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Social Network Hi5 Gets Its Game On – BusinessWeek

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:52 +0000

Social Network Hi5 Gets Its Game On
BusinessWeek
After a multiyear struggle to keep users from defecting to rivals, the social network is reinventing itself as a social gaming and entertainment site. …
Hi5 aims to beat Facebook's 'schizophrenic' game strategyStrategyEye

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FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband Test app for iPhone, Android and the home

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:16 +0000

We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not this time, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with its own Consumer Broadband Test app, designed to probe network latencies and download speeds on your home connection or mobile device. Part of the hallowed National Broadband Plan, this will furnish the FCC will useful data to show the discrepancy between advertised and real world broadband speeds, and will also — more importantly perhaps — serve as a neat way for users to directly compare network performance in particular areas. It’s available on the App Market and App Store right now, with versions for other operating systems coming up, so why not get with the program and give it a test drive?

FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband Test app for iPhone, Android and the home originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Entourage Edge review

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:12 +0000

Is it an Android tablet? An e-reader? Just a sweet gadget with two screens? Truth is the Entourage Edge is a little bit of everything, and that’s exactly why we’ve been so intrigued with the “dualbook” since we fondled it at CES. Finally ready to make its shipping debut, the $499 dual screen device is aimed at students, but really it’s for anyone interested in a combination 9.7-inch E Ink reading / note-taking experience and a 10.1-inch Android web tablet. It’s sounded very cool to us for quite a while, but there’s always a difference between hype and reality. Does the Edge live up to its promise or attempt to do too much? The only place to find out is after the break in our full review.

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Entourage Edge review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iCub gets upgraded with tinier hands, better legs

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:03:23 +0000

We’re pretty familiar with iCub — the humanoid robot modeled on a two year old — around here. Just because we know him well, though, doesn’t really change the fact that we get the slightest chill running down our spine every time we’re reminded of his existence. Well, iCub’s getting an upgrade which includes newer, lighter legs which will be more impervious to damage, and smaller hands. That’s right, the youngster, who is about toddler-sized, has had until now, the hands of an eight-year old: pretty embarrassing for the little fellow. The new hands are the right size, and have the correct dexterity as well. Regardless, he’s still a little creepy, but as you’ll see in the video after the break, impressive none the less.

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iCub gets upgraded with tinier hands, better legs originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 (Lucie Morillon/Reporters Without Borders)

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:21 +0000

Lucie Morillon / Reporters Without Borders:
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 — The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general trend is that a growing number of countries are attemptimg to tighten their control of the Net, but at the same time …

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Apple iPad — model A1337 — phreaks the FCC

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:16 +0000

A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC’s system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch which which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of timing its FCC filings perfectly so that virtually nothing is revealed before Cupertino wants it to be, and frankly, you’re not going to get much here that you didn’t already know — the photographs (both external and internal) and the user manual are both still under confidentiality. Both units were tested for WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth, while one — model number A1337 — adds in GSM 850 / 1900 and UMTS 850 / 1900, so it appears that Apple has bundled all of its 3G and non-3G models into just two filings regardless of storage capacity. We caught A1337 flipping through an old issue of 2600, so for all we know, it socially engineered its way to FCC approval — whatever it takes to make that late-April launch window, right?

Apple iPad — model A1337 — phreaks the FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. … (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:06 +0000

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been — Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol.

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Obama to ‘aggressively protect’ intellectual property

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:52 +0000

The president says intellectual property is country’s “single greatest asset” and must be protected from piracy and counterfeiting.

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iPad ‘Mute’ button magically turns into ’screen rotation lock’ (Seth Weintraub/9 to 5 Mac)

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:00 +0000

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPad ‘Mute’ button magically turns into ‘screen rotation lock’ — The iPad is magic! That was then, this is now! Voilà!! — Another new fun fact: the iPad can also play Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

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When malware strikes via bad ads on good sites

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:04 +0000

Who is responsible for malware in ads, Web site owners or ad networks and delivery firms?

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Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:12 +0000

It’s almost too much to take in all at once. Sure, the $1,999 Cintiq 21UX pen display is priced out of reach for most of us mere mortals who “don’t draw good,” but the pure lustworthiness of this unit sure makes us try to forget that inconvenient fact. The expanded movability of Wacom’s latest is commendable, the pen input is naturally great, the screen is beautiful, and even those new rear-mounted touchpads seem helpful. It would take someone much more familiar with professional draw-ist-ing to really speak to the more specific merits of the 21UX, but from a mere standpoint of inspiring irrational desire in our hearts, Wacom seems to have done a pretty good job this time out. Check out a video of the screen in action after the break.

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Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony Japan busts out Mickey Mouse-ified S Series Walkmans

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:44 +0000

Sony Japan’s just outed three newly styled S Series Walkmans for the Disney fanatic. That’s right, Mickey & Minnie Mouse can now be found gracing the back of your PMP — if that’s what you’re into, of course. The S640 and S740 models can be chosen in their wide variety of hues, then emblazoned with one of the three designs featuring Mickey, Minnie, or the pair together. Unfortunately for us, the engraving of Disney characters on Walkmans remains an underground, unofficial pastime: the Disney S Series Walkmans are available only in Japan at this time.

Sony Japan busts out Mickey Mouse-ified S Series Walkmans originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Qualcomm’s Multi-Fold Device Can Replace Your iPad And iPhone (Go Rumors)

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:56 +0000

Go Rumors:
Qualcomm’s Multi-Fold Device Can Replace Your iPad And iPhone — In digital media circles, there are traditionally three screens for user consumption : the TV, mobile phone and desktop. This conventionality is seen to be the primary reason why manufacturers were not comfortable in developing …

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Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ‘70 to 80 percent’ of sales

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:34 +0000

Lenovo may mostly be associated with laptops and all-business desktops these days, but it looks like the company’s CEO hopes that won’t be the case for too much longer. Speaking with the AP, Yang Yuanqing dropped the somewhat surprising statement that he expects mobile internet products to account for between 70 and 80 percent of the company’s sales “within three to five years.” Of course, Yang didn’t specify exactly what constitutes a “mobile internet product” for Lenovo, but we’d assume it includes things like the company’s new IdeaPad S10-3t (and possibly even traditional laptops), or else it really has its work cut out for itself. He further went on to add that Lenovo is focused on a “protect and attack” strategy over the longer term, noting that while China accounts for half of its global sales at the moment, it’s now facing increased competition from the likes of Dell and HP both at home and abroad.

Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for ‘70 to 80 percent’ of sales originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Facebook calls on ex-detective to name social networking site – The Guardian

Tech Blogger — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:03:22 +0000

Sofia Echo

Facebook calls on ex-detective to name social networking site
The Guardian
Facebook has called on the ex-detective who posed as a 14-year-old girl online on a "well-known social network" and said he was approached by men making …
Newspaper faces court over Facebook sleaze errorNetworkWorld.com
Facebook Could Sue DailyMail Over Libellous ArticleITProPortal
I read old media about the internet and what followed will sicken youSofia Echo
V3.co.uk -Techdirt -BBC News (blog)
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