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Submission + - Bringing Free Television to Phones in America (economist.com)

Submitted by ideonexus on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:13PM

ideonexus writes: South Korea, China, Brazil, parts of Europe, and Japan have been watching television on their phones for free since 2005, but American mobile carriers are struggling to offer clunky streaming video using Qualcomm’s proprietary MediaFLO system for an additional monthly fee and excessive bandwidth demands. Now, with America having gone digital in June, if Mobile carriers were to have ATSC M/H (advanced television systems committee—mobile/handheld) television-tuner chips built into their handsets it sounds like we could enjoy free TV on our cell phones too; however, these companies have already invested a great deal of money adapting their networks to Qualcomm's format and Qualcomm is considering becoming a Mobile-television distributor itself.

Submission + - Android & iPhone wars: Using HTML5, CSS, &

Submitted by IndioMan on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:13PM

IndioMan writes: Learn how to developing browser-based apps for iPhone and Android. In Part 1, we introduce WebKit, the browser engine at the heart of iPhone and Android. Part 2 digs deeper by building a network management application that runs on both the iPhone and Android browsers. The app demos browser-local SQL storage and Ajax, key techs that enable a rich app experience from within the mobile browser. Additionally, the app leverages the popular jQuery JavaScript library.

Submission + - Micro-ROV Footage by Underwater InSight (youtube.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: Here we have a series of underwater clips taken by a micro-ROV (remotely operated vehicle) in the south east of the United Kingdom.

Submission + - 360 Live iPhone App is now officially FREE! (ddgameworld.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: For realzies this time. The app was created by Xavier Larrea and sold at the iTunes App store for $1.99. Microsoft quickly put the kibosh on that due to their policy that all Xbox Live iPhone apps must be free. So it appears that 360 Live is here to stay and free to own.
If you want to take it for a spin click the download link below.

Submission + - Why didn't the internet save the last decade? (pbs.org) 2

Submitted by tcd004 on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:01PM

tcd004 writes: Open communication, new markets, no boundaries. There was so much promise in the first ten years of the internet, why didin't that translate into more jobs, more freedom, and more overall happiness? Esther Dyson, Paul Saffo, and Jaron Lenier discuss the last ten years of technology and what we can expect in the next ten years.

Submission + - Encryption Cracked on NIST Certified Flash Drives (h-online.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @12:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: USB Flash drives with hardware based AES 256-bit encryption manufactured by Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim have reportedly been cracked by security firm SySS. These drives are advertised to meet security standards suitable for use with sensitive US Government data (unclassified, of course) as emphasized by the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certificate issued by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It looks likes the Windows based password entry program always sends the same character string to the drive after performing various crypto operations.

Submission + - Boris Strugatsky claims Avatar was his idea. (russia-ic.com)

Submitted by anastasd on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @12:47PM

anastasd writes: Russian science fiction author Boris Strugatsky claims James Cameron stole the idea of the movie Avatar from his novel "The Noon Universe" (Russian: "Mir Poludnja") written in the '60s. Strugatsky said that the planet Pandora, its flora and fauna as well as its inhabitants — the cat-alike na'vi are originally created by him and his brother Arkady
Unfortunately Mr. Strugatsky said he will not watch the movie so most probably he will not verify his claims.

Submission + - Neuromanceresque Coffins n Japan's Recession (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by afabbro on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @12:21PM

afabbro writes: "Case had rented a coffin here, on a weekly basis, since he'd arrived in Chiba." Apparently, so do some some of Japan's homeless: Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 houses 700 fiberglass sleeping coffins, each 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide, and not tall enough to stand up in.

Submission + - New Amiga With Programmable Co-Processor (a-eon.com)

Submitted by GuerillaRadio on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @11:22AM

GuerillaRadio writes: A new Amiga — the AmigaOne X1000 has been announced by A-Eon and contains the interesting addition of an onboard XMOS "Software Defined Silicon" chip onboard and the Xorro interface. Amiga fans have been waiting some time for new interesting Amiga hardware and this might be it. More details at OSNews

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