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The annual interactive festival has only been underway for hours, but already the scene is full of energy. And lots of people.
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Tim Cook will get $5 million plus some extra stock options as a reward for filling in for Steve Jobs last year.
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Mobile social networks have tremendous potential to flourish in developing countries where mobile phone usage trumps internet connectivity. SMS based social networks like SMSGupshup have gained considerable traction in Asia because of this. For example, in India, there is currently a 10 to 1 mobile-to-PC ratio. Mig33, a mobile social network that involves VoIP calls, instant messaging, e-mail, text messaging, and picture sharing, has accumulated 35 million registered users of its service and is growing fast in South Asian markets such as Indonesia and India. Assuming 3 to 10 percent are active on a monthly basis, that would be 1 million to 3.5 million active users.
Mig33's users are now sending over 1 million virtual gifts a month, and posting approximately 100 million messages a day on its network, or 1,000 messages every second. Twitter, in comparison, just passed 50 million a day.
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In the search for cloud-based music storage, Microsoft has all the pieces to offer an unparalleled experience on Windows Phone 7.
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Apple has made inroads into the professional market with the iPhone—the company has noted that some Fortune 500 companies have deployed them alongside or even replacing BlackBerrys. Despite this, analysis of app usage suggests that it remains a mostly personal device.
Mobile analytic firm Localytics examined logs of use of third-party apps and found that app use during the week typically begins to ramp up around 5am and slowly increases to a peak around 9pm. Weekdays also tend to have a little bump in use right around lunch time.
On weekends, however, use starts picking up around 6am, reaching a steady peak around noon until 11pm. App usage sharply ramps down after 11, but slightly slower than it does on a typical week day.
This usage pattern is typical for a device that is used for personal rather than business reasons. However, it's also possible that business users are either sticking to Apple's supplied apps or are using custom-developed in-house apps for specific business needs. For instance, a business user is more likely to fire up Mail or Calendar than, say, Tweetie or Plants vs Zombies during the work day. Localytics notes that it expects to find similar usage patterns for the iPad, and that developers may want to consider these patterns when designing apps for either platform.
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Game developer and guru Sid Meier talks gamer psychology at the Game Developers Conference.
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Marketers are everywhere at the annual digital-culture fest. It sort of makes your face start to melt a little bit.
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Apple has begun accepting pre-orders for its long awaited iPad on Friday in both Wi-Fi and 3G flavours, but there’s a catch �" customers are restricted to two each, according to a report from AppleInsider.
Customers can expect their orders to be delivered on April 3rd if they ordered the Wi-Fi...
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Redacteur Dominique Deckmyn was erbij toen de internetzeepbel tien jaar geleden in Silicon Valley uiteenspatte. Een persoonlijk verslag over een waanzinnige periode.
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Netflix has canceled its $1 million contest aimed at finding a better recommendation engine in the wake of a privacy lawsuit settlement. The company informed its users today via the company blog, noting that it had "reached an understanding" with the Federal Trade Commission, leading it to ditch the Netflix Prize contest.
Netflix first announced the contest—actually the sequel to its original contest—in August of 2009. The goal was to crowdsource its active user base to write a more intelligent recommendation engine based on users' past rentals. This is something Netflix already does, of course, but there's always room for improvement; the company wanted to find the Next Big Thingâ„¢ by offering $1 million to the person with the best algorithm.
Part of the contest involved Netflix disclosing what it considered to be anonymized user data to those trying to come up with solutions. This, however, led to a lawsuit by a closeted lesbian mother who argued that Netflix had not sufficiently anonymized the information and that she (among others) could be easily outed due to her own rental history. Indeed, within weeks of the data being released, researchers had found a way to use an external data source to decode an individual's viewing history with surprising accuracy, but Netflix did not immediately withdraw the contest.
The FTC eventually got involved and spent the following months discussing the issue with Netflix. That brings us to today: Netflix has officially settled the lawsuit and, as part of the settlement, is giving up the contest. "The resolution to both matters involves certain parameters for how we use Netflix data in any future research programs," wrote Netflix's Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt.
This doesn't mean Netflix is giving up on improving its recommendation engine—Hunt ended the blog post by saying the company would continue to explore better options—but the company will have to come up with new ways to "collaborate with the research community."
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Indexed DB isn't a sure thing, but it's got most of the right allies in the browser world to become an enabler of the cloud computing vision.
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A new FCC tool tests whether consumers are actually getting the broadband speeds they're paying for.
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Site, which offers a breathtaking view of Paris, enables you to pan around, see monuments, and get a high-def feel for what the City of Light is all about.
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EMC has unveiled a vision for globally federating data, essentially a cache for storage across wide area communication links.
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New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and other illegal content, as classified by the country's official censors (you too can be a censor for a day). Such material has been illegal offline in New Zealand for years, so the expansion of the program to the Internet isn't a big surprise. But will it work?
The government runs the filter, but ISP participation remains voluntary. Currently, Maxnet and Watchdog are confirmed to be using the filter, though other ISPs are said to be interested. Maxnet CEO John Hanna explained his company's position to Computerworld New Zealand: "Filtering out child pornography is also very much in line with our company values—our customers would be disappointed to hear if we weren’t participating. So participation for us has always been a no-brainer."
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Sometimes it is obvious where the world is headed, but some people and industries become frozen in place and time. They are like the duckbilled dinosaurs happily munching on the still-abundant plants around them when the meteor strikes instead of the small furry mammals underfoot who take cover every day by natural habit. In the print newspaper industry, it's the same story. Everyone wants to wall off the Web and keep grazing on declining ad revenues.
A week ago, I wrote a post based on a conversation I had with Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen in which he made the case that print media companies would be better off shutting down their print operations now ("Burn the boats") and move forward unencumbered into the digital age, no matter how painful that may be. That suggestion hit a deep nerve, and continues to do so.
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Open source and cloud-computing start-ups have one thing in common: a tendency to wear their industry trend on their sleeves.
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Netlix says privacy concerns have prompted the company to cancel contest that rewards technology best at predicting a user's movie-viewing preferences.
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Brightkite is tricky. Tricky and smart.
While larger than most of their location-based rivals with over 2 million users, they know that in the past year they've lost some momentum to the newer check-in services like Foursquare and Gowalla. So they're trying to do something unique to swing momentum back in their favor.
Today, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Brightkite is unveiling its new Group Text service. It's both a feature on the website and a standalone application in the App Store (it should be available shortly). With it, Brightkite is latching onto one of the most popular and fast growing categories in mobile applications: group texting. Unlike regular text messaging, this type of app allows you to message many people all at once (and go back and forth). And better, in a world where cell providers are still managing to rip-off users with their text message bundles or $0.15 rate per-text, group texting is absolutely free.
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Advocates for a .xxx designation for adult sites will have to wait until at least June after the ICANN board postponed a decision on the matter at its meeting Friday.
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Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.
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As the Web generation descends on the South by Southwest Interactive show in Austin, several location-based start-ups try to put themselves on the map.
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Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Google's C-Day approaches. The "C" is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near future. The company has been in talks with China ever since the highly publicized hack earlier this year, and although the two may not be in agreement over what to censor, it seems likely that Google will keep at least some of its business in China.
"Google has made its case, both publicly and privately," China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong told the press on Friday when questioned about censorship, according to Reuters. "If you don't respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and the consequences will be on you."
Translation: in this game of chicken, the Chinese government won't be the one to budge. Meanwhile, a person "familiar with the talks" told the Wall Street Journal that the company isn't likely to pull out of China altogether if this censorship experiment goes sour. Google is apparently putting together a "patchwork agreement" with a number of different Chinese agencies so that it can continue operating to some degree in China.
One thing's for sure: the status quo won't hold. The WSJ's source claims a decision will come within weeks, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt indicated at a press conference in Abu Dhabi that "something will happen soon."
If Google opens the floodgates on previously censored topics like the Dalai Lama or the Tiananmen Square protests, there's little stopping China from taking measures to block the site like it already does with numerous others. There are plenty of workarounds for crafty Internet users, but we wouldn't be surprised to see this happen if China and Google are unable to come to an agreement.
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There will be no News podcast today.
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Last night, we wrote about a CauseWorld teaming up with TechCrunch to provide double karma points during the SXSW festival starting today in Austin, Texas. These points, obtained through checking-in at various locations, can be used to donate to charities through big brands that support the app. It's a great feature, and we hope you'll use it in Austin. What we didn't talk too much about is the app itself that enables it, CauseWorld, which just released a new version of its iPhone app in the App Store.
We first covered the app back in December, but now it has been significantly upgraded. One of the core ideas behind the app has always been the intersection of the mobile and physical world (something I've thought a lot about as well). A new feature bridges the gap a bit more as you can now scan barcodes on individual items with your iPhone to earn extra karma points. Proctor & Gamble are the ones sponsoring these points on different products they make. It's a good idea, because even if you choose not to buy the item, it forces you to pick it up and look at it a bit.
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Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms?
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Plastic Logic's Que proReader was supposed to come out in April. Now it's been pushed back till summer. With the iPad's arrival next month, that may spell doom for this once highly-anticipated e-reader.
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07:20 Het productiehuis Studio 100, bekend van onder meer Kabouter Plop en Mega Mindy, gaat voor de Amerikaanse zender Nickelodeon US een remake maken van de tienersoap Het Huis Anubis. Het is volgens Studi...
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Fabrikant OCZ bekend van onder andere geheugen, voedingen en SSD's lanceert een nieuwe lijn van betaalbare solid state disks oftewel SSD's. De budget-serie gaat de Onyx-serie heten.
De betaalbare MLC-SSD's gaan uitkomen in 2.5"-formaat en zullen een SATA II-aansluiting hebben. Vooralsnog zal alleen nog de 32 GB-versie op de markt komen, maar naar verwachting zullen er snel grotere formaten vers....
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Google appears ready to make a decision about its future in China and might be eyeing a resolution that lets it stay in the country in some fashion even if it shuts down its search engine.
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We've written about FunMobility's nifty picture messaging app for the iPhone and Android, called FunMail, that allows users to blasts their text into the application, which then breaks down whatever the user typed for context and places fun graphics with your original text. Now, FunMobility has caught the Twitter bug and is launching FunTweet, a web service which turns any Twitter stream into visual messages that are related to the text.
Similar to FunMail, FunTweet will turn text in Tweets into a matching image. On FunTweet's site, you sign in with your Twitter credentials and the service will draw your Tweets from your Twitter homepage feed and display each tweet as a FunMail image on FunTweet. Users can also enter a @UserName, a HashTag or a Subject as well to the images. If you like the image FunTweet picked, you can publish the Tweet to your Twitter account. If you don’t like the image, click “Try Again†and you can choose from other images. For example, if you tweet about writing a story or reading a book, then FunTweet will come up with images that match "story" - a book, a magazine, a typewriter, or a pen.
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This is the lede, verbatim, from a story that appeared in The Hill yesterday: "The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day 'within weeks,' a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday." What's the implication, that because someone used the Internet to plan something, something bad, we should get rid of it? Fine by me, believe me.
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Sonos has now confirmed the Index Ventures investment we reported two days ago. The company has taken an additional $25 million in capital from Index, raising the total raised by the company to $65 million. And Index Ventures Partner Mike Volpi, a former CIsco executive, has joined their board of directors.
The funds will be used for growth equity, says the company, which signals that they are past the proof of product stage (well past, in this case) and will use the funds to speed market penetration.
From our original post:
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The UK's libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry in "libel tourism." As such, there have been repeated efforts to reform the laws, often led by professional organizations of writers and journalists. A 2008 case, however, brought a new community into the fight: science communicators, drawn in when the British Chiropractic Association sued a journalist for calling some of its medical claims "bogus." Although the legal fight has continued, the journalist in question, Simon Singh, has now been forced to quit his job at The Guardian in order to defend himself.
Many of our readers who follow science news carefully are probably already aware of Singh's plight, but we've not covered it at Ars previously, so a recap seems in order. Singh, who was working on a book on alternative medicine, took a look at some of the claims promoted by BCA members, which suggest that chiropractic treatments are effective for diseases for which there is no apparent spinal involvement, like asthma. In an article The Guardian has since removed from its website, Singh wrote:
The British Chiropractic Association claims that their members can help treat children with colic, sleeping and feeding problems, frequent ear infections, asthma and prolonged crying, even though there is not a jot of evidence. This organisation is the respectable face of the chiropractic profession and yet it happily promotes bogus treatments.
