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Top News: iPad 3 | iWallet patent | Eye-controlled games

iPad 3: Apple's New iPad: 6 key features. Apple upgrades iPad with modest changes. New iPad's lack of a new name leaves Apple enthu  [...]

Top News: iPad3 | Mandatory Facebook access | Google Plus image problem

iPad 3 What to expect at Apple’s event. New iPad expected with faster chip, sharper screen. How the iPad could give Microsoft a serious r  [...]

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Disney Explores Cross-Platform Content Ownership

The  Walt Disney Company appears to be poised to unveil a new technology that will help it recover from slumping DVD sales - a decline fueled in part by robust Web 2.0 content available to consumers, including illegal duplicating and trading of its own copyrighted material. Code-named "Keychest," the service will give consumers lifetime rights to a piece of content - say, a movie or TV show - across multiple digital platforms such as a smartphone or on-demand cable service or computer, Media  [...]

Obama to US: Broadband for All!

In his regular weekly YouTube address to Americans, President-elect Barack Obama announced broadband connectivity would be a top priority in a massive public works campaign he will direct while in office. "It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption," he said. In terms of average internet speed, the US lags behind South Korea, Hong Kong, Sweden and Be  [...]

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Mobile 'Net Users 60% More Likely to Accept Mobile Advertising

The US mobile internet now has a large and diverse enough user base to support wide-scale mobile-marketing efforts, and mobile web users are 60 percent more likely than data users to be open to mobile advertising, according to a report (pdf) from Nielsen Mobile -   [...]

Shoppers Primed for a New World of Shopping Experiences

Biometric fingerprint payments, intelligent shopping carts, holographic sales assistance, and interactive dressing rooms are among the top shopping experience innovations foreseen by shoppers, finds a TNS Retail Forward study, MarketingCharts reports.   [...]

Mobile IM Use May Overtake SMS, Mobile Email

SMS (texting) and mobile email may well be overtaken by mobile instant messaging (MIM), according to a TNS Global Telecoms Insight (GTI) survey of 17,000 consumers across 30 countries, MarketingCharts reports. Globally, 11   [...]

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JAJAH to Bring Ad-Supported VoIP to the Masses

A company called JAJAH is addressing the possibility of ad-supported VoIP by improving the ease with which carriers and callers can jump aboard. JAJAH offers phone credit to callers enabling them to opt in to ads through a partnership with Oridian, an ad network that targets international internet users, reports Ars Technica  [...]

'$100' Laptop Goes into Mass Production

One Laptop Per Child's XO model has finally gone into mass production, courtesy of Quanta Computer in Changshu, China. One Laptop Per Child is an initiative that aspires to bring durable, weatherproof and open source laptop computers to children in Third World countries. While it hasn't yet reached the goal of ready availability for $100 a piece, this is certainly a step for  [...]

Mobile Video Subscribers to Jump to 59M in 2010

Despite concerns over the business plan and subscriber rates, mobile video phone sales are expected to climb from $58 billion in 2006 to $125 billion in 2010 worldwide, according to a report from Infonetics Research. The bump is fueled by "increasingly powerful and efficient phones" and augmented spectrum availability. There were a few million subscribers to video phone service in 2006, but the num  [...]

Mobile Broadcast TV to Hit 120MM Users by 2012

Nearly 120 million mobile users in over 40 countries are may have broadcast TV services by 2012, compared with less than 12 million in 2007. And DVB-H will serve as the dominant transmission standard, according to a new report from Juniper Research, writes   [...]

$100 Laptop Turns to Public for Help

Beginning November 12 and for two weeks thereafter, Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop be available for public purchase. Called G1G1, consumers can pay US$ 399 for two laptops: one for themselves, and one for a child in the developing world, according to BBC News. Though the creators' goal is to  [...]

Nokia Cuts Mobile GPS Orientation Time by Over Half

Adding promise to the future of location-based online services, Nokia has launched a service that cuts the time a GPS-based mobile phone takes to pinpoint its geographical position. ZDNet reports that the service, available for owners of its N95 smartphone, will cut start-up time from three minutes to one minute in most countries. GPS' current location orientation speed has dampened interest mobile-ba  [...]

Canadian Teachers Put Foot Down on Cyber Bullying

Teachers across Canada are increasingly concerned about online bullying, reports The Globe and Mail, and this week, they will try developing national policy for protecting students and educators from the tactic. A Toronto-based gathering of the Canadian Teachers' Federation will try to tackle the elusive problem of bullying over the Internet. The Federation   [...]

Social Computer Hits Doorsteps of Third World

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, is on a mission to put open-source computing systems into the hands of Third World Children. The durable green XO laptop is a low-power, lightweight system able to withstand a number of extremes, including heavy rains, bright sunlight, five-foot falls and small hands. It is typically both electric- and crank-operated and costs approximately $175 per unit to manufacture,   [...]

NY Times Censors Itself

New York Times readers in Britain may have been disappointed if they attempted to read the lead story on the NYTimes.com website due to self-censorship exploiting the site's regional ad targeting technology. The Times reports on the issue and includes its justification from legal counsel, referring to  [...]

Mobile TV Alliance Formed to Promote Open Standard

Nokia, Intel, Motorola and other wireless equipment makers announced the formation of the Mobile DTV Alliance, which will promote an open standard - Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) - for live TV on mobile phones, reports the Financial Times. Texas Instruments and Crown Castle International, which is building a DVB-H network in the U.S., are also members. "As mobile video ent  [...]

Four Scenarios for the 'Smart Internet' of 2010

Australia's technology research consortium, Smart Internet Technology CRC, has released some results of an 18-month study examining what the Internet might evolve into by 2010 and the implications for end-users, writes Techdirt. The public versions (pdf) of the Smart Internet 2  [...]

Cross-Language Organic Search Ranker Introduced

European firm Agence Virtuelle said it launched a tool for measuring organic search results across search engines in many languages at once. The E-positioning 4.0 application keeps tabs on positions translated into Latin languages, as well as Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and even some of those tough Eastern European tongues. It compiles results into a "brand index pressure" that signifies the brand's propensity to pop up i  [...]