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Google geeks shaking with excitement over this week’s Android surprise

From VentureBeat
Arrogance isn’t a word you would use to describe Andy Rubin and his team of engineers who build Google’s Android software for mobile phones. Rubin, who developed handheld gadgets for Apple and Danger before Google beamed him aboard, isn’t one to call his own work revolutionary. Until now. Four years after the Android project… [read more].
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Twitvid.com lets you tweet videos, astonishingly quick

From VentureBeat
A San Francisco company has just launched Twidvid.com, an easy way to stream videos when you tweet. But it does more than just let you link to a video when you tweet. It uploads the video in real time… [read more].
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Hot Apple Rumors: 32-GB iPhone Almost Certainly A Go

From IT Channel News And Views
Wait, it’s a 32-GB iPhone! No, it isn’t! No, wait again, yes, yes, it might be! With Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference mere weeks away, the rumor mill for its next-generation iPhone and iPod Touch software is chugging at breakneck speed. Earlier this month… [read more].
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Microsoft and the great netbook price-fixing scam of 2009

From InfoWorld
It’s the question vexing hardware vendors everywhere: How do they seize on the fervor and froth of the netbook craze without cannibalizing sales of their higher-priced, higher-margin notebooks? After all, if the current crop of netbooks can run the majority of users’ day-to-day computing tasks — and my recent personal experience with an HP Mini 2140 [...]

Sun to connect billion with Java app store

From ZDNet
Sun is to launch a Java application store, chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has revealed. Currently code-named ‘Project Vector’ but likely to be called the Java Store, it was described by Schwartz as a “network service” that will connect companies of all sizes and types to the approximately one billion Java users found worldwide. ”Vector… has the potential to deliver [...]

Amazon S3 lets customers ship big data

From Macworld
Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service has a new option, called AWS Import/Export, for quickly uploading large amounts of information to its data centers. It uses a well-developed, multimodal content delivery network that can transmit terabytes of data faster than a T-3 leased line. The fact that this network is based on jets, trucks and messengers [...]

Firefox Adds Wolfram Alpha to Google

From ChattahBox News Blog
A handy new add-on to Mozilla’s Firefox browser merges the brainy Wolfram Alpha search engine to your Google search engine. When performing a search, results from Wolfram Alpha’s search engine appear on the side of your Google page. This add-on is a great way to combine your more pedestrian, every-day searches with the more intellectual [...]

iTunes on iPhone may get direct movie, TV downloads

New screenshots supposedly reveal that Apple is in the process of readying the iTunes Store interface for the iPhone to allow direct download access to movies, TV shows, and music videos. The new capability would be an added convenience for the increasing number of people who watch video on a mobile device, but holes in the story [...]

Lambdas, auto, and static_assert: C++0x Features in VC10, Part 1

The Visual C++ compiler in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 September Community Technology Preview (CTP) contains support for four C++0x language features, namely lambdas, auto, static_assert, and rvalue references. Today, I’m going to explain the first three features in detail. (And I’m going to dedicate an entire post to explaining rvalue references in the near future, simply because explaining them now [...]

Pros and cons of a touch-screen Mac tablet

“Between indications from our component contacts in Asia, recent patents relating to multitouch sensitivity for more complex computing devices, comments from Tim Cook on the April 22 conference call, and Apple’s acquisition of P.A. Semi along with other recent chip-related hires, it is increasingly clear that Apple is investing more in its mobile-computing franchise… [read more]
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