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RIM finally rolls out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with integrated email and Android support
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RIM has announced that the second version of the OS for its much-maligned BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is rolling out today – chances are that it’s too late to do much good for the device’s long-term chances on the market though. The headline feature of PlayBook OS 2.0 is an integrated...
WikiLeaks publishes Stratfor files linked to Anonymous attack
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Website says total cache amounts to millions of emails exposing the global trade in intelligenceWikiLeaks has begun releasing a cache of what it says are 5.5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence gathering firm with about 300,000 subscribers.The whistleblowing site has released 167 emails in its...
Dark Sky for iOS: A Weather App to Keep You Dry
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No one has figured out the right formula for the weather app yet. Phones come stocked with basic forecast apps with cartoony icons, but today's mobile devices have more potential than that. One ambitious effort called Dark Sky recently hit the App Store, and I teamed up with weather guru and...
Facebook's Team of Former Apple Engineers Focused on Improving iOS App
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Last month, The New York Times reported that Facebook has been working on a major overhaul of its iOS app, seeking to improve performance by transitioning from the current HTML5-based app to a native Objective-C one. At the time, Facebook was said to be releasing the app the following month....
Want To Broadcast Live On YouTube? You’ll Need A Google+ Account For That
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This morning, Google officially rolled out Google+ Hangouts On Air to all users worldwide, following the feature’s limited introduction back in September. At the time of its initial release, this live broadcasting feature allowed top Google+ users (like celebs) stream live video feeds directly to their Google+ fan base. The service kicked...
30M users later, Instagram arrives on Android
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Seventeen months and 30 million users after Instagram first swept away iPhone owners with its artistic and social photo-perfecting application, the startup is finally releasing a version for Android users. “We’re really excited about Instagram for Android as the next big step for our company,” Instagram co-founder and CEO...
Redbox inks deal to keep Universal’s Blu-ray and DVDs in its kiosks for two more years
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Redbox have announced a multi-year agreement that will see Universal Blu-ray and DVD discs continued to be made available at Redbox’s kiosks 28 days following their initial release. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is the home video unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios...
Apple Maps' bad directions called out as public safety issue in Australia
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It was bad enough for Apple when its new Maps app’s awfulness was inspiring parody Twitter and Tumblr accounts. But now the app is forcing public safety officials in Australia to issue warnings about it. On Monday, police in Victoria, Australia took the step of issuing a bulletin and asking...
SimCity Arrives On the Mac June 11th With Cross-Platform Servers
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The new SimCity will ship for the Mac on June 11, EA reported today. Gamers will be able to purchase SimCity for Mac as a $60 digital download via Origin, EA's Steam-like digital store that launched earlier this year, as well as other digital retailers. Owners of the PC version...
Former Apple employees working on Facebook's faster iPhone app, launching within a 'couple of months'
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In late June, the New York Times reported that Facebook is working on re-writing the fundamental architecture of its iOS application in order to provide users with a faster, more reliable experience. The current Facebook app is often slow because it is built with an Objective-C shell with content...
Former Apple employees working on Facebook's faster iPhone app, launching within a 'couple of months'
Now you can print documents direct from Google Drive at Fedex Office stores
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The cloud-printing future is steamrolling its way into our lives one service at a time. FedEx Office locations now support Google Drive alongside pre-existing Box, Dropbox and Google Docs options for printing from the cloud. Google mentioned the new feature on the Drive team’s Google+ page, directing interested parties to the FedEx website for...
Social collage app Mixel now lets you create art in private
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After launching in November as a gorgeous app for making social collages, the iPad app Mixel received an update today that will offer the ability to create private image threads, instead of having every Mixel creation public. With increased privacy, users will hopefully have less inhibitions about using personal...
Get excited: Brain-bending platformer Fez finally coming to Steam (and OS X!)
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It's been almost a year since the initial release of Fez, the lovely retro-themed 2D platformer with a 3D twist. The game's development process was almost as complex as the game that eventually emerged, with developer Phil Fish famously polishing the game far past shininess and well into ludicrous...
Turbo: Yandex rolls out new version of its browser with built-in data compression
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Russian internet firm Yandex has begun automatically updating its browser to version 1.1, which includes the Turbo technology, licensed earlier by Opera Software. The new feature is aimed at users with weak Internet connections, automatically compressing data that is being downloaded. Yandex Browser 1.1 was rolled out about a month...
Upcoming iTunes 11 Update to Restore Duplicate Search, Fix Album Art and Movie Streaming Bugs
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In his review of iTunes 11, AllThingsD's Walt Mossberg notes that Apple is preparing a minor update to address several issues with the initial release of the software. Among the changes included in the update will be the return of a feature that allows users to find duplicate songs in...
Under fire from developers, Twitter releases updated Bootstrap open source framework
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As Twitter faces criticism for controversial changes to its API, it is celebrating the one-year birthday of Bootstrap, its open source front-end framework for web development, with the release of version 2.1 with simplified documentation and fixes to more than 100 issues. Mark Otto, one of the designers in charge...
