Monthly Archives: December 2010

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iPhone, Android, and the difference between usability and functionality [Sticky] | TiPb

Last night I quoted Marco Armant asking if Android phones would ever achieve iPhone-level polish and usability and a lot of Android enthusiasts fired back that they could do things on Android that they couldn’t do on iPhone, so Android … Continue reading

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Video Killed the Radio Star, But Might Save Newspapers: Tech News «

What comes to mind when you think of newspapers? Whatever it is, it’s probably not streaming video. And yet, one of the interesting facts in a new survey of the online video market (PDF link) from video-hosting platform Brightcove and … Continue reading

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CIA Creates WikiLeaks Task Force

WikiLeaks on the United Statess foreign relationships and the agencys operations. The name of this new department is the WikiLeaks Task Force. WTF indeed.CIA officials say that they are already making an “extensive inventory” of all the information released by … Continue reading

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European Nissan Leaf gets always-on connection, lets you turn up the AC wirelessly — Engadget

 Weve already marveled at the Chevy Volts ability to let you turn up the AC while its still plugged in to the A/C, courtesy of its OnStar app. Now we can confirm the European model of Nissans Leaf is getting … Continue reading

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Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs video — Engadget

Xerox shows off Smart Document Review table, a Surface that sifts through billions of docs videoBy Tim Stevens posted Dec 20th 2010 10:24AM You have a lot of documents youve acquired over the years, hundreds or thousands in some semblance … Continue reading

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NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit

NASA has been working on creating a new, cheaper method to launch spacecrafts. Their latest proposal involves train tracks, a rail gun and a scramjet. Here’s what they’re trying to do:In April, President Obama urged NASA to come up with, … Continue reading

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The TSA Let a Loaded Gun Get on an Airplane

A man accidentally brought his loaded .40 caliber gun onto an airplane. He didnt know he had it. Neither did the TSA, who completely missed it during its scan and allowed that plane to fly. Apparently, this happens a lot.Farid … Continue reading

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Minimal Studios iPod nano watch kits raise a million dollars on Kickstarter, yes, a million dollars — Engadget

Well that didnt take long. Less than a month after we reported on the TikTok and LunaTik concept iPod nano watches hitting Kickstarter the company behind them, Minimal Studios, has met its goal — and then some. Way then some. … Continue reading

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T-Mobile drops Samsung Galaxy Tab to $350 on-contract

By Donald Melanson posted Dec 15th 2010 at 3:44PM Been waiting for a carrier to shave a bit off the price of the Galaxy Tab before you took the plunge? Well, you now have your first option to consider — … Continue reading

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