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Hardware TPM Hacked: BiggerIsBetter writes Christopher Tarnovsky has pulled off the near impossible TPM hardware hack. We all knew it was only a matter of time; this is why you shouldnt entrust your data to proprietary solutions. From the article: The technique can

Signs of Water Found On Saturnian Moon Enceladus: Matt_dk writes Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus,

Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix: viralMeme writes Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, We’ve continued to sell,

Space Shuttle Spy Gets 15 Years: goG writes A Chinese-born engineer was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison for hoarding sensitive information about the US space shuttle with the intent of giving it to China. US District Judge Cormac Carney called Chungs crimes

Call For Scientific Research Code To Be Released: Pentagram writes Professor Ince, writing in the Guardian, has issued a call for scientists to make the code they use in the course of their research publicly available. He focuses specifically on the topical controversies in climate science, and concludes

Google To Challenge Facebook Again: Hugh Pickens writes Google is set to make a fresh attempt to gain a foothold in the booming social networking business, seeking to counter the growing threat that Facebook poses to some of its core services. USA Today reports that

GIMP 2.8 Will Sport a Redesigned UI: ceswiedler writes Ars Technicas Ryan Paul previews the upcoming release of the GIMP. It will include a single-window mode where the user can dock toolbar windows and switch between images via tabs. There are other improvements as well, including docking

Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game: An anonymous reader writes A Queensland man will have to pay Nintendo $1.5 million in damages after illegally copying and uploading one of its recent games to the internet ahead of its release, the gaming giant says. Nintendo said the

The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer: snydeq writes Apples reticence to reveal details prior to a products launch is legendary. But when Apple extends this silence beyond a products unveiling, historically this has meant that the product cannot deliver the functionality that analysts and journalists are

Improving Education Through Social Gaming: A piece up at Mashable explores how some schools and universities are finding success at integrating social gaming into their education curriculum. Various game-related programs are getting assistance these days from sources like the government and the Bill & Melinda

Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee: CWmike writes The only smartphone Linus Torvalds doesnt hate is that much less unlikable now that Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One. Customers who cancel the service had been on the hook

Game Development In a Post-Agile World: An anonymous reader writes Many games developers have been pursuing agile development, and we are now beginning to witness the debris and chaos it has caused. While there have been some successes, there have also been many casualties. As the

IBM Releases Power7 Processor: Dan Jones writes As discussed here last year, IBM has made good on its promise to release the Power7 processor (and servers) in the first half of 2010. The Power7 processor adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost

Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility: An anonymous reader writes What I feared has come true: after buying Sun, Oracle had a look at its accessibility group and made big cuts in it by firing the most important contributors to the Linux accessibility tools. This is

Virtualizing a Supercomputer: bridges writes The V3VEE project has announced the release of version 1.2 of the Palacios virtual machine monitor following the successful testing of Palacios on 4096 nodes of the Sandia Red Storm supercomputer, the 17th-fastest in the world. The added

Study Says OOXML Unsuitable For Norwegian Government: angry tapir writes Microsofts XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate

Virus-Detecting "Lab On a Chip" Developed At BYU: natharward writes A new development in nano-level diagnostic tests has been applied as a lab on a chip that successfully screened viruses entirely by their size. The chips traps are size-specific, which means even tiny concentrations of viruses or other

Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture: Barence writes Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefoxs development code, closing the door on Apples aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a

Google Shooting For Smartphone Universal Translator: nikki4 writes to tell us that in giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is aiming for new translator software that will provide instant translation of foreign languages. The company has already

A Reflection On Sun Executive Payouts For Failure: With the Oracle/Sun merger finally completing at the end of January, one former Sun worker has taken the time to reflect a bit on the extravagant compensation and golden parachutes that the former executives at Sun are receiving for failing

Digg Technology

NVIDIA Optimus Notebook Graphics Switching Impresses: Ideally, switchable notebook graphics would be seamless. Launch an app that doesnt require significant graphics resources & chipset graphics get used. Fire up a game & the discrete GPU kicks in. Up til now, a scenario like this wasnt available

Sapphire Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB graphics card: the jigsaw is: Filling in the gap left by the last two launches, £60 will buy you a Radeon HD 5570 1,024MB card. We find out how good it is.

Apple Management: iPad Prices Could Change: Apple intends to stay nimble on pricing of the iPad, possibly lowering prices if the newly unveiled tablet device fails to gain traction among consumers.

The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook: Peter Warden, a former Apple engineer, likes to analyze data — so much so that he started scraping public profiles and photos from hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts about a year ago, and now has data collected from more

Translator for Smartphone by Google soon: The Google folks are always busy in their labs bringing new technology to the users and enhancing the existing applications for a better user experience.

Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans: Like a Star Trek convention minus Leonard Nimoy, Macworld Conference and Expo 2010 kicks off Tuesday at San Franciscos Moscone Center with no official

Decent DX11 Capable Gaming For $79, Radeon HD 5570 Launched: A quick look at its model number, will reveal that the Radeon HD 5570 falls somewhere in between the Radeon HD 5450 and 5670 in AMDs current line-up. The card offers decent frame rates at moderately high resolutions for some

Google's Display-Ad Sales Should Top $1 Billion: As analysts say rising demand for Internet display ads will begin paying off for Google in 2010, one asks: Is this a $10 billion business?

The Pirate Bay To Be Censored in Italy, Again: Following a lengthy legal procedure the Court of Bergamo has once again ruled that Italian ISPs have to censor their networks and prevent customer access to The Pirate Bay. Millions of Italian Internet users will be denied access to the

60 Excellent Gadget Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials: There are hours and hours worth of tutorials to read through, from creating your own custom MP3 player to redesigning the legendary Apple iPods, and designing retro game cartridges to photo-realistic high-definition LCD televisions, this post has it all!

Microsoft Declares Itself Still Innovative, Not Clumsy: Dick Brass, an ex-reporter who once led the charge to build tablet PCs and e-books at Microsoft, published a fairly devastating critique of his former company in The New York Times. In an op-ed, Brass portrayed the software giant as

Are You Interested in Tablet Computing?: Weve been showered in tablet talk in the wake of the Apple iPad announcement, and while we have our problems with it (and so did you), were still left wondering: Are you interested in some form of tablet computing?

How to make new stuff from your piles of obsolete tech: If youre like us, you have an attic, closet, or garage stuffed with unused, outdated tech junk. Oh, you think youll recycle it -- but you dont, do you? Wouldnt you like to do something useful with them?

