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Samsung shareholders approve spin-off of LCD business originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Glove that complements the strength of the human hand could help astronauts and auto workers alike reduce muscle stress from gripping tools for long periods of time.

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff used a high-profile company event in New York City to engage in one of his favorite activities: swiping at competitors such as Microsoft.

“I think they’ve lost their relevancy,” was how he described Microsoft during a Nov. 30 question-and-answer session, following his company’s unveiling of its Social Marketing Cloud. “I just don’t think they matter anymore.” He was dismissive of the upcoming Windows 8, suggesting that that the “Windows Everywhere” paradigm was terminally outdated.

Microsoft and Salesforce have made a sport of lunging at each other’s throats. On the product side, Salesforce.com’s browser-based CRM competes with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. On the lawsuit side, the two companies have engaged in tit-for-tat patent battles, the latest of which ended in August 2010 with Salesforce agreeing to pay Microsoft an unspecified amount.

In the wake of that lawsuit, the companies’ respective spokespeople took a somewhat conciliatory tone, with Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing at Microsoft (not to mention the bête noire of Google Android), describing the endpoint agreement as “an example of how companies can compete vigorously in the marketplace while respecting each other’s intellectual property rights.”

But that doesn’t stop Benioff from doing his best to rip into Microsoft seemingly at every opportunity. There’s a method to his madness: Salesforce products like the new Social Marketing Cloud (a suite of cloud-based analytics and engagement tools built atop Radian6 software) fully embrace the idea of browser-based software as an increasingly important business platform, one whose flexibility and scalability eclipses traditional on-premises software (and associated hardware). Meanwhile, Microsoft is powering toward the cloud as fast as it can, with products like Office 365, but its revenues are still largely tethered to traditional software such as Office and Windows, which it continues to heavily promote. Benioff needs to cast his company as the way of the future, and Microsoft as struggling to catch up.

The flip side is that Microsoft has billions of dollars and thousands of very smart people at its disposal. That means the company can do things like burn through hundreds of millions of dollars per quarter on developing online services. It can also afford to play a much longer game, strategy-wise, than many of its competitors. In other words, it’s a dangerous opponent.

So Benioff slams them as outdated, and Microsoft’s people fire back, and the game continues.

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The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM’s chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/ibm-battles-dire-mainframe-myths-188838

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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the JOBS Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at supporting small businesses by making it easier for them to access capital. A key feature of the bill enables crowdfunding, the process by which small companies raise growth capital from a large number of individual investors.  While many people are debating the impact of the bill on investors, what seems lost in the debate is what types of businesses are likely to benefit, and how crowdfunding can change the way we all think about early stage investing.

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Business technology managers are showing greater interest in Apple’s new iPad, but they continue to have reservations, an InformationWeek survey finds.

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Want to work for Engadget? We’re hiring a copy editor! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember those autonomous sea-faring robots we saw back in November? Well, it looks like their self-propelling paddles have slowly waded them into the record books. The bots have traveled a distance of 3,200 nautical miles (2,876 land miles), cutting the previous record of 2,500 adrift — not bad considering there’s no fuel involved. The quartet of data-hunting droids initially set off from San Francisco, before completing the first leg of their journey in Hawaii four months later. The quadrumvirate are now set to split, with two heading off to Japan, crossing the Mariana Trench (believed to be the deepest place on earth) while the other pair head south to Australia, with both duos aiming to reach their final destinations later this year.

Swimming robots break wave-powered distance record, don’t even stop for high-fives originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ikea teams up with prefab home designer Ideabox for an instant home packed with Swedish-style furniture, flooring, and appliances.

Originally posted at Crave

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57389515-1/ikea-designs-$86500-prefab-house-instructions-included/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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SecuSmart, a company that has been supplying secure Voice products to the European Union and NATO, has developed a mobile solution that fits on a micro-SD card and can be used in mobile devices for end-to-end, real-time encryption.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/secusmart-introduces-single-chip-security-voice-188543?source=rss_mobile_technology

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Security and cryptography experts at Amsterdam conference consider the enormity of securing a world where everything–from smartphones to power plants to cars–is connected to the Internet.

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Nissan leads efficiency charge as founding partner of project
Innovative new racing car to run at Le Mans with Nissan technology

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Chrome developer feature makes communication between different online services a lot easier.

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Apple’s new iPad is beautiful, but it might not be the perfect fit for everyone. Whether it’s your first iPad or just another upgrade, everyone can use a little buying advice before breaking out the credit card.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57395889-37/heres-who-should-buy-the-new-ipad/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple

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Google responds by calling IE’s privacy system outmoded and impractical; Microsoft takes some heat for selective presentation of facts.

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Starlings flocking near Oxford, England. These shots were filmed at an RSPB in Otmoor. by cameraman Dylan Winter.

