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• Apple tablet inches closer to reality—but will e-book consumers buy it?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 652
  The waveform is collapsing. Schroedinger’s Box is starting to crack open. The Apple tablet is slowly drifting out of the realm of rumor and toward the realm of sure thing. But is it really meant to be an e-book reader? At a time when e-ink readers are gradually starting to come down in price, Apple—who has never ...
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• Ars Technica Sekrit Santa, 2009

  
  Gibberish Is My Native Language — Authority: 116
  Every year, I am impressed at the thoughtfulness of the gifts I receive from my Sekrit Santa. The amount of consideration from my Sekrit Santa this year is matched only by my embarrassment at not posting sooner. We’ve been preparing the house for holiday visitors, and between the painting and the unexpected kitchen ...
  3 days ago

• Brief: MSN Messenger for Mac update: just a few more months

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The four of you who have been eagerly awaiting an update to MSN Messenger will have to wait a few more months, according to a post on the Office for Mac Team Blog, Mac Mojo. The update, which will bring A/V support, has hit some speed bumps along the way, causing a longer than expected delay in beta deployment. ...
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• Brief: Class action suit targeting iMac G5 displays dismissed

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  A class action suit filed against Apple over iMac G5 displays that eventually went south after the warranty expired has been dismissed by a federal judge. However, the judge left open options to amend certain claims in the suit if sufficient detail surrounding Apples alleged concealment of foreknowledge of the problem ...
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• Big wireless to FCC: be consistent—except when it benefits us

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Big wireless to FCC: be consistent—except when it benefits us : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Lobbying is a fast and furious game, one where the lobbyists must make every attempt to present things that benefit their industry as if they are a triumph of dispassionate reason—even when their ...
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• SOCs slippery slope: good enough for movies, why not sports?

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  SOCs slippery slope: good enough for movies, why not sports? : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Back when we had  our debate with cables top lobbyist  Kyle McSlarrow over whether to let Hollywood block analog streams to your home theater setup, I asked a worried question. If the Federal ...
  4 days ago

• Brief: Nielsen: iPhone most popular handset in US for most of 2009

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Apples iPhone was the most popular headset in the US for the majority of 2009, according to recently published data from Nielsen, owning four percent of an "embedded base of all subscribers" from January to October. The iPhone just squeaked past the BlackBerry 8300 series (3.7 percent), but handily beat out the RAZR ...
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• Mozilla Messaging building nest for Thunderbird 3.1

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Mozilla Messaging, the Mozilla subsidiary behind the Thunderbird project, has revealed a preliminary roadmap proposal for the next major version of the open source e-mail client. The developers could potentially adopt a more incremental development model with shorter release cycles. According to a new proposed ...
  5 days ago

• Comcast settles P2P throttling class-action for $16 million

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Comcast settles P2P throttling class-action for $16 million : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Comcast has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the throttling of P2P connections that had users up in arms in late 2007 and 2008. The company still stands behind its controversial methods for ...
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• Comcast settles P2P throttling class-action for $16 million

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Comcast has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the throttling of P2P connections that had users up in arms in late 2007 and 2008. The company still stands behind its controversial methods for "managing" network traffic, but claims that it wants to "avoid a potentially lengthy and distracting legal dispute ...
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• Satellite TV to FCC: were special, dont make us open up

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  Satellite TV to FCC: were special, dont make us open up : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . If youve tried to pump your fully-paid-up cable connection into, say, a computer running Windows Media Center, youve probably come up against the closed nature of pay-TV and the severe limitations of CableCARD. ...
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• Brief: App Store success several times what Apple likely expected

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The runaway success of the iPhone App Store, which Apple didnt even launch until a year after the first iPhone became available, caught even Apple by surprise. The 2-billion-apps-sold milestone, reached in late September after just a year and a half of sales, surpassed even the Financial Times : Store set to be ...
  6 days ago

• Brief: Making proteins that register physical forces

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The cells of the human body contain a variety of molecular motors, which perform functions like twirling the cilia in our airways, moving proteins and vesicles around, and driving muscle contractions. A protein called myosin is one of the more common motors, with humans having a number of myosin genes. A study that ...
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• FTC complaint says Facebooks privacy changes are deceptive

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 440
  FTC complaint says Facebooks privacy changes are deceptive : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Facebook claimed it was doing the world a favor when it updated how the site handles privacy settings earlier this month, but the change has done nothing but get the company in even more hot water. Amid heavy ...
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• Feature: How to obtain and install an SSL/TSL certificate, for free

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Anyone operating a server on any scale should want a digital certificate to encrypt data between clients and services, whether for personal, office, or public use. Thats a broad statement, but it holds true no matter how you slice it. With so many people accessing networks over WiFi or other untrusted networks for an ...
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• Verizon: $350 ETFs are a good thing, and they help the poor

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Verizon Wireless has replied to the Federal Communications Commissions letter of inquiry about its super-sized early termination fees for smart phones. The bottom line: $350 ETFs are good and good for you. "This pricing structure enables Verizon Wireless to offer wireless devices at a substantial discount from ...
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• 3D high-def movies coming to your living room on Blu-ray

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Hollywood has been so enthralled with the recent renaissance of 3D in the theater that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized a specification for delivering full 1080p high definition stereoscopic video on Blu-ray discs. The format relies on an extension to the H.264 encoding standard, and provides for a ...
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• Updating an icon: behind the scenes with Planet M.U.L.E.

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  In 1983, Electronic Arts released a game called M.U.L.E , a strategy game with a heavy focus on supply-and-demand economics. It was playable by up to four players on a single machine, and today its widely regarded as one of the most influential games of all time. Fast-forward 26 years, and in December 2009 a ...
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• B.O.S.S. Wiimote shell fills giant people with sense of SNES nostalgia

  
  Technology Blog — Authority: 169
  It might be hard to tell from the picture, but that B.O.S.S. controller, built by Performance Designed Products, is no controller at all. Instead it’s a SNES controller-shaped, super-sized shell that slides over a regular Wiimote and turns it into a monstrosity of memories and oversized buttons. Kudos for ingenuity, ...
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• Week in gaming: Heavy Rain, Avatar, Shattered Horizon

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  This week we had a chance to play the first few hours of Heavy Rain on the PlayStation 3. Our take? Many are going to be turned off by the pacing, but this is something new and interesting in gaming. We also have a review of Avatar (the film, that is), and an interview about the PC-only, DirectX 10 title ...
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