Alan Turing and the Ace computer: The Automatic Computing Engine or Ace was designed by Alan Turing and brought together a team who would go on to design the technology that underpins the internet.

Facebook "Cash Scam" Continues to Grow Bigger: Users personal information is revealed through photos, status updates and conversations that are being well documented online. Last week, the Serious Fraud Office of London (SFO) warned that Facebook and Twitter are being used to harvest users’ personal financial details

New iPhone App keeps track of MP: Want to know what your local MP is doing? Theres an app for that. Labour MP Derek Wyatt has become the worlds first serving politician to launch an iPhone app which he said makes him more accountable to constituents.The free

Google Creating Twitter Clone for Gmail: Gmail users can currently broadcast status messages via the Google Talk feature. The main difference between the current offering and the new feature is that status messages arent available in a timeline format.

Adobe Claims They Don't Ship Flash With Known Crash Bugs: Adobes comment is what youd expect any company to say publicly; realistically, what else could they say? Its just very unfortunate for them that someone was able to prove the inaccuracy of this statement in a very compelling way.

Canon bows Rebel T2i with 18-megapixel sensor, 1080p30 video: Canon this morning launched a slew of camera updates headlined by the Rebel T2i. The successor to Canons entry DSLR shoots at the same 18 megapixels as the EOS 7D and also inherits its video recording features: it now shoots

Imgur: Stolen Content and Social Media's Double Standard: The majority of the images uploaded to Imgur are stolen from elsewhere. There is zero policing and all uploads are anonymous, which means that great pictures from across the web are scraped and uploaded as ‘genuine’ content all the time.

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Alleged Mario pirate agrees to pay $1.3 million: An Australian man who allegedly copied and then uploaded to the Web the New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii has agreed to pay up.

Netflix has Blockbuster on the ropes: As Blockbuster suffers through another round of layoffs and its stock trades for less than a postage stamp, one has to wonder when Netflix will deliver a knockout.

Tweeting a book by its cover: An indie magazine in Brooklyn has launched a new Twitter account that broadcasts what books people are reading on the New York subway system--an attempt to show that e-readers have their voyeuristic disadvantages.

Apple's Aperture 3 adds face recognition, GPS: New version of Apples professional photography software adds more than 200 new features, including the popular Faces and Places introduced in iPhoto 09.

Google Gmail press conference (live blog): Were heading to the Googleplex to find out whats happening to Gmail. Earlier reports have pointed to Google taking on Twitter. Tune in to find out if thats true.

High-tech doughnuts: Google may be planning its own version of Twitter, Madden NFL is coming to Facebook, and a new social network lets you create the next big thing in doughnuts.

EA losses drop, but sales and outlook decline: Aggressive cost cuts trim Electronic Arts quarterly loss, but lower game sales take a bite out of revenue. Meanwhile, the company lowers its forecast for current quarter.

Toyota adds 2010 Prius to global recall list: Recall to affect more than 400,000 hybrid models, including the latest Prius, as Toyota seeks to fix a problem with the regenerative brakes, which help charge the cars electric batteries.

Cisco predicts wireless data explosion: Cisco Systems new mobile data forecast predicts a 39-fold increase in mobile data traffic over the next four years.

Microsoft, Google split over browser bug bounty: Google follows Mozilla in launching program to pay researchers who find bugs, but critics say it wont necessarily pay off.

Images: Stewart Butterfield's new gaming start-up: Since last March, the Flickr co-founder and three partners have quietly been developing an online social game they hope will appeal to a wide audience. CNET has been there to document the creation of their start-up.

Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up: Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNETs Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.

Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck team: To build Glitch, the Flickr co-founder put together an impressive team of some of his earliest collaborators on the popular photo-sharing site.

In depth with Tiny Speck's Glitch: The new online social MMO from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfields Tiny Speck puts players through a wide variety of paces. Quests, egg growing and clouds on a string are just a part of it.

Google launches Nexus One phone support: Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.

Spinning straw into snow (photos): With snow at one of its Olympic venues running low, Vancouver organizers have taken to using stacks of straw to augment the powdery stuff.

Boeing's 787 high in the sky (photos): Its been just over a month since Boeings 787 Dreamliner had its first flight. These images show the plane in all its airborne glory.

Apple iPad: Is it for you?: CNETs Brian Tong, Ina Fried, and Josh Lowensohn discuss whether Apples iPad will have people lining up to buy it when its released in the spring.

iPads and high-tech socks: Apple unveils the iPad, eBay cuts seller-listing fees, and a high-tech way to keep your feet warm during this long, cold winter.

Apple iPad announcement wrap-up: Well break down all the latest information about Apples newest shiny toy: the iPad.

ZDNet

Student file sharers allegedly extorted: An Internet security analyst, was in charge of tracking illegal file sharing at the University of Georgia until he allegedly tried to shake down the student downloaders he caught. by Greg Sandoval CNET News

PayPal suspends service in India: Online payment service provider PayPal has put some of its services in India on hold, and is reversing funds requested through PayPal India, according to reports. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia

Checks to curb latest SEO tricks: Unethical tactics employed by companies utilizing SEO tactics such as link farms and loading Web pages filled with irrelevant keywords, are not welcomed by search engine operators. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia

China breaks up Black Hawk hacking ring: Chinese authorities have broken a hacking-tool dissemination ring, according to state media. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

Oracle releases emergency patch: Oracle has released a patch for a server flaw that can be exploited over a network without the use of a username or password. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

Expert sees security issues with the Apple iPad: Apples new iPad device looks like it will have some of the same security issues that affect the iPhone, such as weak encryption, said a mobile security expert. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Kayak.com lets you book 'Lost' flight: Buzz started spreading around on Twitter that you can find something awfully funny on travel search site Kayak.com: search for a one-way flight from Sydney to Los Angeles by Caroline McCarthy CNET News

New York examines Web marketing scam: Andrew Cuomo, attorney general for the state of New York, has launched an investigation into the marketing practices of 22 e-tailers, including Staples, 1-800-Flowers.com and Orbitz. by Greg Sandoval CNET News

Google seeks four patents for Web app tech: Google has filed at least four patent applications for technology it is building into its Chrome browser to try to make the web a more powerful foundation for applications. by Stephen Shankland CNET News

Report: 50M tablets to sell in 2014: Energized by the debut of the Apple iPad, the global tablet market is poised to move some 50 million units in 2014, according to a new report. by Victoria Ho

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited: The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years. by Declan McCullagh CNET News