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Google+ Hangouts On Air continues a slow rollout, as others show the potential of multiparty video broadcasts.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=6d7a5970f6861cc5c77324af083e9d71

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Foursquare made a slight, but welcome, change to its Facebook integration today that will now offer “prettier” Facebook Wall posts regarding your activities. Instead of posts that just show a standardized icon as before, the posts will include a full map, or your photos, if you’ve taken any, to accompany the check-in. Foursquare will also turn a long stream of check-ins into one, aggregated summary story. And Foursquare will begin posting a summary of your “recent activity” for the past month, which includes your check-in history, top places, new badges unlocked and more.

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The U.S. government aims to improve energy production from renewables to oil, but what does that mean in practice? Energy Secretary Steven Chu explains.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57395227-76/steven-chu-discusses-all-of-the-above-u.s-energy-strategy/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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With the one-year anniversary of Japan’s nuclear disaster approaching, an independent panel says Tepco and the nuclear industry had a false sense of security.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57390550-76/japan-astonishingly-unprepared-for-fukushima-disaster/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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See that crazy faceplate with matching wallpaper that sells for two-a-penny on Amazon? Well, Samsung wants to patent something even worse. It’s so bad we had to hide it away after the break. (Honestly, don’t look at it — unlike the USPTO, you won’t get paid for your trouble.) At first we believed the hype that it was some kind of wild Super-OLED-lenticular-transparent-flexible-display concept for smartphones, but now we’re not so sure. The patent application simply refers to a printed “film layer” stuck onto a smartphone’s case, which aligns with images on the display and gives the impression of a seamless all-over skin. Refuse to believe that anyone would try to claim exclusive rights over something so old and so commonplace? Go on then, have a gander.

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Samsung patents phone skins, mood swings, Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Deal appears to be mainly a way for Twitter to pick up some talented software engineers.

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Perseus embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades.

Source: http://video.wired.com/services/link/bcpid1813626064/bctid1498103961001?src=mrss

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There’s always a reason why things break in data centers, and the powers that be can usually find someone to blame — whether that someone is an IT operations staff member, an OEM, a systems integrator or a third-party service provider. Often, the offender leaves clear fingerprints, such as a mislabeled component or a process that wasn’t updated. Some incidents are clearly due to the oversights of multiple parties.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/whos-blame-when-it-breaks-188468

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The digerati at South by Southwest say lots of ridiculous–and hilarious things, and not with their inside voices. Now there’s a Twitter feed showcasing some curated favorite “overheards.”

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57395125-52/the-best-ohs-at-sxsw/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GeekGestalt

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Blood sweat and tears go into many projects, and in this case almost literally — although technically it’s blood, milk and mucus. Yep, researchers at Tel Aviv University have created biodegradable transistors from proteins found in the aforementioned organic substances. When the proteins are mixed with base materials in the right combinations, it seems they self-assemble into a semi-conducting film. Why blood, milk and mucus? Apparently, the different proteins each have unique properties. Blood’s oxygen storing ability, for example, helps mix chemicals with semi-conductors to give them specific properties, while milk and mucus (the only time we want to see them together) have fiber forming, and light-creating properties respectively. The hope is that this can lead to flexible and biodegradable technology. The team at Tel Aviv says it’s already working on a biodegradable display, with other electronic devices to follow — which should help stem the flow of waste.

Tel Aviv University develops biodegradable transistor, literally man made originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The magic of the recording studio gave way to the personal computer, the Internet, and social media. The world Firesign Theatre modeled in their surreal vision of the near future has become the default. We still love to repeat the catch phrases, the touchstones of our love-in with infinite possibility, but now they are the language of Likes and retweets, OMG and LMFAO, check-ins and iPads. How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all? Easy. It’s called Facebook.

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Since the one-two-three punch of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Viggo Mortensen has largely avoided the limelight. Aside from 2004′s Hidalgo, Mortensen has mostly shied away from swarthy, swoon-worthy action hero types. His only roles that touch Aragorn/Strider: He played a 17th century soldier in the 2006 Spanish film Alatriste (hardly seen in this [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/viggo-mortensen-speaks-2/

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Regular readers will remember that last August I wrote a post titled “Just how stupid are Internet Explorer users?” In it I quoted from a survey conducted by an obscure Canadian research firm called AptiQuant that “proved” people who use Internet Explorer are less intellectually endowed than people who use any other browser on the planet, and IE6 users in particular are a half step above paramecia on the evolutionary scale.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/t/cringely/internet-explorer-users-dont-call-them-dumb-187963?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Research In Motion pins its future marketing hopes on
low-brow comedy from College Humor.com. What could possibly go wrong?

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Key provision in the Obama administration’s new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights has benefits and limitations. Check out some of the compromises.

