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Submission + - First Fan Made Halo Movie Series (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "A movie production studio Method Pictures teamed up with director Dan Wang to create Helljumper. Helljumper will be a first fan made Halo movie series which will debut in January 2012."
Google

Submission + - YouTube All Set To Get A Redesign Soon (techlaze.com)

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techlaze writes: YouTube, it seems, is all set to get a facelift soon. The Google-owned video sharing site is testing out a new interface with deeper Google+ integration, a revamped homepage and a new subscriptions dashboard. The update is currently visible to only a small number of users; so, impatient ones will have make do with the screenshots till Google rolls out the changes for everyone. Without much ado, here’s an overview of what’s about to come
Facebook

Submission + - Diaspora Co-Founder Passes Away (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by inexia
inexia writes: One of Diaspora‘s four co-founders, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, had passed away. With much sadness, we’ve now confirmed this terrible news with the Diaspora team.
Google

Submission + - Logitech's Expensive Mistake (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Google tried to jump into our living rooms with their Google TV platform and Logitech jumped on board. Google TV failed to offer a compelling user experience and fell flat on its face. Google TV was set for failure when the biggest entertainment providers blocked it from accessing their websites and online content those publishers include:Viacom, Fox, ABC, CBS, and NBC"
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - Star Trek Online to Become Free to Play (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Cryptic Studios, the creator of Star Trek Online MMO announced that they are switching to a Free to Play model. Free subscribers to the game will be able to play but will not get the same benefits as paying subscribers still get. Free accounts will be Silver while paid accounts will be called Gold. Silver accounts will be able to pay for features that Gold members will already get as part of their paid subscription. These features include but not limited to respecs and extra character slots."
Google

Submission + - Google+ Blocks Contests and Promotions on Pages (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Yesterday, Google launched brand Pages on Google+. Similar to Facebook Pages, Google+ Pages allow brands, products, companies, groups and others to create a professional presence in the social networking world. The only problem is, according to Google+’s Policies, it appears that Google will not allow brand Page owners to host contests or promotions directly on the social network itself."
Music

Submission + - Texas Judge Beats Daughter for Illegal Downloading (tekgoblin.com) 1

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Texas Judge William Adams in a video recorded in 2004 which recently surfaced on the internet beat his daughter for illegally downloading music. The video is not for the light of heart, it shows Adams approach and beat his daughter Hillary Adams with a belt. Hillary has come forward and admitted to continuing abuse by her father in their home and even admitted that he even abused and manipulated her mother. His daughter Hillary was also afflicted with Ataxic Cerebral Palsy which means “a form of cerebral palsy characterised by Ataxia, problems with balance, co-ordination, shaky hand movements and jerky speech”."
Android

Submission + - Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android

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Hugh Pickens writes
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Gary Morgenthaler, a recognized expert in artificial intelligence and a Siri board member, says that Apple now has at least a two-year advantage over Google in the war for best smartphone platform. “What Siri has done is changed people’s expectations about what’s possible,” says Morgenthaler. “Apple has crossed a threshold; people now expect that you should be able to expect to speak ordinary English — and be understood. Siri has cracked the code.” The threshold, from mere speech recognition to natural language input and understanding, is one that Google cannot cross by replicating the technology or making an acquisition adds Morgenthaler. "There’s no company out there they can go buy." Morgenthaler's comments echo the recent article in Forbes Magazine, "Why Siri Is a Google Killer" that says that Apple's biggest advantage over any other voice application out there today is the massive data Siri will collect in the next 2 years — all being stored in Apple’s massive North Carolina data center — that will allow Siri to get better and better. "Siri is a new interface for customers wanting to get information," writes Eric Jackson. "At the moment, most of us still rely on Google for getting at the info we want. But Siri has a foot in the door and it’s trusting that it will win your confidence over time to do basic info gathering.""
Facebook

Submission + - Apple Employee Fired over Facebook Post (tekgoblin.com) 1

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "An Apple employee recently made some negative comments about Apple on their Facebook page. Now, their Facebook page was listed as private but another Apple colleague saw the comments and reported them to a manager. The employee was then quickly fired for “gross misconduct” because of violating Apple’s social policy."
Google

Submission + - Google Reader Gets a Facelift (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: "Today Google has made some changes to their Google Reader app. The look and feel has been changed to provide a much more streamlined look and a much faster interface than the previous version.

The biggest change to Google’s Reader app is the addition of Google Plus functionality. Google has removed the ‘like’ buttons and replaced them with +1 buttons which allow for easy sharing on Google’s social network."

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