Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Nexus One update fixes 3G problem, adds limited multitouch
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Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch. After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said last week that it had identified the problem and would ...
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GTalk Crushes AIM and Facebook Chat in Reader Vote
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Last week, we asked you to vote on which instant messaging (IM) tool was best: AIM, GTalk or FbChat . AOL Instant Messenger has been around since 1997, giving it the edge in users and brand recognition. However, while Google Talk and Facebook Chat made their debuts in 2005 and 2008 respectively, they’ve both come a long way due to their ...
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Fox News had its best January in the history of the network, and was the only cable news network to grow year-to-year. FNC also had the top 13 programs on cable news in total viewers for the fifth month in a row, and the top 13 programs in the A25-54 demographic for the first time in more than five years. Click through for more details:
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Fox adds to sketch chest
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Pilot Watch: 'Naked But Funny' is latest to get an order -- Fox has given a presentation order to the sketch comedy project "Naked But Funny."
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Cognosante and Fox Systems announce merger
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Fox Systems, a leader in Medicaid and HIPAA, and Cognosante, a leader in health information interoperability, today announced that the two companies have merged effective January 1, 2010. The combined company will be known as Cognosante, LLC, with Fox Systems operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cognosante.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media conglomerate News Corp posted better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday thanks to a recovery in local advertising sales and the blockbuster 3-D movie "Avatar."
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The Inglourious Oscar Nominations Are In! Avatar, Hurt Locker Lead
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The 2010 Oscar nominations are being announced as we speak. We’ll update this post as we go. Full list is here and Jonathan Fuhrman’s smart reactions here. Best Picture: District 9, An Education, Avatar, Hurt Locker, Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, Serious Man, Up, Up In the Air * First impression: A lot of these films are ...
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Users of Google's Nexus One smartphones will start seeing updates over the coming days that fix spotty 3G service and enable multi-touch navigation of maps, photos and the Web.
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Google Focused Research Awards
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On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.
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Google to Launch App Store for Google Apps
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App stores are all the rage these days, it seems. Now The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google’s about to launch a new one for businesses, focused around creating software for Google Apps. According to the report, Google’s plan is to sell software built by third party developers to enhance Google’s suite of apps (e.g. ...
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Google Chrome now officially supports Greasemonkey
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One of the ways you can extend the functionality of Google Chrome browser is through “‘user scripts” as part of a Chrome extension. This is great, but what about all those great Greasemonkey scripts that have been available for a really long time? Seems strange that we need to reinvent the wheel doesn’t [...]
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Google turns on IPv6 at YouTube and heralds a new age at last
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Filed under: Internet , Google , web 2.0 The chicken and the egg -- you can't have one without the other -- but which one comes first? The same dilemma plagues every industry, but none as much as the tech sector. Build it and they will come -- but what if they don't come?! You've just wasted millions of dollars -- or billions, in the case of ...
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Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs
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Filed under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...
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Google isn’t Evil. Flash isn’t Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn’t have a single vendor
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The following post is a reprint from my personal blog. It is editorial in nature and even delves into random politics. I apologise. You can deal with it though :) Steve Jobs didn't hold back when talking about Google and Adobe. That is great. Life is so much more fun when people speak their mind. I [...]
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Why Do Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod not Use Adobe Flash?
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Why Do Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod not Use Adobe Flash? is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The Internet is all abuzz with anger due to Apple’s decision not to use Flash on the iPhone operating system. Personally, I don’t have a problem with that decision. Flash is the most ...
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Google business app store seen coming
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Google Inc. is reportedly encouraging third party development of business software that will work with its line of Google Apps. (MSFT) (GOOG)
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - John Mayer fans have been huddling outside the South Carolina venue where the rocker has been rehearsing for his upcoming tour, hoping to get a glimpse of him.
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MELAMINE, MILK PRODUCTS - CHINA (02) ************************************ A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Mon 25 Jan 2010 Source: Bangkok Post, Agence France-Presse (AFP) report [edited] ...
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Alkhurma virus - Saudi Arabia :
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ALKHURMA VIRUS - SAUDI ARABIA (03): (MAKKAH, NAJRAN) **************************************************** A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Mon 1 Feb 2010 Source: The Saudi Gazette [edited] ? ...
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Measles - Africa : Nigeria
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MEASLES - AFRICA (06): NIGERIA (BAYELSA STATE) ********************************************** A ProMED-mail post ProMED-mail is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases Date: Tue 2 Feb 2010 Source: The Daily Champion, allAfrica.com [edited] ...
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The Hill, a Washington, D.C., publication, quoted Obama warning an audience in New Hampshire against the danger of wasting "a bunch of cash in Vegas."
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Turning Point? O’Reilly Comes Down on Right-Wing Critics Of Obama
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Bill O'Reilly had on media critic Bernie Goldberg last night and immediately launched into unfair criticism of the President. No, this wasn't 2006 and President Bush - they were actually defending Barack Obama against unfair criticisms of the hard right. Goldberg said, "Now we see people on the hard right behaving just like the crazies on the ...
