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| Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists
(AP)
| Sat, Nov 21 05:33 AM |
 AP - Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Really Rare Rhinos Found by Dung-Sniffing Dogs
(LiveScience.com)
| Sat, Nov 21 05:05 AM |
| LiveScience.com - We all know dogs like to smell just about everything, including other animals' poo. Now scientists have figured out how to put the canines' odd pastimes to work to help sniff out the dung of endangered rhinos in Vietnam. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Astronauts gear up for 2nd spacewalk of mission
(AP)
| Sat, Nov 21 04:44 AM |
 AP - An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Astronauts Prepare for Second Spacewalk, New Baby
(SPACE.com)
| Sat, Nov 21 04:15 AM |
| SPACE.com - Astronaut Randy Bresnik may be expecting his wife Rebecca to
give birth, but that hasn't shaken his focus for a planned spacewalk outside
the International Space Station today to install new video antennas and other
equipment. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Husband of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez attacked
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 20 09:18 PM |
 Reuters - The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 20 07:53 PM |
 AP - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
| Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Nook's Christmas Deadline Passes | Fri, Nov 20 06:07 PM |
| Barnes & Noble on Friday said customers who order its Nook electronic-book reader now won't get it until the week of Jan. 4. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Large Hadron Collider up and running again | Fri, Nov 20 05:03 PM |
| The world's biggest particle accelerator is in full operation after a year of repairs. | CNET News.com |
| Moody's downgrades Liberty Media LLC ratings
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 20 04:13 PM |
| AP - Moody's Investors Service downgraded ratings for Liberty Media Corp. subsidiary Liberty Media LLC on Friday. The changes come shortly after shareholders approved the formation of a new company out of DirecTV Group Inc. and some of Liberty's entertainment businesses. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Seize Seesmic Twitter app on BlackBerry, Android | Fri, Nov 20 04:02 PM |
| Twitter service Seesmic expands from the desktop with two new apps for Google Android and BlackBerry phones. | CNET News.com |
| The Day Global Warming Stood Still
(Investor's Business Daily)
| Fri, Nov 20 03:40 PM |
| Investor's Business Daily - Climate Change: As scientists confirm the earth has not warmed at all in the past decade, others wonder how this could be and what it means for Copenhagen. Maybe Al Gore can Photoshop something before December. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: Tech biz turkeys | Fri, Nov 20 03:20 PM |
| In the history of tech, some decisions stand out as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman, Charlie Cooper, and Jim Kerstetter go over some of the worst ever. | CNET News.com |
| Game developer cuts back on Android in favor of iPhone | Fri, Nov 20 03:12 PM |
| One game developer said it is cutting its investment in Android in favor of Apple's iPhone because it sells 400 times more games for the iPhone than it does for Android. | CNET News.com |
| Can Facebook group change World Cup game result? | Fri, Nov 20 02:43 PM |
| The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Can Facebook group change World Cup game result? | Fri, Nov 20 02:43 PM |
| The World Cup elimination game between France and Ireland was decided by a piece of blatant cheating. A Facebook group, more than 250,000 strong, wants it replayed. | CNET News.com |
| Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid | Fri, Nov 20 02:03 PM |
| Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Techmeme Mobile launches for iPhone, Pre, Droid | Fri, Nov 20 02:03 PM |
| Popular tech news aggregator Techmeme has launched a new mobile version of the site for the Apple iPhone, Palm Pre, and Motorola Droid. | CNET News.com |
| How smoking can ruin your Mac | Fri, Nov 20 02:00 PM |
| According to a report, AppleCare warranties can be voided if Apple deems the damage was caused by secondhand smoke. Appeals to Steve Jobs have, apparently, not succeeded. | CNET News.com |
| Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness | Fri, Nov 20 01:56 PM |
MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a surprise was Glickman's irritation at various ACTA "protests" which create "apprehension over the Agreement's substance."
