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A Chinese Facebook is coming and will make huge censorship concessions
Insiders say a Facebook-Baidu collaboration is in the works, and that the social network will allow government censorship.
2011-04-28 21:54:31 | Digital TrendsFlipbac Camera Grips help you hold on to today’s tiny cameras
These silicone grips adhere to the flat surface on the front of your point-and-shoot to give you a better hold.
2011-04-28 21:44:33 | Digital TrendsMozilla begins work on faster graphics and JavaScript engines for Firefox
Firefox 4 arrived packing some serious performance improvements, from the speedier TraceMonkey JavaScript and Gecko 2 layout engines to hardware accelerated rendering. And while the question “Are we fast yet?” seemed to have been answered nicely, Mozilla isn’t going to rest on its laurels. There are big plans for future Firefox, and speed remains a [...]
2011-04-28 21:39:46 | Geek.comA Chinese Facebook is coming and will make huge censorship concessions (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - A Facebook lobbyist recently said that perhaps the site was allowing âtoo much free speechâ in countries that were not used to the luxury. The statement sounded something like a hint that the social networking site would be willing to make concessions in certain situations â certain situations like a market of 450 million Internet users who are subject to strict government censorship.
2011-04-28 21:39:31 | Yahoo NewsVerizon Restores LTE, But Puts Second 4G Phone on Hold (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Verizon Wireless said Thursday that the outage on its fledgling high-speed 4G Long Term Evolution network has ended. But the wireless carrier postponed the launch of its newest LTE smartphone.
2011-04-28 21:31:13 | Yahoo News
Prague to host world's most powerful laser
To us, Prague will always be the Eastern European capital of roast duck, potato dumplings and tasty, cheap pilsner. But come 2015, the former Soviet Bloc city will also become home to the world's most powerful laser, as part of the European Union's Extreme Light Infrastructure project. According to plans released by the European Commission, the laser will produce peak power in the exawatt range (equivalent to one trillion megawatts). So, for a very (...)
2011-04-28 21:29:00 | EngadgetBlackBerry maker slashes short-term sales forecast (AP)
AP - Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the BlackBerry, on Thursday cut its sales and earnings forecasts for the current quarter, saying it's shipping fewer and cheaper phones than it had expected.
2011-04-28 21:14:48 | Yahoo NewsOffice boosts Microsoft profits
Technology giant Microsoft reports a sharp jump in quarterly profits, thanks in part to strong sales of its Office applications.
2011-04-28 21:11:55 | BBC NewsTwitter gears up for Royal Wedding with Will & Kate server
The excitement over Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding, happening bright and early tomorrow morning, is not much different than the excitement for Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s wedding in 1981. True, their wedding was watched by 750 million people, and Friday’s Royal Wedding is said to have an expected 2 billion [...]
2011-04-28 21:02:48 | Geek.com
Sprint starts selling Motorola Xoom WiFi (not WiMAX) May 8th for $600
We've gotten multiple clandestine clues that Sprint would sell the Xoom -- a calendar entry here, an accessory there -- but there was nary a confirming peep from the Now Network itself. Until today, when it announced that it would join the legion of retailers peddling the Wi-Fi version of Motorola's tablet for $599.99 on May 8th. That's right, the carrier will start selling folks the sweet Honeycomb slate soon enough, but a Xoom (...)
2011-04-28 21:01:00 | EngadgetSony Blames Long PSN Outage on a 'Criminal Attack' (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Stop us if you've heard this one before: Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service are still down. The outage, which could soon become fodder for late-night comedians, is in its 11th day, with no specific timetable for being back online. The company did say that it expects to have "some services up and running within a week."
2011-04-28 20:57:46 | Yahoo News
Researchers build a robot inspired by caterpillars, nightmares (video)
There's a long history of robots modeled on animals, and some researchers from Tufts University have now taken things in a particularly creepy-crawly direction. They've built a robot that's able to mimic the way a caterpillar balls itself up to bounce away from predators. As you can see in the video above, while the robot (dubbed GoQBot) is quite a bit bigger than the actual bug, is does indeed do a pretty good caterpillar (...)
2011-04-28 20:37:00 | EngadgetNVidia announces the return of SLI to AMD mainboards
High-end gaming rigs and NVidia’s SLI technology have gone hand-in-hand ever since the company first debuted its multi-GPU graphics rendering muscle back in 2004. Originally the perfect match for AMD CPUs — which were also favored by gamers at the time — NVidia pulled support when Intel upped its game and climbed back to the [...]
2011-04-28 20:35:15 | Geek.com4OD Comes to the iPad via Free App
iPad owners who like to catch up on their TV on the go will be able to take advantage of 4OD’s new service from today. The team from channel 4 has launched a dedicated on…4OD Comes to the iPad via Free App is a post from: Gadgets and gizmos
2011-04-28 20:15:22 | Gadgets and GizmosVerizon Wireless says its 4G LTE network is back up
HTC Thunderbolt owners and Verizon Wireless 4G modem owners can breathe a sigh of relief: the company announed today that their 4G LTE network is back up and running. The network went down earlier in the week, but Verizon says they determined the cause of the issue late yesterday afternoon, and posted an update to [...]
2011-04-28 20:12:19 | Geek.com