J Allard was the design brains behind almost everything cool that came out of Redmond in recent years, from the Xbox to the Zune. Now there’s a report that he may be resigning from the company because one of his favorite new projects, a tablet computer called Courier, got axed. Allard is the…
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Is Microsoft’s one-time star J Allard leaving the company?
Intel’s restrictions on its CPUs are thought to have been intended to prevent the netbook market from fully cannibalizing the notebook market. But according to Digitimes, Intel will lift the restrictions with the release of its N550 dual-core Atom processors. Intel appears ready to lift…
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Intel to Lift Atom Netbook Display Restrictions, Report Says
Did the sun rise this morning? Then there must be a new privacy scandal. Bringing today’s event are Facebook, MySpace (NWS), and some other social networking sites that have been sending data to advertisers in such a way as to let them uncover user identities and personal information
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Facebook and MySpace Beg Congress for Restrictions in Privacy Debacle
Apple has ended its long-running and highly successful “Get a Mac” ad campaign, and this week the company finally pulled the series of commercials from its website. Actor Justin Long first revealed in April that the ads, which began with his trademark “Hello, I’m a Mac” tagline, were finished…. 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ends the ‘Get A Mac’ campaign 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ends the ‘Get A Mac’ campaign
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Orange UK now have the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini down on their books as ‘Coming Soon’ and what is an interesting move is the fact it also shows as coming soon to PAYG!. The X10 Mini was announced back at this yeard Mobile World Congress where I was able to attend on behalf of Sony Ericsson and blog for them live from the event so got some hands on time with the Mini before its official announecment.
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X10 Mini Coming To Orange UK
Nokia E-series Phones are packed with a range of welcoming features. They are the smart phones well-known for their business oriented applications that come along with the mobility in communication. These E-series phones are common to high-end consumers and corporate users, as they enable them to track a range of business activities
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Nokia E-Series Phones – Most Powerful Business Handsets
The latest release of Google Android addresses several enterprise concerns and makes Android a more attractive business solution. Will Android become the new Windows Mobile of the business world?
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Is Android Froyo the update needed to encourage enterprise adoption?
Adobe’s Flash has been in the news a lot lately with Apple and Adobe going toe-to-toe. Adobe just released the public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android 2.2 devices and now we just need 2.2 devices to try it out.
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Adobe releases public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android 2.2 devices
Smartphone sales have continued to explode with analyst firm Gartner reporting an almost 50% increase in the first quarter of 2010. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, also states that.. “Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year.” Microsoft took a beating, with Android outperforming the Windows Mobile OS and pushing it into fourth place for the first time.
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Android knocks WinMo into fourth place according to stats
Sprint Hero owners can now at last get their hands on the highly anticipated Android 2.1 update . It’s available from the support site and gives enhanced corporate email support, HTC Sense improvements, better camera quality and all the Android 2.1 improvements (faster, more screen size support, improved Google Maps, Exchange support, live wallpapers and much more).
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Android 2.1 arrives for Sprint Hero
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system continues to stagnate as people wait for Windows Phone 7 and the latest data shows Google Android passing them up. Android actually had the largest percentage increase of all smartphone platforms.
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Google Android smacks down Windows Mobile in latest Gartner data
Hermeneutics One of the most puzzling features of the current unstoppable wave of political punditry that is flooding all channels and outlets at the moment (including this one of course) is the peculiar propensity of commentators to feel qualified to extrapolate from the election results the Manifest Will of Britain.
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Stalemate: PR and PR, Ice Cream, Bananas and Fudge
On the Mother Ship. a self-confessed Apple fanboy gets finger time with the ipad – and face time with Steve Jobs Article “Apple’s iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch” published on Thursday 1st April 2010 in TIME Magazine” – Time Magazine headline. It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where apple has been headquartered since 1993
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Apple’s iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch
Earlier today, Steve Jobs talked publicly about his life saving liver transplant for the first time at a press conference where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger introduced new legislation to encourage and make easier organ donation.
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Steve Jobs Talks About His Liver Transplant [VIDEO]
We wanted to tell you what Spike Jonze’s new web film I’m Here is all about, we really did, and not just because it reportedly has robots in it — though that was certainly a major factor in the decision. But after we crossed the virtual street to the virtual box office, we were informed that..
