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• TV remotes may be the gateway to a pervasive wireless mesh

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The progress that wireless devices have made in the consumer space is nothing short of breathtaking. In the developed world, nearly everyone has a cellphone, and its difficult to go anywhere in an urban center and not have a half-dozen WiFi networks within signal range. A lot of the focus in this space has been on ...
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• Microsoft investigating B(lack)SODs after Windows patches

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Last week, a number of Windows users started complaining their computers were locking up and displaying a Black Screen of Death (BSOD, not to be confused with Blue Screen of Death, which is usually due to hardware or driver failure) after the last Microsoft Patch Tuesday on November 10, 2009. We contacted Microsoft ...
  11 hours ago

• Reports: Apple retail down, Apple online up for Black Friday

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Black Friday has come and gone and, while its still early, numbers and speculation regarding the consumer-fest have begun to trickle in from analysts. According to comScore, hat tip to Silicon Valley Insider , Apple enjoyed 39 percent growth in sales this year compared to last. As a whole, comScore says that ...
  12 hours ago

• The ABCs of securing your Windows netbook

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Netbooks are likely to be a popular gift this holiday season—theyre cheap, highly portable, and the kind of thing that you can give as a gift to a relatively novice computer user who needs a laptop but doesnt need the power or responsibility that comes with a more expensive portable. Netbooks are also looking ...
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• ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an "explanatory memorandum" for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as well as IDN country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) from redirecting users when they try to ...
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• Microsoft enables Silverlight video streaming to iPhones

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  At PDC 2009, Microsoft demonstrated Silverlight video streaming to an iPhone. While Microsoft user experience platform manager Brian Goldfarb said that Microsoft "worked with Apple" to make it happen, dont expect plug-ins for Mobile Safari to start flooding the App Store. Instead, Microsoft worked to make its IIS7 ...
  3 days ago

• Apple releases iTunes LP and Extras specs, TuneKit SDK

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  It appears the hubbub over iTunes LP production fees  was indeed unfounded. As promised last month, Apple has released the complete specifications for its Cocktail extended digital content format, aka iTunes LP for music and iTunes Extras for video content. Along with the relevant specifications, Apple has ...
  3 days ago

• Let’s talk about sex… in video games

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  These days, video games and controversy are old friends. Unsurprisingly, the biggest controversies seem to arise whenever the topic of sex in video games appears in the public forum. Whenever the topic rears its ugly head, critics come out of the woodwork, condemning the video game industry for trying to sneak sex ...
  3 days ago

• MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 504
  MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable companies to shut down the analog streams on video-on-demand movie programming. As Ars readers know, ...
  5 days ago

• Swedes start buying music; are anti-P2P laws working?

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Swedens IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country plummeted overnight—a sign that P2P users, fearing exposure at ...
  6 days ago

• "Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 504
  "Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit to spend the next 51 months of his life in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, and violations of the CAN-SPAM act. ...
  6 days ago

• When less is more: the basics of physicalization

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The word " physicalization " is ten months old. This January, Rackable Systems launched a strange line of servers which defied all the conventional wisdom of server design by disaggregating larger servers into many smaller ones based on consumer parts, and in the process lowering power and performance density. Ars, ...
  1 week ago

• EMI manages to compete with free after all

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  As digital downloads have disaggregated the album and restored the single to prominence, "unit sales" at the Big Four major labels have increased even as revenues have dropped. But new data out from EMI shows that labels can do more than just resign themselves to hugely decreased revenues as they sell bazillions of ...
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• Schiller’s spin on App Store issues ignores real complaints

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Phil Schiller, Apples senior vice president of worldwide marketing, has made another attempt to address numerous complaints about the precarious iPhone App Store approval process that have circulated in the media recently. Schillers point of view is that the approval process is valuable to developers and consumers, ...
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• End of the line for IBM’s Cell

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  In an interview with Heise.de, IBMs VP of Deep Computing, David Turek, confirmed that the Cell processor has reached the end of the line. Turek then put a more positive spin on the news by stating the obvious truth that heterogeneous multiprocessors, of which Cell was the first mass-market example of, are here to ...
  1 week ago

• Gift Guide: High-Tech Happiness for $100 or Less - New York Times

  
  Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review — Authority: 159
  Gift Guide: High-Tech Happiness for $100 or Less New York Times For many families, Wii Sports, the game thats been bundled with the Nintendo Wii since its 2006 launch, remains a favorite. By letting people swing a ... Wii Energizer 4X Charging Station Review: Induction Into The Hall Of Fame ...
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• Scam busters turn the tables on those running the Nigerian scam

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 694
  Filed under: Banks , Fraud , Recession , Recession Diaries , Consumer Ally Beloved One, I have the Courage to Crave Indulgence for this most opportune business venture... Look familiar? A day doesnt go by day that I dont receive an e-mail from people with names like Dr. Fortunate Goodpence or Mrs. Pius ...
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• Ars Technica on The Modern Warfare 2 Review Day

  
  Negative Gamer — Authority: 582
  If you wanted to play Modern Warfare 2 early you were in trouble. You had to accept a free flight to Santa Barbara , be put up in a nice hotel for a couple of days and play the game with your journalist buddies. It’s hard sometimes. Ars Technica have an interesting article up about the review day and some of the ...
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• Beatles piracy fixation gets stranger with huge FLAC release

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  EMI recently scored an epic victory  against the US website that tried to sell Beatles tracks online for a quarter, but the whole incident raised a familiar question: why, exactly, isnt The Beatles music legally available online? The answer isnt hard to find—as everyone knows, The Beatles own music company, Apple ...
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• Weird Science is desperate to shift the blame to somebody… anybody

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Blamestorming spreads like the plague: Its a typical experience in a large organization: a project has gone bad, and everybody involved looks to find ways to shift responsibility. But that practice is  almost certainly self-defeating , according to a paper entitled, "Blame contagion: The automatic transmission ...
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