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iPhone OS 3.1.3 unlock app posted-> 0

Submitted by Aviran on Tuesday February 09 2010, @06:21AM

Aviran writes "Owners of unlocked iPhones who want to upgrade to the recently released OS 3.1.3 and want to retain the ability to use whatever Sim meets their needs can now do so. The iPhone Dev Team have released a suitable version of its PwnageTool utility."
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Android comes with a kill-switch-> 0

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on Thursday October 16 2008, @08:56AM

Aviran writes "The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim.
Unlike Apple, the company has made no attempt to hide its intentions, and includes the details in the Android Market terms and conditions, as spotted by Computer World:
"Google may discover a product that violates the developer distribution agreement ... in such an instance, Google retains the right to remotely remove those applications from your device at its sole discretion.""
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New Guinness World Record for Movie Watching-> 1

Submitted by Aviran on Wednesday October 08 2008, @02:58AM

Aviran writes "Movie lovers Suresh Joachim and Claudia Wavra today emerged as the winners of the Netflix Popcorn Bowl event after 123 hours and 10 minutes of continuous movie watching and set a New Guinness World Record for Movie Watching"
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RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier-> 0

Submitted by Aviran on Monday September 08 2008, @05:27AM

Aviran writes "On Monday, RealNetworks will introduce RealDVD, a $30 software program for Windows computers that allows users to easily make a digital copy of an entire DVD — down to the extras and artwork from the box. The software will allow buyers to make one copy of a DVD, playable only on the computer where it was made. I guess RealNetworks did not learn anything about how users feel about DRM limitations."
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Yahoo! Mash Shut-down 0

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on Friday August 29 2008, @12:35AM

Aviran writes "On September 29, 2008 Yahoo! will shut down its beta service Yahoo! Mash. Mash users (me included) already got an email announcement about the closing and being urged to copy al the important information of the web site and copy it to a different document."

Google Drops Bluetooth, GTalkService From Android 0

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on Tuesday August 26 2008, @05:20AM

Aviran writes "Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog. But the company made clear that handsets using the Android OS will work with other Bluetooth devices such as headsets, for example."

Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record 0

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on Sunday August 24 2008, @05:59AM

Aviran writes "By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."

Scientists closer to invisibility cloak 0

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on Monday August 11 2008, @01:00AM

Aviran writes "Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects. Previously, they only have been able to cloak very thin two-dimensional objects"

Delver's Social Search Engine Now Open to All 0

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on Wednesday July 16 2008, @11:11AM

Aviran writes "We told you about the new social search engine Delver earlier this year (see: "Delver Reinvents Search"), today, Delver has finally launched their service.
The objective behind Delver is to uncover and make accessible knowledge and information that is hidden in users' social graphs — an area that Google's Marissa Mayer has indicated to be an essential part of Google's future search offerings.
Delver is still at a very early age of development, but even so, the service demonstrates a lot of potential to become the next step in the social web's evolution."

Meet the UK's most spammed man 0

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on Monday July 07 2008, @12:08PM

Aviran writes "Receiving a few hundred spam messages a day is bad enough, but spare a thought for an unfortunate Orange user who's the target of a server-straining 44,000 junk mail missives every 24 hours. Three of the five most spammed individuals on the books of spam filtering service ClearMyMail.com use Orange as an ISP. The other two received a deluge of unwanted ads through private domains registered with 123-reg/GX Networks. The most heavily besieged member of the quintet, Colin Wells, a workshop foreman for Stagecoach buses, is sent the equivalent of 16 million spam messages a year."