IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Digital Trends) 25/05/2012

Apple board member says Steve Jobs’s dream was to design iCar
Not content with his vast array of popular consumer products, it appears former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dreamed of designer an iCar before this death.

Contest: Win a designer Anne Rossi iPhone case
Win a designer Anne Rossi iPhone case by telling us about your most heartbreaking loss of technology in the comments section.

Good news: The online job search is getting easier, more effective, and better-looking
New apps are starting to evolve the ancient art of the job search.

Jetsetter: Trouble in Canada for Silicon Knights, new games from a British icon, and the return of Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki
In Jetsetter for the week ending May 25, Ontario's Silicon Knights makes progress in its half-decade legal battle with Epic Games, iconic Sega desginer Yu Suzuki comes to the iPhone, and Peter Molyneux promises to show off his first work with studio 22 Cans soon.

Better bubbly: Hands on with the Perlage Champagne preservation system
The Perlage champagne preservation system seals your opened champagne bottles in a pressurized tomb, keeping them fresh and bubby indefinitely.

How Tim Cook is making his mark at Apple
Would you want to be a followup act for Steve Jobs? We wouldn't. Yet Apple CEO Tim Cook has stepped into this role quite smoothly. We explore the ways he's already changing Apple.

Los Angeles is now the largest U.S. city to ban plastic bags
Los Angeles becomes the largest city in America to pass a ban on plastic bags, joining Seattle and San Francisco, among other major cities, to enact such law.

Oppose CISPA? Act now, or forever hold your peace
Time is running out for those of us who oppose CISPA, which is now contained in a Senate bill called the Cybersecurity Act of 2012. Fortunately, a new website, Privacy Is Awesome, makes it easy to contact your senators, and help stop this legislation in its tracks.

President Obama orders gov’t agencies to create mobile apps and websites
President Obama has ordered all government agencies to create a mobile web and app strategy within the next year.

Timehop gives you a daily blast of your social media past
Get a daily e-mail of your life according to social media one year ago with the help of Timehop, now complete with text message history.

Google opposes UK web porn opt-in scheme, attacked for being motivated by ad revenue
Google has spoken out against the UK government's plan to introduce an online porn opt-in scheme. Subsequently attacked for being motivated by advertising revenue, Google's own efforts highlight why a content filter isn’t the answer.

Why Comcast really cares about data caps and tiered plans
Comcast has announced it is going to start charging people extra for going over monthly bandwidth allowances - no more shutoffs! Except for one thing: It seems to be all about keeping competition at bay.

LG’s 55-inch OLED TV gets coming out party in Monaco
We got an up-close look at LG's new 55-inch OLED TV and boy is it a looker!

Nvidia’s cheap, quad-core tablet platform forgets about the iPad, targets Kindle Fire instead
Nvidia has revealed its plans to enable quad-core Android tablets to be sold for just $199, by using its new Tegra 3 based Kai platform.

Google tablet: It really IS coming soon, new report suggests
A new report backs up other recent information suggesting Google will soon be launching its own tablet device to take on Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet.

Android doesn’t infringe on Oracle patents, rules Jury
A California jury has found Google has not infringed on Oracle patents - and probably clearing a major cloud from Android's future.

Yahoo launches Axis, a visually stunning “search browser”
In an attempt to connect with how a typical user visually remembers a site, Yahoo has created a Web browser that displays images rather than text for search results.

Google Glasses may translate directional sound, speech for the deaf
As Google engineers continue to push forward on the development of Project Glass, features included within a recent patent may greatly benefit the hearing-impaired community.

Photos: Up close with LG’s 55-inch OLED TV
We share some revealing photos of LG's new 55-inch OLED display shown off in Monaco, France during F1 weekend.

Dragon’s Dogma review
Dragon's Dogma may be one in a crowd, but don't let its familiar facade keep you from its fleet-footed adventure.

Apple rejects e-book pricing lawsuit as “fundamentally flawed”
Did Apple illegally fix the prices of e-books in collusion with five publishing houses? Not at all, says the company, and to suggest otherwise - as the US Justice Department is doing with its current anti-trust lawsuit against Apple - is "fundamentally flawed" thinking.

Internet, meet the new ploy to pass the next SOPA
A new study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center puts jobs at the center of the debate around intellectual property protection.

Motorola v. Microsoft: Judge recommends banning Xbox 360 in U.S.
In April, an ITC judge ruled that Microsoft's Xbox 360 infringed on five patents held by Motorola. Now he believes the Xbox 360 should be barred from sale in the U.S. until Microsoft agrees to pay Motorola its owed royalties.

UK company turns radiators into works of art
Art Glass Radiators turn the ugly plumbing of radiators into aesthetically pleasing images and backgrounds.

Student pleads guilty to threatening President Obama on Facebook
There's a difference between venting to friends in private and doing so via social media - especially if said venting includes threatening the life of the most powerful man in the world. For one thing, doing the latter will put you in jail for up to five years.

BMW M5 Hurricane RRs: When 500 horsepower isn’t enough
German tuner G-Power says its modified BMW is the world's fastest sedan.

Chronicle director preps screen adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus for Sony
Josh Trank adds a video game movie to his busy schedule. The Chronicle director is now making a Shadow of the Colossus movie for Sony along with his reboot of Fantastic Four for Fox.

Redesign your lamp whenever with the Drawlamp
Change up your maps and furniture with the Drawlamp.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation massively delayed ‘to add 3D,’ Paramount claims
Hopefully you weren't too anxious to see G.I. Joe: Retaliation this year, as the movie has been delayed until March of 2013.

Star Trek sequel rumor round-up
Principal photography has wrapped on the new Star Trek sequel, expected out in May 2013, and bits and pieces of intel are starting to come out on the as-yet unnamed follow-up to the 2009 blockbuster. Here are some of the tantalizing bits we know so far about the next Star Trek.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Digital Trends) 25/05/2012

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