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The Taiwanese animators at NMA News have put together a primer on how the electromagnetic railgun works. Whether they’ve got it right is anyone’s guess.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57390695-52/how-the-navys-super-railgun-works-animation/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GeekGestalt

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There may be someone in a dark corner of IT who hasn’t heard about the consumerization of IT, that growing trend toward active user involvement and even control over aspects of the business’s technology portfolio. By now, most of IT is aware — sometimes painfully so.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/the-essential-strategy-guide-the-consumerization-of-it-187211?source=rss_mobile_technology

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We devoted geeks, Tolkien fans and fantasy nuts helped make Viggo Mortensen a star. We championed his Strider/Aragorn role in Lord of the Rings. Had we all dismissed his performance, had we not fully believed that this scraggly, gravelly voiced American was Aragorn, then perhaps Peter Jackson’s trilogy might not have won over the doubters. [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/viggo-mortensen-1/

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The Focus Electric will have a combined mileage of 105 miles per gallon equivalent, giving it the EPA highest fuel efficiency rating thus far. Range is rated at 76 miles.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57389246-76/ford-crows-over-105-mpge-rating-for-focus-electric/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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Microsoft sparked a tech-world furor Dec. 21 with the announcement that, starting in 2013, it will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at the Consumer Electronics Show.

“We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES,” Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of corporate communications, wrote in a posting that day on The Official Microsoft Blog. “We won’t have a keynote or booth after this year because our product news milestones generally don’t align with the show’s January timing.”

Microsoft will continue to participate in CES, he added, “as a great place to connect with partners and customers across the PC, phone and entertainment industries.”

Indeed, CES doesn’t always coincide with Microsoft’s timing for its more high-profile releases. For example, at the 2011 edition of the show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his keynote to hint at Microsoft’s movement into tablets with Windows 8, but the company nonetheless chose to wait for several more months before providing a glimpse of the operating system at work.

However, executives at the Consumer Electronics Association, which runs CES, seem to dispute Microsoft’s pullout as unilateral. Jason Oxman, the CEA’s senior vice president of industry affairs, told The New York Times Dec. 21 that Microsoft’s ending its show presence was more of a mutual decision. “From our standpoint, it was the right decision as well.”

According to Oxman, the CEA wanted a new company for that opening keynote slot long held by Microsoft. The newspaper paraphrased him as saying the split with Microsoft “had not been acrimonious.”

For its part, Microsoft could use Ballmer’s 2012 CES keynote (if not its significant presence on the show floor) to show off some of the Windows 8 tablets in development. But after that, it seems, all such announcements and unveilings will come on Microsoft’s terms. Whether that dampens the ability of CES to draw industry buzz remains to be seen.

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Microsoft and Nokia apparently toyed with partnering up for a Research In Motion takeover.

That bit of news comes from The Wall Street Journal, itself quoting the ever-popular “people familiar with the matter.” Those sources described the status of the talks as “unclear.”

Given its age and prominence in the mobile industry, RIM almost certainly has an immense library of patents, which could prove valuable to any Nokias and Microsofts in search of a little more intellectual-property protection in these litigious times. With RIM’s stock performance of late, the Canadian mobile device maker is arguably even more of a bargain than it was six months or two years ago, when similar acquisition rumors also surfaced.

But Microsoft has scored a number of significant legal victories against Android of late, between its campaign of cornering Android manufacturers into licensing agreements, and its minor win against Motorola Mobility with the ITC this week.

Any RIM deal would have come with significant drawbacks for both Microsoft and Nokia. For starters, both the latter companies are firmly bonded to Windows Phone, and Microsoft is planning (along with its manufacturing partners) a series of tablets with the upcoming Windows 8. That sort of ecosystem doesn’t exactly merge seamlessly with RIM’s, which is in the middle of transitioning from BlackBerry 7 to QNX-based BlackBerry 10.

Nor could Microsoft and Nokia have made a play for RIM in order to secure the latter’s hardware, considering a.) Microsoft and manufacturing partners, and Nokia, already have their own hardware portfolios and proprietary design language, thank you very much, and b.) the majority of RIM’s portfolio is centered on devices with a physical QWERTY keyboard, which doesn’t exactly fit with Windows Phone.

Would Microsoft and Nokia have bought RIM for its corporate business and cloud services? Again, Microsoft is already making its own great strides in the business cloud, and has a significant business audience.

At most, Microsoft and Nokia were just performing their due diligence by sniffing around a little. Buying RIM wouldn’t be a good move.

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A Gartner analyst predicts that touchscreen interfaces in the iPhone, Microsoft Surface and elsewhere may spell the end of the ubiquitous mouse….

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Panasonic has officially priced-out its 2012 Blu-ray player lineup announced back at CES, and it includes no fewer than six boxes (and price-points) for you to choose from. Four of the new players — ranging in price from $150 to $350 — are capable of playing your favorite Blu-ray flicks in 3D and come with Panasonic’s Viera Connect service, which provides access to online content from Amazon, Hulu and Netflix and a host of applications including Facebook, Skype and Twitter. The 2D models — which range from $90 to $120 — aren’t left out in the cold when it comes to connectivity, and include IP VOD support for streaming web-content. What’s more, the entire 2012 lineup is DLNA-enabled, can be controlled via a smartphone app and, with the exception of the DMP-BD77, has WiFi built-in. Four of the six units are available for purchase immediately, but you’re going to have to wait until May if you’re interested in the two higher-end models. Mosey on past the break to view the full press release.