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As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners.
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It's Apple iPad day, and every early adopter worth their salt is pre-ordering one of the soon to be ubiquitous little devices and counting the days until they get their hands on it on April 3. You've been waiting on this thing since December 2008, after all.
We know you've already bought two for yourselves, the limit, because that's how TechCrunch readers roll. We know this because we've told our advertisers that every single one of our 9.2 million monthly readers is a high disposable income influencer in technology and media that just loves to try out new things that they see advertised on TechCrunch. And since those advertisers believe us, we have the means to buy an extra iPad and give it to you. Even though you'll then have three of them. Because you, dear reader, are a high disposable income influencer.
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When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—according to an updated iPad specs page, there is now a screen-rotation-lock switch on the right-hand side of the device, seemingly replacing the mute switch that was there when the media first played with it.
In January, Ars confirmed the lack of a screen-lock option with an Apple representative at the iPad event. At that time, the Apple rep reminded us that individual apps give users the option to lock the screen into portrait or landscape mode (which is already the case on a number of third-party iPhone apps), but that the iPad itself had no universal control like on the Kindle or Nook.
As a serial in-bed Kindle and iPhone user, this was disappointing to me and a number of other readers. There are few things on earth more annoying than trying to type on your iPhone at a strange angle and have the screen rotate four times before you're finished.
Apple apparently heard our cries. 9 to 5 Mac first pointed out the difference in specs this morning, which is now reflected on the official iPad spec page. Yep, that sure does say "screen rotation lock," and that option was definitely not there when Ars played with the iPad on January 27.
For those of you who forgot, today is iPad preorder day as well. You can now reserve one to be picked up in-store on April 3 (WiFi only) or you can preorder either the WiFi or 3G versions to be delivered to you. As usual, you can count on Ars to have a review up not long after the iPad launch!
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Arctic Cooling uit Zwitserland heeft vandaag twee nieuwe videokaart-koelers uit de XTREME-serie gelanceerd. Het gaat om een koeler voor de ATI Radeon HD5870 en een koeler voor de ATI Radeon HD5970.
Beide videokaart-koelers gaan beschikken over drie 92 mm ventilatoren welke draaien tussen de 900 en 2000 RPM. De koelpasta die reeds op de koeler geprepareerd zal zijn zal MX-2 koelpasta zijn.
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Firefox 3.6—the latest version of the popular open source Web browser—was officially released in January, but there are still many users who have not yet updated. In an effort to increase awareness about the availability of version 3.6, Mozilla announced today that it will start rolling out upgrade notifications to its users through the browser's built-in update system.
According to Mozilla's statistics, the new version has already been downloaded over 100 million times since its release in January. That doesn't include the significant number of existing users who have already migrated to 3.6 by using the browser's built-in upgrade system without being prompted to do so.
Firefox is arguably one of the most successful open source software projects. Mozilla celebrated last year when Firefox surpassed 1 billion total downloads. The current number of active daily users is said to be over 350 million.
Getting such a large user base to migrate to the latest version is not an easy task, but Mozilla always manages to get the job done. Studies show that Firefox ranks high in update effectiveness, getting over 85 percent of its users to switch to a new version within 21 days after release. The only browser that has a better upgrade penetration rate is Chrome, due to its highly aggressive background updater.
Firefox 3.6 is a somewhat modest incremental update. It brought several noteworthy new features for users, such as the Personas lightweight theming system. It also offers some compelling new capabilities for Web development, including CSS gradients, client-side filesystem APIs, and the @font-face feature.
For more details about the automated upgrade process, you can refer to the announcement in the Mozilla Developer Center.
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The president says us intellectual property is country's "single greatest asset" and must be protected from piracy and counterfeiting.
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Google zou in de volgende weken stoppen met het censureren van zijn zoekmachine in China. De Chinese overheid waarschuwt het bedrijf: Het kan kiezen tussen censureren of de gevolgen dragen.
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Last August, we wrote about Lunch.com, a reviews site that's setting out with the goal to make the world a better place by changing the way people think about each other (as I wrote then, it's a pretty lofty goal). Today, the company is launching a new feature called Communities that lets users build their own review sites around any niche topic. If you'd like to try founding a community, you can do so using the beta code "techcrunch".
The new feature can be likened to a 'Ning for review sites'. As a community founder, you select a topic on whatever you'd like, then invite other users to contribute reviews and other content (you can elect to moderate this as it comes in).
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According to BBC News, Microsoft has lost its second appeal to overrule the $240 million dollar fine imposed by a US court for copyright infringement. The initial ruling dictated that Microsoft pay up, as well as removes the infringing XML technology from Microsoft Word. Thus far, Microsoft has complied with...
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Koffieketen Starbucks gaat samenwerken met Foursquare om klanten die mobiel 'inchecken' bij de koffiehuisjes te belonen.
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België krijgt als een van de eerste landen in Europa mobiel internet via de nieuwe 4G-standaard. Daarnaast verschijnt er nog een vierde speler op de telecommarkt.
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We do a decent amount of social media coverage here at Ars, but not everything that happens with Facebook, Twitter, and the like is worth its own story. Sometimes, though, we happen across things that make us say "huh, that's interesting." It turns out there are a lot of things we thought we knew about social media users, but not all of them are true. Here are a few tidbits we gathered that may surprise some of you.
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But the source of the Zeus banking Trojan is back in action after unidentified agents cut off upstream connectivity to an ISP in Kazakhstan.
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04:37 Transics geeft maandag 15 maart voorbeurs verdere informatie over een eventuele transactie met Punch Telematix. De Ieperse bedrijven zijn aartsrivalen op de markt van boordcomputers. ...
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A few days ago, we spotted Twitter's initial roll out of a geolocation feature on its Website. It appeared that Twitter was testing the feature because it quickly turned it off. Last night, the feature went back on, and Twitter co-founder and CEO Biz Stone officially announced it.