Report: Apple paying refund on broken 27-inch iMacs: Gizmodo is reporting several readers whove been given a 15 percent cash refund for having to return a broken 27-inch iMac. by Erica Ogg

LHC to run for longest continuous period: The Large Hadron Collider is about to enter its longest continuous operational period, in preparation for full-strength particle-smashing. by David Meyer ZDNet UK

What's inside the iPad and what it can do: The 0.5-inch thick device, which weighs 1.5 lbs., is intended to be used for web browsing, e-mail, photos, video, music, games and e-books -- pretty much everything that its pint-sized cousin the iPod touch can do, only bigger. by Andrew

Meet the iPad: Apple goes aggressive; $499 lowest price point: Its an iPad. After months of speculation, Steve Jobs and Company show off an iPod Touch-like device with a 9.7-inch screen. by Sam Diaz ZDNet

U.S. House passes cybersecurity research bill: The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cybersecurity bill that calls for beefing up training, research, and coordination against cyberattacks. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Let compliance lead the way in preventing healthcare data breaches: With a number of security breaches last year - plus new regulations and security requirements - the pressure is on healthcare organizations to better control the security of their records. by Brian Cleary, Aveska, Special to ZDNet

Aussie ISP, Pirate Party win BitTorrent file-sharing case: The Pirate Party Australia has welcomed an ISPs internet piracy victory over a coalition of film and TV studios, describing it as a victory for common sense. by Renai LeMay ZDNet Australia

Apple accused of copying iPad design: The president of Chinese hardware manufacturer, Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial, told reporters that the iPad was a copy of their own tablet PC. by Kevin Kwang ZDNet Asia

Report reveals cyberattacks on oil companies: Three U.S. oil companies were targeted in 2008 in computer attacks in which sensitive information was leaked, including in one case to a computer in China, according to a report. by Elinor Mills CNET News

Wired Technology

Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider Fossil Found: Scientists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved spider fossil in China dating back to the middle Jurassic era, 165 million years ago. The fossilized spiders, Eoplectreurys gertschi, are older than the only two other specimens known by around 120 million

Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun: As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star’s emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up. And from a shed on three acres of land outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, amateur radio

Ultra-Precise Quantum-Logic Clock Puts Old Atomic Clock to Shame: Scientists have built a clock which is 100,000 times more precise than the existing international standard.The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new

Electric Charge Can Change the Freezing Point of Water: A watched pot never boils, but an electrically charged pot sometimes freezes.A study in the Feb. 5 Science reports that water can freeze at different temperatures depending on whether the surface it rests on is positively or negatively charged. Under

Leaves Show Looped Networks May Be Better Than Branched: Tree branches have inspired efficient transit networks, but a new study finds inspiration in leaves. The curvy, connected leaf veins found in some plants are an efficient way to circumvent damaged areas and channel nutrients, report researchers led by Eleni

Best View Yet of Pluto Shows Rapidly Changing Surface: After more than four years of processing on 20 hand-built computers, the best views ever captured of Pluto are now available.Working from 384 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in which the image of Pluto itself was just a few pixels across,

Dinosaur Fossil Reveals True Feather Colors: Another week, another colorful feathered dinosaur. Hot on the heels of a recent report identifying pigments in fossilized dino feathers and filaments (SN Online: 1/27/10), a different team of scientists says that it has mapped the full pattern of plumage

Compare Aerial Images of WWII Destruction With Today in Google Earth: Aerial imagery of Europe in 1943 that shows the devastation of World War II is now available in Google Earth. Comparing photos such as those above of Warsaw before the war, mmediately after the war and today really brings to life

Athletes Beware, Scientists Hot on Gene Doping Trail: After warning for years that athletes would try to dope their genes, scientists are finding ways to catch them. The tests are still being refined in animals, but will likely be run years from now on samples taken at the upcoming

Gene Patents Under Legal Attack: Federal court hearings continued Tuesday on a lawsuit that could transform biotechnology in the United States by eliminating gene patents.The case hinges around the claims of Utah-based Myriad Genetics on BRCA1 and BRCA2, a pair of genes closely linked to

Altitude Causes Weight Loss Without Exercise: Just a week at high altitudes can cause sustained weight loss, suggesting that a mountain retreat could be a viable strategy for slimming down.Overweight, sedentary people who spent a week at an elevation of 8,700 feet lost weight while eating as much as

How Your Biometrics Can Make Super Bowl Ads Better: Brian Levine is going to tell me what commercials I like without asking my opinion. He doesn’t have to ask. With the biometric toolkit developed by his company, he says that my own subconscious impulses will give it away. My

Cassini Gets Life Extension to Exlpore Saturn Until 2017: NASA gave its Cassini spacecraft mission a 6.5-year life extension to continue exploring Saturn and its moons.Cassini launched in 1997 and first arrived at Saturn in 2004 after flying by Earth, Venus and Jupiter. It carried the Huygens probe on board,

Everywhere in a Flash: The Quantum Physics of Photosynthesis: By hitting single molecules with quadrillionth-of-a-second laser pulses, scientists have revealed the quantum physics underlying photosynthesis, the process used by plants and bacteria to convert light into energy at efficiencies unapproached by human engineers.The quantum wizardry appears to occur in

Telescope Finds Galaxy’s Most Massive Star Yet: This glowing stellar nursery is home to the most massive star yet found in the Milky Way galaxy.Captured by the European Southern Observatory’s 27 f00t-diameter Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal, Chile, the image above combines data taken with violet, red, and infrared filters.The

New Look at Big Bang Radiation Refines Age of Universe: Six papers posted online present new satellite snapshots of the earliest light in the universe. By analyzing these images, cosmologists have made the most accurate determination of the age of the cosmos, have directly detected primordial helium gas for the

Video: Solar Eclipse Seen From Space: A European satellite launched late last year has returned a new animation of the annular solar eclipse that occurred on January 15. The images returned by the Proba 2 mission are the first of their kind and part of the

The Potential for a 40 Mile-per-Hour Man: The human frame is built to handle running speeds up to 4o miles-per-hour, scientists say. The only limiting factor is not how much brute force is required to push off the ground as previously thought, but how fast our muscle fibers can

Plant Virus Tricks Give Lesson in Evolutionary Pest Management: By changing the way host plants smell, the cucumber mosaic virus uses a clever subterfuge to spread. It’s a neat example of evolutionary exploitation, and a lesson in how managing the dynamics of evolution may help control pests.The virus causes

Hubble Spots First Potential Asteroid Collision: The X marks the spot of a suspected head-on collision between two asteroids imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s new-and-improved Wide Field Camera.If it’s confirmed by further observations, it would be the first time that scientists have detected the interplanetary

Tom's Hardware

ATI Radeon HD 5570: Reasonable Gaming Performance For $80?: AMD rounds out its DirectX 11-capable lineup with an entry-level gaming card sporting all of the Radeon

Q&A: Tom's Hardware And Kingston On SSD Technology: Now waist-deep in the SSD game, Kingston has a lot of know-how and industry insight on all things memory-related. We sat down with two of the companys insiders for a different perspective on some of today’s biggest SSD questions.

