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Microsoft’s cloud ERP strategy underscores enterprise slothfulness
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We’re going to take this in two steps. We’ll begin with what Microsoft is up to with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) products and the cloud, and then we’ll have a chuckle at the enterprise customers that it is catering to. I bet they still use IE6. ZDNet has a...
The world's first 3D-printed gun
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An American gunsmith has become the first person to construct and shoot a pistol partly made out of plastic, 3D-printed parts. The creator, user HaveBlue from the AR-15 forum, has reportedly fired 200 rounds with his part-plastic pistol without any sign of wear and tear.HaveBlue’s custom creation is a .22-caliber...
Things You Never Thought Would Happen: Wu-Tang’s Raekwon Makes “Google That” Rap Video
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“She told me that she Googled my name up / Shootings, robberies and big coke came up”. These are lyrics from “Google That”, a vulgar, violent new rap song from N.O.R.E, Styles P, and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekown immortalizing the search engine. In it, the rappers brag about how their...
VestGuard UK Ballistic cover will protect your iPad from tablet-related gunplay
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If you find yourself in the position of regularly having your iPad shot at, VestGuard UK sure has the tablet case for you. The Ballistic cover is made of "cutting edge uni-directional aramid fibers processed to a high tolerance in VestGuard's state of the art facility" that make it...
Tongue-controlled Kinect interface under development in Japan
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Yesterday we brought you news of a Japanese research effort to produce interactive kissable posters, but some of you expressed concerns over its hygiene in the comments. Well, a separate team in Japan may have inadvertently hit on a solution by devising a tongue-control interface for Kinect. Adding to...
Israeli/Iranian Citizens Reach Out Over Facebook For Peace
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Disparate aspects of the ongoing advance of technology throughout the world are coming together in a very interesting and heartwarming result. As groups continue the attempt to connect everyone in the world by the near-future, we've also seen how social media has been used recently to organize and deploy protests...
WELL DONE, MITT! As Governor Of Mass, Romney Banned The Assault Weapon Used In The Colorado Massacre
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In 2004, as Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney banned the sale of assault weapons like the one used to spray 50-60 bullets a minute in the Colorado massacre. On FOX News, Romney explained his position as follows: "I believe the people should have the right to bear arms, but I...
WELL DONE, MITT! As Governor Of Mass, Romney Banned The Assault Weapon Used In The Colorado Massacre
Kabam acquires indie maker of Realm of the Mad God web game (exclusive)
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Kabam has acquired Wild Shadow Studios, the maker of popular online combat game Realm of the Mad God. The deal shows that Kabam, a maker of hardcore social online games, continues its quest to pick up titles that are played by hardcore gamers regardless of platform. Terms of the deal...
Motorola likens its enforcement of FRAND patents to bank robbery: 'it only takes one bullet to kill'
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Patent litigation is full of surprises, but what I learned this afternoon is beyond belief. Based on what was said in open court today in Mannheim, Germany, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola Mobility submitted an expert report on patent royalties according to which a single patent that is essential to...
Motorola likens its enforcement of FRAND patents to bank robbery: 'it only takes one bullet to kill'
HTML5 bullets: Sencha Labs issues developer scorecard for Chrome on Android
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Google issued a beta release of Chrome for Android last week. The port, which brings Chrome's feature set and excellent support for Web standards to Android, is major improvement over the mobile platform's current default browser. As we reported in our coverage of the beta, Android's default browser has...
Max Payne 3 – multiplayer preview
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Although it borrows a little from the giants in the shooter genre, Max Payne 3's multiplayer is dirty, fun, gritty and downright meanIn the end, Max Payne is all about the movement. Rockstar's take on Remedy's hyper-kinetic third-person shooter may be grittier and more hard-bitten than its forebears, but it...
Sorry, Mitt Romney, You Can't Be Chairman, CEO, And President Of A Company And Not Be Responsible For What It Does...
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Today's bombshell report by the Boston Globe that Mitt Romney may have remained in charge of Bain Capital for three years after he claimed to have left has the potential to destroy Romney's credibility. The issue boils down to statements that, at first glance, appear to directly contradict one another:...
Sorry, Mitt Romney, You Can't Be Chairman, CEO, And President Of A Company And Not Be Responsible For What It Does...
New Apple store in Houston shot up by gunman
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An Apple store in Texas suffers a rain of bullets in what appears to be a random shooting spree. [Read more]...
Google's Andy Rubin dodges David Boies' bullets
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In his second day of testimony, Android chief Andy Rubin was walked through several years of emails and documents by Oracle's lawyer David Boies [Read more]...
