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Dec 7th 7:30am by pooh@poetic.com (Anders Bylund)
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You might feel like access to online video clips is one of those "inalienable rights" you hear so much about. The Internet of 2009 is awash in video content, from your favorite Seinfeld episodes to homemade videos of cats playing the piano—and...
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Dec 7th 6:02am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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KDE was created with the goal of building a desktop environment for the Linux platform. The modern KDE ecosystem, which spans multiple operating systems and includes a wide range of applications and development frameworks, has a broader mandate and...
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Dec 7th 2:00am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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The FCC has been asking plenty of "innocent questions" lately about the mobile space. It doesn't threaten any direct action against companies like AT&T and Apple, it just wants "a more complete understanding" of some situations. But those questions...
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Dec 5th 11:00pm by eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman)
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The impassioned pleas of one developer, e-mailed to Steve Jobs, resulted in a quick reversal of an app's rejection. The launch of the app today is the first known approved app that can stream live video directly from one iPhone to another, and the first...
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Dec 5th 9:00pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: How one man designed the Windows 7 boot animation: Rolf Ebeling, a senior user experience lead for the User Experience Design and Research Team for Windows, is the man who...
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Dec 5th 7:00pm by eric@arstechnica.com (Eric Bangeman)
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As the first phone based on Google's Android 2.0 OS, the Motorola Droid arrives amid great expectations. Adding to the hype is the fact that it has a really, really big screen. In our review, Ars attempts to answer the question: is this the Droid you've...
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Dec 5th 5:00pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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This week in gaming we take a look at who did well in sales Thanksgiving week, we enjoy the delightfully classic Serious Sam remake on the PC, and we take a look at the power Microsoft has over gamers with the threat of Xbox Live bans. Mario Bros. Wii...
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Dec 5th 1:33am by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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Intel told Ars today that its long-delayed Larrabee discrete graphics product has suffered yet another delay, so the company has had to "reset" its overall GPU strategy and reposition plans and its expectations for the first version of the Larrabee...
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Dec 5th 12:48am by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Apple is reportedly in negotiations to acquire online music streaming service Lala, according to sources speaking to Bloomberg News. Details of the rumored acquisition are unknown at this time, and neither Apple nor Lala would confirm that negotiations...
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Dec 4th 10:48pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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The potential for some users to go overboard when it comes to being online has been obvious since the days when being online meant dialing in to a BBS. In more recent years, however, widespread 'Net access has allowed psychologists to document this...
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Dec 4th 9:18pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Apple has added new build-to-order options for some of its Mac Pro and Xserve models. Specifically, a 3.33GHz 3500-series Xeon processor is now an option for the lower-end quad-core Mac Pro. Also, Apple now offers a 2TB drive option for both Mac Pros and...
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Dec 4th 9:09pm by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman)
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Prompted by Verizon's recent increase in early termination fees for some users, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has, along with three colleagues, introduced a bill in the Senate to specifically address "budget-busting" early termination fees. The bill would...
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Dec 4th 8:50pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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This year has been home to some terrible superhero games... and a few good ones. The game in this genre that stands out as great, however, is inFamous, and now the game has a new price point and some free content if you have yet to take the plunge. You...
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Dec 4th 7:38pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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The Genachowski-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems to delight in dropping bombshells on a weekly basis, but we didn't see this one coming: the FCC admits that its CableCARD mandate has been an abysmal failure. That doesn't mean it's giving...
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Dec 4th 7:29pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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In response to complaints from browser makers, Microsoft has revised its antitrust-settlement with European Union regulators so that Windows users will see a browser ballot screen that randomly lists the icons of the top five browsers upon every launch....