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Submission + - Assange detention sparks total cyberwar (securecomputing.net.au)

An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous, the group leading the denial-of-service attacks on those who arrayed themselves against detained Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange has itself come under fire from US "patriots", said Panda Labs. Assange's detention in London on Swedish allegations of sexual molestation unleashed total cyberwar between factions opposed to and supporting his publication of confidential and classified diplomatic despatches. Almost every organisation that lined up against Assange, Wikileaks and its supporters has fallen under heavy, coordinated distributed denial-of-service attacks as have those who launched them. From web hosts to US senators, no one is safe from the botnet armies.
Google

Submission + - Android becomes Asia’s most popular mobile O (softview.co.cc)

srimadman writes: Google’s Android mobile operating system is growing like a weed, the OS is already the most popular in the US and has overtaken Symbian as the most popular smartphone software in eastern Asia, according to research company GfK.

Submission + - Swedish Company launches new Music Service (melodytubes.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Swedish Company launches new Music Service

www.Melodytubes.com

Today the play-it-all Music Service Melodytubes was launched. Melodytubes includes the creation of Playlists with a single mouse click and features new ways to search for almost any song you can imagine while playing the song together with its Lyrics.

November 24, 2010 UTC – The Swedish Company Munax today announced the launch of its new Music Service, Melodytubes (www.melodytubes.com). Melodytubes is a search engine with millions of indexed song texts which may be connected to any number of music sources, regardless if the music is stored on servers on the local area network or on the internet.

“We considered connecting our index to music files stored locally, but decided to include in the first version of Melodytubes a connection to YouTube. We made this decision based on YouTube’s music freshness and our desire to include music videos to enhance the user experience. What’s the point in listening only to music if you have the option to watch video too?”, says Mr. Granlund, co-founder of Munax.

With Melodytubes, music play & search is taken to the next level. Just enter a combination of anything you can remember – a string of lyrics, any part of the artist’s name, or any part of the song title – to instantly find the song you are looking for. Melodytubes’s extensive lyrics index and sophisticated song matching algorithms yield results so uncannily accurate that you will feel as if it has read your mind.

“We call it ‘Music & Song Identification’ and we are the first with this”.

For each song played on Melodytubes, the lyrics are displayed together with the song.

“We were thinking about a lot of names, but because of the possibility of not only listening to the music but watching the video and the songtext as well, on your TV 'tube', we added tube to the name. We also wanted to honor YouTube for their gigantic library of music”.

Melodytubes provides an easy-to-use Playlist Toolbar. The visitor may create as many Playlists as he wants, without the need to register. The Toolbar has familiar control buttons such as ; Play, Pause, Next, Previous and so on, but it also has a couple of unusual ones to help maximize the listening experience. Normally, Playlists are created by the visitor by adding songs from the search results, but with Melodytubes users can also create a Playlist instantly by merely clicking on the button labeled “as Playlist”.

“We have not seen this anywhere else and think it’s a great feature. For instance, you can type in some words you want in the songs in your Playlist, or type in the name of your favorite artist or band, to instantly create a Playlist. For those being even more lazy, you can select the Billboard hot 40 right off the Playlist Toolbar”, says Mr. Granlund.

For more information, please contact:
Jan-Olof Granlund, Munax
Tel: +46 76 168 74 53

About Munax
Munax develops premium search technologies including Composite Search, True Massive Parallelism for maximum performance, High Accuracy and Infinite Scalability. The Munax Search Technology (MST) is market leading in relevancy. Founded in 2007, Munax has launched public search engines as well as search solutions for other search engines, individual sites and corporations.
For more information, visit www.munax.com

Handhelds

Submission + - Hands-on With Acer's New 10 Inch Android Tablet

adeelarshad82 writes: Earlier this week Acer unveiled three new tablets, two for Android and one for Windows. Unfortunately details on the devices were slim, including their names. According to a hands-on with the 10 inch Android tablet, the device is about half-inch thick and weighs slightly more than an iPad. It's currently running an unknown Android version but according to the Acer executives the tablets will be running Google's tablet version of Android, Honey Comb. The tablet has no front facing buttons. The side includes a power button, lock button, an SD slot and a docking port for full-sized keyboard dock. The device also includes two cameras, front and back, resolutions details of which are still unknown. There's also a mini HDMI port for playing content on HDTVs. The tablets are powered by Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU which gives it the edge when it comes to graphics.
Facebook

Submission + - facebook to own the word "face" (myfoxdc.com) 2

Dthief writes: The U.S. Patent And Trademark Office has sent Facebook a Notice of Allowance, which means it will grant the “Face” trademark to the popular social networking site.

Facebook now has three months to pay an issue fee before they officially own the word.

Submission + - Opera 11 Beta Released with Extensions Support (opera.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Opera 11 Beta has just been released and now includes support for extensions. Also new in this release Tab Stacking, Visual Mouse Gestures, performance improvements, new installer, and much more. Even with its many new features, Opera 11 is 30% smaller than Opera 10.60. That means that Opera downloads more quickly and installs in fewer steps. http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

There are over 130 extensions and climbing including NoScript and AdBlock! Extension can be found here: https://addons.labs.opera.com/addons/extensions/

Submission + - Opera 11 Beta now with Extensions! (opera.com) 1

AmigaHeretic writes: Opera 11 Beta has just been released and now includes support for extensions. Also, new in this release Tab Stacking, Visual Mouse Gestures, performance improvements, new installer, and much more. Even with its many new features, Opera 11 is 30% smaller than Opera 10.60. That means that Opera downloads more quickly and installs in fewer steps.

Comment The Moon First! (Score 1) 839

Would it make more sense to go to the Moon first? There would be no need for a one way trip with the moon. It's so close that it could act more like the space station does now. It takes 3 days to get to the moon? So even shorts stays of a month aren't too unreasonable.

I don't know all the other differences of a Mars vs the Moon debate. I don't know what the night day cycle on Mars is, the Moon I think it's 28 days. (14 days of light 14 days of dark). There are no dust storms to worry about on the Moon.

In addition to there being shorter stays on the moon and quick travel, there is the added psychological benefit of always being able to see the Earth.

Comment StarTrek Replicator (Score 2, Insightful) 316

A replicator would change the world economy as we know it. People essentially wouldn't need to work. All there needs food, clothing, shelter, entertainment could simply be replicated. Larger replicator could make you a car, boat, etc. Other than power (which essentially seems to not be a real problem in the Star Trek world) you have no needs.

A 3D printer is not nearly as advanced of course, but it's definitely a big enough leap that that it may change certain parts of our lives drastically.

Assuming the price to "print" in 3D drops cheaply enough and the technology advances enough we may find our selves replicating our own items and killing 1000s of industries.

Look at just the kitchen: Forks, Spoons, chopsticks, plates, cups, Spatulas, Colendars, ladles, tongs, whisks, etc. I saw a TV show with Jay Leno and he has a 3D printer in his shop which he uses to make car parts for his rare cars that are basically impossible to get other than fabricating your own.

I imagine there will be much resistance to this type of thing by large corporations that stand to become obsolete.

Comment Re:We're not there yet (Score 1) 252

Well, it wouldn't be infinitely many things. Whether it be 8x4 1bit or 1920x1080 24bit, it's a finite amount of combinations.

Like I said, it's the theory that one could make a "time viewer". Now, you could generate random images and increase chances of seeing something novel as opposed to working through the combinations in order.

But I suppose the likely hood of that is less than a monkey throwing poo on a wall where it lands in such a way that it creates a document spelling out the secrets of cold fusion.

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