The Most Promising Tech of 2010: The economy is on a slippery slope and theres much unrest in the world. But not to worry—2010 promises to be awesome for tech! Heres whats coming.

Presented By: BlackBerry Developer Resource Fridays: Welcome to BlackBerry Developer Resource Fridays, a reoccurring event here on the BlackBerry Developers Blog. Well keep you up to date on helpful articles that have been added to the Developer Knowledge Base and other new additions to

In Pictures: Tom's Hardware's AMD/Eyefinity Event: Five Toms Hardware readers were chosen in a recent contest to come and visit our new office in Culver City, California to go hands-on with Eyefinity. Thanks to AMD and EA, they were able to try out a handful of

Touch-Screen HTPC: Three Premium Cases Compared: With ATIs Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs and Intels Clarkdale-based processors coming loaded with multi-media functionality, its a great time to build an HTPC. We compare three enclosures from Moneual, Thermaltake, and Zalman, all priced very differently.

ATI Radeon HD 5450: Eyefinity And HTPCs For Everyone?: Spoiler alert: ATIs Radeon HD 5450 is the first DirectX 11 card weve seen with outright poor gaming performance. But with its low price tag, does this Radeon deliver solid value to the masses, or should you be setting your

High-Density DDR3: Five Dual-Module 8GB Kits Compared: A high-end capacity formerly reserved for servers and DDR2-based desktops (back when memory was dirt-cheap), 4GB modules are finally available for desktop DDR3 users. We test five 8GB dual-channel kits you might want to consider if 8GB makes sense.

AES-NI Performance Analyzed; Limited To 32nm Core i5 CPUs: Starting with its dual-core Clarkfield-based Core i5 processors, Intel is introducing AES New Instructions to its architecture.

PCIe And CrossFire Scaling: Does Nvidia's NF200 Fix P55?: The P55 chipset proved woefully inadequate for adding a third graphics card to our most recent CrossFireX

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Upgrading Your Notebook Hard Drive: Does It Make Sense?: Ever wonder what would happen if you replaced an old 7,200 RPM notebook drive with a brand new one? We run a current-generation drive against a two generation-old disk to measure the potential performance and battery life gains you might

Compact P55: Four MicroATX Motherboards Tried And Tested: ASRock, Foxconn, Gigabyte, and MSI sent us their latest P55-based microATX motherboards for users wanting smaller solutions. We benchmarked, overclocked, and measured the efficiency of these diminutive platforms that work with Lynnfield and Clarkdale.

The WinFast PxVC1100 Video Transcoding Card: Worth The Price?: The SpursEngine-based WinFast PxVC1100, which centers on the same architecture as the PS3s Cell processor, shows off its ability to accelerate video encoding. But does its performance justify the price? Or is your money better invested in a faster CPU?

Overclocking On Air: 10 LGA 1156-Compatible Performance Coolers: Intel’s latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors for the LGA 1156 interface are great overclockers, but they still have thermal limits. Today we compare nine coolers that can take clock speeds to the next level. Read on if you

2D, Acceleration, And Windows: Aren't All Graphics Cards Equal?: 2D is something we take for granted when were shopping for a new GPU. But if you do a lot of work on your desktop (and dont we all?), it bears a little more attention. We spent some time testing

Phenom II X2 555 Vs. Pentium G6950: New Budget Dual-Core Titans: AMD is launching a broad spectrum of new CPUs today. And while most

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USB 2.0, FireWire, Or eSATA: Which Interface Should You Use?: Adding external storage to your PC can be a mess if you arent familiar with

In Pictures: Meet The World's Fastest Netbook: One of our readers turned an antique Sony UX490 into a netbook fit for Tom’s Hardware: it sports a Core 2 Duo, a 128GB SSD, 802.11n wireless, a 3.5G/GSM modem, loaded with all Windows versions (plus Mac OS X), and

Ars Technica

Battle of the Immortals closed beta live: we have your key: Perfect World Entertainment describes Battle of the Immortals as a 2.5D MMORPG that mixes Eastern and Western culture. There are five classes, an auto-navigation system for quests that means you wont be stuck wondering where to go next, and both

Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues: Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying

Royalty-free codec still needed despite no-cost h264 license: MPEG LA has announced plans to extend the duration of no-cost h264 licensing for free Internet video until 2016. This move lifts some of the immediate ambiguity about h264 licensing and will

No fix for Mass Effect 2 text; issue could have been avoided: When youre creating a game, what type of display do you aim for when optimizing text? We had readers contacting us to talk about their problems reading the text in Mass Effect

The deep and savage road: Ars reviews Dante's Inferno: Can you image your soul laid bare, every sin and broken promise shown in grim detail to the one you love above all others? You dont know what it was like! Dante

Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit: We already know that Windows 7 is growing faster than Vista was when it was released, but how fast are gamers adopting it? Pretty darn quickly, according to January 2010 data from Steam, the leader of the digital distribution market.

Australia's Internet: nonneutral and proud of it: Last week, an Australian federal judge issued a major ruling—the first of its kind worldwide—saying that ISPs arent required to take action against subscribers after receiving letters alleging copyright infringement. But lost

feature: The lost souls of telecommunications history: When Tim Berners-Lee arrived at CERN, Genevas celebrated European Particle Physics Laboratory in 1980, hed been hired to help replace the control systems for several of the labs particle accelerators. Almost immediately,

Wireless carriers want crackdown on cell phone boosters: This is Magic and this is Jack, the little girl says in the video ad, holding her two cute puppy dogs up to the camera. The girls father, magicJack inventor Dan Borislow,

Survey tries quantifying iPad hype, suggests interest waning: iPad hoopla has passed, according to a survey by electronics shopping site Retrevo, and consumers have lost interest after the products unveiling less than two weeks ago. More than twice as many respondents said they were uninterested after the iPad was announced

