1. Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone  permalink

Exclusive: Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone
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TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

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Apple prepping cheaper iPhone 4 to launch in September alongside iPhone 5 Mass production of Apple's A5-, Qualcomm-powered iPhone 5 rumored for Sept.   —  Apple's iPhone 5 will feature "slight modifications" from its predecessor, including an 8 megapixel rear camera and a Qualcomm baseband for both GSM and CDMA models, and will go into production in September, a new report claims.

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Apple prepping cheaper iPhone 4 to launch in September alongside iPhone 5 Apple Remote Desktop 3.5.1 Admin   —  The best way to manage the Mac computers on your network. Distribute software, provide real-time online help to end users, create detailed software and hardware reports, and automate routine management tasks - all without leaving your desk. Featuring Automator actions, Remote Spotlight search, and a new Dashboard widget, Apple Remote Desktop 3 ...

2. ClearEdge Power to make fuel cell for data centers  permalink

ClearEdge Power to make fuel cell for data centers
CNET

The fuel cell company raises $73.5 million to expand into the light commercial market and build follow-on products.

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ClearEdge Power to make fuel cell for data centers Southern California Gas Invests In Fuel Cell Energy Firm   —  Southern California Gas Company the unit of Sempra Energy which supplies natural gas to Southern California, has backed the manufacturer of natural gas, fuel cell equipment. According to ClearEdge Power, it has raised $73.5M in a Series E financing round, which included Southern California Gas Company, and was led by Artis Capital Management. ...

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ClearEdge Power to make fuel cell for data centers Why Flash Is the Future of Storage in Data Centers   —  Flash storage is making inroads in data-center computing, and a start-up may help accelerate the trend.

3. Verizon CFO slips more iPhone 5 details  permalink

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Verizon CFO Fran Shammo spilled more details of the next iPhone in comments at the most recent leg of Reuters' technology summits. The executive reiterated earlier claims that the new model would use dual-mode CDMA and GSM but also that it would be available in step with the AT&T (GSM) version. Buyers would not only get the phone at the same time ...

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4. CTIA weighs challenge to revised SF cell phone law  permalink

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Though San Francisco revised its previous legislation over cell phone radiation after CTIA objections, the organization is considering another legal challenge.

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CTIA weighs challenge to revised SF cell phone law Phone Radiation Measurement App Maker Tawkon Raises $1.5 Million   —  Tawkon , an Israeli startup that offers mobile apps capable of measuring cellular radiation , has secured seed funding to the tune of $1.5 million . The capital injection comes from thetime , an investment company owned by Ilan Shiloah, chairman of McCann Erickson Israel and Nir Tarlovsky, and from Tzvika Barinboim. Other backers include ...

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CTIA weighs challenge to revised SF cell phone law Anonymous Ops Britian and BART   —  Here's a new maxim for politicians, policy makers and public administrators: curtail, censor or otherwise limit communications technology in the real-world — expect online reprisals. Hacker collective Anonymous released a " press release " on Saturday announcing OpBritian , a reaction to UK Prime Minister David Cameron's suggestions that ...

5. Display and storage  permalink

Display and storage
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Availability: Offers, prices, specifications and availability per laptop may change without notice. Lenovo will contact you and cancel your order if the product becomes unavailable or if there was a pricing or typographic error.

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Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet now available for $499 and up Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet Now Available for Pre-Order   —  Lenovo’s business-oriented ThinkPad tablet , announced in July, is now available for pre-order. The device sports a 10.1-inch, 1280×800…

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Lenovo Joins the Fray, Pumps Out a Decent Android Tablet   —  With everyone trying to muscle into the tablet market, Lenovo's entry is a credible contender.

6. Microsoft Says Motorola’s Android Phones Infringe Its Patents  permalink

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Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android- based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. use technology derived from Microsoft inventions.

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Microsoft moves to block sale of Motorola Android phones Microsoft promises and demonstrates USB 3.0 support in Windows 8   —  The software maker revealed the support in the third instalment of the building Windows 8 engineering blog. Windows chief Steven Sinofsky confirmed that Microsoft has written a new software stack for USB 3.0. Discussing how the company had to chose between a rewrite or simply an update, Sinofsky says: “Don’t jump in. Instead, meticulously ...

