Copyright kings are judge, jury and executioner on YouTube

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

On Friday, a YouTube user named eeplox posted a question to the support forums, regarding a copyright complaint on one of his videos. YouTube’s automated Content ID system flagged a video of him foraging a salad in a field, claiming the background music matched a composition licensed by Rumblefish , a music licensing firm in Portland, Oregon. The only problem

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RSA: Giant Robots, Sumos and Now Cloud Security

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

San Francisco’s Moscone Center is packed with wild and extravagant displays this week thanks to the RSA Security Conference. You can fight a sumo wrestler, get your picture taken with a giant robot, ogle Ferraris and other race cars, win game shows and take home a wealth of prizes.

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Wednesday Recap: Google+ A Ghost Town, Camera Awesome, Windows 8 Preview

February 29, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

Happy Leap Day! It will be another four years before we see this bizarre extension of February again, so be sure to live it to the fullest, especially if you happen to be one of those poor saps whose birthday happens to fall on that fateful square on the calendar.

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Reflection app goes live, brings iOS screen mirroring to your Mac

February 29, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

Ever wanted to use AirPlay mirroring to show the screen of your iPad 2 or iPhone 4/4S on your Mac? Just released, Reflection ($14.99 for a single license, $39.99 for a 5 pack) offers a well-featured mirroring receiver for OS X, ideal for education and demos — and a great way to eliminate the Frankencable for iPad video capture. I’ve been beta-testing Reflection for several weeks.

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DigiMo Cracks The Code: Mobile Payments With No Point Of Sale Changes

February 29, 2012 Mobile News Comments Off

DigiMo , is a mobile payments platform that actually makes sense to me. When I sat down with CEO Yossi Yarkoni and VP of Marketing Nir Shimony at the Mobile World Congress to hear about their concept, which is piloting in Israel right now, the first thing I thought was “wow, why didn’t somebody think of this before”

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Nintendo blocks 3DS Binding of Isaac for "questionable religious content"

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Edmund McMillen, co-creator of the hit platform game Super Meat Boy , announced today that Nintendo of America has denied him a license to release his biblically inspired PC game The Binding of Isaac on the Nintendo 3DS. Read the comments on this post

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iRobot reorganizes, forms new unit focused on Ava and other emerging technologies

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

iRobot has been branching out from its traditional household and military robots for quite a while, and it looks like it’s now officially embracing those activities as a core part of its business. The company announced a reorganization (or “strategic realignment”) today that will see it comprised of three different business units: Home Robots, Military Robots and Emerging Technologies.

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Deals for Feb 29: 23" Dell Dual-core All-in-one PC $449

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Get your special leap day deals here!

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Facebook Needs to Stop Being Total Boobs

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

Earlier this month, Facebook decided to ban breasts, err, photos of women breast-feeding . Indeed, images of a mini-person sucking from the breast of a lady were too much for the social network to deal with.

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Security Analyzer, System Security Assessment Tool

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Security Analyzer is a free program for the Windows operating system to assess the system’s security status. The application works in some regards identical to Microsoft’s Action Center control panel applet

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Foursquare Dumps Google & Goes Open-Source for Maps

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

Foursquare just made what it called “a little announcement” , but it’s really not little at all. It’s switching away from the Google Maps API to OpenStreetMap . For the map images, it hired MapBox , a start-up that makes pretty maps out of OpenStreetMap data.

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With Windows 8, Microsoft Learns From the Mobile Revolution

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

The software world is becoming an interconnected Web of services tied together within the cloud. Applications used to be stand-alone objects that did not communicate with each other and were designed to do one thing and do it well.

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Lytro pre-orders start shipping, infinite focusing now within reach

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

Those of you that scurried to get an early spot in the pre-order cue for Lytro’s upcoming camera , ought to carefully skim your inboxes for an email confirming shipment of your infinite focusing shooter. Per a ton of tips from you, in addition to a post from the company’s official blog, early orders of the unconventionally shaped camera that allows you to refocus after the fact are now en route to abodes stateside

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RWW Hangout – The Future of Search

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

Each week (more or less), Jon, Robyn and other ReadWriteWeb team members hold a Hangout On Air on our Google+ page to take a break from the grind of reading and writing and talk face to face about the tech stories of the moment. We post prompts for what we plan to talk about, and we invite anyone in our audience to join in.

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Focus on the Future

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Lytro’s light-field camera allows you to focus your photos after you’ve taken them.

