell sinds december verkoopt, is alweer zo goed als verdwenen. De computerfabrikant verdedigt zich en zegt dat het eigenlijk om een beperkte oplage gaat. Maar dat werd bij de lancering niet gezegd.

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09:03 | Dell Adamo XPS na 3 maanden weer weg

ZDNet.be news

De Adamo XPS-laptop die Dell sinds december verkoopt, is alweer zo goed als verdwenen. De computerfabrikant verdedigt zich en zegt dat het eigenlijk om een beperkte oplage gaat. Maar dat werd bij de lancering niet gezegd.

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09:00 | Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta

CNET News.com

Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.

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09:00 | Bill Gates niet meer de rijkste

Datanews

De rijkste man te wereld is niet meer voormalig Microsoft-topman Bill Gates, maar wel de Mexicaanse telecommagnaat Carlos Slim Helu.

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09:00 | Thuiswerk levert halve dag tijdwinst per week op

Datanews

Van thuis uit werken levert in België een halve dag tijdwinst per week op. Dat blijkt uit de ICT-Barometer van Getronics.

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08:56 | Lucid Imagination Raises $10 Million For Apache Search Technology

TechCrunch

Lucid Imagination, the startup that commercially distributes the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from Shasta Ventures with Granite Ventures and Walden International participating in the round. This brings the company's total funding to $16 million. Lucid powers enterprise search technologies using the open source Lucene/Solr search. Customers include Zappos, Nike and Netflix. The new funding will be used to accelerate the adoption of Lucene/Solr search technology.

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08:40 | LGBT researcher calls for action to combat cyberbullying (podcast)

CNET News.com

The co-author of a study on cyberbullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth says more than half of LGBT youth had experienced cyberbulling within the past 30 days.

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08:32 | Retweet verkocht voor kwart miljoen dollar

Emerce Nieuws

Retweet.com, de Twitter-dienst die maar weinig publiek trekt, in tegenstelling tot concurrent Tweetmeme, is in een online veiling verkocht...

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08:26 | Opera Mini 5 Beta Now Available For Android

TechCrunch

Sure, Opera Mini may (or may not) already be the most popular mobile browser in the world -- but why stop there? Following up on the Android release of Opera Mobile 4 just over a year ago, Opera has just launched Opera Mini 5 for Android into public beta. The jump from version 4 to version 5 is pretty huge, introducing a handful of features that Opera says "makes your mobile browsing experience as close as it can be to your desktop experience."

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08:11 | Mozilla kopieert FlightDeck-gui (screenshots)

Webwereld

Mozilla heeft een grafisch ontwerp voor zijn addon-ontwikkelsysteem FlightDeck gestolen. Slachtoffer is het designbureau dat een design maakte voor Mozilla dat werd afgewezen.

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08:10 | Mozilla steelt afgewezen gui-ontwerp

Webwereld

Mozilla heeft een grafisch ontwerp voor een addon-systeem gestolen van een designbureau, eerder werd datzelfde ontwerp afgekeurd. De Firefox-maker verdedigt dat de interface nog niet definitief is.

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08:00 | Franse post wil mobiele telefonie aanbieden

Datanews

De Franse post, La Poste, wil met het oog op de toenemende concurrentie bij de postactiviteiten voortaan ook mobiele telefonie aanbieden. Tegen september zou een netwerkexploitant in Frankrijk als partner aangeduid moeten zijn.

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08:00 | Gemeenten kunnen kiezen of ze oude stemcomputers nog eens gebruiken

Datanews

Gemeenten die de verouderde stemcomputers nog willen oplappen om ze bij de federale verkiezingen van volgend jaar nog eens te gebruiken, kunnen dat doen.

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07:52 | NMa bekijkt tariefstijging operators

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Mededingingswaakhond NMa bekijkt de nieuwe tarieven van KPN, Vodafone en T-Mobile die voor bepaalde abonnementen nu per minuut in plaats van per seconde afrekenen.

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07:52 | NMa bekijkt tariefstijging mobiele telefonie

Webwereld

Mededingingswaakhond NMa bekijkt de nieuwe tarieven van KPN, Vodafone en T-Mobile die voor bepaalde abonnementen nu per minuut in plaats van per seconde afrekenen.

