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Apple buys a map service to compete with google maps. Apple purchased place base its also called pushpin and its a map place just like google maps.google released a version of its latitude mobile application for the i phone

Ford put new applictaions so they can hook up smart phones applications threw voice-command feature of the Sync in-car software and quipped with the latest Ford interface, called MyFord Touch.

**IBM Research jumps into genetic sequencing**
Big Blue hopes its electronic automation technology will give people and doctors individual genetic records for less than $1,000.

**Smoking gun found in Viacom Vs. YouTube case?**
YouTube's internal e-mails show employees and managers knew about copyright content, but chose to leave the material on the site. = = = = =**Verizon CTO advocates for metered broadband pricing**= Lynch said that Verizon is spending $17 billion this year to build out its F.I.O.S network, maintain wireless networking, begin wireless broadband, and expand its global network. =** With outage, Sidekick service loses its footing **= A prolonged outage for T-Mobile's gadget users gets worse as Microsoft's Danger unit says their lost Sidekick data may be gone forever. =** LED TVs **= Many big TV makers are making LED TV's the latest and greatest flat screen.

**Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download tool** Consumers wanted windows 7 net-books, but there is no optical drive, so Microsoft has a download version, then they used open license code. Microsoft wanted downloadable windows 7 but they didn't use GNU, so they had to pull down the tool and recode it, then you can now download it.

I think that it will be hard to download them.

=Palm chief has "never even used" an iPhone=

Palm chief Jon Rubinstein in an [|interview]at CES asserted that he doesn't compare his company's products against those of Apple's. He notes that the company's executives "don’t pay that much attention" to their rivals in nearby Cupertino and that he personally hasn't owned an iPhone to compare against

===[|CES: LG's DP570MH combo unit set to become first Mobile DTV released] [|obile DTV technology is different from the over-the-air signals you can pull in with a standard ATSC digital TV tuner and antenna. The key to Mobile TV is that you can pick up signals while you're moving in a car or even a fast train. According to LG, the new Mobile DTV standard allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.4 Megabit-per-second DTV channel] ===

=**How the iPhone Could Reboot Education**=

ACU university wanted to change education but they were afraid too because of abuse and the useage of applications and how much money they have to use for the wifi. They did it anyway an worked the program, they had sucess and enhanced the program and continued with the buying of the iphones or itouch and there going to upgrade every two years. The students enhanced better learning but limits of money the students didnt want too pay and there still using online wikis and there using podcasts.

=Dynasty denied, Google rethinks China=

This has always been a company with a moral pulse, one that in its early days attracted a certain sort of idealistic engineer who truly believed the world could be made a better place by a responsible corporation that efficiently spread information and technology around the world.The collision of those two forces led Google into what the company founders may eventually come to consider as its worst decision: to self-censor search results in China for almost four years in hopes of improving overall access to information.

=Five things to expect at Apple's next event= A large-screen device with no physical keyboard certainly isn't going to be for making phone calls or word processing. The easiest assumption is that video and music will be two of the most important applications at the center of the tablet's purpose. In regards to music, there's been some speculation that the tablet is the reason Apple developed iTunes LP in the first place. It's a more in-depth multimedia experience for full albums, and while it works on a laptop or PC, it would appear to be a better fit for a touch-screen device with a large screen, which is what a tablet will be.

=Apple, labels talk music in the cloud= Apple's managers haven't revealed many details about their plans but did discuss offering iTunes users a means to store copies of their music  libraries on Apple's servers. Apple's song downloads apparently aren't affected. Apple has told some music executives that they see the streaming feature as a "value add" that could help stimulate download sales.

=Malware and social network attacks surge in '09=

The volume of spam shot up last year to more than 200 billion messages each day, or 80 percent to 90 percent of all inbound e-mail sent to organizations, said M86. Spam carrying malware also surged in the second half of the year, hitting 3 billion each day compared with 600 million per day in the first half of 2009. The vast majority of spam is now sent through botnets hiding on infected computers--the second half of 2009 alone saw 78 percent of all spam triggered by the top five botnets, such as Rustock and Pushdo. Malware is trying to stop all the virus and all of the spam so that it wont mess up the computers and laptops because malware is a anti viral system that is free so you can clean up your computer

