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Apple 2.0 - Jobs Not Suffering From Recurrence of Cancer

1 hour 2 min ago
Apple’s CEO on Saturday made an important disclosure in The New York Times business section, saying that he is not suffering a recurrence of cancer. Perhaps not surprisingly, Steve Jobs did so in a fashion few other corporate chiefs would employ.

First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.

July 27, 2008 - 12:30am
AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college textbooks, warning them that “myself and all other students are tired of getting” ripped off. (The contributor’s message included many ripe expletives, bu

17 Very Unconventional Living Room Furniture Designs [PICS]

July 27, 2008 - 12:10am
The living room is often the center of a house. It is the place where families and visitors gather to talk, relax ... and most importantly: to be entertained. From geek coffee tables to entertainment center coffins, here are 17 highly unusual ways to decorate your living room and be sure to start some strange conversations in the process!

New DNS exploit now in the wild and having a blast

July 27, 2008 - 12:00am
A new hack designed to exploit a weakness in the DNS protocol is out, just days after information on the exploit was accidentally posted online. A patch for the issue was released almost two weeks ago, but a significant number of servers are still vulnerable.

Steve Jobs: "I don't have cancer"—not your business, anyway

July 27, 2008 - 12:00am
In declarations to NYT's Joe Nocera—one of the reporters who speculated on the health of Apple's CEO after WWDC—got a call from Steve Jobs himself. He told him to stop speculating and that he didn't have cancer. Nocera says it must be disclosed for the investors, but that's bull. If FDR and JFK didn't, why the president of Apple?

It really IS the year of the Linux desktop!

July 26, 2008 - 11:00pm

Steve Jobs Calls NYT Columnist a "Slime Bucket"

July 26, 2008 - 9:10pm
Apple lied about Steve Jobs' health when it tried to quash concerns about his appearance at the WWDC conference last month, Joe Nocera of the New York Times says. Steve himself also finally weighed in on the matter last week, calling Joe Nocera a "slime bucket."

Why Won't Google Video Just Die?

July 26, 2008 - 8:20pm
No one disputes the fact that Google dominates the online video space. The company controls an estimated 34 percent of the market, according to comScore, and its closest competitor, Fox Interactive -- only has about a 6 percent share. The lion's share of Google's dominance, though, comes from its YouTube acquisition. In fact, there are millions...

EZTV Trials TV-Torrent Streaming

July 26, 2008 - 6:50pm
The Swarmplayer EZTV is experimenting with uses slightly modified torrent files (.tstream), which make it possible to stream video files using the BitTorrent protocol. This new technology allows publishers to offer video steams without having to pay for expensive bandwidth. Theoretically, you can watch all torrent files with the player

Inside Google (Behind-The-Scenes)

July 26, 2008 - 6:30pm
We already knew that working for Google had certain advantages, but, believe me, this giant of the search motor takes the welfare of its employees seriously ... As shown by this decompression (stress) capsule that is impermeable to sound and light ...

Facebook’s iPhone App Has 1 Million Users

July 26, 2008 - 5:50pm
Jed Stremel, Director of Mobile at Facebook, just announced at our Mobile Web Wars Roundtable that Facebook’s iPhone/iPod app has reached 1 million users. Facebook is currently ranked as the 6th most popular free application on Apple’s App Store, and has been among the store’s top applications since the store’s launch on July 10.

UK “MP3 Police” Evidence Unchallenged, Not For Public

July 26, 2008 - 5:10pm
This week, ISPs agreed to work with the BPI to reduce file-sharing in the UK. When someone gets ‘caught’ the ISPs will send out a warning, 100% based on music industry provided ‘evidence’. Not even the ISPs know if the claims of the BPI are true, so the evidence is totally unchallenged, a perfect position for the music industry.

Three iPhones, three different screen

July 26, 2008 - 5:00pm
Since the iPhone was released, reports have surfaced about varying degrees of screen quality. Above we see a comparison of three phones, the original iPhone is on top, with the bottom row both being 3G’s, 8GB on the left, 16 GB on the right. All three are running OS X iPhone, 2.0 (5A347), with brightness turned all the way up.

Want a Custom Digg? Wait Half a Year.

July 26, 2008 - 4:30pm
Last night there was a Digg meet-up in Chicago, and the attending press was particularly interested in getting comment from Digg folk Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson regarding the intense rumors of a $200 million acquisition by Google. Of course, as per usual, they had no comment on the matter.

Microsoft opens Xbox platform

July 26, 2008 - 3:10pm
We're at an interesting point in the development life cycle of third-party programs, those little software applications one can add to gadgets and social pages.Microsoft's approach, confirmed Thursday, is about control. Anyone can create a game, but not everyone will be approved for release on the Xbox Live service.

Google Gadgets for Linux -- Almost There

July 26, 2008 - 2:50pm
Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for Linux (GGL)

Apple Patent hint at support for Flash and Windows Media

July 26, 2008 - 2:30pm
Is Flash and Windows Media coming to the Iphone3G? This would fix one of the biggest gripes with the iPhone! Hope you don't spend too much time reading this.

Google Index Reaches 1 Trillion URLs

July 26, 2008 - 2:30pm
Three years after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) declared that its index was three times larger than any other search engine and then declined to cite a specific number to support that claim, it was widely believed that Google had tired of index one-upmanship and that it would no longer be measuring its index. Well, Google has its yardstick in hand once...

Linux Secret Lovers

July 26, 2008 - 2:00pm
Some Windows users secretly love Linux. They want to use Linux but are too chicken to install it on their hard drive. So, they use a program like Windows Blinds to radically alter the graphical user interface of their Windows desktop and make it look like that of Linux.

Downloading Torrent from the Terminal

July 26, 2008 - 1:30pm
3 different ways to download torrents from the terminal.