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Panasonic prices 2012 Blu-ray lineup, high-end units due in May originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Focus Electric will have a combined mileage of 105 miles per gallon equivalent, giving it the EPA highest fuel efficiency rating thus far. Range is rated at 76 miles.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57389246-76/ford-crows-over-105-mpge-rating-for-focus-electric/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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While plenty of US domestic flights have their WiFi provisions sorted, international connectivity remains pretty rare. Attempting to bring another time-killing option alongside all those middling in-flight Marvel movies, Qantas has started testing wireless internet on its 14-hour flights between Los Angeles and Australia. The trial will run for eight weeks across six of Qantas’ A380 super-jumbos. Access during the trial will be free, however it’ll be limited to first and business class passengers, with data allowance currently capped at a weedy 100MB for laptops and 32MB for mobile devices. Well, at least you’re not walled inside an online store.

Qantas trials in-flight WiFi between Australia and US originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft sparked a tech-world furor Dec. 21 with the announcement that, starting in 2013, it will decline to provide a keynote speech or booth at the Consumer Electronics Show.

“We have decided that this coming January will be our last keynote presentation and booth at CES,” Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of corporate communications, wrote in a posting that day on The Official Microsoft Blog. “We won’t have a keynote or booth after this year because our product news milestones generally don’t align with the show’s January timing.”

Microsoft will continue to participate in CES, he added, “as a great place to connect with partners and customers across the PC, phone and entertainment industries.”

Indeed, CES doesn’t always coincide with Microsoft’s timing for its more high-profile releases. For example, at the 2011 edition of the show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his keynote to hint at Microsoft’s movement into tablets with Windows 8, but the company nonetheless chose to wait for several more months before providing a glimpse of the operating system at work.

However, executives at the Consumer Electronics Association, which runs CES, seem to dispute Microsoft’s pullout as unilateral. Jason Oxman, the CEA’s senior vice president of industry affairs, told The New York Times Dec. 21 that Microsoft’s ending its show presence was more of a mutual decision. “From our standpoint, it was the right decision as well.”

According to Oxman, the CEA wanted a new company for that opening keynote slot long held by Microsoft. The newspaper paraphrased him as saying the split with Microsoft “had not been acrimonious.”

For its part, Microsoft could use Ballmer’s 2012 CES keynote (if not its significant presence on the show floor) to show off some of the Windows 8 tablets in development. But after that, it seems, all such announcements and unveilings will come on Microsoft’s terms. Whether that dampens the ability of CES to draw industry buzz remains to be seen.

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Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/MicrosoftWatch/~3/Udz-1wzPQWA/microsoft_cea_take_different_views_on_ces_pullout.html

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I Am Alive has a familiar storyline with a fantastic setting of a post-apocalyptic world in the dismal aftermath of a calamitous “event.” The greatest challenge our protagonist faces is finding his wife and daughter, who are lost in this dystopic, monochromatic expanse of rubble, tangled metal structures and toxic fog. The plot is advanced [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/i-am-alive/

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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Neither. It’s HTC’s increasingly creaky-looking Dream and it’s just got its bootloader unlocked. Others may remember it fondly as the T-Mobile G1 and the very first Android phone to arrive on the market. For that alone, it deserves some respect and the right to join its successors in the unlocked bootloader pantheon. Retrospective tinkerers from the future can head over to HTC’s developer site for all the tools.

HTC Dream gets unlocked bootloader, makes someone’s come true originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/htc-dream-gets-unlocked-bootloader-makes-someones-come-true/

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Ever since T-Mobile and AT&T began touting their HSPA+ networks as “4G,” the debate on the term’s legitimacy has raged on. Regardless of how you feel about the matter, one thing’s for sure: Apple’s finally taken sides on the argument, and the company’s all for it. In today’s iOS update, Cupertino features an “updated AT&T network indicator,” which means you’ll see a 4G icon whenever you’re in HSPA+ coverage. Granted, this doesn’t actually mean you’ll enjoy faster speeds — you’ll just have a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that another G just got added to your screen. Such an action makes us wonder if Apple’s slowly losing its ability to stand up against AT&T’s wishes, not to mention the demands of other US carriers.

Got an AT&T iPhone? iOS 5.1 now gives you ’4G’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/ios-5-1-4g-indicator-att-iphone/

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Police and military robots could soon get two arms instead of one with the MK2 system from HDT Global.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57392797-1/mk2-arms-perfect-for-gun-toting-military-robots/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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Next up for Windows Phone: attacking the middle range of the market.

“We are dramatically broadening the set of price points in Mango-related phones that we can reach,” Andy Lees, president of Microsoft’s Windows Phone division, told the audience during the Asia D conference Oct. 19. “That’s particularly important because going lower down in price point opens up more addressable market.”

Until this point, Microsoft had positioned Windows Phone as more of a competitor to high-end devices such as Apple’s iPhone and the Motorola Droid. But Microsoft’s traditional aim with any of its products has been to capture as big an audience as possible, so a thrust toward the smartphone midmarket is perhaps inevitable.

