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Pocket Porn -- iPhone 4 Gives Adult Industry a New Market
It didn't take long for adult entertainment companies to develop video-sex chat services. In at least five cities, Craigslist ads seek models specifically for video sex chat on FaceTime. Many of the ads even offer to throw in a free iPhone 4 for the new employees.
Facebook data harvester speaks out
Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.
9 Science Fiction Ideas That Came True
Technologies and gadgets that debuted in science fiction films and novels. Predicting Crime, Flying Cars, Space Tourism First Appeared in Science Fiction.
Want to see twitter in real time? Watch this video.
Want to see twitter in real time? Watch this video.- Cannot even find the retweet to give credit, moved to fast down the TweetDeck Column...
Bell may have 6GB of data for $30, iPad sharing option
Bell could land a victory against other Canadian carriers by offering a strong promo deal for smartphones and the iPad, a leaked memo shows. Similar to the deals Rogers has been running since 2008, the carrier would provide 6GB of data for $30 per month for BlackBerries, iPhones and other smartphones, including tethering.
AT&T: "We will be the premier carrier for Windows Phone 7"
Without question, AT&T's wireless growth these past few years has been largely based on iPhone -- and with apparently good reason, if you look at the numbers. As far as other platforms go, however, it's not been as rosy.
Three e-mail blunders to avoid
Here are three big e-mail mistakes you're probably making. (Sorry, we can't do anything about your iguana-like kissing skills. Drag.)
In eReader Price War, New Kindle Wi-Fi to sell for $139
Unlike previous Kindles, the $139 “Kindle Wi-Fi” will connect to the Internet using only Wi-Fi instead of a cellphone network. Amazon is also introducing a model to replace the Kindle 2, which it will sell for the same price as that model, $189. Both new Kindles are smaller and lighter, with higher contrast screens and crisper text.
Capcom, Namco Designers Talk Street Fighter x Tekken
Says Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada "I think Street Fighter is seen as the bellweather of the entire genre, the foundation for everything else. It's a major enough title that even people who don't play fighters know who Ryu and Ken are. So, to be honest, part of me wanted to get ourselves on the same playing field as Street Fighter."
Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings
Sorry to disappoint the people who were so upset that Dell was 'abandoning' Ubuntu Linux, but the PC vendor is actually expanding it desktop Linux offerings.
Exclusive Sneak Peek: DefCon Ninja Party Badge [PICS]
A hacker group known as the Ninjas has created what may be the best DefCon badge ever. The badge allows wireless ninja battle between badge holders. Unlike the official badge, attendees at the world’s largest hacker convention can’t buy this one: it’s free.
Best Buy Offering Free invisibleSHIELD to iPhone 4 Owners?
It's hard to say for certain what exactly this flyer means, but it sure looks as if at least some iPhone 4 owners will be able to snatch a free invisibleSHIELD 4fix (valued at $9.99 or so) from their local Best Buy.
EFF: UMG Tries To Undermine 'Safe Harbor' Rules
The safe harbors are part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and give sites immunity from monetary damages if they observe the DMCA's "notice and takedown" procedures for potentially infringing content and comply with other legal requirements.
Apple blocks Time, others from running iPad subscriptions
Apple is currently preventing publishers from enabling subscriptions for iPad magazines, say several sources. Time, for example, is claimed to have wanted to put out a subscription version of the Sports Illustrated app last month, in which people would be able download issues via iTunes, but pay Time directly.
Microsoft should cut out the middlemen, build its own phones
Microsoft has long been a software company: it builds the software, and lets third parties build the hardware. It's a model that has served the company well. But if it wants to be a serious player in the phone market, that needs to change.
Quite possibly the best Robots.txt file ever
Asimov would be proud.
Class action lawsuit filed over "overheating" iPads
A group of disgruntled iPad owners have sued Apple over the iPad's overheating "under common weather conditions.
Nikon Seen Launching D3100, New Lenses By August 19
Nikon's entry-level D3100 DSLR should arrive by August 19, leaked info suggested today. Following a previous leak, it's now believed the camera will be unveiled at or near midnight Eastern time on August 19. Four lenses would accompany it if Nikon Rumors is true.
Apple Safari Update Activates New Browser Extensions
Apple has released Safari 5.0.1, which activates extensions. You can check the actual extensions here.
Apple Censoring Their Book Store Bestseller List
Yesterday, this was the number one book at the bestseller list of Apple's book store: Blonde and Wet, The Complete Story, followed by Big Sis, both erotic short stories written by English auteur Carl East. Well, not anymore.
Why WikiLeaks Is The Pirate Bay of Political Intelligence
While WikiLeaks is relatively new to the public, it is actually a product of a long-established culture. That culture has already had a banner-bearer; a quintessential exemplification of its values: The Pirate Bay. WikiLeaks is akin to The Pirate Bay, but for another purpose.
