IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (CNET) 7/8/2013

Sunday, July 7, 2013

IT News Head Lines (CNET) 7/8/2013

Kobe, Lakers, and Dwight Howard: Antisocial media
The minute Dwight Howard decides to leave the Lakers for Houston, he is unfollowed on Twitter by Kobe Bryant. Then an Instagram account purporting to be that of the Lakers' Jodie Meeks posts a pic of Howard as a woman. [Read more]

Leaning on a window? Hey, here's an ad pumped into your brain
Broadcaster Sky Deutschland claims that it may soon pump ads directly into the brain of passengers who lean their heads on train windows. [Read more]

Apple makes boffo battery life new killer tech spec
All-day battery life has become the sine qua non of any new thin and light laptop worth its salt, thanks to Apple's newest MacBook Air. [Read more]

Facebook's Sandberg says she had planned to be aboard reportedly fatal flight
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg posts to the social network, saying she was originally planning on taking an Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, that wound up crashing at San Francisco's main airport. Two people have reportedly died as a result of the crash. [Read more]

Solar Impulse soars over Atlantic on last leg of historic flight
As the solar-powered plane nears the end of its coast-to-coast U.S. journey, pilot André Borschberg speaks with CNET about the view from 8,000 feet up. [Read more]

Scenes you may have missed: Porn on a train station Jumbotron
Sometimes, just one click can take you from safety to embarrassment. This seems to have happened for one IT worker in China, who displayed a porn movie to travelers. For 10 minutes. [Read more]

Bluetooth blues: Wired speakers sound better than the best BT speakers
The Audiophiliac checked out four of the best BT speakers, and found that their sound can't come close to matching wired speakers. [Read more]

Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/6: What is this?
If you know what today's picture is, you could be eligible to win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day contest. [Read more]

Animated WebP graphics support no shoo-in for Chrome
Google WebP engineers are encountering resistance from Google Chrome engineers about whether it's worth supporting the animated version of the image format. [Read more]

The brains behind BitTorrent get on TV's good side (Q&A)
The ex president of BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service many associate with piracy, has jumped to the same team as television broadcasters with Flingo, a Shazam for video. And engineers from BitTorrent have joined him. [Read more]

Samsung's weirdest 'Apple is rotten' ad ever
Apparently, Apple phones just don't work. They make you suffer terribly. Once you get a Samsung, you perform a mating dance toward a mountain ram. At least that's what this new ad from Iceland says. [Read more]

Who will buy Hulu? At least one contender drops out
Speculation about who will purchase the online video service continues to run rampant, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that it's down to three bidders. [Read more]

iPhone 5 trumped Galaxy S4 on user complaints at launch -- study
The iPhone 5 received nearly twice the rate of negative comments at launch compared with the Galaxy S4, but Apple clearly wins in the most important metric of all, according to social media analysts We Are Social. [Read more]

FCC approves Sprint-SoftBank deal
The FCC unanimously gives the green light to SoftBank's $21.6 billion bid for Sprint Nextel as well as Sprint's purchase of Clearwire. [Read more]

Moto X not on agenda for upcoming Google event, says source
A popular podcaster claims to have received a personal invite to an exclusive event from Motorola's Guy Kawasaki. [Read more]

Asimo struggles on first day as science museum guide
Japan's premiere robot can't catch a break after its glitch-filled performance at a Tokyo science museum. [Read more]

Snowden trained as hacker while with NSA -- report
Snowden was taught all he needed to know about snooping into records while he was working for the NSA, according to The New York Times. [Read more]

Darth Mail: Darth Vader mailbox eats letters
Even Darth Vader gets junk mail. An artist creates an elaborate Darth Vader mailbox that takes mail delivery to the Dark Side. [Read more]

Why next-gen consoles won't run games at 4K
Just because some say they can, doesn't mean they should. Based on the latest graphics hardware no one should expect great 4K gaming in this next generation of consoles. [Read more]

Codlo: Rice cooker sous vide gadget is affordable, stylish
The Codlo on Kickstarter aims to make sous vide cooking affordable and as simple as hooking the kitchen gadget up to a rice cooker. [Read more]

Russian spy proposes to Edward Snowden on Twitter
Anna Chapman, the so-called Russian femme fatale expelled from the U.S. for spying, takes to Twitter to solve all of Edward Snowden's problems. [Read more]

Amazon slashes price of Kindle Fire HD to $169
The online retail giant cuts the price of the 7-inch, 16GB Kindle Fire HD by 12 percent in the U.S. and Europe. [Read more]

Cheap iPhone shown off in colorful mock-ups
New pictures show what the rumored cheaper, plastic-encased iPhone could look like in all its colorful glory. [Read more]

For Sony Mobile, it's not enough to be smart
commentary New gadgets like the Xperia Z Ultra smartphone and the SmartWatch 2 harken back to the era when consumers considered Sony synonymous with innovation. Now let's see if that translates into something resembling volume sales. [Read more]

Non-Apple companies hold iWatch trademark in U.S., U.K., China
Apple faces trademark trouble in the U.S., U.K., parts of Europe, and China, where other companies hold the trademark for the name "iWatch." [Read more]

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