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Leaked 13.3" MacBook Pro Specs Suggest Addition of USB 3.0 and Only Minor Changes
www.macrumors.com
A photo posted to Chinese forum Weiphone claims to reveal the specs for an upcoming 13.3" MacBook Pro revision from Apple. The specs show only minor improvements to the 13.3" MacBook Pro model with the addition of a 2.5GHz Ivy Bridge processor along with the Intel HD Graphics 4000...
Windows flag switches to Metro style for a 'reimagined' Windows 8
www.theverge.com
Microsoft is preparing to change the style of its famous Windows flag for the next version of its popular operating system. Currently nearing beta (Consumer Preview), Windows 8 will swap out the traditional red, green, blue, and yellow flag for a 2D Metro style version. Chinese site cnBeta first...
Leaked photos show completely redesigned next-generation iPhone
www.bgr.com
We’ve seen the purported new iPhone housing in photos and on video, and now, images of what is claimed to be a working, fully assembled sixth-generation iPhone have been published by a Chinese website. TGBUS on Wednesday posted a series of photos it claims to have received from an...
Leaked photos of possible assembled next-gen iPhone emerge - rumor
www.appleinsider.com
A set of photos that may depict a fully-assembled leak of Apple's 2012 iPhone has surfaced, though the authenticity of the images remains unverified....
CyanogenMod 9 add-on gives your Galaxy Nexus a glass slipper, it will go to the GSIII ball
www.engadget.com
If the arrival of the GS III has placed a dent in your "latest Galaxy" street-cred, help is at hand. Once again it's the fine folk at XDA-Developers who come up with the goods, in the form of a CM9 add-on pack for the apparently passé Galaxy Nexus. Included...
New details surrounding Apple’s next iPhone emerge
www.bgr.com
If the recent flurry of rumors and reports surrounding Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone add up, we can expect a top-to-bottom redesign when Apple finally unveils its next-generation smartphone later this year. Several leaked images of what is supposedly the housing for Apple’s next iPhone hit the Web last week showing...
Filters vs. failure: Instagram's perfect messes could spell trouble for creativity
www.theverge.com
When we use apps that imitate physical media, what exactly are we letting ourselves lose in the process? During our editorial head-to-head in the wake of Facebook's $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Chris Ziegler and Dieter Bohn squared off about whether the photo-filtering service's social merits outweigh its conceptual flaws....
New Part Leaks Include Taller iPod Touch Front Panel, 'iPhone 5' Cameras
www.macrumors.com
In line with today's claims of taller iPhone prototypes with 3.95-inch displays, one of our sources has provided us with images of what are claimed to be new next-generation iOS device parts being carried by a supplier. The most significant of these parts is a claimed front panel from the...
Ceglia’s Team Dismisses Facebook’s Dismissal Request
www.allfacebook.com
The legal team for Paul Ceglia fired back at Facebook’s request to dismiss an ongoing lawsuit claiming that their client owns one-half of the social network, stating, among other things, that the plaintiffs were not given comparable time for discovery. The opposition, filed with the U.S. District Court for the...
Houston, We May Have A Fake: Pro CGI Experts Cast Serious Doubt On Human Birdwings Flight
techcrunch.com
Well, the evidence is mounting, and it looks like I may have let my eagerness for self-propelled flight to actually be possible get in the way of reality. Yesterday, we covered Jarno Smeets, a.k.a. The Human BirdWings guy, supposedly taking off on self-built wings on a flight that he claimed...
As Facebook embraces the Olympics, here’s how athletes are going social online
thenextweb.com
Today Facebook announced its dedicated space for the London 2012 Olympics and highlighted ways in which new media has changed the way that enormous sports events like this are watched and discussed. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is broadly supportive of this venture with Facebook but it is not a...
Forget QR codes: Your touchscreen can “read” this ink
gigaom.com
Ever since the smartphone era began, companies have looked for ways to quickly get information from the offline product world onto the phone. Barcode scanning is a popular approach while QR codes and proprietary tags, such as those from Microsoft, are other less-used solutions. These all require cameras and specifically...
Facebook estimates 5 or 6 percent of total users are fake accounts
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook says 5 to 6 percent of its 845 million monthly active users could be false or duplicate accounts, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This means the company estimates between 42 and 50 million accounts are illegitimate. In its updated filing for an initial...
Women juggle work and family — and now their online identities too
gigaom.com
It’s hard not to note the irony of a discussion about authentic identity at a festival where most people are posting the same overexposed iPhone pic of their morning latte to Instagram. But inside the Austin Convention Center at SXSW Interactive this year, identity and privacy took center stage. In...
Twitter makes it easier to verify musicians, but what about the accounts that matter?
thenextweb.com
Don’t get me wrong, I love music quite a bit. In fact, I follow a few of my favorite bands and artists on Twitter. For the most part though, I don’t really get a lot of pressing or important information from those accounts. I consider it to be a novelty...
