Archive for February, 2011

HP Tablet Saves Dr. Dre’s Life In ‘I Need A Doctor’ Music Video

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“I Need A Doctor” is the second single from Dr. Dre’s upcoming album Detox, which has been in development, I think, for 400 years. It feels like that anyway. You’ve seen the Grammy performance, but have you seen the official music video? More importantly, have you seen the blindingly obvious product placement featuring good ol’ HP? As Matt and I were just discussing in the official [...]
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SocialEyes Lets Facebook Friends Chat Hollywood Squares-Style

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Rob Glaser — founder, chair and former CEO of RealNetworks — hopes all eyes will soon be on an app developed by his new company, SocialEyes, which is designed to bring video chat to Facebook. Like all social media services, SocialEyes can be used both publicly, for groups organized around common interests, and privately — but this time the experience is not about static text [...]
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Nintendo Looks To U.S. After Strong 3DS Sales in Japan

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Let the games begin. Nintendo’s next-generation portable handheld gaming device, the 3DS, is predictably big in Japan, where it premiered Saturday, with reports saying 400,000 of the glasses-free three-dimensional devices sold in the first few days. Nintendo now has time to build up hype before the 3DS hits Europe on March 25 and North America on March 27. It will sell in U.S. stores for $249.99. [...]
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SeaMicro Ships Low-Power Servers with 64-Bit Atom Chips

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SeaMicro is shipping what it bills as the world’s most energy-efficient 64-bit x86 server — and it’s not hype. The SM10000-64 features 256 Intel Atom N570 dual-core processors. SeaMicro’s architecture, combined with Intel’s Atom chip technology, equals 512 1.66-GHZ x86 cores in a rack system — and that translates to 75 percent less power consumption in less space [...]
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AT&T Retail Stores Will Sell Amazon’s Kindle 3G

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AT&T said Monday that it will sell Amazon.com’s Kindle 3G for $189 at more than 2,000 AT&T retail stores across the U.S., beginning March 6. The wireless device already uses AT&T’s nationwide network to process e-book downloads and related user activities. Since Amazon’s profits come from selling e-books and other digital publications rather than the Kindle itself, any [...]
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Some Gmail Users Lost Data in Weekend Outage

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Gmail experienced an outage during the weekend that, according to Google, affected a relatively small number of users. Some problems reportedly continued through Monday, including loss of all e-mails in inboxes and sent-mail folders. Complaints began showing up on the Google Help Forum Sunday afternoon. One user reported that his account was at first “unreachable,” and, when he finally [...]
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Queplix Debuts New Virtual ETL Solution

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Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data virtualization, today announced two new product families that bring the power of data virtualization to the difficult task of extract, transform and load (ETL). VirtualETL™ (http://bit.ly/eUSZPE) and CloudETL™ (http://bit.ly/hlmtwx) radically simplify the ETL process, enabling users to configure Queplix’s Application Software Blades™ (http://bit.ly/e4wpQf), [...]
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Xoom Likely To Have Trouble Competing with iPad

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So Motorola’s Xoom tablet is out — but the iPad 2 is expected to be unveiled on Wednesday. Who could help but draw comparisons? Indeed, even though Apple hasn’t confirmed the iPad 2 specs, even sight-unseen comparisons between the Xoom and the original iPad seem to bode well for Apple. The Xoom won the CNET Best of Show award at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year [...]
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SocialEyes Adds Videoconferencing To Facebook

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When Rob Glaser started RealNetworks in the mid-1990s, video on the web was barely functional. Now thousands of video streams later, Glaser is launching a startup to put Facebook users’ faces into socially oriented videoconferencing. The new company, called SocialEyes, has Glaser as chairman, with ex-Microsoft and RealNetworks executive Rob Williams as cofounder and CEO. It was to be demonstrated [...]
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DNA App Lets You See Your Genome on Your Phone

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French researchers say they have developed new software that will allow people to view their complete genetic code on their smart phones. The software, developed by four scientists from Bordeaux in southwest France, is currently under development in the United States since genetic sequencing is strictly limited under French ethics laws, Radio France Internationale reported Thursday. The DNA app translates [...]
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