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(Newser) - Apple and AT&T rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone, driving TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to drop the mobile device entirely. Why are Apple and its carrier blocking an innovative program that has amazing call-forwarding features and transcribes voicemail into text? “Because they absolutely don’t want... More »

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technology • Internet • iPhone • Apple • smartphones • Michael Arrington • Google Android • wireless industry • AT&T • Google Voice

analysis

Tweeting Beethoven a Noteworthy Development

Tech assist enhances classical experience

Jul 30, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a bid to win over multitaskers and technophobes, the National Symphony Orchestra will tweet along with tonight's performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the Washington Post reports. Audience members with appropriate gadgets can sit in a special section on the lawn at Wolf Trap, in suburban Virginia, and follow... More »

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music • technology • classical music • National Symphony Orchestra • audiences • promotion • Twitter • Beethoven • tweet

 Cameron Previews 3D 
 Film at Comic-Con 

Hi-tech Avatar combines animation with live acting

Jul 24, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - James Cameron offered Comic-Con attendees a 25-minute preview of his first commercial film since Titanic 12 years ago—and it looks “every bit the spectacle” of his 1997 effort, writes Denise Martin in the Los Angeles Times. The film’s new technology superimposes computer-made humanoids onto actors to create... More »

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technology • James Cameron • film • computer animation


 Twitter Plans 
 Homepage 
 Facelift 

Co-founder wants to 'better show who we are'

Jul 24, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Twitter will introduce a new homepage next week “to better show who we are,” its co-founder tells Kara Swisher at All Things Digital. As it stands, the homepage is confusing to visitors intrigued by media reports, Biz Stone says. “We need to do a better job of... More »

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technology • social networking • Internet • Twitter • Biz Stone • tweet

Tech review

 Switchover to 
 Windows 7 a Big Pain 

Move from XP may require external hard drive, patience

Jul 23, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest Windows incarnation beats Vista and XP, but don’t expect a smooth transition: upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is an ordeal, writes Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal. “In fact, the process will be so painful that, for many XP users, the easiest solution may... More »

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technology • Microsoft • Walt Mossberg • Microsoft Vista • software • operating system • Windows XP • tech review • Windows 7 • Windows 7 review

(Newser) - A functional artificial brain could be built within the next decade, leading scientist and brain-builder Henry Markram told a tech conference. Markram, who leads a project seeking to reverse engineer the mammalian brain from lab data, says his team has already duplicated parts of the rat brain, the BBC reports.... More »

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technology • brain • neurology • neurons • cortex • supercomputer • Henry Markram

(Newser) - A Chinese worker accused of stealing an iPhone 4G prototype jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his apartment building in the southern city of Shenzhen, the BBC reports. The man, 25, responsible for shipping 16 iPhone prototypes to Apple, had reported one missing. His friends say he... More »

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China • technology • suicide • iPhone • Apple • Shenzhen • iPhone 4G

(Newser) - An SMU dean has a message for his fellow college professors: Ditch the PowerPoint. Jose A. Bowen isn't anti-technology, explains the Chronicle of Higher Education, he just thinks too many instructors rely on it as a crutch. He's challenging others to "teach naked," without computers in the classroom,... More »

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technology • higher education • learning • college • professor • classroom • PowerPoint • Jose A. Bowen

(Newser) - Her boyfriend’s obsession with his iPhone drove Lisa Katayama to lay down some ground rules, she writes for Boing Boing. “Rule #1: It’s not romantic to have an iPhone in the bedroom.” She elaborates: “Brian once said that every time he goes online, he feels... More »

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technology • iPhone • relationship • boyfriend • bedroom • Lisa Katayama • Luddite



 Google Earth 
 Visits Moon 

Latest version provides out-of-this-world satellite images

Jul 20, 09 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google Earth is no longer restricted to its namesake: on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, the latest version of the software lets users explore the moon in 3-D, the Financial Post reports.  “Forty years ago, two human beings walked on the Moon," said the... More »

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technology • Google • Internet • Google Earth • moon

 iPhone Too Dainty? 
 Rugged Competitors 
 Can Take Beating 

New offerings can be used as hammers, soaked, dropped

Jul 14, 09 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The iPhone might be pretty, but it’s probably best not to use it as a hammer. If you’re looking for a phone that can handle such treatment—and can be thrown, showered with, or plunged into beer—your best bet may be one of the rugged models from... More »

