Thursday, December 1, 2011

IT News Head Lines (CNET) 01/12/2011





Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL join Agari anti-phishing service
Big e-mail providers to share data with startup that analyzes it for Facebook, banks, and other firms whose brands are used for phishing.

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Military deploys distributed solar en masse
The SolarCity-led SolarStrong project, expected to be the largest residential solar project, installing rooftop solar panels at military bases, secures the $1 billion in financing it needs to go ahead.

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New Path 2.0 automatically chronicles, shares your life
Put your timeline on Automatic with Path's new feature to check in your visits to new cities, and to dreamland.

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Dual-screen smartphones gone wrong (roundup)
Here's the thing with dual-screen smartphones: they always sound like such an interesting idea, but often end in disaster. Here are four takes on phones with two screens.

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Judges overturn Galaxy Tab ban in Australia
Decision overturns Apple's effort to keep the Samsung tablet from being sold in Australia.

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Apple's iPad 3 to usher in pixel-packing tablets
The next-generation tablet's display will pack a pixel punch but it will have company in the Android tablet market.

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Soft-bodied robot moves like a squid
Researchers at Harvard University present a squid-like mechanized device that looks like a modern-day Gumby.

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Google redesign dumps black navigation bar
New Google bar has a drop-down menu for products under the Google logo, as well as the familiar search bar and Google+ tools.

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Meet Cluzee, Android's next Siri alternative
Yet another "Siri for Android" has arrived on the market, but is it worth using?

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Crave 68: We're all out of bubblegum (podcast)
Today's topics include Rowdy Roddy Piper, tiny printers, giant Keepons, LSD, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. If that's not enough to get you to watch, I don't think there's anything more we can do.

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Facebook's FTC settlement won't change much, if anything
Facebook won't revert to its earlier, more privacy-protective, default profile settings. Nor is today's deal with the FTC likely to mean any other significant changes.

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How young is too young for a cellphone or smartphone?
Ask Maggie offers advice on when children should get their first cellphone and when parents should consider buying a smartphone.

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Will it be a C-section? Childbirth simulator helps predict
New software called Predibirth helps process magnetic-resonance images into a 3D construction of the pelvis and fetus to score a woman's chances of having a normal birth.

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Galaxy Nexus teardown reveals plenty of goodies
The first Ice Cream Sandwich is filled with plenty of treats in the middle.

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Facebook's most-shared articles of 2011 shows babies, banks, and brats
Facebook reveals the news articles that grabbed the most attention on the social network in 2011. Unsurprisingly, the wrap-up spans a range of subjects from celebrity deaths (Ryan Dunn, Steve Jobs) to weather disasters, and even a few viral videos.

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AT&T enjoys post-Turkey Day sales rush
The company said its online traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday rose 32 percent from a year ago as consumers snapped up smartphones for a penny.

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News of the World reporter: Phone hacks 'perfectly acceptable'
In evidence to a phone hacking tribunal, former News of the World reporter Paul McMullan says the practice was simply part of getting the story at any cost. He adds that reporters swapped celebrities' numbers, in his case Sylvester Stallone's mom's number for David Beckham's.

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Cyber Monday rules U.S. commerce with $1.25B in sales
The Monday after Thanksgiving is officially the biggest online spending day of the year; sales jumped 22 percent over the same day last year.

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Apple wins patent for intelligent dock connector
Your power management could be getting a whole lot smarter. Apple has just been granted a patent that details an intelligent dock connector able to properly adjust power levels for multiple connected devices from a single outlet source.

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Would you please pass the funding?
Frugalo, a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that sorts through all those daily deals, is living up to its name by being run out of a dining room.

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