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sciencentral.com:
Super Battery — Ever wish you could charge your cellphone or laptop in a few seconds rather than hours? As this ScienCentral News video explains, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a battery that could do just that, and also might never need to be replaced.
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USA Today:
iPods knock over beer mugs — That iPods are "in" on college campuses might not surprise you. That Apple's portable music players are more popular than beer? Now that's surprising. — Beer traditionally has had the biggest buzz with college students: Seventy-five percent consider drinking beer …
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Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld:
AOL subscribers up in arms over e-mail ads — Throngs of users threaten to say goodbye forever to AOL because of its decision to display ads with e-mail messages sent to paid subscribers — Millions have canceled their AOL LLC subscriptions in recent years, but Barbara Borchers has remained …
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Mike / Techdirt:AOL Keeps Working Overtime To Drive Away Subscribers
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Washington Post:
No Tolls on The Internet — Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet. It will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable …
Joe Beaulaurier / The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog:
REVIEW: New Yahoo! Photos Beta — An overhaul of the Yahoo! Photos property, the most substantial improvement to the property since Yahoo! Photos was initially launched in 2000, will soon be rolled out to Yahoo! accounts worldwide. Unlike the Y! Mail Beta, users will not have the option …
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darkreading.com:
Social Engineering, the USB Way — We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the social engineering button. In the past, they'd had problems with employees sharing passwords and giving up information easily.
Tim Porter / First Draft:
WHY TIMESSELECT IS THE RIGHT THING FOR THE TIMES TO DO — Mark Glaser writes in his PBS column, MediaShift, that the New York Times should put an end to TimesSelect, the paid-content option of its online edition that keeps op-ed columnists and the archives behind a subscription wall.
Bloomberg:
Intel Tells Customers It Will Cut Prices by 60% to Gain Share — June 9 (Bloomberg) — Customers of Intel Corp. said the world's biggest computer-chip maker plans to reduce prices on Pentium processors by as much as 60 percent to reclaim market share from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Reuters:
Hotel: Put that 'CrackBerry' down, you addict! — CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) — BlackBerry addicts have a crack at freedom when they check into one Chicago hotel: the manager will put the communications devices and others like them under lock and key for guests who want a break.
Markus / The Paradigm Shift:
Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future — I was poking around alexa today http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_ sites?cc=CA&ts_mode=country&lang= none and saw that Plentyoffish is now a top 30 site In Canada ahead of all other dating sites. http://ranking.websearch.com/ SiteInfo.aspx? …
Soham / SnapStream Blog:
Beyond TV 4.3 Delivers More TV! — When I first built my HTPC three years ago with a 40GB hard drive, I thought that I was doing pretty good. Analog recordings are a manageable size, and I could always ShowSqueeze them from MPEG2 to WMV each night. I could easily store a couple weeks …
Jim Rapoza / eWEEK.com:
Working Model of $100 Laptop Steals MITX Spotlight — At an event put on to honor the top technology innovations from Massachusetts companies, a technology designed for users far from the halls of MIT and Harvard stole all the thunder. — At the MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Making virtual worlds more lifelike — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Ever played an online game like "World of Warcraft" or "EverQuest" and wished the expressions on your avatar's face looked more realistic or that it was easier to communicate with other players? — If so, then a team of researchers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zooomr 2.0 Screenshots, New Features — Zooomr, the company launched by 17 year old Kristopher Tate (he's now 18) in March, will be releasing a new beta version 2.0 sometime around the end of June. The biggest focus of the new release will be increased stability and speed …
Wilson Rothman / Time:
Apple 13-inch MacBook — Our first look at Apple's newest notebook — It's been just another typical couple of weeks for Apple. First, it opened its latest New York City store, complete with enormous glass cube and Dr. Evil-style topless elevator. Then came the announcement of a Nike product …
Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Microsoft plans better disclosures of tool — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.