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06:30 | feature: Why new hard disks might not be much fun for XP users

Ars Technica

A rather surprising article hit the front page of the BBC on Tuesday: the next generation of hard disks could cause slowdowns for XP users. Not normally the kind of thing you'd expect to be placed so prominently, but the warning it gives is a worthy one, if timed a bit oddly. The world of hard disks is set to change, and the impact could be severe. In the remarkably conservative world of PC hardware, it's not often that a 30-year-old convention gets discarded. Even this change has been almost a decade in the making. The problem is hard disk sectors. A sector is the smallest unit of a hard disk that software can read or write. Even though a file might only be a single byte long, the operating system has to read or write at least 512 bytes to read or write that file. Read the comments on this post

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06:30 | Intel debuts six-core gaming chip

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Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.

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06:05 | Report: Time for next stage of sustainable business

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Activist investor group urges companies to track their use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow.

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05:23 | Controversial Amazon 1-Click patent survives review

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Amazon's patent on one-click shopping has survived the scrutiny of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In an official notice published this month, the USPTO declared its intent to issue a reexamination certificate affirming the validity of Amazon's amended version of the patent. The patent, which was filed in 1997, describes a method of enabling consumers to purchase goods without having to provide credit card and shipping information during every shopping session. Amazon enforced the patent against competitor Barnes and Noble almost immediately after it was granted in 1999. The patentability of one-click Internet shopping is broadly disputed. It has become the textbook example of how a broad patent on a trivially obvious software concept can have a profoundly anti-competitive impact on a wide segment of the industry. Peter Calveley, an actor and patent law enthusiast from New Zealand, launched a campaign against the one-click patent in 2006 and filed for a reexamination with funding that he collected from his supporters. A year later, the USPTO issued a decision rejecting 21 of the patent's 26 claims, largely due to the broad availability of well-documented prior art. Amazon decided to amend the patent in order to address some of the specific issues raised by the reexamination. The amended version has a slightly smaller scope, limiting the patent's coverage to online shopping cart systems rather than all one-click e-commerce. In its statement today, the USPTO declared that the new version of the patent is valid, despite the fact that it has no functional difference from the original version. This outcome, which took years four years to reach, reflects the deficiencies of the reexamination process. Read the comments on this post

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05:18 | Sony announces Playstation Move

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Sony unveils their first motion controller for the Playstation 3.

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04:36 | Whrrl 3 Wants To Kill Farmville. Not Foursquare. Not Gowalla. Farmville.

TechCrunch

Pelago knows that just about every location-based app in the world is seeking coverage right now just prior to SXSW where they will all battle Highlander-style. So they approached me with a pretty smart pitch: curing the "social rut." What they mean by that is these days, despite the prevalence of social networks, people are actually less social than ever because they're being roped into playing games like Farmville and Mafia Wars for hours on end. Sitting in their rooms. Alone. While that may be a part of social networking (a rather large, hugely profitably part), it's not really social. That's why location-based networks excite me: they have the potential to bridge social networking with actual social activity. And that's exactly how Pelago is positioning the latest version of its location-based app, Whrrl 3.

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04:30 | OnLive game service to launch on June 17 in the US for $15 a month

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Speaking in an interview with MCV, OnLive Chief Operating Officer Mike McGarvey has confirmed a launch date of June 17 in the United States, with PC and Mac support included day one. Subscriptions for the cloud-based service will cost $14.95 per month with games from THQ, Ubisoft and Electronic Arts...

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04:29 | GDC: What's next for video game AI?

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Game AI, when done right means it's closer to acting and reacting like humans. Find out what some developers are doing to shake things up.

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04:20 | Power Gig: it's a rhythm game... with a real guitar

Ars Technica

There is a point when playing rhythm games such as Rock Band or Guitar Hero where you hit a kind of wall; there is only so much to learn hitting buttons as notes flow down the screen. Power Gig: Rise of the Six String—in addition to having a terrible title—wants to break that wall by teaching you actual guitar skills if you choose to move past what the tradition rhythm game has offered. The guitar peripheral is an actual six-string electric guitar, although we're promised that the full band bundle of guitar, drums, and microphone will be priced competitively with other rhythm bundles on the market. We had a chance to see the game being played in front of us, although hands-on testing was forbidden. The notes came down the screen, connected by a pulsing ribbon, showing the player what button to hit on the guitar's neck. Any number of strings hit will register as a correct hit. In this mode, you will be able to use your existing rhythm game guitars. The real meat of the game happens when you move to the higher difficulty levels, where the dots are replaced by numbers, showing you what strings to play. A green two means you'll be pressing down on the second string down from the top of the neck, in the green section. Tutorials will show you how to hold your hands and fingers to create power chords. Read the comments on this post