Biofuel expansion would send cattle into the rain forest: Biofuel production in the US has met with fairly mixed success, as the cost and fossil fuel use of corn-based ethanol has severely cut into the benefits provided by avoiding the use

Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release: The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the

Microsoft: your battery is the problem, not Windows 7: Last week, Microsoft said it was investigating issues in Windows 7 that affect batteries on certain notebooks after hundreds of users reported they thought the OS was to blame. Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live Division, has

Dante's Inferno interview: of marketing and Gods of War: Dantes Inferno has weathered its share of criticism for its aggressive marketing campaign, as well as its topical resemblance to the God of War titles. To be fair, much of that criticism

AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops: SAN FRANCISCO—The Llano processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and its not a GPU—instead, its a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an application

All that user-generated content? 95% is malware, spam: The latest research from Websense Security Labs paints a dreary but familiar picture of the state of online security threats. Echoing the bad news of other such recent reports, it seems the

Amazon puts out one e-book pricing fire as others flare up: Just as it looked like Amazon was about to achieve an iTunes-style lock on the e-book marketplace, the impending arrival of Apples iPad seems to have emboldened book publishers. After a pricing dispute caused all Macmillan titles to disappear off

Hacker training site reappears after takedown by China: Chinese authorities are making a cursory effort to crack down on hackers as of late, and have shut down hacker training website Black Hawk Safety Net. According to state-run news organization Xinhua,

Microsoft loses ads on Facebook, expands Bing search deal: Microsoft and Facebook have ended their advertising deal in which the software giant sold display ads on the social network, while at the same time expanding their search relationship. The announcement comes as a major Facebook redesign is being rolled

feature: Daddy's Home: Ars reviews Bioshock 2: The world of Rapture has a lot in common with Jurassic Park. Both fictional places tried to create a sort of closed paradise, playing with nature to fulfill the needs of their

Hard OCP

DRM is Dead, RIAA Says: The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who

Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop: You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered

Apple Approves Marijuana App: Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now

Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism: Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our

New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models: Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,

Creating Font Using a Car: Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts

Ping Pong Table-Door: From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments

Company Offering "Buy-Back" Program For Electronics?: This is either the greatest idea in the world or the most retarded, I’m not sure which one it is just yet.Here’s how the program works: For prices ranging from $19.99 to $249, depending on the electronic gadget, customers can

Intel 34-nm 320GB SSD Coming Soon: Engadget has the scoop on Intels Postville-family progress and has some good news for people that want an Intel SSD but dont want to fork over the big bucks for the X25 line. Check out the article for more details.Still,

Distracted Driving is Dangerous... and People Don't Care: The New York Times takes a look at distracted driving and found that many people just dont seem to care. Its a long article but well worth the read. Earlier today my wife had to get out of the way

Amazon Deletes Illegal Orwell Books from Kindles: Much has been made about Amazon deleting copies of George Orwells 1984 and Animal Farm books from Kindle devices and refunding the owners for those purchases. However, this CNET blogger takes them to task by checking facts and finding that

Big Week Coming as Tech Companies Report Earnings: IBM & Google got things rolling last week by reporting their most recent quarterly earnings for 2009 and next week has more coming. The Associated Press has an article about other earnings reports that are due next week and what

Urine-Powered Cars Coming Soon?: A scientist has developed a catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine and says it could be used to power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Garadine Botte hasn’t received much federal funding for her project, though she’s

Microsoft Changes IE8 Default Settings: While Microsoft battles the European Union over antitrust allegations, eWeek reports that MS went ahead and changed the default browser settings for IE8 to allow users to more easily change the default browser on a system. Sounds like they’re just

VisionTek Responds to Rumors of Bankruptcy: The below statement is a response to our earlier posted rumors of VisionTeks possible bankruptcy. As was later explained to us by credible sources, VisionTek has received an infusion of venture capital money in order to move its business forward

Verizon Wireless Introduces New Novatel EVDO Card: Verizon Wireless and Novatel Wireless announced that the PC770 2-in-1 PC Card and Express Card will be available on Sunday at www.verizonwireless.com, through business sales channels and by calling 1-800-2 JOIN IN. The PC770 gives customers access to Verizon Wireless

EVGA Launches InterView Dual-Display: EVGA Corporation announced the availability of the InterView, with two rotatable super-thin high resolution 17 TFT LCD displays supported by one desktop stand. Designed for business presentations, researchers, physicians, financial consultants or creative professionals, the 1440 x 900 resolution screens

IBM Reports 2009 2Q Results: IBM announced second-quarter 2009 diluted earnings of $2.32 per share compared with diluted earnings of $1.97 per share in the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 18 percent. The earnings per share results were the highest for any first,

Google Chrome Update Fixes Flaws: I just wanted to let all you Chrome users know that version 2.0.172.37 has been released. This latest build fixes a handful of minor bugs as well as two serious security flaws. A compromised renderer (tab) process could cause the

Riot Police Raid Facebook Party: If you are planning a BBQ with friends and family, do not…I repeat…do not make a Facebook post alerting everyone or SWAT will show up (helicopter and all). I don’t know why this guy is complaining, in Texas, it’s not

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NVIDIA Optimus - Truly Seamless Switchable Graphics and ASUS UL50Vf: NVIDIAs new Optimus technology is set to change the way we interact with our laptops. The information has been under tight wraps for the past couple of months, but today NVIDIA is ready to reveal all, and whats more you

AMD’s Radeon HD 5570: Low Profile, Higher Performance: With the bulk of the 5000 series launched, AMD is now launching products to fill in the gaps in their product line. Today we look at one of those cards, the Redwood based 5570, and why its one of fastest

AMD Reveals More Llano Details at ISSCC: 32nm, Power Gating, 4-cores, Turbo?: AMD shared some more details with us about Llano. The 32nm processor will feature power gating and a host of other power optimizations that lead us to believe well see CPU & graphics turbo in AMDs first APU....

Intel Core 2 CULV Roundup: Who Needs Atom?: If you could get twice the performance for only a 50% increase, would you be willing to fork over the extra money? Compared to Atom, Intels current CULV products offer exactly that, albeit with slightly less battery life. We have

AMD’s Radeon HD 5450: The Next Step In HTPC Video Cards: Cedar, AMDs final Evergreen chip, launches today with the Radeon HD 4500. What does bringing Evergreen, audio bitstreaming, and DX11 do for the low-end of the market? We find out...

New Westmere Details Emerge: Power Efficiency and 4/6-core plans for the Desktop: Intel let loose some new information on Westmere today about power efficiency as well as its upcoming quad-core and 6-core desktop chips....

