Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Ars Staff picks: our favorite 10 iOS apps of 2010
Ars Technica
By Jacqui Cheng | Last updated December 28, 2010 7:10 AM Apple recently
published its lists of top free and paid iPhone apps of 2010, spurring
discussion across the Internet as to whether the apps in question deserved
the honor. ...
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How Amazon Saved The Kindle (AMZN, AAPL)
San Francisco Chronicle
Who would want to spend money on an expensive Kindle that only does one
thing, when an Apple tablet would do so many more things for not much more
money? The Kindle is still here, and it appears to be thriving. It may not
be outselling the iPad -- we ...
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New Cases Suggest iPad 2 Will Be Sleeker, Camera and Speaker Equipped
Cult of Mac
By John Brownlee (4:44 am, Dec. 28, 2010) Look, you and I both know that
leaked third-party case designs for unannounced, unreleased Apple products
mean next to nothing. In fact, we've all been burned by drawing conclusions
from purely fanciful Asian ...
<http://www.cultofmac.com/new-cases-suggest-ipad-2-will-be-sleeker-camera-and-speaker-equipped/74812>
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AT&T to Expand New York, San Francisco Wi-Fi Service
BusinessWeek
By Greg Bensinger Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc. is expanding its free
wireless-Internet service to more public areas in New York and San
Francisco to help relieve its mobile-phone network in two of the most
congested US cities. ...
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McAfee: Smartphones, Apple top 2011 crime targets
CNET
by Caroline McCarthy Security firm McAfee expects malicious activity in
2011 to target smartphones, geolocation services like Foursquare, URL
shorteners, and Apple products across the board, according to a new report
released Tuesday. ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20026667-83.html>
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IBM Sees Visions of Holographic Cellphones Within 5 Years
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari IBM predicts that holographic cellphone conversations,
in which users will view one another's image via 3D projector, will be a
reality in five years. While the possibility has fired up imaginations,
it's also raised some practical ...
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S.Korea schools get robot English teachers
AFP
SEOUL — Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a
South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project
designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. Engkey, a white, egg-shaped
robot developed by the Korea ...
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In Pursuit of a Mind Map, Slice by Slice
New York Times
By ASHLEE VANCE TEAM LEADER Dr. Jeff Lichtman, with a 3-D image of a
section of mouse brain and a magnified section of a dendrite (red), in his
office at Harvard. ILLUMINATING A section of a mouse brain about 30
nanometers thick, ready for an electron ...
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