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Twitter's Changing Things Up With A New "Sensitive" Tag And Sponsored Tweets
Like UnlikeEven if you're lucky enough to toil away in an enlightened work places that lets you Tweet away to your heart's content during the day, your boss might not be very understanding if your feed's full of porn links from your potty-minded pals. Your days over hovering over bit.ly links, paralyzed in fear may soon be over. Twitter's rolling out a new tweak to its API that will let you block your friends' linkbombs from even showing up.
"Beginning today you may notice a new boolean field in API responses & streams containing tweets: "possibly_sensitive," Taylor Singletary and the Twitter Platform team announced on its developer blog. "This new field will only surface when a tweet contains a link. ...
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Windows 8 Will Run Windows 7 Software Just Fine
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While the jump from Windows XP to Vista resulted in some compatibility headaches, the move from Vista to Windows 7 was far more pain-free. What will the upgrade to Windows 8 be like? According to Microsoft, it'll be easy.
“The gateway to get to Windows 8 is Windows 7, and we will have backward compatibility with Windows 7 embedded into Windows 8. That's something that we're very committed to. But that's a really important first pillar,” Kevin Turner, Microsoft's COO said at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011.
Despite having a slick new tile interface, the desktop underneath for Windows 8 appears to closely resemble that from Windows 7.
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ViewSonic Releases PJD5 Projector Series
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ViewSonic announced today the release of three new projectors from their PJD5 series, the PJD5133, PJD5233 and PJD5523w. All three models share the same DLP display technology, 2700 ANSI lumens, and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. The major difference between them is their resolutions, which include SVGA (800 x 600), XGA (1024 x 768), and WXGA (1280 x 800), respectively. These projectors are ideal for business and educational applications. They are also light and small enough to travel. Each model has a diverse connection panel that includes dual RGB ports, a composite, s-video, and HDMI. All three projectors are available now.
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Panasonic unveils new PT-AE7000U full HD 3D home theater projector
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Panasonics has home theater gear ranging from TVs to Blue-ray players and projectors. The line of home theater projectors has grown by one-step today with the unveiling of the new Panasonic PT-AE7000U projector. The new projector is interesting because it offers full HD resolution and 3D in one unit. Many of the 3D projectors out there are only 720p.
The new projector is the first 3D unit in the world to use transparent LCD panels at 480Hz with the Panasonic overdrive tech to reduce cross talk and improve photo quality. Other than being the first to use these LCD panels, the new projector also has some cool features like a 300,000:1 contrast ratio and 2,000 lumens of brightness. The unit als...
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Ricoh GXR firmware Upgrade 1.37
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Ricoh has posted a firmware upgrade for its GXR system. Version 1.37, which affects the Ricoh GXR camera body, GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5, GR LENS A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO, RICOH LENS S10 24-72 mm F2.5-4.4 VC and RICOH LENS P10 28-300 mm F3.5-5.6 VC, addresses the following issue: “The focus setting may not be reflected properly if the shooting mode is manually set to [S] mode (Shutter priority mode) in the [Edit My Settings] menu.” S10 owners get an additional bug fix related to the One-Press M Mode function. The firmware updates can be downloaded from the website below.
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UK police: Jack Davis is definitely LulzSec's Topiary
Like UnlikeThe British authorities are convinced that the now-named 18-year-old Jack Davis, arrested on one of the Shetland Islands, Scotland last week is indeed the famed Topiary, one of the leaders and founders of LulzSec.
Reports at the end of the week suggested that the UK police may have arrested the wrong man, with clues, such as chat logs and a public "doxing" hinting that the real Topiary was in fact Daniel Ackerman Sandberg, a 22-year-old man from Uppsala, Sweden, but that has been dismissed by the force.
Davis will appear, therefore, in court today charged with five separate offences including unauthorised access to a computer system, conspiracy with others to carry out a Distributed Denial o...
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HTC Desire Gingerbread update available, excludes US and comes with long list of caveats
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First off, if you own the North American variant of this handset then you're out of luck. Likewise, Japanese, South Korean and some German handsets are also excluded. Still here? Okay then, but you might not like what comes next. We already knew that either the Sense UI or some pre-installed apps would be cleared out to make room in the Gingerbread house, but now it seems the update is so unstable that HTC is only prepared to release it as a ROM via its developer site. That means a factory reset of your device, a bunch of worries about SMS and MMS not working properly, and a cold disclaimer in the event of things going wrong. Still, at least HTC gave (some of) us the choice. Visit the source...
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Anonymous Publishes Internal Documents from Govt. Contractor ManTech
Like UnlikeThe Anonymous "AntiSec" effort gained a new victim on Friday: security contractor ManTech International. Anonymous published 400 Mbytes of internal documents to The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site Friday night.
