http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_1 2dfd1ddf0f03e9bf87a9545d21ac6f2f On November 18, 2009 Syabas, makers of the award-winning Popcorn Hour product line, uploaded a message to their Media Service Portal that said, “As of Wednesday, December 2, 2009, YouTube will no longer be available to Popcorn Hour users.” (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:15:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_2 203e7db0ffb3a9a68c73cef06e0c6888 Good afternoon, readers! What does Santa have in his bag for you today? Interestingly enough, he was unable to bring his bag because this printer is far too big for it. We present, for your inspection, the Kodak 5250 all-in-one: a scanning, printing, faxing, photofinishing machine that can best the big boys in the printer race. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_3 4073530cb301d02251d7fd66764b2603 Not long ago Second Life was everywhere, with businesses opening branches and bands playing gigs in this virtual world. Today you'd be forgiven for asking if it's still going. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:30:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_4 5faa626711e977cb0a55d5c3a97c4ec8 If you enjoyed the Cowboy Bebop -meets-Master Chief action presented in the first episode of Halo Legends (seriously, that main character looked just like Spike Spiegel!), then you may want to check out the second episode of the Spartan-themed anime premiering today on Halo Waypoint . For 24 hours starting at 12:00AM PST (about eight hours ago), ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:52:03 PST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_5 6432bbccd2deaff7af36f58cc185dfc9 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Apple may be having a hard time selling the iPhone in China, but momentum is picking up in Europe as distribution widens. The end of exclusivity has already triggered a big leap in market share for the popular handset in France and observers say the phenomenon is about to repeat itself in the U.K. (Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:52:03 PST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_6 5a054ca414a5e3cdbfd586a4697b9642 Read on Source) ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45:00 GMT http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_7 4914f967c9adca05178e86a606567319 In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:22:58 GMT http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_8 261c3dd5c43bd2eea417f63d8bcdfa0d Earlier this week, we reported that Sony could not guarantee that its new Daily Edition Reader would reach online buyers in time for Christmas. Now Barnes & Noble says that preorders of its stylish new Nook e-reader have exceeded expectations, and that the company has sold out of its initial supply of devices. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-21T00:48:15Z http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_9 0d1f1446698b3fdee061d61a04193901 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_10 387e4d2e0ab585aa5778ca78d974a08d Peripherals, they say, are the spice of life. Well, maybe they don’t say that, but they do say it about variety, and peripherals add variety to your computing life. If you’re reading this on a stock HP desktop, clicking on links with the mouse that came with it, and trusting your data to that 512MB USB stick they gave you at work, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:53:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_11 1403fb755b89e0179e8bcc41ba1d831e Philips has just announced a new 9704 LED Pro line of televisions bound for the UK. The two sets promise a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a 200Hz refresh rate, and a 1-ms response time . Philips promises both models -- the 40-inch 40PFL9704 and the 46-inch 46PFL9704 -- are up to 50 percent more energy efficient than previous models, and both boast ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_12 40c56bd5147ec206f1fcd94e2d729d6a Time spent viewing video on social networking sites increased 98 percent year-over-year, from 503.8 million minutes in October 2008 to 999.4 million minutes in October 2009, according to Nielsen. In conjunction, the number of online video streams viewed on social networking and blog sites increased 45 percent year-over-year, from 240.8 million ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-21T00:48:15Z http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_13 01b05be3630b9f2f53aa0077c3ce676f Recently I was given just 24 hours to explore a first production build of the Apple iTablet -- and here are my first impressions and discoveries. First, it's more like an iPhone than a MacBook. The operating system depends on gestures, and expands the vocabulary. Your hand is going to be dancing. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_14 dd6ca391b204046eb6cff8d60fccabfd Original Super Nintendo kart racer arrives this Monday; Pilotwings SNES and Super Smash Bros. N64 to follow this holiday season. Since the day the Wii launched, Nintendo's Virtual Console library of games has offered some of the company's all-time classics in downloadable form. Several of the service's more notable omissions will be addressed ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:30:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_15 509609d3e01da1dfad06a5afc091b5aa James Delingpole is a writer, journalist and broadcaster who is right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including Welcome To Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work, How To Be Right, and the Coward series of WWII adventure novels. His website is www.jamesdelingpole.com (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_16 eb3c2616abc5b426438ba09974d4e1c1 Geneva, 20 November 2009. Particle beams are once again circulating in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This news comes after the machine was handed over for operation on Wednesday morning. A clockwise circulating beam was established at ten o'clock this evening. This is an important ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_17 4a1f7192834b6f49861c824c8b6eea4e If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging lawmakers to support ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:00 EST http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_18 f30b6a775120e7a4dc212247bfd836f1 Using publicly available information, for the first time in the world, we have precisely and scientifically calculated the weight of the Internet. Obviously this information is only really useful to someone attempting to work out the cost of posting the Internet somewhere, perhaps to North Korea. Still, the casual reader -- hi there! -- may still ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_19 91c4c2cf86bc71a4b32d880fb5e47da5 They are business plans that measure success beyond bottom lines. Instead of moving inventory and selling services, these entrepreneurs aim to bring electricity to those without lights, nutrition to those who will die without supplemental vitamins and low-cost solar hearing aids for those who otherwise couldn't afford them. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:03 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/1#item_20 f99b802b0523346724af6f5900683e30 Purchase a CrunchUp pass and enter the RealTime Pitch. Two CrunchUp attendees (subject to opt out, of course) will be randomly selected Friday morning at the conference and will have 5 minutes each to pitch their start-up to attendees as part of our main agenda demo sessions, at 11:45 am and 2:00 pm. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:50:03 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_1 c1d161114f581c2cb6d4634094f3604d Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:33 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_2 1d29ca28fbdef04be539ee57a11f1ba2 Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site. It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights. (Read on Source) ]]> 2009-11-20T17:35:50Z http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_3 6137eeed691a000fade07f643d8f7987 While the tech world has been waiting for Apple, Microsoft, and even TechCrunch to introduce their tablets, a company called Camangi has gone ahead and released its own device: The WebStation is a 7-inch touchscreen tablet that runs Android 1.5. The device features 802.11 b/g WiFI, a GPS module, and a built-in micro SD Card Reader. The ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:47:54 -0500 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_4 eeeeef3dbf35cab60baadb1d1e36dac0 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:36 -0700 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_5 a22e12c3c2da79261c73b1d45cb11161 The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku in video below. Thoughts? Theories? Is it Ken Levine's new game? Is it BioShock 3? Is it related to anything that shows up in Google when you type ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_6 956a0c485b3d6dea98fca60c8a2edab4 Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to build up China's military and economic power, a US advisory panel on US-China relations has warned. Its members urged the US Congress to ensure the country was adequately protected against Chinese spying. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:05 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_7 527f8e8eada8b109ea65fa812fa13922 Paradou’s weekly newsletters are so warm and welcoming (they’re how we found out about their three-for-one deal!) that it’s hard to imagine the man who pens them (owner Vadim Ponorovsky) as anything but a teddy bear. But a tipster has sent Gawker an e-mail in which Ponorovsky calls his employees “assholes,” “ ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:05 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_8 7f009e6247e1902a463c8d1f26034795 Sega and Sony are working together to bring Sonic into the PlayStation 3 version of LittleBigPlanet. In the middle of December, five Sonic the Hedgehog costumes based on Sonic Unleashed will be released as downloadable content. You can get Sonic, Sonic the Werehog, Tails, Dr. Eggman, and Knuckles alone or in a pack. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:05 +0000 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_9 2aeb868e65d9267a88bc04edc9823f33 Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_10 85901fb2b5ff3fab66189c8306ad4919 Almost two-thirds of adults have broadband connections at home, but that's a long way from the ultimate goal: universal adoption of high speed Internet throughout the United States. Depending on which study you believe, we're everything from number 11 to 24 in international broadband penetration rankings . So how do we get to somewhere near ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_11 0202ef25ef570d04c441a50078e453c4 Debbie Saslow, director of breast and gynecologic cancer for the American Cancer Society, said professional groups were particularly concerned because many teenagers and young women were being tested and then needlessly subjected to invasive procedures. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_12 697602dde2cf3f32a0041607f1fbe64a Citing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s call to civil disobedience, 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that they say could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_13 6ccae9ddcff45aadffcd463ea7ca4c7a Somebody was bound to have a go: Texas-based law firm AbingtonIP is organising a class-action suit against Microsoft over the company's ban on modified Xboxes. (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_14 25c1e52af2af886bda21b95a2470a7ee Italian polymath Umberto Eco: "I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia." Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_15 310677ce128504a8e037885107ec72ff This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test “board”. I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design and improve circuits. In the process I often use various CAD type programs to rough out the designs. I have ... (Read on Source) ]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:34:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/technology/1258854322/21#item_16 90620f5bf1a86885e340328d28a944e7 Read more: #iphoneapps, #appstore, #appstoreapprovalprocess, #apple, #iphone, #apps, #software, #cellphones, #phones, #smartphones, #privateapis, #iphoneprivateapis, #staticanalysistool, #automatedappapproval (Read on Source) ]]>