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Symantec releases faster next-gen NetBackup, Backup Exec
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:52am EST
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Symantec on Monday unveiled new versions of its flagship NetBackup enterprise-class and Backup Exec midrange backup applications -- Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5. The Backup Exec 2012 version includes a new user interface that can automatically configure backups based on the most common policies and settings used by Symatec customers.
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Verizon to set up streaming service with Redbox (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:46am EST
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AP - Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. will challenge Netflix and start a video streaming service this year with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks.
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Hollywood studios latest to sue LimeWire
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:33am EST
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Everywhere he turns, LimeWire founder Mark Gorton seemingly is facing a new lawsuit from some new group of copyright owners. -
Solar startups set new power records
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:22am EST
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Startups Alta Devices and Semprius boast new solar efficiency records using very different techniques in an effort to knock down the price of solar power. -
Microsoft removes start button in Windows 8
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:06am EST
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Leaked screenshots of the latest Windows 8 build show that Microsoft has jettisoned the traditional Windows 8 Start button but tweaked the Charms Bar and other settings.
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As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 10:04am EST
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Reuters - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at Microsoft Corp. -
Internet giants pull content after warning in India courts (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:44am EST
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Reuters - Internet giants Google Inc and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.
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Microsoft to roll out wave of native mobile apps for its CRM software
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:37am EST
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Microsoft is gearing up to release a phalanx of native mobile applications for its CRM software, with clients aimed at BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, iOS, and Android 2.2 and higher devices, the company announced Monday. The release, which is scheduled for the second quarter as part of Microsoft's regular CRM (customer relationship management) service update, will also build on existing browser support with Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and Safari, running on Macs, iPads and Windows PCs.
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Tamron's 24-70mm lens takes image-stabilization lead
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:33am EST
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The new lens, with a fast F2.8 design, can counteract camera shake with vibration compensation that Nikon and Canon competitors currently lack. -
Verizon teams up with Redbox to offer video streaming service
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:31am EST
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Verizon is getting into the video streaming business through a new partnership with Coinstar, the company that owns the Redbox video rental kiosk business.
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Google agrees to court order in India to remove content
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 9:20am EST
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Google has agreed before a court in Delhi to remove religious and other content considered objectionable, though some other Internet firms are likely to appeal the court's decision, plaintiff Mufti Ajiaz Arshad Qasmi said on Monday. Qasmi, a private citizen, had filed a civil suit against Google and other Internet companies including Facebook, objecting to certain content on their websites. The content is said to mock gods worshipped in India. He is now pressing the companies to put in place technology for filtering out content that is considered objectionable.
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iPhone soaks up 75 percent of all mobile phone profits
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:42am EST
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Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market, but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry's overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.
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Google, Facebook remove content on India's order (AP)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:34am EST
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AP - Google India has removed web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders to comply with a court case that has raised censorship fears in the world's largest democracy, media reported Monday.
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Wi-Fi in flight has yet to soar
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 8:12am EST
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Launched four years ago, the use of Wi-Fi on U.S. airlines has yet to catch on, with estimates that the wireless technology is still used by only 7 percent of the flying public. There are a number of reasons: With Wi-Fi cropping up for free in many airports and public locations, passengers don't want to fork over as much as $10 for a flight of a few hours. Passengers also may not know when Wi-Fi is available on a flight since the airlines provide the wireless service on only a small percentage of their planes. -
Startup Nicira debuts with software-defined networking
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:46am EST
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One of the most anticipated debuts of a startup company happens today when Nicira, a maker of network virtualization software, comes out of stealth mode.
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HTC disappoints with financial results, forecast
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:40am EST
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Fourth-quarter profits slipped for the Taiwanese phone maker, and its revenue forecast for the first quarter is well below analyst expectations.