=When good game consoles go bad= **Xbox 360** DRM is attached to every piece of content acquired through Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace. This includes Xbox Originals, Xbox Live arcade titles, video content from the Zune marketplace, and video game add-on content. Content licenses are tied to both the console and the user's gamertag. This means you can use that content on any console, as long as you're signed in with your Xbox Live gamertag. However, you cannot simply transfer content to a console and play it if you're another user without first using **[|Microsoft's license transfer tool]**. This can transfer the license for that content from one console to another, and can only be done once every 12 months. Users also have a strict 30 minutes to start and finish the process before that transfer session expires, and requires doing it again. There is also a license of sorts attached to game save files. This requires a user to be logged in with their Xbox Live gamertag to load a saved game if it's being run on another console. PlayStation 3 Despite the whole **[|CD rootkit fiasco]** a few years back, Sony's PlayStation 3 has one of the most lenient DRM systems in place when it comes to sharing game content between systems. Users can share a game they've purchased on the PlayStation store on up to five different PS3 consoles. Though if there is a multiplayer component, all other copies of it will be locked down when one of those boxes is in use for an online match. Similar to Microsoft, PS3 game saves are associated to a particular user profile, which means you can't swap files with friends.

=Ads to blame for malware in Facebook's FarmTown?=

The 9.6 million players of the Facebook game FarmTown are being warned about fake security warnings popping up that are designed to mislead people into paying for antivirus protection they don't need. "We are aware and have reported to the developers that many of our players have encountered the malware/spyware while on the FarmTown Site," the moderator of a user forum for FarmTown maker SlashKey**[|warned]** over the weekend. "We believe at this time that it is harmless to your computer and a result of one or more of the ads on the site, but you should NOT follow any links to any software claiming to 'clean your system.'" Sophos' Graham Cluley said it appeared that third-party advertising displayed underneath the FarmTown playing window is to blame. "In all likelihood, hackers have managed to poison some of the adverts that are being served to FarmTown by the outside advert provider," Cluley wrote **[|on his blog]**. "Rather than SlashKey simply asking its players to report offending adverts when they appear, it might be sensible for the company to disable third-party adverts appearing alongside FarmTown until the problem is fixed."

=Netflix brings streaming to all Wii consoles=

Instant-streaming discs are on their way to all Netflix subscribers who requested one for their **[|Nintendo Wii]**, the online video rental service said in a **[|blog post]** Monday. Wii owners who have been waiting for the ability to view movies and television shows on their Wii consoles via Netflix can expect to receive the discs within the next few days. After getting the disc, they need only to insert it into the Wii to access all the content on Neflix's streaming service. Netflix streaming for the Wii was **[|originally announced in January]**. The company officially**[|brought streaming to the Wii last month]** when it announced that some of its subscribers would be able to test the service on their consoles.

All I have to say is "haha". I can understand why people would want to jailbreak their iPhone, more functionality sure, but it basically ruins your system(potentially; as mentioned.)
 * Think twice about jailbreaking -**

Sounds like they're trying to make these things exactly the opposite of netbooks.
 * New wave of netbooks -**

It all sounds good, but I don't see why someone would want a 'smartbook' over a smartphone. The only advantages are a bigger screen and keyboard, and you lose most of the portability. The fact AT&T is planned to sell these also concerns me.

Google Editions will offer digital books for sale through its Web site in late June or July, according to a report in **[|The Wall Street Journal]** quoting Google's Chris Palma, strategic partner development manager for Google Books. The move will open up a new distribution channel for digital-book publishers and give Amazon and Apple a new competitor in the emerging digital-book market. A Google representative confirmed that the company plans to launch Google Editions in the middle of this year, but declined to be more specific on the timing. One key difference between Google's approach to digital-book sales and the approaches used by Amazon and Apple is that Google customers will not be able to download books sold through the store: they'll be accessible exclusively through a Web browser. That has some advantages for Google, in that it side-steps messy DRM (digital rights management) questions and allows it to offer the service for any device, rather than having to negotiate deals. However, it means Google will have to create a mobile version of Google Editions that can support offline reading. It might also change the pricing equation, given that customers wouldn't actually have their own copy of the books they purchase. Google declined to comment on the pricing structure for Google Editions, although Google's Dan Clancy told **[|The New Yorker]** in April that it would let publishers set the prices for their books.
 * [|Google announced plans last year]** to offer public-domain books for free in the Epub format, and the report did not specify what format it will use for the first-run in-print books it sells through Google Editions.

=Report: Google Android surpasses iPhone in U.S.=

Ross Rubin, an analyst with NPD, attributed the strong growth in Android to the fact that devices using Android software are now available on all major U.S. carrier networks. Verizon Wireless, in particular, has helped fuel success for the operating system. Verizon **[|launched a major marketing campaign for devices]**, such as the Motorola Droid, last year. And Verizon, the largest U.S. wireless operator, has also been including Android devices in its buy-one-get-one free smartphone promotion. T-Mobile USA also features Android phones as its flagship smartphones, and AT&T **[|has begun selling Android phones]**. "The wireless carriers in the U.S. are still the king makers in the mobile market," said Rubin. "Verizon in particular is what is making the Android so successful right now with its promotions and marketing."

