IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (CNET) 09/10/2012

Fate of Silicon Valley bleak, according to silicon CEOs
Silicon Valley has a serious location problem, according to a couple of semiconductor CEOs. [Read more]

Apple reportedly orders 10M iPad Minis for fourth quarter
Component makers in Asia say they have received orders for the unannounced tablet that eclipse Amazon's orders for the Kindle Fire, The Wall Street Journal reports. [Read more]

Plethora of iOS apps keeps users around despite rollout glitches
Apple's iOS app platform is too rich for users to abandon -- at least not right away, says a Taipei-based analyst. [Read more]

How phones are 'optimized,' and why you should care (Smartphones Unlocked)
Irritating things can happen when phones and networks aren't perfectly in sync. Here's how the two keep that from happening. [Read more]

Foxconn confirms dispute between workers at China factory
Major Apple device manufacturer says a dispute occurred between factory line workers and quality assurance personnel at a plant in China, The Wall Street Journal reports. [Read more]

So it looks like Samsung might not have tried to copy the iPhone
Previously redacted documents presented in the Apple-Samsung case seem not to offer actual evidence that Samsung told its designers to copy the iPhone. [Read more]

Google's wonderfully random Niels Bohr doodle
Google creates a doodle to celebrate Niels Bohr, a physicist with a sense of humor. But it isn't his 100th birthday. It's his 127th. [Read more]

Huawei will have tough time cracking U.S. data center market
Congressman says American IT buyers should steer clear of Huawei, but the Chinese networking giant is forging distributions in the U.S. in a bid to crack the data center market. [Read more]

Samsung tries to patent the story of your life
A very peculiar patent application from Samsung contains an attempt to record everything -- that would be everything -- you do through your cell phone and present it in diary form. [Read more]

SpaceX cargo ship takes off on commercial flight to station
In a milestone mission for NASA, SpaceX launched an unmanned commercially developed cargo ship on a flight to the International Space Station Sunday, the company's first under a $1.6 billion contract. [Read more]

Apple publicly addresses iPhone 5 purple halo issue
Following private support e-mail, Apple posts a document that recommends owners tilt their camera lens away from light sources to prevent flares from appearing on images. [Read more]

Facebook's user numbers still growing, but how high can it go?
Social network may already have a billion users, but that doesn't mean its growth is slowing down. [Read more]

A better-sounding $5 alternative to Bluetooth or AirPlay streaming
Why buy a new Bluetooth or AirPlay speaker if you already have a decent set of speakers? [Read more]

Four lessons from a single successful tweet
What I learned from a single tweet about Facebook's 1 billion users announcement [Read more]

In role reversal, Chinese PC firm to manufacture in U.S.
Wait, a Chinese company making computers in the U.S.? Yeah, you heard that right. [Read more]

Web porn for peace (and other good causes)
The masterminds behind Come4.org would like to make online-porn viewing a moneymaker for social causes. [Read more]

Microsoft's IE9 suffers vicious parody treatment
You've seen that rather dynamic Internet Explorer 9 ad, haven't you? The one that's pulsating and powerful? Well, here's a slightly different take. [Read more]

iPhone 5 so far: One road warrior's two-week test
The iPhone 5 doesn't exactly have busy CNET reporter Brooke Crothers pining away for his 4S. But there have been one or two issues. [Read more]

Boeing trucks ahead with 8-wheeling laser weapon
The defense contractor is ready to mount a 100-kilowatt solid-state laser on a big Oshkosh HEMTT vehicle. Then comes the real test. [Read more]

Dear iPad pedestrians, this has to stop
It seems that some pedestrians aren't content with staring into their iPhones. They now unwrap their iPads and merrily flounce down the street. [Read more]

Declassified: Air Force plans for a flying saucer
This mysterious saucer from the 1950s was meant to fly at speeds of up to Mach 4. Most mysteriously, it was designed by... Canadians. [Read more]

JDS Labs' overachieving headphone amplifiers
These are the best-sounding, budget-priced, made-in-the-USA headphone amplifiers the Audiophiliac has ever tested. [Read more]

Foxconn denies report of strike at Zhengzhou iPhone factory
Foxconn says that 3,000 to 4,000 workers building iPhones did not stop work yesterday. [Read more]

This week in Crave: The profitable edition
This week, we panned for gold in a laboratory, rode a horse made of keyboard keys, and marveled at the value of a multimillion dollar meme. [Read more]

Amazon once offered to buy Netflix for $12 million, book says
In late 1990s, Netflix was still a struggling start-up when CEO Reed Hastings flatly rejected Amazon's acquisition offer, according to an upcoming book. [Read more]

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Monday, October 8, 2012

IT News Head Lines (CNET) 09/10/2012

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