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Techie Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
Valentine's Day Gifts Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and we’ve made it easy to find cool gifts with a techie vibe. The geek quotient ranges from subtle computer-aided fabrication techniques to more blatantly tech-oriented accessories for gals. There are plenty of red-hued baubles, too. Our picks are priced for a range of budgets, from freely available NASA images to one-of-a-kind geologic..
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iTunes Match Confusion Explored
Apple's $25-a-year iTunes Match service can match the tracks in your iTunes library with those in Apple's 20-million-song catalog, and lets you upload the ones it can't match (up to 25,000 non-purchased tracks) -- and then access those songs via iTunes or your iOS devices whenever you want. And for the tracks it does match, you can download Apple's copies to replace your own poorly ripped MP3 fi..
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Google Wallet Suspends Prepaid Credit Card Functions
Google has suspended prepaid capabilities on credit cards linked to its mobile wallet after a security flaw was exposed. Saturday's move comes following the airing on the Internet of a flaw in the wallet's design that could allow an unauthorized user of a phone to tap into an existing balance on a card by reconfiguring the wallet's settings. "We took this step as a precaution until we issue a pe..
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Petitioners Urge Apple to Address Factory Working Conditions
A group of more than a dozen activists converged on Apple's store in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C. last week to deliver petitions protesting working conditions at the firm's supply chain partners in China, part of a day of demonstrations at Apple locations around the world. Amanda Kloer, Change.org's director of organizing, awaits Apple's response. The petition, started by Washingto..
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First Look: MediaTek MT6575 Platform for Android
In a world where dualcore phones dominate (and soon, possibly, quadcore) MediaTek’s MT6575 single-core platform might seem a bit behind the times. But MediaTek isn’t targeting high-end, expensive smartphones for its Ice Cream Sandwich-supporting platform; the processor is meant for sub-$200 smartphones in emerging and developing markets, like China and India. I got to take a MediaTek prototype p..
2012.02.13 -
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RACE OF GIANTS found in India IS THIS REAL OR HOAX? Doesn't really matter to youtube, all they care about is I made this video so they feel they are obligated to give copyright ownership to any pedophile or hacker that says they own it...WTH youtube??!!?! Giant Mummies and Pyramids of China Perfectly preserved Caucasoid mummies and pyramids discovered in China, thousands of years before the Silk..
2012.02.13