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NFC version of Nokia Lumia 610 accidentally leaked on YouTube
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In a world where NFC is just starting to become useful, its notable absence on Nokia's Windows Phones has been increasingly, well, notable. But a video that temporarily appeared on the Finnish phone-maker's YouTube account reveals that NFC is indeed coming, with a new version of the Lumia 610...
Twitter account re-tweets public photos of peoples' debit cards
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While over-sharing online typically involves annoying-but-harmless pictures of food on Instagram, it's interesting to consider whether compulsive social media use or sheer thoughtlessness is to blame for the contents of @NeedADebitCard, a Twitter account that aggregates publicly tweeted photos of peoples' debit and ATM cards. While some of the...
Statcounter: Android web browser claims biggest user share
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Android's native web browser can now lay claim to being the most popular mobile browser, according to StatCounter's latest survey. Mapping use over the past year, Google's mobile internet browser has grabbed around 23 percent of all users, up from just over 14 percent back in February 2011. The...
Apple Driving iCloud Conversions with Free Copies of Snow Leopard for MobileMe Users
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As noted by Macgasm, Apple has begun notifying at least some MobileMe users of a new upgrade program offering a free copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The offer is being made to provide users of machines running older versions of Mac OS X with a reduced-cost pathway to...
New Google+ API gives Flipboard a cuddle, Currents looks away angrily
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If you're just taking down the decorations from your latest Google+ party, hang fire, it looks like there's more good news for the ever-burgeoning social starlet. It's just been announced that Google has developed an API that will make users' photos, posts and videos available on popular social reader...
How would you change Native Instruments' Maschine Mikro?
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Native Instruments' gear is a must-have for those in the beat making world. We put the cheaper, dinkier Maschine Mikro through its paces and found that while we loved the portability, we weren't so hot on the lack of MIDI ports and absence of knobs for twiddlin'. That said,...
PSA: Which iOS 6 features can my device run?
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So you're eagerly awaiting iOS 6 in the fall, but you'd like to know just how many features you'll end up skipping if you cling on to your existing iPad, iPhone or iPod touch for one more generation. Apple has gone to the trouble of alerting would-be upgraders just...
Samsung Galaxy Note with T-Mobile-ready 3G swings by the FCC
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A T-Mobile-capable version of the Samsung Galaxy Note has been floating around in pictures, but official evidence has been hard to come by. Imagine our surprise when it saunters by the FCC with few disguises: going under a hinted-at SGH-T879 codename, the giant smartphone has passed through the agency...
Fedora performs a Beefy Miracle, releases version 17
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It took a bit longer than initially anticipated, but Fedora 17 is finally here with its rather unfortunate code name in tow. Beefy Miracle delivers a pretty healthy assortment of improvements over version 16, including support for GNOME Shell even in the absence of 3D acceleration. The project has...
Google starts selling accessories for HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus on Google Play, has you all docked up
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If you liked the idea of buying an unlocked Galaxy Nexus straight from Google but were put off by the absence of the official accessories, have no fear. A swing by Google Play now gives US shoppers the chance to buy the regular Desktop Dock, the HDMI Portrait Dock...
Airtime lets you share media while you video chat, reminds you That Napster Guy is still around
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Hey, remember the guy that created Napster, Shawn Fanning? Do you remember Facebook co-founder (and supposed Justin Timberlake doppelganger) Sean Parker? Good, as that'll make it easier to understand why the two have created Airtime, a heavily hyped new peer-to-peer video chat service. The aim is to offer a...
Keen On… Insane Simplicity: The Obession That Drives Apple’s Success [TCTV]
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The marketing executive Ken Segall not only worked closely with Steve Jobs for years at both Apple and NeXT, but he was also the creative guy who came up with the iMac name. And he’s just written a book about the product marketing lessons he learned from Jobs –...
Fujifilm outlines X-Pro1 lens roadmap, brings zoom at last this fall
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If there's been one outstanding gripe with Fujifilm's X-Pro1 camera, it's been the absence of zoom lenses; short of French kissing the subject, you might not get the photos you want. While there isn't much of a solution right this second outside of buying the fixed-lens X10, the Japanese...
Acer Iconia Tab A700 hits FCC approval process head-on, comes out victorious
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The Tegra 3-touting tablet from Acer known as the Iconia Tab A700 hasn't made the rounds since CES, just over four months ago. It's finally hit the federal stage, with the WiFi-only version getting the seal of approval from the FCC, which tells us that its absence from the...
KipCall wants to put phone calls back in fashion, launches on Android
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The social calling platform KipCall is now available for Android devices in beta version, the French startup announced during TC Disrupt in New York this week. As we reported when the company launched its free iOS app last year, KipCall lets you call your Facebook friends without knowing their number...
