Daily Archives: October 7, 2011

As Facial Recognition Improves, New Privacy Controversies Await

October 7, 2011
As Facial Recognition Improves, New Privacy Controversies Await

If you think recently-unveiled products like the Facebook Timeline and Amazon’s cloud-powered Silk Web browser have raised privacy issues, an innovation that lies just around the corner could blow them both out of the water. Facial recognition technology has been around for decades, but until recently it’s been slow, inefficient and largely limited to...

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Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery

October 7, 2011
Utopic.me launches new design and visual bookmarking to help discovery

Curating and sharing links on the web is a hot space. Delicious has relaunched, and services we’ve written about like Snip.it are trying to get you to share all of your links on its service. Utopic goes a step further in helping you discover and share links, videos, music, and pictures that are relevant...

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Clearwire reeling as Sprint forges its own LTE plans

October 7, 2011
Clearwire reeling as Sprint forges its own LTE plans

Wireless network provider Clearwire’s stock fell 32 percent to $1.39 Friday following an announcement by Sprint Friday that it was launching an LTE network without the help of Clearwire, throwing into doubt its role in Sprint’s 4G future. Sprint addressed investors and analysts at a strategy update meeting Friday, and outlined its plans to...

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Dell Bails On Windows Phone — For Now (DELL, MSFT)

October 7, 2011
Dell Bails On Windows Phone — For Now (DELL, MSFT)

Image: AP See Also: Leaked Photos Of Dell’s $1,000 Windows 7 Tablet THE MICROSOFT INVESTOR: Microsoft Gets A Second Chance To Claw Its Way Into The Smartphone Market Reminder! iPhone 4S Preorders Begin Tonight: Here’s How To Tell If You Can Upgrade Dell has canceled plans to make a new Windows Phone running version...

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Could OnLive be the app that kills bandwidth caps?

October 7, 2011
Could OnLive be the app that kills bandwidth caps?

Perhaps Netflix has found a friend in its lonely battle against broadband caps, as a U.K. site is reporting that gamers playing the OnLive service can use up to 20 GB in six hours. Cable.co.uk, a broadband comparison shopping site, also reports that some folks using the service have run afoul of British ISP...

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The New Yorker’s Steve Jobs Cover Goes With ‘The iPad At The Pearly Gates’

October 7, 2011
The New Yorker’s Steve Jobs Cover Goes With ‘The iPad At The Pearly Gates’

(h/t @erikmal) See Also: Here’s Jon Stewart’s Touching Tribute To Steve Jobs MARC ANDREESSEN: Steve Jobs Used To Walk Around Palo Alto All The Time. Once I Almost Hit Him With My Car Apple’s iBookstore Is Looking Like A Rare Flop Please follow SAI: Media on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Noah Davis on Twitter....

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RIM Spends $100 Million On Irish Startup NewBay To Catch Up To Apple And iCloud (RIMM)

October 7, 2011
RIM Spends $100 Million On Irish Startup NewBay To Catch Up To Apple And iCloud (RIMM)

Image: AP See Also: TALES OF A FOURSQUARE VIRGIN RIM’s Stock Makes Its Biggest Jump In Two Years On New Takeout Rumors Research in Motion is buying Dublin-based mobile software company NewBay for a reported $100 million. The deal, which was first reported by the Irish Times, will help RIM build the kind of...

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Apple’s iBookstore Is Looking Like A Rare Flop (AAPL)

October 7, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Blockbuster sales are expected for Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs when it comes out later this month, with independents and chains alike expecting it to be the biggest nonfiction release of the year. But one seller, announced with great publicity a year and a half ago and very...

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Comcast’s MyTV Choice: Is this the future of pay TV bundling?

October 7, 2011
Comcast’s MyTV Choice: Is this the future of pay TV bundling?

Comcast is testing out a new type of pay TV bundling that gives users the ability to pick and choose which types of content they want to pay for month after month. The MyTV Choice trial, which was just introduced in Comcast’s Charleston, S.C. market, isn’t true a la carte offering, as some folks...

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Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures (GOOG)

October 7, 2011
Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures (GOOG)

Intellectual Ventures founder and former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold. Image: Colbert Report See Also: Google And Samsung Push Back The Launch Of The Next Big Android Phone* Samsung And Google Postpone Huge Android Announcement Out Of Respect For Steve Jobs LEAKED: A Bunch Of Screenshots Of Android Ice Cream Sandwich Yesterday, gigantic patent troll...

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