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Microsoft moves to block sale of Motorola Android phones Microsoft begins trial against Motorola over Android technologies   —  Microsoft began arguing its U.S. trade case that Android-based smartphones made by Motorola Mobility Holdings use technology derived from Microsoft inventions.

7. Samsung reportedly contacted Taiwan OEMs for evaluating notebook outsourcing  permalink

Samsung reportedly contacted Taiwan OEMs for evaluating notebook outsourcing
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Korea-based notebook brand vendor Samsung Electronics has reportedly contacted Taiwan-based notebook makers Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics and Pegatron Technology in August to evaluate the possibility of outsourcing notebook orders, according to sources from upstream supply chain, which added that there might be a result soon and Samsung may ...

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Cloud Music Locker's Legal OK, NASA Tests Robot Astronaut, AEG's TicketMaster Rival, Samsung Considering Buying HP's PCs Samsung launches new eco-friendly laser printers   —  Samsung has just announced a new lineup of monochrome laser, multifunction, eco-friendly printers that are suitable for small-to-midsize businesses. Touted to increase productivity (by getting print jobs done quicker), these high-speed devices can print at speeds of up to 29 pages per minute. Not that uncommon when it comes to monochrome laser ...

Dante Cesa / Engadget
Cloud Music Locker's Legal OK, NASA Tests Robot Astronaut, AEG's TicketMaster Rival, Samsung Considering Buying HP's PCs Samsung's N102 is an N100 clone, ditches MeeGo for Windows 7 Starter   —  Were you mostly on board with the N100 , but wished Sammy would have held the MeeGo ? Those of you in India or Russia are apparently in luck, as Notebook Italia has spotted its Windows-toting twin: the N102. Identical to the N100 in every other way, 10-inch netbook kicks the open source OS to the curb, opting instead for the pared down Windows 7 ...

8. Become an ImageMagick Ninja  permalink

Become an ImageMagick Ninja
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Want a powerful, scriptable bitmap image editor that creates, edits, and converts images? ImageMagick is a suite of 11 commands and a GUI that let you manipulate pixel-based images and supports more than 100 image file formats.

9. A 99% Victory in EMI v MP3tunes  permalink

A 99% Victory in EMI v MP3tunes
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Today a ruling was published in EMI v MP3tunes and it is definitely a victory for cloud music and MP3tunes' business model after a multi-year litigation battle.

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Tonie van Ringelestijn / Bright.nl :   Rechter staat online muziekkluis toe

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Rechter staat online muziekkluis toe Judge OKs Unlicensed Cloud Music-Storage Service   —  A federal judge backed the music storage-locker business model Monday while ruling that companies may develop services that store their customers’ songs in the cloud. The closely watched case brought by EMI against MP3tunes comes as Amazon and Google recently launched similar services without the music labels’ consent. Apple is ...

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Rechter staat online muziekkluis toe MP3tunes Wins Copyright Case Against EMI, For The Most Part   —  A major battle over cloud-music services has been resolved, and on balance, it looks like a pretty solid win for the small music-locker service run by MP3tunes. However, the service and its founder Michael Robertson were found liable for infringing copyright on hundreds of songs, because it didn’t go far enough in responding to takedown ...

10. Mad Catz making official MLG FightSticks and controllers  permalink

Mad Catz making official MLG FightSticks and controllers
JC Fletcher / Joystiq

If you're not good enough at fighting games to make a living in the MLG , but want to look like you are, Mad Catz has announced a line of MLG-branded accessories, starting with a Tournament Edition Arcade FightStick. The stick is functionally identical to the Super Street Fighter IV FightSticks , with buttons and joystick by renowned parts maker ...

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Mad Catz making official MLG FightSticks and controllers Mad Catz Major League Gaming controllers offer swappable thumbstick layouts, fancy arcade buttons   —  If we didn't already know those cats were mad about customizable controllers , we just got a reminder: the Mad Catz Major League Gaming Pro-Circuit Controllers. These professional-grade PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers allow competitive gamers to adjust the gamepad's weight and swap out key components -- such as exchanging the controller's analog ...

