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FLV To MP3 Converter is a windows application that fast convert FLV To MP3 audio format.

January 28, 2012 Give Away Of The Day Comments Off

FLV To MP3 Converter is a windows application that fast convert FLV To MP3 audio format. FLV To MP3 Converter also supports MP4, MPG, FLV, WMV, MOV and more video formats to MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, and FLAC audio formats conversion

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Tamron and Kenko bring third-party glass to the Micro Four Thirds bash

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

The fresh trend of Micro Four Thirds shooters is on the rise, thus it shouldn’t come as a surprise that more glass-makers are jumping on the MFT bandwagon. Joining the likes of Panasonic, Olympus and Kodak as part of the Micro Four Thirds Group, is a trifecta of third-party lens manufacturers: Tamron , Kenko Tokina and ASTRODESIGN

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 28

January 28, 2012 NET News Comments Off

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1000-Player FPS Event Pits Press Against Gaming Industry

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

The creator of Counter-Strike, the creator of ShadowGun and many more notable people will be participating in the 1000-player FPS Guinness event taking place this Sunday.

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IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

It’s not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date.

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iPad announcement anniversary: January 27, 2010

January 28, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

Before two years ago , we didn’t yet know much about the hypothetical Apple tablet device , prescient leaks and rumors aside . We didn’t know for sure which OS it would run (although we were pretty confident it would be iOS and not Mac OS X). We didn’t know what it would cost — the WSJ hinted at pricing near the $1,000 mark — and we didn’t know what it would look like.

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Shocker! New RIM CEO targets existing BlackBerry users for upgrades

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

All of new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins’ fresh ideas will apparently still be revealed to the company’s board in a couple of weeks, but he’s already dropped some gems in interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters (update: and Bloomberg ). First item on the agenda? Getting current users upgraded to the latest and greatest BlackBerry hardware.

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Web video framework company publishes State of HTML5 Video document

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

As Flash’s ubiquity begins to erode , standards-based Web technologies are going to become the path forward for developers who want to offer a user experience that works across all screens. The HTML5 video element is already widely supported in modern Web browsers, but the capabilities and codecs that are available differ between implementations.

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Macworld 2012: Olloclip’s Three-in-One Lens Idea Was a Good One

January 28, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

620×349 with html5 and api support   We loved the Olloclip .

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Macworld 2012: Olloclip’s Three-in-One Lens Idea Was a Good One

MasterCard’s QkR mobile payment system enters trial in Australia

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

MasterCard is all over the map when it comes to mobile payments.

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SEC Goes After Online Trading Firms That Unwittingly Helped Latvian Hacker

January 28, 2012 NET News Comments Off

In an effort to crack down on hacker/stock traders who hijack brokerage accounts and exploit the stock market for gain, the Securities and Exchange Commission has, in a novel move, gone after four online trading companies and eight executives who they say helped a Latvian hacker make more than $850,000 from fraudulent trades.

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Nvidia Announces CUDA 4.1 with LLVM Compiler

January 28, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Nvidia just released CUDA 4.1 Toolkit, which integrates, for the first time, the company’s LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) compiler.

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Why You Should Smile in Your Facebook Profile Photo

January 28, 2012 NET News Comments Off

If you’re not smiling in your Facebook photo, your life is probably going to suck in 4 years time. Reseachers J. Patrick Seder and Shigehiro Oishi at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville discovered that smile intensity from a single Facebook profile photo in the first semester of college predicted self-reported life satisfaction 3.5 years later, at the time of college graduation

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Third Critical Rambus Patent Invalidated, Nvidia Vindicated

January 28, 2012 NET News Comments Off

U.S. Patent # 6,591,353, “Protocol for Communication with Dynamic Memory,” tends to refer to a “memory device.” The innovation with respect to this device appeared to be the introduction of a synchronous clock. That way, time-multiplexed transfers could take place in a regulated fashion.

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Price Drop: Adventures

January 28, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

Sure, there are tons of leveling up games where you repeat a similar task through increasing complexity and those are fun and all, but if you’re looking for a bit more excitement in your daily gaming routine, check out these price drops. Whether you’re fighting off hordes of zombies, putting the smack down on Deathstroke, or getting the knack of Expelliarmus , your pulse will be pounding. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 They’ve hit the price with a Sectum Sempra spell and slashed it down from $4.99 to $2.99 for this engaging universal app, and believe us when we say it’s worth it.

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Siri probably isn’t the bandwidth hog the WaPo warned you about

January 28, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

“How Siri is ruining your cellphone service.” That’s the searing headline from the Washington Post in an article by Paul Farhi. Farhi claims that “Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.” Where’s he coming up with this? Apparently, the “Siri eats bandwidth” claim is based on a study by Arieso that reports that iPhone 4S owners consume twice as much cellular data as iPhone 4 users and 3 times as much as iPhone 3G users.

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Israel announces plans to build national broadband network, increases fiber intake

January 27, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Israel is home to a burgeoning tech industry, but the country’s broadband infrastructure hasn’t really been able to keep pace. In terms of broadband penetration, in fact, Israel ranks just 21st out of 34 developed nations, according to statistics gathered by the OECD. All this may be changing, however, now that the country’s state-run electric company has announced plans to create a new national broadband network.

