US Congress up for another SOPA/PIPA fight?

US Congress may not have stomach for another SOPA/PIPA fight
PCWorld (blog)
Grant Gross covers technology and telecom policy in the U.S. government for The IDG News Service. More by Grant Gross. As a new session of the U.S. Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online ...

Nokia Windows RT tablet will include keyboard cover with built-in battery
ZDNet
Summary: The cell phone giant will offer a case that goes one better than Microsoft's own Type Cover for its Surface tablet. Sean Portnoy. By Sean Portnoy for Laptops & Desktops | December 25, 2012 -- 13:59 GMT (05:59 PST). Follow @teklust ...

Facebook adds photo drag-and-drop to desktop app
PCWorld
If you've ever uploaded a photo to a Facebook status update from your desktop, you're well aware of the number of steps it takes to do so. You'll also be glad to know that the social network has eliminated those steps and replaced them with simple ...

Hacker Claims to Have Scooped 3M Verizon Customer Records, Verizon Denies
DailyTech
The mystery is growing in the case of a hacker named TibitXimer, who claimed to have copied (probably illegally) 3 million records from Verizon Wireless's customer database (records which included passwords, names, home addresses, email addresses, ...

DailyTech

The Ultimate Internet Yule Log Showdown
PC Magazine
Turn your TV into a fake fireplace and experience the magic of the Yule Log in HD, on-demand, and without the bio-fluorocarbons of real fire. Dan Costa By Dan Costa. December 25, 2012; ...

POP is back: cancelled Kickstarter campaign back on after Apple changes policy
VentureBeat
Four days ago, the popular Kickstarter project to provide portable power for almost any mobile device — Apple, Android, or other — was cancelled when Apple refused to allow any accessories to incorporate both its old 30-pin connector and its new Lightning ...

LG outs seven-strong 2013 Google TV range
SlashGear
LG's Google TV line has always taken a back-seat to the company's homegrown smart TV platform, but all that could change with the firm's 2013 line set to debut at CES 2013. LG plans seven Google TV models – spanning five screen sizes – for the new year, ...

SlashGear

Christmas Eve AWS outage stings Netflix but not Amazon Prime
GigaOM
Big problems with Amazon Web Services' Elastic Load Balancing service in its US-East data center nailed Netflix and Heroku on Christmas Eve and carried over into Christmas. Netflix competitor Amazon Prime Instant Video appeared to be unaffected.

GigaOM

How Netflix Built Its Wii U App: First, It Built a Fake GamePad
TIME
Netlix's paper "GamePad" and the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet which it covered during consumer testing. Email · Print; Share. Facebook · Twitter · Tumblr · LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Reddit · Digg · Mixx · Delicious · Google+. Comment. Follow @techland ...

TIME

Official Slender sequel gets teased, Slender: The Arrival coming early 2013
Neoseeker
In case you like a good scare for the holidays, Blue Isle Studios, working with Slender's original developer Parsec Productions, has release the first official teaser for Slender: The Arrival. Yes, if you were unaware, Slender is getting its very own ...

Continue to expect Internet restrictions in China
CNET
With the Chinese, Gregorian and Mayan calendars all ending in the span of three months, this is the time of year for new resolutions. If you're RIM, perhaps your resolution is to keep Blackberry 10 from failing? If you're the Chinese government, you probably ...

CNET

Today's Apps Gone Free: AppStart For iPhone, DailyCost, Dart Meister And More
AppAdvice
Discover and learn about the very best apps for your iPhone and iPod touch with today's AppBump featured app, AppStart for iPhone. We also have a finance app that allows you to track your daily expenses, and a gorgeous and intuitive dart scoring app.

AppAdvice

US delivers message to storks: you're no longer endangered
Hilton Head Island Packet
COLUMBIA -- Wood storks were once rare in South Carolina, but the gawky wading birds now routinely call the Palmetto State home. It's a similar story in other Southeastern states -- and why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said last week the wood stork ...

Hilton Head Island Packet

Apple Smartphone Share Tops 50 Percent in U.S.
eWeek
Apple's rise in the U.S. has not been replicated in quite the same way across Europe, where Android still takes the lead. Apple achieved its highest ever share in the U.S. smartphone market, 53.3 percent, in the latest 12 weeks (ending Nov. 25), with the ...

eWeek

Samsung Sues Apple Over iOS Notification Center
ValueWalk
Samsung filed another patent lawsuit against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). This time it is over the iOS Notification Center, reports iNews24. The lawsuit was filed in Korea. apple and samsung patent war. The patent in question is similar to the Status Bar feature ...

ValueWalk

Earn Xbox Live achievements on your iPhone and iPad with Wordament
Gamezebo
Wouldn't it be nice if you could earn Xbox Live achievement points in an iOS game? Well, Merry Christmas. Wordament, a Windows Phone game that recently made the jump to iOS, is letting players earn Xbox-style achievements as they play. What's next?

Ethereal Sky Show Christmas Night
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
The moon-Jupiter conjunction of December 25, 2012, will be even more spectacular than this, as the moon will be nearly full. (Photo: NASA Video) ...

One small hop for SpaceX, a giant leap towards rocket reusability
io9
One small hop for SpaceX, a giant leap towards rocket reusability SpaceX has just taken a major step closer to achieving the world's first reusable launch vehicle. The private space-firm has just released a video showing its Grasshopper Vertical Take Off and ...

Google Nexus 10 Supply Scarce
Mobile Magazine
Wanting to get your hands on a Google Nexus 10 for the holidays? You are not alone, and unfortunately it seems you won't be able to snag one in time. The Nexus 10 was listed on Staples site yesterday and has been struck with the sold out curse. Walmart ...

Vermonters head to woods for Christmas bird count
Seattle Post Intelligencer
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — While some Vermonters spend the day opening presents, eating a big meal or going to church, others take to the woods for a tradition from 1900. It's the annual Christmas Bird Count. Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologist Steve Parren ...

"Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2" Crowned the Biggest YouTube Trailer of 2012
Complex.com (blog)
After breaking numerous records with the release of Call Of Duty: Black Ops II in November, Activision just received one more accolade: Creating the most popular YouTube trailer of 2012. Anticipation was so high for the latest Call of Duty release that it ...

IOS6.1 Is a Trap: What You Should Know Before You Upgrade
StudentNewsIE.com
Have you ever wanted to jailbreak your iPhone? If you have had iPhones in the past, you know what it's like to finally free your iPhone and customize it to make it the device of your artistic expression. Even now, according to the ruling from the US Copyright ...

Acer Iconia B1 7-in Tablet to Cost $99
Sawf News
December 25, 2012, (Sawf News) - A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) source has confirmed recent reports that Acer is planning to launch an ultra budget Android tablet. The source, a "person with direct knowledge," says the tablet named Iconia B1 will have ...

Sawf News

BlackBerry 10 QWERTY device spotted online
NDTV
There have plenty of leaked photos and videos available for the touchscreen BlackBerry 10 smartphone and now the QWERTY BlackBerry 10 smartphone has surfaced online. Two blurry photos of what appears to be the N-Series BlackBerry 10 smartphone ...

NDTV

Astronomers find planets in our cosmic backyard
Catholic Online
As Catholic Online reported last week, a new astronomical discovery has the scientific community abuzz. Five more planets have been discovered around a star that closely resembles our sun. And at least one of them is within the star's "Goldilocks zone." ...

New 'Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII' video released; shows past story
Examiner.com
Related topics. Lightning Returns Final Fantasy XIII. Advertisement. A new video has been released by the Japanese branch of Square Enix on Saturday for the upcoming multiplatform title, “Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.” The footage takes a look at the ...

Steve Jobs' estate pays to free impounded superyacht
Times LIVE
THE economy, already weakened by the eurozone crisis, has in recent months been blitzed by a series of devastating strikes in the mining sector, downgradings by international ratings agencies, fears about the nationalisation of mines and other sectors, and ...

China Will Start Cracking Down On Trademark Infringement
RedOrbit
It's a different world in China, one where intellectual property and trademarks aren't as closely guarded as they are in the United States. Apple in 2012 had one such issue with trademark infringement in China as the bankrupt and failing Proview Technology ...

Motorola X smartphone and tablet coming next year?
IntoMobile
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece, talking about the upcoming Google Motorola X phone which should apparently be released at some point next year. Dennis Woodside, a former Google top sales turned Motorola's chief executive, didn't want ...

Facebook's 2012: IPO, a billion users and a shift to mobile
Washington Post
Facebook had what may be the most eventful year in its history in 2012. After months of preparation, the company went public in May -- with some unexpected results. As the site hit a billion users, it also struggled with the pressure to make money without ...

Why startups shouldn't be afraid of Facebook cloning them
CNET
It takes a lot more than a clone to take out a scrappy startup with dedication to its vision. Ben Parr. by Ben Parr. December 24, 2012 10:03 AM PST Follow @benparr. It'll take more than a Poke to knock out Snapchat. (Credit: Screenshot by Ben Parr/CNET) ...

time for global warming's just deserts
The Age
VICTORIA will be a hotter and drier place by mid-century, with more desert and fewer temperate regions because of the impacts of global warming, new scientific analysis has found. In a major report, Victoria's Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability,...

The Age

Don't mark your doomsday calendars: 2040 asteroid won't hit Earth
Los Angeles Times
For those of you disappointed that the world didn't end last week, there's more bad news: The world probably won't be ending in 2040, either – not from a certain giant asteroid, anyway. Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have found that ...

Microsoft's strategy chief limits role, will retire in 2014
CNET
Craig Mundie, who inherited some of Bill Gates' duties when Gates left his full-time position at Microsoft, will take on the role of "senior adviser to CEO." Roger Cheng. by Roger Cheng. December 24, 2012 9:28 AM PST Follow @RogerWCheng. Microsoft's ...

Facebook Testing New Pay-Per-Message System
Infopackets
Facebook is testing a new messaging system that will cost people $1 to send a message to a stranger. It's designed to deter spammers from using the site to annoy Facebook members, but some analysts have suggested Facebook could also be looking to ...

Rumored iPad 5 to be thinner -- and land in March
Los Angeles Times
That iPad 3 you got last March? Forget it. It's like the eight-track tape of tablets. (Kids: Ask your parents what that means.) Even that iPad 4 you're about to unwrap Christmas morning that you think is so darn new is about to become yesterday's news. At least ...

Updated COPPA Rule - "Strong, Stronger And Yet Stronger" Or Just More ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
After years of consideration and feedback the Federal Trade Commission released the final revision to the 14-year old Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule. The FTC began its review of the Rule back in April 2010 and we reported on the ...

Free Flickr Pro Account service for three months offered by Yahoo on this ...
PC-Tablet
Chirstmas day is about to come, and you guys must be having fun in the holidays. To take these fun meter to an extreme level, popular online photo sharing service 'Flickr' has Christmas gift for you. This well-renowned online photo sharing service, owned by ...

Amazon Says Its Customer Review Guidelines Haven't Changed, But It Is ...
TechCrunch
Good news, everyone! We can totally start trusting Amazon reviews again. The company has been conducting a “sweeping but hazy purge” of customer reviews, according to a recent story in The New York Times. And while Amazon is only barely commenting ...

Review: Nokia Lumia 920. Is Nokia Back In The Game?
Techtree.com
The idiomatic million dollar question in the smartphone market is, has Nokia managed to bring a worthy entrant to the smartphone war currently waged by Apple and Samsung? reviews · Chandrakant 'CK' Isi, 25th Dec 2012 - 18:54. Recommended By ...

Techtree.com

Gifts That Keep Giving (If Not Exploding)
New York Times
Ask scientists of a certain age about their childhood memories, and odds are they'll start yarning about the stink bombs and gunpowder they concocted with their chemistry sets. Dangerous? Yes, but fun. Science Times Subscribe ...

New York Times

Hurricane Sandy Almost Destroyed Grand Theft Auto's Radio Masters
Gameranx
There are many reasons to enjoy Grand Theft Auto. A favorite for many (myself included) is the programming found on the in-game radio, which is mostly the brainchild of Lazlow Jones. The music is great and all, but the real highlight is all the talking that goes ...

Gameranx

Foxconn Investment Turns GoPro Camera Inventor Into A Billionaire
Mobile & Apps
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn has bought an 8.88% stake in Woodman Labs for $200 million - an investment which values the company behind the GoPro camera at $2.25 billion, according to Forbes. Follow us ...

Mobile & Apps

Scientists: West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate
The Atlantic
Rebecca J. Rosen - Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section. All Posts · Email Rosen ...

Samsung Galaxy Camera review
Hindu Business Line
Talk about tables being turned! The first step to integrating multimedia functions on a smartphone was enabling the handset to take pictures. Samsung is now playing the game the other way around. The new Samsung Galaxy Camera is a shooter, based on...

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Reid Postpones Vote on Antipiracy Bill

Reid Postpones Vote on Antipiracy Bill
Wall Street Journal
By PETER LANDERS WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Friday postponed a previously scheduled Tuesday vote on an online antipiracy bill, following a storm of opposition by Internet companies. Mr. Reid (D., Nev.) didn't give a detailed reason ...

What Is Megaupload?
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan File-sharing site Megaupload was busted by the government yesterday for profiting from the distribution of massive amounts of pirated music, movies, and software. It's part of a thriving industry of file-sharing sites including ...

Google's Page Stung as Ad-Price Decline Means Results Miss
BusinessWeek
Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.'s Larry Page delivered his first disappointing quarterly results as chief executive officer after his push into mobile advertising and weakness in Europe trimmed growth in revenue from online advertising. ...

Dozens of killer whales thrill Southern California sightseers
Los Angeles Times
Whale-watching vessels report seeing 20 to 40 of the marine mammals, also known as orcas, swimming up the coast from Dana Point to Long Beach. Two killer whales, part of an "offshore" pod of up to 40 orcas, pass a whale-watching boat off Newport Beach....

Los Angeles Times

Ericsson to get royalties from patent deal with ZTE
Reuters
| STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Mobile telecoms network equipment market leader Ericsson and rival ZTE have settled a dispute over patents that will see the up-and-coming Chinese company pay royalties to the Swedish firm. Ericsson, which has an industry ...

Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies
Register
By Anna Leach • Get more from this author Fossil-boffins probing into the remains of a soft-bodied tulip animal that lived in the Rockies 500 million years ago have just published a paper revealing the secrets of the weird creature. ...

'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Indonesia jungle
The Guardian
Scientists working in the jungles of Indonesia have rediscovered a large grey monkey so rare that many had believed it was extinct. The scientists were baffled to find the Miller's grizzled langur in an area well outside its previously recorded home ...

The Guardian

Motorola challenges Apple with tablets in the classroom
SlashGear
Apple isn't the only company with its sights on the schoolroom; just as the company revealed iBooks 2 with new interactive textbook functionality, Motorola has been talking about its own pilot scheme putting Android tablets into students' and teachers' ...

SlashGear

New iPad Retina Display looking more likely from iBooks 2 icons
SlashGear
Further evidence of a next-gen iPad with a 2048 x 1536 “Retina Display” has been unearthed, this time from iconography and graphics included in Apple's new iBooks 2 app released yesterday. A new bookmark icon in the refreshed app – labeled “iPadx2″...

SlashGear

Breakthrough in seaweed biofuel reported
AFP
WASHINGTON — Energy experts believe that seaweed holds enormous potential as a biofuel alternative to coal and oil, and US-based scientists say they have unlocked the secret of turning its sugar into energy. A newly engineered microbe can do the work ...

AFP

Quantum physics to encrypt clouds of the future - boffins
Register
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Boffins looking for the perfect alliance between science and technology have married quantum computing to the future of IT - the cloud. The researchers have used quantum mechanics to encrypt heavy-duty ...

Three Steps to Optimize Your Website For Google's 'Freshness' Update
Fox Business
Business owners have been reeling from Google's one-two punch last year in changing the way it ranks searches online. The good news is that there are effective ways to optimize your online content to make the best of the changes. ...

Kia Recalls 145755 Cars for Airbag Defect
Inside Line
Kia is recalling 145755 2006-'08 Kia Optimas and 2007-'08 Kia Rondos to fix defective airbags. | January 20, 2012 | Kia Motors America By Anita Lienert, Correspondent | Published Jan 20, 2012 Kia is recalling 145755 2006-'08 Kia Optimas and 2007-'08 ...

Twitter gobbles news-foraging mobile app startup
Register
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Twitter has bought news-hungry Canadian startup Summify for an undisclosed sum. The upstart biz, which developed a mobile app that automatically rifles through articles being shared across social networks ...

Juniper Networks (JNPR) Given "Neutral" Rating by Nomura (NMR) Analysts
LocalizedUSA
Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR)'s stock had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at Nomura (NYSE: NMR) in a research note issued to investors on Friday. Separately, analysts at FBR Capital (NASDAQ: FBCM) initiated coverage on ...

The Revelation: Game Review: Fallout New Vegas and the Upcoming Ultimate Edition
my.hsj.org
You may have heard of the Game Fallout New Vegas and its DLC, or downloadable content, which adds content to the game. Soon they will be making an ultimate edition that includes all of the DLC's and is coming out in February 2012. ...

Basking in the sun: The case for solar heat
GigaOm
By Tom Murphy Jan. 20, 2012, 5:00am PT No Comments Who hasn't enjoyed heat from the sun? Doing so represents a direct energetic transfer — via radiation — from the sun's hot surface to your skin. One square meter can catch about 1000 W, ...

Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 fights for Gamindustri Feb. 28
Joystiq
by JC Fletcher on Jan 20th 2012 10:00AM Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, developer Idea Factory's second trek into the world of Gamindustri, will arrive in North America on February 28, courtesy of NIS America. Europe will actually get to experience the ...

LG Spectrum and BlackBerry Curve 9370 now available from Verizon Wireless
BGR
The BlackBerry Curve 9370 and the LG Spectrum are now available from Verizon Wireless. The LG Spectrum was unveiled during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It runs Android Gingerbread, has a sharp 4.5-inch True HD IPS display, ...

MIT calculates UAV 'speed limit'
TG Daily
Many birds can zip at high speed through a forest without crashing into trees. But, say MIT researchers, there's a top speed at which this is possible, and it's an important factor in designing drones. Currently, most UAVs fly pretty slowly, ...

TG Daily

The Silence and Daleks In Doctor Who Screenshots
zConnection
BBC Worldwide have released a couple of screenshots from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, the upcoming video game from Supermassive Games, which seem to show off the Silence and a Dalek from the perennial television programme. The game is scheduled for ...

zConnection

Facial-Detection Technology Entering The Marketplace « CBS ...
By Mike Ramsey
CBS 2's Vince Gerasole takes a look at how marketers are literally getting in your face and whether it's good or bad for consumers.
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peHUB » Millennium Technology Announces Investments
By Clancy Nolan
Millennium Technology Value Partners announced 18 portfolio companies that received new or follow-on investment in the last 18 months. The companies include Chegg, Twitter, Good Technology, Tumblr, BeachMint, IronPlanet, ETF ...
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Technology Short Take #20 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an ...
By slowe
This is Technology Short Take #20, another collection of virtualization, networking, storage, and other data center technology links. Enjoy!
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CES 2012: The technology of tomorrow - Pocket-lint
By Hunter Skipworth
CES doesn't have to just be about conventional consumer gadgetry. Save the usual phone and TV overload, there is often a few tech treats tucked away.
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Samsung Loses 3G Technology Patent Claim Against Apple in ...
By Quentyn Kennemer
Apple and Samsung have been dueling in the courtroom for so long that we forgot about this one. Remember that patent Samsung owned which they believed would.
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Technology funds still out of reach for DISD years after scandal ...
By Tawnell Hobbs/Reporter
DISD was frozen out of the funding program after Ruben Bohuchot, then technology chief, was exposed in a money-laundering scheme that dealt with computer contracts paid for by the E-Rate program. In 2009, DISD officials settled with the ...
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How Your Small Business Can Use Technology to Replace the Post ...
By Stephanie Faris
With the postal service looking to cut services this year, here are some ways small businesses can use technology to avoid a loss of revenue as a result.
Small Business Technology

T-Rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held ...
T-Rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners.
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News

Pinterest and Technology: Not Just for Women Anymore ...
By Mike Tuttle
Pinterest: Estrogen's Domain Name That's how I jokingly described this thing to my wife. She had been on Pinterest for several weeks. She was as crazy for it.
WebProNews

Life as a Healthcare CIO: Cool Technology of the Week
By John Halamka
Cool Technology of the Week. With Kodak's bankruptcy filing and Polaroid's bankruptcy/decline, is the stand-alone camera a thing of the past? At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, one camera product received a lot of press - a 360 ...
Life as a Healthcare CIO

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SOPA, censorship, and internet freedom

SOPA & Selective Memory about a ... - Technology Liberation Front By Adam Thierer Listening to this morning's House Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) was painful for many reasons, including the fact that the first hour of the Committee's video stream was practically inaudible and ... Technology Liberation Front The Web Collectively Protests Congress's Censorship Law ... By Adam Clark Estes Wednesday, November 16 is the first ever American Censorship Day in honor of the first House hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and most of the internet seems determined not to repeat the ironic holiday next year. The Atlantic Wire johnmpoole.com: Google Stands Up for Internet Freedom: "just one SOPA opponent was invited to speak at the Congressional hearing: Katherine Oyama, Copyright Counsel for Google, warned that the bill is tantamount to censorship" Review: 'Assassin's Creed' puts premium on stealth BusinessWeek By RON HARRIS In a video gaming world dominated by full-force melees and wanton firearms engagements, the stealthy approach favored by Ubisoft's "Assassin's Creed" series is a welcome respite. There's killing, and then there's killing with style. ... In Praise of iTunes Match Computerworld By Jason Snell Macworld - When Apple announced iTunes Match in June as a part of a raft of announcements related to iCloud, I was a little skeptical. I had just been released from my annual $99 payment to Apple for MobileMe, thanks to iCloud--I wasn't ... Google fixes Gmail iOS app but users still critical CNET by Lance Whitney November 17, 2011 7:22 AM PST Follow @lancewhit Google's latest update to its Gmail iOS app fixes a glitch from the first version, but many users are still giving the app a collective thumbs down over its limited functionality. ... Google to Merge Checkout With Wallet PCWorld By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Google is merging its Checkout and Wallet electronic payment services to consolidate them into a single product that works both on Web browsers and mobile devices. The company is also in the process of making Wallet the ... Adobe Abandons Flash for Mobile: What It Means to Developers eWeek In the “old days” of the Internet (before 1996), Websites had to refresh each page if changes were made. This meant graphics and animation on different sites were very difficult to develop and ran poorly due to limited connectivity. ... Skype adds Facebook video chatting to software USA Today SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Internet phone service Skype is letting users of its computer-based software make video calls to their Facebook friends and receive them, too. Paul Sakuma, AP Paul Sakuma, AP The new feature is free and is available starting ... Frog jumps back from extinction in Israel Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) - They thought it had croaked. But missing for a half-century and listed as extinct in 1996, the Hula painted frog has been spotted again in northern Israel, its only known habitat. "The species now has another chance to survive," ... Boffin bothers frogs until they spill super power secrets Register By Anna Leach • Get more from this author A springy catapult tendon is what sends frogs flying far beyond what their muscles alone could achieve, a boffin researching frog jumps has discovered. By attaching metal beads to the shin bones, ankles and leg ... A decade of Xbox Telegraph.co.uk The Xbox video game console celebrated its tenth birthday this week, Tom Hoggins talks to Chris Lewis, Microsoft Europe's Vice-President of Interactive Entertainment, about the console's past, present and future. By Tom Hoggins This week, ... Microsoft Surface 2 Goes on Pre-Order Mashable Microsoft Surface, the uber-cool, yet incredibly bulky technology that supports touch and device interaction was trimmed down earlier this year at CES 2011 to become the super svelte Microsoft Surface 2.0. Now its Samsung incarnation, ... Free Saints Row 2 with PS3 version of Saints Row: The Third VentureBeat THQ has announced a special treat for Playstation 3 gamers, with a free digital copy of Saints Row 2 being made available when you redeem your Saints Row: The Third online pass within the next 90 days. These kinds of promotions are becoming ... Facebook: We've ID'd porn hackers SlashGear Facebook claims it has discovered the identity of the spam hackers that swamped the social network with a pornographic deluge in recent days, promising “appropriate consequences” to come. “In addition to the engineering teams that build tools to block ... LA Auto Show: Volkswagen Passat and Beetle R Telegraph.co.uk Volkswagen launches a Passat and axes another at the LA Auto Show, as well as displaying its Beetle R concept car. By Andrew English As Volkswagen launch one Passat, the new Chattanooga-built mid-sized American saloon, it disbands another, ... NAVIGON 2.0 adds offline maps to iPhone SlashGear Garmin has launched a new version of its NAVIGON navigation app for iPhone, with v2.0 adding the option to download maps for offline access as well as introducing quarterly map updates. NAVIGON 2.0 for iPhone follows Nokia Maps' offline mapping with ... 'Ghost mountains mystery solved' BBC News Scientists think they can now explain the existence of what are perhaps Earth's most extraordinary mountains. The Gamburtsevs are the size of the European Alps and yet are totally buried beneath the Antarctic ice. A geophysical survey of the range was ... New Finding Ups the Chances of Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa Space.com Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, meets not one but two of the critical requirements for life, scientists say. For decades, experts have known about the moon's vast underground ocean — a possible home for living organisms — and now a study shows that the ... Recommended: A car-by-car guide to the 2011 LA auto show msnbc.com Breaking news and analysis of the economy, the business world, stocks, autos, real estate and consumer issues. Twitter: @msnbc_business The new 2013 Chevrolet Spark is unveiled at the 2011 Los Angeles auto show. By Paul A. Eisenstein, ... Study sees no safe place left for amphibians in future; Scientist: 'It's no ... Washington Post WASHINGTON — Frogs, salamanders and other amphibians may eventually have no safe haven left on the globe because of a triple threat of worsening scourges, a new study predicts. Scientists have long known that amphibians are under attack from a killer ... 2013 Honda Fit EV Introduced: 2011 Los » Inside Line The automaker will expand the Fit EV to six East Coast markets in early 2013. | November 17, 2011 | American Honda Motor Company, Inc. By Paul Lienert, Correspondent | Published Nov 17, 2011 Honda plans to begin leasing the 2013 Fit EV next summer in ... Recreated $97000 Porsche 911 Brings Speed to Screaming Legend San Francisco Chronicle To those of us who love cars, that's neither an academic nor a hippy-dippy consideration. Around for almost a half century, the 911 Carrera is the uber sports car, a distillation of all a Germanic screamer should be. An all-new generation of the 911 ... Rambus loses antitrust trial vs. Micron, Hynix BusinessWeek A California jury has decided against Rambus in an antitrust lawsuit it filed against chip-makers Micron and Hynix. A jury determined Wednesday that Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. did not conspire to fix pricing of memory chips. ... Amazon's Kindle lending library is contract breach, say US authors The Guardian American authors are up in arms about Amazon's new Kindle lending library, accusing the online retailer of "boldly breaching its contracts" with publishers as it exercises its "brute economic power". Amazon.com launched its Kindle owners' lending ... CounterTack raises a $9.5M Series A funding, lands in Waltham Mass High Tech By Rodney Brown Straight off of founding his latest startup, local tech veteran Neal Creighton has been tapped to be CEO of a real-time cyber attack security software company that is relocating from Virginia to Waltham and renaming itself CounterTack.... Scientists: NY must prepare for climate change now Wall Street Journal AP ALBANY, NY — Devastating floods like those caused in upstate New York by the remnants of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee are among the climate change effects predicted in a new report written by 50 scientists and released Wednesday by the ... Infiniti JX SUV coming next spring: a 'never-never' model USA Today By James R. Healey, USA TODAY Infiniti pulled the cover off -- yes, they still do that at auto shows -- its new family size crossover SUV, called JX, at the Los Angeles auto show today. Due in showrooms next spring, the seven-passenger, ... Porsche announces Panamera GTS Los Angeles Times By David Undercoffler Not content with introducing to North American audiences a complete revision of one of the most iconic sports cars of all time, Porsche used the LA Auto Show to unveil a beast of quite a different nature. ... China Clean Energy acquires Handan Guanxin Technology for ... By Meghan Sapp In China, China Clean Energy announced its acquisition of Handan Guanxin Technology, a feedstock provider located in Hebei Province. Handan Guanxin will become the Company's internal source of raw materials that it utilizes to produce ... Biofuels Digest Commissioner Travels To Israel For Water Technology Conference ... By sstoddart What can the tiny nation of Israel teach the "Great Lakes" state about fresh water? The answer is... a lot. CBS Detroit Scratching that (Incessant) Technology Itch | MindShift By Tina Barseghian Our love-hate relationship with technology is the subject of research psychologist Dr. Larry D. Rosen's new book iDisorder. From his perspective, “tech gadgets and applications are turning us into basket-cases suffering from versions of ... MindShift Open Source Biometrics Technology By donotreply@osnews.com (David Adams) DigitalPersona has open sourced its new MINEX-certified FingerJetFX fingerprint feature extractiontechnology. FingerJetFX, Open Source Edition (OSE), is free, portable software that device manufacturers and application developers can use ... OSNews Your Teen & Today's Technology | Madame Noire | Black Women's ... By Toya Sharee Kids these days just don't know how one photo or video or how providing too much info can affect them, their image and their safety down the line. Madame Noire | Black Women's... Higher Colleges of Technology, Microsoft to create MENA region's ... The first 'Microsoft Learning Center' in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will be set up by the Higher Colleges of Technology and Microsoft after the parties signed an education... ExcitingAds! AME Info Latest News London Riots And Surveillance Technology - OpEd By Agentura Eric King, Privacy International, focuses on the intersection of human rights, privacy and technology. In a interview with Andrei Soldatov, Eric King talk. Eurasia Review Engineers aim to improve performance of technology in extreme ... Engineers aim to improve performance of technology in extreme environments. Nanowerk Nanotechnology News Technology companies need to skite more | sticK – science ... By sticknz Even though the ICT software/services, high tech manufacturing and biotechnology companies that make up the 'Technology Investment Network 100' had record revenues of $7 billion last year, many New Zealanders would be hard-pressed ... sticK - science, technology,... PlayStation 3D TV brings technology within reach of gamers (review ... By Gieson Cacho That's been part of the trouble with adoption of technology in the first place. The barrier to entry was too high with displays costing upwards of $3000. But if you could get one for less than the original price of a PlayStation 3 or a first-generation ... A+E Interactive Rambus Case Ends, Jury Rejects Technology Licensing Company's ... By The Huffington Post News Editors SAN FRANCISCO -- A California jury denied Rambus Inc. billions of dollars in damages as it determined that chip-makers Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. didn't conspire to fix prices of memory chips in order to hike the prices of products ... The Huffington Post | Full News Feed Fuel Fix » Producers find environmentally-friendly technology can ... By Mella McEwenMidland Reporter-Telegram Producers find environmentally-friendly technology can boost bottom line. Fuel Fix Patent: Olympus working on "Liquid lens" technology. - 43 Rumors By admin I was told Fuji are patenting an ultra cool retro lens technology which promises to further simplify lens design and reduce the weight of optics. The new system is called “pin-hole” and apparently it works seamlessly with leather camera cases ... 43 Rumors Previews: Technology Trends specs | Social Good Consulting By phillip Each year, Deloitte market research in search of technological trends that can maximize the positive impact on business performance. In this 10 year. Social Good Consulting Postharvest Biology and Technology - Elsevier The journal is devoted exclusively to the publication of original papers and review articles on biological and technological postharvest research.... www.journals.elsevier.com/postharvest-biology-and-technology/

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