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04:05 | TurboTax announces Glenn Beck ad pull via Twitter

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After feedback from its Twitter followers, the tax-preparation software company decides to remove its advertising from the show hosted by Fox's most entertaining presenter.

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03:33 | Code library gives homebrew iPod remotes chance for awesome

Ars Technica

Not too long ago, David Finland built a device capable of communicating with just about any model of iPod via the dock connector using an Arduino Nano, PodGizmo breakout board, an old USB iPod connector, and a momentary switch. While it may not sound like a big deal, there is more to it than one might think: namely programming a device (in this case the Arduino Nano) to be able to receive, interpret, and respond to messages sent from an iPod.  This means teaching it to speak Apple Accessory Protocol and, although proprietary in nature, it has been fairly well documented around the Internet. Finland slung some code so that his iPod touch was hooked up to one of the famous Staples Easy buttons in his car. Now he could easily play and pause his iPod touch without having to fiddle with the on-screen controls. Fast-forward several months and Finland had all but forgotten about the project when he was asked by the folks that run Make magazine to talk about it. In particular, they wanted him to talk about the library he created for communicating with Apple’s portable audio players. He said yes, and decided to dive back into the project and attempt to add additional functionality to the project. Finland's first go around only involved tackling the the Simple Remote portion of the Apple Remote Protocol, which handles things like mute, next playlist, skip, and turning the device on and off. With newfound interest, however, he has now tackled the Advanced Remote portion, which opens up a bevy of new functionality, including getting names of songs, albums, artists, and track time; toggling shuffle and repeat mode; and all the other neat functionality that iPods have. This newly released library of code will surely appeal to the do-it-yourself hackers who love tinkering, soldering, and programming. Someone could theoretically even build his or her own iPod speaker solution with a plethora of different options and feedback. The more daring could hard-wire a solution to a car’s in-wheel audio controls. Personally, I envision some sort of bicycle solution that docks the iPod on the handlebars but allows riders to control the device without taking their hands off the handlebars. An even more enterprising individual could rig something like this up to a sudden motion sensor so that when someone enters a room, the iPod begins to play. Read the comments on this post

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03:29 | Sony announces 'Move', a motion based controller at GDC

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Sony has launched the motion remote control, called PlayStation Move, for the PS3 at GDC, quoting the price to be “under $100 (US).”  The starter kit will come with the PlayStation Eye (camera), the motion remote control and a game.  The PlayStation Eye is used to track the motions of...

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03:15 | doubleTwist’s iTunes Alternative (That Works With Android) Adds Podcast Support

TechCrunch

Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of hundreds of compatible devices, much as they would with the iTunes/iPod combo. And today's it's adding a new feature that makes it an even more viable iTunes competitor: support for podcasts. Co-founder Monique Farantzos says that doubleTwist has built and integrated a podcast search engine with 20 times as many podcasts as iTunes offers. Rankings are based on popularity (as opposed to a simple listing that would grow unmanageable with that much content). The new feature is launching on Windows now, with Mac support for podcasts coming next month.

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03:00 | Indiagames Partners With IPL And Facebook To Launch Social Cricket Games

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Earlier this year, Google landed a "landmark" deal with Global Cricket Ventures, the licensing partner to the Indian Premier League (IPL), which would give them the so rights to live stream cricket matches from the IPL on YouTube. This is a huge deal because the streaming of the 2010 IPL season (which starts on Friday and lasts for 45 days) is the first time a large-scale global sporting event will be streamed; with the reach expected to be at least a half-a-billion viewers. Now of of India's largest gaming companies, Indiagames, has bought the official gaming rights to the IPL tournament to deliver games around the Indian cricket tournament. Indiagames will be launching a series of web and mobile apps throughout the next 45 days. The first app, called IPL Indiagames T20 Fever, is an online game that uses Facebook Connect to allow users to create cricket teams consisting of both Facebook friends and IPL professional cricketers. The game will also include micro-transaction support, allowing users to users to virtually buy IPL players to improve their chances of becoming the IPL Champion.