Mike Fahey / Kotaku
Mad Catz making official MLG FightSticks and controllers Mad Catz's Major League Gaming Controllers Can Change the Way You Play   —  With swappable thumb sticks and directional pads, a special compartment for adjusting weight, and a cable that unscrews from the base when not in use, the Mad Catz Official Major League Gaming Pro-Circuit Controller is a serious controller for the serious gamer. More »

11. Nintendo, l'envers du d�cor : confidences d'un employ� de Big N  permalink

Nintendo, l'envers du d�cor : confidences d'un employ� de Big N
Www.01net.com

Comme beaucoup de joueurs, nous sommes fans de Nintendo. Aussi quand un de nos contacts chez Big N nous a alertés sur certains problèmes rencontrés par le géant du jeu vidéo, avons-nous décidé de les publier. Parce que ces révélations sonnent un peu comme un cri d'alarme.

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Nintendo planning a right thumbstick for the 3DS? Is Nintendo Working on a Redesigned 3DS?   —  Nintendo's already slashed the 3DS's price tag, but, according to new rumors, that's not the only thing the Kyoto-based game maker is planning on slashing. More »

Tom / Eurogamer
News: Nintendo preps huge 3DS overhaul: report   —  Dual analogue, re-branding planned? Nintendo is preparing both an external second circle pad add-on for the 3DS, as well as an entirely new model which "radically tones down" the system's 3D capabilities, according to insider sources. French site 01Net has published the first in a four part report detailing how the platform holder is currently ...

12. How Much Did HP Lose on the TouchPad? Here’s a Good Guess.  permalink

How Much Did HP Lose on the TouchPad? Here’s a Good Guess.
Allthingsd.com

Sales of Hewlett-Packard’s abandoned TouchPad tablet are spiking today on word that prices have been slashed on existing inventories of the device at retailers like Best Buy to $99 for the 16 gigabyte version and $149 for the 32GB version.

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Closing Bell: ASEAN consumers influenced by search | Twitter photo sharing | Google's insatiable search HP could lose as much as $300 million on TouchPad   —  HP is certainly taking a big financial loss on its failed HP TouchPad tablet with one estimate claiming that the company could lose as much as $300 million on just this one item. Read more...

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Closing Bell: ASEAN consumers influenced by search | Twitter photo sharing | Google's insatiable search Crushing Demand for HP TouchPad in UK   —  It’s been an insane day and evening here in the UK if you were interested in HP’s TouchPad firesale. Rumours persisted throughout the day as to when various on-line retailers were going to cut the prices and there was disbelief that the prices were going to be as good as the US $100. Word leaked [...]

13. CryEngine 3 SDK hits 100,000 downloads in just five days, we expect 100,000 new games to play  permalink

CryEngine 3 SDK hits 100,000 downloads in just five days, we expect 100,000 new games to play
Christopher Grant / Joystiq

It hasn't even been a week since Crytek announced the availability of a free (for non-commercial use!) CryEngine 3 SDK and already the German developer is touting over 100,000 downloads. With everything you need to make a great looking game, Crytek's gamble is that by lowering the barrier to entry, it will increase the number of developers ...

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CryEngine 3 SDK hits 100,000 downloads in just five days, we expect 100,000 new games to play Windows Phone SDK 7.1 Release Candidate   —  The Windows Phone Software Development Kit (SDK) 7.1 provides you with all of the tools that you need to develop applications and games for both Windows Phone 7.0 and Windows Phone 7.5 devices. This download is the Release Candidate (RC) and provides a ‘Go Live’ license that enables you to develop and publish applications to the Windows ...

Mike Fahey / Kotaku
CryEngine 3 SDK hits 100,000 downloads in just five days, we expect 100,000 new games to play Penny Arcade's Decide-o-Tron 8000 Knows What Game You Should Play Next   —  Being the inferior meat-based life forms we are, gamers often get confused about which games they should be playing. A hardcore first-person shooter finds himself playing Bratz Ponies . It's inexplicable. If only there were a robotic intelligence that could guide our purchases, perhaps from the creators of the most beloved gaming webcomics of ...

14. Yale affiliates' SSNs were searchable on Google  permalink

Yale affiliates' SSNs were searchable on Google
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The University announced Friday that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 people affiliated with Yale have been available to Google search engine users for the past 10 months.