Microsoft tries to push social advertising forward with new ‘People Powered Stories’
thenextweb.com
Microsoft may have close ties to Facebook, including its relationship as an investor in the social giant, but that isn’t stopping the company from trying to, in its words, go ‘beyond just a “Like.”‘ Today, Microsoft announced a new program, one that it hopes represents an evolutionary step in what...
Online identity: is authenticity or anonymity more important?
www.guardian.co.uk
Facebook and Google want to link online and offline personas, while 4Chan and other social sites prefer people to play with the freedom of pseudonymsBefore Facebook and Google became the megaliths of the web, the most famous online adage was, "on the internet, no one knows you're a dog". It...
Another New iPad Surfaces in Hong Kong with Sample Video and Graphics Benchmarks
www.macrumors.com
Following yesterday's unboxing video of the new iPad in Vietnam, which has also resulted in benchmarks and sample photos and screenshots from the device surfacing, Hong Kong's PCM Online reports (via Engadget) that it too has gained early access to the new iPad. Still photo comparison from new iPad and...
Kinect hack turns the motion sensing device into a dubstep wub factory
thenextweb.com
The Kinect is a massive, international hit for Microsoft. But more fun than what its creator has cooked up thus far for it to do are the myriad hacks that the market has produced. When Kinect first hit the market, a wave of innovative uses of the contraption were built, and promptly...
Tech media misconceptions
finance.fortune.cnn.com
Journalism is rife with conflict. Get over it. The tech media wars continued yesterday, with LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik basically accusing certain tech bloggers of being "influence peddlers." The whole issue has become fairly tired -- long predating L'Affair Path -- but I can hardly attend a tech-related event these days...
Leaked Xbox 720 pricing and details likely real
www.bgr.com
Purported details surrounding Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox video game and home entertainment console emerged earlier this week when a 56-page document leaked onto the Web. The supposed internal document pointed to a $299 price point for Microsoft’s “Xbox 720,” and it also outlined specs for the unit, including Blu-ray support and...
Best Buy: Hackers Are Trying to Access Online Customer Accounts
www.pcworld.com
Some Best Buy customers had doubts about the authenticity of account security notifications sent by the company via email on Friday....
Next-generation Xbox developer hardware leak may reveal Xbox 720 specs
www.bgr.com
This past weekend, a supposed Xbox 720 “Durango” developer kit was posted on an obscure developer forum and offered to the public for the price of $10,000. The device resembles a traditional PC tower running a regular debug launcher, leading many to be skeptical about the authenticity of the...
Technology, middlemen and the future of news
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The internet is supposed to be about the end of intermediaries. So why are middlemen so successful? For years, aggregators have ruled the content space and now a new breed of brokers is using technology to redefine the interaction between readers and publishers. One of the most successful is NewsCred, a...
Vayable goes global with tours to explore the world's nooks and crannies
venturebeat.com
Travel startup Vayable made its global debut today and revealed a couple major announcements. What began as a way to explore the 7 x7 confines of San Francisco is now a worldwide phenomenon. Vayable offers 2,500 experiences in 600 cities across 6 continents, including elephant rides around Angkor Wat, cooking...
As Apple preps smaller iPad, RIM's 10-inch tablet takes shape in leaked photos
www.bgr.com
While Apple (AAPL) prepares to attack the affordable tablet market with a smaller, cheaper iPad, Research In Motion (RIMM) is taking the opposite approach. RIM has been toying with a 10-inch tablet for quite some time, and the project was reportedly sidelined last year as focused shifted to the...
Non-functioning next-gen iPhone prototypes/fakes surface in Bangkok?
9to5mac.com
Back in May we brought you high-res shots of the black and white next-generation iPhone backs and in June a video hands-on with similar looking casings surfaced online. Today, Neowin posted images they claim to be a “prototype finalized design casing” of the next-gen iPhone (not a functioning device)...
Latest Windows 8 builds feature 25 Start Screen color options
www.theverge.com
It is nearly a month since Microsoft shipped its Windows 8 Consumer Preview build to the masses at Mobile World Congress, and the company now appears to be tweaking its Metro Start Screen interface somewhat. The latest internal builds of WIndows 8 include 25 color options for user personalization...
Three purported Nokia Windows Phones revealed in new leak
www.bgr.com
Nokia has taken things slow thus far with Windows Phone. Only two handsets have launched with U.S. carrier support thus far — the T-Mobile Lumia 710 and AT&T’s Lumia 900 — and just a few more models have been released internationally. A new leak suggests Nokia may already be...
NVIDIA wants proof new iPad trounces Tegra 3
www.electronista.com
NVIDIA responded to Apple's claims of performance for the new iPad. Representative Ken Brown told ZDNet that NVIDIA didn't have the benchmark criteria Apple used to claim a fourfold speed advantage over the Tegra 3 processor. As such, it couldn't verify the authenticity of the claims, which it implied might...
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