4chan founder launches Canvas into beta
4chan founder Christopher Poole (also know as moot) has launched the first public version of his new website, Canvas. Beta invites are rolling out in a staggered fashion so as to avoid too many people joining at the same time.
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LG to show glasses-free 3D smartphone at MWC
LG is going to unveil a 3D capable smartphone at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Much like the Nintendo 3DS, the device won't require special glasses for 3D viewing and the South Korean electronics giant hopes to overcome the lack of content by creating its own ecosystem: the... Read More ...
More details emerge about Intel's Cougar Point chipset flaw
More specifics of the problem affecting Intel's 6 Series chipset (codenamed Cougar Point) have emerged courtesy of Anandtech. Speaking with Steve Smith, VP and Director of Intel Client PC Operations and Enabling, the site was able to confirm that the fault affects both P67 and H67 chipsets, pin-pointing the problem... Read More ...
AMD shows low-power C-50 Fusion chip for tablets
AMD's Fusion platform is gaining a few backers among computer manufacturers for bringing solid performance and graphics to thin and light laptops without having to sacrifice too much battery life. But as you probably have already noticed, tablets are the rising stars of the market and the Sunnyvale chip designer... Read More ...
Netgear CEO: Apple's closed system just can't go that far
Netgear chairman and CEO Patrick Lo recently slammed Apple CEO Steve Jobs for his business practices, saying that Cupertino would have to change its closed system to compete in the future. Speaking at a lunch in Sydney, Australia, Lo said Apple would have to open its platform to compete with... Read More ...
China starts censoring the word "Egypt"
China's communist government is trying to make it harder for its citizens to discuss the mass protests currently occurring in Egypt. Chinese officials are wary of violent uprisings in parts of their country, and so have begun blocking the word "Egypt," according to The New York Times.
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Almost 100,000 US torrent users sued in the last 12 months
In the last 12 months, copyright infringement lawsuits in the United States, mainly against torrent users (and a few hundred ed2k users), have targeted 99,924 defendants. The profitable pay-up-or-else scheme has been embraced by many. Of the 80 cases that were filed originally, 68 are still active, with 70,914 defendants still being targeted. Read More ...
Google passed Nokia in Q4 2010 market share
Q4 2010 saw the worldwide smartphone market continue to soar, with shipments of 101.2 million units representing year-on-year growth of 89 percent. Shipments for the year were just below 300 million units, with an annual growth rate of 80 percent compared to 2009, according to Canalys.
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Google Docs gets a dose of Gmail features
Google has announced that it is rolling out a refresh to the Google Docs documents list. The goal is to make it easier to find, explore, and share all your files that are stored on the Web, even if they are of varying file types. This might be as close... Read More ...
Crysis 2 demo won't be Xbox 360 exclusive, coming to PC
Despite rumors and speculation suggesting that the Crysis 2 demo will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, it turns out the demo will be coming to the PC after all. Crytek confirmed the news via a tweet on its Twitter account:
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Google lets Egypt send voice tweets sans Internet
In response to the Internet blackout in Egypt, a small group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow have developed a "speak-to-tweet" service that lets anyone send messages over Twitter without an Internet connection. Users can tweet by leaving a voice message at one of three international phone numbers (+16504194196... Read More ...
UN: Internet surpasses two billion users
The UN's International Telecommunications Union has announced that the number of Internet users worldwide is now greater than two billion -- or nearly one in three humans. In line with the group's previous growth estimates, that figure is up from 1.86 billion a year earlier and 250 million at the... Read More ...
Nvidia's dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 coming in February
NordicHardware has it on good authority that Nvidia plans to launch its dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 graphics card this month. A release date isn't mentioned, but Nvidia is probably trying unveil its flagship in the same timeframe as AMD's competing Radeon HD 6990 (codenamed Antilles). Read More ...
Amazon security flaw lets you log in with wrong password
Reddit users have discovered a security flaw on Amazon that lets you access an older account with an incorrect password. Commenters speculate that Amazon used the Unix crypt() function to encrypt certain passwords, truncating them to a maximum of eight characters long. Additionally, it's believed that Amazon converted all the... Read More ...
Intel finds design flaw in Sandy Bridge chipset
Intel has warned of a flaw with the 6 Series chipset, code-named Cougar Point, that accompanies its latest Sandy Bridge processors, which gradually degrades the performance of the SATA ports over time and thus affects the speed of hard drives and optical drives. In a statement put out this morning,... Read More ...
Report: MeeGo powered tablets coming in second quarter
Intel expects tablet and netbooks devices based on the MeeGo platform to start shipping in the second quarter of 2011, according a report on PC World. The company has been investing heavily in the development of the Linux-based platform as it looks to gain a stronger foothold in the mobile... Read More ...
MSI launches new Sandy Bridge powered laptops
MSI has introduced four new additions to its high performance F series notebook lineup that includes the 15.6-inch FX620/FR620 and 17.3-inch FX720/FR720. The Sandy Bridge systems were first displayed at CES earlier this month featuring Intel's second-generation Core i5 CPU, discrete and integrated graphics options, a handful of power saving... Read More ...
Amazon readies streaming service, free for Prime members?
Amazon is reportedly getting ready to launch a Netflix-like video streaming service that would be available as an add-on to its $79-per-year Prime service. Current subscribers would presumably get the option at no extra cost, while even for new subscribers the service would come in cheaper on a yearly basis... Read More ...
MPAA and BREIN shut down 51 more torrent sites
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN have collaborated to disable at least 51 torrent sites, which published links to copyrighted movies. 12 of them were based in the US while the remaining 39 were from the Netherlands, according to Ars Technica. Read More ...
Lenovo IdeaPad U260 12.5" Laptop Review
Mobile computing has undoubtedly been one of the most dynamic segments of consumer electronics in recent history. From the netbook craze from a few years ago, to smartphones and of course, the tablet computer. And while all of these extensions of mobile computing are exciting, the trusty laptop is still... Read More ...
Weekend tech reading: How Egypt shut down the Internet
How Egypt did (and your government could) shut down the Internet How hard is it, exactly, to kill the Internet? Egypt seems to have been able to do it. But Egypt's situation isn't exactly the same as that in the Western world. And even though Egypt only has four big... Read More ...
Lenovo IdeaPad U260 12.5" Laptop Review
While all of these extensions of mobile computing are exciting, the trusty laptop is still the most well-rounded option. Classified as a Lifestyle product, Lenovo's IdeaPad U260 aims to be your 'thin, light, stylish travel companion'.
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