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3 Lessons to Learn from the HP TouchPad Debacle
News has spread like wildfire across the web that HP is clearing out their vast TouchPad inventory by slashing the price to an offer that is hard to refuse. Starting last Friday afternoon, the 16Gb TouchPad will be available for $99, and the 32Gb TouchPad will be $149. That is, until the stock runs out. And they’re going fast.
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New Google Doodle: Make Some Music This Morning
Have you been to Google’s home page yet today? Better jump over there quickly, ’cause you won’t want to miss today’s guitar-inspired Google Doodle which celebrates the 96th birthday of famed guitar designer Les Paul. You’d better be running an updated, modern browser, however, because this doodle is leveraging a number of the latest web standards to pull off its trick.
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Apple WWDC 2011: The Top Ten Upgrades coming for MAC OS X Lion
Apple announced today that their next version of OS X will be released in July, and will cost just $29.99 (the same price as the previous upgrade). Unlike previous releases, however, Lion is not going to be released into retail channels. It will be available solely through the Mac App Store. This is the first time a major desktop OS update has not been available as a retail product. This decision may annoy some system administrators for its relative lack of flexibility, but most consumers are likely to see it as a benefit. Another first that should please consumers and business owners alike is the fact that you’re only required to purchase a single license, which can then be installed on any authorized Mac you own. Here’s hoping Microsoft makes a similar move, but that seems about as likely as Steve Jobs turning up for a keynote in a clown suit…
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Malware on a Mac? Surely you jest.
Before we get to our promised post explaining the best methods for keeping your PC clean from malware, we thought it’d be prudent to mention that it’s not just the PC users of the world who have to worry about nasty software infecting their computers. While they have oft been considered “virus-free” by their proponents, Mac computers are increasingly being targeted by the malware coders of the world. Maybe they just don’t like being made fun of for not having an iPhone, or maybe it’s because Mac computers now have a somewhat larger market share than they did just a few years ago. Either way, malware on Macs is here, and Apple’s response to it is rather telling. Here’s what’s going on:
The PlayStation Network Hack Opens Up a Big Can o’ Worms: Are you Secure?
As discussed previously in this space, the PlayStation Network’s security was compromised recently, giving the intruding hacker’s access to over 70 million user’s personal information. Whether or not the hackers also gained access to user’s credit card information is still not known, the fact is that a large amount of usable credit card information may be hitting the underground online black market. It is that market that the New York Times provided a glimpse into in a blog post published yesterday entitled “How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold”.
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The World’s Greatest Keyboard Shortcut!
Everyone knows the old stand-bys like ctrl+c and ctrl+v, but many people don’t realize just how many useful keyboard shortcuts there are that are incredibly useful. We were reminded by the following video of a particularly awesome shortcut that, once learned, will be used daily (if you’re the clumsy type, anyway.) Wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, so just watch the video and enjoy:
If you like this, there are plenty more goofy tech videos over at Tested.com.
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Playstation Network Security Breach: All the Details
It seems something of trend now for massively popular cloud-based online services to be in trouble lately. As millions of users around the world are already aware, Sony’s widespread Playstation Network (PSN) has been offline since April 20. What exacerbated user’s aggravation more than just the downtime, however, wasSony’s almost complete silence on what caused this outage, when users could expect to be able to get back online, and especially their silence concerning whether or not a security breach had occurred that could potentially have resulted in leaked personal information, including credit card numbers and addresses.
When it Rains it Pours: Amazon’s Cloud Services Are Offline
A crippling failure in Amazon’s Web services business took many Web sites offline today, highlighting the dangers inherent in putting trust in to all-in-one so-called “cloud” hosting services.
Many users are probably just learning today that Amazon even offers a hosting service, but it’s not exactly the kind of publicity Amazon is looking for to spread awareness. Massively popular sites and services like Reddit, GroupMe, and HootSuite (a popular Twitter client) have all been hamstrung today because of their reliance on Amazon’s cloud hosting service.
One Old Woman Accidentally Turned Off the Armenian Internet
A somewhat amusing if sad news story popped up today that highlighted something we rarely think about in day-to-day life: that the internet is made up of hard, linked connections. It’s easy to think of the internet as an ethereal abstraction, but one little old lady managed to bring the whole thing crashing down in the nation of Armenia. She was out scavenging for copper when she snipped through a very important fiber-optic cable. The 75 year-old woman was arrested, but given her advanced age, the police did not feel it fair to hold her in jail. (The rest of the news story is here.)
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AT&T Buys T-Mobile: 3 Reasons Why This Bad News Might be Good
In the one of the largest deal the wireless industry has ever seen, AT&T announced its intentions to purchase the USA branch of T-Mobile for roughly $39 billion in cash and stocks. This move allows AT&T to acquire an extra 34 million wireless customers, which will make them the largest network operator in the U.S.
Before being finalized, however, the acquisition has to be approved by the FCC and the Department of Justice. Indeed, some industry experts have already begun voicing their concerns that this could reduce competition in the wireless sector down to a worrying degree for consumers. At this point, though, the most obvious loser in the deal is Sprint, which had also discusses purchasing T-Mobile. If the agreement goes through, Sprint will become the smallest major U.S. service provider.
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