GF100 Cards Finally Named? GTX 480 & GTX 470: With a skeptical eye towards Twitter, a post was made on the NVIDIAGeForce account 4 hours ago announcing the names of the first two GF100 cards. As we’re largely sure this is a legitimate NVIDIA account we’re going to go

Choosing the Best H55/H57 Motherboard - Part 1: January 3, 2010 saw the lift of Intels embargo on the Clarkdale family of processors and supporting H55/H57 series chipsets. Boards featuring these chipsets have been in our labs for a few weeks now, and we have been busy testing

Intel & Micron Announce 25nm NAND Flash Production, SSDs to get Bigger/Cheaper in Q4: Moores law applies to more than just microprocessors. At roughly twice the density of 34nm flash, IMFTs announcement means well see SSD capacities double this year - without prices going up....

Unlocking the Phenom II X2 555: 3.2GHz Quad-Core for $99: No Im not talking about bypassing multiplier locks, the Black Edition takes care of that already. Im talking about flipping a switch to enable the two disabled cores on the Phenom II X2 555. And you thought the Athlon II

The Apple iPad - Anand's Analysis: For not actually shipping a product, theres a lot to take in based on todays iPad announcement. We wrestle with available information to figure out where this thing will compete and whether or not it even makes sense. To answer

Why Pine Trail Isn't Much Faster Than the First Atom: We were puzzled by Pine Trails lack of performance. In some cases it was faster than the original Atom, but in most it hardly showed a difference - particularly in the single-core netbook version. We found out why....

The Clarkdale Experiment: Loyd builds a small form factor, high performance, low power gaming system. Is it worth the effort and the cost?...

AMD's New Year Refresh: Athlon II X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, Athlon II X2 255 & Athlon II X3 440: Its time for AMDs response to Intels Clarkdale launch. Cheaper prices and higher clock speeds thanks to yield improvements at Global Foundries....

Dell UltraSharp U2711: Quality has a Price: Looking for a professional quality LCD with a super small dot pitch? Dells new U2711 may be just the thing for you, even if it doesnt come cheap....

Setting up a high performance OpenVZ container: As promised for a long time, weve been working on pitting Xen and OpenVZ against eachother in a little battle of the free virtualization solutions. (If you cant quite recall what this OpenVZ business is all about, we suggest you

The Business of Tech: AMD Q4 2009: AMD’s often perilous financial situation usually bears watching, but this past quarter is of particular interest. On the business side we have seen AMD and Intel settle their long-standing feud over accusations of anti-competitive behavior by Intel, which had several

Dell UltraSharp U2711: Quality has a Price: Looking for a professional quality LCD with a super small dot pitch? Dells new U2711 may be just the thing for you, even if it doesnt come cheap....

The Intel Core i3 530 Review - Great for Overclockers & Gamers: It costs $113 but with minimal effort you can reach 4GHz with the stock cooler. At those speeds (and at stock) its a great CPU for gamers. We update you on Clarkdale and review Intels first real answer to the

Internet Served TV versus Cable and Satellite TV: Ive been using Dish Network for quite a few years now. Recently, I went through a forced upgrade to their latest ViP 722 high definition DVR. (I say forced because the older ViP 622 I had died, and Dish no

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Ignite, Syndicated Events, and Social Media Marketing: As we approach Global Ignite Week, a collection of Ignite events around the world during the first week of March, I cant help but think about the future of conferences, one of OReillys major businesses. Here are some of the

Four short links: 9 February 2010: Track DC -- informative drill-down report from Washington DC government about the different departments. (via Sunlight Labs blog) Errors in Scientific Software -- a 1994 study of scientific software that found inconsistent interfaces (1 in 7 for Fortran, 1 in

Flickr Photos In Google Street View: Google Maps has added more user photos to its Street View (above). Now the Yahoo-owned Flickr is joining the Google-owned Panoramio and Picasa photo sites as a supplier of alternative street views. GeoBloggers reported it earlier today and also noted

When SOEs encourage a responsibility-avoiding fantasy...: From The Economist an article dealing with general fragmentation of technology in financial firms, and the issue of people needing to use ad hoc desktop applications comes up: a manager says The big task of management is to manage down

Super Bowl in the Digital Age: Technology is playing a critical role in sports, both improving the experience and extending the life of any particular event. Fans can connect with their favorite teams through their online communities; they can play digital games as their favorite players

Staying Competitive in a Tough Job Market - Which O'Reilly books have helped you?: With so many people searching for jobs, its important to stay up on the newest technologies, or constantly improve in the areas youre already involved in. At OReilly, we publish books that help you zoom in on the details of

Four short links: 8 February 2010: Kindle Development Kit APIs -- Amazon will release a Kindle SDK. These are the API docs. (via obra on Twitter) rePublish -- all-Javascript ebook reader. (via kellan on Twitter) Peer Review: Whats it Good For? (Cameron Neylon) -- harsh and

Google Book Settlement Round 2: The US government filed its Statement of Interest regarding the revised Google settlement yesterday with the District Court in New York. While the statement was signed by an attorney from the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, several agencies including

What is the difference between a Taxonomy and an Ontology? - OWL Knowledge: Q. What is the difference between a Taxonomy and an Ontology?A. Not much.

Three quarters of a million patent applications outstanding! - A golden age of invention!: What a wonderful age we live in! An age where almost a quarter of a million non-obvious ideas without prior art are invented every year.

XPath needs virtual axes - Making XPath more XPathy?: XPath is a family of small query languages for XML: they have a simple data model and syntactically were based on directory paths: so to find the attribute id of the parent of a chapter element which has a title...

Mixed Consolidated Workloads and the Sun Oracle Database Machine: This blog takes a quick look at the capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that can enable database consolidation to take place on the Sun Oracle Database Machine.

Feedback and analysis: the missing ingredients in local's recipe: Theres plenty of enthusiasm for local / hyperlocal projects, but the sweepstakes has yet to be won. PaperG CEO Victor Wong digs in to some of the missed opportunities in a paidContent.org guest column. I found this excerpt intriguing: How

Four short links: 5 February 2010: The Public Domain Manifesto -- eloquent argument in favour of the public domain. (via BoingBoing) Clear Climate Code -- project to write and maintain software for climate science, with an emphasis on clarity and correctness. What a wonderful way for

One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading: Visualize open networks--and remember how far weve already come fromthe days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less appstores for cell phones).

