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| | | | | | PC World - You can jailbreak your iPhone, your iPod Touch, and your iPad, but what about your brand new Apple TV? A product reference found in Apple’s iOS is, in reality, the new AppleTV according to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), which confirms that Apple's new media streaming gadget is, indeed, an iOS device. | |
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| | | | | |  Reuters - Singer Fantasia allowed the aftermath of her recent suicide attempt to be filmed for her VH1 reality show "Fantasia for Real," according to a trailer for the show that was posted online Friday.
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| | | | | | PC World - Editor's Note: Welcome to Viral Views, a new Friday feature from GeekTech! Viral Views takes all the awesome things on the web and narrows them down to bring you only the very best. Everything from videos to Web pages--we have the gems of the Internet. | |
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| | | | | | The Upshot - Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment today: • Yet another thief donned a Darth Vader mask as a disguise to carry out a robbery. (Boston.com) • Former President Jimmy Carter says that the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy thwarted his administration's health care reform plan. (CBS) • [...] | |
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| | | | | | Macworld.com - MacJournal for iPhone, Mariner Software’s writing and blogging companion to its Mac client, has gained its first major update, which brings a handful of new organization features and support for iOS 4. | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz sought Friday to ease tensions with Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant in which the California Internet company holds a 39 percent stake.
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| | | | |  AFP - South Korea's Samsung took aim at Apple's iPad and iTunes on Friday with the US launch of its new Galaxy tablet computer and an online entertainment hub for movies and television shows. | |
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| | | | | | Ben Patterson - About 17 percent of Netflix subscribers are already streaming their TV shows over broadband rather than watching them on cable, according to a recent survey — and if you only count younger Netflix users, the figure jumps to about one in three. | |
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| | | | | | AP - A girl who ran away from home and became a prostitute at age 14 is suing Village Voice Media, accusing the newspaper conglomerate of knowingly allowing her pimp to advertise her sexual services on one of its companies' websites. | |
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| | | | | | Mashable - These days, big brands usually look to the big social networks like Facebook and YouTube, or fresh new geolocation apps like Foursquare and SCVNGR, to create buzz for their campaigns. Pedigree, however, has turned to a somewhat older social medium for its latest promotion: the blogosphere. | |
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| | | | | | NewsFactor - Yahoo has been promising to invest in search innovation. The Internet giant on Thursday appears to be making good on its promise with new search features due to roll out this fall. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Earlier this week, Adobe announced a 64-bit beta preview version of Flash Player codenamed "Square" and available for Windows, Linux, and (gasp) Mac. With improved support for Internet Explorer 9 Beta, this latest version of Flash should ensure you’re able to see more than just Flash ads in 64-bit glory. | |
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| | | | | | PC Magazine - Facebook has added Rotten Tomatoes to its "instant personalization" program, which will place Facebook data on the movie Web site. | |
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| | | | | | Appolicious - Did you score a coveted reservation at the latest restaurant opened by a "Top Chef" winner? Show it off, and rub it in your online community's virtual faces by checking in with the free FourSquare app for Android. | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - As YouTube star Fred Figglehorn prepares for his movie debut, his creator Lucas Cruikshank is making sure fame does not corrupt the fast-talking, goofy kid who has won a massive online following. | |
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| | | | | | PC Magazine - According to Thursday data from comScore, Yahoo captured 17.4 percent of the U.S. search market in August to land in the number two spot behind Google; a report that conflicts with Tuesday data from Nielsen that put Microsoft's Bing ahead of Yahoo for the month. | |
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| | | | | | Mashable - Apple's 27-inch Cinema Display, first announced about a month and a half ago, is finally on sale in Apple's online store. | |
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| | | | | | Mashable - Apple's 27-inch Cinema Display, first announced about a month and a half ago, is finally on sale at the company's online store. | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Hundreds queued up Friday for the first official iPads sold in China, the world's biggest Internet market, after months of grey-market action among avid buyers unwilling to wait for the Apple tablet.
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| | | | | | PC Magazine - Does Yahoo have an incentive to keep users on its own sites in search results? | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Yahoo! provided a glimpse at the faded Internet search star's future identity that included making its Web pages more personalized and social.
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| | | | | | AP - COMING ATTRACTIONS: Yahoo is preparing to upgrade its free e-mail service and Internet search results this fall. | |
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| | | | | | AP - Yahoo's coming attractions include facelifts for its e-mail service and Internet search results. | |
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| | | | | | The Upshot - Here is our roster of the day's stories that managed to evade full-on blog treatment: • As the country's poverty rate jumped in 2009, the millionaire population saw a 12 percent increase. Now, 5.55 million households have "investable assets" of over $1 million. (WSJ) • A man shot and wounded a doctor over a dispute [...] | |
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| | | | | | Macworld.com - IGG Software’s iBank is a more Mac-friendly alternative to financial management heavyweights like Intuit’s Quicken. After a brief beta period that began in July, the official release of this major 4.0 upgrade brings a number of new features and interface improvements to iBank that should make it easier to enter transactions, set up online integration, and simply try the app out for all its worth. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Hackers have created a sub $200 Linux-based tablet device, all thanks to a little tinkering with an Internet Media Display. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Yahoo will sharpen its search engine by providing richer results for news and entertainment-related queries, as well as revamp its webmail service by making it faster and more connected to Twitter and Facebook. | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Yahoo! on Thursday provided a glimpse at the faded Internet search star's future identity that included making its Web pages more personalized and social.