For a couple of months, rumors have circulated about a stripped-down Windows Phone OS code-named Tango, aimed at lower-cost hardware and developing markets such as India and China. Back in August, Mary Jo Foley wrote on her All About Microsoft blog about two new Tango releases that could expand Windows Phone into new markets and load onto those cheaper devices.

At the moment, Microsoft is mostly concerned with pushing Mango, a wide-ranging update with some 500 tweaks and features, onto Windows Phone. That’s happening in conjunction with a host of new manufacturers, including Nokia and Samsung, prepping a host of new Windows Phone devices. Although outside research firms generally place Windows Phone’s share of the smartphone market far behind that of the iPhone and Android, Microsoft hopes that the combination of boosted software and new manufacturing partners can give the platform the momentum it needs to seize a bigger portion for itself.

One of those partners, Nokia, reportedly plans to show off its first Windows Phone devices at Nokia World in London, due to start Oct. 26.

That information also came from Lees, who told the Asia D conference Oct. 19: “Next week it’s going to be Nokia World, where they’re going to announce their phones and how they’re going to make the most out of the Windows Phone opportunity.”

It’ll be interesting to see what rolls out. By tossing out homegrown mobile operating systems such as Symbian in favor of Windows Phone, Nokia is betting its existence on Microsoft software allowing it to push back against Android and other competitors. I’ll bet anything that Nokia’s push will eventually involve Windows Phone devices targeted at that midrange. The only question is when Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will try to make that happen.

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Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/MicrosoftWatch/~3/7vhWL7pyT6s/windows_phone_will_target_smartphone_midmarket.html

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Forget a Moore’s Law for energy tech, says Bill Gates. Moving the energy system away from fossil fuels takes decades of work and multiple scientific breakthroughs.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57386725-76/gates-on-energy-it-revolution-has-warped-our-minds/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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The subject of rumors for nearly a year, Apple today is expected to release the details of its new iPad at 10 a.m. PT. As usual, the company is tight-lipped, but as the date approached, the usually credible sites’ rumors have converged to a description of a new iPad that appears to be an incremental update to the very popular iPad 2.

Source: http://akamai.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/the-ipad-3-debuts-what-look-187608?source=rss_mobile_technology

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The Science Channel is featuring its “Are We Alone” week all this week, and one piece of the programming pie is a special episode of Through the Wormhole, with host Morgan Freeman. The episode, titled “Will We Survive First Contact?” talks to a number of scientists about what the possibilities of communicating with extra-terrestrial intelligences [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/03/morgan_freeman/

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Mobile threats increased six-fold between 2010 and 2011, says
Kapersky Lab, as security experts at RSA debate whether
Android or iPhone is more secure against malware attacks.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=b5d71634bb7f92fc0ab4eefe928122e0

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To ease traffic on its 3G network, Verizon wants all future smartphone releases to support LTE.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=92729175e7bd3cadc2759c9ffd824cf9

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To ease traffic on its 3G network, Verizon wants all future smartphone releases to support LTE.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=92729175e7bd3cadc2759c9ffd824cf9

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Companies that don’t invest in mobile websites and ads will soon get left behind by customers, predicts Google’s global head of mobile.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=b5bbb4de3d58c04d764222a26cd5a9df

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Apple is highly selective about what it reveals in event invitations. What does its latest tell us about the iPad 3?

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=e7623a09ecbefaf27b4a7e7bfbfc6705

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We’re sure many have fallen in love with Nokia’s new cameraphone, but are perhaps not so willing to get back together with its Symbian OS. Fortunately, it looks like Nokia will be — unsurprisingly — gently placing its Pureview technology inside a future Windows Phone family member. Confirmed in Finnish broadsheet Aamulehti, Senior Vice President Jo Harlow said that although no date was penned in quite yet, it wouldn’t be all that far away. The high-end camera credentials gifted to the Pureview 808 at MWC last week surprised plenty, given that Nokia proclaimed that its whole company had nailed its colors to the Windows Phone mast when it came to its flagship OS. Regardless, a polycarbonate PureView sounds pretty good to us.

Nokia Senior VP: PureView imaging technology coming to our Windows Phones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/05/nokia-pureview-windows-phone-confirmed/

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We know that it’s become all too easy to assume that the PlayStation Network is getting hacked again whenever it goes down. That said, consider this another heads-up in long line of previous friendly reminders: Since being postponed last Thursday, Sony’s announced that the PSN will go down for “significant maintenance” tomorrow, March 4th starting at 2 3 PM EST until approx 5 AM on Monday, March 5th. Unlike February’s fixin’, you’ll still be booted offline even if you’ve logged-in with your SEN ID prior to the scheduled maintenance window. This means you won’t be able to hop into a game of Domination on MW3, along with being restricted from accessing your account, the PlayStation Store, Home etc., as per usual. You can stay glued to PlayStation on Twitter to get the official word on when everything’s back up, but may we suggest it could be a good chance for a lazy Sunday stroll? Hey, consider it an excuse to try out Near if you were one of the 1.2 million to snag yourself a PS Vita — oh wait, that requires being logged into the PSN, too. Sigh.