He's referring to online outlets that have hoisted the anti-ACTA flag over the last year, accusing the treaty of being a pretext for ramming "three strikes" laws through without Congressional oversight or empowering Customs agents to check the contents of your iPod. Based on our reporting, neither of these items appears to be in the draft text, but the secretive nature of the negotiations and the bland, impenetrable public statements about ACTA have fueled plenty of suspicion.
 | Ars Technica |
| Gephardt pushes for investment in health research
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 20 01:42 PM |
| AP - Former U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt pushed Friday for Iowa to expand its focus on public health, arguing the state has the medical infrastructure in place to make it a leader in the field. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Sony planning new online store | Fri, Nov 20 12:51 PM |
| Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Sony planning new online store | Fri, Nov 20 12:51 PM |
Taking a page from Apple's iTunes, Sony is devising an online store offering music, movies, books, and other downloadable content for its various devices. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Malone says DirecTV is not for sale: report
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 20 12:51 PM |
| Reuters - Media mogul John Malone said the U.S. No.1 satellite TV operator DirecTV Group is not up for sale in an interview with business cable network CNBC on Friday. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs | Fri, Nov 20 12:20 PM |
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for EMR deployments part of its stimulus package. But many have pointed out that simply throwing computers at a problem isn't a solution unless the software and practices are also in place to allow the medical community to leverage the technology efficiently. A study of US hospital data suggests they may not be: computerization only had a mild impact on quality of care, and it didn't seem to alter costs in any significant manner.
The study will appear online at The American Journal of Medicine Friday. Its authors combined three datasets that collectively track the computerization and outcomes at thousands of US hospitals. Data on the deployment of medical IT systems were obtained from an annual survey performed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. The survey contains over 20 measures of computerization, including both administrative and clinical functions.
 | Ars Technica |
| Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge | Fri, Nov 20 12:00 PM |
| Puzzled onlookers have wondered why Google is overseeing two separate operating-system projects. Co-founder Sergey Brin thinks that at some point the two will become one. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Pennsylvania residents sue over gas drilling
(Reuters)
| Fri, Nov 20 11:56 AM |
| Reuters - Residents of a small rural Pennsylvania town sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp on Friday, claiming the company's natural-gas drilling has contaminated their water wells with toxic chemicals, caused sickness and reduced their property values. | Yahoo! News: Science News |
| Google Outlines Chrome OS Plans | Fri, Nov 20 11:47 AM |
| A Google executive said the Internet giant is "a year away" from making its anticipated Chrome computer operating system available to users. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Spain mandates affordable broadband for all | Fri, Nov 20 11:39 AM |
| The country's government is following the lead of Finland and making affordable broadband a legal right. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Arrests made in massive, $390/hour Video Relay Service scam | Fri, Nov 20 10:48 AM |
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal "tens of millions of dollars" from the program.
VRS was first launched in Texas in the mid-90s as a way for the deaf to communicate via telephone. A hard-of-hearing or speech-impaired person could use a video phone to dial into a VRS service equipped with sign language interpreters, who would then dial through to a hearing recipient. The interpreters would read the caller's signing over video and speak it to the recipient to help facilitate the call.
 | Ars Technica |
| Microsoft settles with employee accused of stealing docs | Fri, Nov 20 10:44 AM |
The litigation between Ancora Technologies, Miki Mullor, and Microsoft reached a settlement both in respect of the patent infringement claim and Microsoft's claims against Mullor, Ancora's founder and former Microsoft employee. All claims between the three parties have been resolved; they have agreed to deny any and all liability, and have released each other from all claims of the litigation, but made sure to keep the terms of the settlement as confidential. "I am pleased with this resolution and wish my friends at Microsoft's Windows division nothing but success with Windows 7 launch," Mullor said in a statement.
 | Ars Technica |
| Students get discounts on Exchange-compatible Office for Mac | Fri, Nov 20 09:51 AM |
College isn't cheap these days, even if you're attending public university. In that case, pretty much any discount offered to students is welcome. Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has just announced that it's offering a special discount on the full Office 2008 Business Edition for US college students, offering them a 70 percent discount off the usual retail price. Even if you're not a college student, though, the Mac BU is offering a range of "holiday" discounts on Office as well.
