Whoops. False Positive. Sorry ’Bout That … Heh Heh. (1)
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It figures. Not only are the predictive data mining and behavioral surveillance efforts through which the government hopes to identify terrorists a threat to privacy, they don’t really work, either. In a 352-page report published Tuesday, the National Research Council said data mining and behavior detection aren’t nearly as useful as their proponents claim. In fact, they’re of dubious scientific merit and have “enormous potential” for infringing on law-abiding Americans’ privacy. “Automated identification of terrorists ...
Absolutely Fabless (1)
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If it’s true that “real men have fabs,” as Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chairman W. J. “Jerry” Sanders III (at right in Indiana Jones drag) once said, then AMD is the semiconductor industry’s latest eunuch. This morning the chipmaker said it will spin off its manufacturing operations, splitting itself into two companies–one to design chips and one to make them. The new manufacturing company, called Foundry Co., will be a joint venture between AMD and ...
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QOTD Since (we updated it), I’d also refer to Vista as an unqualified success. It doesn’t mean that people aren’t still picking on it, but we’ve sold 180 million copies, something like that, of Vista. The quality, the compatibility (and) particularly from the consumer market, the level of acceptance–I’d call it an unqualified success, over the last six months or so.” – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
iTunes Lives to Sell Another 5 Billion Songs (1)
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If the [iTunes music store] was forced to absorb any increase in the … royalty rate, the result would be to significantly increase the likelihood of the store operating at a financial loss–which is no alternative at all. Apple has repeatedly made it clear that it is in this business to make money, and most likely would not continue to operate [the iTunes music store] if it were no longer possible to do so profitably.” ...
Trn Eng Txting Scnds B4 Crsh (1)
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You’d think that with all the text messaging bans and new hands-free cellphone usage laws being adopted these days a motorist would know better than to text while driving, especially if that motorist also happens to be a commuter train engineer. Tragically, that’s not the case. The Metrolink engineer responsible for the worst U.S. train crash in the last decade sent and received 45 text messages while helming his train the day of the deadly ...
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QOTD We compensate artists and publishers extremely well. There are millions and millions of dollars that are being made and paid. There’s a misunderstanding of the value we bring to the catalog. What happens to your catalog in digital downloads? What happens to your merchandise? What happens to your ticket sales? When you look at the impact it can have on an Aerosmith, Van Halen or Metallica, it’s really significant, so much so that you ...
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QOTD DEAR AMERICAN: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE. I AM MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY OF THE REPUBLIC OF AMERICA. MY COUNTRY HAS HAD CRISIS THAT HAS CAUSED THE NEED FOR LARGE TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF 800 BILLION DOLLARS US. IF YOU WOULD ASSIST ME IN THIS TRANSFER, IT WOULD BE MOST PROFITABLE TO YOU.” – Excerpt from “REQUEST FOR URGENT ...
Is This the New MacBook Pro? (1)
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If it should arrive at market on or before mid-October, Apple’s anticipated MacBook Pro revision (pictured above and below in a photo allegedly leaked to French tech pub NowhereElse) will allegedly share the same aluminum enclosure as the next-gen MacBook. It will also allegedly lack FireWire 400 and 28-pin DVI-I ports, which have been removed to reduce the machine’s footprint. That’s the latest grist to be fed into the Apple (AAPL) rumor mill, anyway. PREVIOUSLY: ...
Digg Dugg: $28.7 Million [Digital Daily] (1)
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Digg, the social news site that’s long been rumored to be up for sale, has raised $28.7 million in a Series C venture round led by Highland Capital Partners. Existing backers Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network also participated. “Today is a big day for Digg,” CEO Jay Adelson wrote on the company blog. “We’re announcing a major expansion effort–the largest we’ve undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, ...