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02:55 | Brizzly’s Been Busy — Buying Apps, Creating Guides, And Going On Picnics.

TechCrunch

Since it launched last July at our Realtime Stream CrunchUp, Brizzly has been one of the best web-based Twitter apps. It offers support for viewing pictures inline, shortened link expansion, multiple Twitter accounts, and even some Facebook support. But they've been quiet in recent months. Now we know why. The Brizzly team went into hibernation because they made a couple of acquisitions, and have been working on a new feature. First, they bought one of my favorite Twitter iPhone apps, Birdfeed. One of the earliest apps to gain Twitter geolocation support, I had been worrying that Birdfeed would go extinct because developer Buzz Andersen recently joined Jack Dorsey's mobile payment startup, Square. But since the acquisition (which actually occurred in the November/December timeframe), Andersen has been working closely with the Brizzly team to wrap the app in its new skin.

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02:06 | Springpad bookmarks the world

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Neat little clipping and saving service works on Web, iPhone

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02:00 | Sony announces the PlayStation Move motion controller

Ars Technica

SAN FRANCISCO — At a GDC event today, Sony showed off its new PlayStation Move controller, along with a number of games. The audience response was positive, but the demos shown, including sports games and sword-and-shield-style battles, seemed both inspired and informed by what the Wii has done before. In fact, while Sony claimed that for under $100 you'll be able to get the PlayStation Eye, a motion controller, and a game, almost all the demos were played with two motion controllers. There is also a second controller, much like the nunchuk, used during the SOCOM beta. Sony, it seems, will need you to have two Moves, and the secondary controller. The demos included archery, boxing, and golf, all of which are things we've seen on the Wii, and which will be bundled together in a game called, as of now, "Sports Champions." The other demo game looked very much like Eyetoy, but with augmented reality. You hold the controller, but on the screen you see a paintbrush or a tennis racket. It's very impressive technology, and seems very solid. Another game turns the controller into a fan you use to blow chicks into bird nests. Very cute. LittleBig Planet is another Move demo; the player with the PlayStation Move helps the Sackboy get to the next area. "Motion Fighters," which is, again, a working title, is a fighting game. You can lean to make the fighter move, and you have to actually punch. The Move Subcontroller is the nunchuk, so you'll need one of those as well. (This is getting expensive.) SOCOM 4 is coming to the PS3, and you'll be able to play with the Move and the Subcontroller. It looks just like Wii first- and third-person shooters, at least in terms of controls. The technology was integrated "very quickly, with very little overhead." We'll have a chance to go hands-on with these games at the event's conclusion, so expect impressions and photos later. The technology looks solid, it's real, but it all looks like things we're already used to from the Wii. Sony is banking we'll buy these products to get a motion-controlled experience with high-definition graphics. A risky gamble. Read the comments on this post

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01:53 | LimeWire enlists AVG for user protection

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Notorious as a malware ghetto, LimeWire takes its first steps to integrate authoritative threat protection by signing on AVG to provide premium users with download scanning and blocking.

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01:41 | Sonos To Take Investment From Index Ventures, Add Mike Volpi To Board Of Directors

TechCrunch

Sonos, the Santa Barbara, California based startup that develops of wireless multi-room music systems, is taking a new round of financing from London-based Index Ventures, we've heard from multiple sources. Partner Mike Volpi, a forcer Cisco exec who found himself in the middle of a huge drama last year around eBay's Skype spinoff, will join the board of directors of Sonos. Volpi will bring real expertise to the Sonos board. As recently as 2007 he ran an $11 billion routing and access products busines for Cisco. He clearly knows how to sell products at scale. Sonos has been around since 2003 and has raised some $40 million from private angel investors and BV Capital. Until last year the company sold very high end music products that users loved passionately, but the mutli-thousand dollar price point for a complete system made mainstream penetration difficult.

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01:36 | Windows Phone 7 won't kill Zune HD

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But Microsoft is telling game developers to concentrate on the phones.

