Kodak shuttering camera business – exit camera, camcorders, digital frames

February 11, 2012 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

The inventor of the digital camera, Kodak, is now leaving the camera business, reports Reuters. Eastman Kodak Co, the inventor of the digital camera, plans to get out of that business in the first half of the year as the bankrupt company looks to cut costs. Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, said that getting out of cameras would result in “significant” job losses. Most of the 400 people in that business are based in Rochester, New York, and work in research and development and marketing. Instead of designing its own cameras, Kodak will now try to license

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Make your cellphone waterproof without any case

February 1, 2012 |  by  |  News, Video  |  No Comments

Liquipel is a new revolutionary technology that will protect your electronic device inside and out, including charging port and headphone jack and there is NO case required. Liquipel covers devices inside and out with a transparent coating thinner than a human hair that causes water to bead right off their previously moisture-sensitive elements. Properly sealed up with Liquipel, the company claims a smartphone can survive full submergence in water. And just to prove the point, you can see a new Liquipel-treated iPhone 4S back up that claim in the video below. Apple iPhone 4S Water Test With Liquipel - NO CASE Tt handle's

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DMARC – antiphishing standard which promises a world of less phishing

January 30, 2012 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

15 companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal joined forces on a “technical working group” to jointly work on a standard for blocking phishing e-mails by verifying that they come from legitimate companies. It seems obvious that trusted, legitimate companies could come together to do this, but it’s only started happening in the last 18 months. What is DMARC Work? DMARC.org – or the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance – is a new white-list system will be available for use across the Internet. DMARC standardizes how email receivers perform email authentication using the well-known SPF and DKIM mechanisms. This means that

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Megaupload user data could be deleted by Feb 2, say US prosecutors

January 30, 2012 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

All the data on Megaupload – legal or illegal – could be erased as soon as Thursday, Feb. 2, as reported by MSNBC. The file storage website hires outside companies – Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc – to store its users’ data. Since Megaupload’s assets have been frozen, the service cannot pay the hosting companies to keep hosting the data. According to a letter by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, filed in the case Friday, Jan 27, they could begin deleting data Thursday. US prosecutors blocked access to Megaupload and charged seven men,

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Facebook Names Top Games of 2011

December 22, 2011 |  by  |  Facebook, News  |  No Comments

Social gaming was a big trend in 2011 and you can expect the market to continue to grow in 2012. Facebook, the biggest platform for social games, released its list of the most popular games of 2011. In addition to highlighting the variety of games people played and recommended to friends, the list also shows that innovation in the space is reaching Silicon Valley and beyond. Apps were built by developers around the world from Seattle, Santa Monica, Canada, Germany, Japan, Serbia, and Prague. Facebook say it is basing its ranking on “games that drew the most active users and

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Opera stats – Top 10 most visited mobile sites and world’s top 20 handsets of 2011

December 21, 2011 |  by  |  News  |  No Comments

Opera Mini one of the most popular mobile browsers, with 144M unique users monthly worldwide. The company pulled the stats on the top 10 visited mobile sites in 2011, with the data collected spanning November 2010-2011. The world’s most popular websites on Opera Mini 2011 are: #1. google.com #2. facebook.com #3. youtube.com (up 1) #4. vkontakte.ru (down 1) #5. odnoklassniki.ru #6. yandex.ru #7. wikipedia.org (up 4) #8. my.opera.com #9. yahoo.com (down 2) #10. twitter.com (up 2) Check the image below for comparison between November 2010 and November 2011. The world’s top 20 sites In addition to this, Opera picked up on a few interesting mobile browsing trends for 2011: #1 Wikipedia, Blogger and Spaces

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YouHaveDownloaded.com – we know what you downloaded from BitTorrent

December 18, 2011 |  by  |  News, Sites  |  No Comments

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded.com does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology. The site Youhavedownloaded.com keeps a huge database of millions of IP addresses and the many million files downloaded from these addresses. The site claims that it track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. People who visit the

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Android Team Launches online Android Training to help developer create better apps

December 16, 2011 |  by  |  android, News  |  No Comments

Yes you've heard it right - Android's school session. Android Developers team announced the launch of Android Training a set of online classes designed to help users create better apps. The tutorials, available for free, provide aspiring devs with step-by-step instructions and tips on how to implement effective navigation tools, optimize battery life and solve other "common Android development problems." along with sample code you can utilize to "do your homework." The program is divided into 11 sections with a total of 34 individual lessons, though the team plans to expand its offerings "over the coming months." Today I’m thrilled

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Google’s graph calculator – plot complicated mathematical functions

December 6, 2011 |  by  |  Google, News  |  No Comments

Google has introduced a new graphing functionality on their search tool, using this you can plot complicated mathematical functions by typing the equation in the search box. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page. You can zoom in and out and pan across the plane to explore the function in more detail. You can also draw multiple functions by separating them with commas. This feature covers an extensive range of single variable functions including trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and their compositions, and is available in modern browsers.

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