=Google releases add-on to block its own analytics=

The new [|Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on] stops the flow of certain data from your PC whenever you visit a site that uses Google Analytics. Web sites insert Google Analytics' JavaScript code into their pages to capture the IP address, browser version, operating system, ISP, and similar items from visiting PCs. That data is sent to Google and then accessible through a Web site's free Google Analytics (GA) account.

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=Secrets of Apple's customer success =

Apple for seven years in a row they have been the best competitors in the pc world. Apple is still somewhat uniquely positioned with Macs, the iPad, [|iPhone] , and the [|iPod] ," he said. "There's a plethora of IT products that have been integrated together easily, and Apple has been able to capture 'IT' writ large, rather than just personal computers."

=How the iPhone could get to Verizon =

rumors have begun [|regaining momentum] this year. It seems like every week there's a new angle, a [|fresh theory] , or suddenly [|uncovered factoid] that points to Apple finally opening up the iPhone to another carrier in the U.S. besides AT&T, and specifically Verizon, which is the U.S. largest carrier. None of it has been confirmed and no one has gone on the record saying when or if it would happen.

=<span style="border-bottom-color: #8c0000; border-bottom-style: solid; color: #8c0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 27px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 190%/normal Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">An AT&T customer service horror story = people that have been paying AT&T After more than three years of paying for AT&T phone service solely for the purpose of getting DSL, I have come to learn that the phone service is completely unnecessary. My aggravating (and embarrassing) path to that knowledge should serve as a lesson for companies in how not to do customer service if you want to retain your customer

=<span style="border-bottom-color: #8c0000; border-bottom-style: solid; color: #8c0000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 27px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 190%/normal Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">RIM unveils its tablet, the 'PlayBook' 9-29-10 =

Lazaridis said that the device is "enterprise ready" and that it will fit in with the company's existing server architecture. The company said in a press release that it plans on "working with developers and select corporate customers next month to begin development and early testing efforts." <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Of note, the initial version of the PlayBook appears not to ship with a 3G or 4G cellular antenna. Instead, users are expected to pair the device with their BlackBerry phones (via Bluetooth) to enable data connectivity when out of range of a Wi-Fi connection. The company's press release says it "intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft both sued Motorola in U.S. District Court in Washington and brought a complaint before the International Trade Commission. Microsoft alleges Motorola infringes on nine Microsoft patents related to key smartphone experiences such as syncing e-mail, calendar, and contacts, and notifying applications about changes in signal strength and battery power, Microsoft said. The complaint cites <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Motorola's Droid 2 phone] as an example. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Google fired back at Oracle yesterday in their dispute over Java, claiming that Oracle had once criticized the licensing policies it now seeks to uphold. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The formal answer to <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Oracle's complaint over Google's alleged infringement of patents] related to Java made its way into the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California late yesterday evening. Oracle, wielding patents it acquired along with Sun Microsystems in 2009, claimed in August that Google's implementation of the Dalvik virtual machine in Android--among other things--violated as many as seven patents. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows Phone 7 debuts: One phone won't rule them all **

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ITRI has found a way, though, to create a display backing material that is all these things during manufacture, but becomes flexible when the building is finished. It's a polymer material that can be sprayed onto a glass backing and that maintains its properties (it doesn't discolor, for example) while the rest of the display is being deposited and built up on top of it. When the displays are done, they can be peeled right off the glass. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple CEO <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Steve Jobs' ramblings] during the October 18 earnings conference call are well documented. But to recap excerpts of the homily he delivered on the sins of a 7-inch design: "Apple has done extensive user testing and we really understand this stuff...There are clear limits on how close you can place things on a touchscreen, which is why we think 10 inch is the minimum screen size to create great tablet apps," he said. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Jobs continued. "One naturally thinks that a 7-inch screen would offer 70 percent of the benefits of a 10-inch screen...this is far from the truth. Seven-inch screens are 45 percent as large as an iPad," Jobs said. "This size isn't sufficient for making great tablet apps."

