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Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox 6, what people are saying - Tech Talk - CBS News - 0 views

  • It seems like just weeks ago we were updating to Firefox 5... Yup, that was just weeks ago
  • Now with Firefox 6, we're provided with a straightforward collection of security updates and tweaks.
  • "more substantial improvements" will come with Firefox 7, including a new JavaScript engine that "uses much less memory."
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  • Because Firefox 6 is not a major overhaul, the reviews are sparse, but people are still expressing their opinions.
  • Firefox 6 for desktops and laptops contains a number of important stability fixes, as well as some feature improvements, most of which are aimed at developers. There's a new Web Developer menu in Firefox 6, which collates tools for building and debugging Web sites into one location
  • Scratchpad tool, which browsers like Opera and Chrome have had for some time. It allows developers to test JavaScript before implementing it. The web console feature also has a new auto-complete option and can have its location customized
  • 10 major security fixes, including "a WebGL crash, a JavaScript crash, a crash in the Ogg reader, memory safety issues and unsigned scripts. These all affected Firefox 4 and 5.
  • Congrats to Mozilla on shipping Firefox 6
  • Firefox 6 highlights for me: server sent events, web sockets (albeit vendor prefixed) and dataList support."
  • yay, Firefox 6 supports the latest Websocket spec, and finally added eventsource support - long overdue! downloading.
Kyu Won Shim

IPhone Users in South Korea Sue Apple for Collecting Data Without Consent - Bloomberg - 0 views

  • A group of South Korean users of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone sued the company in a local court, claiming it invaded their privacy by allowing the smartphone to collect location data without their consent.
  • About 27,000 people joined a class-action suit against Apple’s South Korean unit and headquarters, seeking 1 million won per person ($930) in damages,
  • Apple was fined by South Korea’s telecommunications regulator on Aug. 3 and ordered to encrypt location data of people using iPhones to address privacy concerns.
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  • Apple was fined 3 million won for collecting such data even when some users turned off location-recognition features on their iPhones, the Korea Communications Commission said Aug. 3. Google Inc
  • Earlier this year, Apple was sued in the U.S. by two iPhone and iPad users who claimed the devices secretly collected information on their movements.
  • “I’m an iPhone user myself, so when I first heard about this in the media, I reviewed the legality of the matter based on Korean law,” Kim Hyeong Seok, an attorney for the plaintiffs
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    Iphone user in South Korea sued I phone because it damage their private life
Andy Chen

Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected | Environment ... - 0 views

  • Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected
  • Once heard only rarely outside the north Kent marshes, the loud voice of the Cetti's warbler is now delighting a whole new set of listeners, from the isle of Anglesey to the banks of the Humber. The bird has moved 150 kilometres further north within the UK in the last 40 years, in response to the changing climate.
  • Chris Thomas, professor of conservation biology at York University and leader of the project, said: "These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the equator at around 20 centimetres per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year.
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  • This has been
  • een expected to move – along with some other butterfly species – northwards into Scotland. But populations of the butterfly have declined, because its normal habitats have been lost. And while Cetti's warbler – a small brown bird that belies its loud song – moved northwards, the Cirl bunting moved south within the UK by 120km, a victim of intensified agriculture.
  • The research team analysed data from a variety of studies, most of them from Europe and North America, finding more than 2,000 examples of how animal and plant species have adapted by moving their habitat.
  • One example is the high brown fritillary butterfly, which in the UK might have b
  • going on for the last 40 years and is set to continue for at least the rest of this century. "
  • Birds and butterflies may tend to be more mobile, but mammals, reptiles, spiders, insects and all sorts of invertebrates were also tracked.
Jeon Yap

Snubbed: iPhone 5 release date on tap ASAP, but some must wait longer : Beatweek Magazine - 0 views

  • iPhone 5
  • Apple doesn’t introduce new products any later than September
  • iPhone 6
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  • doesn’t put them on sale any later than October
  • T-Mobile’s own 4G incompatibility
  • single hybrid model
  • iPhone 5 unless it includes 4G networking. And not the 4G LTE which Verizon and AT&T keep touting…
  • incompatible version of 4G networking
  • Sprint won’t have the iPhone until the iPhone 6
  • iPhone 5 by default as AT&T
  • different iPhone 4 hardware models
  • Sprint will instantly become the smallest U.S. carrier as well as the only one not in line for the iPhone.
  • Motorola Mobility
  • iPhone 5 era for political or network reasons
  • Android platform
  • Android-based flagship phone has been thoroughly outsold by AT&T’s flagship iPhone 4
  • Droid phone
  • Android offerings
  • rival Android platform
  • Android manufacturers HTC and Samsung are losing their underwear in the courts thanks to prolonged patent wars and may not ultimately be a part of the Android collective once it’s all said and done.
  • Verizon iPhone 5
  • Apple controls the OS and the hardware
  • Verizon iPhone 5
  • (along with the “old standby” AT&T iPhone 6
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    Competition between stores that are selling the iphone 4 and 5 The competition for andriod might make losses.
unchan ki

