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Entries for November, 2010

Wunderlist is a Simple, Elegant, and Free To-Do App that Synchronizes Across Your Machines [Video]

Windows and Mac OS X: Wunderlist manages your tasks with a few focused features for organization, all within a beautiful interface and at no cost. More » Original post by Adam Dachis

Tennessee hacker of Sarah Palin’s e-mail sentenced

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A judge on Friday sentenced a college student to a year and a day in a halfway house for hacking into former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. Original post by Whitson Gordon

Would you pay $5 for a 20 minute concert?

Music not your thing? Ok, would you pay $5 to have someone read your fortune with Tarot cards, plan a vacation for you, draw your portrait, or take a picture holding a sign with your message in front of the Whitehouse? You can have all these things for just $5 each by going to fiverr.com. [...]

HTC HD7 review

Albert Einstein wrote that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. For what seemed like an eternity, Windows Mobile was the epitome of insanity and Microsoft was insane. The Redmond-based giant resisted change as long as it possibly could, forcing itself to believe that [...]

Red Hat’s Secret Patent Deal

Bruce Perens writes “When patent troll Acacia sued Red Hat in 2007, it ended with a bang: Acacia’s patents were invalidated by the court, and all software developers, open-source or not, had one less legal risk to cope with. So, why is the outcome of Red Hat’s next tangle with Acacia being kept secret, and [...]

Tennessee hacker of Palin’s e-mail sentenced

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – A judge on Friday sentenced a college student to a year and a day in a halfway house for hacking into former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. Original post by Arvin Dang

Palin E-Mail Snoop Gets Year In Prison

netbuzz writes “David Kernell, whose prying into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day by a judge in Knoxville, Tenn. Kernell was convicted of misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice back in April. His attorney had [...]

AT&T confirmed to launch Samsung Galaxy Tab on 11/21

We just heard from one of our AT&T sources that the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet is confirmed to launch on November 21st. Previously rumored: the tablet will launch for $649 without a service agreement on the nation’s second largest wireless carrier. Original post by Jonathan S. Geller

Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Fear

al0ha writes “Fear begins in your brain, and it is there — specifically in an almond-shaped structure called the amygdala — that it is controlled, processed, and let out of the gate to kick off the rest of the fear response. In this week’s issue of the journal Nature, a research team led by scientists [...]

Ride the Pig Backwards in This Week’s Open Thread [Video]

We’re about half-way through November and the Winter holidays are quickly approaching. Take an early break with your fellow readers in this week’s open thread. More » Original post by Adam Dachis