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Apple's iPad ad goes viral


The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mar 21, 2010 | 11:00 am PDT
Filed under: Apple, iPad    Apple's "Meet iPad" ad, which debuted during the Oscars, became the second-most viewed viral video ad last week. Michael Learmonth, writing for AdAge, points out...

Viacom v. YouTube/Google: A Piracy Case in Their Own Words - DailyFinance


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 10:48 am PDT
 CBC.ca Viacom v. YouTube/Google: A Piracy Case in Their Own Words DailyFinance Just as the three-year-long Viacom (VIA) lawsuit against YouTube/Google (GOOG) has reached a crucial...

Opera Designing a Safari Replacement for iPhone OS


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Mar 21, 2010 | 10:40 am PDT
Opera has always had a tough time taking on the big guys in the desktop browser market, but anyone who has given Opera Mini a try on their smart phone platform of choice would probably be pleasantly s...

What does Google really know about advertising? - CNET


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 10:37 am PDT
 PC World What does Google really know about advertising? CNET I'm not sure if I've made one inadvertent comment too many about my liberal lords and masters, but whichever...

Facebook has more loyal news reader than Google News - The Money Times


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 10:19 am PDT
 PC Advisor Facebook has more loyal news reader than Google News The Money Times As the strength of social networking sites like Facebook is growing at a rapid pace, they can surel...

Miyamoto Focusing on Getting DS into Schools - Escapist Magazine


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 10:17 am PDT
 Boston Globe Miyamoto Focusing on Getting DS into Schools Escapist Magazine Nintendo's top designer wants the DS to be used for more than collecting coins and saving princesse...

Review: Lexmark S605 all-in-one


MacNN | The Macintosh News Network Mar 21, 2010 | 10:15 am PDT
Lexmark has suffered from somewhat of a perceived quality issue in the marketplace over the past few years. The S605, however, promises to do everything: it's a photo quality 3-in-1 printer with a lo...

Switzerland Passes Violent Games Ban


Slashdot Mar 21, 2010 | 10:12 am PDT
BanjoTed writes with a followup to news from February that the Swiss government was pursuing a ban on violent video games. He writes "Sadly, Switzerland has now passed the law that paves the way for a...

Apple preps 2010 school field trips


The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mar 21, 2010 | 10:00 am PDT
Filed under: Education   Apple, through the Apple II, served as the gateway to computing for me; my third grade classroom had two Apple IIs neatly tucked away in metallic lock cases. With th...

Novell looks gift horse in mouth, rejects $2B takeover bid


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Mar 21, 2010 | 9:10 am PDT
Novell's CEO on Saturday notified customers that the open source software company has rejected hedge fund Elliott Associates' roughly $2 billion bid to take it private  

PhotoNest: your Twitter stream, in pictures


The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mar 21, 2010 | 9:00 am PDT
Filed under: iPhone I just tried out PhotoNest, a cool new way to view just the images posted to your Twitter stream. It picks up just the photos, and presents them in a slide format, captioned w...

Bad BitDefender Update Clobbers Windows PCs


Slashdot Mar 21, 2010 | 8:56 am PDT
alphadogg writes "Users of the BitDefender antivirus software started flooding the company's support forums Saturday, apparently after a faulty antivirus update caused 64-bit Windows machines to stop...

National Broadband Plan Gets Down to Business - PC World


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 8:42 am PDT
 PC World National Broadband Plan Gets Down to Business PC World There is a good reason for this since the newly-unveiled plan is primarily focusing on boosting broadband adoption...

The rise of the app entrepreneur - BBC News


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 8:33 am PDT
 BBC News The rise of the app entrepreneur BBC News The soaring popularity of smart phones has created a new type of entrepreneur - the "app developer". Whether it is fin...

Google Hands Out Web Security Scanner


Slashdot Mar 21, 2010 | 7:36 am PDT
An anonymous reader writes "Apparently feeling generous this week, Google has released for free another of their internally developed tools: this time, a nifty web security scanner dubbed skipfish. A...

App Store payola, and what it means for the app ecosystem


The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Mar 21, 2010 | 7:00 am PDT
Filed under: App Store Earlier this week, Wired posted a story about what they call "App Store Payola" -- the practice of sites that solicit cash payments (or other compensation) in order to expe...

Chinese Researcher Says US Power Grid Is Vulnerable, Strategist Overreacts


Slashdot Mar 21, 2010 | 6:17 am PDT
An anonymous reader writes with a story about Wang Jianwei, a grad student in China who recently released a paper detailing a vulnerability in the US power grid. Despite the paper being rather typical...

Happy Birthday, Gnutella: Pioneering P2P Protocol Turns Ten


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Mar 21, 2010 | 5:40 am PDT
Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network.  

Google Traffic Dominates the Internet - PC World


Sci/Tech - Google News Mar 21, 2010 | 5:34 am PDT
 The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com Google Traffic Dominates the Internet PC World Like a giant gravity-bending star, Google has grown so massive it is starting to have a measurabl...

Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System


Slashdot Mar 21, 2010 | 5:23 am PDT
Milo_Mindbender writes "I've recently gotten ahold of an old Altos 586 Xenix system (a late '80s Microsoft flavor of Unix) that has one of the first multi-user BBS systems in the US on it, and I want...

 

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