Infiniti unveils new seven-seat JX crossover - 0 views

  • JX Concept tonight,
  • ew seven-passenger/three-row luxury
  • "The JX Concept advances the Infiniti design language
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  • concept
  • cool new technological advance
  • ollision-avoidance system
  • in reverse.
  • class-leading roominess,
  • econd-row seat design that tilt
  • slides forward
  • third-row access.
  • you will even be able to leave a child seat latched to the second row
  • he third row isn't the typical penalty box either,
  • 5.5 inches of second-row forward-back adjustability."
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    New Infiniti "  JX
Giang V

Motorola's Security Experise Could Help Google's Android -- InformationWeekMotorola's S... - 0 views

  • Motorola's Security
  • Experise
  • Could Help Google's
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  • Android
  • Motorola can help Google make Android more secure, and more attractive to business and government customers.
  • Google wants to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
  • While Google's master plan for its Motorola acquisition remains a closely guarded secret, the company has been portraying it as a patent-related business opportunity.
  • Motorola's smartphones have great
  • with businesses.
  • rapport
  • Google's Motorola acquisition may also be a strategy for landing more business customers.
Chozen Takei

Lil Wayne attacked - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views

  • Lil Wayne attacked
  • Lil Wayne has been attacked with pepper spray.
  • Wayne said the 28-year-old star was "okay and gearing for his next stop in Toronto."
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  • (17.08.11).
  • The ventilation system was compromised following the stunt, which caused everyone to be evacuated.
  • targeted by a man who put the substance into the air ducts of Montreal club La Mouche, where the hip-hop star was hosting an afterparty
  • continue his I Am Still Music summer tour at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto, Canada, tomorrow evening (19.08.11).
  • 'Like A G6' rappers Far East Movement and R&B crooner Lloyd have been opening the rapper's recent gigs,
  • Keri Hilson after she replaced Nicki.
  • September 11 at the Woodlands Amphitheater in Texas.
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    Lil Wayne has been attacked with pepper spray, but he is ok, and will continue his tour.
vy Nguyen

Teachers say Facebook should be used responsibly, not banned | MLive.com - 0 views

  • personal Facebook page is a bad idea.
  • teacher could end up losing his or her job
  • EVERYONE, parents, kids, former students, my principal and central administration can read what I post.
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  • Facebook is a dicey issue
  • lost the ability to judge what is private and public information
  • embarrassment or much worse.
  • district leve
  • separate personal online
  • professional online
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    Teachers should not used facebook to talk to student 
Hye Rin Bae

Student hacker 'penetrated' Facebook - Telegraph - 0 views

  • A student hacker successfully “penetrated” Facebook during repeated attempts to illegally access the social networking site’s programmes, a court heard.
  • A student hacker successfully
  • Facebook during repeated attempts to illegally access the social networking site’s programmes, a court heard.
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  • penetrated
  • bypass
  • dominant
  • The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he “made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply” a computer program to hack into a Facebook server
  • Police sources described the incidents as one of the first investigations into attempts to illegally access the site
  • offences
Mojo joanne

Mozilla Firefox (v9) for Windows Free Download and Reviews - Fileforum - 0 views

  • Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source Web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox is the second most widely used browser.
  • To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko
  • which implements most current web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
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  • OK beta news, please fix the wording of this information. Mozilla Firefox (v9) for Windows 9.0 Alpha 1. A better way is to say Mozilla Firefox version 9 alpha-1 for windows. There are people that have nothing better to do than to say dah! I don't have windows 9. Read it and see that they have a point about the wording of this. It's stupid and you have been told before about this wording situation.The same goes for the other Firefox beta's that you are listing. The wording is the same as this one, like someone got hit with a stupid stick while typing it out.
  • They have to be joking.... How dumb do they take us for?
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    Mozilla Firefox explain that Mozilla and Firefox has been a very big browser and pp are saying how stupid do they think the pp are because everyone knows this fact. 
Andy Chen