PSA: PlayStation Network goes down for maintenance tomorrow, will last around 15 hours originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/03/psa-playstation-network-goes-down-for-maintenance-tomorrow-wil/

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China-based gadget blog says it has obtained and assembled the front glass, rear shell, and cases for Apple’s next tablet.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57390237-37/is-this-what-the-ipad-3-will-look-like/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple

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An aimless Asajj Ventress joins a team of bounty hunters under the leadership of young Boba Fett. On an alien world, they undertake a dangerous but profitable mission that tests the limits of their skills, and the strength of Asajj’s character.

Source: http://www.wired.com/video/services/link/bcpid1813626064/bctid1485504981001?src=mrss

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Growth of unstructured data forces IT managers to look for new ways to scale storage capabilities, with cloud storage a leading option.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=09da21b81a2118f3f4829b8814919a56

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Microsoft failed to gain much ground in the mobile phone market in 2011, but its partners should help it grab a piece of the market this year.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=24b71d379108266d90c45cb56c9609bf

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We can learn at least one thing from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s talk at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco: When it comes to smartphone competition, Microsoft sees Android as a bigger threat than Apple.

I’m basing that solely on the vitriol that Ballmer leveled at Android (and Google in general) while leaving Apple relatively unscathed. Indeed, he offered faint praise for the iPhone, grouping it along with Windows Phone as a device that feels “good in your hand.” His most damning criticism was that the iPhone offers “seas of icons,” versus Windows Phone’s goal of placing “information front and center.”

But he launched an attack on Android. First he said, “You don’t need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone,” as if you somehow need a Ph.D to use an Android-based device. Then he added, “It is very hard to be excited, for me, about the Android phones,” which, well, is exactly what you’d expect the CEO of Microsoft to say under such circumstances.

It makes sense that Ballmer would reserve the bulk of his fire for Android, considering that both Microsoft and Google are following roughly the same strategy in smartphones: Persuade hardware manufacturers to load your software onto as many devices as possible, in a bid to saturate the market. But Android’s a dominating platform while Windows Phone, roughly a year after its release, is still struggling for adoption.

At the same time, though, maybe Ballmer should curb some of that ire: The more Android devices sold, the more Microsoft gets paid, thanks to a series of patent-licensing agreements with Android manufacturers.

That Android strategy (Microsoft’s alternative for Android manufacturers who refuse to enter into a licensing agreement: an intellectual property lawsuit) is just one piece of Microsoft’s larger competitive thrust against Google. During his talk, Ballmer also insisted that, with the release of Office 365 and other cloud-productivity platforms, Microsoft was making more progress against Google in the cloud. “Our ramp rate of sold seats, it’s got a nice trajectory,” he said, “We’ve got a highly functional product that’s highly available.”

He also painted Microsoft as gaining search-engine traction with users despite Google’s dominance of the search space. Bing’s progress was good “not just for share but for having enough data to continue to improve the product,” he said, according to a video of the talk posted on YouTube, “to make search more than just 10 blue links.” He sidestepped a moderator question about whether Microsoft would create its own social platform along the lines of Google Plus, suggesting instead that “we’re adding what we would call connectivity to our products.”

In other words, don’t expect this battle to end any time soon.

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Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/MicrosoftWatch/~3/S9P1LdE8se0/microsofts_ballmer_swipes_at_google.html

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Anyone can take Windows 8 for a spin now that Microsoft has launched the so-called “consumer preview” version of the software at an event in Barcelona on Wednesday.

The company said that ARM processor reference designs for Windows 8 are in testing and making the same progress as those running on X86 chips. This is the first time that Windows will run on ARM, widely used in smartphones and tablets. Given the progress that Microsoft said it is making, some company observers think Windows 8 will likely launch this year.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/microsoft-windows-8-arm-track-187655?source=rss_mobile_technology

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Nokia keeps it ‘amazing everyday’ in the US, gives Lumia 710 owners free colorful covers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/02/nokia-giving-lumia-710-users-free-covers/

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Mark this up as one more crucial chapter in the much-thumbed book called “The Consumerization of IT”: a new app has launched from a Y Combinator-backed startup that offers builders the ability to store, manage and view blueprints on and iPad tablet. The unique selling point for PlanGrid, as the app is called, is that it promises to present building blueprints in a far more efficient way than they have been presented before. But on a more general level, PlanGrid is a sign of how the iOS platform is maturing and attracting a new wave of developers who target specific enterprise verticals with solutions tailored to their business needs.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4lBLkBua1I0/

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Software for print production, archiving PDFs spent two years in LiveCycle’s J2EE line but is back in its own old-school version…

Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/pdfutils/~3/CJddfE1UyIc/

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Mozilla enlists Ford Foundation to support development of tracking visualization software to help Internet users make informed privacy choices.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=cd410a023ebf9f0d49571b374542e8e4

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It used to be the IT department’s answer was always no when an employee asked to use a personal device for work. IT often felt the risk was far too great to the company’s network security to allow this.