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01:29 | With Its New Release, Gowalla Expands The Check-In Game (Video)

TechCrunch

Regular readers will know my love for all things location. In particular, these check-in location-based services fascinate me, mainly because I see them as a bridge between social networks as we've known it, and actual social interaction in the real world. Foursquare has been my app of choice over the past year (it launched almost exactly a year ago at SXSW). But the latest version of Gowalla has me thinking about switching sides. At the very least, I'll be using both at all times now. Gowalla version 2.0 for the iPhone just hit the App Store today. With it, you'll notice a few different things. First and foremost, the overall look has been updated from a sort of Army green, to a more subtle light green that is much easier on the eyes. More significantly, the toolbar has been reworked so that now social activity is front and center when you load the app, while your own activity is the last tab. Both of these changes are things I've complained about since day one with Gowalla, so they're certainly welcome. But that's not why I'm excited for the app. I'm excited because it takes the idea of the check-in and extends it.

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01:25 | Sony unveils its PS3 motion controller, Move

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At a press conference during the Game Developers Conference, the PlayStation maker gave the gathered press corps a sneak peek at its motion-sensitive controller.

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01:20 | Net oversight board to consider .xxx domains

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ICM Registry is again urging ICANN to allow adult sites to add .xxx to their names, creating what some have called a red-light district in cyberspace.

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01:16 | Next Conversation: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski

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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will be our next CNET Conversations. We'll ask about everything from free broadband to exclusive wireless agreements to the NBC-Comcast deal. What's your question?

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01:11 | CNET News Daily Podcast: Google-China resolve 'soon,' your jetpack awaits

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Google CEO expects a resolution on censorship in China soon, WhitePages.com drops its malware-tainted ad network, and a real-life jetpack for commuters.

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01:09 | GDC talk: Legal pitfalls for iPhone app developers

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Despite the easy-peasy development nature of the iPhone, there are some big legal strings attached to getting an app out into the wild, especially for those trying to take their app out of the U.S.

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00:54 | Why AOL May Just Abandon Bebo Rather Than Sell It

TechCrunch

Newly independent Aol is still struggling with the fate of Bebo, the social network they acquired for $850 million in 2008. No one argues that Aol overpaid for Bebo. And the social network has fallen from 22 million monthly unique visitors when it was acquired to just 14.6 million today (Comscore worldwide). But even so, Bebo clearly has some value on the open market. Despite that value, Aol's best financial option for Bebo will likely be to abandon it rather than sell it, say corporate tax experts we've spoken with.

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00:54 | How The iPad, And The Slate Computer, Will Evolve In The Next Two Years

TechCrunch

With the iPad hitting pre-order in two days and shipping in April, it's important to think about when and why to buy the iPad. Based on our understanding of the product lifecycle and expected moves by Apple's competitors, we foresee big changes in the ultraportable landscape with the ultraportable/netbook as we now know it mutating - or branching - into a new species of media oriented Win7 and Android devices. Here's what we can expect. April 3, 2010 - Big launch. Light crowds at the Apple Store. This isn't huge-huge. It's medium-huge and I don't think you're going to see an army of the pasty arriving at your local shop clamoring for iPads. This is Apple's wait and see product, although I don't doubt between 3-5 million won't wait and see in 2010. May-June 2010 - Chinese knock-offs will flood the market and we'll see a nice collection of weird, mutated slates hitting the more esoteric sites. Nothing major and no big sellers. Summer 2010 - Dell and HP release their devices. Dell's is called the Mini 5 AKA the Streak and HP's as of yet unamed. These guys will wait until the waters have been fully tested before they move with their devices.

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00:48 | European Parliament slams digital copyright treaty

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Secret negotiations over a once-obscure draft treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement prompted an unusual rebuke from the European Parliament.

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00:42 | FTC wants more input on Google-AdMob deal

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The FTC is asking Google competitors to weigh in on its proposed $750 million acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob, according to a report.

