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posted by on Oct 14 Reuters - Mobile operator 3 UK is to sell Nokia’s N95 Comes With Music handset which offers unlimited music downloads, an industry source told Reuters on Tuesday. Here is the original:
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posted by on Oct 13 Reuters - The Internet has the potential to save the book trade instead of dealing it the near-fatal blow it dealt the music industry, the more optimistic participants at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair believe. The rest is here:
posted by on Oct 13 In the olden days, gathering evidences in every crime scene or even spying on someone for a suspected crime was just as hard as finding needle in the wide clear sand. It was always impossible to get to a place where you want to view some wild animals and study about their habitat especially at night for they might be disturbed by the light that you are going to produce just to have a clear view of them. More here:
posted by on Oct 13 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets  Elcomsoft has been using NVIDIA’s CUDA GPU computing architecture to accelerate its Distributed Password Recovery tool for a while now, but it looks like the latest version of the cracking utility takes it to the next level — it can break a WPA2 password using two GeForce GTX 280-based boards 100 times faster than with just a CPU. It’s still a brute-force crack, but only a few packets need be sniffed, and the GPU accelerates the algorithm used to generate keys significantly — even laptop-grade 8800M and 9800M GPUs speed things up 10 to 15 times. We wouldn’t worry too much about wardrivers with trunk-mounted bladeservers going nuts, however — the base version of the software costs $599, and things ramp up to $5,000 pretty quickly. [Via HotHardware]
posted by on Oct 13 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots  After the whole Tickle Me Elmo craze a few years back, you just knew Fisher-Price was going to ride this wave until it simply couldn’t stay afloat any longer. Elmo Live!, hailed as the “most innovative and engaging Elmo toy ever,” will officially hit store shelves tomorrow (October 14th) for $59.99, though we suspect the first batch will be snapped up in no time flat. Of course, those of you intent on retaining your sanity probably pre-ordered a few months back, but for everyone else, your battle to get one of this year’s hottest holiday gifts starts in under 24 hours. For those wondering what’s so special about this fellow, he supposedly tells jokes and makes movements that “give kids the feeling that Elmo is alive in their own homes.” Whether that’s really a good thing, however, is totally up to you.
posted by on Oct 13 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets  Look, you don’t have to explain to us how weird this thing is. Trust us, we fully understand. But as gadget editors, we have a certain love for receiving surprise packages and ripping ‘em open as quickly as possible to discover what goodies reside within. Bandai’s so-very-Japanese Peri Peri keychain is apt to appeal to the unboxers among us, as it recreates the unmistakable feeling of tearing open a rushed FedEx envelope. If there’s a downside, it’s that there’s no new wares to be found after each opening, but on the other hand, at least there’s no big dent on your credit card each time you “open” something new. Expect this gem to hit your keyring for just under $10 next month. Bonus video hosted up after the break. [Via BoingBoing] Continue reading Bandai’s Peri Peri keychain lets you rip open shipping envelopes continually
posted by on Oct 10 CNET - With a tough economic climate figuring to put a crimp on IT spending, Microsoft is already working on honing a message that it can help businesses save money. Read the rest here:
posted by on Oct 10 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Wearables  Ever crawl your way through a smoke-filled corridor to save the life of someone trapped in a burning building? If yes, much respect! If no, us neither, but if ever we do hopefully it’s after donning this piece of headgear currently under development by two researchers in Germany. Burcu Cinaz and Holger Kenn (rockers both, no doubt) have created HeadSLAM, a helmet that uses an infrared laser-scanner to penetrate the haze and map out surroundings as its wearer wanders, correcting for inertial disturbances created by the loping, unsteady walk of a bipedal organism, shown in a thrilling demonstration video after the break. It’s all very much a prototype at this point (evidenced by the “hardhat festooned with shipping tape” design), and the laptop tether is a bit unwieldy when compared to a cellphone that might manage the same trick from inside a pocket, but within a few years we wouldn’t be surprised to see this tech integrated into a trucker hat or maybe even a set of ridiculous headphones. [Warning: PDF read link] [Via NewScientist] Continue reading HeadSLAM helps you navigate imaginary smoke in well-lit corridors
posted by on Oct 10 NewsFactor - For people who worry that it’s impossible to escape from Google’s amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite’s first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company. Read the original:
posted by on Oct 10 InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company’s DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform. More here:
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posted by on Oct 9 AP - IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders. The rest is here:
posted by on Oct 9 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets  We all know the internet is not a big truck, and the rolling blackouts in California not that long ago showed our power grid isn’t either. Part of the solution could be a series of tubes, a new type of solar generator from a company called Solyndra that replaces the usual square solar roof panels with something that would make Senator Stevens proud. The company’s photovoltaic rods are able to catch rays from any direction, meaning they don’t need to be tilted to point at the sun. Also, since they’re not shaped like a silicon kite, they don’t need the same big, beefy installation brackets. This cuts installation costs in half and has helped to drive $1.2 billion in orders from eager would-be customers of this three-year-old startup. Want to see ‘em for yourself? Head on down to the Solar Power International Expo next week in sunny San Diego. [Via Make]
posted by on Oct 9 AP - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There’s just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around. Read more:
posted by on Oct 9 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets 
You know something’s a long way from becoming an actual product when we’re just talking about the discovery of an “effect,” but a team of researchers at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan say that the so-called “spin Seebeck effect” they’ve discovered could eventually have some pretty big implications for all sorts of devices. According to Science News, the researchers found that by heating one side of a magnetized nickel-iron rod they were able to change the arrangement of the electrons in the material according to their “spins,” which is the quantum-physics equivalent of the south-north magnetic axes in bar magnets. One of the big advantages of that, it seems, is that, unlike with electric currents, transferring information by “flipping spins” does not generate heat, which would let “spintronics devices” operate at higher speeds without overheating, and cut down on power consumption in the process.
[Via Spintronics-Info, image courtesy Nature]
posted by on Oct 9 AP - Micron Technology Inc. will close a factory and cut about 15 percent of its work force around the world as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations. Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent
posted by on Oct 9 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets  It look like Hollywood’s won the first round in court against RealNetworks’ RealDVD DVD-ripping software — Judge Maralyn Hall Patel (of Napster fame, remember her?) ruled yesterday that a temporary restraining order blocking sales of the software will stay in place indefinitely until she decides whether it violates the DMCA. The central issue is whether or not making a bit-for-bit copy of a DVD constitutes circumventing copy protection: the studios claim the encryption keys must be read off the disk under the terms of the license agreement, and RealNetworks obviously disagrees. There’s a lot at play here, including the studios’ argument that fair use doesn’t serve as a defense to backing up DVDs, so we’ll be tracking this one closely — it’s sadly clear to us that Hollywood’s fight here is against consumers having flexibility with their media, since it lost the battle against actual piracy ages ago.
posted by on Oct 9 AP - Two former software executives grossly overstated their company’s revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk. 40 laid off at software company as execs arrested
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