Office 2008 for Mac comes in two different editions. The Home & Student Edition includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, and usually sells for $149.95. The Business Edition, includes Entourage Web Services Edition, which is compatible with Exchange, as well as Document Connection for Mac, Automator actions, templates, clip art, and more; it normally sells for $399.95.
 | Ars Technica |
| Simpsons' lampoon of Sarkozy sudden French web hit
(AFP)
| Fri, Nov 20 09:18 AM |
 AFP - Thousands of French Internet users flooded video sharing websites Friday to enjoy a lampoon of their glamourous first couple, almost a week after they appeared on the US show the Simpsons.
| Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Brizzly opens up...and translates | Fri, Nov 20 08:00 AM |
| The Twitter client has built in Google Translate for quick decoding of international tweets--and also, no more invite codes are required. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Google Adds Captions to YouTube Search
(PC World)
| Fri, Nov 20 07:32 AM |
| PC World - In a step to make YouTube videos more accessible to deaf people as well as to anyone else searching for videos online, Google has launched an automatic video captioning service. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| Nokia to lay off up to 330 R&D staffers | Fri, Nov 20 06:20 AM |
| The move, which would affect workers at sites in Finland and Denmark, comes as the company shows signs of sputtering in the smartphone stakes. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Sony to launch online download service for TVs
(AFP)
| Fri, Nov 20 05:46 AM |
 AFP - Sony Corp. aims to launch next year a new online service that will allow people to download content such as music and movies to their televisions and other electronic gadgets, a top executive said Friday.
| Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| How Google Gets from Chrome OS to YouTube TVs
(PC Magazine)
| Fri, Nov 20 04:33 AM |
| PC Magazine - Google fired another shell at Microsoft's fundamental business model on Thursday, when it released the code behind its Google Chrome OS. What happens when you turn the operating system into just another advertising medium? Quite a number of things. | Yahoo! News: Digital Video/TV Technology |
| The 411 on early-termination fees (FAQ) | Fri, Nov 20 04:00 AM |
| Verizon Wireless has doubled its early-termination fees for smartphones, but what does it mean for the rest of the industry? | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty
(AP)
| Fri, Nov 20 02:43 AM |
 AP - Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| 200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English
(AP)
| Thu, Nov 19 10:28 PM |
 AP - Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.
| Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Cisco launches iPhone security app | Thu, Nov 19 09:01 PM |
| Cisco Systems' new App Store entry, featuring customized alerts and threat information delivered to the handheld device, targets security professionals. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| AOL Grapples With Harsh Reality | Thu, Nov 19 08:40 PM |
| AOL plans to cut about 2,500 employees as the struggling Internet company attempts to resurrect its business after it spins off from Time Warner. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Sony Bets on Online Push | Thu, Nov 19 07:41 PM |
| As Sony scrambles to reassert its technological relevance, CEO Howard Stringer is betting on a strategy for the electronics giant that focuses on adding online content to more of its gadgets. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Microsoft: Windows 7 Selling Well | Thu, Nov 19 05:16 PM |
| Microsoft's Windows 7 has outsold by two times any previous version of the operating system in the same length of time, CEO Steve Ballmer said. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Judge sets February hearing for new Google Books deal | Thu, Nov 19 04:50 PM |
| Schedule is laid out for the second round of the final approval process as preliminary approval is given to the revised deal submitted last Friday. | CNET News.com - Media |
| HDMI products to get meaningful labels | Thu, Nov 19 04:49 PM |
| HDMI Licensing releases guidelines that enforce meaningful labeling to different versions of HDMI cables. | CNET News.com - Media |
| Dell Trails Peers in Recovery | Thu, Nov 19 04:45 PM |
| Dell's profit dropped 54% despite recent signs of a tech recovery, raising questions about the PC maker's strategy of focusing on profitability at the expense of market share. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Retailers Slash Price on Palm's Pixi | Thu, Nov 19 03:55 PM |
| Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores have slashed the price of Palm’s newest smart phone, the Pixi, by 75% to $24.99 after only a few days on the market. | WSJ.com: What's News Technology |
| Google's Chrome OS to be ready for 2010 holidays
(AP)
| Thu, Nov 19 01:36 PM |