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00:29 | How To Use Video SEO To Jump To The Top Of Google Search Results

TechCrunch

As most search engine optimization (SEO) experts are aware, getting a first-page Google result is harder than ever. Not only do Google’s search and indexing algorithms continue to evolve in complexity, but Google has given over more and more of its search results real estate to “blended” search results, displaying videos and images towards the top of the first page, and pushing down—and sometimes off the page—traditional web results that would have otherwise competed for top rankings. But where problems arise, so do opportunities. Although Google’s newfound enthusiasm for video has created more competition for fewer traditional search results, it has enabled sites with video assets—even sites that would otherwise score poorly in the Google index—to successfully achieve first-page rankings. In fact, Forrester Research found that videos were 53 times more likely than traditional web pages to receive an organic first-page ranking. Editor's note: In the following guest post, Fliqz CEO Benjamin Wayne reveals some of the secrets of using video to help boost the search results rankings of your website.

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00:26 | Mark your calendar: Live blog - Microsoft MIX 2010 keynotes

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It's that time again, next week we'll be group live blogging with the talented and good looking group to bring you the latest from Microsoft's annual MIX 2010 conference. The list contains the very creme de la creme of Microsoft bloggers including: Ed Bott - He's installed and used...

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00:20 | Deja Vu: Eyeblaster Files For $115 Million IPO, Again

TechCrunch

Eyeblaster, an online advertising firm, has filed for a $115 million IPO according to a recent SEC filing. This is actually Eyeblaster's second bid for a $115 million IPO — they filed for one at the same price early in 2008, before the IPO market dried up. The company makes a variety of products, including MediaMind, which is an ad serving and campaign management tool. Last year the company earned $65.1 million in revenue, up from $44.7 million in 2007. The New York-based company was founded in 1999 and has 36 offices around the world.

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00:17 | Cooking up Google Apps at campfire event (photos)

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At annual campfire-themed developer meet-up, Google on Tuesday introduces its Google App Marketplace, where users can buy third-party applications to run atop the Google Apps suite.

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00:17 | Bad employee! 12% knowingly violate company IT policies

Ars Technica

By now, it's practically a mantra that the biggest problem with corporate IT security is the employees themselves. However, we usually assume that's due to ignorant users or poorly enforced policies. Not so for a chunk of the US working population—according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, 12 percent admitted to knowingly violating IT policy in order to get work done. The survey of 1,347 employed adults was conducted on behalf of Fiberlink, a company that hawks services that "help enterprises connect, control and secure laptops and mobile devices." Needless to say, the survey results fit perfectly into the company's agenda, but they are hardly surprising. After all, how many of us know someone who has left a work laptop in an unattended vehicle, sent unencrypted e-mails without permission, or reused the same three passwords over and over instead of choosing new ones every 90 days? Fiberlink CEO Jim Sheward warned of the obvious. "IT departments nationwide spend a lot of time and money on their compliance, usage, and access policies, but they only work if people follow the rules," he said in an e-mailed statement. [C]ompanies could face dangerous breaches that include the loss of sensitive data, competitive intelligence, or customers’ private information." Harris' findings are supported by previous reports saying that leaky employees are a bigger threat than malware, that employees (not hackers) cause the most corporate data loss, and that employees' online activities pose the greatest threat to IT security. With 12 percent of those people actively working outside of stated IT policy (and plenty more who do so out of ignorance), IT admins certainly have their work cut out for them if they want to maintain a tight ship. Read the comments on this post

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00:02 | BoomStartup Gives Utah Its Own Startup Incubator

TechCrunch

While California and New York tend to get the most attention as technology hubs, other states are quietly hosting their own vibrant communities around technology and innovation. Utah is one of these states. Utah is home to tech giants Omniture (which was acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion), Novell, Symantec. And today, Utah is getting its very own startup incubator, BoomStartup, which is a seed capital and mentor-focused investment program for web and software start-ups based in Utah. Based in Orem, Utah at the Canyon Park Technology Center (the original site of WordPerfect Corporation), BoomStartup is a full-time program that will run from May to August and provides each selected company with seed capital (up to $15,000), mentoring from entrepreneurs and technologists, free office space and resources, and education that takes them through the various steps of getting a tech startup off the ground. For its first rounds, the organization will choose eight startups to participate in the program. Applicants for BoomStartup must have a founding team (two or more individuals) and an idea with a focus on web, mobile, software, and non‐hardware tech. Startups can apply here.

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00:02 | Woman, fearing apocalypse, tries to halt collider

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A woman appeals to the highest court in Germany to get the Large Hadron Collider stopped. The court decides she has no proof of any impending doom.

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