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04.11.2010
STEVER BALLMER will be doing his dancing monkey dance at the news of his company's victory in an advertising dispute over Internet Explorer's popularity. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Microsoft did not tell porkies when its advert proclaimed that Internet Explorer 8 is the most widely used browser, evah. The complaint the ASA received about the Microsoft advert that ran from May to July this year claimed that Firefox is used by way more people than silly IE8.
теги: #asa #ie #microsoft

Michael J. Davis, Chief Judge for the District of Minnesota, opened the remarkable third trial of peer-to-peer file-swapper Jammie Thomas-Rasset today with a quip. "It is Groundhog Day," he said, looking out over the lawyers gathered before him.
теги: #jammie

RESTON, VA, November 3, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending September 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, and reviewed the most popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber’s primary mobile phone. The September report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 23.5 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 37.3 percent market share.
теги: #mobile #usa

The highly sophisticated webcam has undergone some algorithmic optimizations and now Alex Kipman, lead software developer for what used to be known as Natal, tells us that its processing overhead for the Xbox 360 console will be no greater than a "single-digit" percentage.
теги: #kinect

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 goes from clunky to cool Mac owners will find a spiffy new interface, a speed boost and other welcome new features
теги: #office

Facebook quietly introduced an "Unlike Page" button into its News Feed recently, which allows users to opt-out of receiving unwanted messages from pages they had previously said they "liked." Now, when a user clicks the "X" button to remove a story from their News Feed, there's an option to unlike the page, which joins other options including "mark as spam, "hide this post," or "hide all" posts from the offending page.
теги: #facebook

PC World - Sometimes you gotta bend the rules. And when it comes to technology, some rules are begging to get bent. You might do it to gain access to features or functionality that your gadget/service provider should offer but doesn't. Or maybe you just want to avoid something you prefer not to do--like coughing up your e-mail address just to gain access to a site's content, or (ahem) paying for stuff you'd rather get for free.
теги: #amazing

IDG News Service - Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child said that the XO-3 tablet computer will debut sometime in February 2011, about 45 days later than originally planned.
теги: #olpc

Kik, a new chat application for smartphones that is quicker and more social than SMS, is showing impressive viral uptake. The company says it has registered 450,000 downloads in the first 10 days since going live.
теги: #kik #sms

Miikka Terho is given the task of reading letters which together misspell his own name A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.
теги: #chip

Apple's plans to extend iTunes samples appeared to be moving forward Tuesday night as music publisher Symphonic Distribution said it had been told song samples would grow from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. Any song longer than two minutes and 30 seconds will automatically get the longer preview time. The deal for now is known only to affect the US and would be mandatory, as keeping music on the store would automatically grant permission.
теги: #itunes #samples

A TEENAGER has been charged with hacking his way into the Thames Valley District school board's website and posting student passwords.
теги: #hacker

Thirty-three contributors to the OpenOffice.org project are leaving, unhappy with what they say is Oracle's attitude toward the project's organization and management. The contributors, who are mostly from the German-speaking OpenOffice.org community, comprise translators, others in marketing and quality assurance and at least one developer. They will join others who are backing The Document Foundation, which was founded in September to continue the project outside OpenOffice.org, now under the purview of Oracle.
теги: #ooo

Even though Microsoft would have you believe Windows Phone 7 is the most powerful video game platform on a mobile phone, leading PC game developer id Software and lead designer John Carmack disagrees.
теги: #id #wp7

Global brand vendors are expected to launch their new generation smartbooks featuring the Google Chrome operating system (OS) later this month (November), while Google also plans to launch its own-brand Chrome notebook with a similar strategy as its Nexus One smartphone, according to sources from component players. Google's Chrome notebook is expected to be manufactured by Inventec with initial shipments to reach 60,000-70,000 units. The Google Chrome notebook will feature an ARM-based platform and will not be selling through retail channels.
теги: #chrome #google

Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation. The last technology that could be thought of as revolutionary, he says, was the Apple II personal computer introduced in 1977.
теги: #kasparov

Apple has quietly reduce the price of its Mac Mini systems in all non-US markets today. Reducing the price of the base model by €100 in Europe and £50 in the UK. But unfortunately for the US Mac fans the price will remain $699.
теги: #macmini

Google is suing the US government over what it claims is unfair competition with the likes of Microsoft, over a tender for a five-year contract to upgrade an email system for the Department of the Interior. The lucrative US government contract is worth around $59 million.
теги: #google

In a move sure to outrage both file-traders on BitTorrent networks and legal watchdogs, a well-known pornographer has filed a federal copyright suit against 7,098 individuals.
теги: #porn

Since its founding in 1946, Sony has produced some of the biggest hits in consumer electronics. Brand names like Walkman, Handycam and Trinitron helped define the company as a giant in the industry and more recent hits like Cybershot, Vaio, Bravia and PlayStation have helped keep it there. But no success story is failure-free. Let's take a look back at some Sony products that didn't win consumers' hearts and minds.
теги: #sony #products

Депутаты Госдумы и участники интернет-индустрии готовят поправки в закон «О защите информации», вводящие юридическое определение спама. Пока очевидных способов призвать отечественных спамеров к уголовной ответственности нет, считают авторы законопроекта. По их оценке, Россия теряет от несанкционированных рассылок по электронной почте более 14 млрд руб. в год.
теги: #spam

Федеральные операторы начали эксперименты с High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+), дающим возможность передачи данных на скорости до 21 мегабита в секунду.
теги: #3g

Арбитражный суд города Москвы во вторник признал недействительным решение Государственной комиссии по радиочастотам (ГКРЧ) об отзыве у OOO "Антарес", ООО "Арктур" и ООО "Интеграл" частот в диапазоне 1900-1920 МГц в семи федеральных округах России. Ранее эти малоизвестные компании пытался приобрести владелец группы Е4 Михаил Абызов. Их частотный ресурс подходит для строительства федеральной сети мобильной связи в самом современном из стандартов — LTE.
теги: #4g

ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dell today announced it has agreed to acquire Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration leader Boomi to help businesses reap the full value of cloud computing. Powered by its revolutionary AtomSphere technology, Boomi offers the industry’s only pure SaaS application integration platform that takes the cost and complexity out of integrating applications by allowing easy transfer of data between cloud-based and on-premise applications with no appliances, no software and no coding required.
теги: #dell

Today we are completing our deployment of our new social features that we built in partnership with Facebook. We’re really excited to get these features in the hands of all our US users.
теги: #bing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov 02, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- On October 7, 2010, federal district court Judge James Ware preliminarily approved a class action settlement related to the launch of Google Buzz last February. The settlement resolves a lawsuit filed by Gmail users who alleged that Buzz's launch violated their privacy.
теги: #google #buzz

We covered the Table Connect for iPhone (a 58-inch surface that mirrors your iPhone screen) a few days ago, and now the developers posted a video of the “device” in action: as you can see in the video above, the table requires you to start an app on the iPhone (likely available through jailbreak) and plug in the cable. Wifi is not supported at this point.
теги: #iphone

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