| AP - Consumers will have to wait until next year's holiday shopping season to find out if Google Inc.'s new operating system can deliver on its promise to make low-cost computers run faster. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Yahoo jumps on Twitter bandwagon to improve search
(AP)
| Thu, Nov 19 11:38 AM |
| AP - Yahoo Inc. is jumping on the Twitter bandwagon in its latest attempt to get people to use its Internet search engine more frequently. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos
(AP)
| Thu, Nov 19 11:31 AM |
| AP - Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
| Analyst: Money transfer soon to be No. 1 phone app | Thu, Nov 19 10:24 AM |
| Surprisingly absent from Gartner's top 10 predictions for mobile-device use in 2012, based on impact to consumers and industry players, is gaming. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Broadband economics: How I'll save $700 | Thu, Nov 19 04:00 AM |
| Competition is the key to getting great deals. In testing that theory, CNET's Maggie Reardon finds she can save nearly $700 next year by switching providers. | CNET News.com - Wireless |
| Lester leads Hofstra past Yale 68-63
(AP)
| Mon, Nov 16 05:52 PM |
| AP - Nathaniel Lester scored 19 points and Hofstra held off Yale 68-63 in the first round of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Monday night. | Yahoo! News: Technology News |
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| Google Chrome OS is 10 Years From Broad Enterprise Adoption | Sat, Nov 21 04:26 AM |
IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get on netbooks, those hard disk-less machines from Asus, Dell, HP and others that let users access Web applications. He wonders if consumers and enterprises will accept only running Web applications and not local apps. Gartner analyst Ray Valdes wonders how serious potential hardware partners will be about Chrome OS. Will netbook makers use Chrome OS as a bargaining chip to get better deals on Windows operating system licenses from Microsoft?
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Should Google Chrome Operating System sees the light of
day a year from now as the company expects, it will take 10 years before it
begins to see serious enterprise adoption, an analyst told eWEEK.
IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome OS, which Google
officials released to open source ...
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| Stakeholders Talk Future of SSDs at VLAB Roundtable | Fri, Nov 20 05:51 PM |
The argument about hard disk drives versus solid-state drives has been going on for a long time and will continue for years to come. There are those who are convinced that SSDs will indeed outnumber hard drives in the IT business at some point in our lifetimes. Data storage experts consider the question at a Stanford roundtable.
- STANFORD, Calif. If you ask some of the most knowledgeable
people in the solid-state drive business, you'll find out that SSDs though
becoming increasingly popular aren't in a position take over
from hard drives any time soon.
Of course, this argument
has been going on for a long time and wil...
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| Oracle, SpringSource Launch OSGi-Based Eclipse Project | Fri, Nov 20 04:36 PM |
Oracle and SpringSource team up to propose a new Eclipse project called Enterprise Modules and code-named Project Gemini, to provide a home for subprojects that integrate existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms.
- Oracle and SpringSource have teamed up to propose a new Eclipse project called
quot;Enterprise Modules quot; and code-named Project Gemini, quot;to
provide a home for subprojects that integrate existing Java enterprise
technologies into module-based platforms, quot; the proposal said.
Accordin...
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| The Story Behind the FAA Flight-Plan System Crash | Fri, Nov 20 02:47 PM |
When a Salt Lake City router went offline, only government telecom contractor Harris knew that the backup card was not immediately available and one technician had access to where it was kept. Meanwhile, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of passengers were thrown off schedule as the lack of an FAA filing system left pilots submitting flight plans manually.
- When the Federal Aviation Administration's national
flight-plan filing system went down for 4 hours the morning of Nov. 19, disrupting
the takeoffs of hundreds of commercial flights and throwing hundreds of
thousands of travelers off schedule, it wasn't yet known that the culprit was
one faulty ...
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| New RIM BlackBerry, Sony Phones Offer Big Cameras, Bigger App Stores | Fri, Nov 20 02:23 PM |
The holidays are upon us, and new devices from Research In Motion, Sony, and other manufacturers offer users a host of new multimedia capabilities. RIMs BlackBerry line seems to be incorporating more consumer-style features such as dedicated music buttons with every passing generation, and Sony is embracing both Google Android and Windows Mobile 6.5 as the operating systems for its latest smartphones.