While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November, this is the first time Twitter has enabled geolocation on its site. To start Tweeting with your location attached, you need to enable the feature in your Twitter Account Settings. Once you've opted-in, you will be able to add your location information to all your Tweets or choose to add them to individual Tweets as you compose them. You can choose to share your exact location (your coordinates) or your neighborhood or town.
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At Northeast Sustainable Energy Association's BuildingEnergy conference, the focus is on deep cuts in energy through efficiency and on-site power.
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Provider XS4ALL neemt scherp stelling tegen het downloadverbod, dat leidt tot geautomatiseerde controle van het internet. Hiermee komen fundamentele burgerrechten in gevaar, stelt de isp.
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Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong cautions that the search giant must adhere to China's laws on censorship.
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About 18 months ago, we discussed a mysterious "dark
flow" that was seen in early releases of the data from the
Wilkinson
Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. At that time, we remarked that it was
little more than a cosmic curiosity and possibly a statistical blip.
New research from the same group, using the more complete five-year data
set from the WMAP cosmic microwave background imager and X-ray luminosity data, reveals that the
dark flow is still there, and that it runs deeper than previously
thought.
In a paper published in the March 20th issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters,
the authors report that they have followed the dark flow—which appears to involve matter streaming either into or out of the constellation
Centaurus/Hydra—to a distance of 2.5 billion light years. So far,
even with the full five-year data set available, the authors can detect
motion, but not whether the matter it coming towards us or moving away
from us. But they can tell that it is moving, and in a definite direction.
Relative motion of matter in the Universe is to be expected,
but motion in a preferential direction is not. According to our
best understanding of how the matter in the Universe was distributed, there's no way of
accounting for this flow. The obvious alternate explanation is a little unnerving: something
outside of our visible universe is pulling on the matter that we can see.
The researchers are currently adding more galaxies to
their catalog in order to track the dark flow to twice its current
distance. They hope that improved modeling of the motion of hot gas
within galaxy clusters will lead to further refinement of the measured speed and
direction of motion. Fortunately, we'll soon have even newer
data from the WMAP project, as well as upcoming data from the ESA's
Planck mission.
The
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2010. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/712/1/L81
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Icann-ceo Rod Beckstrom krijgt bakken kritiek over zich heen omdat hij serieuze vraagtekens plaatst bij de veiligheid van het domeinnaamsysteem. "Als we niets doen, bestaat de mogelijkheid dat het internet het begeeft."
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google will likely stop censoring its search results in China but will not pull out of the country entirely. Citing the famous, “sources familiar with the situationâ€, Google is currently in talks with several Chinese agencies “to allow it to operate some parts...
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Telecomprovider Vodafone gaat bezuinigen op de klantenservice en schrapt 24 arbeidsplaatsen. De Vodafone-helpdesk zou te duur zijn in vergelijking met die van andere bedrijven. Het is nog niet bekend of er gedwongen ontslagen vallen.
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Het omstreden Amazon-patent op afrekenen met 1 muisklik is wederom geldig verklaard. Het Amerikaanse patentbureau besluit dit na 4 jaar onderzoek.
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Wait! Stop. Before you hand over Apple your credit card and pre-order the iPad, you may want to check out the other touchscreen options available now and in the near future. The iPad isn't the only game in town. Sure, it might have a fancy-pants interface, but each of the follow seven tablets win the hardware fight, which is just as important to a lot of consumers.
Of course the hardware only tells part of the story. The iPad has a leg up on all of these options because of the user-friendly iPhone interface, but it's not like you're dropping $600+ on a tablet for your parents, right?
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Editor's Note: This guest post was written and reported by Steven Rosenbaum, the CEO of Magnify.net.
Today, the world of music, film, and the internet converges on Austin, Texas for what is fast becoming one of the key the places to launch new software products. For the folks at AOL, South By Southwest—know also as SXSW—will be a debutant party for AOL’s new Seed form of journalism..
AOL has it's hopes pinned on that fact that SXSW will be the perfect place to both introduce the new Seed content machine to a large audience and test the concept of mixing freelance and pro-journalists to create a huge amount of original content. Seed has been operational for a few months now, but SXSW will be it coming out party, according to former New York Times writer Saul Hansell who is now the Program Director of Seed.
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Forbes heeft een lijst online gezet genaamd 'The World's Billionairs'. Bill Gates nam jaar in jaar uit de eerste plaats in, daar is nu verandering in gekomen. Op de eerste plek staat Carlos Slim, een 70 jaar oude mexicaan, met een geschat vermogen van $53,5 miljard.
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De 67-jarige Amerikaan Charles P. Thacker heeft de Turing Award gewonnen, de officieuze Nobelprijs voor ICT. Hij legde onder meer de basis voor de desktop-pc zoals we die vandaag kennen.
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De 67-jarige Amerikaan Charles P. Thacker heeft de Turing Award gewonnen, de officieuze Nobelprijs voor ICT. Hij legde onder meer de basis voor de desktop-pc zoals we die vandaag kennen.
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Het Financieele Dagblad opent zijn Challenge Netwerk, een serie bijeenkomsten voor 'ambitieuze professionals'. De uitgever zet LinkedIn in...
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"Good morning, this hearing will come to order, and we welcome all. I notice that there are a few people in the room," declared Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). "We're here to discuss consumers—they're the good guys, right? The people we try to protect."
The Senator's comment about a "few people in the room" was sarcastic, of course. The hall was filled because the subject was, once again, the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal—this one held on Thursday under the auspices of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
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I'm a sucker. It's true. As much you guys think we rail against Apple, we're like abused puppies, slinking back to our master's hard ankles, shivering and awaiting praise. Why did I pre-order the iPad? Well, first I'm a gadget blogger. Second there is no certainty that mother Apple will grace us with an early review unit so I want to hedge our bets. Third? I want to see where computing is headed.
