Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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Verizon’s LTE dongle gets Mac-ready firmware update

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What could be cooler than sipping a latte wherever and cruising the web at 4G — ok, it’s really only 3.5G — speeds on your creamy smooth MacBook Pro? Well, we don’t get to experience that just yet, but Big Red is working on the problem and the final piece of the puzzle [...] Related [...]

PS3 Mass Effect 2 glitch can corrupt saved game – backup recommended

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Mass Effect 2 is finally out for the PS3 and many gamers have clocked in hours of gameplay time already. However, there are reports of an issue that is causing the save files to become corrupted. A glitch in the game causes Mass Effect 2 to freeze up prompting a restart. Upon restart, gamers are [...]

How to zoom and focus the iPhone 4 camera

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The camera on the iPhone 4 is more than just the camera you always have with you. It is a very nice photo device in it own right. Tap to focus and zoom are two of the major improvements in this camera. When Apple decided to [...] Related Posts: iPhone 4 adds enhanced screen, second [...]

Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 to have NFC

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The closer we get to the production dates of Apple's new mobile products, the iPad 2 and the iPad 5, the more likely it seems that both will come with nifty NFC point-of-purchase functionality. Having Near Field [...] Related Posts: More Intel inside iPad, iPhone Apple catches up with iPad demand, but not with iPhone [...]

Crysis 2 demo is out on Xbox Live

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The demo for Crysis 2 dropped on Xbox Live today and many gamers have been scrambling to get a taste of Crytek's latest project. The demo is just small cutout of the multiplayer mode and should give gamers an idea of how the final retail version will be like. The first Crysis game was an [...]

Microsoft files complaints against TiVo

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Microsoft has filed two complaints against digital video recorder manufacturer TiVo alleging that multiple patents are being infringed upon. Microsoft has filed complaints with the U.S. International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court in Seattle, both over what it [...] Related posts: Microsoft files suit against resellers for XP piracy but not for Vista [...]

Intel names Will.i.am ‘Director of creative innovation’ AKA ‘Made-up job title’

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Will.i.am named ‘Director of creative innovation’ at Intel. That’s a joke, surely. Please tell me it’s a joke. I think I must have passed out and awoken in a world where musicians who make terrible, generic music while wearing stupid clothes know about computer chip technology. No, it appears I am in fact conscious in [...]

Microsoft begins fight against Apple iPad

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Microsoft is having a very hard time fitting itself into the lucrative tablet business, currently all but owned by Apple's iPad, because the Redmond software giant does not really have a tablet-competitive operating system. Microsoft, of course, is not talking about the problem. Instead, they are talking about a potential putative solution, to come with [...]

The Social Network gets 8 Oscar noms, while Sean Parker claims it’s fictional

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The people portrayed in the film may not appreciate The Social Network, but many others do, including those who choose which films and actors are nominated for Oscars. The Social Network has nabbed eight Academy Awards nominations, tying with Inception and beaten only by True Grit and The King’s Speech in terms of numbers. It [...]

Dual-core phones? That’s so 2010

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It seems the mobile industry has got its own form of Moore’s law. But rather than the processing power of chips doubling, it’s the number of cores that looks set to expand further. It was only last month that LG became the most smartphone company [...]

Controversial law firm drops filesharing cases

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A British firm of solicitors frequently accused of bullying alleged illegal filesharers has dropped 26 cases currently in the court system. Solicitor Andrew Crossley said he was abandoning all work on the subject because of criminal attacks and threats against him. As we have reported on several occasions, Crossley’s firm ACS:Law Solicitors has sent thousands [...]

Parents beware: your toddlers are tech savvy

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Used to be that when you needed your VCR programmed you would call the next door neighbor's teenager.  Now VCR's are a thing of the past and now two year olds navigate the web.  As many parents can tell you, preschoolers know their way around technology. According to a new 'Digital Diaries' study from Internet [...]