Shark Attacks Shock Russian East - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Shark Attacks Shock Russian East
  • MOSCOW — When a young man lost both his arms this week in the waters off Russia’s east coast, officials and residents initially had trouble believing what had happened. But a day later, when a teenager’s legs were ripped up in the same waters, all doubt vanished.
  • a man-eating shark
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  • coastal Primorsky Krai, along the Sea of Japan.
  • Large sharks have been sighted in the region only rarely, scientists said, and attacks until now were unheard of.
  • The first victim, a 25-year-old computer programmer, had been out for an evening swim with his wife on Wednesday at a popular vacation spot near Russia’s border with North Korea.
  • “It was only about 300 feet,” Ms. Udovenko said, according to the Interfax news agency. “About halfway there, Denis noticed something in the water and screamed, ‘Swim faster, it’s a shark.’ ”
  • Late on Thursday, the Russian news media reported a third attack, citing local residents, though officials did not immediately confirm it.
  • Witnesses gave varying descriptions of the shark, putting its size at 6 to 12 feet long. After reviewing the accounts, several scientists said they believed it was probably a great white.
  • That body of water is home to seals and other shark prey, but not in sufficient densities to sustain large sharks. A hungry great white, lacking its typical prey, Dr. Astakhov said, “could certainly have attacked a human.
  • Another draw for a great white might be water temperature. The waters in the region have been several degrees higher than normal, making a more attractive environment for great whites, according to Mr. Zgurovsky.
  • Russians’ blasé attitude toward danger is a source of national pride, and despite the ban on swimming, local news media reported Thursday that beachgoers continued to take to the water.
Rebecca Lee

Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Yahoo's Traffic Data | Search Engine Journal - 0 views

  • Bing and Yahoo search are the same thing
  • alliance was made official last year,
  • migrated both their search ads and results to a Bing-powered back-end
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  • Bing Webmaster Tools now provides users with traffic data from both Bing and Yahoo
  • The changes
  • rolled out between August 12th and 16th
  • you can’t currently filter for Yahoo versus Bing results
  • you will see is a combination of the two,
  • Bing is powering Yahoo’s search results. It’s expected that every regional version of Yahoo will have made the transition by early 2012,
  • notable exception of Yahoo Japan; Yahoo Japan functions as an independent company and will have its back-end powered by Google.
  • since Yahoo announced earlier this year that they would be shutting down their own webmaster tools once every market has transitioned to Bing.
Giang V

BBC - Newsbeat - Name registration delays Amy Winehouse foundation - 0 views

  • Name registration delays Amy Winehouse foundation
  • Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has said his plans to launch a foundation in his daughter's name have been delayed.
  • 'The Amy Winehouse Foundation' has been registered by someone else.
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  • don't know what to do with them at the moment."
  • donations
  • "hold off" on his plans "for the time being".
  • "The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."
  • Amy's father had announced his plans to set up a foundation in his daughter's name at the singer's funeral in London on 27 July.
  • He added that the 27-year-old had "conquered" her drug addiction before her death but had been "trying hard to deal with her drinking".
  • inquest
  • adjourned
  • toxicology
  • She was found dead at her home in north London on 24 July.
Andy Chen

HTC set to expand Chinese retail channels - CNA ENGLISH NEWS - 0 views

  • Taipei,
  • HTC will have its products distributed at 2,000 locations by the end of 2011, up from 650 locations at present, said HTC chief financial officer Winston Yung at an investors' conference held by the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
  • At a company investors' conference on July 29, HTC forecast that its market share in China would quadruple in 2011 from a year earlier, when the company began to sell its own-branded smartphones there.
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  • The 4.3-inch "HTC Stunning" utilizes near-field communication (NFC) technology, which allows users to complete payments through banks' point-of-sale (POS) machines.
  • The handset also supports other functions, such as credit card payments,
Chozen Takei

Sony announces PlayStation 3 and PSP price cuts | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Sony announces PlayStation 3 and PSP price cuts
  • PS3 to £199
  • cheaper version of PSP is on the way
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  • from £250 to £199
  • launch a new cheaper version of its PSP handheld console, with a price point of 99 euros.
  • launched in 2006 and has now shipped over 50 million
  • cheaper slimline machine in 2009.
  • supermarkets likely to go as low as £180
  • The new, cheaper PSP, which removes the Wi-Fi functionality from the six-year-old handheld, surprised many in the audience.
  • "Our strategy is to provide the best quality entertainment experience at accessible prices. With PSP at 99 euros, Vita starting at 249 euros and PlayStation 3 at 249 euros, we feel confident gamers can enjoy the incredible games available on PlayStation whatever level of investment suits their budget."
  • smartphones
  • tablet gaming.
  • while the new PSP price point makes that console very attractive,
  • "That's a big change from PS3's previous price drop."
  • Sony has assured gamers that PS3 will have a ten-year lifespan, and it's likely PlayStation 4 is a few years away yet.
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    Sony made the price of the PS3 cheaper so gamers will buy it
unchan ki

Cellphones used to entertain, evade - UPI.com - 0 views

  • Many Americans find cellphones useful for
  • boredom
  • 42 percent o
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  • say cellphones can help stave off boredom
  • 13 percent say
  • avoid interacting with people around them.
  • 29 percent
  • 83 percent of U.S. adults own some type of cellphone
  • phones for awhile to get a break
  • 35 percent own a smartphone of some kind,
  • 51 percent say
  • phone at least once to get information they needed right away in the last 30 days.
  • One-quarter say they experienced a situation in the previous month in which they had trouble doing something because they did not have their phone at hand
  • 40 percent of cellphone owners
  • hey have found themselves in an emergency situation and having a cellphone was helpful.
Andy Chen

