Tuesday, May 3, 2011

IT News Head Lines (CNET) 03/05/2011





BlackBerry 7 OS brings NFC support, voice search
RIM introduces the latest version of its operating system, BlackBerry OS 7.

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TiVo, EchoStar case ends with $500 million payout
EchoStar and Dish Network agree to pay TiVo to settle a long-running patent tussle. The companies are also swapping patent licenses.

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IE9 passes Opera in browser usage
Microsoft's browser is catching on, though not fast enough to reverse IE's slide. Also: Apple's iOS now accounts for 2.2 percent of OSes used to surf the Web.

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RIM unveils BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930
Research In Motion kicks off its BlackBerry World 2011 conference with a pair of smartphones that feature touch screens and NFC capabilities.

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Home lighting diversifies, led by LEDs (photos)
It's no longer one size fits all when it comes to lighting, as more efficient products, notably good LEDs, are coming to market.

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LED bulbs move in and mix up home lighting
There's more diversity coming to home lighting as efficient general-use LED bulbs become available, giving people an alternative to incandescent bulbs and CFLs.

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How apps stay on top in the App Store
How do some applications stay on top of the App Store charts for so long? CNET talks to a handful of successful developers to find out their tricks for keeping people interested.

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Bin Laden death big on Twitter--but not biggest
Twitter says about 4,000 tweets per second carried news of Osama bin Laden's death Sunday night. That's a lot, but New Year's Eve in Japan was more.

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Pakistan Twitter users capture raid on bin Laden
As U.S. special forces moved in on Osama bin Laden, Twitter users in Pakistan recorded the first clues that something big was happening.

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Twitter delivers news of bin Laden's death first
Sure, there was lots of erroneous speculation on Twitter, but posted to the micro-blogging site was a message from a former assistant to former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld that said: "they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn."

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Time Inc., Apple reach deal on iPad subscriptions
The agreement will make all of the publisher's iPad editions available to print edition subscribers at no additional charge.

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Web finds new 'Shut Up' meme in Royal Wedding
The moving and meaningful image of 3-year-old bridesmaid Grace Van Cutsem covering her ears immediately becomes a symbol for everything some of the Web would like silenced. Like Donald Trump.

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Repairs ground Endeavour at least a week
Work to replace a suspect electrical distribution box in the shuttle Endeavour's engine compartment that triggered a scrub Friday will delay another launch attempt to Mother's Day at the earliest, NASA says.

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Motorola: Future Atrix devices as 'Android alternative'
Motorola will bring out more devices based around the Atrix 4G smartphone-laptop convergence theme, the company's CEO said.

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Report: Apple's Phil Schiller says white iPhone not thicker than black
A report suggests that Apple's Phil Schiller sends a Twitter direct message to a reader of 9 To 5 Mac and says the white iPhone is definitely not thicker than the black one

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Girl Scouts create prosthetic hand device
Girl Scouts apply to patent award-winning writing tool as they help a 3-year-old hold a pencil for the first time.

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Sony apologizes: A little late?
Ten days after a hack attack on the PlayStation Network, Sony executive Kaz Hirai attends a press conference and publicly apologizes. Why was the word "sorry" withheld for so long?

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Sony to restore PSN services, compensate customers
Head of PlayStation Kaz Hirai says most PlayStation Network services will be back on this week. Customers will get free 30-day service and theft protection monitoring service.

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