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Casio's F-91W watch: the design favourite of hipsters ... and al-Qaida
The built-in longevity of this humble 1991 timepiece makes it the weapon of choice for both the retro and the righteousThere is one accessory de rigueur with both skinny jeans on the streets of Shoreditch and an orange jumpsuit and black hood in the searing heat of Guantánamo Bay. The latest WikiLeaks dump has revealed that a disproportionate number of terrorism suspects in America's most notorious prison were apprehended wearing a Casio F-91W, a (...)
2011-04-28 13:40:00 | Guardian.co.ukGeek's Guide to Route 66 tech wrap-up
This phase of the Geek's Guide to Route 66 wraps up with some praise (and a little criticism) of the gadgets that came along for the ride. Here's a sneak preview: the iPad 2 wins awards as both the best and most frustrating.
2011-04-28 13:40:00 | CnetCould Apple Be Launching a Cloud-Based Music Service Called iCloud? (Mashable)
Mashable - Another day, another hazy rumor. Apparently Apple may have purchased the domain name iCloud. GigaOm is citing an anonymous tipster who says Apple recently snapped up the domain name from a Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company called Xcerion. Xcerion acquired a new domain called CloudMe.com on April 5, and Apple reportedly shelled out $4.5 million for iCloud. We've reached out to Xcerion for comment.
2011-04-28 13:39:37 | Yahoo NewsMicrosoft seeks takedown of Windows 8 videos on YouTube
If you’ve never downloaded and installed a leaked Windows 7 or Windows 8 build, you might not have seen the scary legalese in Microsoft’s license: “Unauthorized use or disclosure in any manner may result in disciplinary action.” In a nutshell, using pre-release builds is like Fight Club — you’re just not supposed to talk about [...]
2011-04-28 13:30:25 | Geek.comPlayStation accounts hacked, user data exposed
Sony, maker of the popular PlayStation gaming console, faces a class-action lawsuit for the way it handled a security breach that exposed millions of users' personal information last week. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports.
2011-04-28 13:25:35 | Cnet4oD comes to iPad, Xbox Live to follow?
Another on-demand service has come to the iPad this week, with Channel 4 launching 4oD for Jobs and co's tablet device.Following in the rather large footsteps of BBC iPlayer, the ad-funded app is initially being sponsored by Heineken and has a selection of content from the website, which excludes archive content and shows from the US.Speaking about the launch, C4 head of VoD Sarah Milton said: "Collectively, connected TV is an interesting opportunity and (...)
2011-04-28 13:17:00 | Tech RadarElop: Nokia tablet will have a 'uniquely Nokia perspective'
Stephen Elop, Nokia's CEO, has waxed lyrical on the subject of a Nokia tablet, saying that it is taking the soflty-softly-catchee monkey approach to building a slate. While the company focuses on getting its first Windows Phone 7 handsets out the door and getting back into the smartphone race, it isn't taking its eye off the tablet prize: "We could take advantage of Microsoft technology and software, and build a Windows-oriented tablet, or we (...)
2011-04-28 13:15:00 | Tech RadarMicrosoft posts strong quarterly results, sales
Software giant offset slowing PC sales with big gains in its Office and Xbox product lines, reporting net income of $5.23 billion and a 13 percent sales gain.
2011-04-28 13:12:16 | CnetGuardian Activate 2011: Live coverage from New York
Guardian Activate summit makes its overseas debut in the Big Apple, featuring an extra-special array of speakers primed to change the world through the internet1.57pm: The lawyer on the panel, Graham Hann, head of technology at Taylor Wessig, says there's two things you should never watch being made: a McDonalds cheeseburger and legislation.Hann says that the UK's long-delayed Digital Economy Act isn't "consistent with freedom of expression" and is a "crazy set of laws" (...)
2011-04-28 13:12:00 | Guardian.co.ukThat Royal Wedding: agile, fast and cloudy. And that's just the website
The Official Royal Wedding website turns out to be a good example of agile development, hosted on Google. Meanwhile, watch for nuptial-related malwareOur first - and last? - bit of Royal Wedding arcana. We've been having a quick read of the Official Royal Wedding site (at http://www.officialroyalwedding2011.org/ - do you think they're planning ahead to Official Royal Wedding 2012? If so it's already been taken).So - wedding announcement 16 November, website registered on 23 (...)
2011-04-28 13:11:33 | Guardian.co.ukVerizon promises fix for 4G data outage
Verizon's LTE network has been having some major issues in the past 24 hours, and the company has issued an official statement about the problem, promising a fix as soon as possible.
2011-04-28 13:09:46 | CNNHow to reject an ex-lover in 50 words | Open thread
Students in Shenzhen, China, were posed this conundrum in a mock entrance exam. How would you do it?It is, perhaps, the archetypal romantic dilemma and now the subject of a school entrance exam: just how do you fend off an ex-lover with compassion in the space of a text message?Thousands of students across the city of Shenzhen, China, were posed the conundrum in the Chinese language segment of a mock entrance exam, according to (...)
2011-04-28 13:07:50 | Guardian.co.uk
Qik App Allows Users to Seamlessly Share Mobile Video
For those of us who live most of our lives through our smart phones, a new app from the creators of Skype is on the market place for many mobile platforms, allowing users to quickly and easily share and upload videos on the internet. One of the key features is ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-28 13:05:42 | WalyouBritish firm offered spying software to Egyptian regime – documents
Gamma Internationa's Finfisher program would have enabled government spies to monitor activists and censor websitesA British company offered to sell a program to the Egyptian security services that experts say could infect computers, hack into web-based email and communications tools such as Skype and even take control of other groups' systems remotely, according to documents seen by the Guardian.Two Egyptian human rights activists found the documents amid hundreds of batons and torture equipment when (...)
2011-04-28 13:05:19 | Guardian.co.ukAndroid Market has more free apps, will soon be biggest app store
In the mobile operating system world, few things seem to carry as much importance as the size and quality of your app store. Apple has held the crown ever since the iOS App Store launched in 2008, but according to an in-depth report from Distimo Google’s Android Market has been gaining ground rapidly. Distimo, in fact, [...]
2011-04-28 13:00:20 | Geek.com