Day: December 17, 2012

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National Rifle Association Hides Facebook Page To Avoid Hosting Flame Wars

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE To prevent uncivil debates from breaking out on itsFacebook Page wall in the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown, the National Rifle Association has unpublished its Facebook Page, presumably temporarily. The NRA hasn’t confirmed that it voluntarily hid the Page from the public, but Facebook is refusing to comment rather than saying it’s responsible as it typically does when it takes down Pages. The non-profit group that advocates to protect the…

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“Gun” “Control”

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DEVIN COLDEWEY Please note that this is a post about technology, not politics. The tech industry cheerleads the displacement and reconfiguration of huge institutions like the music industry and telecoms. The arms industry shares many of the attributes of those industries, and is poised for fundamental change that is much like the changes they have experienced. If the product of the arms industry were not arms, the inevitable upheaval would be…

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Switched On: The roads to home automation

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As reported on Engadget. By Ross Rubin Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. At a dinner event several years ago, a former editor-in-chief of a major computing trade magazine told attendees that his first published article was about home automation. That article ran back in 1979 — just two years after the debut of theApple II and two years before the introduction of the IBM PC. Indeed, in its early days, home automation, like the…

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Apple sold over two million iPhone 5s in China in first weekend Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lai Even though there were no insanely long lines to rave about this time, Apple’s now showing some big numbers merely three days after its iPhone 5 launch in China. According to the short press release fresh out of the oven, Cupertino’s Chinese division has so far managed to sell over two million iPhone 5s through various channels (notably with online reservation for Apple’s in-store purchases, as alreadyimplemented in Hong Kong), thus “setting a…

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