Vladimir Putin “We discussed this important issue yesterday over a beer...”
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The Internet’s watershed political moment in the U.S. arrived this week. You can Google it. The role of Google itself, however, in the so-called Web blackout is more interesting than a quick Google search would indicate. First, some background. On Jan. 18, to protest a pair of anti-piracy bills in Congress, Wikipedia posted a blackout [...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s voice recognition software Siri has prompted owners of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset’s predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said. “Voice is the ultimate human interface,” Arieso Chief Technology Officer Michael Flanagan said in an interview in London. Voice recognition [...]
The world’s three largest television makers — Samsung, LG and Sony — are working on Google TV. LG announced its Google TV move last week. Vizio is also on board. Consumers can expect new TVs packing Google TV at stores in just a few months. All but Samsung will show their Google-powered Internet-surfing TVs at [...]
On Friday, for a few hours an application for Android powered phones called Siri for Android surfaced in the Android Market. The app claimed itself to be an “official” app for the massively popular Android platform and within the few hours many hits were recorded. However, as soon as Google noticed this app they took [...]
Those who believe Google Android products are cheap knockoffs of Apple’s iPhone and iPad were given more ammo this week when it emerged that Samsung hired the same child actress as Apple to star in the ads for its new tablet. Separately, Google was forced to pull a voice control app called “Siri” from the [...]
Facebook flirting and comments contribute to an increasing number of divorces, underscoring how social media is affecting privacy and family interactions. One-third of 2011 divorce cases in England implicated Facebook as a cause, according to a survey conducted by a U.K.-based divorce website. The 5,000 people polled cited three reasons for listing Facebook in divorce [...]
There are two images you’re about to see here, both of them showing what our source here is saying is the official AT&T version of the soon to be released in the USA Samsung Galaxy Note. This device is already released in international sectors, that being basically everywhere outside the USA, but has yet to [...]
Two Kurdish rebels died on Saturday in Turkey’s southeastern Diyarbakir city in a shootout after a police raid on their hideout, police said. The members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members refused to heed a police call to surrender and threw grenades, television reports said. A local police official said two rebels died [...]
I used to discover new content via Google. Now I find it using Facebook and Twitter. And millions of others are doing it too. I have to admit it: I get a queasy voyeuristic feeling in my gut when I see what my friends are reading on the Washington or Huffington Posts, watching on YouTube, [...]
For a slow holiday news week, there’s been plenty of chatter over the last few days about Windows Phone 7. It all started Tuesday when several tech blogs posted editorials on why Microsoft’s operating system was failing, a fact that Mobile Burn’s Dan Seifert wryly pointed out on Twitter. And then, almost as if in [...]
Apple attacks Motorola’s efforts to block iPhone 4S using standards patents, asks for huge damages
Singer Whitney Houston dies at 48
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Despite the rumors, Howard all business
Selene is unfrozen, but man is she cold
Google Plays Both Sides in the Web Piracy Fight: Susan Crawford
Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released