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| | | | | | PC World - In a move that will legally bring more American TV shows and films to the Internet in China, Ku6 Media, an operator of one of the country's largest video hosting sites, has signed content deals with Sony Pictures Television and a major Hollywood studio. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 beta is enjoying favorable reviews, but what impact will it have on the PC market? IE has dominated the desktop browser landscape for years--its share topped 90 percent not long ago--but upstart competitors, most notably Google Chrome, continue to nibble away at IE's massive slice of the global browser pie. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - The newly released version of the open-source ESB software Mule includes a set of connectors for linking into Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services, Facebook and other cloud services, the company announced this week. | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - A consortium of British companies said their planned new Web-TV service would be subscription-free, as broadcasters, Web firms and electronics makers scramble to capture a nascent Internet TV market. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Microsoft's hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 9 may be dominating the headlines this week, but Chrome isn't waiting around for the dust to settle. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - The release of Internet Explorer 9 beta garnered a lot of attention and positive reviews. Cribbing from Chrome's UI and significantly boosting speed over previous iterations of the browser, IE9 looks like a real winner. Too bad Microsoft left Windows XP users -- more than half of all Windows users -- out in the cold. | |
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| | | | | | Mashable - Jonathan Ostrow is the co-founder of MicControl, a music blogging network based on a social networking platform for the emerging music community. | |
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| | | | | | NewsFactor - Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 beta release, which became available for download Wednesday, integrates several new features that improve security and privacy and give PC users greater control over the browser's impact on PC performance. On the security side, for example, IE9 delivers significant new protections against malicious and poorly written web sites that threaten the online safety and privacy of PC users. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Ten years ago this week Google extended its reach into some of the world's largest Internet markets by offering local-language search results in China, Japan and South Korea. After a decade of hard work, it is in the unfamiliar position of having to fight hard to become the dominant search engine. | |
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| | | | | | PC World - Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 Beta on Wednesday, and the software giant has packed a lot of functionality into its new Web browser including site-specific jump lists, task bar shortcuts, a new layout and a unified search and address bar. With IE9 Microsoft has focused on extending the browser's compatibility with modern Web technologies such as HTML 5 and CSS3. Microsoft says IE9 is faster than previous versions of Explorer because it maximizes your computer's hardware components, specifically your graphics processing unit (GPU), instead of improving browser speed solely through software tweaks. | |
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| | | | | | PC Magazine - On Thursday, Yahoo pledged to be a site that goes with users, rather than a destination on the Web, with the release of what it said were faster and better mail and search products. | |
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| | | | | | AP - Israeli government offices that provide an array of public services are pulling the plug on online payments on the Jewish Sabbath and holidays. | |
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| | | | | |  AFP - Regulators attacked European web concert and sports ticket retailers on Thursday, the latest online sector to fall foul of consumer rules.
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| | | | | | PC World - Pressured by law enforcement, advocacy groups, and Congress the popular site Craigslist said it would permanently remove adult services from its online classified ads here in the United States. The move has been lauded by foes of Craigslist's adult services ads, but it has also sparked concern among free-speech advocates who see the shuttering of its adult services as a threat to free speech on the Internet. | |
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| | | | | | Appolicious - When UPS launched its web site there was much rejoicing. It's difficult to remember how we lived without the ability to track packages we've sent or those heading our way. Get ready to do your happy dance once more, because UPS Mobile brings this functionality to your Android. | |
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| | | | | | Reuters - News Corp's UK newspaper arm is to put its mass-selling News of the World tabloid, known for scoops on celebrities and politicians, behind an online paywall in its latest move to charge readers for Web access. | |
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| | | | | | Appolicious - Fans of Cliff Notes rejoice, the Internet equivalent has arrived in the form of Wikiseer. | |
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| | | | | | PC Magazine - Here's the cheat sheet on Microsoft's new IE9 Web browser. | |
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| | | | |  AFP - Computer security firm PC Tools late Wednesday released a study showing that nearly a quarter of US residents think it is fine to be "plugged in" to the Internet during sex. | |
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| | | | | |  Reuters - Yahoo Inc was in talks recently to sell back part of its stake in Alibaba Group, the Chinese group said, but the talks were unsuccessful.
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