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Mini quadrotors play Bond, James Bond (video)

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

This week’s TED2012 conference isn’t all talk — sometimes the videos features speak for themselves. Check out this phenomenal one from the University of Pennsylvania starring a number of nano quadrotors playing the James Bond theme by banging percussion, hitting the piano and strumming a guitar. The room in the video has infrared lights and cameras and the ‘copters are outfitted with reflectors, making it possible to plot their position.

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TUAW TV Live: T-minus one week and counting

February 29, 2012 Apple World Comments Off

On today’s episode of TUAW TV Live, we’ll be talking about next week’s announcement of the next-generation iPad, showing off some apps, and all-in-all just having some fun. Next week at this time, we’ll hopefully have all the details — but what’s so fun about that

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MLB at Bat 2012 app out for iDevices and Android, brings in-app monthly subscriptions to iOS

February 29, 2012 IT News Comments Off

It’s that time of year when the hot stove league gives way to spring training, and people start talking less about things like El Hombre’s move to LA and more about batting averages and home runs. Thus, MLB has unleashed the MLB At Bat 2012 app to keep you up to date on your favorite squads and stars, and unlike previous iOS iterations, this time it’s free. That gratis version gives users limited info (scores, standings, news, and team content), but those willing to drop $14.99 get full access for the year, which includes audio game casts, live game video look-ins and the game of the day.

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AMD Enters Server Business With Bold Acquisition

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

Chip designer and chief Intel rival AMD has signed an agreement to acquire SeaMicro, a Silicon Valley startup that seeks to save power and space by building servers from hundreds of low-power processors. With the purchase, AMD will not only turn itself into a server maker.

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Strata Conference 2012: The End of Big Data Hype?

February 29, 2012 NET News Comments Off

Last year, I was slated to attend the first O’Reilly Strata Conference, but the 2011 Snowpocalypse intervened and said “no flights for you, St. Louis.” Not only did I miss the inaugural Strata Conference, but it seems like I missed out on all the hype and irrational exuberance for big data as well.

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Exec, The YC-Backed Mobile App For Instantly Doing Your Errands, Raises $3.3M

May 25, 2012

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Huawei-Made myTouch Q For T-Mobile Passes Through FCC

May 25, 2012

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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot.  Pretty much all the [read full article]

Google Nabs Key Members Of HP’s Enyo Team, But Open WebOS Is Still “On Schedule”

May 25, 2012

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Wirefly Memorial Day Sale Offers Extra $25 Discount On HTC One S

May 25, 2012

Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers

“Because We May” Sale Puts A Ton Of Popular Android Games On Sale

May 24, 2012

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Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.

Turn Your iPhone Into A Bouncy Ball With The M-Edge iPhone SuperShell

May 24, 2012

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Siri-ing John Malkovich

May 24, 2012

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Google Adds Subscription Billing To Its Android App Store

May 24, 2012

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Kayak Teams Up With Skyhook To Bring Reliable Location Services To Its Kindle Fire App

May 24, 2012

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Android Continues March Toward World Marketshare Domination

May 24, 2012

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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.

Deutsche Telekom CEO Says Merger, Not Sale Is Still An Option For US Branch

May 24, 2012

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Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.

Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad

May 24, 2012

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Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone

May 24, 2012

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Google To Release Five Nexus Devices On November 5th To Celebrate Five Years Of Android?

May 23, 2012

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On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November

Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications

May 23, 2012

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The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents

May 23, 2012

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T-Mobile Prism Now Available Directly Through T-Mobile Online, Company Owned Retail Stores

May 23, 2012

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Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract

Mint.com App Update: Now Split Transactions

May 23, 2012

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Rubicon Project Acquires Mobsmith To Expand Into Mobile Ads

May 23, 2012

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Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide

May 23, 2012

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McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012

May 23, 2012

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9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking

May 23, 2012

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Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App

May 22, 2012

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About Last Night Wants To Improve Your Nightlife By Making It Even More Social

May 22, 2012

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Twelve Minute Walkthrough Of Galaxy S III, See It In Action

May 22, 2012

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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..

Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data

May 22, 2012

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Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers

May 22, 2012

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Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone

May 22, 2012

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Zimride’s Lyft Is Going To Give Uber Some Lower-Priced Competition

May 22, 2012

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Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More

May 22, 2012

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Now On Your iPhone, ReadyForZero Is Ready To Save You From Debt

May 22, 2012

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Amazon Appstore For Android Now Lets Users Test Drive Apps Right On Their Devices

May 22, 2012

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