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Cloudyn service monitors and optimizes AWS cloud usage
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:30am EST
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Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs. The service is available initially for Amazon Web Services customers, and Cloudyn plans to add support for Rackspace in the second quarter, and other providers after that. The service will be free until May 1, after which customers will have to pay for the optimization recommendations. Anyone can sign up for the service now. -
AMD's move could pave the way for ARM in future chips
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:13am EST
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Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM technology in future AMD chips. AMD said last week it will allow the integration of third-party intellectual property in future processors, as part of a new plan to design purpose-built chips for customers. If a customer needs another architecture besides x86, AMD will combine its own intellectual property with that of a third party, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said in an interview.
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Electric autos--from Edison to robots (images)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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Take a tour of the past, present, and future of electric vehicles to see the multiple waves of electric cars in years past and a hint at future directions. -
Electric vehicles: This time it really is different
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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The near-term picture on EVs is fuzzy at best, but electrification is the future of the auto industry with hybrids leading the way. -
How NQ Mobile plans to make a name for itself in the U.S.
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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NQ Mobile may be the best mobile security software you've never heard of. New Co-CEO Omar Khan has been tapped to make sure that changes. -
Nikon's imminent D800 could offer high-sharpness option
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:17am EST
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It looks likely Nikon will announce a more expensive D800E SLR tomorrow, too, that abandons the convenient but blurriness-inducing antialiasing filter.
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Taiwan smartphone maker HTC sees Q1 revenue lagging (Reuters)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 5:36am EST
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Reuters - Taiwan smartphone maker HTC Corp expects to post much lower-than-expected revenue in the first quarter, underscoring analyst views that it will face another weak quarter and an uphill struggle to prove to investors it still retains its innovative touch.
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Super Bowling for ad dollars (roundup)
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 1:29am EST
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Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers connect with consumers? CNET takes a look. -
Should Apple heed Chrysler's, GE's Super Bowl make-it-here message?
Posted: February 6th, 2012, 12:21am EST
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One of the salient themes in Super Bowl ads was bringing manufacturing back to America. A lesson for Apple?
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Android Alternatives to Apple's Siri Personal Assistant (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:40pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - When it was announced in October, one of the headline features of Apple's iPhone 4S was Siri, an "intelligent assistant" which answers spoken questions and takes orders given in natural English. It was less like Google's Voice Actions for Android, an app which understands a limited set of specific commands, and more like the computers on Star Trek.
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Clint Eastwood in 'Super Bowl ads: Winners and losers (second half)'
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:24pm EST
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What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit. -
Samsung's Bowl ad claims it can help Apple fanboys break free
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:01pm EST
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Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest. -
The Super Bowl ads: Tech winners and losers (first half)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 8:30pm EST
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Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened. -
NASA's big ideas for the future of flight (photos)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:13pm EST
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NASA looks to advanced design concepts to reduce noise and increase the fuel efficiency of future aircraft.
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CommVault says will go it alone, despite M&A buzz (Reuters)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:50pm EST
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Reuters - CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.
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iPad, Kindle Fire are not post-PC, says IDC analyst
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:19pm EST
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Sorry Steve, it's not post-PC, it's PC-plus, says IDC analyst Bob O'Donnell. -
Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 5:57pm EST
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In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design. -
Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 3:30pm EST
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Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.
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TiVo shares appear to be discounted: report (Reuters)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 3:28pm EST
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Reuters - TiVo Inc is trading at a compelling discount and could be a possible acquisition target by Microsoft or Google, Barron's financial newspaper reported on Sunday.
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New York Giants Web site says they've already won Super Bowl
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 11:47am EST
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In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale. -
What if the Vita had an Apple logo instead of Sony's?
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 10:12am EST
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CNET Executive Editor David Carnoy looks at Sony's Playstation Vita through Apple goggles. -
Science and engineering visualization contest winners (images)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the 2011 winners of a contest to create the best visualizations in the fields of science and engineering. -
Visualizations take you inside science
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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The National Science Foundation and the journal Science announce the winners of last year's contest for the best visualizations in science and engineering.
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Singapore's Artivision says in tie-up with Intel (Reuters)
Posted: February 5th, 2012, 6:03am EST
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Reuters - Artivision Technologies Ltd, a Singapore firm that specializes in online video advertising, said on Sunday its technology may be incorporated into a software kit being developed by Intel Corp.