Bear with me here. Apple is not the bringer of fire to a benighted world. Far from it. In my recent writing I've been struck by a few parallels with Steve Jobs to Abraham Louis Breguet, a French watchmaker who lived in the 18th century. He was a mechanical genius, to be sure, but he was also a salesman. While the rest of the benighted world was sloshing around in an admixture of feces and mud in the streets of Paris and telling the time by whether the pikemen were stabbing them for being out after curfew, Breguet was selling watches that would not be out of place on the wrist (had they had straps) of a whale in Las Vegas. He invented secret anti-counterfeiting measures but made them part of the allure and not part of a DRM scheme. He designed elegant and beautiful watches in an age of rococo designs but wasn't above creating a "subscription" watch for the masses who wanted to own a piece of the good life without paying an exorbitant sum of money. Other watchmakers were making commodities and following Breguet's lead. That's what's happening here.
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Epic heeft op de GDC aangekondigd dat het in samenwerking met Nvidia 3d-ondersteuning aan de Unreal 3-engine heeft toegevoegd. Volgens Epic komt er in de nabije toekomst een update voor licentiehouders beschikbaar.
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Opvallend verschijnsel vond plaats toen ik namens de redactie een systeem aan het assembleren was. Een MSI GT210 videokaart was uitgevoerd met ATI-geheugen. Om precies te zijn 512 MB GDDR2-geheugen.
Het betreft een MSI N210-MD512H waar duidelijk twee keer het logo van ATI opgedrukt staat. De twee geheugenchips zijn 'ATI'-branded terwijl de rest van de kaart Nvidia is. Nadat het koelblok was v....
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Recently, startup Cc: Betty, a nifty service that organized and managed group email threads, decided to rebrand and relaunch its service. The new product, Threadbox, was going to be streamlined and tweaked to appeal to workspace users.
Today, Threadbox is officially launching in private beta, as a more collaborative and user-friendly service. Essentially, the site aims to combine email, IM, and collaboration tools into one platform. Instead of focusing on email like Cc:Betty, Threadbox centers around collaboration in the workplace. The service organizes and logs every type of communications with clients, allows users to share documents and images, and record decisions and feedback. The new service also has the ability to serve as a project management tool, allowing users to share and track requirements and specs, then track and follow team members from start to finish.
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De Khronos Group heeft de mogelijkheden op het grafisch gebied voor open-sourcesoftware enorm verbeterd. Met versie 4.0 kan de OpenGL-specificatie het weer opnemen tegen Direct3D van Microsoft.
De belangrijkste punten waarop OpenGL verbeterd is, zijn tesselatie en shading. Bij tesselatie gaat het om de manier waarop een bepaald vlak op het scherm grafisch wordt opgevuld met behulp van veelhoeke....
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Peter Molyneux, geestelijk vader van Fable en de creative lead voor Microsoft Game Studios Europe, gaf een toespraak op de Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
De toespraak was getiteld "The Complex Challenges of Intuitive Design" met als onderwerp hoe games toegankelijker vor iedereen gemaakt kunnen worden zonder dat ze te makkelijk worden. Peter Atkins, lead designer van Fable 3, onde....
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The talk at an annual building conference in Boston is about how to reduce energy use in houses by more than 50 percent, which early pilots show can be done but with steep costs.
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De specificaties van de op Android gebaseerde HTC Incredible, die op het Mobile World Congress afgelopen maand niet bekend werden gemaakt, zijn nu wel bekend.
De Incredible heeft 117,5 x 58,5 x 11,9 mm als zijn afmetingen en wordt mogelijk gemaakt door een Snapdragon QSD8650 chipset die underclocked is naar 768 MHz (van 1 GHz). De telefoon heeft 512 MB aan RAM (waarvan 320 MB bruikbaar), 512 MB....
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Maybe it's a sign of SXSW excess or perhaps it's a prank, but RSVP While You Sleep is advertising a $37 service that tasks overseas virtual assistants with responding to your party invites.
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Video game developers, artists, and producers gather to share ideas on the future of gaming at the Game Developers Conference, the world's largest professionals-only video game convention.
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Eandis heeft het contract voor het eerste testproject rond slimme energiemeters gegund aan het Kortrijkse EnergyICT. Dat is sinds eind vorig jaar onderdeel van de Luxemburgse Elster-groep.
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De rockband Pink Floyd heeft een rechtszaak gewonnen tegen EMI, waardoor het platenlabel mogelijk moet stoppen met de verkoop van individuele songs van de band.
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Het Europees Parlement heeft bijna unaniem de resolutie goedgekeurd die eist dat de Europese Commissie opener communiceert over de ACTA-besprekingen. Het wil zo onder meer voorkomen dat strenge internetregels worden doorgedrukt.
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Google biedt als proefproject zeer snel breedband aan in één Amerikaanse stad. Over heel het land proberen steden het project binnen te halen en daarvoor zijn ze tot gekke dingen bereid.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so.
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02:27 Minister van Telecommunicatie Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) bevestigt dat de mobiele licenties in september worden geveild. De regering, die de voorwaarden vandaag goedkeurde, rekent tot 2021 op...
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Op de technologiebeurs CeBIT in Hannover werd dit jaar 's werelds eerste commerciële brein-machine-interface voorgesteld. Hiermee kunnen patiënten die aan het locked-in-syndroom lijden chatten met de buitenwereld.
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Ars Technica
The bit.trip series of games combines simple graphics with catchy songs, and then blends both together into an addictive soup. The past games in the series for the Nintendo WiiWare service have all been gold, and at GDC we were able to put our hands on the fourth title: Bit.Trip Runner.
The concept is simple: you are a man who has to run from left to right. You can't stop or slow down, but you can jump over and slide under obstacles while collecting the gold bars. Everything you do makes a note, and the notes mix with the music to give you timing cues. Does it seem like a series of jumps is complicated? Simply time your jumps to the music.
The difficulty is not low, but once we stopped trying to force the gameplay and instead listened to the music and moved to the beat, it became easy. The game was on the show floor, in the corner of Nintendo's booth, but it seemed to captivate everyone who played.
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3D-technologie wordt steeds vaker verwerkt in tv's, maar niemand wil eigenlijk met een brilletje in de huiskamer voor de buis zitten. Het kan ook zonder.
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Atos Origin ontwikkelt een online betaalsysteem waarmee uitgevers hun content kunnen verkopen. Regionale kranten hebben al toegezegd....