First came the BlackBerry, but this was usually a company-owned device. The deal breaker came with the iPhone. The advent of Apple’s smartphone turned everything around. Employees began to make inroads in cracking down the network manager’s wall.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/consumerization-of-it/byod-there-no-stopping-employees-devices-your-network-187675?source=rss_mobile_technology

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Ikea teams up with prefab home designer Ideabox for an instant home packed with Swedish-style furniture, flooring, and appliances.

Originally posted at Crave

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57389515-1/ikea-designs-$86500-prefab-house-instructions-included/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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At a private meeting last night in New York City, Facebook revealed to trusted partners a plan to restructure the 3-year-old Preferred Developer Consultant program around 4 areas: Page management, Ads API, Insights, and custom app development. My sources tell me Facebook will be granting approval badges in the 4 verticals, the latter two of which have never had their own distinctions. This new unified API partner program will launch soon to replace the PDC and Ads API partner programs, and make it easier for brands to discover Facebook marketing services vendors. The overhaul is designed to encourage more companies to formally offer Facebook marketing services, and get brands spending more on Facebook faster.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/o9bbMWkppFU/

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Hewlett-Packard has cut 275 jobs in its webOS group, as part of its strategy to turn the operating system over to the open source community, a source said Tuesday.

HP said last year that it would stop making devices that use the operating system which was developed by Palm for phones and tablets, and later decided to release the software under the Apache License 2.0. HP had acquired Palm in 2010.

Source: https://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/hp-cuts-jobs-webos-transitions-open-source-187611?source=rss_mobile_technology

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Your guide to the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit this week, where startups and research institutions are showing off the latest inventions in cleaner energy.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57386985-76/at-arpa-e-energy-meets-innovation/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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DOE chief says research will reshape energy’s future, enabling grids that run on renewable energy and creating batteries and vehicles that are both more efficient and powerful.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57386527-76/steven-chu-puts-clean-energy-on-faster-learning-curve/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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Apple has won an injunction potentially requiring Motorola Mobility to recall infringing smartphones, in the two companies’ ongoing patent battle in Germany, according to a blogger following the case. Presiding Judge Peter Guntz granted Apple the injunction on Thursday, according to Florian Mueller, a patent analyst who writes the FOSS Patents blog. Apple has accused Motorola of infringing its patent for a portable electronic device for photo management.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/apple-wins-injunction-against-motorola-in-german-court-187786

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CellTrust showcases SecureVoice and SecureSMS, which enable highly secure & confidential voice and text communications, at MWC 2012.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=028fe2ac5aa6b682eb95c3fa1c62a733

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Air Force has given clearance for its version of the Joint Strike Fighter to begin tests–a major milestone. The program could cost a trillion dollars over the next 50 years.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57387692-52/pentagon-you-know-whats-cool-a-trillion-dollar-fighter/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=GeekGestalt

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Ericsson took a step to simplify carrier mobile networks on Tuesday, during a Mobile World Congress show where infrastructure is getting more complex.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/ericsson-extends-son-automate-mixed-mobile-networks-187505?source=rss_mobile_technology

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A bit of news that squeaked out during the Win8 festivities was the launch of the Microsoft app store. In the version of the software I was using, the app has always been there but it wasn’t available until today. To be clear, the app store here is still in its absolute infancy and is, at best, a hall of demos for various app providers. The real test of Windows 8 will be the adoption of the OS’s new design paradigms. While everyone will eventually have to fix their apps to reflect Win8′s major architecture changes, there is going to be a lot of hand-holding until the Win9 (potentially) destroys all vestigial Windows cruft. For example, Windows 8 still uses a legacy version of the registry inside Windows 8, a necessary evil required by many applications. Many apps won’t be able to update to Win8 UI standards and many more apps won’t trickle over to the Microsoft app store. It’s this disconnect that will challenge Windows 8 in the first few years of life.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fyiV7o_Acbk/

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Recently, I noted about the exciting new peripherals that are adding to the enjoyment of PC gaming. I discussed updating my mouse and keyboard to enhance online experience with role-playing games – you can read about it here. Our friends at SteelSeries thought that I should add the SRW-S1 Steering Wheel to my gaming repertoire, [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/add-a-steering-wheel-to-that-desktop/

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Way back in the days of Android yore, the stock browser got the job done but did so with a minimum of flair. Now there’s no shortage of first-rate mobile browsers out there, but mobile browser war mainstay Dolphin has just released a new update that packs an equally new (and nifty) feature: it’s called Sonar, and it lets you navigate the web with your voice. Once the update is installed, a small button will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. Long-pressing that button allows users to select between drawing Dolphin’s navigation gestures on screen and using Sonar to speak their commands aloud. One more quick press and users can start yapping away with Dolphin’s voice commands.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/mD7FZZpuLEs/

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Companies that don’t invest in mobile websites and ads will soon get left behind by customers, predicts Google’s global head of mobile.