Hi. I’m a PC … and I Was Made on a Mac [UPDATED] (4)
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A PC is not a stereotype. And neither are you. If you’re a PC, you belong to a community of more than a billion individuals, working, playing, and connecting. Doing their own thing. If you’re a PC, we want to celebrate you. So stand up.” – Microsoft, “A PC is Not a Steroetype” The irony is enough to make your head explode. The latest evolution of Microsoft’s (MSFT) new ad campaign–the one designed to seize ...
iPhone: Not So Big in Japan [Digital Daily] (1)
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Nomura Research Institute once estimated that Apple could sell two to to three million iPhones annually in Japan–about five percent of the market. But that was back in June when iPhone mania was at its peak and the device seemed destined to be a success wherever it was sold. But Japan is one of the world’s largest and most demanding mobile phone markets. Perhaps even a bit too demanding for the iPhone. According to market-research ...
Report: New MacBooks, Justifications for Buying Them, in Production (2)
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It’s looking more and more like Apple’s next-generation Macbooks will arrive at market in October. In a research note to clients today, Citigroup’s Richard Gardner said channel checks have confirmed that the notebooks are in production. “Field checks confirm that shipments of new MacBooks have begun, with a sharp production ramp planned for September and an introduction planned for early October,” Gardner wrote. “The most distinctive features of the new MacBook appear to be a ...
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“The most distinctive features of the new MacBook appear to be a very thin aluminum casing, an LED-backlit display and an aggressive entry-level price point.”
O3b. That’s Short for (An)other 3 Billion Google Users | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD (2)
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Google services are near-ubiquitous in mature markets, but in emerging ones? Not so much. That will soon change, however, thanks to an ambitious plan to bring affordable Internet access to some three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets. The company has allied with John Malone’s Liberty Global and banking giant HSBC to form O3b Networks, a reference to the “other 3 billion” people to which it hopes to provide Internet access. Together, the ...
Is Google Making Us Stupid? … Obviously. [Digital Daily] (9)
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Is Google making us stupid? The answer to that question, recently posed by Nick Carr in The Atlantic, is a resounding yes. At least in the case of Sun Sentinel publisher Tribune. How else to explain the company’s claim that Google is largely to blame for the six-year-old news story that gutted the United Airlines share price this week? In a statement issued Wednesday, Tribune (TXA) said that Google’s indexing of the article, “United Airlines ...
iPhone 2.1: The iPhone You’ve Been Waiting For? (1)
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If Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivers on his promise, the iPhone firmware update to be released tomorrow will address many of the issues that have been trying the patience of iPhone 3G owners, including the dropped call problem that has plagued many users since July. “iPhone 2.1 is a big update,” Jobs said at Apple’s media event earlier this week. “It fixes lots of bugs. You’ll get fewer call drops. You will get significantly improved ...
Explain Our SMS Pricing? Sure. Space Telescope Transmission Costs x 4 (1)
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The bottom line is texting is at least four times more expensive than transmitting data from Hubble, and is likely to be substantially more than that. – University of Leicester space scientist Nigel Bannister If wireless providers applied the per-byte pricing scheme they use for SMS texting to other data transmitted over their cellular networks, it would cost nearly $6,000 to download a single 4MB song. Yet the price of text messaging has doubled industrywide ...
Speak Now, $100 Billion Ad Group, or Forever Hold Your Peace (1)
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Much as Google would like us all to believe that its proposed partnership with Yahoo is a benign one, a growing chorus of critics insists otherwise. The latest to take issue with the deal: The Association of National Advertisers, which represents a group of 400 companies with 9,000 brands. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, the ANA objected to the Google-Yahoo partnership, arguing that it “will likely diminish competition, increase concentration of ...
E-Read It and Weep, Amazon [Digital Daily] (1)
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Founded nearly a decade ago on patents for printing active-matrix electronic display panels on thin, flexible plastic substrates, Plastic Logic spent the ensuing years developing a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look–but not the feel–of a magazine or newspaper. And this morning, the company uncrated it. Thinner than a typical pad of notebook paper, the Plastic Logic Reader boasts a letter-sized–8.5-by-11 inches–touchscreen capable of displaying not just newspapers, periodicals and books, but a full ...