Devices from other manufacturers such as Casio and Kyocera (with the Sanyo-branded Incognito smartphone) also offer a variety of new hardware and software features, including powerful cameras and navigation applications.
- ...
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| Adobe Updates Acrobat.com, Releases Flash 10.1, AIR 2.0 Betas | Fri, Nov 20 02:08 PM |
Adobe Systems updates Acrobat.com in ways designed to make working together across organizations even easier than before, including mobile access. The company also recently announced beta availability of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0.
- Adobe Systems announced on Nov. 20 a new release of Acrobat.com that
features several major updates designed to make working together across
organizations even easier than before, including mobile access. The company
also on Nov. 17 announced beta availability of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and
Adob...
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| IBM, Brown Build Largest Supercomputer in R.I. | Fri, Nov 20 02:00 PM |
The IBM supercomputer at Brown University is 50 times more powerful, six times more energy efficient and can hold 70 times more memory than the system it's replacing. Researchers and scientists across the region will have access to the supercomputer, which will have a peak performance of more than 14 teraflops. The supercomputer includes IBM's iDataPlex and holds 1,440 microprocessors. The Marine Biological Laboratory, in Woods Hole, Mass., will be one of the first users.
- IBM has built a multimillion-dollar
supercomputer at Brown University
in Rhode Island that will help
researchers there and throughout the region tackle a host of computational
projects. The center opened Nov. 20.
The supercomputer at the Providence, R.I., university's Center for
Computation an...
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| LABS GALLERY: Eclipse Plug-in Taps into Force.com | Fri, Nov 20 12:27 PM |
With the help of a fully featured plug-in, developers can create Force.com software from within Eclipse. eWEEK Labs takes the plug-in for a spin.
- ...
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| Microsoft Countering Google Chrome OS Release with Windows 7 | Fri, Nov 20 12:08 PM |
Microsoft issued an official response to news of Google releasing its Chrome Operating System to open source for developers. Although the Chrome OS will not be available to end users for at least another year, Microsoft is already citing Windows 7 as a more viable alternative for working on both the Web and the desktop. The initial target of the Chrome OS will be netbooks, whose always-on data connection will allow the browser-based operating system to launch and run its applications from the cloud.
- Google's Chrome Operating System may not be available to
end-users until late 2010, but Microsoft has a response to its rivals release of the OS to open source for developers on
Nov. 20.
The
Chrome OS is browser-based, and will run on netbooks as a Web-centric
alternative to traditional desk...
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| 10 Things We Want to See in Internet Explorer 9 | Fri, Nov 20 11:36 AM |
Microsoft at PDC Nov. 18 shared some new ideas it's bringing to Internet Explorer 9. The company says it plans to make the browser more Web- and developer-friendly, while still maintaining the familiar Internet Explorer identity. That sounds nice, but in the end, Microsoft said very little about what it specifically plans to offer in IE 9.
Realizing that, we have decided to take a step back, evaluate Internet Explorer and try to determine what should make its way into the next version. It won't be an easy task. In recent years, Microsoft has made strides in the effort to improve Internet Explorer with its new Suggested Sites feature, as well as InPrivate, a security mode. But there is still much to be desired, and Microsoft has some heavy work ahead if it wants retain its dominant position in the browser space. To help get the development project started, here are 10 features we really want to see in IE 9.
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| Google Automates Captions in YouTube for Accessibility | Fri, Nov 20 10:57 AM |
Google is pairing its automatic speech recognition technology with its YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms that power automatic voice mail transcription in Google Voice to generate captions for video on the fly. This a boon for deaf and hearing-impaired users who want to enjoy the millions of videos on the YouTube video sharing service. Google's YouTube team is also launching automatic caption timing, making it much easier for users to create captions manually.
- In the latest example of how Google uses its technology to improve user
experience for its other Web services, the search engine Nov. 19 paired its
automatic speech recognition technology with its YouTube caption system to
offer automatic captions.
Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algori...