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Spike Jonze’s free web film features robot love, vodka, long wait times
There’s a lot of chatter going on right now about whether or not cut-and-paste and true multi-tasking will ever make it into Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)’s Windows Phone 7 Series platform. Well, today Microsoft themselves are getting a little more official – if just as vague – on the whole… IntoMobile – Windows Phone 7 emulator unlocked, shows off unseen goodies IntoMobile – Windows Phone 7 emulator hacked for full functionality SlashGear – Windows Phone 7 Series to get cut-and-paste, eventually
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Microsoft gets official on Windows Phone 7 cut-and-paste and unlocked emulator goodies
The company said that the new BCM56840 series gives up to 64 ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) or 16 ports of 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE). Such connectivity can now be deployed by medium-sized enterprises that could not normally afford such fast connections the company said…. IT Business Edge – Broadcom Launches Efficient, Fast Single-Chip Ethernet Switches
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Broadcom claims world’s fastest single-chip Ethernet switch
This week we’ve got a book hot off the presses for your weekly dose of entrepreneurial reading as 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are back with their second book in four months. Released earlier this month, Rework , a no-nonsense rethinking of how to successfully..
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Weekend Reading: Rework, by Fried and Hansson
Late last year, the Mariposa Working Group (comprised of Defence Intelligence, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Panda Security, and other international security experts and law enforcement agencies) worked together to bring down what is considered to be the largest botnet in history…. MobileBurn – 3,000 Vodafone HTC Magic Android smartphones infected with malware
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Malware-infected memory cards affect up to 3,000 Vodafone HTC Magic Android smartphones
Queensland has a new state-of-the-art advanced driving simulator that will help advance Australian road safety research and provide insights into driver behaviour. The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) is based at the Queensland University of Technology. The…
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Driving simulator helps advance Australian road safety research
Carr’s book, the Night of the Gun, is about that change, mostly. His story is one of the downtrodden man coming around to a sweeter life; classic. But what’s also striking is Carr’s self awareness
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Night of the Gun: Remembering Only What We Can Stand To Remember [Memoryforever]
I had pointed this out in a comment yesterday, but with so many press reports suggesting that Viacom’s filing found some sort of “smoking gun” in the YouTube emails concerning founders talking about “stealing” videos, it’s worth pointing out that Viacom appears to have taken these quotes totally… Silicon Alley Insider – Inside The He-Said, She-Said Of The Viacom-YouTube Dispute (GOOG, VIA) Wall Street Journal – The Numbers Behind The World’s Fastest Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed [MediaMemo]
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People Realizing That Viacom’s Filings Take YouTube Quotes Totally Out Of Context
According to the Merc, Jobs said he had been lucky to fly to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis – presumably in his private Gulfstream V executive jet – “within a four-hour window” to receive his donated liver. When Jobs returned from his medical leave and… AppleInsider – Steve Jobs teams with Calif
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Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform
Viacom has accused YouTube of looking the other way when clips from the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures were once plentiful on the site.(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)Thursday’s 200-page dump of court documents in the 3-year-old, $1 billion copyright fight between Viacom and Google’s YouTube was… TMC – Viacom Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google gets Juicy
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Reasons to care about Viacom vs. Google (FAQ)
The digital economy bill is a highly controversial bill. Many of us believe that it threatens to severely infringe fundamental human rights, by allowing the disconnection of internet accounts for alleged copyright infringement, and also by new ‘website blocking’ laws that could result in new ways..
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Open letter: Wash-up not appropriate for controversial disconnection proposals
Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ. Along the way, some pokes at the need to more digging into stats in general
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Stat Rant: Google Actually Trumps Facebook For News & Can’t We Measure Twitter Correctly?
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized to an elderly Brooklyn couple on Friday for about 50 door-pounding visits police made to their home resulting from a glitch in one of the department’s computers. Police used the address of Rose and and Walter Martin’s modest home as part of… New York Post – NYC cops sorry for pounding couple’s door 50 times
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Computer glitch prompts 50 raids on elderly couple’s home
Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new job as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the company said Friday. Mickos is staying in the open-source world but jumping on a newer computing trend — cloud… Wall Street Journal – Former MySQL Chief Mickos is Joining Eucalyptus [Voices]
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Ex-MySQL Chief Marten Mickos Lands New CEO Job
Orange have today confirmed our earlier story regarding the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Orange will have the exclusive on the white version of this handset when it appears at the start of April and it’ll be free to customers on selected pay monthly plans. The X10 is the first Android device from Sony Ericsson and has the Timescape and Mediascape interface.
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White Xperia X10 – Exclusive to Orange
As the world is mobile each and everyone is in need of an unimpeded browsing and media experience. More smart phones, blackberry, and uniquely designed business phones are available but still a gap exists and that too has been bridged by the recent launch of Apple iPad. Apple iPad is the first tablet computer that belongs Read More
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