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• Could Netflix Streaming be coming to the DS?
Earlier this month, we reported to you that Netflix was investigating, via a customer survey, bringing their streaming movie service to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now if what we are seeing is true, it would appear that those aren’t the only small screen devices that could be getting streaming movies in the near future. The [...]
• Nvidia launches Case for Innovation to fight Intel
Intelsucks.com was already registered, so Nvidia launched their “Case for Innovation” microsite.
As you probably know, the two companies are not getting along too well lately. Intel has antitrust problems going on right now which Nvidia is taking part in and Nvidia has also taken serious issue with Intel preventing them from selling chipsets for Intel’s [...]
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• Practice rock-paper-scissors alone with this DIY game glove
Rock-paper-scissors, I imagine, was one of those games created when people were looking for fun and competition but lacked any kind equipment (or even a deck of cards for that) matter to play a game. But as simple as a game rock-paper-scissors is, however, some people take the game very seriously and it is even considered a sport [...]
• Green Day: Rock Band set for June 8 release
As Rock Band fans wait for the series’ third installment, the release date for Green Day: Rock Band approaches. On June 8, the game will be available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, MTV Games and Harmonix announced Thursday in a press release.
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• Facebook and Google Buzz sued for infringing on mobile social networking patent
Sorry Google Buzz and Facebook. It seems the idea for mobile social-networking was already patented by another company. In fact, it was Wireless Ink Corp. who was issued the patent in October of last year.
Wireless Ink operates a service called Winksite which, as you would suspect, facilitates social networking over a mobile device and currently [...]
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• Happy Hour Watch tells you when it’s time to drink
As both a man and an alcoholic, constantly having an instrument for the opening of beer bottles on my trembling, delirium tremensing capapace is a priority.
I used to just use my back molars, but when those grinded away to nothingt, I quickly learned how to open a beer with a second, unopened bottle. But that [...]
• Amazon to improve the Kindle’s browser
Users could be able to browse the whole web with the Kindle’s built-in web browser, including popular web apps that have become a part of our daily routine, WebMonkey observed Tuesday. The publication pointed its finger at a one-month old Amazon job posting seeking a browser engineer who will be working at Amazon’s Lab126 unit [...]
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• Facebook and Twitter see triple digit growth in mobile visitors
We all know it’s not uncommon these days that people access sites like Facebook and Twitter from their mobile phone. What we may not know is how much the practice has grown over the past year. What’s your guess? Is it 10%, 25%, 50% growth? Well, hold on to your hats.
According to a study performed [...]
• iPhone network congestion opens market for cable providers
Dropped calls, network congestion, and sluggish mobile data speeds could become a thing of the past for the people owning data-hungry smartphones (like the iPhone) if Time Warner Cable Inc. sells the nation’s carriers like AT&T and Verizon on its wireless backhaul service.
The technology lets wireless operators transfer data using Time Warner’s cables laid underground [...]
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• District 9 wins the Oscar for most BitTorrented movie
Okay. We realize that there is no such category in the Academy Awards, but in these modern times, where movies could find themselves on the Internet even before they are officially released in the theater, perhaps there should be.
Filesharing and BitTorrent blog, TorrentFreak, put together a list of the most illegally downloaded Oscar “Best Picture” [...]
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• YouTube translates audio into captions automatically
No one can deny that YouTube has an impressive following. Still, Google knows that the video website hasn’t been able to serve all those who may visit it including the hearing impaired. The company took a step toward addressing this shortcoming when it launched automatic captions to a small group back in November.
As the name [...]
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• T-Mobile gets kudos from J.D. Power for retail customer satisfaction
T-Mobile USA may not be tops in total subscribers or revenue when compared to its larger competitors including Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T. Where they do have them beat is in wireless retail customer satisfaction according to J.D. Power and Associates. Luckily for T-Mobile USA, there isn’t a map for that so it will be [...]
• Popular Science magazine archive now free online, stretches back to 1872
Popular Science Magazine has been a staple for geeks wanting to learn about scientific endeavors for over 137 years since its first issue was published way back in 1872. In more recent decades, fans of the magazine could tell you how the publication is handy reference for learning about new technologies in our world and also features great gadget [...]
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• Rupert Murdoch arrives to the iPad rescue
Rest assured, you’ll be able to subscribe to your favorite newspaper and read it on the iPad.
Most watchers, this author included, thought digital publishing would remain just a buzzword due to the lack of big newspaper announcements at the January iPad unveiling. While the New York times executives did give an on-stage demo of an [...]
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• Windows 7 sells 90 million copies in first four months
If you see pictures of Steve Ballmer wearing a huge grin across his face, he’s probably thinking about Windows 7. Since its release on October 22nd last year, Microsoft’s latest operating system has sold 90 million copies.
Peter Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, made the announcement during the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference yesterday.
Such [...]
• Super Talent announce USB 3.0 encrypted SuperCrypt flash drive
Super Talent, the California based memory manufacturer and distributor, has announced a new, encrypted USB 3.0 flash drive.
The SuperCrypt drive supports AES hardware encryption with two options, and is supported by the STT encryption utility for passwords. Option one comes in the form of 128-bit ECB encryption on standard SuperCrypt drives. Option two is 256-bit [...]
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