Future Products (from the past) that Never Were
The world of yesterday is full of so many botched predictions and forgotten innovations that we couldn’t help but share eight more favorites with you. So come with us into the world of the future—as told by the minds of the past.
Bill Consoles Steve About Jailbreaking (pic)
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Android Takes A New Microsoft Approach To Fighting Piracy?
A new Licensing Service for Android that forces apps to ping Google’s home server at regular intervals to verify that they were legitimately purchased.
uMap: Show Your uTorrent Peers in Google Maps
uMap is a new App that allows uTorrent users to display all the peers they are connected to on Google Maps. While the App provides a good visualization of global BitTorrent swarms, it also demonstrates that anonymity is hard to find for the regular torrenter.
iPad Gets Odd Rival in $150 Android Tablet at Kmart
The online edition of a Kmart flyer has revealed plans for what could be an unusual entry into competition against Apple in the still young tablet market.
Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past
Computational rephotography is a fancy name for photos taken from the exact same viewpoint as an old photograph. Actually, that’s just rephotography. The “computational” part is when software helps out.
Download Droid X One Click Root Application
One click jailbreak is not new to iPhone world, but the situation is not the same in Android community. Until now, we had to follow numerous steps to get the root access of Android phones, which were really difficult to remember and implement each time.
Make iTunes Rock Harder with Add-ons and AppleScripts
Like many of Apple’s applications, iTunes is multilayered. Underneath its simple, straightforward hood, it’s surprisingly feature-rich, offering many powerful configuration options. And it’s time to make that power work for you with our guide to tapping into iTunes’ lesser-known but highly useful features.
Amazon Connects With Facebook, but Doesn't Kiss and Tell
Amazon has launched a new feature that connects users to their Facebook profiles, and then makes product suggestions based on their "likes" and other activity. But the online retailer also stresses that it will not share any of the data it has about users with Facebook.
Student Webcam Spy Scandal Broadens
When a student of Lower Merion School District was called into an administrator’s office. Sophomore Blake Robbins was shown a picture of himself that officials suggested was him popping pills. The family claimed it was candy. An invasion of privacy lawsuit followed, and allegedly culled evidence that the district had snapped thousands of pictures..
Blackberry Inventor Says His Company is Just Getting Started
Since Mike Lazaridis cofounded the Canada-based Research in Motion Ltd., maker of the Blackberry, his devices have spawned an entire industry—and quite a legacy. It’s no surprise then that RIM’s market share is No. 1 in North America and No. 2 in the world. But can he fend off the iPhone and Android?
Privacy Suit Targets Net Giants Over 'Zombie' Cookies
A wide swath of the net’s top websites including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd were sued in federal court on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to recreate cookies deleted by users...
Intel develops first photonics-based, 50Gbps chip
Intel provided a peek at the future of processors today by revealing the first instance of a chip using complete photonics to send data. Four lasers in the prototype convert light into data at about 50Gbps, or "many" times faster than wired connections. The rate, about 6.25GB per second, would be enough to send an entire 720p movie in one second.
Digg Vs. Reddit: The Infographic
There's always been a form of healthy rivalry between Reddit and Digg, and its respective user bases. I'm one of those indifferent people who think there's plenty of room for multiple sites of the kind, and that these sites actually make each other stronger and better in their state of co-existence. Rising tide lifting all boats and all that.Ne
Sony Developing New Blu-Violet Laser For 1TB Optical Discs
Sony is now helping to advance Blu-ray into the next level, teaming with Tohoku University in order to develop a blue-violet laser with a 100W output. This may not sound too important on the surface, but it holds a lot of promise. According to reports, this invention could lead to 1TB optical discs.
Oil-Based Color Pixels Could Let You Watch Videos on e-Paper
(PhysOrg.com) -- By rapidly manipulating colored oil droplets stacked on top of each other, a new electrowetting (EW) technique could lead to the development of electronic paper displays that can produce high-resolution color video. Displays that use the EW effect could have several advantages over ...
Do You Know Who's Watching You? (Infographic)
On the Internet you have far less privacy than you think you do.
30 Inches of Love, A Look At HP's New ZR30w LCD Monitor
This is a ginormous 30-inch display built around a sexy S-IPS panel. S-IPS, or Super In-Plane Switching, is the Rolls Royce of display panels and almost always offers significantly better color reproduction and far wider viewing angles than the much more common (and cheaper to produce) Twisted Nematic (TN) panels.
Did you hear the joke about the comedian and copyright law?
If creators need copyright in order to keep creating, why hasn't the world run out of jokes? A new paper suggests the answer: social shaming works wonders even without a law.
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