The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resumed accepting bitcoins donations, saying some of the legal ambiguity around the virtual currency has disappeared.
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After two-year hiatus, EFF accepts bitcoin donations again
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on May 20, 2013
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DirecTV wants to buy Hulu, again
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on May 18, 2013
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The satellite TV provider is eyeing the video streaming service, according to news reports. [Read more]
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Apple, Samsung again take all of handset industry profits
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on May 6, 2013
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The companies combined to capture 100 percent of the industry’s profits, but that’s actually slightly lower than what they had been in previous quarters. [Read more]
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Again? Ancient Roman cemetery found under parking lot
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on May 3, 2013
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Alexander Graham Bell speaks again
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on April 29, 2013
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Samsung Galaxy Mega hits FCC (again), this time with LTE
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on April 28, 2013
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Better start working on those powerball exercises. At least if Samsung’s Galaxy Mega was the thing you thought your life was missing, as it’s just landed at the FCC. Yeah, we know this isn’t the first time, but on second time around it’s the LTE-sporting AT&T-friendly GT-i9205 model. The usual lab tests show little that we didn’t know already — unless you didn’t know it had LTE Band 5, dual band WiFi, NFC or GSM 850 / 1900. As the 5.8-inch isn’t 4G-enabled, this means we’re looking at the bigger 6.3-inch version, but still no word on if, when or how this might land on US shores. Still no harm in limbering up though, is there?
Update: Upon further inspection, this variant only uses LTE band 5 (850mhz), which no us carrier currently uses. It’s very unlikely this I9205 will hit the US.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
Source: FCC
The FAA Will Let Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Fly Again
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on April 20, 2013
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derekmead writes “Having completed intense review of the aircraft’s flight systems and functionality, component reliability, two weeks ago Boeing completed testing on the last item on its list, the plane’s battery housing. The FAA on Friday approved the new system. That means the 787, which Boeing has continued to build while new battery solutions were developed, will now be able to resume regular flights as soon as workers are able to carry out an overhaul of the planes that need the upgrade. ‘FAA approval clears the way for us and the airlines to begin the process of returning the 787 to flight with continued confidence in the safety and reliability of this game-changing new airplane,’ Jim McNerney, CEO of Boeing, said in a news release announcing the approval.”
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uBiome Will Catalog Your Microbes, Again and Again
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on April 20, 2013
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Your genome may not change, but your microbiome will.
Sequencing startup uBiome marked its next phase today with the launch of its new sales site where customers can order a swab kit for checking on the bacteria living in their gut, mouth, nose, genitals, or behind the ear.
Yahoo slims down, again, trashing Deals, SMS Alerts
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on April 19, 2013
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Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it's ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the company announced Friday.
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YouTube Wins Against Viacom Again
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on April 19, 2013
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Once again YouTube has defeated Viacom and other members of the content cartel; once again the Court has held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act actually does mean what it says. YouTube had won the case earlier, at the district court level, but the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although ruling in YouTube’s favor on all of the general principles at stake, felt that there were several factual issues involving some of the videos and remanded to the lower court for a cleanup of those loose ends. Now, the lower court — Judge Louis L. Stanton to be exact — has resolved all of the remaining issues in YouTube’s favor, in a 24-page opinion. Among other things Judge Stanton concluded that YouTube had not had knowledge or awareness of any specific infringement, been ‘willfully blind’ to any specific infringement, induced its users to commit copyright infringement, interacted with its users to a point where it might be said to have participated in their infringements, or manually selected or delivered videos to its syndication partners. Nevertheless, 5 will get you 10 that the content maximalists will appeal once again.”
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Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner said to soon be free to fly again
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on April 19, 2013
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The FAA is rumored to announce that the grounded jets are now good to fly after redesigned fireproof batteries have safely been installed on the planes. [Read more]
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US Bitcoin exchange BitFloor shuts down again
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on April 18, 2013
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The largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S., BitFloor, has closed again, this time due to issues with its bank account, according to its founder.