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Final Fantasy games often seem like a mixed bag. One one hand, they tend to take too long to get into; the first ten hours or so always feel like something you have to slog through before things really become exciting. After a while, the battles can start to feel repetitive. They eat up more of our time than we really should allow. But they're also beautiful. And epic. Once the stories get going, they're fascinating. More importantly, they become addictive. Such games are definitely an acquired taste, but they're a delicacy for those of us who have come to enjoy JRPGs.
Final Fantasy XIII is particularly noteworthy in an already extraordinary series, though, because it brings about a number of design changes. While the game retains the amazing production values that the franchise is famous for, its gameplay has been modified to deliver something that feels faster paced than its predecessors and often seems more like an action title than a proper RPG. This might sound worrying to dedicated fans, but rest assured: based on our first twenty hours with the game, the outcome is excellent.
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Wie zijn ict uitbesteedt, krijgt te maken met zware onderhandelingen over soms zeer technische onderwerpen. Hoe zorg je ervoor dat de dienstverlener je geen oor aannaait?
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At the annual Las Vegas event, Microsoft plans to show its latest browser and give developers the tools they need to write software for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 series devices.
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A backlash to the Google Buzz backlash indicates that people have grown comfortable relinquishing their privacy. Call it Generation X-hibitionist, developing on Web sites like Loopt, FriendFeed, Flickr, and Blippy.
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De Zwitserse vestiging van de HSBC Private Bank bekent dat gegevens over 15.000 Zwitserse bankrekeningen werden uitgeleverd door een werknemer van de bank.
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12:47 China heeft de Amerikaanse internetgigant Google gewaarschuwd voor de gevolgen die een stopzetting van de censuur van de Chinese zoekresultaten zou kunnen hebben. Ondertussen blijven de verwachtingen ...
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Apple zou vanaf deze zomer eindelijk multitasking toestaan op de iPhone. Volgens geruchten zal de telefoon vanaf softwareversie 4.0 externe applicaties op de achtergrond kunnen draaien.
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Apple blokkeert beveiligingssoftware van derden voor de iPhone door te weigeren een ontwikkelkit vrij te geven voor het ontwikkelen van beveiligingstools.
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Video in het Flash-formaat van Adobe is niet zwaarder dan html5-video. Apple geeft html5 namelijk gpu-versnelling, wat de vergelijking scheef trekt.
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MetaLab, een Canadees bedrijf dat software-interfaces ontwerpt, beschuldigt Firefoxbouwer Mozilla ervan dat het grafische elementen steelt voor zijn nieuwe add-on-editor.
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De inkomsten van de Nederlandse mobiele operators groeiden in 2009 maar relatief weinig. T-Mobile zag zijn omzet uit mobiele diensten zelfs dalen met 2,9 procent.
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De Standaard Online
(pc, ook op Xbox 360)
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De Standaard Online
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De Telegraaf schetst als eerste Nederlandse dagblad zijn eerste plannen voor Apples tabletcomputer iPad. De applicatie is een geïntegreerd...
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China heeft de Amerikaanse internetgigant Google Inc. gewaarschuwd dat het "de gevolgen zal moeten dragen" als het bedrijf stopt met het censureren van zoekresultaten in China.
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11:49 Didier Bellens, topman van Belgacom, wil voor een bedrag van 3,4 miljoen euro aandelen verkopen. De gedelegeerd bestuurder van het grootste telecombedrijf heeft daarvoor een optie uitgeschreven, waarm...
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11:49 Didier Bellens, topman van Belgacom, wil voor een bedrag van 3,4 miljoen euro aandelen verkopen. De gedelegeerd bestuurder van het grootste telecombedrijf heeft daarvoor een optie uitgeschreven, waarm...
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Opera heeft een betaversie uitgebracht van zijn populaire mobiele browser Mini 5, nu ook voor Android. De browser heeft geen multitouch.
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Harde schijven ondergaan binnenkort hun grootste verandering in dertig jaar. De manier van dataopslag wordt aangepast aan de moderne ontwikkelingen.
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Major game companies don't hesitate to charge an arm and a leg for new releases, with most launching around $60 these days. As much as you enjoy lining up outside the local GameStop at 3AM to embrace the latest shooter, parting with 60 big ones hurts a little inside. It...
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Don't like Buzz spamming your Gmail inbox? Google is adding some knobs to let users dial down the notifications.
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Barco heeft een contract op zak voor de levering van meer dan 3000 projectoren aan Cinemark Holdings Inc.
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Icann, de organisatie die wereldwijd het domeinnaamsysteem beheert, stelt de stemming over .xxx uit. Of er al dan niet een pornodomein komt, wordt beslist in Brussel.
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Bill Gates is zijn plaats als rijkste man ter wereld kwijt. De oprichter van Microsoft moet op de lijst van het zakenblad Forbes zijn titel afstaan aan Carlos Slim, een zeventigjarige Mexicaanse telecomgigant.
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Kwedit, the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data.
The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card payment when they want virtual currency for social games like Farmville. It's not a legally binding promise, but users have an incentive to pay amounts owed because that allows them to get more virtual currency through the service. Users can pay by, among other methods, mailing in cash or paying at a 7-11.
When the product first launched they had no idea what percentage of promises would be repaid. Anything at all is incremental revenue to game publishers, and since the stuff they're selling has no marginal cost (virtual currency), it's all upside. But after nearly two months of being live, they say the repayment rate is 25.9% If you're a credit company that would put you out of business.
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Distimo en Inbox2, twee Nederlandse start ups, wisten in Brussel door te dringen tot de finale van de Start-Ups Rally van het web...
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Het aantal drive-by download attacks zal razendsnel omhoog schieten vanwege het openbaar maken van de exploit code. Microsoft zal wellicht alweer een tussentijdse patch moeten uitgeven.
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In een zogenaamde tweet van maximaal 140 karakters deel je via netwerksite Twitter je bevindingen met de wereld. Enkele historische tweets uit de nog prille Twittergeschiedenis. Over geld, geweld en seks.
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Charles P. Thacker, researcher bij Microsoft, heeft voor het ontwikkelen van de Alto in 1974 de Turing Award gewonnen. De Alto wordt gezien als de eerste moderne pc.
