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Google TV Announced With Intel, Sony, and Logitech 224

Posted by timothy from the you-like-dexter-and-barney dept.
MojoKid writes "Google's own I/O conference in California is wrapping up today, but not before the company goes out with a serious bang. Google just announced something that has been rumored for a while now: Google TV. Basically, Google is taking the Apple TV concept, but going way overboard by introducing apps, screen customization, and channel searching. Following Google's own announcement, Intel stepped in to provide some backbone to the story. Google is obviously using the big players to move Google TV forward, with Intel, DISH Network, Best Buy, and Adobe firmly on board. Google TV itself is based on Android, runs the Google Chrome browser, and will allow users to access all of their usual TV channels as well as a world of Internet and cloud-based information and applications, including Adobe Flash-based content."
Handhelds

Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy 377

Posted by timothy from the so-it's-free-now dept.
ZipK writes "After a few days of bad publicity, Apple has reversed its no cash purchase policy, explaining that the policy was originally implemented to limit the number of iPads an individual could buy during the introductory period of short supply. Now that supply has caught up with demand — and the story has hit front pages and gained national attention — Apple has reversed its policy, and taken the opportunity to put a bow on the story by giving the formerly scorned Diane Campbell a free iPad."
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Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon 920

Posted by CmdrTaco from the selling-out-the-future dept.
bonch writes "Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'"
IT

Antarctica Needs a Network Engineer 226

Posted by CmdrTaco from the no-cpu-fans-requires dept.
littlekorea writes "It's a little underpaid, but network engineers with a fetish for very cold weather might be interested to know that the Australian Government's Antarctic Division is seeking network engineers to manage its telephony, satellite and radio comms in Antarctica. According to the job FAQ, summer temperatures aren't a lot colder than your average data centre. But winters of -30 degrees celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) might make the morning jog a little challenging."
Google

Google Toolbar Tracks Your Browsing, Even When Off 118

Posted by CmdrTaco from the yeah-that-was-like-a-bug-or-something dept.
garg0yle writes "Google's Toolbar is supposed to allow the user to disable it. However, it was discovered by a researcher that it was still sending information even when disabled. A patch is now available, and Google claims this was just a bug, not a feature."

Comment Works for me . . . (Score 1) 193

by Thompsy (#10412337) Attached to: How Are You Protecting Your Computers?
I have a hardware firewall built into my switch/router (Linksys BEFDSR41W)

On my 2 windows boxes there is Zonealarm (the free one) and
AVG ANtivirus (also free) and of course i use firefox as my browser of choice.

On my linux boxes i have iptables for network protection.
I also run a few things like tripwire and snort along with chkrootkit just to be sure

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