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On a call with reporters, Gladden emphasized the improvements Dell had made in the quarter. The company's large enterprise, small and medium business, and public sector divisions all saw growth greater than 20 percent during the quarter. The consumer business is the only one that continues to lag, increasing its revenue just 4 percent. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple's iOS 4.2 update for the **<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|iPad] ** is coming, and unless you're inconsolable over the decision to change the screen rotation lock switch into a mute switch, this free update is nothing but win. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">We've already run though the nuts and bolts of the update in last week's **<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|4.2 Gold Master blog post and gallery] **. This week, we figured we'd sweeten the deal with a brief hands-on video overview, as well.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Facebook has been tightening its web of social connections and intricate chronicling of activities through a series of sweeping product announcements over the course of the past few months: from Facebook Places, which brought <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|geolocation to the site for the first time], to the enhanced <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|messaging client] to the "<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|friendship pages] " that detail two-way interactions. The redesigned profile pages, in comparison, are a relatively light addition.

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Access to Hollywood content is also baked into the chip--a technology called Intel Insider. "This will unlock premium high-definition content, like movies, to your PC," Kilroy said. "We've gone out and engaged with the studios. So, you'll see Warner Bros. and Fox at launch [of Sandy Bridge] and several other studios to come. They're eagerly embracing this platform as a distribution means for premium high-end content--as Internet content [offered] directly to the end user." <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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The specs? Nothing unexpected. The Galaxy Tab runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and features a 7-inch TFT display with 1,024x600 WSVGA resolution. It weighs 13 ounces and is less than half and inch thick for tossing in a pocket or purse. The Galaxy Tab includes 16GB of internal storage and has microSD expansion for up to 32GB of additional storage. It also has a rear-facing 3 megapixel camera for taking pictures on the go, and a front-facing 1.3-megapixel shooter and camcorder for video cha

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-32254_1-20027470-283.html?tag=mncol%3bcnetRiver

<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Stopping illegal file sharing a low priority for DOJ?

<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Is the commercial pirating of films and music online harder to prosecute? Are media companies hurt by this as much as they say? (The credibility of the studies that film and music sectors have cited on the impacts of piracy were called into question by the U.S. Government Accountability Office last year.) How much support in Washington do entertainment companies possess?

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What happens when the iPad outsells the Mac 1-24-11

But even though it sells more iPads, Apple still rakes in more money overall on Macs than the touch-screen tablets: $5.4 billion in revenue on desktops and laptops, $4.6 billion from iPads. But at the rate things are going--and with a second iPad coming out in the next few months--it's not difficult to imagine that very soon Apple will be make more money on iPads than Macs. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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i agree with this because every business needs a computer a printer and a smartphone. the reason why i am saying this is because if you dont have a computer its a lot harder too keep track of pay stubs and business with other companies so thats why you have a printer so you can print this all out and have it all organized. The smartphone would be used so you can take care of business on the phone so if your not near a computer you can use the smartphone so you wont have too worry an hurry too get too a computer.

<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> To avert Internet crisis, the IPv6 scramble begins <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Leslie Daigle, chief technology officer of the <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Internet Society], a standards and advocacy group, likens the situation to a changing separation of railroad tracks. Trains for one can't travel on tracks for the other, and moving data between the networks is, in effect, as onerous as unloading and reloading train <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|cars] ' cargo.

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The Verizon Iphone

the Verizon iphone has different qualities then the at&t one because the verizon one is a little bit faster then the iphone is and they both have different features.

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Random people people phones can automatically turn on when there turned off and peoples phones can know more then we all expect and it can pick up noises and listen too everything you are saying and what you are doing and this happens more with smart phones.

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<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The White House <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|estimates] that the auctions would raise $27.8 billion over the next decade. Obama has proposed that $10.7 billion of that be spent on wireless networks for police, fire, and other public safety agencies; $5 billion be spent on a "4G buildout in rural areas"; and $3 billion be spent on "basic research" and development of wireless networks.

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Math education app

IBM's Watson bores as 'Jeopardy' big shot Sherlock

Watson had been created by human beings who pride themselves in their ability to teach a machine, rather than a child, to be as smart as they are. So why did they not think about giving Watson a little character? A shock of long, green hair, perhaps. Oversize purple ears would have been a plus. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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V Cast Music app gets an Android update <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> If you ever find yourself wanting an alternative to the Amazon MP3 Store on Android (though we can't quite imagine why), you can now consider <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|the V Cast Music application] if you're a Verizon customer. You can get both full song downloads and ring tones, and song prices range from $0.69 to $1.29 for DRM-free MP3s. You can get song plus ringtone packages for a reduced cost, and Verizon is also offering a Jukebox program that will rotate or randomize ringback tones.

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"In the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking--a change that noticeably impacts 11.8 percent of our queries--and we wanted to let people know what's going on," Google said in a <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|blog post] last night. "This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites--sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites--sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on." <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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Why the Original iPad Is a Better Buy Than Ever

The new iOS 4.3 boasts an improved Internet browsing experience with a newly revamped Safari browser. Apple will also roll out two killer apps: Garageband and iMovie for iPad. If you haven’t seen them yet, run don’t walk over to Apple’s [|website] and check out the demos.