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Why Local Is So Damn Hard For Startups: Foursquare Borrows $41M To Try Again
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on April 12, 2013
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curtwoodward writes “It’s one of the biggest, scariest graveyards for Internet entrepreneurs: Small, local business. Sure, a few companies have gone public trying to harvest this huge market — Groupon and Yelp, for instance — but even those big names aren’t anyone’s idea of a knockout corporate success story. Consider Foursquare, the ‘check-in here’ smartphone app that leads the latest wave of dreamers trying to strike paydirt among the mom-and-pop set. The company has now raised more than $ 100 million in private investment, including a fresh $ 41 million loan. It’s just started trying to make money. And the CEO acknowledges that it’ll take a massive new product overhaul to get there. Google’s tried this market too, with nothing to really show for it. Same with Facebook. If these deep-pocketed techies can’t crack the local business advertising nut, is there any hope for Foursquare — not to mention the countless smaller startups?”
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Why your cell phone will never be stolen again
Posted by Gsurface
on April 11, 2013
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Microsoft releases Surface RT and Pro updates, aims to fix WiFi issues again
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on April 10, 2013
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Surface RT devices have already scored two updates that aim to fix problems with ‘limited’ WiFi connectivity, and now Microsoft is pushing out a third patch that aims to put its wireless troubles to rest. Redmond’s fresh code also beefs up support for a “wide range” of access points and stomps out system crashes caused by some WiFi issues. As for Surface Pro, its own April update smoothes out Surface Type and Touch cover connectivity kinks, adds support for Japanese keyboards on North American hardware, stomps a bug that disables the WiFi driver when airplane mode is toggled and addresses an issue with touch navigation in the UEFI boot menu. Microsoft’s remedy should get sucked down to your slate automatically, but you can grab it by hand through Windows Update as well.
Filed under: Tablets, Microsoft
Via: The Register
Source: Microsoft (1), (2)
EA the worst company in America? Again?
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on April 8, 2013
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Electronic Arts COO attempts to express understanding of why his company is again in the Final Four of the Consumerist’s Worst Company awards. Is the company really so bad? [Read more]
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Nonstop cloud computing price war: Amazon, Google both drop rates again
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on April 6, 2013
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Just as industry watchers have predicted, the race to the bottom for cloud computing prices continues.
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Apple again said to be planning game hardware
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on March 31, 2013
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A new report says Apple is shopping around the idea of a physical game controller to developers, with plans to launch it next month. [Read more]
CNET News
Delicious Becomes A Bit More Social Again, Adds Twitter And Facebook Logins
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on March 29, 2013
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It’s recently been very quiet around Delicious, the social bookmarking service Yahoo bought in 2005 and then sold to AVOS in 2011. Back then, the AVOS team said it was relaunching Delicious “back to beta,” but Delicious hasn’t made all that many waves since then, nor has it added all that many features to the relaunched service. But after four months of slumber, the Delicious blog sprung into action today and launched a few new features that could make the site a bit more interesting for those of us who long ago abandoned social bookmarking for social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Indeed, today’s update is all about Twitter and Facebook: Delicious added the ability to log in with your credentials for those two social networks and connect. It’s now easier to use Delicious to automatically save all those links you share on Facebook and shared and favorited on Twitter directly on Delicious, too. Delicious acquired the link-saving startup Trunk.ly to power this feature in November 2011 and turned it on for Twitter last March and for Facebook in July. Using Twitter and Facebook logins isn’t exactly innovative, but it does point toward a more social future for Delicious, especially in combination with the new “Friend Finder” tool that lets you friend and follow people you know on Twitter and Facebook. The team also made other small improvements – the bookmarklet and site now load faster, for example, but the main feature Delicious power users will surely appreciate is that every link now includes a “first saver” attribution. I’m not sure that any of this will really rescue Delicious from its current obscurity. Saving the links you share on social networks doesn’t exactly feel like the hot new thing, after all. It’s good to see a sign of life out of Delicious, however, and if Digg is still around and kicking, why shouldn’t del.icio.us be, too?
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity sidelined again after computer glitch
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on March 18, 2013
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Another problem is preventing the Mars rover Curiosity from resuming its science experiments.
