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Latest News - January 2009
- Comcast Questioned Over VOIP Net Management
- Hardware RoundUp
- Watch the inauguration from your iPhone
- 95% of Music Downloads are Illegal: IFPI
- Seagate Fixes 'Potential' Barracuda Flaw
- Acer Intros 23-Inch Display & Aspire Desktops
- Google's Latest Experiment: Preferred Sites
- Wozniak on Jobs: His Privacy and Health
- Asus Introduces New F50 and F70 Series Notebooks
- Inauguration To Be Streamed Using Silverlight
- Line 6 Announces POD Studio KB37
- Cloaking Technology Advances Made, Spock Nervous
- Yahoo! gets social
- Banned E-Book Reappears in App Store, Censored
- Hardware RoundUp
- Dell Laptops Get a 256GB SSD Option
- Live, Streaming Video Coming to the iPhone
- Teen Sends 14,528 Text Messages
- Second Android Phone Indefinitely Delayed
- Circuit City Announces Liquidation
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All News for January 2009
Comcast, Comcast, Comcast. You can't seem to satisfy the FCC, no matter what you do. While Comcast has just switched to a new protocol-agnostic network management scheme, the FCC has some new questions for the company: namely, why its new policy affects the VOIP services of other companies, but not Comcast's own Digital Voice service. Last...
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Those who desperately need to watch tomorrow's inauguration on their iPhone are in luck. Just in the nick of time, Apple's App Store approved the Ustream iPhone Viewing Application. It's only available in WiFi "to ensure the highest quality broadcast on the iPhone." That may change in the future, the company says.Of course, it's not...
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has released its report on Digital Music 2009. According to the report (.PDF). It concludes that despite initiatives by the music industry, 95% of music downloads continue to be illegal. Yes, the IFPI, or as it's known, the global version of the RIAA, says that 40 billion songs...
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After some angry Barracuda owners expressed their dissents over failing disk drives, Seagate is fessing up to the issue, and is now admitting to a firmware bug in Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, and Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives that could make the disks inaccessible when the host system is powered on. According to some users, the drives tend...
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Acer Introduces Sleek 23-Inch Display with Sensor Touch; Enhances Desktop LineNew Display Features 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Glossy Bezel and Speakers; Desktops Range from a Pentium-Powered Small Form Factor to Radical Gaming RigSAN JOSE, CALIF., Jan. 19, 2009 – Acer, the third largest vendor in the PC market, today announced the slick new Acer 23-inch...
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Searching via Google can be as much art as it is science. Yes, you can simply input what you are searching for and hope that some relevant results pop up somewhere in the first few ranked results. But when your search topic is somewhat obscure, complicated, or even too broad, you often have to tailor your search by carefully selecting which...
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Steve Wozniak, the "other Steve" that people associate with Apple, but not in the cultish near-godlike way people think of Steve Jobs, appeared on CNBC recently, and was asked about his opinion on Steve Jobs' health as well as his privacy. Also appearing on the show were Sarah Lacy (Business Week) and Matt Richtel (the New York Times). Lacy...
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High Definition Mobile Entertainment – Introducing the New ASUS F50 and F70 Series Notebooks World's First Slim and Light 16" Notebook and the World's First 17.3" Notebooks Designed for Personal Entertainment Taipei, Taiwan – Stylishly Entertaining – the ASUS F50 and F70 range of notebooks combine cutting-edge design with equally innovative...
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There will no shortage of ways in which you'll be able to view tomorrow's Presidential Inauguration Events, either via TV or online. But regardless of the plethora of options available, that hasn't stopped the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) from also promising to host "live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration...
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Line 6, Inc., the industry leader in modeling technology for music products, announces POD Studio KB37, a powerful USB audio interface that combines a 37-key MIDI controller and multiple inputs and outputs with a complete collection of pro audio software that includes POD Farm, the premium tone plug-in."POD Studio KB37 will revolutionize the...
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There was a time when laser beams were a thing of science fiction and the picture phone just found on episodes of The Jetsons. And cloaking devices, well let's just say the Romulans gave James T. and the gang a bit of heart burn with their peek-a-boo ways but in reality the capability, though explored in science fiction throughout...
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Yahoo! is taking its cue from ... well, from everyone, and adding a whole new social aspect to its site.Sure, there already was e-mail and IM and a customizable home page, but now you can display your activity on/from many of your other social sites to your Yahoo profile.There are a slew of options - photos from Picasa, SmugMug, Webshots and...
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A censored version of an e-book which had been rejected over "objectionable content" has been allowed to enter the App Store. The book, Knife Music, by C|Net Editor David Carnoy, was submitted using an embedded e-reader. As such, it was subject to a clause of the iPhone SDK, section 3.3.12 which states:"Applications must not contain any obscene,...
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Video:Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285 and 295 graphics cards reviewed at TRNvidia's GeForce GTX 285 graphics card @ bit-techInno3D Geforce GTX 285 Overclock @ CPU3DSamsung SyncMaster T240 24" LCD Monitor Review @ Tweaknews.netMemory and Storage:OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA Flash Drive Review @ Legit ReviewsATP EarthDrive: A USB Flash Drive Made Of Corn...
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On Friday, Dell added a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD) option to is Inspiron M1330 and Inspiron M1730 laptops, matching Apple, which announced a 256GB SSD option for its unibody Macbook Pro earlier this month. Dell just blasts Apple away price-wise, however. Adding the 256GB option to the standard M1730, for example, adds just $400 to the price....
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Soon, you’ll be able to watch free, live, streaming video on your iPhone thanks to a company called Ustream. Ustream.TV is a live interactive video broadcast platform that makes it possible for anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience. Ustream was started in the summer of 2006 by...
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How would you feel if your wireless bill had nearly the same number of pages as a ream of paper? Needless to say when Greg Hardesty received a 440-page bill from AT&T, he was shocked. Upon examining the bill, Hardesty discovered that his 13-year-old teenage daughter, Reina, managed to send 14,528 text messages last month. At first, Hardesty...
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The Kogan Agora, which was to be the second Google Android phone released, has been delayed indefinitely. We wrote about the company and the phone earlier; Kogan Technologies is an Australian based, online-only retailer, and it says on its profile page it cuts out all the middle-men so it can offer great deals. It was founded two years ago...
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After filing for bankruptcy protection in November, Circuit City was hopeful that it would be able to reorganize and reemerge. Now, only a day after the company held an auction that was suppose to be the retailer’s last chance to survive bankruptcy as an intact, though smaller chain, the company announced it has hired four liquidators to sell...
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In response to the announcement of a medical leave by Steve Jobs, a group of analysts was assembled to discuss the issue on CNBC. Key among them was Jim Goldman, CNBC's Silicon Valley Bureau chief, and Dan Lyons, who formerly played the "role" of "Fake Steve (Jobs)," on a satiric blog. The exchange between the two was contentious, and included...
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Rather than risk being lost in the flurry of CES, Panasonic waited until today to unveil its latest sub-$300 cameras. Two of the new cameras are part of Panasonic’s FS-Series line, and feature a slim and compact build at a lower price than the company's higher-end FX-Series. The third camera is part of Panasonic’s LS-Series line. This line...
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