Month: January 2013

Apple Application Culture Education

America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Bexar County, Texas says that it will open the first 100 percent digital public library system in the country, unveiling plans for its first location this past week. The plan has been in the works for a while, headed up by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, who says he was inspired to create a digitally native library while reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. “If you want to get…

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Local News

New York senator blames newspaper’s gun map for local burglary

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor A Republican state senator from New York is blaming a controversial handgun map for the recent burglary of a gun owner’s residence in White Plains. According to Newsday, at least two burglars broke into the home on Saturday evening, as part of an effort to rob the owner’s gun safe. Local police say the were unable to open the safe, and that one of the suspects has already been taken into custody.…

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Microsoft’s partners fly the Windows 8 flag, but the future is Surface

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As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren How long can the old guard shoulder the weight? Microsoft might not have been at CES this year, but its partners and OEMs were out in full force. A quiet showing from Redmond at a time when the company is trying to push Windows 8 to the world could be seen as an unusual move, but looking around the show this week it made a lot of sense.…

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Apple iPhone

Apple Cuts Orders For iPhone 5 Components, Reports WSJ

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, reportsthe Wall Street Journal. The article said that “Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order.” In addition, orders for other components have also been reduced. Suppliers were notified last month. The company’s stock dropped last month due to reports…

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Hacking

Anonymous Appears To Have Hacked MIT Website, Leaves Swartz Tribute

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Hacktivist organization, Anonymous, appears to have hacked MIT’s website and left a tribute message to the late Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. ”We tender apologies to the administrators at MIT for this temporary use of their websites,” writes a postscript to a memorial note posted by Anonymous, on a subdomain of the official MIT.edu website. “We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all…

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Mobile Story Tablet Tech

Report: Flagship Apple, HTC, Samsung Phones Gobbling More Mobile Data Than Tablets

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Smartphones including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC Sensation XL are consistently consuming more mobile data than tablets, according to a new report by mobile data analytics company Arieso. It’s the third such annual report the company has compiled — gathering data via its own network monitoring technology.  The firm looked at the data demands of more than one million distinct subscribers over a single, 24-hour weekday in…

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How would you change the mid-2012 MacBook Air?

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Remember when people decried the MacBook Air as a dumb idea when it first launched? Well, given the amount of Ultrabooks that are now floating around the world, we bet they’ve not shared that opinion publicly too often. The most recent vintage of the unit gained USB 3.0 ports, Ivy Bridge chips and, well, not the one thing that would have made the unit unbeatable — a retina-class display. No, instead that feature…

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Story Tech TV

Samsung’s 85-inch Ultra HD TV up for pre-order in Korea, priced at just $38k HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Richard Lawler At CES last week Samsung set a new benchmark in size with its 85-inch S9 that edged past the Ultra HD competition by one inch, and now it’s setting a new high mark for price as well, at least in Korea. While we still don’t have any US pricing or release details, the first 77 models encased in that “Timeless Gallery” frame are going up for pre-order, priced at 40,000,000 won ($37,877 US).…

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Hardware Dev Story Tech

Samsung’s next-gen Exynos 5 Octa rumored to have only current-gen PowerVR graphics

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr There’s nothing we can concretely do or say about the Exynos 5 Octa until it’s in a device and in our hands. It’s all just educated guesswork in the meantime, but that happens to be something AnandTech is rather good at. That site has reached the conclusion, based on “numerous sources,” that the Octa probably uses a PowerVR 544MP3 GPU clocked at 533MHz. If true, this implies that the ARM Mali T-604used in Exynos Dual devices…

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Aaron Swartz, Coder and Activist, Dead at 26

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As reported on Wired. BY KEVIN POULSEN We often say, upon the passing of a friend or loved one, that the world is a poorer place for the loss. But with the untimely death of programmer and activist Aaron Swartz, this isn’t just a sentiment; it’s literally true. Worthy, important causes will surface without a champion equal to their measure. Technological problems will go unsolved, or be solved a little less brilliantly than they might have been.…

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