1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch   —  Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

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Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Nexus One update fixes 3G problem, adds limited multitouch   —  Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch. After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said last week that it had identified the problem and would ...

2. Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs  permalink

Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs
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After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

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3. Oracle Hacker Gets The Last Word  permalink

Oracle Hacker Gets The Last Word
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ARLINGTON, Va. -- In 2001, Larry Ellison brashly proclaimed in a keynote speech at the computing conference Comdex that his database software was "unbreakable." David Litchfield has devoted the last nine years to making the Oracle chief executive regret that marketing stunt.

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The Oracle listener password algorithm   —  There has been a thread on my forum for a couple of years discussing the Oracle listener password algorithm. The thread is titled " Key and algo for encrypting the listener password ". This thread discussed the issue of being.... [Read More] Posted by Pete On 01/02/10 At 07:39 PM

4. Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July  permalink

Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July
MARK MAZZETTI / NYT

America’s top intelligence official said he was “highly certain” that Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates would attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.

5. January giveaway wrap-up and more freebies for new subscribers  permalink

January giveaway wrap-up and more freebies for new subscribers
Ars Technica

We had a great response to our January giveaway . We're sending out e-mails to our winners today; if you commented on last month's post or are an Ars Premier Subscriber , keep an eye on your inbox (and possibly spam folder). Additionally, if you were one of the first 20 Ars Premier subscribers after we made the original posting on January 11 or ...

6. Some News Outlets Ready to Try Charging Online Readers  permalink

RICHARD / NYT

A new Steven Brill endeavor enables news outlets to charge their online readers. The tattered news industry may be ready to give it a whirl.

7. Linux installation kickstart for Oracle database  permalink

Linux installation kickstart for Oracle database
Wiki.oracle.com

#network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip x.y.z.v --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway x.y.z.v --nameserver x.y.z.t,x.y.z.v --hostname srvoracle01_$$

8. 10g Release 2 for Linux x86-64  permalink

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9. Archaeologists find evidence of birds' dinosaur ancestors  permalink

Archaeologists find evidence of birds' dinosaur ancestors
Ars Technica

Many different kinds of animals coexisted during the Jurassic period, from primitive birds to two-legged, large-jawed dinosaurs. As different as they sound, archaeologists have suspected that they share a common ancestry. Two new studies of fossils from China show that bird-like dinosaurs predate the earliest official birds, and shed light on ...

10. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack  permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

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Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack Leveraging Webinars to Learn SEO   —  Webinars are a great place to learn any skill related to business and the internet. Unlike blogs and other content pieces, you aren’t forced to read text, which can get monotonous. The PowerPoint plus audio interface throws a nice wrench in your normal learning process and can help stimulate development. The professionals teaching webinars are & ...

11. Street Scenes of Munich:  permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
Omis.me

Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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12. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action  permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

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Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action Breadcrumb URL Display: A Review   —  Back in November, Google announced that they would be rolling out “site hierarchy display in search results” to be (occasionally) displayed in search results instead of their exact destination URL. The reported purpose for this type of URL display is to offer a better search experience to the user by providing context surrounding a given& ...

Ann Smarty / Search Engine Journal
Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action SEJ Tools: Run Keyword Research via Google Adwords Tool   —  Being an advanced SEO toolset, SEJ tools unite quite a few useful third-party services. One of such useful tools is Google Adwords keyword research tool that makes it easier for you to: (1) Run keyword research without having to leave the dashboard; (2) Easily add keywords to SERP tracker (to monitor how close to top rankings you are / become).& ...

13. IBM Demonstrates Carbon-Based Transistors  permalink

IBM Demonstrates Carbon-Based Transistors
Editor / Extremetech

IBM Research has unveiled and demonstrated a carbon-based transistor that could render silicon-based CMOS chips obsolete over the next 10 years.

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IBM Preps Carbon Transistors for Post-Silicon Era   —  The incredible success of silicon microchips, which power everything digital, was wrought by the invention of field-effect transistors (FETs), which...

14. Dell plans new line of 'private cloud' servers this year  permalink

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Dell is hatching a plan to take some of the custom servers designed by its Data Center Solutions division for Web giants like Yahoo and Facebook and sell them to a wider range of companies, including large enterprises, Dell executives said. The DCS unit was formed about three years ago to help Dell get more business from large Internet firms. ...

15. Apple patches critical flaws in iPhone, iPod Touch  permalink

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Apple today patched five vulnerabilities in the iPhone's operating system, including one in a password-locking feature that's required attention before. iPhone OS 3.1.3 , the first update since September 2009, addressed five bugs, three of which were tagged with the phrase "arbitrary code execution," Apple-speak for a critical vulnerability. ...

16. Dot-Com Crash Catches Up With Venture Capitalists  permalink

CLAIRE CAIN MILLER / NYT

Ten-year venture capital returns are deteriorating, yet venture capital still outperformed the public markets.

17. Murdoch: Tablets, e-readers and smartphones are "lifeless" without content  permalink

Murdoch: Tablets, e-readers and smartphones are
Podcast / Between the Lines

Tags: E-reader, Smart Phone, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Tablets, Sales Strategy, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales All the buzz these days may be about new tablet PCs, the growing list of e-readers and the constant change coming to smartphones.

18. ADF skinning and resources  permalink

ADF skinning and resources
Aino Andriessen / AMIS

With my current, ADF Faces 11g, project, we have a requirement that the default text in the error message box is customized. Instead of ‘Messages for this page are listed below.’ it should read some other text. When you talk about customization you say ’skinning’. Skinning allows you to customize the userinterface, i.e. ...

19. Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?  permalink

Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM

Nokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets?

20. Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech  permalink

Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech
Earth2tech.com

“Profitability” can be a squishy term for startups — until they file for an IPO and deliver, through the SEC, what’s often the first unfiltered snapshot of their financial situation: the S-1. That’s been the case for Tesla Motors, which filed on Friday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering.