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Next in your iPhone OS: live object identification, face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration

Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple’s patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it. Last we told you about event based modes, intelligent and scheduled communications that could come with your new iPhone 4.0 or 5.0 OS . …

19 hours ago in Unwired View · Authority: 789

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Cities Lose Out on Road Funds From Federal Stimulus

A New York Times analysis found that transportation stimulus funds went disproportionately to rural areas, which advocates say could stall economic progress.…

13 hours ago in The New York Times

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Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday.

The timing of Google’s announcement of Chrome OS was curious. I don’t mean the fact that Google moved up the post on it by a day when some details leaked out, I mean the fact that they were announcing it on some seemingly random date in July, well before anything is actually ready to show off. …

20 hours ago by techcrunch in TechCrunch · Authority: 13,775
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NVIDIA GeForce G210 and GT 220 with 40nm GPUs official

Yesterday’s rumored NVIDIA 40nm GPUs have been made official, in the shape of listings for two new OEM cards: the NVIDIA GeForce G210 and the GeForce GT 220 . Both support DirectX 10.1, OpenGL 3.0 and CUDA, with the G210 having VGA, DisplayPort and DVI outputs while the GT 220 has VGA, HDMI and DVI. …

20 hours ago by slashgear in SlashGear · Authority: 1,522
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URWERK’s New ‘King Cobra’ UR-CC1 Watch Inspired By 1960’s Speedometers

By Andrew Liszewski Last year URWERK turned heads and weighed down wrists with their UR-202 Hammerhead turbine-regulated watch which, quite frankly, just looked really cool. And so does their latest model, the UR-CC1 codenamed the ‘King Cobra’. …

17 hours ago by dponce80 in OhGizmo! · Authority: 1,101
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Are These the First Chrome OS Screenshots? [Rumor]

It's hard to totally disprove these first Chrome OS shots, though there are plenty of reasons to be suspicious. Setting our skepticism aside for a second, here's what alleged leakster allegedly saw, allegedly: As an employee of a parts supplier for Acer, one of Google partners for Chrome OS (true!), he was privy to a brief demonstration of a Private Developer Beta. …

21 hours ago in Gizmodo · Authority: 6,652
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First Google Chrome OS screenshots leaked?

It's not much, in fact, these screenshots are incredibly easy to fake. Still, a hastily constructed WordPress blog has been setup to host what are claimed to be the world's first screenshots of Google's new Chrome OS -- hailed as both a Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X killer or a Google FUD generator depending upon who you're listening to. …

20 hours ago by WeblogsInc in Engadget · Authority: 11,805
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Twitter Gets In Your Face About Upgrading to Firefox 3.5

Woah, this is weird. Twitter has apparently starting promoting Firefox 3.5, which was released last week, to some of its users. Judging by Twitter Search , the banner began popping up around eight hours ago, and given how few people have tweeted about them it seems like they’re not being very widely distributed. …

1 day ago by techcrunch in TechCrunch · Authority: 13,775
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Review: Nokia N97 - So Close, Yet So Very, Very Far.

Oh, Nokia N97. I wanted to touch you from the first time I Iaid eyes on you. You seemed like everything I wanted in a handset. You'd be the phone that surmounted the shortcomings of every smartphone before it. You were to be the mobile masterpiece. At…

59 minutes ago in feedproxy.google
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Calif. rejects district plan to make up class time

State education officials on Thursday rejected a plan by a Southern California school district to use summer classes to make up for a scheduling error that could cost the district millions of dollars. The Chino Valley Unified School District launched…

4 hours ago in feeds.sfgate
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Arkane Studios Aiding 2K Marin On BioShock 2

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic developer Arkane Studios is working with 2K Marin on the upcoming BioShock 2, the independent French-headquartered studio revealed on its website today. Including 2K Marin itself, the primary developer on the game, Arkane is…

7 hours ago in feedproxy.google
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Google CEO hails company's new PC operating system

Eric Schmidt spent his first six years as Google's CEO resisting a push by the company's co-founders to develop their own operating system for personal computers. But Schmidt began to change his mind after seeing the early versions of Google's Web…

4 hours ago in feeds.sfgate
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For Firstborns, Secondhand Fits the Bill

New parents are rethinking consumerism and forgoing luxury purchases.…

17 hours ago in The New York Times
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Swine flu death toll rises to 14

The Health Protection Agency reveals numbers hospitalised as London and West Midlands show epidemic levels of infectionThe number of deaths from swine flu has risen to 14, the government's chief medical officer has disclosed today, as the infection…

5 hours ago in guardian.co
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African leaders to ask G8 to honour pledges

L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) - Africa takes centre stage at the Group of Eight summit on Friday, with wealthy nations eager to reassure critics they will honour past aid pledges and approve a new $15 billion (9.17 billion pounds) agriculture programme.…

5 hours ago in Reuters