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De Leuvense biergigant Inbev zet in zijn wereldwijd netwerk op ruim 400 sites apparatuur in van Ipanema. Daarmee kan het prioriteiten inbouwen voor kritieke applicaties.
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Het Luxemburgse System Solutions Group steekt de grens over om in Brussel een filiaal te openen.
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Uitgeverij Corelio sleept de award in de wacht voor het beste contactcenter in België. Dat gebeurde tijdens het gala van de vereniging Contactcentres.be in Brussel.
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Systeemintegrator Xylos mag bij de stad Aalst twee redundante datacenters bouwen. Daarmee wordt de laatste fase ingezet in een grootschalige vernieuwing van de it-infrastructuur.
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OUFTI-1 (Orbital Utility for Telecommunication/Technology Innovations) zou de "eerste" volledig Belgische satelliet moeten zijn.
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De Europese distributiegroep ETC Distribution (5.700 werknemers in 7 landen), plant zich nu ook in België in. Het bedrijf profileert zich als een 'value added distributeur' en wil alleen een aantal A-merken verdelen.
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De Belgische start-up United Pepper, die zich tot nog toe vooral toelegde op de verkoop van grappige 'Lili' webcams, pakt uit met het echte werk. Het gaat om een 'home tablet', die veel weg heeft van de Apple iPad.
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De wegen van Cédric Krier en Bertrand Chenal kruisten elkaar destijds bij Tiny, waar ze werkten op OpenERP, open source erp-software geschreven in Tryton.
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Apple confirms that anyone who wants to order an iPad online can begin their quest very early Friday morning. You don't even have to get out of bed.
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Google is begonnen met de uitrol voor reclame op de mobiele site van YouTube. Hiermee zet de zoekmachinegigant de volgende stap in de...
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Google, Facebook en diverse andere internetbedrijven zijn "zwaar teleurgesteld" in het Britse voornemen om providers te dwingen bepaalde websites te blokkeren.
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We've talked a lot this week about the so-called "Location War" brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of the location-based services should be able to leverage the exposure to gain usage after the conference. Those with real bloodlust should probably be watching another war: AT&T versus everyone in Austin on their network.
AT&T's struggles to stay up last year are well-documented. CNN recently ran a piece about how AT&T hopes to avoid a similar fate this year. But actually, "struggles" is way too kind of a word. If you were at SXSW last year and happened to be on AT&T's network — like, say, if you had an iPhone, like many festival-goers did — it was an absolute nightmare. You couldn't make a call. You couldn't send a text. Data? Ha. At a few points early on I seriously wondered if I had forgotten to pay my bill and AT&T had simply shut my phone off — except that it was happening to everyone.
AT&T has a funny word for the failure, they like to say "unprecedented." As in, the usage of its network was at level previously unseen as a strong percentage of the over 10,000 festival goers (just the interactive part) were using iPhones. Well guess what? Word is that is year, there will be some 15,000 people there for the interactive part. As Samual L. Jackson's character, Mr. Arnold, says in Jurassic Park, "Hold on to your butts."
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Zimbalam, the digital music distributor from Believe Digital, launches in the US today.
The service lets artists submit and distribute their music through 25 of the most popular music platforms, including Apple's iTunes and Spotify, in addition to "several hundred additional stores worldwide". This makes Zimbalam the largest music distribution network as measured by number of stores and geographic reach, says the Paris-based company.
To distribute their music via Zimbalam's network, artists are charged a simple annual fee ($29.99 in year one then $19.98 per year after for an EP or album) and then once the fee is recouped, get to keep 100% of royalties - after, of course, whatever commission is taken by each store. Additionally, following year one, artists won't be charged by Zimbalam if they don't make enough sales to cover the annual fee.
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De Mechelse snelgroeiende start-up Ict4me is overgenomen door het investeringsvehikel Crescent, dat ook al de activiteiten van Zenitel België en Nederland en Zenitel Wireless France overnam.
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Datanews
De events Startup Expo en Webstartup Camp, die op 28 april in Charleroi georganiseerd worden, zetten jonge webtelgen in de kijker.
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Webwereld
Door een fout in de iDeal Lite betaalmodule van de Rabobank krijgen klanten én webwinkels bij een geannuleerde betaling de melding 'transactie geslaagd' te zien. Dat leidt tot verwarring.
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Fits.me uit Estland is met zijn virtueel pashokje de winnaar van de Plugg-starterscompetitie.
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TechCrunch
The official Foursquare account just sent out a tweet letting everyone know that today is already the service's biggest day ever. This is interesting since it's actually the day before the SXSW conference kicks off in Austin, Texas.
According to the tweet, Foursquare broke 275,000 check-ins (the previous record, set last Friday) for the day "hours ago." This means they're very likely well past 300,000 now and perhaps even higher. To put that in some perspective, just a month ago, Foursquare set a record with 1.2 million check-ins for the entire week. And that was double was it was the month prior. At today's rate, Foursquare would be doing well over 2 million check-ins a week.
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There are no shortage of location-based services launching this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Many of them allow you to "check-in" places to let others know you are there. So how do you differentiate between then and decide which to use? Well, here's one good way.
CauseWorld, is a free iPhone and Android app that lets you check-in places, but it has an added real-world bonus: big brands give money to charity when you do so. And this week at SXSW, CauseWorld is teaming up with TechCrunch to offer double point (which they aptly call "karma") when you check in to one of over 50 venues around Austin (I'll paste the full list at the bottom of the post), including the Austin Convention Center (where SXSW is held).
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Neowin.net
According to a report by the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), PC game revenues increased to $13.1 billion in 2009, a three percent increase from the previous year.
Despite the increase, boxed PC game sales showed a sharp decline by over 20 percent, confirming a shift to...
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Ars Technica
Late last year, we described a genome sequencing technique that brought the price of consumables down to under $5,000. That technique, offered by Complete Genomics, has now been put to use: all the genomes have been obtained from a family of four in which both children suffer from two genetic disorders. In addition to identifying likely causative mutations, the full family pedigree has produced new measures of human mutation and recombination.