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technology • cell phones • iPhone • Nokia • cell phone industry • Best Buy • gadget • Sonim

(Newser) - Cyborg bugs may sound like creatures in a Michael Bay movie, but they could save your life, New Scientist reports. The Pentagon is trying to implant electrodes in crickets and cicadas—which communicate via wingbeats—and program them to “speak” differently around certain chemicals. “The insect itself might... More »

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technology • Pentagon • cicadas • chemicals • communication • insects • electrodes • crickets • wings

Miami Schools Plan 'Sexting' Curriculum

Effort to combat practice includes warnings on safety, law

Jul 10, 09 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Miami-Dade school district is going all out in its attempt to stomp out “sexting,” the Miami Herald reports. The superintendent says he wants to work with law enforcement to develop the nation's top sexting program, including a special curriculum to educate students of all ages about the... More »

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technology • Miami • sex education • school districts • Miami-Dade County • sexting

(Newser) - Branch Rickey once complained that “there is nothing on earth anybody can do with fielding,” but that's about to change thanks to a complex new camera and computer system, the New York Times reports. The system, which will be unveiled for baseball executives tomorrow, records the exact speed... More »

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sports • technology • MLB • San Francisco Giants • Cleveland Indians • statistics • baseball • defense • Mark Shapiro • Branch Rickey

OPINION

 Why Google's OS 
 Won't Beat Microsoft 

Windows 7, open-source competition hold Chrome OS back

Jul 9, 09 11:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Microsoft needn’t stress about Google’s planned operating system, writes Joseph Tartakoff for paidContent. Five reasons why:
  • Windows 7 will put Microsoft on firmer ground, having won great reviews so far—and it will have been out 9 months by the time Chrome OS appears.
  • Google’s
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technology • Google • Microsoft • software • Ubuntu OS • operating system • computers • Windows 7 • Google Chrome OS

 Google Launches 
 Web-Based OS, 
 Takes Aim at Windows 

Fast-booting Chrome may push Vista out of the market

Jul 8, 09 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has doubled down in its battle with Microsoft. The search giant announced it is bringing out an open-source operating system, named Google Chrome OS, that looks to go head-to-head with long-dominant Windows. Chrome OS is Google's biggest push yet onto traditional Microsoft turf, reports the Financial Times, following free... More »

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technology • Google • Microsoft • computer programming • Windows • Microsoft Vista • operating system • computer • Google Chrome • Google Chrome OS

 Google Street View  
 Nabs Dutch Thieves 

Boy found photo later, alerted cops

Jun 22, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Google Street View that has infuriated many privacy advocates has helped solve a crime, the BBC reports. A Dutch boy, 14, chanced upon a months-old photo on Street View that shows him with two men right before they allegedly mugged him. Authorities retrieved the original photo from Google—the... More »

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technology • Google • crime • theft • Street View • Google Street View

(Newser) - If grandma is too obstinate or tech-befuddled for email, a few services have cropped up to help, Jeninne Lee-St. John writes in Time. The latest one, Sunnygram, actually prints up emails and photos in a weekly newsletter and mails them. Others, like Presto and Celery, deliver messages via fax and... More »

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technology • elderly • email • letters

tech review

Don't Go Buy Another iPhone, Just Get OS 3.0

New model is faster, but upgraded system offers plenty of perks

Jun 17, 09 4:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple launched its new iPhone operating system today, two days ahead of the 3G S model, begging the question whether existing users should fork out $200 for new hardware. “Faster circuitry makes a huge difference,” David Pogue writes for the New York Times, though Walt Mossberg, in the... More »

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technology • cell phones • Walt Mossberg • Apple • iPhone 3G • David Pogue

(Newser) - Wired has been keeping track of the most ridiculous acronyms the military-industrial complex comes up with. Here’s the latest list of the "Most Awesomely Bad Military Acronyms" (MAMAs, of course):
  • Affordable Accurate Robot Guidance (AARG)
  • Integrated Precision Ordnance Delivery System (IPODS)
  • Multi-Sensor Aerospace-Ground Joint ISR Interoperability Coalition
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technology • military • list • Military-Industrial Complex • Wired

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