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Thought SOPA Was Bad? 10 Reasons to Oppose ACTA

January 27, 2012 NET News Comments Off

So, we’ve shot down SOPA and PIPA. Congratulations Internets for a job well done

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Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

January 27, 2012

We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we’re back

Face.com Launches KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone

January 27, 2012

Facial recognition company Face.com has just released a new mobile application that takes advantage of its technology to identify the faces of your friends in photos. Called “ KLIK ,” the app is a real-time, facial recognition mobile camera app for iPhone that automatically identifies your friends by name before or after you take their their photo

RIM’s New CEO Backtracks: “There Is A Lot Of Change”

January 27, 2012

On Monday of this week, RIM’s new CEO made a statement that set off a bomb on the blogosphere, and I’m not sure he understood its repercussions at the time.

Apple Overtakes Samsung As World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor In Q4

January 27, 2012

According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, Apple has now overtaken Samsung to become the world’s largest smartphone vendor by volume. Apple achieved 23.9% market share during Q4 2011, narrowly beating out Samsung’s 23.5% share

Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones

January 27, 2012

Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly attractive target group seems to be women, given how many Japanese companies say they design Android phones specifically for female users. Here are three recent examples.

Android Dominates Moolah Media’s Mobile Ads

January 26, 2012

It looks like publishers and advertisers are warming to mobile ad startup Moolah Media . The company says that in 2011, it generated 7 million leads for its advertisers — and 1.9 million of those leads (27 percent of the year’s total) came in December

Motorola Mobility Closes Out Q4 2011 With An $80 Million Net Loss

January 26, 2012

Motorola Mobility released their fourth quarter and year-end financials today, and now we can see why they made it a point earlier this month to downplay analyst expectations. The company’s new figures reveal that while Motorola raked in $3.4 billion in Q4 2011, they also incurred a net loss of $80 million. Things don’t look much more promising when we shift our attention to their mobile offerings

Steam Takes First Steps Into Mobile With iOS And Android Apps

January 26, 2012

As a gamer with admittedly poor impulse control, the newly-released Steam app for iOS and Android has me very worried. On the one hand, it seems like an ideal way to to keep tabs on the popular gaming service on the go. On the other though, I could easily see myself going overboard on buying games I don’t need when I should be pretending to be a productive member of society

It’s About Time: HTC To Refocus Smartphone Efforts Around “Hero” Devices

January 26, 2012

HTC has gotten to be remarkably good at churning out phone after phone these days, but it’s gotten to feel like each new release is too little too soon. Thankfully, the godfather of Android hardware has come to its senses, as revealed by Mobile Today

Distimo: Being Featured In The Android Market Can Boost Apps’ Rank By 172%

January 26, 2012

Earlier this morning, we looked at the findings from analytics provider  Distimo ‘s latest report, which examined what happens when mobile apps go on sale . (Spoiler: when priced correctly, revenue goes way up). The second part of the report looked at the ranking gains that occur when an app achieves “featured” status in a mobile app store like iTunes or the Android Market.

What Happens When Apps Go On Sale?: Revenue Up 22% On iPhone, 29% On Android

January 26, 2012

In a new research report from Distimo , the app store analytics provider examined two different ways that allow mobile developers to get a bump in both their download numbers and revenue. One way, which is within the developers’ control, is putting the app on sale. Within the first day, iPhone developers see an average increase of 41% in revenue using this method, and see revenue increases of 22% by the sale’s end

ShoeBox App Now Integrates With Facebook Timeline, Lets You Add Photos To Years Past

January 26, 2012

ShoeBox , the mobile app that lets you scan old photos and post them online, is today announcing Facebook Timeline integration.

Sprint’s Epic 4G Touch Gets Stripped Of Carrier IQ

January 26, 2012

Sprint has been spending the past few weeks quietly pumping out software updates that remove Carrier IQ from affected devices, and now it looks like Sprint’s flagship Android device (for now) will be able to run wild and free. Thanks to an update that started making the rounds yesterday, Samsung’s Galaxy S II variant the Epic 4G Touch joins a handful of Sprint devices to get the Carrier IQ cleanup treatment . Aside from giving Carrier IQ the boot (which Sprint refers to as a “security update”), the new build also includes updated modems and a fix for an issue involving multiple calendar alerts

It Only Makes Sense That Samsung Would Delay The Galaxy S III Launch

January 26, 2012

Every once in a while something comes along that’s worth a wait, and I think the Samsung Galaxy S III will be one of those things. We’ve all been expecting Samsung’s next flagship to show its face at MWC in February, but according to the Verge , Samsung may have other plans.

Google, Look Out Behind You!

January 26, 2012

Editor’s note : Guest author Keith Teare is General Partner at his incubator Archimedes Labs and CEO of newly funded just.me . He was a co-founder of TechCrunch.

Nokia Sold “Well Over” 1 Million Lumia Phones To Date, Posts €1 Billion Q4 Loss

January 26, 2012

Nokia earnings are out , and the contrast with Apple’s blow-out quarter results is astonishing.