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CEO Appleton reflected Micron's high-risk business
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:25pm EST
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The death of Micron Technology's CEO during a solo flight in a hard-to-handle aircraft symbolizes the risky memory chip market that is the company's bread and butter. -
Tom Brady: I watched last year's Super Bowl on illegal site
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 6:54pm EST
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In a news conference, the New England quarterback mentions that while rehabbing last year in Costa Rica, he watched the big game on an illegal site. Is this the final validation for piracy? -
Why Apple's A5 is so big--and iPhone 4 won't get Siri
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:39pm EST
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Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes. -
Super Bowl: Where to watch online, and more
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:24pm EST
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As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds. -
Twitter more tempting than sex and sleep, study says
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 4:07pm EST
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Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story. -
Gamers ignore corpse in Internet cafe
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:56pm EST
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In Taiwan, a man dies while gaming In an Internet cafe. Reports suggest no one notices for nine hours. But, regardless of how long he was actually dead, how could it be that no gamer notices until a waitress finally thinks to check?
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Celebs suit up for DirecTV Beach Bowl (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 3:53pm EST
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AP - Deion Sanders said he wasn't worried. Joe Montana went in with his game face on and Jordin Sparks just hoped sand did not end up in her eyes.
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Four of the Strangest New Video Game Controllers (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:12pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - Back when home video games were still new, every new console's controller was an experiment. And before people settled on things like the Atari 2600's joystick and the Nintendo Entertainment System's gamepad, which influenced everything that came after them, they tried out some ... unusual form factors. Like the Fairchild Channel F's hybrid paddle-joystick, or the Mattel Intellivision's disc-and-touchpad arrangement.
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iPad-like MacBook Air now unlikely? Was it even necessary?
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 1:07pm EST
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A research note from Citigroup says Apple CEO Tim Cook is not leaning toward a future MacBook Air with iPad-like features. So, now what? -
Zuckerberg's taxes on IPO? How about $2 billion
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:43pm EST
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The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.
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For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 11:12am EST
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AP - Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a hacker.
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RCA's 'video LP' format, doomed from the start?
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 10:36am EST
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From 1981 to 1984 RCA marketed the CED VideoDisc system. It never had a chance.
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Hackers apparently hit Swedish government site (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 9:18am EST
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AP - A group linked to the hacker network Anonymous says it has attacked the Swedish government's website and shut it down by overloading it.
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Romo the smartphone robot raises $1.5M, seeks world domination
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:04am EST
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From Kickstarter project to startup to aspiring global power: The big ambitions of Romotive's robot phone. -
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the LG Spectrum, the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn, and the PowerMat Dual 1850 Rechargeable Backup Battery. -
Is Bleacher Report ready for some football?
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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day on the job At one of the biggest sports sites in the country, preparing to make its Super Bowl coverage as strong as possible is the most important job of the year. CNET was on hand to see the plan take shape. -
Apple's week brings new hire, court rulings, iPod spy shots
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 7:00am EST
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Apple hired a new head of retail, had a few bouts in foreign courts, and potentially had the secret behind its next tiny iPod leaked out. More on those stories (and then some) in this week's Apple Talk Weekly.
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Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 12:04am EST
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AP - Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet.
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Xbox co-creator channels arcade classics at mobile-game startup
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 9:15pm EST
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The correlations between classic arcade games like Centipede and popular mobile games like Angry Birds are undeniable: they're simple, fun, and addictive. Seamus Blackley has hired a slew of old-school game developers to try to cash in on that fact with his company Innovative Leisure.
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Micron CEO dies in plane crash, industry stunned (Reuters)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:58pm EST
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Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.
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Firefox 11 to get add-on sync
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 8:46pm EST
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Changes are afoot again for Firefox. The beta channel can now sync add-ons, the Aurora channel completes a smoother update process, and work on the faster native UI for Android continues. -
Military, government officials could get secure Android phones
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:12pm EST
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CNN reports that U.S. civilian and military officials are testing the use of secure Android smartphones that could be capable of transmitting confidential documents.
