IT News HeadLines (HardOCP) 31/07/2010

Dell Tech Support Swiping Nudie Pics
I know I shouldn't laugh at stories like this but I just can't help it. A woman in California has recently gone public with claims that she not only watched as a Dell tech support worker downloaded nude pics of her remotely, but that he also set up a website featuring the photos. Oh, and he used her Dell credit card to buy stuff for another woman. Comments
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World's Largest Photograph is 70 Gigapixels
How come these massive, record setting gigapixel images are always pictures of towns? Can't we get gigapixel pictures of the beach or a beauty pageant? Comments
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Most Google Services, Including Search, Blocked in China
It looks like Google's strategy of knuckling under to China's demand is working out well. Just kidding, almost all Google's services are being blocked again. Several of Google's Web services in mainland China were fully blocked on Thursday (PDT), including Web search, YouTube, Ads, and Blogger. Other services including Google Images, News, Docs and Groups remain "partially blocked," according to Google's Mainland China service availability chart. Comments
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80s Arcade Couch
I want this couch! You want this couch! Now all we have to do is wait until it moves from the concept stage to production and we'll be all set. TEXT Comments
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Facebook May Put Off IPO Until 2012
A new report, citing anonymous industry sources, claims that Facebook is postponing an initial public offering until at least 2012. I'm not sure how you can "put off" something that hasn't seen announced before but there you have it. This comes as no surprise as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has always been very careful on the subject. "At some point along the path, I think it'll make sense to have an IPO. But we're not running the company to do that. We're running the company to serve more people," he said recently. Comments
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Redbox Launches Blu-ray Rentals
Redbox, the popular DVD rental kiosk provider, and wholly-owned subsidiary of Coinstar, Inc., today announced it has started rolling out Blu-ray™ titles with availability at approximately 13,300 kiosks nationwide. Redbox will rent Blu-ray Discs® at $1.50 per night plus tax and the company expects to have availability across its network of approximately 23,000 kiosk locations by the fall. Comments
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Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring
I knew it! I knew it! Google is spying on us...in real time! The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the 'invisible links' between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events." Comments
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Scientist Create Room Temperature Ice
Room temperature ice? The next thing you are going to tell me is that sex boosts brain growth! Whatever. Researchers at Spain's Centre d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (CIN2) have studied the underlying mechanisms of water condensation in the troposphere and found a way to make artificial materials to control water condensation and trigger ice formation at room temperature. Comments
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Intel Wins Most Innovative Process Awards
Analyst firm, UBM TechInsights announced that Intel has won two of its top awards, including the Most Innovative Logic Process Award for the 32-nm Intel® Core™ processor and the Most Innovative Memory Process for the Intel-Micron Flash Technologies 25nm Manufacturing Process. The 25nm NAND flash memory was recognized as the most advanced process in terms of feature size and for breaking technology scaling barriers. Comments
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Amazon Offers $139 Wireless Kindle
It looks like Amazon is rolling out a new $139 wireless Kindle. Aside from the smaller design and lower price, the new Kindle will feature also feature the company's new e-ink technology. Amazon on Thursday also introduced the third generation of the original Kindle, which has Wi-Fi and 3G wireless technologies. The latter makes it possible to buy digital books from Amazon and download them in less than a minute. Amazon kept the price for the device at $189. Comments
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