Eterniti Motors SUV to debut at 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show | Car Advice | Reviews - 0 views

  • The new SUV will be the company’s first model and will sit at the top end of the ultra-luxury SUV market.
  • The brand is planning to produce around 100 vehicles per year and says it will offer a new segment to the market, saying
  • More details on the company and who is involved will be announced at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
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  • “we will be first in the segment, a new market niche”.
  • “elements of other vehicles”
vy Nguyen

Is constant 'Facebooking' bad for teens? - TODAY Tech - TODAY.com - 0 views

  • Today's teens and college students
  • constantly connected to the Internet and Facebook
  • , texting and instant messaging.
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  • new studies reveals
  • psychological effects of constant Facebooking.
  • teens who use Facebook
  • chances to learn how to socialize
  • , particularly shy teens
  • Facebook can be distracting
  • negatively impacting teen grades
  • teaching in compelling ways that engage young students.
  • more than 1,000 urban adolescents.
  • omputer, Internet and social-network use, use of mobile Internet devices and phone services like texting, as well as factors related to mental health
  • ood aspects of the digital lifestyle today's teens were born into.
  • experience can give shy kids an easier experience building relationships, by speaking through a keyboard
  • person
  • social networks promote healthy social relationships, an important step in teenage development
  • can teach teens empathy, or the ability to understand someone else's feelings
  • Social networks
  • addition to the positives
  • associations between social network use and various mental issues
  • lack of empathy
  • , increased aggression and traits associated with mental illnesses
  • schizophrenia and depression.
  • detract from a teen's learning and grades
  • observing 300 teenagers study
  • most frequently had Facebook open
  • lowest retention
  • similar effect of texting.
  • notifications after
  • wo-minute "tech breaks
  • heck their messages
  • 15 minutes of studying
  • social networking
  • negative effects on academics.
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    Facebooking can be bad for teens and good for teens
Mojo joanne

Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple | ConceivablyTech - 0 views

  • Mozilla (Carefully) Slams Apple
  • Mozilla is having issues especially with Apple
  • heading into a direct confrontation with the mighty Jobs.
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  • Mozilla is carefully circumventing the phrase of “waging war” against the creation of closed or “siloed” environments on the web.
  • competing, but not so by going directly against a rival, but by being “different”
  • That name would be Apple, which Mozilla’s chairman and chief lizard wrangler Mitchell Baker directly addressed in a series of sequential blog posts that outline Mozilla’s future direction. The attacks aren’t as crude and as we typically see between Mozilla and Microsoft. They are much more carefully worded, perhaps in an effort to remain polite and not to raise any unnecessary attention
  • “There’s no reason why “apps” can’t incorporate the characteristics that are important about the web. They don’t today because Apple didn’t build them that way. There’s no reason Apple should; Apple has a different view of the world. But we can. In fact, Mozilla is one of the very few organizations that can do this.”
  • Mozilla has yet to show what it plans to do and leaves us with its vision for now. Mozilla believes that its opportunity is a user’s desire to run anything he wants on any device he owns. Mozilla believes that a user wants to be in charge of his web experience, not Apple, Google or a device. Mozilla believes that a user would want to be in control of her/his identity and the information that is made available. Of course, Mozilla’s model is also based on Firefox and a web browser, which Apple could care less about at this time.
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    firefox slams apple 
Jeon Yap

BlackBerry Bold, Torch: Hands-On With RIM's Newest -- InformationWeekBlackBerry Bold, T... - 0 views

  • two of its best smartphones (the Bold and the Torch)
  • BlackBerry Storm (1 and 2)
  • HTML5-compliant web browser
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  • BlackBerry 7
  • new OS
  • iPhone 5
  • Samsung's Galaxy II phone
  • Windows Phone 7 (Mango, or 7.5)
  • (with a keyboard
  • In-Depth With The Phones
  • single-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm processor
  • 5 megapixel cameras with image stabilization
  • 24-bit
  • 4x zoom
  • 8 megapixel cameras; some have 3-D video capture and playback.
  • BlackBerry battery life standards
  • fairly heavy mobile phone user, consuming apps
  • 5.5 hours of talk time on GSM
  • 9810 rates 6.5
  • Torch 9800
  • 768 MB
  • of RAM
  • Torch 9850 has 4 GB of storage on board, expandable to 36 GB, while the Torch 9810 has 8 GB on board, upgradeable to 32 GB. The Bold starts with 8 GB, and maxes out at 40 GB.
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    The new blackberry torch2
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