A ManTech employee answering the phones on Friday night referred calls to the company's vice president of marketing, Sally Sullivan, and said that Sullivan would return calls on Monday morning.
ManTech, a cybersecurity company, claims that it provides technologies and solutions for agencies including the departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Energy and Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the space community; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio...
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Anyone Can Access Microsoft's Massive Location Database and See Where Your Laptop and Smartphone Have Been
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Microsoft has been going around and building a database of publicly broadcast MAC addresses (along with their corresponding street address) for location services purposes. That might include those of your phones and laptops. Problem is, Microsoft didn't secure the database.
According to a report from Cnet's Declan McCullagh, Microsoft is gathering data from Windows 7 handsets that connect to wi-fi networks, along with cars that go around sniffing out hotspots, and logging it all here. But because they're being lax in protecting that database, anyone can get access to the data. Cnet entered in various MAC addresses into the database themselves and had very specific location data returned to t...
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LulzSec, Anonymous, Sony Headline 2011 Pwnie Awards
Like UnlikeThe Pwnie Awards are back and among those nominated for special recognition in the field of security mayhem are LulzSec and Anonymous, and on a more sour note, Sony.
The winners of the 2011 Pwnies will be announced Aug. 3 at the BlackHat USA reception in Las Vegas.
LulzSec and Anonymous are nominated for Pwnies in the Epic 0wnage category, the former for providing "many Lulz" while "hacking everynone" during the group's 50-day hacking spree, the latter for the HBGary hack that led to the resignation of that security firm's CEO.
Also nominated for the Epic 0wnage award are Stuxnet, the weapons-class computer worm that wreaked havoc with Iran's nuclear program, and the WikiLeaks publication of...
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WiFi 802.22 Technology Promises Wireless Data Over 60 Miles: Say Goodbye to Data Plans
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It’s the news bit you’ve been waiting years to hear! The folks at the IEEE standards body have today announced a next-generation WiFi IEEE 802.22TM standard – technology that’s designed to facilitate wireless data transfer up to 60 miles (or a hundred kilometers) at 22Mbps. This technology is said to work over these great distances by utilizing television bands – without interfering with the reception of existing television broadcast stations at that. Imagine it – connect to your HambergerDLX network anywhere inside your town from your smartphone with no data plan costs. Magical freedom!
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Samsung to make Sony PS Vita's CPU?
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Sony's new PS Vita will reportedly be powered by a Samsung manufactured CPU, according to Japanese trade newspaper Semiconductor Industry News.
The new CPU for Sony's latest handheld will apparently be made using a 45 nanometre process.
PlayStation Vita is expected to launch in Japan later this year and in Europe and the US early next year.
Vita demos and launch plans
Games journalists and eager hardcore gamers will no doubt be looking forward to getting their hands on the new Sony gaming console at this year's Gamescom in Germany in August, followed by the Tokyo Games Show in early September and the Eurogamer Expo later in September.
TechRadar has contacted both Sony and Samsung for further...
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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet gets an August 23rd release
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Lenovo had a bit of an issue saving the date for its summer tablet launch, but no longer. Confirmed via a product page on the company's site, its Honeycomb-flavored ThinkPad Tablet will finally hit retailers' shelves on August 23rd. If you're not into waiting that long, you can always snag the IdeaPad K1 -- we hear Lisa Stansfield recommends it.
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SEO Firm Sells Google 'Plus Ones' for Profit
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A new search engine optimization firm called Plussems is offering package deals on Google +1 button clicks, The Atlantic reported this week.
The +1 button, which Google launched earlier this year, lets online users who hold a Google account vote up or give kudos to a site, search result, or online advertisement. Plus-oneing something likely affects search ranking results, although Google has been cagey about stating how the information is used or will be used in the future, once it has collected and analyzed data over time. Any Google account holder can click the +1 button at any time after signing in.
Plussems, which is owned by SEOShop.biz, is selling 50 clicks for $9.99, 250 clicks for $6...
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Google Music Beta account holders get two invites each
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If Google didn’t see fit to bless you with an invite to the launch of its Google Music Beta program you may have felt slighted. You may even know someone that got into the beta round and been more than a little jealous. I hope that jealousy didn’t turn into some sort of bitter feud though considering the announcement that Google has now made.
Each of the people that got into the launch of Google Music Beta now has two invites that they can bestow upon their besties. If you are one of those besties this may be one of your last chances to get in until the service leaves beta. If you managed to completely miss the launch of the service back in May, Google music is sort of a cloud storage place ...
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