Tuesday, August 30, 2011

WikiLeaks site comes under attack (AP)

WikiLeaks site comes under attack (AP)

WikiLeaks site comes under attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:38 PM PDT

AP - The WikiLeaks website crashed Tuesday in an apparent cyberattack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of once-secret State Department cables by the anti-secrecy organization raised new concerns about the exposure of confidential U.S. embassy sources.

Startup tries to put sociability back into movies (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 11:53 AM PDT

In this publicity image released by flickme.com, Mitch Galbraith, CEO of flickme.com is shown at the companies' office in San Mateo, Calif. Digital movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds chomping on popcorn, but they are getting more social. Studios have increasingly looked to social media and Facebook, in particular, as a distribution platform. The early inroads have been experimental, but social streaming is a bright new hope for a Hollywood looking to counter sagging DVD sales. (AP Photo/flickme.com)AP - Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social.

CNN gets more personal, buys iPad magazine Zite (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT

AP - CNN has acquired Zite, an iPad service that learns about readers' tastes and customizes a digital magazine with stories from hundreds of different websites.

Buy your own Batmobile on eBay for $640,000 (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:11 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - Holy cow, Batman! The world's only fan-built turbine-powered Batmobile replica is now for sale on eBay. And it can be yours for a cool $640,000. Not exactly the cheapest wheels on the planet, but reasonable enough for a one-of-a-kind life-sized replica of the …

Ferrofluid races amidst soap bubbles in astounding time-lapse video (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:05 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - In Compressed 02, Kim Pimmel shows off two common parts of modern photography art. First, she captured her action using time-lapse techniques. Second, she uses ferrofluid and dye to create an enticing, exotic image as the liquid races among the crevices in …

Social TV by the Numbers: VMAs Edition [INFOGRAPHIC] (Mashable)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 06:21 PM PDT

Mashable - The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) broke records on both MTV and Twitter. At 10:35pm ET, Beyonce's live performance and baby bump reveal generated 8,868 tweets per second. The guys at Trendrr put together this infographic that breaks down the social TV aspect of the award show. The 2011 VMAs generated more than 5.5 million social media mentions on Sunday, August 28, 2011. The majority of those mentions were from Twitter.

eBay pins China hopes (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:36 PM PDT

A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California April 22, 2009. REUTERS/Mike BlakeReuters - eBay Inc expects sales from large exporters in China to maintain growth at 30-40 percent annually, with the e-commerce giant seeking acquisition opportunities as part of efforts to expand its footprint in the fast-growing market.

Harvard is most discussed university on Web: survey (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 06:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Harvard regained its top spot on a list of most talked-about U.S. universities on the Internet, beating its rivals just in time for a return to fall studies, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

RIM rises on new BlackBerrys, changing landscape (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:15 PM PDT

A person poses while using a Blackberry Bold 2 smartphone made by Research in Motion (RIM), July 13, 2010. REUTERS/Mark BlinchReuters - The launch of a string of well-received BlackBerry smartphones helped Research In Motion stock gain 6 percent on Tuesday and almost 50 percent since hitting a five-year low on August 8.

The iPhone 5 might be thinner than the iPhone 4, and have it's volume buttons moved (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:14 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Tis the season for iPhone rumors and leaks, and today’s rumor is coming all the way from Greece. The website Greek-iPhone has what it believes to be the iPhone 5’s camera sensor. The new sensor flirts with a few of our preexisting rumors so even though it seems odd that Apple would lose a camera from a phone the story seems to check out.

Syrian Hackers Target Columbia University's Facebook, but Miss (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Related: Britain Disinvites Syrian Ambassador to Royal Wedding

U.S. Soldiers Take Laptops and BlackBerrys to Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As electronics get more and more portable, soldiers are taking laptops, tablets and BlackBerrys all the way to distant military outposts

Analyst predicts Amazon tablet could outshine iPad in the fourth quarter (Appolicious)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT

Appolicious - It seems there is a birth more anticipated than Jay-Z and Beyonce's baby – at least for techies and tablet users. Despite the fact that Amazon has yet to announce the conception of its own Android tablet device, an analyst with Forrester has already predicted the device could sell 3 million to 5 million units in just the fourth quarter. By comparison, there were 3.27 million iPad units sold in the first quarter.

Windows Marketplace Now Has 30,000 Apps (NewsFactor)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 10:24 AM PDT

NewsFactor - As it struggles to gain ground in the mobile market, Microsoft has apparently reached a milestone of more than 30,000 applications in its Windows Phone Marketplace.

Google, OpenDNS and others band together to create faster internet (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 08:57 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Google, OpenDNS and other companies have announced Tuesday that they are banded together in effort to speed up the internet. The collaborative effort is called the Global Internet Speedup, and aims to make your Youtube videos stream just a little bit faster by changing the way DNS requests are handled.

UK supermarket trials iPad shopping cart, sports fans targeted (Digital Trends)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:28 PM PDT

Digital Trends - When we heard that British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s was trialing the use of iPads on its shopping carts, we thought perhaps it was so that food shoppers could gain quick and easy access to more information about products they were interested in, or to help keep track of the total cost of the cart’s contents.

Fresh iPhone Apps for Aug. 30: Campout, Madden NFL 12, Zeppelin Air, SPY mouse (Appolicious)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Appolicious - Need a music fix this week? Check out today's Fresh iPhone Apps: Campout, which lets you stream tracks from indie music selling site Bandcamp over an Internet connection, and Zeppelin Air, which makes use of Apple's Airplay software to allow users to stream music between devices. In games, get in the football season spirit with the release of Madden NFL 12, the latest in the monster football game series. If sneaking around is more your thing, you'll enjoy SPY mouse, a game from the makers of Flight Control about helping a mouse get cheese and avoid patrolling cats.

Dreamforce 2011 Under Way in Post-PC Era (NewsFactor)

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 02:51 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Enterprise cloud-computing company Salesforce.com is kicking off its Dreamforce 2011 event with a keynote address from Chairman and CEO Mark Benioff. Benioff's keynote will outline the company's vision for the social enterprise.
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