Message date: 2009-07-02

Facebook tests new privacy-setting page

Facebook, owner of the world’s largest social-networking site, will test simplified privacy settings and eliminate the site’s regional networks, an effort to quell concerns about the use of personal information.
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Dell takes to the cloud to manage hardware remotely

Computer giant Dell is spearheading a new strategy to provide services to SMEs via the internet cloud. Tim Griffin is global head of services and solutions at Dell
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'We need to connect Ireland with high-speed fibre and we need to do it fast'

Magnet CEO Mark Kellett believes deploying fibre networks across Ireland is a national imperative
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Armed with a 'Wiimote', Irish students are fighting blindness

THERE are 37 million blind people worldwide. Ten million of these are in Africa alone and suffer from cataract blindness.
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Hailee on "Rumor or not? iPod Touch 3rd generation will launch"

 I found this on website today, http://www.uxsight.com/category/168541/ipodtouch3rdgencases.html and I have no idea if it's a rumor or reliable. It is said some place had started to sell the case of the new generation iPod Touch.  I still haven't got any news of the new generation Touch, or this is only a rumor?
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Microsoft promotes IE8 with Dean Cain adverts

After the Seinfeld/Bill Gates advertising campaign got a mixed reception you think Microsoft may have been turned off adverts featuring well-known celebrities. But apparently that isn’t the case as a batch of Internet Explorer 8 ads have been created starring TV Superman Dean Cain. There are four adverts in total, with Dean Kane almost shouting his [...]
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Users to be paid for sharing on new Pirate Bay

New details are slowly starting to appear about what Global Gaming Factory (GGF) has planned for The Pirate Bay (TPB) which it acquired yesterday. The sale will not be completed until sometime in August, but Hans Pandeya, CEO of GGF, has been speaking with the BBC and has given us a better idea of what his [...]
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Ron Gilbert will keynote Penny Arcade Expo 2009

Ken Levine and Wil Wheaton are two tough acts to follow, but legendary game designer Ron Gilbert will take the stage at the Penny Arcade Expo this year as the 2009 keynote speaker. With more than 20 years of development under his belt, Gilbert will surely have some stories to tell during the welcoming speech. Having [...]
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iPlayer lets you easily play videos on the DS

If you like your portable gaming Nintendo style, playing videos on the DS was limited to multimedia you could convert to the DPG format. Now thanks to a new accessory for the DS, video conversion is no longer needed. So you can take movies, music, and video clips anywhere and it’s as simple as copying the [...]
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Design guru Jonathan Ive spills the beans on how Apple creates gadgets

Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive draws terribly and is a lousy presenter by his own account, but he is pretty good at designing Apple’s next big thing. He received an honorary doctorate from London’s Royal College of Arts today, sharing a few secrets on how Apple’s elaborate design machinery works. The former toilet designer and Apple’s [...]
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Apple preps the iPhone OS 3.1, hails new features and better games

Forget about the iPhone OS 3.0, Apple is already testing 3.1, the firmware that will allow game makers write better-looking games. It also enables VoiceControl over Bluetooth, better video editing on the device and other tweaks . Barely two weeks passed since the iPhone OS 3.0 went live but Apple is already prepping the next incremental [...]
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Avatar support and DLC coming to Band of Bugs

Similar to the 2008 release of A Kingdom for Keflings, developer NinjaBee is bringing Xbox 360 avatar support to its turn-based strategy game, Band of Bugs. This free update coincides with the release of a paid downloadable content pack that adds an entirely new campaign to the game. Based on the NinjaBee-developed Xbox Live Arcade title, [...]
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FlyCast radio player comes to a desktop near you

FlyCast Desktop is a new, free-to-the-consumer, radio player for both PC’s and Macs. With it you can access various styles of music, talking head programs, weather predictions, and information about traffic snarls from 1200 plus channels on its network. It has the look of the FlyCast program which already exists on devices such as the BlackBerry [...]
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Review: Jules Verne

A young castaway gets shipwrecked on an uncharted island in this exceptional iPhone adventure that features great visuals, an engaging soundscape, tough puzzles, and a rich storyline that draws power from a Jules Verne novel. Developed by French Tetraedge Games and published by UK-based Chillingo, Return to Mysterious Island (RTMI) is the premium iPhone port of [...]
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Bridgestone finalizing release of e-paper solution

E Ink currently has a stranglehold on the e-paper gadget market supplying displays for many popular products including probably the most popular–Amazon’s Kindle 2. But the company is going to get some competition this year from Bridgestone. Bridgestone has been working on its own e-paper solution for some time and last demonstrated an A4 prototype in [...]
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