Educational RIA StrataLogica Combines Quality Map Content with Useful Interface: Despite formal educations best efforts I still find geography enjoyable which is probably why Ive spent way too much playing with Google Earth. Nystrom a Herff Jones company has recently released StrataLogica to harness this and combine it with their

What's New in O'Reilly Answers: Why CouchDB?How do I type apostrophes on my iPhone?SEO TipsThe Web Color PaletteShare knowledge, ask questions on OReilly Answers today.

Fourth Annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Focuses on Platforms for Growth: Event Launches New Intensives Program; Registration Now OpenSan Francisco, CA, February 4, 2010 - OReilly Media, Inc. and TechWeb, producers of Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit, today announced the return of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco, the annual

Apple vs. Adobe vs. Content Creators: Publishers may have gotten ahead of themselves when they rolled out pre-iPad tablet demos. At least one relied on Adobe Air, which the iPad wont support. And the ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe could soon influence publishers decision making.

Four short links: 4 February 2010: Google Ad Preferences -- my defaults look reasonable and tailored to my interest. Creepy but kinda cool: I guess that if I have to have ads, they should be ones Im not going to hate. (via rabble on Twitter) Android

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Government petitioned to abandon centralised IT projects: Computing Staff, Computing, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:41:00Petition says government should adopt incremental private sector approachAn e-petitionon the 10 Downing St website calling on the government to abandon centralised ITprojects has received 199

Schengen system raises privacy concerns: Nicola Brittain, Computing, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:34:00System contains personal data of EU citizens and can be accessed via 500,000terminalsIt is believed that confidential information on British citizens could beaccessed via 500,000 terminals

Google readying social updates for Gmail: Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:25:00Search firm expected to add social networking capabilities todayGoogle is about to make a number of social networking updates to its Gmailservice, according to reports. The

Lanway launches recruitment drive: Doug Woodburn, CRN, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:09:00VAR to beef up headcount as it waits for result of Buying Solutions frameworkVARLanwayhas kicked off a recruitment drive and claims it is on course to

Areva branches out into solar: Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 16:03:00Firm looks to solar thermalFrench nuclear firm Arevaannounced yeterdaythe acquisition of US firm Ausra as it moves into the solar market for thefirst time.Areva has targeted

Elsevier celebrates scientists’ groundbreaking work with competition: IWR News Desk, Information World Review, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 15:50:00Elsevier, the publisher of scientific, technical and medical informationproducts and services, has launched a competition for excellence in methodologyand approach in a peer-reviewed publication.Called the Reaxys PhD Prize, the

Computeractive saddles up for Computer Aid: Paul Allen, Computeractive, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 15:39:00Sponsored bike ride from London to Paris in aid of recycling charityA member of the Computeractive team is limbering up to raise more than £1,000for one

Climate science centre founded in Washington: Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian - Published under license by, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 15:31:00US President demonstrates faith in climate change researchThe Obama administration today founded a service to study and report onglobal

Grant Thornton rescues Yokshire bakers: Kevin Reed, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 15:10:00Ainsleys sold on by administratorsAdministrators have sold off most of stricken Yorkshire-based bakersAinsleys.Grant Thorntons restructuring and insolvency specialists brokered a deal tosell the bakery business to Countrystyle Foods while 20 of

BP investors revolt over tar sands: Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 14:55:00Resolution follows similar decision by Shell shareholders last monthA group of investors has filed a resolution demanding that BP does notinvest in drilling in Canadian oil

Accountants waiting for better times to take new role: Kevin Reed, Accountancy Age, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 14:47:00Professionals seek new jobs when economy picks up: will put up with a pay cutHalf of the profession is lining up a new job when the economy stabilises.Many were also prepared

Web domains remained big business in 2009: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 14:42:00Major sales kept market afloat through the recession, says Sedo studyThe domain name industry has emerged unscathed from the economic slowdown,according to new figures released today

ScanSource woos Avaya resellers with fast pricing: Doug Woodburn, CRN, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 14:34:00Distributor launches System Central 24/7 tool in the UKDistributor ScanSource Communications Europe has launched an online pricingtool aimed at UK Avaya partners.System Central 24/7 is designed

Tesco launches mobile-based loyalty application: Angelica Mari, Computing, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 13:58:00Innovation project intended to bring extra convenience to customersTesco has launched a mobile-based application for its Clubcard loyaltyscheme.The application displays a virtual version of the barcode

A bill from one million e-petition signatures, says Cameron: Parliamentary reporter, Computing, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 13:54:00But claims that commons leader Harman is trying to block the progressTory leader David Cameron has announced he will go further and faster thanLabour with proposed

Jet fuel blooms in seawater: Andrew Charlesworth, BusinessGreen, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 13:20:00Researchers use salicornia plants in carbon-negative process to grow biofuelsA project to produce high-grade biofuels from saltwater-tolerant salicorniaplants is under way at theMasdar Institute of Scienceand

Google launches dedicated Nexus One helpline: Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:48:00Web giant finally appeases angry usersGoogle has finally bowed to pressure from frustrated Nexus One customers bysetting up a dedicated telephone helpline for users of its

Synaxon celebrates 'record' membership: Sara Yirrell, CRN, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:27:00Organisation claims more established resellers are cottoning on to thebenefits of its EGIS systemDealer groupSynaxonis claiming a record rise in the number of new members joining

Consumers blame retailers for online fraud: David Neal, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:35:00CyberSource report identifies hardcore of people who never shop onlineConsumers place the blame for online fraud squarely on the retailer, ratherthan themselves, according to theUKOnline Fraud

Government admits Firecontrol mistakes: Tom Young, Computing, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 12:19:00£350m scheme to overhaul fire and rescue service technology didnt start offtoo well says ministerThe government has admitted that its plan to overhaul the technology behindthe

Kuro5hin

The Jarmidor, Part 3: Having discovered that Im not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesnt

15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL: Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this years winner of the National Football Leagues MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well

Obama The First Year: Hes accomplished quite a lot his first year. Heres my list of the most talked about on liberal blogs.

Our Trip to Cuba: Its next to impossible to get an objective opinion on Cuba. Most Americans cant go there and form their own opinion. We went there because it promised to be an affordable family vacation with a direct flight from Quebec that

Applying the First Amendment to Corporations: Well established and a good idea: Theres been much hang-wringing about the recent Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a ban on direct electioneering by corporations in a window before elections. Much of the buzz, especially from left-leaning corners, sees it as a

Tweaking K5: Some loosy penis has loads of fun shitting around page-lenghtening and/or widening comments or diar(rh)ies. I suggest Rusty fixes that annoyance by adding a tiny bit of code in K5.

