22 killed in China earthquake (1)
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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit southwest China Saturday, killing 22 people, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.
Sarah Palin Wikipedia edits--fast and furious (4)
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There's nothing like the vice presidential nomination of a relatively unknown (and female) governor to push the Wikipedia edit machine into high gear.
Intel acquires Linux mobile developers for Atom (2)
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The chip giant has acquired open-source mobile specialist Opened Hand, which will now focus on developing a Linux software stack for Atom processors.
FCC to test proposed free wireless service for interference (1)
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Next week, FCC engineers will go to Seattle to see whether a proposed free wireless broadband service will interfere with T-Mobile's new 3G services.
Tethering possibly coming to an iPhone near you, says Steve (4)
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11-Month-Old Colombian Baby Weighs 62 Pounds (1)
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IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger (9)
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IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger APPLICATION DESCRIPTIONThe award-winning IM+® All-in-One Mobile Messenger for chats within AIM®/iChat, MSN®/Windows Live™ Messenger, Yahoo!®, ICQ®, Jabber®, Google™ Talk and MySpaceIM from any iPhone and iPod Touch. Communicate with friends and colleagues wherever you are regardless of location and mobile operator. Features: -All public IMs in one client -No cost per message -Simple and user friendly interface -Inbox view to keep an eye on all open dialogs and unread messages LANGUAGES: ...
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kfc said:
easy to use IM..i like it better than Paliringo.
Microsoft: We're not "cool enough" for Mac OS X (53)
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Filed under: Humor, OS, Odds and ends If you thought the new Get a Mac ads were spot-on or funny, then you will definitely get a kick out of this. On Microsoft's Photosynth website, they admit something that we've known for years: They're not cool enough to run on Macs. "Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but ...
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vanlandw said:
Microsoft is so stupid..
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Todd Albertson said:
Enough said...
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Bill said:
exact same error message on Linux... ouch.
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Nick said:
you sir, is too cool to shop in our stores. So please leave.
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enc said:
new trademark: not cool enough. or "my OS is too sexy for your photosynch"
What's the deal with Seinfeld doing ads for Microsoft? (10)
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Filed under: Humor, Odds and endsMicrosoft has set aside $300 million for an ad campaign featuring once-funny comedian Jerry Seinfeld in a series of advertisements targeting Apple. [Insert "master of his domain" joke here. -Ed.] According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will pay Seinfeld $10 million to appear in a series of ads for its "Windows, Not Walls" campaign that will feature Seinfeld and Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman. According to AdWeek, other highly-relevant comics ...
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Gabe said:
Will Ferrell was in Apple ads a long time ago. I guess he's dual-platform now.
iPhone getting copy and paste through third-party framework (3)
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bookmarked a page on delicious iPhone getting copy and paste through third-party framework Wednesday at 8:22 am - Comment Eric, Patrick Minze and Michael J Cohen liked this n enterprising iPhone developer has developed a copy and paste system that works across applications on Apple's mobile device. Since the beginning, users have been clamoring for the functionality that Zac White is now providing as an open source framework called Open Clip. The framework, according to ...
Thieves Pose As Water Inspectors To Enter Riverside Homes (1)
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Riverside residents should beware of thieves who are posing as water inspectors to gain entry to homes, then distracting the occupants while stealing valuables, police said Friday.
Apple to add iPhone notes syncing to Mail.app? (7)
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Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone A loyal reader recently sent in a tip asking us had we seen a dialog in Mail.app. The dialog in question is produced when creating a new note and pressing command + b. You would expect it to be a shortcut for bold, but no ... it brings up the above dialog. The dialog specifies that by converting the note to Rich Text, devices such as the iPhone will ...
Fire at Cupertino campus (5)
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Filed under: Apple, Apple HistoryA three-alarm blaze drew 60 firefighters to Apple's Cupertino campus on Tuesday night. Specifically, it was in building Valley Green Six at 20705 Valley Green Drive. San Francisco's ABC 7 television news has some video.Investigators suggested that an air conditioning unit could have been the culprit. Fortunately, all employees escaped unharmed. No word on how much damage was done to the building, although some reports say the smoke damage was substantial.We're ...
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Northorn said:
I wonder if the area smells like apple pie...
How many iPhones would fill the Albert Hall? HSBC may find out (3)
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Filed under: Enterprise, iPhoneIf you're the CIO for the ANZAC division of a big bank -- I mean, a really big, global bank -- and you happen to let slip to a ZDnet reporter that your company is considering the iPhone as a possible BlackBerry replacement across the board... well, 200,000 iPhones is enough to get everyone's attention, even though this is about as far from an actual commitment to purchase as I am from ...
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Christian said:
If HSBC can deal with the iPhone, shouldn't we be able to?
Google goes down, Twitter stays up, pigs fly (1)
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Maybe the stars were out of alignment but a temporary reversal of fortune drives home the fragility of life on the computing cloud. So as a user, what can you do?
Child's Voice Used, Face Replaced 'In The National Interest' (1)
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Yang Peiyi had the voice, but she didn't have the "look" to sing "Ode to the Motherland" at the Beijing Opening Ceremony, so Lin Miaoke lip-synched the performance. Images Day 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Medal Count
AlleyInsider: QuickTime on a chip? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) (7)
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Filed under: Hardware, Multimedia, RumorsSilicon Alley Insider is offering "pure speculation" based on a tip that Apple's Fall future product transition is a video upgrade to Apple products that includes a QuickTime encoder/decoder on a chip. As cool as this would be, I don't personally think it's a significant-enough development to warn investors about. Unless, of course, it's part and parcel of more substantial changes to Apple's product lines. Having video playback functions handled by ...
Turn your change into apps (10)
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Filed under: iTunes, Deals, iPhone, App StoreRyan P sent us a nice tip about using Coinstar units to turn your spare change into iTunes apps. You've seen Coinstar at the grocery store before -- you throw your spare change in there, and then it spits out a receipt you can take to the service counter for cash (minus a little off the top for the counting). But Ryan told us Coinstar now offers gift certificates ...
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Ben said:
I never thought that I would be interested in using a Coinstar machine since an iTunes card was only good for DRMed music (or at least not standard mp3s for iTunes+). But the apps are a decent enough purchase: though also DRMed, I care less about that than about music (ugh, I hated old school copy protection)
Soul legend Isaac Hayes dead at 65 (3)
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Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the film "Shaft," has died, say sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee. Hayes gained new fans late in his career by voicing "Chef" for the animated series "South Park."