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Facebook malware scam takes hold
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 7:05pm EST
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A "worrying number" of Facebook users are sharing a link to a malware-laden fake CNN news page reporting the U.S. has attacked Iran and Saudi Arabia, security firm Sophos said Friday.
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Apple cleans App Store of high-profile lookalike apps
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:59pm EST
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Apple has quietly removed a number of iOS games that could readily be mistaken for their popular counterparts and that had climbed up the charts as a result. -
A hydrogen fueling station powered by the wind
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:57pm EST
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By building a wind turbine to power a hydrogen production and fueling station, a little hamlet in Long Island is positioning itself a bellwether for carbon-neutral transportation. -
Mozilla preps the Web to push
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:29pm EST
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Mozilla's gestating a new project that takes its cues from the mobile world: site-specific push notifications. Could this be a next-generation RSS?
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Apple, Motorola in patent struggle in Germany (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:28pm EST
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AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies. -
Are Apple, Google and Facebook Natural Monopolies? (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:22pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | They may not be the power company, but you won't find too many threats to their dominance. All three are not only at the top of their game, they have few, if any, competitors. And the law helps keep newbies out of the market. -
Facebook Timeline feature unpopular, especially among Baby Boomers (Yahoo! News)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:15pm EST
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Yahoo! News - The new mandatory Facebook Timeline is a surprisingly controversial feature. You either love it, or you hate it. And according to a new poll, it appears that almost all of you hate it. Overall, only 20% of those surveyed said they liked …
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The future of hypervisors
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:14pm EST
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The world of hypervisors is complicated by the fact that there are proprietary and open source tools, each with different strengths and weaknesses. One expert says the difference between the two is that innovation is coming out of the open source products at a quicker pace. But another expert doesn't quite believe that first to market is the key to success. He says this market is too important to be downloading open source bits frequently. With that dilemma, enterprises instead turn to commercially supported products.
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Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights (Yahoo! News)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:08pm EST
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Yahoo! News - While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. …
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Cryoscope lets you feel your forecast
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 6:02pm EST
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Anti-SOPA forces have ISP snooping bill in their crosshairs
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:18pm EST
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An Internet outcry forced Rep. Lamar Smith to delay a vote on SOPA. Opponents of Smith's ISP snooping bill are hoping they can repeat the process. -
Reporters' Roundtable: What's Facebook going to do with that money?
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 5:10pm EST
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Facebook plans to raise $5 billion in an IPO. What will Facebook do with the money? This week on the Roundtable, Rafe discusses Facebook's future with Josh Constine from TechCrunch and Shervin Pishevar from Menlo Ventures.
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Star Wars, Ferris Bueller drive Super Bowl ad buzz (Reuters)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:30pm EST
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Reuters - The Super Bowl is still two days away but some advertisers already are looking like winners as their yet-to-be-aired commercials score millions of hits online and rack up pre-game buzz.
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Wheels. Legs. This robot has both
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 4:25pm EST
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Robots are evolving faster than humans. Check out a wheeled robot that can also sprout legs and walk on some serious terrain. -
EU officials want Google to suspend privacy policy change
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:51pm EST
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Despite request, Google tells concerned European Union advisers that it will stick to its March 1 date for privacy policy modifications.
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Micron CEO dies in plane crash
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:47pm EST
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Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory and semiconductor maker Micron, was killed in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, on Friday. "Our hearts go out to his wife, Dalynn, his children and his family during this tragic time," the company said in a statement. [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
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Apple's not-so-secret favorite patent argument, explained in English
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:43pm EST
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What the heck is frand? CNET breaks down what this obscure legal term means, and why it's so important to companies such as Apple and Samsung.
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Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:40pm EST
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Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with some observers predicting a focus on systems management and cloud services provisioning.
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Android Games from Capcom and Square-Enix on Their Way ... In Japan (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - States-side fans of video game consoles, from the first Nintendo Entertainment System to its modern successor the Wii, know what it's like for a game that looks awesome to only come out in Japan. -
Facebook IPO Carries Too Much Risk for Small Investors (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:28pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Facebook IPO is likely going to result in the social media giant ending up with a market value in the $75 to $100 billion range, according to MSNBC.com.
