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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Apple replacing MacBook bottom case
The free fix for MacBooks shipped between October 2009 and April 2011 is available at Apple stores, via authorized service providers, or through the mail.
So, What's the Deal With MicroSkype?
Well, the Linux bloggers down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge had just barely finished chanting Skype's funeral dirge last week when word came that there might be reason to belt out another round. Sure enough, turned out Skype has decided to cut its ties with the free and open source Asterisk telephony system.
Daily Crunch: Picture Element Edition
Samsung?s New High-Resolution Screens: Too Good To Be True? Apple Patents Cool ?Chameleon? Camera Mode Discussion Table: Pioneer?s (Awesome) Take On Microsoft?s Surface (Video) Rex Ray Dodocase, For Art-Lovin? iPad 2 Owners It Is Finished: The New Yorker iPad App Is The Beginning Of The End Of Print
Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/13/daily-crunch-picture-element/
Slick HTML5 App Muro Animates Super Stick-Figure Videos
Powered by Ritz crackers and Sour Patch Kids, Adande Thorne works late into the night creating the worlds in which his frenetic stick-figures live. But even when he's working so diligently that he doesn't notice that the sun came up, he is still churning out his short films much faster than he used to, back when he made his animations with a Sharpie, some pencils and a scanner. Now he uses deviantArt's HTML5-based illustration tool, muro.
Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/ZhGcGTmTmYw/
Monday, May 30, 2011
?Scuse Me While I Touch This Guy
The HP TouchSmart 610's feature list is untouchable, but that's just the beginning.
Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/05/hp-touchsmart610/
Daily Crunch: Drop-Off Edition
Videos: Brainwave-Controlled Cat Ears ?Necomimi? Gameboys? Innnnnn? Spaaaace Smithsonian Announces Art Of Video Games Exhibition Winners An Atari 810 Disk Drive For MicroSD ? Built To Scale LA Noire To Ship On Three Discs For 360, One For PS3
Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/06/daily-crunch-drop-off/
U.S. Tells Its Afghan Workers: No Torture, Corpse Mutilation
It's never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses. But U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are leaving nothing to chance.
Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/gp7x1QgBvHo/
Hangover Tattoo Lawsuit: Can You Copyright Flesh?
An esoteric debate has surfaced in the legal flap over a tattoo appearing on a character in the Thursday movie release of The Hangover: Part II. It surrounds the question of whether a work first rendered on the human body can be copyright. 
Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/bc1V5T-qOtk/
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Google Pitches Chromebooks As Corporate Computing Cure
The company says managed computing is the solution to the 'fundamentally flawed' business computing model.
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Sony Introduces VAIO S Series Notebook With Optional 15-Hour Battery
There used to be a season for laptop launches. Now, it's just one right after the other. Sony is launching yet another new one this week with the VAIO S Series, a revamped version of a classic that packs a thinner chassis and an optional sheet battery that doubles battery life (up to 15 hours). Select S Series models sport elegant design in...Source: http://hothardware.com/News/Sony-Introduces-VAIO-S-Series-Notebook-With-Optional-15Hour-Battery/
Social, Mobile Channels Still Lack Customer Support
Companies are rushing to launch consumer apps without building sufficient service behind them, finds Constellation Research study.
Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=1c9d3dbf26d8904380552c58b059c591
Crickets That Live Fast Die Young
Evolutionary biologists have tested to show that it is not only motorbiking bad boys who embody the "live fast, die young" mantra, but also those hard nuts of the insect world, crickets.
Source: http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/KVx_YLCL_KM/
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Sniffing Out a Scam: Real-Time Detection's Role in Battling Data Breaches
The email industry is under a prolonged and targeted attack. Going back almost a year now, service providers and their clients have been the focus of so-called spear-phishing (targeted phishing) and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It's scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from over.
CrunchGear Week in Review: By Air Or By Sea Edition
Here are some of the stories that appeared in the past week on CrunchGear: Be A Sky Pirate At Last With This Sweet Kite Airship! This Bulbous Craft Could Launch In 2013 Nintendo DS AR Card Tattoo (Possibly Sharpie) Indicates Extreme Fanboy Levels Games Are Now Officially Recognized As Art By The US Government Weekend [...]
Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/05/09/week-in-review-by-air-or-by-sea/
Blackberry 7 Announced
RIM announced the Blackberry 7 platform on Monday, but it doesn't have the QNX operating system that many have been anticipating.
Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=441e29f956e4956b39902fc8ccd1bfa5
Android App Market Stats Reveal Few Downloads
Apple's iPhone App store generates many more downloads compared to Google's store, as the bulk of paid applications go almost completely ignored by the Android masses, says a Distimo study.
Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=74383e125d44dcbefc05d21aadfc1c3b
Friday, May 27, 2011
Jive Software Acquires OffiSync Tools For Microsoft Office
Outlook users will get social collaboration through Jive and public social communities.
Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=b5b6d90dd41a3dc8483f83f84ba7a295
Burrito Bison is a simple game for gummy bear lovers
As you may have guessed from the name, you're a bison (not a burrito, though). In the course of your day-to-day grocery shopping, you're abducted into a bag of gummy bears, and must now fend for yourself.
At the beginning of each round you launch yourself onto the marching gummy (gummi?) bears, while you're being watched by a huge crowd of even more gummy bears. Your goal is to keep bouncing on the bears and earn more and more money while you do it. Every time you hit a gummy bear, you lose some momentum. If you hit the floor, you basically lose all of it.
But don't give up just yet! You have an emergency thrust which you can use to gain some momentum and keep bouncing on those bears. This extra thrust gets refilled as you hit more bears.
There are also special gummy bears that give you extra thrust or extra money. The money comes in handy at the end of each round, when you can shop for cool stuff to make your bison even more effective against those gummy bears.
It's a fun and colorful game that kept my interest for quite some time, and almost sent me running to the closest store to get some gummy bears!
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Why Choose? BlueStacks Lets Users Dual Boot Windows and Android
Start-up BlueStacks has emerged from stealth mode to wow the world with software that lets Windows PCs dual boot with Android. The Campbell, Calif. company was thrown into the spotlight this week when Citrix announced during its Synergy 2011 user conference that it would be embedding BlueStacks into its desktop virtualization software, Citrix...Source: http://hothardware.com/News/Why-Choose-BlueStacks-Lets-Users-Dualboot-Windows-and-Android/
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Google Revs App Engine With Business Features
The cloud platform service is subsuming App Engine for Business in preparation for an official release later this year.
Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=0fe2a102c577c76f71496798fddadbd5
Investor calls for Ballmer's head -- but who will replace him?
Yesterday Greenlight Capital President David Einhorn -- who controls $5 billion of investor money -- tore Steve Ballmer a new aperture.
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/investor-calls-ballmers-head-who-will-replace-him-326
This Brammo Enertia Electric Motorcyle Was Just Spontaneously Given Away At Disrupt
Enamored of the shiny orange Brammo Enertia electric motorcyle adorning the stage during the latest presentations here at Disrupt NYC, Michael Arrington decided that it should be given away. Never mind that it wasn't ours to give, and that we were already significantly over time. Once the idea took hold of his mind, he was not to be dissuaded, and after a short talk with Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher (conveniently present backstage following a panel on next-generation motoring), it was a done deal.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Piper Jaffray: Now's a good time to own Apple stock
A new analyst report says that despite Apple's "lagged" stock gains this year, now is a good time to pick up shares based on the company's estimated growth over the next four years.
Originally posted at Apple Talk
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Absolute Must Watch: Office Hours With Paul Graham At TC Disrupt
Today we tried something new at TechCrunch Disrupt: a special, on-stage office hour with Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham. The goal was to reproduce the sessions that Graham and other YC partners hold with each of the startups who participate in Y Combinator�?�except the startups at Disrupt were getting sage advice in front of a few thousand people. And boy, was it awesome. Six companies were chosen at random from the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield. Then, for six sessions of less than ten minutes each, Graham spoke with each startup founder to flesh out their idea, asking probing questions as he tried to figure out what they were setting out to do, and what they might need to change. Graham has a knack for being insightful and critical on his feet, and he doesn't require much background information to hone in on some of the pain points and weaknesses in a startup's idea (it's a skill that likely comes from practice, as he's held office hours with hundreds of YC companies). 
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Are Cheap Android Phones A Good Deal?
The Motorola Citrus or the LG Optimus may appeal to you because of the low price, but there are questions you should ask.
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