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Yale university admits staff and student personal information exposed on Google The Google Gap: College Kids Aren’t Good At Searching   —  Students in a two-year ethnographic study referred to Google more than any other database when discussing their research habits. But ironically,…

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Yale university admits staff and student personal information exposed on Google This Is What Google Really Meant By "Don't Be Evil"   —  Google has been throwing its weight around and pissing a lot of people off . More »

15. Bastion's Rucks has a problem with Cave Johnson  permalink

Bastion's Rucks has a problem with Cave Johnson
Richard Mitchell / Joystiq

Rucks, a.k.a. the narrator from Bastion , is a learned man, capable of technological wizardry and spinning a good tale. He's not the only one of his kind, though, as proven by this video in which Rucks takes none other than Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson to task. Bastion's Rucks has a problem with Cave Johnson originally appeared on ...

16. Video: Turbocharge your app...  permalink

Video: Turbocharge your app...
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SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. Upload and share on blogs, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. 50 million people use SlideShare every month for research, sharing ideas, connecting with others, and generating business leads. SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, and videos. Get an account.

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Amazon adds a caching offering to AWS Why hibernate or 'safe sleep' mode is no longer necessary in OS X Lion   —  Update : Several commenters expressed concern that disabling safe sleep could expose you to the possibility of drive corruption if you lose power or your machine spontaneously restarts. This particular fear is groundless; Safe Sleep doesn't have anything to do with volume corruption (except if you inadvertently bounce your laptop around while ...

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Amazon adds a caching offering to AWS IPad App Creates Continuous Playlists From YouTube Videos   —  The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark . If you would like to have your st …

17. Battlefield Heroes go Savage in new content pack  permalink

Battlefield Heroes go Savage in new content pack
Mike Schramm / Joystiq

Thoughts we had while watching this Battlefield Heroes trailer for the new Savage Heroes content pack coming out this summer: Whoa, EA is really changing around the ol' Battlefield formula with this one, eh? Axes? "Cold North"? Is it possible they're turning the free-to-play persistent online shooter into a free-to-play hack-and-slash deathmatch?

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Battlefield Heroes go Savage in new content pack Ben Heck tackles Android ADK, whips up car trip-simulating baby seat   —  We've been wondering what would happen if the infinitely resourceful Ben Heck got his hands on the powerful Android ADK . Thankfully, in the most recent episode of the accomplished modder's show, our curiosity is satiated. The crafty Wisconsinite tackles a reader request -- to recreate the soothing motion of a car ride and help put a three-month- ...

18. IBM Can Predict Floods And Droughts Days In Advance  permalink

IBM Can Predict Floods And Droughts Days In Advance
Ariel Schwartz / Fast Company

IBM is testing a new system that--using just weather patterns and detailed maps--can accurately predict 100 hours of future river behavior. It's four days before a major flash flood will hit your local river. Authorities notify you and your neighbors, giving you all ample time to prepare, or at least enough time to move to higher ground. This isn'

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19. Modern Art: $5 Million Worth Of Unauthorized Downloads On A Hard Drive On Display  permalink

Modern Art: $5 Million Worth Of Unauthorized Downloads On A Hard Drive On Display
Mike Masnick / Techdirt

TheNextWeb has an amusing story about a new art exhibit, called 5 Million Dollars, 1 Terabyte which is, of course, merely a hard drive with some unauthorized downloads on it . There's apparently a pdf file that lists out what's on the hard drive, but as with the author of the article, I was unable to get it to open. Of course, given how the ...

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Tuesday Morning Links - IFixit's Mac Mini kit lets you add a second hard drive   —  If you just purchased a brand new Mac Mini and want to add an additional drive without paying $750 for a solid-state drive addition or $999 for a Mini with Lion Server, iFixit has the $70 kit for you.

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Tuesday Morning Links - Pure Storage brings hard disk pricing to Flash storage   —  Pure Storage, a startup offering enterprises a storage array comprised entirely of Flash memory, promises to change the economics around Flash memory and push hard drives out of the performance storage market. The company just announced $30 million in funding and detailed its product.

20. Meet the 'NBA's Greatest' in this NBA 2K12 trailer  permalink

Meet the 'NBA's Greatest' in this NBA 2K12 trailer
Jordan Mallory / Joystiq

And by "meet" we mean "get wicked dunked on by." NBA 2K12 's "NBA's Greatest" mode is bringing history's greatest b-ballers out of retirement for one last virtual game, and judging by this latest trailer, they're going to be styling all over us . Meet the 'NBA's Greatest' in this NBA 2K12 trailer originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 23 Aug ...