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iPhone Dev Team releases 2.2 jailbreak

by admin in July 31st, 2010

An easy way of unlocking your iPhone 3G could hit the Internet relatively soon.
(Credit:
CNET)

The iPhone Dev Team is still working to unlock the iPhone 3G, but it has proven a tough nut to crack, mostly because of the baseband technology. You can unlock your iPhone 3G to use it on another carrier by modifying [...]

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Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony tout NPD numbers

by admin in July 30th, 2010

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Update: This story has been changed to reflect the email from Sony touting its
PlayStation 3 March performance.

I think it’s very clear that all these companies are going to posture and fluff their tail feathers and try to elbow each other out of the way–month after month into perpetuity. And because NPD–the leader in gathering industry [...]

DriverSide building an all-encompassing portal for

by admin in July 30th, 2010

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DriverSide founder Trevor Traina ran down the things that car owners have to worry about: “repairs, insurance, recalls, resale…” He maintains that there is no good site that actually makes car ownership easy in all of the categories where it matters. DriverSide is his attempt to rectify that–and pick up a piece of the [...]

Video, memory issues with MacBooks being reported

by admin in July 30th, 2010

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Early adopters of Apple's latest MacBook Pros and MacBooks (shown here) are reporting glitches with the laptops.

Posters on Apple’s site have been reporting crashes when running games on the 9600 discrete chip–the focus of the Inquirer’s investigation–suggesting that the issue doesn’t involve the 9400 integrated graphics chip in the MacBook. Nvidia told the Inquirer that [...]

NBC says it inadvertently flagged ‘American Gladia

by admin in July 30th, 2010

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For a week, fans of digital video recorders wondered if Hollywood was trying to force DVR (digital video recorder) owners to watch commercials. Historically, TV and cable networks have resented DVRs for enabling viewers to jump past ads. The Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that would require electronics manufacturers to set up their technologies to [...]

‘Wuthering Heights,’ Wikipedia in 5-minute chunks

by admin in July 30th, 2010

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The Wikipedia-based topics DailyLit is creating “tours” of major world religions (22 installments–compared with the 260 installments for Moby Dick), “Wine 101,” presidents of the United States, “Best Picture” Oscar winners, famous poets, famous women in history, Greek mythology, famous inventors, and wonders of the world.

DailyLit, which offers entire books over e-mail and [...]

Citi Solar prices to sink rapidly in looming shak

by admin in July 29th, 2010

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That pessimism appears to have spilled over onto solar-installer Real Goods Solar, which went public on Thursday but saw its stock price end the day below the low end of its anticipated offering price of $10.

For consumers, the up-front price of getting solar-electric panels is still high–in the range of $20,000 to $35,000. A shortage [...]

Google gets political with quotation tool

by admin in July 29th, 2010

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Just in time for the home stretch of the U.S. presidential showdown, some crafty engineers at Google have created a tool to compare quotations from candidates Barack Obama and John McCain. Called “In Quotes,” the Google Labs project lets you search for a given term (say, “economy”) and Google will bring up a quotation from [...]

I can’t stand anonymity in the gaming industry

by admin in July 29th, 2010

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The idea of “teams” may have served the video game industry well years ago when it was nothing more than a niche industry, but today, it’s a major industry in the entertainment business and it needs to start acting like it.
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GSP East How to battle the Facebook zombie army

by admin in July 29th, 2010

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Some more tidbits: Facebook will certainly be launching a payment system for application developers, as has been widely rumored, but Ling–a veteran of the Google Checkout technology–wouldn’t provide a time frame. They’ve also tossed about the issue of an ad network for developers, but haven’t made concrete plans.
Ling continued, “What we learned is that it [...]

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Archive for July, 2010

iPhone Dev Team releases 2.2 jailbreak

Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony tout NPD numbers

DriverSide building an all-encompassing portal for

Video, memory issues with MacBooks being reported

NBC says it inadvertently flagged ‘American Gladia

‘Wuthering Heights,’ Wikipedia in 5-minute chunks

Citi Solar prices to sink rapidly in looming shak

Google gets political with quotation tool

I can’t stand anonymity in the gaming industry

GSP East How to battle the Facebook zombie army

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