A US federal appeals court has given the green light for warrantless wiretapping. That means federal government can now spy on communications between America citizens without any warrants—and without fear of being sued, either.The ruling came Tuesday, Wired reports, in the process reversing the original ruling from the first and only case to successfully challenge the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote:
Samsung 005930 on Monday announced that its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will finally be released in August. The company first took the wraps off the new Note tablet in February during the annual Mobile World Congress trade show, but it was essentially just a Galaxy Tab with a stylus at that time and Samsung wisely decided to tap the brakes and retool its new slate. Specs now include a 1.4GHz quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 10.1-inch WXGA LCD display, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a secondary 1.9 megapixel camera for video chats, Samsung’s S Pen stylus system and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Wi-Fi-only and Wi-Fi with HSPA+ versions of the tablet will launch this month and a 4G LTE-equipped Galaxy Note 10.1 will become available later this year. A video and Samsung’s full press release follow below.
via Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 release date: August release date announced.
Microsoft announced its Outlook webmail service this week, and its a suprisingly robust new webmail client. But can it hold a torch to the current king of webmail, Gmail? To give you a better idea of how they stack up, heres a feature-by-feature comparison of Outlook vs. Gmail.Feature-by-feature, the two services are remarkably similar. Heres a quick rundown:
Somewhere, maybe even right now, someone is already using the iPhone 5. At least thats what this screenshot would have you believe.TechCrunch says an anonymus developer noticed an “iPhone 5,2” device pop up on their server logs, which means the next Apple handset is being tested as we speak. Which makes sense, as its almost certainly launching next month.
iMessage isnt just for texting, you can easily and instantly share your location with friends, family, and colleagues as well. Whether youre lost or need someone to give you directions, or youre waiting and want to help someone find you, iMessage is as simple as hitting the share button and sending.
As a society we may not always agree with each other, but we do agree on a minimum standard of behavior. An acceptable way to behave if you will that everyone more or less agrees on or at least tolerates. Governments role is to protect our society not to impose its own standard nor is it the government’s job to legislate our society’s morality and values. A government that tries to legislate morality and values is trampling on the rights of the individual, and society is nothing more than a group of individuals banding together.
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Microsoft’s MSFT Outlook Twitter account proudly announced on Tuesday night that its new Outlook.com email application had already reached more than 1 million users less than a day after first becoming available. The new email system, which Microsoft is using to phase out its Hotmail system, features greater social networking integration with Facebook FB,Twitter and LinkedIn, and gives users access to Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools including Microsoft Word, Excel, SkyDrive and PowerPoint right from their inboxes. Microsoft is also promising Skype integration for the new email protocol sometime in the near future.
via Microsoft Outlook.com 1 million users in first day of availability.
Apple is rumored to be working on a way to pass data between iOS devices over BlueTooth 4.0, allowing everything from notifications to communications to be seamlessly transferred from iPhone to iPad, or theoretically even an iPod nano watch… This type of connectivity has been dreamed of/speculated about for over a year, but now iLounge’s Jeremy Horowitz says it could be planned for as early as iOS 6 this fall.
via Bluetooth 4.0 device pairing rumored for iOS 6, 8-pins for new Dock connector | iMore.com.
Theres been so much rumor-hawking and speculation the past few weeks that whether youre ready or not, were squarely in the middle of iPhone season. So heres a quick rundown of everything we think we know about Apples next iPhone.
There’s a well-known bakery in NYC famous for its cupcakes. And they just happen to be vegan. Oh, and gluten-free as well. How do they do it? BabyCakes bakery relies on agave nectar, canola and coconut oil, as well as other natural ingredients. One taste of their cupcakes and you’d never know they were anything other than delicious. But did you know the following five store-bought cookies are naturally vegan as well?
Now, none of these boast the same high level natural ingredients that BabyCakes uses, but still it’s a surprise they’re totally vegan (just look at the first one)!
• Oreos
• Vienna Fingers
• Unfrosted Pop-Tarts
• Entenmann’s Single Serve Cherry Snack Pies
• Nutter Butter Cookies
via 5 Store-Bought Cookie Brands You Didn’t Know Were Vegan The Daily Meal | The Kitchn.
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