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Microsoft withdraws one patent claim against Barnes & Noble
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:14pm EST
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The software giant narrows its claims against Barnes & Noble, saying it hoped to streamline its case before hearings on the dispute begin on Monday. -
Apple tweaks the fine print behind its iBooks Author software
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:13pm EST
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Apple has changed a controversial section of its iBooks Author End User License Agreement, saying that users who want to sell outside of Apple's digital stores can do so, as long as they save in a different format.
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Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:04pm EST
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AP - Saboteurs have hacked into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.
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The Super Bowl: The most DVR’d, and DVR-proof, broadcast on TV (The Cutline)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 3:00pm EST
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The Cutline - More than 111 million people are expected to watch the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots on Sundayâroughly a third of the U.S. population and the largest television audience in television history. And virtually all of those viewers will be watching it live. "Live sports is the most DVR-proof programming [...]
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Crab dinner inspires cancer-removing robot
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:59pm EST
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Researchers in Singapore create a robot that can remove early-stage stomach cancer, and it's all thanks to a chili crab dinner. -
Anonymous hacks lawyers for Marine accused of Iraq massacre
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:49pm EST
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Hackers follow release of recording of FBI call on Anonymous with attack on lawyers in an Iraq massacre case. -
Smartphone shipments top all PCs for the first time
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:32pm EST
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Tablets see most growth, but PC category overall can't compete with nearly half a billion phones shipped worldwide in 2011, according to a research firm's estimates.
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Anonymous publishes FBI call on hacking (Reuters)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:28pm EST
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Reuters - Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking against hacking.
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iPhone 4S sales resume online in China, shipments by March 2
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:26pm EST
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Ater implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple's online store has resumed selling the device online and will ship by March 2. -
Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in plane crash
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 2:24pm EST
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Appleton, a Micron Technology veteran of three decades and its chief executive officer since 1994, died today in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho.
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What If Tech Companies Were Countries? (ContributorNetwork)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:58pm EST
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ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Tech companies across the United States have been releasing their Q1 2012 financial reports, or their summaries of how well they did in the last few months. Apple, with its mountains of cash and nearly-vertical iPad sales growth (as illustrated in this graph by Horace Dediu), continues to dominate most of the hardware markets that it participates in ... and to have outsized profits per smartphone sold, as illustrated in this graph by Benedict Evans.
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Apple iPhones, iPads make quick return to German online stores
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:37pm EST
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Hours after pulling products from its online store, Apple got a ban on its products temporarily halted. -
HP coughs up close to $47 million on CEO change
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:30pm EST
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Hewlett-Packard spent $30.41 million in total compensation for ousted CEO Leo Apotheker, while new chief Meg Whitman landed $16.52 million in total compensation, according to a new filing. -
Friday Poll: Would you boycott Apple?
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:23pm EST
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Apple's huge earnings have been shadowed by a New York Times report on harsh working conditions at Chinese plants that make Apple products. Are you reconsidering your Apple brand loyalty?
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Anonymous hack an anti-hacking FBI call; takes down the Boston PD (Yahoo! News)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:21pm EST
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Yahoo! News - Whether you agree with the tactics of hacker group Anonymous or not, you have to admit they have a good sense of irony. Earlier today, the group hacked an FBI conference call about ... the threat posed by Anonymous. News of the hack … -
Stop right there: EU halts Google’s new privacy policy (Yahoo! News)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:18pm EST
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Yahoo! News - Google's intrusive new privacy policy has raised quite a few eyebrows here in the United States, but it's making even more waves in the EU. There, a joint regulatory commission of all 27 European nations has called for the web …
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Hardware makers suffer through drive shortages
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 1:07pm EST
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Here's a tour of how the Thailand flooding and a hard drive shortage affected three tech giants: Sony, Western Digital, and Seagate.
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Hackers intercept FBI, Scotland Yard call (AP)
Posted: February 3rd, 2012, 12:56pm EST
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AP - They trade jokes, chuckle and talk shop about a hacker plot called "Project Mayhem."