FOX News
Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business)
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on March 17, 2013
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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “Veoh has once again beaten the record companies; in fact it has beaten them in every round, only to have been forced out of business by the attorneys fees it expended to do so. I guess that’s the record companies’ strategy to do an ‘end around’ the clear wording of the DMCA ‘safe harbor’: outspend them until they fold. Back in 2009 the lower court dismissed UMG’s case (PDF) on the ground that Veoh was covered by the DMCA ‘safe harbor’ and had complied with takedown notices. The record companies of course appealed. And they of course lost. Then, after the Viacom v. YouTube decision by the 2nd Circuit, which ruled that there were factual issues as to some of the videos, they moved for rehearing in UMG v. Veoh. Now, in a 61-page decision (PDF), the 9th Circuit has once again ruled that the statute means what it says, and rejected each and every argument the record companies made. Sadly, though, it did not award attorneys fees.”
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Facebook Brings Down The Hammer Again: Cuts Off MessageMe’s Access To Its Social Graph
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on March 16, 2013
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MessageMe, an app that launched last week and raced up the charts to the #2 spot in social networking in the U.S., is confronting Facebook’s touchiness around access to its social graph. The app’s integration with Facebook stopped functioning earlier today (see left), the result of the company’s decision to cut MessageMe off from its “Find Friends” functionality, according to sources familiar with decision. MessageMe CEO Arjun Sethi declined to comment in this story and Facebook didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. The move resembles Facebook’s decision last month to shut off Voxer’s access to the graph, even though Voxer connected to Facebook for well over a year. Voxer is another communications app that supports calling and voice chat. Facebook cut the app off around the same time that it launched competing functionality with free voice calling to other users. In that decision, Facebook cited Section 10 of its platform policy (which is the same one it’s using in MessageMe’s case): Reciprocity and Replicating core functionality: (a) Reciprocity: Facebook Platform enables developers to build personalized, social experiences via the Graph API and related APIs. If you use any Facebook APIs to build personalized or social experiences, you must also enable people to easily share their experiences back with people on Facebook. (b) Replicating core functionality: You may not use Facebook Platform to promote, or to export user data to, a product or service that replicates a core Facebook product or service without our permission. MessageMe apparently replicates too much of Facebook Messenger’s functionality for the company to be comfortable with it. Facebook has long been touchy about providing access to the biggest of its strategic competitors like Google and Twitter. Back in 2010, Twitter’s then-CEO Ev Williams griped about the company’s unwillingness to let Twitter users look up their Facebook friends on the service or to send Facebook updates to Twitter. In the same year, Google and Facebook had a back-and-forth over Facebook’s access to Gmail’s contact importer because the social network wouldn’t send data the other way. But it’s only in the last year that the company has really stepped up enforcement against other startups. After cutting off Voxer last month, Facebook clarified its policy, saying that apps needed to share content back to Facebook and couldn’t replicate too much of Facebook’s core functionality. It cited the same policy in cutting off Twitter’s Vine hours after launch and Russian search
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Is this the Samsung Galaxy S IV or is it in disguise again?
Posted by Gsurface
on March 11, 2013
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Mere days before Samsung unveils its newest phone, a Chinese forum post has offered some purported shots of the Galaxy S IV. Now it’s worth mentioning from the outset that Samsung plays a good game of subterfuge. It masked the Galaxy S III ahead of its reveal last year in a blockier plastic frame and it could be that this phone, with a very Note-esque face and outline, is also a filler ahead of the final reveal. It could also be yet another phone that will slot in elsewhere in Samsung’s ever-expanding Galaxy family, or even a Shenzhen knock-off that’s jumped the gun — we spotted that the front-facing camera hole doesn’t quite align properly.
