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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Thomas Ricker
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Engadget
People sure do like getting something for nothing. Since Nokia made the big move to stop charging for its walk and drive navigation last week, 1.4 million of us have downloaded the Ovi Maps software -- on average, that's a download a second since launch. The response has been so good that it's exceeded Nokia's expectations according to Anssi ...
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Om Malik
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GigaOM
Evernote, Now Playing On Nokia N900
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Evernote, a Mountain View, Calif.-based start-up that says that Nokia has developed a version of its web service that allows users to capture and store information using the built-in sharing functionality of the device. It is made possible using a plug-in using the Evernote API.
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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Seoul (Korea Newswire) February 3, 2010 -- LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, today announced that its LD100 data modem has become the first long-term evolution device (LTE) to receive Telecom Engineering Center (TELEC) certification, clearing the way for the modem to be used in Japan.
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
Olympus PEN E-PL1 Hands On: The Cheap Micro Four Thirds Camera for Everybody
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It leaked earlier today , but we're still pretty struck by Olympus's latest micro four thirds camera, the E-PL1. Why? It has a built-in flash (finally!). And it's $600, making it the cheapest micro four thirds camera around. The E-PL1 takes the opposite tack of the E-P2 , stepping down a rung. So, you're probably wondering what you give up to ...
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
The check-in arms race continues to heat up. Foursquare has been working fast to secure its place on not only the iPhone, but also Android , Palm Pre, BlackBerry, and most recently, Windows Mobile . But rival Gowalla is working hard to get onto the other platforms as well. Recently, they launched a version that works on Android phones through ...
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That's not the case with Blippy . Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central's Colbert Report . As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service's ability to show everyday purchases at ...
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At issue is the Herald's exposé of the JLU, a group which has run a multi-year surveillance program on members of the Second Life community and compiled 1700 pages of files on other players - files containing often false and potentially libelous information.
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
ScrollMotion's been tapped to transmogrify textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and every standardized test-taking student's favorite, Kaplan. The WSJ says that education was indeed a "focal point" in the iPad's development, which we reported months ago. If you're over-analyzed the iPad keynote as much as we have, by now ...
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Readwriteweb
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ReadWriteWeb
Some Pros and Cons of a Google Tablet with a Chrome OS
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The Chrome OS is a bit different than most operating systems. Scheduled to be unveiled late this year, the Chrome OS is entirely cloud-based. It's still speculative to say if Google is really working on a tablet computer. But let's assume for a minute that Google is developing such a device with a Chrome OS. Sponsor I guess that's not too hard ...
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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...
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Readwriteweb
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ReadWriteWeb
Mobile App or Browser-Based Site? Report Says The Browser Will Win on Mobile
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Mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform. Taptu calls the former "the Mobile Touch Web," which it defines as "Web ...
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It's a pretty ingenious idea, there's no doubt about that: a soccer ball that generates and stores energy while it's being kicked around. It generates enough energy to power an LED light or charge a small electronic device--which may not seem like much power. But in Africa, it could literally mean the difference between life and death.
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Gaurav Kheterpal
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OhGizmo!
By Gaurav Kheterpal Before the iPhone 3GS was launched, Apple drew a lot of flak from its customers over the lack of video capabilities. Though the iPhone 3GS came out with the best in its class video capabilities, old iPhone users were still disgruntled about the lack of video on their phones. Although not the only [...]
Joanna Stern
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Engadget
It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope,
Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser Microsoft's ever shipped. It actually sorta tries to be compliant with modern web standards, or at least more so than its predecessors, so it's a huge leap forward, even if it's nowhere near WebKit-based browsers like Safari or Chrome on that front. So, I'm glad to see it's now the world's most-used browser,
Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
This is a still image of an AT-AT walker. But! If you go here using any WebKit browser (Safari, Chrome), it dances to life. Like a Flash animation, except it's not . It's pure CSS3 . Point taken . [ Anthony Calzadilla via DF ]
Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
A bunch of folks have sent in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and asking for my opinion on it. The ruling came out last week when I was traveling, and I didn't have that much time to look at the details or think about what it all meant until now. It's one of those cases where I see both sides of the argument, but am troubled by what ...
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Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
Last month, we wrote about a local news website in Illinois that was getting frustrated with the dialog in its comments, and it instituted a "cooling off period" where it shut down its comments for a while, hoping that it would drive away the less desirable comments. The whole thing made no sense to us. Those types of commenters would eventually ...
It seems that the news on Chrome OS release have left no one neutral; some observers are beating the drums of its imminent failure and premature death, by relying on rather oversimplified concepts of cloud computing and insinuating about the reasons why careless moms and dads just can't grasp the concept of strong passwords ("how many times did ...
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Evan Ackerman
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OhGizmo!
By Evan Ackerman Most electronics are not judged on their capacity to become pillows. This is a mistake. Naps are the most important time you will ever spend doing anything anywhere, and every object should be designed with that in mind. The Mu Space music player (it’s just a concept, for the moment) opens up and [...]
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