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Mobile Phones Sales Top One Billion in 2006
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Market researcher IDC announced that mobile phone sales topped one billion for all of 2006. Handset vendors shipped a record high 294.9 million mobile phones (20% more than last year) in the last quarter resulting in a year total of 1.02 billion compared to 832.8 million wireless handsets sold in 2005. Nations in emerging market areas of Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America accounted for a higher portion of mobile phone purchases last year than mature areas such as the North America, Japan and Western Europe. News source: InfoWorld
More About: Mobile , Phone , Mobile Phones , Mobile Phone , Phones

Google defuses Googlebombs
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Google has taken action against Googlebombing, the act of hundreds of Internet users linking up specific words with certain web sites in order to produce a desired (and usually comical) search result. To remedy the problem Google altered the algorithm by improving the way they analyze link structures on web sites. Google’s Matt Cutts says that the algorithm scales well and even helps prevent Googlebombs in other languages. Famous ?linkbombing? cases include “failure” producing a link to the current US President, George W. Bush, “waffles” with Senator John Kerry, “talentless hack” with Adam Mathes and finally stopping the word “Jew” from pointing to a hate site and instead directing users to the Wikipedia entry on Jewish people. Google says that there have been less than 100 “well-known” Googlebombs since 2001 and overall the problem was a harmless one. Google claims that the reason that the company has decided to fin...
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Next OS X rumored to feature new GUI
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Mac OS X?s Aqua has matured very slowly over the last few years. It seems like many OS X users are tired of Aqua and ready for a new revolutionary GUI to compliment and enhance the experience of using a Mac. An increasingly popular theme for Apple?s latest applications have been smooth unified metal and dark glass. With each major update to one of Apple?s applications, its seems like the days with blue gel scroll-bars and candy bar progress bars are ending. Its no question that Leopard will feature a new GUI, but no one really knows what it will look like. Its no doubt that Leopard will feature resolution-independent graphics support that will allow for greater resolution displays with the same and windows sizes. However, the details of the interface have not yet been revealed, but many are hoping that we will see the final announcement of Leopard features at Macworld 2007, where chances of a GUI announcement are high. Apple Gazette has featured a new rumor from a supposed insider t...
More About: Rumor , Feature , Next , More , Feat

Watch Full Feature Films, TV Episodes, and Music Videos - All For Free Onli
2007-02-14 20:11:01
This one is a blatant copyright nightmare waiting to happen! Don?t know how long this is going to stay online for but worth checking out anyway. The DM Network has 3 a directories: one contains full feature films available to watch online - the quality on some of them isn’t great but others are perfectly watchable. Another directory has all the latest TV episodes available for streaming and the third has free music videos. Just the thing to while away the hours at work/school Link: http://www.dailymotionmovievids.com/ Link: http://www.dailymotionepisodes.com/ Link: http://www.dailymotionmusic.com/
More About: Video , Videos , Music , Watch , Film

Proof-of-Concept adware program for OS X announced
2007-02-14 20:11:01
Online fraudsters may be ready to put Mac users in their sights. On Thursday, antivirus firm F-Secure published a brief analysis of a proof-of-concept adware program for the Mac OS X that could theoretically hook into any application to run attacker-specified code. The program, dubbed IAdware by F-Secure, could be silently installed in a user’s account without requiring administrator rights. We won’t disclose the exact technique used here - it’s a feature not a bug - but let’s just say that installing a System Library shouldn’t be allowed without prompting the user,” stated F-Secure in the blog post. “Especially as it only requires copy permissions.” Vulnerability researchers have increasingly focused on finding flaws in the Mac OS. During the month of November, two serious flaws in Apple’s operating system were disclosed as part of the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) project. The IAdware proof-of-concept code did nothing malicious, ...
More About: War , Ware , Prog , Proof

iPhone 4GB and 8GB, Coming in January?
2007-02-14 20:11:01
In the latest episode of Diggnation, Kevin Rose claims to know some details about the Apple phone from a “solid” source. According to Rose, little bit of inside info on the Apple phone: - Going to be coming out in January - All phone providers - “It’s small as sh*t” - Doing some unique things - Don’t know anything about the Operating System - The OS is supposed to be “cool” - Two batteries, one charger. One for MP3 portion and one for Phone . - 4GB ($249) and 8GB ($449) - Flash memory, Slide out keyboard - Maybe touch screen? Kevin Rose was co-host of The Screen Savers on Tech TV and later started Digg.com. Last year, he offered last minute rumors prior to Macworld San Francisco which turned out to be accurate. He also predicted the iPod nano. News Source: MacRumours
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