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Yahoo rumored willing to buy Hulu for four-year exclusive
Like UnlikeYahoo's interest in purchasing Hulu may be reigniting. SAI reports that if Hulu's current owners are willing to guarantee four or five years of exclusive access to content, then Yahoo might be interested in paying up to $2 billion for the streaming content provider. Neither Hulu, its owners, or Yahoo have commented.
Hulu has reportedly been shopping itself around to potential buyers since late June, when the company was approached with a buyout offer. Earlier this month, Disney CEO Bob Igor confirmed that Hulu's primary owners, Disney, NBCUniversal (now part of Comcast), and News Corp were indeed looking to sell off the TV streaming service, and had retained Morgan Stanley to assist. Yahoo, ...
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Sprint's Dan Hesse: significant 4G plans to be announced this fall
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We're here at Sprint's monolithic campus in Overland Park, and part of our day was spent speaking directly with CEO Dan Hesse. Amongst other things, the bigwig confessed that it had been awhile since his company (or Clearwire) had launched a 4G market. While Verizon Wireless has been pushing out LTE to new cities on what feels like a fortnightly basis, there's been nary a WiMAX deployment in the US during 2011. But that, friends, is gearing up to change. According to Hesse: "We're going to come out with a great story this fall around 4G, and it'll all become clear." He seemed curiously excited about whatever's around the bend, and Sprint's VP of Product Development, Fared Adib, seemed simila...
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HTC's Puccini tablet goes through the FCC, heading to AT&T
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HTC's upcoming 10-inch tablet has surfaced once again and from the looks of things it could be ready for AT&T's network soon. The successor to the company's first tablet, the HTC Flyer, has just passed FCC certification in the U.S. and with that we now have confirmation that it will support LTE connectivity on the AWS 4 and 17 bands -- which AT&T's upcoming 4G network is expected to use -- as well as 3G on the GSM 850/1900MHz and WCDMA 850/1900MHz bands.
Unfortunately no other hardware details were unveiled in the filing, but previous leaks have pointed to a 10-inch screen with a pixel resolution of 1280x720, a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon MSM8660 dual-core processor, and Android Honeycomb with HTC's ...
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Former Reddit Employee Charged with Data Theft
Like UnlikeAaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and former Reddit employee, has been indicted on charges of stealing 4 million documents from MIT and JSTOR. He's accused of breaking into a restricted area of MIT to access MIT's computer network.
According to the NY Times, the charges were filed by United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Carmen M. Ortiz and could result in 35 years of prison time and a $1 million fine. Ortiz said that Swartz has broke into a computer wiring closet in a restricted area of MIT to tap into the MIT computer network and stole over 4 million documents from JSTOR, an archive of academic papers.
Many outlets are reporting that Swartz is a co-founder of Reddit...
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Playbook WiFi Being Canceled? Not So Fast!
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Not too many people batted an eye at speculation that Research in Motion, the company behind all Blackberry products, would be putting an end to the WiFi version of its Playbook tablet.
But RIM has something to say about it - namely that such speculation is completely baseless.
RBC Capital Markets managing director Mike Abramsky wrote in a note to investors that RIM could possibly pull the WiFi-only Playbook models and focus exclusively on mobile carrier-support 3G-enabled versions of the device.
Abramsky posited that RIM would immediately stop production of the WiFi model but continue to market and sell through its existing inventory.
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FBI Expands Anonymous Hacker Arrests Nationwide
Like UnlikeNew York was just the start: the FBI's knocked (on? down?) doors in Florida, New Jersey, and California today, Fox News reports—part of what the FBI is describing as a wide assault on the nebulous collective.
"I can confirm that we're conducting law enforcement actions relating to a criminal investigation," said a rep for the feds. The raids have, so far, not netted any actual charges, but at the very least will serve as a shot across the hull of the LulzBoat, which has so far been sailing with mostly legal impunity. [Fox News]
Update: Fox News now reports that British police have arrested Tflow, a LulzSec bigwig, in South London.
Update 2: Threat Level reports that the original US raids wer...
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Google Maps 3D buildings comes to London
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The Google Maps app for Android has been updated to add 3D building support for more cities, including London, Paris and Barcelona.
Users of the Google Maps 5.0 app can now view the London skyline in 3D and zoom, tilt and rotate their way around the city.
As well as the aforementioned cities, Google has also added Stockholm, Singapore, Lisbon and Boulder in Colorado, USA.
There's also 11 cities in South Africa available to view in 3D.
Next generation
The "next generation" 3D mapping service originally launched in December last year, adding digital realism to the cities of New York, Milan and Zurich.
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Linksys WES610N Wireless-N Bridge gets your HDTV, console & STB online
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Linksys by Cisco has outed its latest entertainment bridge, the WES610N Wireless-N Bridge, intended to hook up your ethernet-port toting HDTV, cable and other STBs, and consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3 to your WiFi network. The WES610N offers a choice of 2.3GHz or 5GHz wireless (though not simultaneously) and has four 10/100 ethernet ports.
