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Samsung fires first Android-powered salvo at iPad with Galaxy Tab
Apple became the biggest fish in the very small touchscreen tablet pond when it launched the iPad this past spring. But more fish will arrive starting mid-month when Samsung launches its Galaxy Tab mobile device in ...
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Scammers using fake copyright infringement notices for profit
HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French "high authority" that oversees the country's three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people out of their...
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Feature: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system
Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a...
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Wagering on warfare: Black Ops multiplayer revealed
Even though it's set to hit PCs and consoles in a little over a month, there has been little in the way of multiplayer details for the Treyarch-developed Call of Duty: Black Ops. This all changed yesterday when Acti...
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An ISP that knows nothing of "data hogs"
Pop quiz—which US Internet service provider made the following statement about a network upgrade? During the construction of this network we have given a lot of thought... to the business model in the US, and how...
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Feature: Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industry
It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry. "With hi...
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Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband finally shot down
For four years the Federal Communications Commission tossed the idea around like a beach ball: a coast-to-coast free wireless service across the low end of the 2GHz "AWS-3" band. The service would pay for itself via...
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Hot water around giant carbon star creates interstellar mystery
Hot water discovered around a giant carbon star requires a new theory for the chemistry around stars to be explained. The new theory could significantly alter our understanding of what materials exist in ...
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Microsoft puts final touches on Windows Phone 7, sends it to OEMs
Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 7 has hit the release to manufacturing milestone. The OS has been finalized and has been sent off to Microsoft's partners around the world, who in turn will put it on their...
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Microsoft unveils shape-shifting Arc Touch Mouse
After a month of rumors and leaks, Microsoft has released the Arc Touch Mouse. The device is available for presale on Amazon.com, BestBuy.com, and Buy.com for $69.95. It will ship in early December, and will ...
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FCC reacts to Google/Verizon deal with decisive action more questions
The FCC's plan for network neutrality—ideas which Chairman Julius Genachowski made central to his tenure, and which were backed by President Obama—has been under direct assault for the last month. Verizon and Goo...
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Hands-on photos, observations of new iPods, Apple TV
As you've likely already seen, Apple unveiled all manner of shiny new products at Wednesday's media event. The iPod touch gained cameras and FaceTime, the iPod nano went touchscreen-only, the iPod shuffle got its bu...
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No longer a hobby? $99 Apple TV drops storage, integrates Netflix
Apple’s September music event wasn’t entirely about iPods and iTunes this year. Alongside the music players, Apple announced a smaller, black Apple TV that costs $99, has no built-in storage, streams content ...
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Chrome August's big winner as Internet Explorer resumes slide
As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted. Internet Explorer has not managed to gain share for a third month in a row. Firefox is leveling o...
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New iPods abound—including multitouch nano—at Apple event
Apple held its annual fall media event Wednesday. During the event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled a new line of iPods, as has become tradition, including a new shuffle, a multitouch-enabled nano, and an A4-powered, ...
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Liveblog: Apple 2010 Music Event on September 1
Apple is holding its annual September media event that many believe will come with new iPods, new music announcements, and possibly other goodies. The event begins at 10AM PDT, on September 1 (see it in your t...
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Cat leaves bag: PSJailbreak cloned, released, freely available
The PSJailbreak hardware may be held up by the Australian courts, but to the surprise of no one, the code behind the project has been reverse-engineered and is now freely available online. You'll need the code, a Pl...
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September Ars giveaway: CanvasPop, DNA11, Griffin, and ThinkGeek
It has been just under a year since we announced Ars Premier 2.0. In that year, we've welcomed thousands of new subscribers, added a new $5 per month plan, had a number of live chats with industry luminaries, rolle...
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Sony's new e-readers: who needs wireless?
Sony has just dropped three new e-reader upgrades on the reading public, but the company seems determined not to compete directly with Amazon's new Kindle 3. Sony has updated its Pocket Edition (5" screen), ...
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No private net neutrality deal... yet
Earlier this week, a research note from analysts at Stifel Nicolaus suggested that a group of private companies had reached "general agreement" on a private network neutrality agreement after FCC-brokered industry...
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Canada avoids broadband duopolies, keeps line-sharing alive
Canada is staying with the community of nations that require their big Internet service providers to share their networks with competitive broadband companies. The country's Radio-television and Telecommunications ...
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Wil Shipley: "we tried to do too much" for Delicious Library 2
Delicious Library is, by all accounts, a very successful Mac OS X application. The software has won numerous accolades, including two Apple Design Awards and a Macworld Eddy. Creator Wil Shipley often brags about ho...
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Big cable has beef with FCC, says broadband deployment is timely
Upset with the Federal Communications Commission about something? Get in line. Proposed net neutrality rules, the Comcast/NBCU merger, new spectrum auctions—everybody has something at the FCC they want to sto...
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Feature: Enough to forget the Wii? A week with the PlayStation Move
The PlayStation Move is Sony's answer to the motion control trend. It uses a digital camera called the PlayStation Eye to track the movement of a new controller stuffed with gyroscopes and sensors and magic...
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How do you spell device mandate failure? U-H-F
Man, the broadcasting industry is on a device mandate rampage these days. For weeks, we've been covering the National Association of Broadcasters call for Congress to require all smartphones to include FM receivers....
