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AT&T: Don’t Blame Us For The iPhone’s Google Voice Ban

July 29, 2009

The outcry over the Google Voice ban on the App Store is still going strong, with hundreds of news stories, developer posts, and complaints putting the story in and out of Twitter’s top trends for nearly three days running. Much of the blame has been directed at AT&T, over beliefs that the carrier forced Apple’s [...]

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New iPod Touch and iPod Nano Cameras Uncovered

July 23, 2009

These are just two of the gazillion new made-in-China cases for the new iPod touch and iPod nano. And as all of them show, both devices will have cameras. The iPod touch’s camera is at its center, on the top. According to Leander, the Chinese factories are already sending samples to distributors. Head to the [...]

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Hid.im Converts Torrents into PNG Images

July 15, 2009

Hid.im is a new web-based service that allows users to hide .torrent files inside PNG images. This means that users can easily upload hidden torrent files to their favorite image hosting service and forums, or use it as an avatar on social networking sites without being censored. (Via TorrentFreak ) Enjoyed this article?WebsiteWordPress themes!

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The Cartoon That Predicted Google Chrome OS

July 8, 2009

There’s a ton of buzz today about Google’s entry into the world of operating systems with the announcement of Google Chrome OS. While the OS itself won’t debut until next year, one forward thinking cartoonist essentially predicted that Chrome was Google’s ‘Windows killer’ back in November ‘08, shortly after the Chrome Web browser first debuted. [...]

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CBS Eyes Live Video Edge with Ustream

June 1, 2009

Three of the four major networks, FOX (owned by News Corp), NBC, and ABC (owned by Disney), are joint partners in one of the fastest rising online video services around: Hulu. The odd man out of this partnership is CBS. Yet while it’s been excluded from Hulu, CBS isn’t ceding any ground to its rivals [...]

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Digg Content is Now Public Domain Internationally

May 28, 2009

Digg has just upgraded the license for all of its content – titles, descriptions, comments, everything – from public domain to Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Under the public domain license, the content was already free for anyone in the US to use for any purpose. By switching to CC0, this content is now also public [...]

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America, Ready For A National VAT (Value Added Tax)?

May 27, 2009

Common around the world, including in Europe, such a tax — called a value-added tax, or VAT — has not been seriously considered in the United States. But advocates say few other options can generate the kind of money the nation will need to avert fiscal calamity. ‘There is a growing awareness of the need [...]

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Bad Idea: UK Launches Database Of Info On Every Child

May 19, 2009

Apparently, some folks in the UK haven’t yet realized that no database is fully secure, and any large database of info will almost certainly be abused at some point. In what appears to be a stunningly bad idea, the UK has put together a giant database including info on every child in the UK. The [...]

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