The bridge supports WiFi a/b/g/n and has a trio of antennas inside its black plastic chassis. All the usual encryption types are offered, along with WPS for easier setup, and Linksys is pretty keen on its quality-of-service software which promises stutter-free HD video.
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CM Storm Unveils Sirus 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset
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Cooler Master, an industry leading chassis, thermal solution, peripheral, and accessory manufacturer, today announces the release of the new CM Storm Sirus 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset. Boosting no less than 8 speakers (4 on each side) Sirus delivers powerful, immersive 5.1 surround sound and marks the beginning of a new range of CM Storm audio gear for gamers and audiophiles alike.
Sirus delivers real 5.1 surround sound with a dedicated extra large 40mm sub driver for explosive bass sound. Thanks to no less than 6 additional 30mm drivers, each fed by a discrete audio channel, Sirus produces precise and crisp directional sounds. Combine all channels and pair it with the bundled Tactical...
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Apple Q3 2011 Earnings Call at 2pm Has Everyone Excited
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Apple will reveal their Q3 Earnings numbers today at 2pm PDT/5pm EST. Apple stock is trading at an all-time-high of $378.08 in early morning trading. The street is betting on Apple to reveal record breaking numbers. According to Forbes, JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz said to get ready for the return of the wow factor.
Apple is seen to beat several key indicators in their Q3 2011 earnings. iPad sales will likely also set a record. The real driver for the stock price seems though to be the positive outlook on what is still coming up from Apple this year. The iOS 5 and iCloud launch are seen as another huge boost for Apple product sales. Apple is expected to launch OS X Lion tomorrow, which ...
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Microsoft testing Zune Music in Australia, expansion coming soon?
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Microsoft is testing the Zune Music Marketplace for Australian users, and possibly others as well. Zune 4.8 users who have their system location set to Australia and/or an Australian Live ID will now see the Music tab in the software, according to istartedsomething.
While this is just a test, and the assortment of available songs is just a small subset of Zune's full library, it does reveal Microsoft's pricing for songs and albums in the country. Songs cost 129 Microsoft Points (AUD$2.13) and albums appear to be priced per song capped at 1299 Microsoft Points (AUD$21.43).
Zune Music is currently available in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the US. The rest of the world is out of l...
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Two Lenses Will Fix Compact Cameras' Depth of Field, Proposes Samsung
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Rather than be used for 3D photos and video, Samsung's proposing that this dual-lens camera patent could actually help compact cameras capture a shallower depth of field, where focused objects stand out more, and backgrounds are blurred.
It'd work like two cameras, with one lens taking a shot at a lower resolution, and the second lens taking a shot at a higher resolution. When conjoined instantly by the camera's processor, the single image should make the object focused on pop out more, with the background blurred, in the typical "open" aperture style.
While it's only a patent application, it will be fascinating to see if Samsung goes ahead with their idea—and if they can resist the temptati...
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Hackers Vow to Release News Corp. Emails
Like UnlikeIndividuals associated with hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec said yesterday's hack of The Sun newspaper Web site also resulted in the collection of emails and passwords from that publication and the now-defunct News of the World.
"Sun/News of the world OWNED. We're sitting on their emails," a hacker known as Sabu tweeted yesterday.
Sabu went on to release the purported email and password for Rebekah Brooks (using her maiden name, Wade), the former News International chief who was arrested over the weekend for her alleged role in a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked parent company News Corporation. A fellow hacker known as anon_alex also posted log-in information for Bill Akass, managin...
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Online XXX domains offered to non-porn companies
Like UnlikeThe ICM Registry has revealed that it has had 900,000 interested parties contact them about the use of the XXX web suffix – which is to be a regulated section of the internet intended for pornography.
The registry has noted that a number of those looking to sign up to the service were companies that did not want to be associated with adult material but wanted to grab their domains so that cyber-squatters wouldn't start posting nudie pics under their moniker.
Because of this, it is offering something called a 'sunrise period' so companies can get their act together.
A bit of the in-out
"We are advising businesses to either opt-in or opt-out and want to give them the best opportunity to do so ...
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Apple Loses Bid for ITC Review of Kodak Patent Ruling
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The International Trade Commission on Monday upheld an earlier ruling that said Kodak devices do not infringe upon patents held by Apple.
The ITC has decided not to review Apple's appeal, ITC secretary James Holbein wrote in his decision.
"We are pleased that the Commission has confirmed the [administrative law judge's] finding that there is no violation by Kodak," Kodak said in a statement.
The case dates back to April 2010, when Apple asked the ITC to investigate whether Kodak had violated patents relating to digital still and video cameras with its Kodak Z, Kodak M, and Kodak C series of cameras, as well as its Kodak Slice and Playsport devices. The ITC agreed to hear the case the followi...
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