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Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:41 +0000

The Supreme Court agrees to decide a case concerning “informational privacy.” The Obama administration claims the case could undermine how much background data it may collect on the 14-million-person federal bureaucracy.

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Motorola’s Backflip Will Make You Come Unhinged

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:41 +0000

Despite some of forward-thinking hardware, Moto’s Backflip is crippled by a horrid Android skin. And there’s only so much one can do with 3.1 inches.

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Amazon Is Building a Better Browser for Kindle

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:40 +0000

Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards, and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to job listings on the company’s website.

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Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:39 +0000

For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.

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Mile-High Mega Kites Could Pull Giant, Floating Power Plants

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:36 +0000

Korean scientists propose attaching gigantic, 6.5 million-square-foot kites to ships to drag them through the ocean and generate energy.

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Apple’s Secret iPhone Developer Agreement Goes Public

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:35 +0000

Previously secret, the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement has been acquired and published with the help of the Freedom of Information Act.

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Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:31 +0000

Pink Floyd and EMI are locked in a royalty battle — yet another example of an emerging dispute between rights holders and publishers over payment for intellectual property born before the explosion of online digital sales.

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Lifelock Dinged $12 Million for Deceptive Business Practices

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:25 +0000

The Federal Trade Commission is alleging Arizona-based Lifelock engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to identity thieves. The FTC fined it $12 million as part of a settlement agreement.

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Just How Fast Is Cisco’s New Router? Really Freaking Fast

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:22 +0000

Cisco’s new CRS-3 router is capable of 322 terabits per second, the company says. That’s fast enough to download the entire Library of Congress in about a second.

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Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:07:18 +0000

Philosopher Martin Heidegger thought that our tools eventually become a part of us cognitively. Now a scientist has found he was right. Your mouse and monitor affect the way you think.

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