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Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple calling tablet the iTablet? — That's right, y'all. We're back at it, and this time we've received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects. — Here are some iPhone OS 4.0 features, according to our guy:
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
‘Minor issues’ could delay $999 Apple tablet availability 'til June - report — While Apple's tablet is still expected to see a formal introduction at a media event next week, issues with battery life and durability could result in a June launch, an analyst said Tuesday.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Will Apple's Tablet Actually Be Called the iPad? New Trademarks Filed This Week — A lot has been said about the rumored Apple tablet, and after evidence was discovered that Apple was interested in the name “iSlate”, many have adopted that as the most likely name for Apple's new device.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:Who's Joining Steve Jobs for the Tablet Launch Next Week?
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Bill Gates Joins Twitter - Uses The Web Interface — Bill Gates has joined Twitter and is tweeting away using the web interface. — Twitter employee @caroline has confirmed this. — Of course, Bill Gates is the famed man from Microsoft who brought us a talking paperclip and Windows 1.0 pillow cases, if you remember that far back.
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TechCrunch:
Apple's Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical — This is a guest post from Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music locker company MP3tunes.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Evidence Found for Chinese Attack on Google — SAN FRANCISCO — An American computer security researcher has found what he says he believes is strong evidence of the digital fingerprints of Chinese authors in the software programs used in attacks against Google.
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AppleInsider:
Apple updates Boot Camp with Windows 7 support — Apple on Tuesday updated its Boot Camp software and issued new drivers and utilities to allow users to run Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. The Mac maker also issued its first security update of 2010, addressing 12 vulnerabilities.
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Lockheed Martin introduces ‘PC on a stick’ flash drive — yes, Lockheed Martin — Our coverage of Lockheed Martin here on Engadget normally focus on things like laser weapons or futuristic airships, but it looks like the mega-defense company is now trying its hand as something a little closer to home for us …
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Lauren Goode / Digits:
H-P Testing a Touchless “Wall of Touch” — Hewlett-Packard is testing out a new design of its TouchSmart technology that doesn't actually require customers to touch the screen. … The new design, called the “wall of touch”, is an interactive touch screen wall comprised of up to nine 43 inch to 46 inch …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Microsoft to Launch Zune Phone in Two Months? — Microsoft has long claimed that its mobile strategy is to provide a software solution, not devices. As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees of a McGraw-Hill (MHP) media conference last spring: … That being the case …
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Royal Pingdom:
The Internet is about to get a lot safer — DNS, the Domain Name System, is one of the major pillars of the Internet. It's a critical service, and without it we would all have to use IP addresses instead of handy domain names like “Pingdom.com” when we want to visit websites, send emails, and so on.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Report: 44% Of Google News Visitors Scan Headlines, Don't Click Through — Research firm Outsell has published its third annual News Users' report, which is based on a survey about the online and offline news preferences of 2,787 US news consumers. — The Outsell report unsurprisingly predicts ongoing …
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Twitter goldrush on the way. Old usernames to be released — Twitter tells us it is planning to release all of its old, neglected usernames from inactive accounts for others to grab - and some of them are bound to be in big demand. — Many early users of the service picked up short usernames …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Bing Maps Goes Silverlight — Microsoft just announced that it is taking the Bing Maps Sliverlight version out of beta and making it the default version for Bing Maps. The Bing Team is rolling this change out slowly. Within a few weeks, all users in the U.S. will see the Silverlight maps by default.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
How To Hide From Google — Hacker Moxie Marlinspike debuts a tool for using Google services while foiling its data collection techniques. — Google offers Web users a simple trade-off: Let the search giant track a substantial portion of your comings and goings around the Web, and it will offer you a free, superior online experience.
Steven Baker / The Official Google Blog:
Helping computers understand language — An irony of computer science is that tasks humans struggle with can be performed easily by computer programs, but tasks humans can perform effortlessly remain difficult for computers. We can write a computer program to beat the very best human chess players …
Max Chafkin / inc.com:
You've Been Yelped — Yelp, the rambunctious and burgeoning customer-review website, can make or break a small business. It can also drive a business owner slightly insane. — On October 30, 2009, Diane Goodman logged on to Yelp.com. Like many business owners in cities across the country …
Agence France Presse:
US IT brands may be gone in 20 years: Acer founder — TAIPEI — US computer brands may be gone in 20 years' time due to an inability to produce the low-priced PCs the market demands, the Taiwanese founder of computer maker Acer was quoted as saying Tuesday.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Microsoft confirms plan to release out-of-band IE update — I just spoke with George Stathakopoulos, General Manager of Trustworthy Computing Security at Microsoft, regarding the ongoing security issue affecting Internet Explorer. (For background, see my earlier post, It's time to stop using IE6.)
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MSRC, VUPEN Security, The Register, iGeneration, Computerworld, The Microsoft Blog, BetaNews, TechCrunch and SANS Internet Storm Center …
Bing / Search Blog:
Bing Autosuggest - Keeping You Current — Over the past couple months the Bing team has been working hard to make your search journey a bit easier. One of the ways we have tried to do that is through improvements to autosuggest. Autosuggest helps you get to results faster by suggesting words …
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Don Clark / Digits:
Firefox Soars on Germany's Browser Warning — Germans appear to be heeding the advice of their government and seeking out alternatives to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. — Mozilla, creators of the Firefox browser, say they've seen a significant surge in downloads of the software …
Maisie Ramsay / Wireless Week:
Verizon Cuts Devices From $350 ETF List — Verizon Wireless has discretely cut ten handsets from its list of devices subject to a $350 Early Termination Fee (ETF). No official annoucement has been made on the change, but the carrier's list of so-called “Advanced Devices” …
New York Times:
Fearing Hackers Who Leave No Trace — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The crown jewels of Google, Cisco Systems or any other technology company are the millions of lines of programming instructions, known as source code, that make its products run. — If hackers could steal those key instructions and copy them …
Joe Marchese / MediaPost:
Why Conan O'Brien Can't Go Just Internet — Yet — This post in 140 characters or less: Conan can't go direct to Internet, because we can't figure out how to pay him http://bit.ly/4fL8V (via @joemarchese) — Conan's fans love him. When Conan resurfaces with his new show …
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / PEG on Tech:
Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous's ass — Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. — But now Tumblr has been an Alexa Top 100 site for a while and is still growing strong.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The iPhone & the Lack of Voice Over 3G: Alternative Theory — Apple and AT&T have come under continued criticism for not allowing VoIP over today's 3G mobile broadband connections when using the iPhone. So much so that the matter got the attention of the FCC back in August, leading to explanations from Apple and Ma Bell.
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TmoNews:
T-Mobile SIM Unlock Policy Changes — If you're one that travels quite a bit you probably unlock your T-Mobile handset so you can use it overseas with another GSM carrier, and save yourself some of hard earned cash. Thanks to our trusty tipster, starting January 21st eligible FlexPay …
Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
2010 CIO priorities shift to lightweight services, virtualization — Post-recession IT budgets aren't increasing, but the seeds are being sown for a different kind of IT — As businesses begin to exit the recession, priorities within IT are moving away from the large-scale enterprise deployments …