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 * 1) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: upper-latin; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Social networking sites have a positive or negative effect on the users’ social development and social skills? In what ways?i think it has both positive and negative because people can be positive with everything they say on social networks and they can say negative things and they wont be upfront in what the say
 * 2) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: upper-latin; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Right now the number of users on Facebook are over 500 million users. How high do you think this number will become a few years down the road? How long do you think it will take for Facebook to reach 1 billion users?i think that it will be a few more years then it will be a billion because facebook is one the biggest sites for socializing networks out
 * 3) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: upper-latin; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you believe that online social networking plays a major role in politics? In what ways?i dont think so because if you had a bunch of politics a bunch of people can actually see what you say and when you say it so you could get busted for something bad
 * 4) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: upper-latin; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What are is your take on the privacy concerns of social networking sites like Facebook? Is this actually a legitimate problem or just an exaggeration? facebook can be a bunch of drama and be a legitimate problem for a bunch of people
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With the first iPad, buyers could pre-order, or reserve the device from Apple about three weeks ahead of when it actually hit store shelves. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> This could end up having a dramatic impact on the size of lines at retail stores, given that people who might have wanted to grab an iPad 2 to use it that first weekend will have to head to a store to get one versus waiting for it to be delivered to their doorstep. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Following up on that last point, the iPad 2 is being sold at more stores from the get-go. When the first iPad launched, the only place you could get it was Apple and Best Buy's retail stores.<span style="border: 0px initial initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">This time on day one, the iPad 2 will be available at Best Buy (as it was before), but also the rest of those retail partners, with the exception of Amazon.com, which has not yet committed to having the iPad 2 on sale.

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In this week's Ask Maggie column, I try to help readers figure this out. I offer some advice on whether one reader should splurge on the 3G-enabled <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|iPad] 2 or save $130 with the Wi-Fi-only iPad 2 and use his <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|iPhone 4] tethering plan. I also help another reader, who damaged her iPhone 3GS, figure out if she should upgrade now or wait for the iPhone 5. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">"Their testing is flawed. They didn't actually test the <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Safari] browser on the iPhone. Instead they only tested their own proprietary app, which uses an embedded Web viewer that doesn't actually take advantage of Safari's Web performance optimizations," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris. "Despite this fundamental testing flaw, they still only found an average of a second difference in loading Web pages." <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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Why are people waiting and paying more for iPad 2?3-17-11

<span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">As I saw firsthand, near the very front of the line at the <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|iPad] 2 launch at the San Francisco Apple Store, there was a large group of non-English-speaking buyers who looked a bit out of place compared with other Apple device launch lines I had seen time and time again around the Bay Area. Instead of 20-somethings in hoodies, or moms and dads looking to outfit the family with new gear, they were in their 50s and 60s, playing cards, reading newspapers, and taking turns pacing along the foot-and-a-half width of sidewalk that was left between the road and the curb, presumably to avoid blood clots. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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It's no secret Adobe Systems is working on graphics programs for tablets--indeed, John Nack, the <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|leader of Adobe's tablet work] , has been <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|soliciting advice about exactly what to do] since last year and <span style="color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Adobe has demonstrated other Photoshop features on Android and iPad tablets] . But the fact that the company is shedding more of its reticence now about the projects could indicate Adobe is more willing to raise expectations in anticipation of an actual project. <span style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">"For plug-in based experiences, we believe Silverlight delivers the richest set of capabilities available to developers today," said Walid Abu-Hadba, corporate vice president of developer platform and evangelism, Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .Net developer platform, and S. Somasegar, senior vice president of the developer division.

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<span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cisco was swayed by the sexiness of selling to the consumer,” said Mo Koyfman, a principal at Spark Capital, a Boston __ [|venture capital] __ firm. “They’re not wired to do it themselves, so they do it by acquisition. Flip was one of the most visible targets out there. But it’s really hard to turn an elephant into a horse. Cisco’s an elephant.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/technology/13flip.html?_r=2

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<span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The biggest news comes in the form of two Bold handsets and the new OS 7 operating system. <span style="border: 0px initial initial; color: #0066a0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|RIM announced the BlackBerry Bold 9900 and the Bold 9930], which look practically identical to the existing Bold handsets, except that the displays are now touch screens. They are also much thinner and sleeker. The Bold 9900 is headed for T-Mobile as the carrier's first-ever 4G-capable BlackBerry; the 9930 is a global dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone that will likely head for Verizon Wireless.

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