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Cirkuita: The New Range of Orotransperante Jewelry
Not everything old has to be thrown away as junk. When put to use intelligently it can prove to be a piece of art, in fact a valuable one. Consider the Cirkuita collection of jewelry created by Paola Mirai. Hidden within each piece of jewelry you will discover a part ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-29 17:35:24 | Walyou20% of PS3 owners are considering a switch to the Xbox 360
The news just seems to be getting worse for Sony: first the PlayStation Network is hacked, then Sony finds out that passwords and credit card data may have been stolen, then they decide to keep the network down for an undetermined amount of time while they try to fix the problems. Now, a new study [...]
2011-04-29 17:22:17 | Geek.com
Desk Phone Dock review
With every passing day, more people are ditching their landlines in favor of using their cellular phones as a combination device. Smartphones are no doubt excellent means of contacting other humans and managing our lives, but some of us miss the simpler days -- when a phone was just a phone. If you're a proud owner of an iPhone but looking to head down the retro road, Kee Utility would like to point you (...)
2011-04-29 17:20:00 | EngadgetTech blogs’ disabled Facebook pages caused by DMCA abuse
Fraudulent copyright infringement reports are running rampant. Several popular tech blogs have recently had their Facebook pages disabled due to DMCA abuse.
2011-04-29 17:00:38 | Digital TrendsShuttle Endeavour grounded by electrical glitch
An electrical glitch forces NASA to postpone the shuttle Endeavour's launch, disappointing President Obama and his family, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, wife of commander Mark Kelly.
2011-04-29 16:56:33 | Cnet
Square to add encryption to mobile card reader, skimmers put on notice
It's only been a couple days since we first heard about Visa's involvement with Square, but the credit card giant is already making its mark on the mobile payment startup. At the Visa Global Security Summit on Wednesday, Square Security Lead Sam Quigley revealed that the company will distribute an encrypted card reader this summer, which will work exclusively with its mobile payment app. The current reader theoretically scans credit card data to any (...)
2011-04-29 16:51:00 | Engadget
DARwIn-OP Open Sourced Robot
The launch of the DARwIn-OP open sourced robot by Dennis Hong’s RoMeLa group at Virginia Tech marks an important milestone in the evolution of robots.Open source products are appealing to a great number of people, no matter if we are talking about operating systems or open source hardware. The idea ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-29 16:50:03 | Walyou
Amazon issues credits, apology for Web outage (Reuters)
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc apologized to customers for an outage at its Web hosting business that caused some websites to crash, saying it would credit them for their inconvenience.
2011-04-29 16:47:39 | Yahoo NewsTech blogs' disabled Facebook pages caused by DMCA abuse (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Facebookâs protocol for handling copyright infringement is being criticized after many tech blogs have had their Facebook pages abruptly taken down. Ars Technica, RedmondPie and Neowin are some of the sites that are saying they are victims of DMCA abuse.
2011-04-29 16:45:38 | Yahoo NewsKlausner inks visual voicemail settlements with Yahoo, others
More dominos fall: Klausner Technologies has reached settlements with Yahoo, Panasonic, Avaya, and Qwest over visual voicemail.
2011-04-29 16:37:05 | Digital TrendsWhite iPhone 4 slightly thicker than the black iPhone, will cases still fit?
We were finally able to breathe a sigh of relief yesterday after 10 months of waiting for the white iPhone 4 to be released. After all the wait, there may be the slightest, and we mean slightest, bit of a problem with the new phone. It appears that the device is just a tiny bit [...]
2011-04-29 16:35:43 | Geek.com
Royal wedding breaks Internet records with live stream (AFP)
AFP - Britain's royal wedding broke records for live streaming on Friday, Internet firms said, causing some websites to falter under the strain as hundreds of millions watched online.
2011-04-29 16:29:16 | Yahoo News
Intel's Cedar Trail gets some specs, combines CPU and GPU on a single chip
That new processor smell has barely started to fade from Oak Trail and we're already getting some tantalizing details about the next generation of Atom chips -- Cedar Trail. As expected, Intel has moved to 32nm, which allows it to cram the GPU and the CPU onto the same sliver of silicon. The first two models, the D2500 and D2700, will be dual-core, sport 1MB of L2 cache, and have a miserly TDP of (...)
2011-04-29 16:29:00 | EngadgetSouth Park takes a poke at Apple controversy
Animated comedy features Apple chief Steve Jobs as a megalomaniac who wants to use his technology to control all of humanitySouth Park returned to US television on Wednesday night and wasted no time tackling the controversy surrounding Apple and its alleged "big brother" tendencies.The sharply satirical and topical animated show, now in its 15th season, latched on to the recent revelations that Apple's iPhone and iPad keep track of everywhere you go, and (...)
2011-04-29 16:24:20 | Guardian.co.ukActivists claim purge of Facebook pages
Protest groups claim Facebook has taken down dozens of pages in a purge of activists' accountsActivists are claiming that dozens of politically linked Facebook accounts have been removed or suspended by the company in the last 12 hours.The list of suspended pages include those for the anti cuts group UK Uncut, and pages that were created by students during last December's university occupations.A list posted on the UCL occupation blog site says the Goldsmiths (...)
2011-04-29 16:21:00 | Guardian.co.uk