'Delicious Library 3' Cataloging Software and iOS Barcode Scanner App Coming Soon
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Mac software developer Delicious Monster has informed MacRumors that a major new version of its popular OS X cataloging app Delicious Library is being released very soon. Delicious Library is a media and gadget cataloging application that hasn't been in the news in recent years, but garnered very positive reviews...
Microsoft halts further development on free-to-play Flight
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The first free-to-play entry in Microsoft's venerable Flight Simulator franchise is reaching an ignominious end just a few months after its initial release. Microsoft has announced that it is halting further development on Microsoft Flight and reassigning some staff members at the Vancouver studio that developed it. Flight, which launched...
Apple's iOS 6 Causes Massive Traffic Spike, Signals High Early Adoption Despite Maps Issues
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Apple’s power to drive downloads cannot be underestimated, as a new report from Sandvine’s Better Broadband Blog (via The Loop) notes. Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6, as well as an update for OS X and just about every first-party app it offers on iOS, and a bunch of the ones it...
That was fast: OS X Mountain Lion running on 1 of every 10 Macs
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Based on web traffic data, it appears that ten percent of all Macs accessing the web have OS X Mountain Lion installed, just one month after the desktop software’s release. That’s a really fast uptake for a desktop OS upgrade, especially for Apple, according to data compiled by Chitika Insights....
Lumia 900: Redefining the smartphone?
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After almost five years of manic one-upmanship following the initial release of the iPhone, one OEM has finally realized that the future of smartphones lays in the arms of everyday consumers. The Nokia Lumia 900, available today and priced at $450 off-contract (or between $0 and $99 on-contract), is the...
Chrome for Android Beta lands on Ice Cream Sandwich devices
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Google has just announced on the Google Chrome Blog the long-rumored release of Google Chrome for Android Beta. The initial release focuses on bringing three main aspects of the Chrome browser for desktops, with Google’s blog post highlighting “Speed”, “Simplicity”, and “Sign in” as the browser’s main features. Today,...
Amazon moves to combat Google’s Nexus 7 with 3D mapping acquisition
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Amazon has agreed to a deal to acquire 3D mapping startup UpNext, reports GigaOM. This is significant because Amazon does not currently offer a built-in mapping product on its Android-based Kindle Fire tablet and may be looking to do so in the future. The announcement of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet,...
Library Of Congress Hoping To Cut Through Tangled Copyright Laws In Order To Archive Historic Sound Recordings
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The copyright laws governing sound recordings are a mess, especially here in the US. The steady march of copyright protection towards perpetuity hasn't helped, extending protection on original recordings to the point where archiving decaying media is generally perceived to border on impossible. In Europe, sound recordings enter the...
Library Of Congress Hoping To Cut Through Tangled Copyright Laws In Order To Archive Historic Sound Recordings
Lionsgate teams up with Samsung to convert more films to 3D, starts with Gamer, Crank and Bangkok Dangerous
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Got a 3D TV? You've probably noticed that not all depth perception is equal. It's true, not all films have the privilege of being shot in 3D -- many are converted in post production, and more still make the switch years after their initial release. Lionsgate and Samsung are...
Lionsgate teams up with Samsung to convert more films to 3D, starts with Gamer, Crank and Bangkok Dangerous
Apollo Plus: Microsoft's next Windows Phone update to include Wi-Fi, audio, and other fixes
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Microsoft is currently preparing an update for Windows Phone 8, codenamed Apollo Plus. Sources have confirmed to The Verge that Apollo Plus will bring new features to Windows Phone 8 that weren't fully in scope for the initial release. This won't be the next major version of Windows Phone,...
DotNetNuke: An Open-Source CMS ... For Microsoft Web Sites
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Version 7.0 of DotNetNuke, an open-source content-management system that you've probably never heard of, is now released and bringing enterprise-level web content functionality to users committed to Microsoft-based infrastructure. The .NET-based DotNetNuke will be a significant player in a growing cloud-computing environment where Microsoft Web servers may be more relevant....
Smoking hot mobile app Burner raises angel round for continued expansion
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Ad Hoc Labs CEO Greg Cohn knew there’d be a market for private phone numbers in an era where people’s cell numbers are increasingly tied to their identity. But he had no idea just how popular Burner, the mobile app that allows users to acquire and discard phone numbers, would...
Google I/O: Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, Will Have Responsive Widgets, Offline Voice Typing
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Photo by Eliot Weisberg/ReadWriteWeb. Creative Commons licensed. Barra introduced engineering director Dave Burke to demonstrate the new features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. He showed off Project Butter, Google's effort to make the transitions and animations in the operating system run at a smooth 60 frames per second everywhere. A...
Motorola blames future owner Google for slow Android updates
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Motorola was unusually critical of its likely future acquirer Google late Wednesday in an interview. Senior enterprise business VP Christy Wyatt claimed to PCMag that Google made timely Android OS updates difficult because of its tendency to target each major release against a reference phone like the Galaxy Nexus. Since...
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