Portal turret comes alive in robot project
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Robotics student builds a turret that talks, tracks movement with a laser-guided system, and fires foam bullets at its target. [Read more]...
It’s time you knew: Meet the gaming sensation ‘League of Legends’
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Growing under the rug and out of the sight of many is a gaming title that is rapidly spreading around the globe, and the larger competitive gaming scene. It has grown to the point that you need to know about it. Consider this your PSA. Please, meet League of Legends....
WATCH: Animated Steve Jobs Fires Bullets Into A BlackBerry (AAPL, RIMM)
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Another day, another trippy Taiwanese animation. It's no secret that RIM is in trouble due to the iPhone, but who knew that it was Steve Jobs that pulled a drive-by shooting to help make it happen? Watch: Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story...
Why Facebook Ads Are Like Pop Art
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The experience of logging onto Facebook is like no other - it is like feeling one's way through a black hole of non-linear time and space, plunging through other peoples' memories and ideas. "Let's do the time warp" doesn't really explain what the Facebook experience feels like. "And the ad...
Kodak sues Apple for allegedly interfering with patent sales, has little nostalgia for your QuickTake
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Kodak may have recently obtained clearance to sell some patents and help dig itself out of bankruptcy, but it wants to be extra-certain Apple is nowhere near potential buyers if a deal goes down. The former camera maker is suing Apple in hopes of making the former collaborator drop...
Kodak sues Apple for allegedly interfering with patent sales, has little nostalgia for your QuickTake
Learn to shoot your DSLR like a rifle with tips from a US Army officer
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DSLRs are pretty complicated tools, compared to the primal simplicity of a gun — all those dials, buttons, and LCDs to deal with. Well, you're still going to have to learn how to use them, but it turns out you can improve your handheld shooting technique by employing some...
Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooks
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Enlarge Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technology in museums, research parks, and...
Google toys with major Android redesign as patent wars heat up
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The always-eagle-eyed PatentBolt has spotted a new patent application from Google (GOOG) that indicates the company is designing a way to bring radial menus to its Android and Chrome devices. From the initial designs, it looks as though the radial menus will not be visible on the screen until a user...
Your Browser Has Put You In The Middle Of An International Cyber War (GOOG)
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There's a scary, and perfectly legal, way that hackers are making money these days. They find holes in popular software like Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and sell them to spies in this country and others. They aren't breaking the law as long as they are only selling...
Top Kindle Fire Activity: Reading E-Books, Says Citi
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Analysts don’t know how many Kindle Fires have been sold any more than you do. Sometimes, though, they do cool stuff like an analysis (PDF) of their family’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime usage—or, in the case of a new Citigroup report released today, a survey on Kindle usage and...
Nokia's US head of social media 'pushed' off the 'burning platform' amid major layoffs
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Nokia's Phillip Schwarzmann — a nine-year veteran of the company and one of its more public faces in various PR and communication roles — reports that he's been laid off today, a victim of a much larger cull announced by CEO Stephen Elop last month. Schwarzmann announced his departure...
Tactical Intervention: First look at Gooseman's new shooter
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"Controlled chaos" is what Minh Le says he's aiming for with his new shooter, the seven-years-in-development Tactical Intervention. The levels are close, almost claustrophobic, and littered with destructible, mobile objects that can explode or be used to impede or damage your enemy. Something as simple as kicking over a...
Put on the camouflage: Big Buck Hunter is back, in 1080p
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Drinking beer makes it harder: The author, putting her newfound Big Buck skills to the test. Up until two nights ago, the name “Big Buck Hunter Pro” didn’t hold much meaning to me. It was just another sports bar game. But when I got word that there was a new...
Gamers can finally play the generation game
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After Diablo and Max Payne's return, we are starting to see franchises played by different generations of adultsWhen Diablo III came out last week and was promptly bought by millions of people (although only about nine of them have actually been able to play it, if Twitter anguish is anything...
Q&A: Twitter’s Del Harvey on trust, safety, bullets and kittens
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Talking with Del Harvey of Twitter at pii2012 this morning. Del Harvey is the director of trust and safety for Twitter — a big job that covers areas including account activity and abuse, user safety, spam, legal issues and many other areas. This morning at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference,...
The gov't thinks you should focus on the adversary, but who is the adversary?
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After 9/11 the FBI needed to change the way it operated. It switched its focus, and looked toward identifying the enemy — a change former FBI assistant executive director Shawn Henry says needs to translate to the information security world. Henry spoke at the Black Hat security conference in...
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