Thursday, January 5, 2012

HBO stops selling DVDs to Netflix (AP)

HBO stops selling DVDs to Netflix (AP)

HBO stops selling DVDs to Netflix (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 02:45 PM PST

AP - HBO fired a shot across Netflix's bow this week, confirming it will no longer sell discounted DVDs of hit shows like "Boardwalk Empire" to the subscription video service.

File sharing group seen as religious in Sweden (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:56 AM PST

AP - A file-sharing group that considers itself a spiritual organization said Thursday that Sweden has recognized it as a religious community.

Gartner lowers 2012 tech spending growth forecast (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:20 AM PST

AP - Research firm Gartner Inc. has lowered its global technology spending growth forecast because of the sluggish economy and the euro crisis.

Just Show Me: How to manually sync your Kindle Fire (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:17 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Welcome to Just Show Me on Tecca TV, where we show you tips and tricks for getting the most out of the gadgets in your life. In today's episode we'll show you how to manually sync your Kindle Fire. Manually syncing your Kindle Fire …

Computer accessory lets you navigate Windows 8 with your eyes (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:11 PM PST

Yahoo! News - Here's something that could make Windows 8 a lot more fun to use â€" a system that gives you the power to navigate the computer with your eyes. Microsoft's newest operating system isn't commercially available yet, but Swedish company Tobii has long prepared …

Censorship: Belarus Makes Certain Web Behaviors Illegal (Mashable)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST

Mashable - A new law in Belarus will restrict access to foreign websites, and will require Internet cafes and clubs to report users who visit forbidden pages. The Eastern European country's law (Improvements to the Usage of the National Segment of the Internet, law number 317-3), goes into effect Friday -- censorship making it illegal to conduct ecommerce with Belarusian citizens through sites outside the country's .by domain name.

New iPhone doubles data consumption: study (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 04:14 PM PST

Reuters - Apple's new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed.

Zynga releases first mobile game since IPO (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:36 PM PST

Reuters - Online game developer Zynga Inc is releasing a new mobile word game called "Scramble with Friends" on Thursday to expand its user base beyond Facebook and catch up with rivals in the handheld market.

$25 computers sell for over $3,000, money goes to charity (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 10:21 AM PST

Yahoo! News - The Raspberry Pi project has the potential to revolutionize low-cost computing. With an expected retail price of just $25, the tiny PCs â€" which are barely larger than a USB memory stick â€" are powerful enough to handle daily web browsing, …

Analysis: Texting profits at risk as users look elsewhere (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:59 AM PST

A woman uses her Apple iPhone 4 smartphone during a photo opportunity on a street in Seoul May 24, 2011. REUTERS/Truth LeemReuters - Text-messaging has long been a big-time profit generator for U.S. mobile operators, but they now risk losing these profits as consumers find cheaper ways to communicate.

Ramnit worm switches focus from financial to Facebook, steals 45K logins (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 06:23 PM PST

Digital Trends - If you happen to be on that Facebook website, you might want to be a little more careful about the links you click. A new worm is traversing the social networking service and is called Ramnit. The worm has already laid claim to the data of at least 45,000 Facebook users.

Apple TV Is the New iPhone 5 of Tech Rumors (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 08:11 AM PST

The Atlantic Wire - Related: Apple's Getting Serious About TV

Bring your iPad to the gym and stare at something other than the person in front of you (Appolicious)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

Appolicious - Motivation at the gym is hard to come by. Also, if you get caught looking at someone for too long while you exercise, your membership is likely to be shorter-lived than your new workout. Thankfully, there are plenty of scenic iPad apps you can stare at that won't get you kicked out of a library, much less a gym.

AT&T says will complete wireless network upgrade by end 2013 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 09:44 AM PST

Reuters - AT&T Inc is on track to finish its wireless network upgrade with faster mobile Web services by the end of 2013, having exceeded its target for 2011, a top executive said.

Digital music service Grooveshark sued by EMI (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:31 PM PST

Reuters - Grooveshark has been sued by the large record company EMI Group Ltd, which accused the popular digital music service of paying no royalties since entering a licensing agreement to stream music nearly three years ago.

Apple threatens legal action over Steve Jobs action figure (Digital Trends)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 07:59 PM PST

Digital Trends - While the Steve Jobs action figure is certainly a novel idea, Apple isn’t too happy about the creation of the figure and sent Chinese company In Icons a cease-and-desist letter that threatens legal action if the company attempts to sell the action figures. The $99 12-inch figurine comes dressed in a black turtleneck as well as jeans typical to Steve Jobs wardrobe when giving presentations at Apple press events. The kit also comes with different accessories to replicate the presentations as well. Apple is claiming that it owns the rights to Jobs’s likeness and any attempt to create and sell a figure using that likeness is a criminal offense. 

Fired by email or phone? Here's how to deal with it (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 12:02 PM PST

Reuters - When Lauren Bossers, who lives in Pittsburgh, worked for a supply chain management software company in Dallas, she dealt with work and staff in the main office virtually, by phone and email. When she was laid off after her company was acquired in January 2010, well, that happened by phone, too.
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