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iPhone 4S China launch turns violent after sales blocked
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Apple is no stranger to hype and excitement at the launch of a new iPhone, but celebrations soured in China this week as the iPhone 4S launch was frozen after violence broke out around stores. Customers – along with scalpers looking to sell off the smartphone at a markup, and the gangs of migrant workers they had employed to fill the line and bypass Apple’s limit on how many handsets each person could buy – had queued overnight outside the flagship Beijing Apple store, but grew restless after it failed to open at 7am local time. An announcement that the iPhone 4S sale would not be going ahead and that would-be buyers should go home prompted abuse toward Apple retail staff, while the store it...
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iiyama ProLite T2451MTS Multi-Touch Monitor Launched in Europe
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Already announced in Japan, iiyama's ProLite T2451MTS touch-enabled monitor has now also been introduced in Europe. Set to reach EU stores as soon as next week, the T2451MTS features a 23.6-inch (TN) panel with a native resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, two-finger and pen input support, a 2 ms response time, and a contrast ratio of 1,000:1 (DCR is 5,000,000:1).
iiyama's display also has a WLED backlight, a maximum brightness of 250 cd/m2, D-Sub, DVI and HDMI (x 2) connectivity, two 2W speakers, and is bundled with a stylus pen. The ProLite T2451MTS has a recommended price tag of 299 Euro but it can be found on pre-order @ 282 Euro.
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Key Protect IP backer shies away after discovering risks
Like UnlikeA key Protect IP backer has started to back away from bill, introduced by the Senate last year. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, has said that the believed a new provision in the bill would require “more study.” The provision would give the US attorney general the ability to seek court orders forcing ISPs to block an infringing website’s domain names or URL.
The Protect IP Act is the Senate equivalent of the controversial House SOPA ACT. SOPA has seen companies with vested interests in protecting their intellectual property, including Sony and Nintendo, backing away from their support of the legislation following a overwhelming negative reaction f...
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Google raided our business database says Kenyan startup
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Google faces fresh attention amid claims of antitrust-style behavior with its Google+ search integration today, after accusations that it has been fraudulently attempting to muscle out a Kenyan local services startup. Mocality Kenya, a business database company that uses paid crowdsourcing to flesh out its entries, discovered what appears to be evidence that Google’s Getting Kenyan Businesses Online has been carrying out “a human-powered, systematic, months-long, fraudulent … attempt to undermine our business, being perpetrated from call centres on 2 continents.”
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Pirate Bay changes from torrent file hosting to magnetic links
Like UnlikeIf you are the pirating sort that likes to download torrent files from Pirate Bay, some changes are coming. Apparently, Pirate Bay is making some moves to reduce the bandwidth needed for the site and allow fans of the site to access the website offline. Traditionally the site has hosted the torrent feeds for download.
That is now changing with Pirate Bay eliminating the torrent file hosting directly and moving to what is called a magnetic link. The magnetic link is now the default method of download and according to an insider at Pirate Bay “in a month or so” there will be no more hosted torrent files on the site. TorrentFreak says that moving to magnetic links means that very little will ch...
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Murdoch on MySpace: “We screwed up in every way possible”
Like UnlikeOutspoken News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has given a blunt summary of the MySpace debacle, describing the company’s attempt at the social networking market as having “screwed up in every way possible.” Murdoch took to Twitter to answer “many questions and jokes” about MySpace, which News Corp. acquired back in 2005 for $580m. “[We] learned lost of valuable expensive lessons” the exec admitted.
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Samsung to partner up with Olympus?
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A Samsung source has said that the company is open to the possibility of an alliance with rival manufacturer Olympus.
Although Samsung has previously declared it isn't interesting in buying up the Olympus camera business, it is considering a partnership with the company in other areas.
Olympus is currently considering an equity tie-up with five candidate companies which include Sony and Panasonic, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
Recently, times have been troubled for Olympus, which has been rocked by scandal over the past few weeks. Starting with the dismissal of its CEO Michael Woodford after he tried to probe into accounting discrepancies, years of hidden financial activity has b...
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IBM creates atomic storage device with only 12 atoms
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The technology world is always marching on, and a big push is to make things like computers and storage systems smaller, faster, and higher capacity. That can get to be very tricky though with processes used for microprocessors and other tech already working at the nanometer level. IBM has created a new method of storing data, creating a storage device that needs an amazingly tiny number of atoms.