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Obama Goes Nuclear
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Loan guarantees in the 2011 federal budget could help revive the nuclear power industry. President Obama's proposed 2011 budget could provide a significant boost to the U.S. nuclear power industry, which has been stalled for decades. If approved by Congress, the budget would provide $36 billion in loan guarantees for nuclear power plants , ...
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How Health Care Fares In Obama's Budget Freeze
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President Obama's proposed three-year freeze on most non-defense programs in the budget has spared most of the popular health programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. But with the huge health overhaul still on hold and a deadline at the end of February to fix Medicare payments for doctors, Congress can't afford to ignore health ...
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In a Facebook post, Sarah Palin calls on President Obama to fire Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for reportedly describing the strategy of Senate liberals as "fucking retarded."
Toyota’s US sales sank 16 per cent in January from a year earlier as the carmaker acknowledged safety defects in millions of its vehicles, while Ford and GM saw sales rise
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Toyota Sales Report To Gauge Recall's Impact
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Toyota's quality chief said Tuesday at the company's headquarters in Japan that he does anticipate a big impact from the company's massive recall. He says he's worried about sales. The sales numbers for January are due out later Tuesday and could show the initial effect of the recall.
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For all who think they can predict the future of the iPad, recall this prophesy about another Apple product: �The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a �mouse�...
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Does iPad Frame Reveal Plans for a Camera?
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As we mentioned in our rundown of the iPad’s pros and cons, the iPad’s lack of a camera is one of its most annoying flaws. The lack of multitasking is a more serious problem overall, but would require a different OS. But the camera: how could the iPad not have a camera? An accelerometer, but no camera? And it’s not just for ...
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What's Inside the iPad's Chip?
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Cost and power efficiency may have pushed Apple to create its own microchip. Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad.
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IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
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When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]
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AOL Tech Blog Engadget Turns Off Comments After Rush Of iPad Trolls
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Aol.'s technology and consumer electronics blog Engadget has closed their comments sections after a huge burst of "trollish" feedback spurred by increased traffic due to iPad coverage. "Hey guys, we know you like to have your fun, voice your opinions, and argue over your favorite gear, but over the past few days the tone in comments has really ...
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Apple iPad: A stretch iPod touch with a business model
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Scott Bradner weighs in on the iPad: It has a lot of what he always wanted and Apple tablet to include, but he's not planning to run out and buy one.
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Letters: Posting Bail, Cheech And Chong, The iPad
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Listeners weigh in on Laura Sullivan's story about the bail system, on Cheech & Chong's efforts to legalize marijuana, and the unveiling of the Apple iPad.
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IPad Seen in Apple Store
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iPad Seen in Apple Store is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I can’t believe my local Apple Store had them in stock and was selling them tonight! I took advantage of this OBVIOUS oversight and decided to buy one on the spot. This is the $499 (16GB) model. As you can see, it runs just fine. ...
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Honda says its profit for the October-December quarter soared fivefold from the previous year, to $1.49 billion.
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The sale of PNC Global Investment Servicing, the back-office operations of PNC Financial Services, raises PNC’s capital and is helping it repay $7.6 billion in bailout money.
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The Super Bowl has always had a fondness for Roman numerals. Commentator Frank Deford takes a look at noteworthy numbers in pro football — and has a message for anyone who thinks the commercials are more fun than the game.
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Super Bowl Advertisers Buck Up
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CBS said Monday that it has sold all of the ad time for Sunday's Super Bowl game. Typical advertisers are there, like Anheuser-Busch. Pepsi opted out and is mounting an online campaign instead. A senior manager at video game maker Electronic Arts told Bloomberg News it's worth spending millions for a 30-second spot because the game is one event ...
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AP - Oil prices slipped Wednesday in Asia but held most of the gains from the previous day when economic reports suggested demand for crude could improve.
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A third scene from the documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats . This is about the Lovejet , one of his many inventions. It pertains to sex.
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Asian stock markets are mostly up, helped by Wall Street gains, with resource-related and technology stocks leading the way higher in the region. But investors remain cautious ahead of key earnings reports and U.S. jobs data due later in the week.
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On a bean-throwing holiday, Japan's bean counters expect fourth-quarter growth to improve. But as for improvement in the current quarter already in progress -- not so much.
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The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) today has approved the use of A1c as an additional diagnostic criterion for type 2 diabetes. An A1c of 6.5 or greater is now considered an alternate criterion for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, today announced the launch of the Leukotrap® Affinity Plus Prion and Leukocyte Reduction Filter System. The new blood filter reduces prions and leukocytes in a single step.
Dell Home offers the Dell V313 All-In-One Inkjet Printer, which also scans, and copies, for $59 with free shipping . That's $40 off and the lowest total price we could find. It features a maximum print resolution of 4800x1200 dpi, up to 33 ppm black / 30 ppm color, 1200x2400 dpi optical scanning, 64MB internal memory, memory card reader, and USB ...
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Dell plans new line of 'private cloud' servers this year
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Dell is hatching a plan to take some of the custom servers designed by its Data Center Solutions division for Web giants like Yahoo and Facebook and sell them to a wider range of companies, including large enterprises, Dell executives said. The DCS unit was formed about three years ago to help Dell get more business from large Internet firms. ...
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