However, with that said, there’s still plenty here to muse on. The shots appear to be taken in a phone unlocking shop somewhere in China, with this GT-i9502 model apparently bound for carrier China Unicom. Interestingly (at least for a flagship), it appears to be a dual-SIM version, with the mono-SIM version apparently picking up model number GT-i9500 — a number that would fit in with the series so far. According to the leak, it’s running a fresh version of Android (4.2.1) with a 1080p display (no word on dimensions just yet), 2GB of RAM and a 13-megapixel camera on the back. The mention of a “5410″ CPU suggests it’s Samsung’s Exynos Octa chip powering it and while AnTuTu might only recognize that as a quad-core chip, we noted during our hands-on with the new chipset that only four cores were being used at a time. We’re still hoping Samsung’s final design pushes the envelope a little further than a repositioned camera sensor and a new glossy texture — we’ve added a shot of this after the break. Rest assured, Jeremy will be letting us in on the big secret later this week.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
Via: Sammy Hub
Source: 52Samsung (Chinese)
Massive solar storms may peak this year — again
Posted by Gsurface
on March 6, 2013
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The sun is surprisingly quiet at the moment, but that may be because our star is gearing up for the second phase of a one-two wallop in its 11-year activity cycle, some scientists say.
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Successful Woman Gets Attacked For Standing Out Too Much, Again
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on March 2, 2013
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There’s no aphorism that describes successful women more than “damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”
Yet, thankfully we keep doing. As we are Millennial women who’ve worked under plenty of women, and are now on our second female CEO, we’ve reaped the benefits of this “doing” firsthand. It was a lot harder to be in the workforce 30, 20 or even 10 years ago — sheerly as a numbers game.
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Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again
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on February 24, 2013
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hypnosec writes “Ex-LulzSec leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur aka Sabu, has been handed another sentencing delay, possibly because of his continued cooperation with the U.S. government that led to the arrest of several Lulzsec members. Sabu plead guilty to all counts of bank fraud and identity theft offences, and was to receive 124 years of imprisonment — but was granted a six-month breather back in August 2012 after the U.S. government requested the District Attorney to consider adjournment of Monsegur’s trial ‘in light of the defendant’s ongoing cooperation with the Government.’ New reports indicate that Sabu has dodged sentencing for a second time, with no dates set for the next hearing.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Surface Pro again out of stock; Microsoft underestimated demand, argues analyst
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on February 23, 2013
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Less than a week after Microsoft began taking reservation orders for its 128GB Surface Pro tablet, the company has again slapped a sold-out sign on its website.
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Retinal implant allows the blind to see again
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on February 22, 2013
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Blindness is arguably one of the worst afflictions one can have, making life exceedingly difficult. Nine people have been liberated from the from their blindness, however, thanks to a retinal implant that stores a light to an eye that otherwise can’t see it. Called the Alpha IMS, this device utilizes the eye’s own neurons, unlike
New bionic hand may let amputees feel again
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on February 19, 2013
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Top NASA scientist arrested (again) in White House protest
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on February 14, 2013
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Microsoft starts shipping Surface Pros again, promises more to market ‘quickly’
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on February 13, 2013
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Microsoft’s trying to address the recent shortfall of Surface Pro models, and has vowed via its Surface Pro blog to get more into the market “as quickly as we can.” As such, it’s begun dispatching 64GB SKUs to Best Buy, Staples and its own Microsoft Store in the US, with Canada to follow in a few days. 128GB SKUs will ship “later this week” to retailers, according to Redmond, “with some units available by the end of the week.” All flavors of the tablet-cum-laptop disappeared from shelves shortly after they arrived in retail stores and online, both stateside and north of the border. The company said it’ll fulfill orders for customers who made a reservation first, but that your local retailer “should have (stock) soon,” too.
Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, Microsoft
Source: Microsoft Surface Blog
iPad game ‘Infinity Blade: Dungeons’ delayed again
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on February 10, 2013
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Epic Games shuts down the in-house studio put in charge of the upcoming iPad title that Apple showed off as a tech demo last year. [Read more]
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Big iPad game ‘Infinity Blade: Dungeons’ delayed again
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on February 8, 2013
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Epic Games has shut down the in-house studio put in charge of the upcoming iPad title that Apple showed off as a tech demo last year. [Read more]
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J.D. Power: Verizon again tops in customer care survey
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on February 7, 2013
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Marketing researchers recognize the nation’s largest wireless provider as a leader in customer care. [Read more]
CNET News
Seriously, This Again? New, Aggressive Marketing From Microsoft Warns Gmail Users That Google Reads Their Email
Posted by Gsurface
on February 7, 2013
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Hey Microsoft, 2004 called. It wants its privacy outrage debate back. Microsoft is on the rampage lately, aggressively attacking Google on search, shopping, and email, the latter which is now featured on Microsoft’s infamous “Scroogled” site where – get this! – Microsoft goes after Gmail because Google reads your email to target you with ads! Seriously.