Building Houses - One Bullet at a Time: I almost went to New Orleans back in 05. I feel like the guy who took the next train, only to realize the train is slowing down because theres a wreck ahead on the line. At the time, it was

Techdirt

Kevin Smith May Try Crowdfunding Horror Film, Red State, After Fans Offer To Do So: Weve already pointed out how director/writer/filmmaker/entertainer Kevin Smith is a great example of a filmmaker embracing the model of connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy, even to the point of saying that unauthorized file sharing is

Research Shows Unauthorized Digital Books Leads To 'Significant Jump In Sales': Weve seen this before, with individual authors like Paulo Coelho and David Pogue, who both found that as more people were able to get unauthorized copies of their ebooks, their sales actually increased. So, this shouldnt come as a surprise,

Understanding What's Scarce And What's Not...: A bunch of folks sent over Jeff Jarvis recent blog post entitled stop selling scarcity, which I actually think is slightly misleading. If you read the details, hes actually saying that you should very much sell scarcities -- but that

Photographer Thrilled That Apple Using His Photo As Default iPad Background, Despite No Officia(...): In my experience, there is a group of photographers who are even more extreme in their copyright views than groups like the RIAA and MPAA. Its certainly not all (or, perhaps, even most) professional photographers who are like this, but

Facebook Sends Lots Of Traffic To News Sites... Will They Start Demanding To Be Paid?: With a new report coming out suggesting that Facebook sends more traffic to news sites than Google News, folks like Mathew Ingram are asking if Rupert Murdoch, the AP and others will be complaining about Facebook stealing their traffic and

Norwegian Supreme Court Explores Whether Private Companies Should Get Access To IP Info: TorrentFreak alerts us to an interesting case happening in Norway right now. Apparently, the most expensive movie ever produced in Norway was (shocking, I know) found on the internet soon after it was released. The filmmakers got very, very upset

AT&T Claims Sling Made Changes To Get On The iPhone; Sling Has No Clue What AT&T Is Talking About: We noted in the past how odd it was that AT&T blocked something like the place-shifting Sling Player from the iPhone, but allowed place-shifting streaming TV apps from partners like MLB.com. So it was worth highlighting that, recently, AT&T changed

Webinar On Data Center Productivity For ITInnovation.com: This post is part of the IT Innovation series, sponsored by Sun & Intel. Read more at ITInnovation.com. Of course, the content of this post consists entirely of the thoughts and opinions of

The New Middleclass Musicians: I Fight Dragons: Obviously, weve been covering various stories of content creators who are making use of new methods and new ideas to build a successful business model in a very changed world. We get lots of content creators contacting us about what

Author's Guild Didn't Want To 'Pull An RIAA' But Still Misses The Point: Last week, in discussing its attempt to settle its lawsuit with Google over the Google book scanning project, the Authors Guild posted a rather interesting public letter, entitled To RIAA or Not to RIAA, That was the Question. In defending

Verizon Wireless Blocks 4chan; You Would Think It Would Remember What Happened When AT&T Did That: Last summer, due to a DDOS attack emanating from IP addresses connected to 4chan, AT&T temporarily blocked access to 4chan... without giving a full explanation for why. If you know 4chan, you know why this is a bad idea. It

The Economist Notices That The Patent System Is Hindering Innovation And Needs To Be Fixed: A whole bunch of you are sending in one of the first mainstream articles Ive see on patents that gets almost (but not quite) everything right. The Economist has a wonderful piece that clearly explains why patents are hindering, rather

Remix Culture Is About The Culture As Much As The Remix: Over the weekend, I finally got to watch the film Copyright Criminals (after having seen clips and a discussion about the film at the Fair Use Film Screening put on by Public Knowledge back in January). I have to admit,

Why Shouldn't Jurors Be Able To Use Technology To Do More Research?: Weve pointed out in the past that, eventually, the judicial system is going to have to come to terms with the fact that people use technology to research and communicate, rather than trying to pretend it can be stopped. But,

Court Disagrees On Whether Or Not Schools Can Punish Students Over Fake Social Network Pages: We were just discussing whether or not a school can punish students for their social networking activity, and now weve got two legal rulings on the subject. Unfortunately, they seem to conflict with each other, despite coming from the same

Why Does The IEEE Make It So Difficult To Access And Share Research?: Matt points us to an article by Martin Rowe about the difficulty of accessing and sharing information and research published by the IEEE, which he finds to be a bit of a travesty, since the IEEE should be in the

PayPal Suspends Payments In India?: After the story a few weeks ago about Paypal suspending the account of Wikileaks, and blocking it from removing money in the account, many people pointed out how risky it is to leave any money in a PayPal account. It

Italy Blocks The Pirate Bay Yet Again: Well, here we go again. A year and a half ago, an Italian court ordered ISPs to start blocking access to The Pirate Bay. Oddly (and inexplicably) many ISPs redirected all such traffic to a website owned by the IFPI,

How Patents Harm Biotech Innovation: Patent defenders often claim that patents are necessary because top venture capitalists would never invest without patents. And yet, we keep pointing to examples of some of the best venture capitalists in the business who are quite skeptical of patents.

Because When MetroPCS Says 'No Contract,' It Actually Means 'Well, Of Course There's A Contract': The mobile phone business seems to have a serious problem with taking words that have a pretty clear meaning in English, using them in advertising and marketing promotions -- but meaning something entirely different. For example, various mobile operators claimed

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Barnes & Noble Nook Is Finally Available: B&Ns Nook Hits Online, Retail Stores

AMD: Graphics Processors to Accelerate Servers in Two Years: Graphics Chips to Power Servers in Two Years - AMD

MSI P55-GD55: A Mainboard to Forget: This small mainboard is rather simple, yet not primitive. It features a number of exciting extras but keenly lacks some necessities.

Rambus' Mobile Memory Initiative Materializes: Mobile XDR Announced: Rambus Launches Mobile XDR Memory, Targets Mobile Products

Micron and Nanya to Start Making DDR3 Using 42nm Process Technology: Micron and Nanya Unveil 43nm DRAM Process Technology

IBM Demonstrates 100GHz Transistor: IBMs New Transistor Previews Next-Generation Chips

EVGA GeForce GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition: Physics Onboard: All contemporary Nvidia solutions support PhysX, but in return some of the GPU resources are assigned to physics effects acceleration. Is it possible to avoid performance losses without adding more cards? EVGAs answer is yes.

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