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A couple of stories have hit the headlines this year concerning the huge cost that some UK Local Governments incurred when dealing with malware attack on their Windows machines. If you missed them, Manchester City Council had a single USB infected with the infamous Conficker worm and it cost them — brace yourself — £1.5m ($2. ...
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Windows7 is here - tell us what you think!
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Today in concert with the Windows7 launch the Windows Social Media Team is launching what we like to call the Windows7 Social Media Hub. It’s a place to see what our customers are saying about Windows 7. It pulls and displays content tagged with Windows 7 from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, blogs and the Windows Facebook Fan Page..
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First iPhone, now Droid. Who needs Windows?
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Windows Mobile is losing the last glimmers of its mojo--if it really had any to begin with--as the Droid and other phones based on the Android 2.0 operating system push the buzz meter needle into the red zone. Many in the media--which can play a big role in steering users to one technology platform or another--sense that Windows Mobile has now ...
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Has Microsoft Placed Its Last Mobile Bet?
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When Microsoft first started talking about building mobile-phone software back in the late 1990s, handset makers that had been in the market for years scoffed. Sure, Microsoft was a huge software developer, but making software for mobile devices is different and more complicated than for PCs, they argued. After all, by the late '90s, some ...
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TwitCritics leverages the constant flow of positive and negative movie references on Twitter to give peek at public opinion on what's playing at theaters.
The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a 'hybrid iPhone,' due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon?). Read this blog post by Jonathan Skillings on Wireless.
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Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone
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The new Verizon Droid, like many a high-profile smartphone just coming onto the market, has been hailed by some as a potential--you know what's coming--iPhone killer. (Chronicling the very first Droid sales in Manhattan the other day, CNET's Maggie Reardon observed that the gadget may actually turn out to be more of a BlackBerry killer.)
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Ars Technica
Week in Apple: Magic Mouse, ra1n & sn0w, iPhone chicanery
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We gave you the lowdown on how well Apple's new Magic Mouse works, told you about a Dutch teen that used port scanning to find vulnerable jailbroken iPhones, showed how less-than-honest iPhone developers claim to have developed others' apps, and how Apple may or may not be dropping support for Atom processors. If you missed any of that, here's a ...
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The Gadgeteer
Use your iPhone or iPod Nano to become the next Spielberg
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Do you shoot movies with your iPhone or the latest iPod Nano, but end up deleting them because they look like they were filmed by someone with extremely shaky hands? The iSteady comes to your rescue. It’s a folding metal holder that will hold either device and stabilize it to … [visit site to read [...] Filed in categories: Audio / ...
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Engadget
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys
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AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn't seem to have dissuaded Beg Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to the Island of Misfit Toys. Hard to argue with the premise, but here's the real question: why not just sack up use a real iPhone, instead of this ...
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He General Assembly of the UJC newly uh… christened Jewish Federations of North America or JFNA for short (pronounced JAFINA, like Dafena – Sephardic Chulent!) is now under way. Plenaries will begin later this afternoon and our erstwhile on the scene reporter Tanya has already reported the presence of anti-Israel protesters outside ...
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Ebook license "agreements" are a ripoff
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In today's Observer Business column, John Naughton discusses what a ripoff it is for ebook vendors to "sell" you books with abusive, multi-thousand word "license agreements," pretending that because you bought your book over the network, it wasn't a sale, and so you don't get to own it. These "licenses" aren't about upholding copyright (if they ...
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Boing Boing
The Scottish veterans charity Erskine surveyed 2,000 young people between the ages of nine and 15 about World War I and II. Apparently, five percent thought that Hitler was a German football coach; sixteen percent believed that Auschwitz is a WWII theme park; five percent said the Holocaust was a bash to celebrate the war's end. (STV News)...
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Published by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi November 8th, 2009 in NeoSmart Technologies 7 Comments Tags: Browser, Flash, HTML5, Videos, YouTube Running on Mac or Linux and tired of Adobe Flash eating up all your CPU cycles while you’re watching YouTube? Buggy plugins that crash your browser and freeze your PC? Proprietary formats that get in the way? ...
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Lifehacker.com
TubeRadio Turns YouTube Into Jukebox
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YouTube's a quick source for hearing the occasional music track here and there. With TubeRadio, you can hunt down music on YouTube more efficiently, and even find entire albums, through a helpful search interface.
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Work continues on the posh Manhattan Apple Store , and reader/levitation expert Vincent snapped us some pics of this latest bastion of Apple retail consumerism. It looks like an Apple Store... from the sky—at night! Also, wooden tables. Trendy ones.
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Heads Up: Update your Apple TV to 3.0.1 ASAP, says Apple
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We've heard a few reports of sync issues with the new Apple TV 3.0 software over the past few days, and apparently the chatter on the Apple support boards was on the mark: Apple has shipped 3.0.1, which is supposed to fix problems where 3.0 units would unexpectedly dump all their loaded content. You can get all the details from Apple's tech note.
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Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. Digg surfaces the best stuff as submitted and voted on by the community. Take the Tour to learn more.
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The widening probe of insider trading on Wall Street is expected to examine transactions at Steven A. Cohen's SAC, one of America's largest and most successful hedge funds.
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Gizmodo
First, the venerable Rubik's Cube recreated the masterworks of Da Vinci . Today's example, while not quite as grandiose, is still impressive. Ladies and Gents, the Space Invaders are here. And Sonic. And Pac-Man. Even President Obama makes an appearance, although I don't think Hope: The Video Game is out just yet. For reference, artist John ...
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El Salvador declares an emergency in five regions after at least 91 people die in floods caused by days of heavy rain.
This is some experimental code to discover interesting flickr photos based on your favorites. The concept works but it takes way too much time and API requests to fetch and process data.
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Here. Enjoy. It’s Sunday after all.
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Cliff Richard And T...
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Cliff Richard and The Shadows re-united for an arena tour to celebrate their 50th anniversary earlier this year. As part of Radio 2's Great British Songbook, here's a chance to enjoy Sir Cliff, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett in concert at Wembley Arena on Friday 23 October.
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The Iraqi parliament approves a crucial election law ahead of national polls due to be held in January 2010.
Democrats need to realize they appear overly sympathetic to fat-cat bankers, particularly because Republicans may not self-destruct.
This is an open event and there are no costs for attending. We're going to order some pizza so you might want to contribute a bit to the pizza fund, otherwise you are also welcome to bring your own snacks.
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Woke up to find the Phonon BugDay is going well. They're halfway through, but could still use some help with the second half! Also needed: someone with an external usb sound device and someone using KDE on MS-Windows. Join in, #kde-bugs on irc.freenode.net!
Contrary to our Ubuntu Party (next one will be in Paris on 28 and 29th November) opened to any kind of public and especially computer science non specialist, we also have at each release a dinner in Paris with few people more or less in the FLOSS ecosystem. 51 persons came this time and enjoying sharing good time with friends.
Zynga’s most recent Facebook game, FishVille, has temporarily been taken offline by Facebook for advertising violations. This is a relatively light slap on the wrist since the game only launched two days ago and had a couple of thousand users (Update: Zynga says FishVille had 875,000 users yesterday. wow). Zynga’s other games, ...
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