So far, as each genome has been completed, it's typically been compared to a reference genome that's meant to represent a "typical" human. But the human population is large and diverse, and the differences between a typical person and the reference may have been present in our population for thousands of years. In contrast, by knowing the sequence of a child and both its parents, the changes in DNA that occur as a result of recombinations and mutations in each parent's germ cells can be tracked in exquisite detail.
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Ars Technica
We played with the PlayStation Move at the party last night, but at Sony's more intimate gathering at the W Hotel today it was easier to get a better picture of the peripheral. The main games on the floor were interesting, but the game we wanted to play? SOCOM 4, with the PlayStation Move.
This was the game that was aimed at hardcore gamers, and the guys from Zipper told us that they were able to get this build up in a matter of weeks; the tools Sony was providing its developers for Move support were intuitive. This was also the first time we were able to use the secondary, nunchuk-like controller to add analog movement to the Move. We were able to play the game for about 20 minutes.
Aiming the crosshairs with the Move worked well, and I didn't feel any lag. While I was new to the game, the firefights and encounters were a blast with the controller; there is something much more satisfying about aiming at the screen with a controller instead of moving an analog stick. This is a controller that's ready for more mainstream use in shooters, and the fact that Sony already has a high-profile release that uses the technology so well is heartening.
The d-pad allowed you to give commands to your squad, and you can send two groups of soldiers to different objectives. It almost felt like a real-time strategy game; you can set up some series covery fire if you're able to think that far ahead in the combat. "We're looking at gestures," we're told when ask about things like throwing grenades and the like. "[The Move] leads a lot of accessibility to a hardcore game like this."
The team at Zipper spent three months with the controller, and the work has paid off. Will we use the Move when we're playing online and care about our score? Maybe not. But it adds an extra layer of fun to the gameplay of a title that already looks mature. It took a little bit of talking to get behind the velvet rope to play this demo, but it was worth it. We're starting to see the promise.
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Ars Technica
With Mafia 2, developer 2K Czech is leaving the optimism to Tony Bennett: this is not intended to be a rags to riches crime story. Don’t expect golden dreams to come true. This is the story of a man trying to keep his head above water, a man who returns to America after seeing the devastation of World War 2 Europe, and tries to make his way in an unforgiving city.
When the game opens, Vito Scaletta has just been granted leave from the war to return home to his mother and sister after his father passes away. Settling a $2,000 ($2K) debt his father owed now falls squarely on Vito’s shoulders, and he’ll need to accept any job from every wiseguy and hoodlum he encounters to make ends meet. It’s a deeply personal narrative, and to hear Denby Grace, the senior producer from 2K Czech, describe his team’s game, it’s more Sopranos than Scarface, more Godfather than Goodfellas.
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TechCrunch
Back in November, the location-based social event service Hot Potato launched at our Realtime CrunchUp. Today, they've taken what was a solid service, and made it a lot better with a number of upgrades.
First and foremost, there is a new iPhone application that just went live in the App Store. With a completely revamped user interface, the app makes it easier than ever to find and participate in events. Perhaps more importantly, it makes it really easy to create new events — and notably, the service has the nicest third-party Foursquare integration I've ever seen. When you click on the button to create an event, you can still manually enter a location, but if you happen to be around the venue, you can simply pick it from Foursquare's list of venues with the click of a button. This drastically simplifies the event creation process since the venue metadata is already there.
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CNET News.com
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Palm surprised everyone (including Epic Games) by having a working demo of the Unreal Engine running on the company's Web OS.
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It's getting tough to keep up with all of the location-related developments leading up to this year's SXSW, and they just keep coming. Tonight, on the eve of the event, Plancast has just had its iPhone application approved. The service, which we've previously described as a 'Foursquare for the future', allows you to tell your friends where you're planning to be as opposed to where you currently are (in other words, it lets you and your friends plan ahead). You can grab the new iPhone app here.
The application itself looks solid, and includes the core functionality you'll find on the Plancast website. The main view allows you to scroll through a list of your friends' upcoming events, and tapping on an event will show you where it is on a map and who else is going. At SXSW, where there are always many panels and parties going on, this can come in handy — sometimes it's more practical to plan ahead than it is to walk across town when you notice a few of your friends are checking in somewhere.
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At GDC the Khronos Group announced not one but two new OpenGL specifications. The headline release, OpenGL 4, includes a raft of new features bringing OpenGL in line with Microsoft's Direct3D specification. OpenGL 3.3 was also released, providing as many of the new version 4 features as possible to older hardware.
The Khronos Group, the consortium of hardware and software companies that governs OpenGL, OpenCL, and other related specifications, made no bones about its intentions for OpenGL 4: providing standardized support for Direct3D 11 features to OpenGL developers was the prime concern. Direct3D 11 integrated two key features into the graphics pipeline: hardware tessellation and compute shaders. The former allows the video card to synthesize polygons programmatically, enabling considerably smoother, more natural looking curved surfaces. The latter is a key part in the development of using the GPU for general-purpose computation (GPGPU)—not just for producing graphics, but for performing various kinds of high-performance math.
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Company announces Thursday that it will offer mobile device users inventory checks on local stores, allowing them to see if products are available.
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This morning Google announced a new Blue Dot feature on the mobile version of Google Product Search that shows whether a product is in-stock at nearby stores. This seems to pose a threat to startup Milo, which highlights local inventory in product search results both on the web and mobile devices. Milo's co-founder Ted Dziuba subsequently responded to our post with a Tweet that read "Google Product Search has availability for 5 retailers vs. Milo’s 49. Super cool web service, bro." At launch Google only has partnerships with Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm. Milo's list of merchants includes a range of retailers, from BestBuy and Nordstrom to Midwestern regional department store Blain's Farm and Fleet.
When we asked for an additional response, Milo sent this amazing set of pictures below. Milo's Palo Alto office's are located at 165 University Avenue, in the same space as Google's first office back in 1999. Look closely at the picture and you may even see a few of the famous faces from Google's original team. The building itself is legendary in Silicon Valley and has also housed PayPal. Here's a 2007 New York Times article detailing the building's history and apparent lucky karma. The picture of the Google employees was given to Milo by one of its investors.
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Mozilla Messaging updates the Lanikai build of Thunderbird to beta status. Notably, Thunderbird 3.1 beta 1 shares the same Gecko engine as Firefox 3.6.
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