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iPod FaceTime, touchscreen nano, 99¢ rentals all grist for Apple rumor mill
Every year in September, Apple reveals its new iPod lineup in time for the holiday buying season. This year's event takes place tomorrow, and the usual rumors about what Apple plans to announce have popped up. Here'...
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Amazon rumored to be prepping a subscription video service
Amazon might be getting ready to expand its video offerings, according to a report released this afternoon by The Wall Street Journal. Despite facing a wall of "no comments" from every party rumored to be involved,...
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US finally reforming its high-tech export control system
Many high-technology companies have run afoul of the US' Export Control System, which regulates the overseas sales of items that can be put to use for military or intelligence-gathering purposes. Given the pace of ...
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Obama administration: "Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft"
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the Obama administration will find, board, and scuttle digit...
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Palm brings improved multitasking and Node.js to webOS 2.0
Palm's webOS smartphone platform introduced some compelling innovations when it was first released in 2009. The next major version of the operating system, which is currently under development, brings some not...
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Cannibal bacteria could lead to new antibiotics
We tend to think of bacteria as engaging in chemical warfare only when they attack us, wreaking havoc on our cells. But the microbiome is a vicious place, with many species hurling toxins at each other, attempting...
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Apple may release iPhone 4 with revised antenna after Sept 30
When Apple gave its highly publicized explanation of the iPhone 4 antenna issues to the press back in July, CEO Steve Jobs said that Apple would give all iPhone 4 users a free case as an interim solution while the c...
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Microsoft shows off new controller, with transforming D-pad
The D-pad on the existing 360 controllers is, to put it mildly, utter garbage. If you want to play any games relying on precise movements, such as fighting games, buying a third-party controller is a requirement. Mi...
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Oxford English Dictionary ponders the (partial) end of print
They just don't make dictionaries like they used to—though perhaps that's a good thing in some ways. Take the monumental and splendiferously fecund pulchritude that is the Oxford English Dictionary as an examp...
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A video game made of paper: Les Editions Volumiques
As we continue to push forward into a digital world, the role of traditional forms of media are constantly changing. E-books are challenging the printed word, while board games are being reimagined on electronic pla...
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You have until year end to export your Google Waves
Google says that it plans to keep the site for Google Wave online "at least" through the end of 2010, and existing users will be able to export their waves before the whole thing turns into a pumpkin. The news comes...
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Better than a demo: the $5 prequel to Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero is an odd duck. The $5 Xbox Live Arcade release gives you a feel for the full version of Dead Rising 2, but with its own cut scenes, voice acting, story, and setting, it's far from a demo, t...
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R.I.P. ATI, and more on Bobcat in servers
AMD has announced that it is retiring the ATI brand, and expects to have fully transitioned all of its graphics products to the AMD label by the end of this year. And in an unrelated but no less important bit of ne...
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Trade groups: policing our digital copyrights is just too hard
Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley has a world of trouble on his mind, and he hopes that Congress will lighten his load... by gutting the best part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Defending his ...
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Gmail's "Priority Inbox" sorts important e-mail for you
You know the feeling: opening up your e-mail to find hundreds of messages of varying importance. Some are automated reminders from your favorite sites, some are newsletters you have subscribed to, some are actually...
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Science academies hand climate change body a recipe for reform
In the wake of a few high-profile errors found in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, the organization asked the InterAcademy Council, a coalition of national science organi...
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Roku cuts price ahead of possible $99 Apple TV upgrade
Roku announced today that it is dropping the prices of its line-up of set-top boxes. The pricing changes come just days before Apple is rumored to be unveiling a major revision to its Apple TV set-top box based ...
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Performance, stability fixes arrive for Windows 7, Server 2008 R2
In addition to releasing the most security bulletins ever on this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released a number of non-security updates, the majority of which are for the latest versions of its client and ...
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Own your gaming console: iFixit now offers tools, guides, parts
Your gaming hardware is expensive, used often, and there is no easy way to crack it open if something goes wrong. "The game console industry is hostile to consumers: goliath manufacturers have shipped hundreds of mi...
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Chrome 7 shows off hardware acceleration, "Tabpose"
Google's Chrome web browser will soon gain hardware-accelerated graphics—the latest trend for web browsers that has already shown up in early builds of Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4. Hardware acceleration ...
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Defendant, ISP: DC court lacks jurisdiction over 14,000 P2P users
Last week, one of the 14,000 defendants in the US Copyright Group's anti-P2P litigation campaign filed a document with the DC District Court, hoping to quash the subpoena that would reveal his name and address. T...
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Fennec alpha for Android too slow, but add-ons and sync impress
Mozilla has announced a new alpha release of its Fennec mobile browser for Android and the Nokia N900. Fennec offers support for add-ons and has tight integration with Firefox Sync, a browser synchronization ser...
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Intel to buy final piece of the mobile puzzle from Infineon
After nearly a month of rumors foreshadowing the deal, it's now official: Intel is buying Infineon's wireless unit for $1.4 billion in an all-cash transaction that will close in the first quarter of next year. To r...
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Judge derails Virginia AG's latest attack on climate science
A Virginia judge has blocked an attempt by Virginia state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to pursue a well-known climate scientist on fraud charges. Cuccinelli claimed that Michael Mann, who has become famous for...
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Windows Live Hotmail gets Exchange ActiveSync
Microsoft today rolled out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), which lets users get push notifications on phones and other mobile devices, as part of the Wave 4 release of Windows Live Hotmail. Some users reported EAS workin...