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| Aircell Wi-Fi Launches on Air Canada | Fri, Nov 20 10:42 AM |
The initial January testing period for Aircell's Gogo Inflight Internet service will be limited to Air Canada's Toronto-Los Angeles and Montreal-Los Angeles routes.
- Aircell's Gogo Inflight Internet service which recently celebrated its 1
millionth customer has begun test trials on Air Canada's
Toronto-Los
Angeles and Montreal-Los
Angeles routes. quot;Following the test period, which
runs until Jan. 29, 2010,
Air Canada will
analyze usage and customer fe...
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| Palm Pixi Now with Tinier Price: $25 | Fri, Nov 20 10:34 AM |
Palm Pixi has received a 75 percent price chop at some retailers, just days after its debut. Whats good news for shoppers, however, may prove an image fiasco for Palm and its Pixi smartphone.
- Amazon.com and Wal-Mart have reduced the selling price of the Palm
Pixi to $24.99, with a two-year service contract on Sprints 3G
network, only days after the carrier debuted the smartphone for $99, according to published reports. As of Nov. 20, the carrier had not altered the Pixi's price on its ...
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| Dell Mini 3 Smartphone Strategy Aims High | Fri, Nov 20 09:57 AM |
Dell CFO says the company will be opportunistic and offer its Android-running Mini 3 smartphone where it can add value to its consumer business. He also said Dell has considered a netbook with Android, but has made no commitments.
- During Dells fiscal third-quarter 2010 earnings announcement on Nov. 19,
Brian Gladden, Dells chief financial officer, didnt rule out the
possibility of Mini 3, Dells newly revealed smartphone, arriving in
the United States at some point.
On
Nov. 13, Dell introduced the Mini 3, which runs Goo...
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| Vanish! How Wired Readers Caught Our Fugitive Writer | Fri, Nov 20 05:45 PM |
| In an age when everyone is following everything, is it ever possible to disappear? On Aug. 13, one man drove out of San Francisco determined to stay hidden in plain sight and test this possibility.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Shaggy to Bald: Evan's Daily Costume Change | Fri, Nov 20 05:41 PM |
| While on the run, Evan Ratliff snapped a self-portrait each day to document his constantly evolving appearance.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Stories From the Hunt for Evan Ratliff | Fri, Nov 20 05:40 PM |
| After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Why were they drawn to the hunt, what did they do and what did they learn?
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Wired Tests Writer With Series of Bold Challenges | Fri, Nov 20 05:39 PM |
| With a week remaining in the hunt for Evan Ratliff, Wired decided to up the stakes with of five challenges hidden in New York Times crossword puzzles.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Delete Browser Cookies, Clean Up Your Trail of Crumbs | Fri, Nov 20 03:30 PM |
| The web is watching you, and it’s doing it using browser cookies — small snippets of tracking code. Do away with them to be free of watchers, and annoy the heck out of Big Brother too.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| YouTube Blocks Non-Partner Device Syabas as Allegations Fly | Fri, Nov 20 03:12 PM |
| YouTube has begun enforcing a 16-month-old change in its terms of service that requires device manufacturers to become "strategy partners" in order to display YouTube videos on televisions.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Prosecutors Drop Plans to Appeal Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case | Fri, Nov 20 03:00 PM |
| Prosecutors have dropped any plans to appeal the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy criminal case.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| World's Largest Earthquake-Safe Building | Fri, Nov 20 02:45 PM |
| A new 2-million-square-foot terminal at an Istanbul airport is the largest building in the world to sit on high-tech seismic isolators designed to help the building survive earthquakes intact.
 | Wired Top Stories |
| MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood | Fri, Nov 20 02:45 PM |
| Dan Glickman, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, is complaining to Congress that those who don't support a proposed international intellectual-property treaty are "hostile toward efforts to improve copyright enforcement worldwide."
 | Wired Top Stories |
| Review: Angst-and-Fangs Formula Lacks Bite in 'New Moon' | Fri, Nov 20 01:50 PM |
| Action takes a back seat to moping in this Twilight sequel, a throwaway teen flick that gives vampire movies a bad name. Aside from the brooding bloodsuckers, New Moon also delivers a lousy message to fangirls swooning over the supernatural love story.
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