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Man unknowingly tweeted bin Laden raid
As U.S. forces in Pakistan swooped in on Osama bin Laden on Sunday, at least one Twitter user was unknowingly reporting details of the raid.
2011-05-02 11:02:55 | CNNReview: Trend Micro Online Guardian
Computers (and the internet in particular) are a huge part of children's lives, and parents are increasingly concerned about them accessing unsuitable or dangerous material. These fears aren't completely without basis. In an arresting study by BitDefender, out of 1,570 parents questioned, 95 per cent reported that their children had accessed pornography online. The same study also found that children are becoming more tech savvy – 12 per cent of teenagers were able to (...)
2011-05-02 11:00:00 | Tech RadarBrit Week: 10 years of Sky+ - the EPGs
Ten years ago, Sky decided that it was about time it brought a key new bit of kit to its satellite offering, and it could be suggested that the introduction of Sky+ was one of the most pivotal moments in the satellite giant's history. Sky had established itself as a major force in television through its football and film coverage, but the company was keen to appeal to more and more homes and the (...)
2011-05-02 11:00:00 | Tech Radar
Supercomputer cracks sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared, gets beaten up by normal computers
Pencils down, everyone. IBM's "BlueGene/P" supercomputer has beaten you to the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared after only a few months -- at one quadrillion calculations per second. Running thousands of independent processors, the number-crunching monster accomplished what would have taken a single CPU 1,500 years. A cloud-computing effort last year calculated Pi itself out to the two-quadrillionth digit, but you may wonder why this all matters. "What is interesting in these computations is (...)
2011-05-02 10:53:00 | EngadgetDish, EchoStar to pay $500 million TiVo settlement (AP)
AP - Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp. will pay TiVo Inc. $500 million to settle a patent lawsuit over digital video recorder technology, the companies said Monday.
2011-05-02 10:45:38 | Yahoo NewsFresh iPhone Apps for May 2: VoxOx, Onavo, Slayer (Appolicious)
Appolicious - Grab three new free apps to start your week with today’s Fresh Apps list. VoxOx is a sort of Voice Over Internet app that gives you options for texts, calls and faxes your iPhone otherwise couldn’t handle; Onavo helps you monitor and even minimize your data usage to save you money; and Slayer brings you everything you need to know, see and hear about the uber-popular metal band.
2011-05-02 10:42:00 | Yahoo NewsRemora ROV fishes out Air France black box
An American ROV has finally retrieved the black box of an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic in June 2009, killing all 228 people onboard.
2011-05-02 10:30:12 | CnetTime Inc., Apple to offer free iPad downloads to print magazine subscribers
After months of speculation, Time Inc. has finally inked a deal with Apple that will allow print magazine subscribers to access the company's iPad editions for free. Beginning this week, subscribers to print versions of Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time will be able to download the iPad counterparts at no cost, directly within the magazines' apps. Today's deal comes just a few months after the company struck a similar arrangement with HP, but iPad (...)
2011-05-02 10:26:00 | EngadgetRaid against Osama bin Laden captured on Twitter (Reuters)
Reuters - In the early hours of Monday, Sohaib Athar reported on his Twitter account that a loud bang had rattled his windows in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, saying he hoped "its not the start of something nasty."
2011-05-02 10:18:32 | Yahoo News
Blogger 'tweets' attack on Osama bin Laden (AFP)
AFP - An IT consultant in the Pakistan city of Abbottabad was an Internet celebrity on Monday after unwittingly providing a real-time account of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden.
2011-05-02 10:00:42 | Yahoo NewsBrit Week: Brit Week: Why UK tech cannot be ignored
There's no mistaking the fact that the UK is in love with technology. We are a nation of early adopters, enthusiasts and technophiles. We love playing with the latest kit, snooping out the biggest bargains and, thankfully for TechRadar, reading about it. Britain is, after all, responsible for some of the greatest engineers, designers and innovators of all time; Babbage, Faraday, Watt, Davy, Bell and Brunel, to name but a few, are people who (...)
2011-05-02 10:00:00 | Tech RadarReview: Fedora 14
Fedora is a traditionalist distribution. That means its packages and desktop are as close to the default as you might expect from a distribution that isn't Gentoo. Its KDE desktop is particularly interesting, because there are none of the niceties like a customised menu or re-themed panel that you'd expect from a more KDE-centric distribution. You get the original KDE experience, which isn't always a great thing. If you're coming from the world of (...)
2011-05-02 10:00:00 | Tech Radar
Dell's 17-inch Precision M6600 workstation laptop goes on sale early in the UK
We were promised we'd get Dell's latest Precision powerhouses on May 10th, and that may still be the case for the US, but the company's UK outlet is ready to let you customize and buy an M6600 today. The 17.3-inch laptop offers options for a multitouch display with stylus functionality, a 2.5GHz quad-core Core i7-2920XM CPU, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, up to half a terabyte (2x 256GB) in solid state storage, and NVIDIA Quadro (...)
2011-05-02 09:58:00 | Engadget'Osama is dead' Facebook Page goes viral
Within about two hours of reports first surfacing (and since confirmed by the President) that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, a Facebook Page titled "Osama Bin Laden is DEAD" has already accumulated more than 150,000 "likes."
2011-05-02 09:57:13 | CNNBin Laden raid was tweeted live
The raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was revealed first on Twitter by IT consultant Sohaib Athar.
2011-05-02 09:49:46 | BBC News