Great white shark traced up and down East Coast found in North Carolina again
Posted by Gsurface
on January 24, 2013
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Intel Bets on Fabs, Again
Posted by Gsurface
on January 21, 2013
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Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results
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on January 17, 2013
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redletterdave writes “For the second time in a row, Microsoft’s Security Essentials failed to earn certification from AV-Test, the independent German testing lab best known for evaluating the effectiveness of antivirus software. Out of 25 different security programs tested by AV-Test, including software from McAfee, Norman, Kaspersky, and others, Microsoft’s Security Essentials was just one out of three that failed to gain certification. These results are noteworthy because Microsoft Security Essentials is currently (as of December) the most popular security suite in North America and the world.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Twitter-Owned TweetDeck At Risk Of Being Struck Off U.K. Business Register For Failing To File Accounts Again
Posted by Gsurface
on January 14, 2013
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Back in December Twitter and its subsidiary TweetDeck were fined for late accounts filing by the U.K. registrar of companies, Companies House. Since then Twitter has filed its accounts but TweetDeck has not and Companies House has now put forward a proposal to strike it off the register. It now has 99 days to file up-to-date accounts or face being dissolved and struck-off.
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Made in America, Again
Posted by Gsurface
on January 11, 2013
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Can Fotobar Make Polaroid Relevant Again?
Posted by Gsurface
on January 7, 2013
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The years have not been kind to Polaroid. The company has gone through a couple of bankruptcies, and has tried to reinvent itself with a number of less-than-popular products including: an Android powered “smart camera”, and a digital camera that incorporates instant printing. They hope to reverse their fortunes now by partnering with a startup called Fotobar and plan “to open a chain of retail stores where customers can come in and print out their favorite pictures from their mobile phones. The first is scheduled to open in February in Delray Beach, Florida, and the goal is to open 10 locations across the country before the year is out.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Microsoft calls for crackdown on Google. Again
Posted by Gsurface
on January 2, 2013
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YouTube, briefly restored, blocked again in Pakistan
Posted by Gsurface
on January 1, 2013
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Pakistan reinstated its YouTube ban on Saturday after it was briefly lifted, reportedly without approval from the country’s prime minister, local media reported.
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Netflix Is Experiencing An Extended Outage (Again)
Posted by Gsurface
on December 31, 2012
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Following its lengthy Christmas Eve outage, Netflix’s service has again gone down today, according to a message posted on the Netflix website, dozens of reports from users on Twitter, and other third-party website monitoring services. Netflix’s official accounts have not yet been updated with any details about today’s issues, which have been underway all morning long.
Stuxnet attacks Iran again, reports say
Posted by Gsurface
on December 26, 2012
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The worm apparently was aimed at a power plant and other sites in southern Iran but was thwarted. [Read more]
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New is old again: How to turn MP3s back into records
Posted by Gsurface
on December 23, 2012
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Gmail wobbles again on Friday, fourth incident since late last week
Posted by Gsurface
on December 15, 2012
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Gmail ran into technical difficulties again on Friday, the fourth such issue in a little over a week, and all happening after Google announced the elimination of its free Google Apps edition.
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A123 Systems Headed for Chinese Ownership (Again)
Posted by Gsurface
on December 10, 2012
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China-based Wanxiang wins the auction to purchase A123 Systems battery assets, kicking off a reexamination of policies to deploy advanced technologies.
A Chinese-owned company won a bidding war for the assets of battery maker A123 Systems, an event that raises thorny questions over U.S. government funding for technology companies.
Pebble smartwatch delayed again, won’t arrive in time for the holidays
Posted by Gsurface
on December 8, 2012
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The Pebble smartwatch is a stylish, square-shaped, e-paper watch that hit $ 1 million on Kickstarter in 28 hours after having met its goal of $ 100k in just 120 minutes. The Pebble continued to soar, breaking records and garnering thousands of pledges. Now it seems the smartwatch has been delayed (again), and won’t be arriving in
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