BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said his country would stand by pledges made when it was awarded the Olympics as Games officials deflected fire over Internet censorship on Friday by lifting restrictions.
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A $9.99 iPhone tethering application called NetShare made a brief appearance in the App Store, but now it’s no longer available. The app purportedly let you use your iPhone’s data connection on your laptop by using it as a proxy server. Of course, you can tether your iPhone 2.0 for free by jailbreaking it.
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CWmike writes “Ever try to remember who you bumped into at the store a few days back? Well, you’re not alone. And IBM researchers are working on software that just may help you better recollect all the forgotten pieces of your life. This week, the company unveiled Pensieve, software that stores images, sounds, and text […]
BEIJING (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee and the Chinese organizers BOCOG have agreed to lift all Internet restrictions for the Beijing Games, IOC vice-president Gunilla Lindberg told Reuters on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold then for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ — Terabitz (http://terabitz.com),
a technology company that helps real estate brokerages engage online
homebuyers and sellers with innovative technologies, today announced that it
has entered into a technology and content agreement with FrontDoor.com
(http://frontdoor.com), the real estate site powered by HGTV. FrontDoor.com
features over three million real estate listings, video […]
Eukariote writes “An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected. NVidia blames it on bad chip packaging causing thermal failure. BIOS updates that […]
Everyone’s talking about NetShare, a new application that just hit the App Store but was subsequently pulled very shortly after. It created a Wi-Fi hotspot on the iPhone, allowing your computer or other devices to use that oh-so-precious 3G connect without AT&T’s approval. But, I’d like to put you on to what possibly could be […]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said quarterly profit at its Activision unit more than doubled on sales of “Kung Fu Panda” and “Guitar Hero: On Tour,” and it raised its 2009 forecast for the newly merged company.
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prostoalex writes “New York Times magazine explores the history and status quo of Internet trolling. They look at the early days of Usenet trolling, current anonymous forums, and social networking pages as the latest venues for trolls: ‘In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word troll to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities. […]