Time Inc. to offer magazines through Apple's Newsstand
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Time Inc., the largest magazine publisher in the US, is to sell subscriptions to 20 of its magazines through Apple's iOS Newsstand app. For a long while, Time has been notable in its absence from Apple's magazine and newspaper store, instead choosing to sell its magazines as single issues...
Wi-Fi-only iPad could hit mainland China stores soon
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Just because the new iPad is assembled in China doesn’t mean the Chinese can buy one in their own country — yet. That’s because Apple’s latest tablet had not yet cleared the country’s regulatory hurdles. But on Tuesday AllThingsD dug up the Chinese certification for the new iPad — for...
Brands Get Physical To Build Trust
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From handshakes to hardware, intimate signals constantly effect us in life. As the world becomes increasingly digital, we are losing many sensory signals that once moved us. Here's what can companies do to reclaim these touching moments.I’m sure you’ve had the experience of reaching out to shake someone’s hand, only...
Dear Judge Koh: Competition Is No Reason To Ban A Phone
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We already had mentioned that Apple had succeeded in getting a rare pre-trial injunction against Samsung's tablets, but now it's also succeeded in blocking the Galaxy Nexus phone as well, though the judge's reasoning is a bit bizarre: "Apple has made a clear showing that, in the absence of a...
In Praise of Ignorance: Why It's OK to Tweet, "Who Is Dick Clark?"
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The web is changing not just how we think about knowledge, but how we think about its absence....
Zuckerberg Blew Off The Bankers Who Showed Up For Yesterday's Big IPO Meeting
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Facebook founder, CEO, and its all-around biggest star, Mark Zuckerberg, might not play any role in selling the company's IPO, The Wall Street Journal reports: On Monday, Mr. Zuckerberg skipped a meeting of analysts and bankers at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, according to people familiar with the meeting....
Viral Video: Best Worst Sarah Palin Imitation
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Here’s Adam Samberg from last week’s “Saturday Night Live” trying his worst to channel Sarah Palin in the absence of Tina Fey. It’s related to HBO’s recent original movie, “Game Change,” about the 2008 Presidential campaign. Palin, who was the GOP VP candidate, dismissed the highly rated show as...
LightSquared supporters ask for spectrum swap, lenders propose 90-day lifeline
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A group of lawmakers have sent FCC chairman Julius Genachowski a letter this week asking him to look into whether a spectrum swap with the Department of Defense would allow LightSquared to develop its LTE network, a buildout that had been nixed over GPS interference concerns. While not impossible,...
One week in, how are the Harry Potter e-books selling?
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It’s been a week since the Pottermore shop launched – making the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks available legally for the first time. Seven days in, how is Harry selling? Since Pottermore is mum on actual sales numbers — and the New York Times and USA Today aren’t yet tracking the...
Youku and Tudou merging to create China's largest video site
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The two biggest video sites in China are joining forces: Youku and Tudou have announced plans to merge, creating a new entity dubbed Youku Tudou Inc. that the companies claim will become "one of the largest Internet properties in China." With the absence of YouTube — which has been...
Google begins pushing Android 4.0.4 ICS to GSM Nexus S and GSM Galaxy Nexus, but not Verizon edition
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Google has posted a notice on its Android Google+ page that it has begun rolling out Android version 4.0.4 Ice Cream sandwich to several devices. Interesting in its absence is the Galaxy Nexus LTE device for Verizon networks, which currently has the 4.0.2 software as its latest officially supported version....
Google begins pushing Android 4.0.4 ICS to GSM Nexus S and GSM Galaxy Nexus, but not Verizon edition
Apple patent shows designs for more accurate water damage sensors
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Without a doubt, the purveyance of personal electronics has changed our lives -- not only have they put oodles of information at our fingertips, but they've also made pushing fully-clothed friends into the pool a warranty-voiding social faux pas. If you do get dunked, however, Apple wants to make...
It's PingFederate 6.6 Versus "Identity as a Service"
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It's a demonstrated fact that as cloud application users find themselves logging on more and more often, they tend to oversimplify their passwords in an effort to avoid writing them all down someplace. It doesn't help that many IT shops' first course of action is to standardize identity around social...
Absence of CEO Page Overshadowed at Google Event
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One Google founder stole the show at its developer conference--with the help of skydivers--in a flashy presentation that seemed to push aside questions about another....
MIT Online vs. Your Local College: How Will Web Learning Stack Up?
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The success of e-education depends on whether universities can design online environments that are conducive to learning.In one of my first posts here at the Atlantic, I wrote about universities and the problem of credentialing. If a school like Stanford offers online classes to non-Stanford students, and those students learn...
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