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Research suggest web addicts brains really are wired differently
Like UnlikeResearchers in China have been conducting research on a group of men and women ranging in age from 14-21. All 17 of the people in the study are classified as internet addicts. The researchers scanned their brains and looked for differences in the brain of the alleged addicts and those of normal people that aren’t considered web addicts.
The hope is that finding differences between addicts and non-addicts brains might lead to better treatment methods. Special MRIs of the brain found that many had changed in the white matter of the brain. This is the part of the brain that contains the nerve fibers. The researchers claim that there was a change in the white matter of the brain between the addi...
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LG Marquee comes to Boost Mobile on January 23rd for $279
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Having raided the smartphone coffers of its parent just a few days ago, today Sprint subsidiary, Boost Mobile, is at it again. Today's plunder comes in the form of the LG Marquee -- the Now Network's version of the Optimus Black -- which we first espied in carrier grab back in September. Setting you back $279, it'll be offered in Boost Mobile stores January 23rd, followed by everywhere else come February. PR on the 4-inch Gingerbread-totin' smartphone is after the break.
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Apple reveals list of parts suppliers for first time ever
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Apple, a company known for its secrecy, has released a list of its official suppliers for the first time ever. Due to backlash from human rights groups, Apple created a supplier responsibility page on the company’s website. Previously, the page only featured labor and human rights, worker health and safety, environmental impact, and general ethics information. The company has updated the page, however, and it now now includes a list of more than 150 different companies that supply parts for Apple products. The move is part of Apple’s effort to address ongoing concerns surrounding the wages and working conditions in factories belonging to its suppliers. ”Apple prohibits practices that threate...
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Motorola XOOM tablets reportedly getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
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Reports are coming in that Motorola's XOOM Android tablets are starting to receive Google's Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system update. According to Android Central, an email has been sent out to select XOOM users stating, "Thanks for your patience as we've waited for this project to begin. Because we are dealing with a Google Experience Device (GED) we have less insight to timing than we would usually have. However, I'm happy to announce that we will start the update this evening. Because it was delayed a few days, we will also have additional time to test; we will let it run through the weekend." Let us know if you have seen your ICS update.
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HP updates webOS for TouchPad, Pre 2 and 3
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HP has released new OS updates for its TouchPad tablet and Pre 2 and Pre 3 smartphones. The TouchPad gets webOS v.3.0.5, which offers faster switching in Calendar views, IM indicators, and quicker scrolling in Email. It also gets support for HTTP Live Streaming, the ability to toggle auto-correct on and off, and a handy typing shortcut - two consecutive spaces will now be entered as one space and a period, something that we have seen on many other smartphone and tablet systems. The update is going out now over-the-air.
As for HP's smartphones, the Pre 2 (unlocked and AT&T/Verizon variants) and the unlocked Pre 3, the company has bumped up its OS to v2.2.4. The update brings improvements with...
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HP TouchPad getting Ice Cream Sandwich soon, courtesy of CyanogenMod
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The Android 2.3 Gingerbread port for the HP TouchPad, courtesy of CyanogenMod, breathed some new life into an otherwise dying tablet. It turned it into a fully working Android slate and blessed it with the multitude of apps available on the Android Market. However, team Cyanogen is not done with the HP TouchPad just yet.
What you will see in the video below is a demonstration of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich working on an HP TouchPad. And for an early build, it runs pretty good, we must say. Almost every single one of the tablet's features are in a working state at this time, with the camera functionality and video playback being the only major things that need to be made functional. Once t...
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OnLive Desktop turns your iPad into a cloud-based Windows 7 PC, and its free
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It was just recently when told you that OnLive is shifting its efforts from cloud gaming to cloud computing. However, the results from the company's work are already here. Introducing OnLive Desktop for the iPad – a cloud-based PC desktop environment that brings Windows 7 functionality to your iPad.
In a nutshell, it works just like OnLive's cloud gaming solutions. All of the processing happens on its servers while the user is given audio and video feedback, as well as control over the input, of course. Technically, it should feel like using a Windows 7 PC with productivity applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and will even let you store 2 gigs of data in your personal cloud.
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