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Google guru Philipp Lenssen has a cool tip on his Google Blogoscoped site: He shows how to turn on an experimental version of Google by pasting a URL into your browser. It’s got a number of minor visual tweaks, including a much cleaner version of the Google logo (it even skips the TM ...
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Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a consumer watchdog, embarked on a new project called Terms of (Ab)Use . Terms of (Ab)Use is the EFF’s attempt to enable people to understand what their End User License Agreements (EULAs) mean.
The EFF views EULAs as private ...
Online
Smartbooks are an emerging class of computing device that, basically, are to netbooks what netbooks are to notebooks: smaller, cheaper, less powerful, and (possibly) handier. They’re an idea being promoted by chipmakers Qualcomm and Freescale, whose CPUs will be inside the machines ...
Hardware
The developer behind mobile phone versions of Assassin’s Creed and Brothers in Arms isn’t as anti-Android as its finance director led us to believe.
Less than a week after Gameloft financier Alexandre de Rochefort said the company has “ significantly cut ” ...
Mobile
Android
Gameloft
The world’s most influential sites.
Apple to judge: kill Psystar.
Fresh look for smartphone Gmail.
Automatic Kindle upgrades coming through.
TiVo: less and less popular.
Firefox’s doing fast graphics too.
Times subscription with netbook discount.
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I like shopping for gadgets as much as the next technonerd–more so, probably–but I don’t plan to rush out to the mall on Black Friday. I like to do my splurging on my own schedule, thank you very much. Besides, I’m too young to be crushed to death by a stampede of ...
Hardware
PC
Run in a virtualized machine, Google’s Chrome OS feels pretty much like Chrome-the-browser–which makes the whole exercise kind of pointless, since it’s a lot harder to install and run a virtualized OS than a browser. But now f0lks are trying Chrome OS as a native, ...
Online
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Engadget
Last week, Microsoft brought Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm and the Zune Marketplace to Xbox Live. And it’s been a rousing success! According to Microsoft, at least.
The company says nearly two million people signed into Facebook from Xbox Live in less than a week since the feature ...
Online
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Last.fm
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As I mentioned earlier today , I recently discovered that I was a newly-inducted member of something called SavingsAce, a discount club that had begun charging me $25 a month. I called it, canceled, and got my twenty-five bucks back. I also asked how I came to be a member, and the rep told me ...
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Use Bing, spend extra money.
Remember Joost? It’s been sold.
More on “the Google phone.”
Vudu movie service gets Wikipedia.
It’s war: Amazon vs. Wal-Mart.
More publishers talk Google withdrawal.
Google explains offensive image result.
Google and Tivo ...
Online
Bing
Microsoft Bing
Apple has a bit of a quality assurance problem on its hands, according to press reports. Several publications are reporting that the new iMacs based on Intel’s Core i7 platform are inoperable out of the box, and some have even appeared with cracked LCD screens.
While the cracking issue ...
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Engadget
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There’s almost no such thing as “enough” in
the world of tech. But Amazon’s Kindle e-reader ,...
which can run for two weeks on a charge, surely has enough battery life. But the two-week figure only applies if you shut off the ...
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Over at Cnet, Greg Sandoval has blogged about
the post-purchase online marketing tactics that the U.S. government...
is currently investigating. These are the discount offers you get at checkout that involve you agreeing to a monthly charge ...
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Online Merchants: It’s Not Our Fault Our Customers Are ...
Apple has the opportunity to fast track submissions from its iPhone App store development partners. Partners that follow best practices should be given the benefit of the doubt to accelerate the screening process.
Earlier today, my colleague Harry McCracken wrote about a BusinessWeek ...
iPhone
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iPhone
App Store
The Entertainment Software Association is jumping for joy today over President Barack Obama’s acceptance of video games as an educational tool. As part of a bigger plan to boost education in science, technology, engineering and math, two game design competitions were announced, and the ...
Gaming
LittleBigPlanet
PS3
One of the most impressive demos I’ve seen in the last couple of years–although I’ve seen it only in the form of online video, not in person–is Swype , a form of QWERTY input for phones that was unveiled at last year’s TechCrunch50 conference. It lets you enter ...
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Verizon
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Nobody likes being compared to a misfit toy . So it’s not surprising that a couple of new iPhone ads feel like indirect responses to Verizon’s recent iPhone/AT&T attack ads ( here they are in a John Paczkowski post at All Things Digital ).
Unlike Verizon and AT&T’s ...
Mobile
Verizon
Apple
iPhone
Mac
Windows Mobile: not so bad.
Tweet, or we’ll arrest you.
Worm attacks jailbroken iPhones, Touches
Drobo adds two new versions.
Apple touts Black Friday sale.
iMacs: faster than Mac Pros.
Extended eBay outage? How nostalgic!
. Bing censoring Chinese-language searches?
Wii ...
Mobile
Windows Mobile
Microsoft
BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl scored an interview with Apple marketing honcho Phil Schiller, focused on the wildly popular , ever-controversial iPhones App Store. It’s a good read and I’m glad Schiller feels the need to address the topic in public. It’s completely true ...
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It’s just a rumor, but a fascinating one: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is supposedly talking to Microsoft about some sort of deal that would involve Microsoft giving News Corp. a boatload of cash to block Google from indexing its news sites , so Microsoft’s Bing could step in ...