Source: http://feeds.informationweek.com/click.phdo?i=b5bbb4de3d58c04d764222a26cd5a9df

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Many thanks to everyone who submitted a response to this past Monday’s Geekdad Puzzle of the Week that celebrated Presidents’ Day. The puzzle as presented: In honor of President’s Day, the picture below (when properly decoded) spells out a rather presidential question. Send your answer to this question to GeekDad Puzzle Central for a chance [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/02/geekdad-puzzle-of-the-week-solution-presidents-day-2012/

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Aiming for a breakthrough in biofuel production, Berkeley National Lab project seeks to tweak tobacco plants with hydrocarbon-producing properties of algae and cyanobacteria.

Originally posted at News – Cutting Edge

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57385767-76/tobacco-farms-a-vehicle-for-growing-fuel/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

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Fixmo, a company that started out developing tools for the U.S. National Security Agency, is offering a new product that will automatically shut down corporate applications on compromised iOS and Android devices.

Fixmo MRM, which stands for mobile risk management, integrates two products. One is Fixmo Sentinel, which has its roots in the NSA technology and regularly scans a phone to ensure that it is adhering to policies set by the organization. Consisting of both back-end and on-device software, it alerts an administrator to any unauthorized changes to the phones.

Source: http://podcasts.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/fixmo-blocks-corporate-apps-compromised-mobile-devices-187351?source=rss_mobile_technology

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Microsoft has unveiled Bing’s top-searched terms for 2011, a list that harbors absolutely no surprises.

Topping the list of most-searched people is Justin Bieber, which suggests a lot of tweens are using Microsoft’s search engine for their teen-idol needs. No. 1 in the category of consumer electronics was Xbox/Kinect, followed by the Kindle, then PlayStation.

Top news stories searched out on Bing include the Casey Anthony trial, Osama bin Laden’s death, and Hurricane Irene. Top finance queries included real estate agents, “cheap” and “coupons.” Vegas ended up the most-searched world destination, and the upcoming “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” the most-hunted movie.

The complete list is available here, for anyone with a burning desire to find out, say, which reality star or morning show topped Bing’s search list.

Microsoft accounted for 14.8 percent of the U.S. search engine market in October, according to research firm comScore, compared with Google at 65.6 percent. Although Yahoo racked up 15.2 percent of that market, its back-end search is powered by Bing, which for all purposes folds its share into that of Microsoft.

In essence, Microsoft holds a third of the domestic search market. From its inception, the company has tried to differentiate itself from Google in a number of ways, most notably its subdivision of search into a series of subject-specific verticals, including “Shopping” and “Travel.” In contrast to the Google search page’s famous blank background, Bing also refreshes daily with a new image.

In addition, Microsoft’s partnership with Facebook has allowed Bing to take things a step deeper, layering search with social data such as the ability to see which friends “Liked” a particular Website.

Despite the steady stream of new features, though, Microsoft’s gains against Google have come in a decidedly gradual game, and the company’s online division costs it millions of dollars per quarter in losses. Nonetheless, as Microsoft moves increasingly toward the cloud and mobility, Bing plays an ever-greater role as both a collector of aggregate user data and as a branding tool.

That’s more than enough reason (aside from giving Bieber-ites their all-important fix) for the company to continue pouring money into the effort.

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Source: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com/~r/RSS/MicrosoftWatch/~3/WD5_nsRejVo/microsoft_bings_most-searched_terms_include_bieber_xbox.html

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Google reportedly will offer augmented reality glasses by the end of the year. But are you ready for the pitfalls?

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Count Dooku is determined to have revenge against the Nightsisters of Dathomir after their betrayal.

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A shipping document revealed on a Chinese Web site apparently points to iPad 3 units leaving China for U.S. airports.

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GAO report says network, which just got $7 billion in funding, lacks many key voice capabilities, forcing use of current system for another 10 years.

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

According to Wikipedia, the mountain lion, also known as the cougar, is distinguished by having the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial animal in the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, from what we’ve seen so far of Apple’s forthcoming Mac operating system, its new features will likely find favor with a broader range of Apple users than Lion.

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Search company acquisition will help Apple’s customers more easily find the mobile apps they need.

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Army’s aggressive mobile device plans include a BYOD policy, new
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Microsoft’s mobile business will get a big boost from HP’s decision to open source webOS, says one analyst. Is his logic sound?

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No oil, no coal, no nuclear. Radical thinker Amory Lovins says combining cutting-edge technology through integrated design is the key to clean energy innovation.

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Security experts hammer on security ideas they say are both widely believed and false

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What kind of author, for all practical purposes, kills off his primary character in the first few paragraphs of his debut novel? I mean, she’s not dead physically, but the person she was, her personality, her quirks, her memories… gone. And all she’s done is leave a note in her pocket that barely explains her [...]

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The iPhone-friendly Tongue Drive System employs a retainer embedded with sensors that track a tiny magnet attached to the user’s tongue.

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