1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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2. Poll: How did you watch Lost?  permalink

Poll: How did you watch Lost?
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3. Your Doodles Are Bugged! arrives on XBLA's Indie marketplace  permalink

Your Doodles Are Bugged! arrives on XBLA's Indie marketplace
Mike Schramm / Joystiq

German developer Johannes Huber sent us word that his game, Your Doodles are Bugged! , is out now on Xbox Live's Indie Games Marketplace for the low, low price of 80 (or about a buck). You can see a gameplay trailer over on YouTube right now (which we've placed along with a silly teaser trailer after the break). The game looks a little bit like ...

4. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go  permalink

Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go
Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

5. Fan-made Final Fight: the Movie Trailer  permalink

Fan-made Final Fight: the Movie Trailer
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In honor of the upcoming Final Fight: Double Impact 2-fer, Unity member Chris shared his homebrewed trailer for an imagined "Final Fight" movie. It's got a freshly kidnapped, blubbering Jessica, a solid Mike Haggar, and a damned impressive Damnd (see what I did there?). Amazing stuff Chris!

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6. Overheard backstage at the Grammys  permalink

Overheard backstage at the Grammys
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A transplanted Nashvillean, she expressed surprise and pride in the victories of fellow Music City residents Kings of Leon, who nabbed three awards of their own.

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7. The real reason Apple updated the iPhone OS  permalink

The real reason Apple updated the iPhone OS
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When Apple released their update for the iPhone, most assumed that it was a general bug fix.  But, if you dig a bit deeper, there are some major security holes that are now plugged with the new update.  Referring to an Apple support page, the page details some of the...

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The real reason Apple updated the iPhone OS Love your jailbroken iPhone? Don’t update to 3.1.3   —  Consider this a PSA from one person with a jailbroken iPhone to another: Don’t upgrade to the just released iPhone OS 3.1.3. The iPhone dev team — the guys who make all of this jailbreaking stuff possible — have just confirmed that the PwnageTool and redsn0w jailbreak/unlock tools do not work with iPhone OS 3.1.3. [...]

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The real reason Apple updated the iPhone OS IPhone OS 3.1.3 now live on iTunes   —  Before you start scrambling for your phone, laptop and data cable, just relax for a second. The latest update to the iPhone software, version 3.1.3, is a minor one. A quick glance at the changelog shows that the update will improve accuracy on the reported battery level on the 3GS, which is a huge help [...]

8. Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack  permalink

Twitter Resets User Passwords in Wake of Phishing Attack
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Twitter says it was hit by a phishing attack that forced it to reset the passwords of a number of accounts. Early Tuesday, Twitter says it had to reset the passwords of a small number of accounts compromised in an external phishing attack.

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9. Microsoft confirms Office 2010 has reached the Release Candidate stage  permalink

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Microsoft officials have confirmed to Neowin that the company recently released a Release Candidate (RC) build of Office 2010 to private beta testers. Early Release Candidate builds began leaking to the web in January this year as Microsoft was preparing for the RC release to Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers. Russian site...

10. Street Scenes of Munich:  permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
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Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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11. Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs  permalink

Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs
Jason Clarke / Download Squad

Filed under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...

12. OpenFire and Spark offer secure private chat and collaboration tools  permalink

OpenFire and Spark offer secure private chat and collaboration tools
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Filed under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Freeware , Open Source , Web If you're looking to implement a secure, private chat environment in your company, have a look at what's going on at Ignite Realtime with their OpenFire real time collaboration server and Spark cross-platform IM client. Being that they are open source, both OpenFire and ...

13. This is what it has come to: Halo 3 Legendary for $30  permalink

This is what it has come to: Halo 3 Legendary for $30
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Ever since the supposedly limited run of the Halo 3 Legendary Edition was first released, we've watched its price slowly tumble. Originally sporting a hefty $129.99 price tag, we've seen the price slide ever lower as retailers, desperate for shelf space, slashed the price again and again. Now, 1saleaday.com is selling copies of the Legendary ...

14. Internet Explorer 8 Officially Becomes World’s Most-Used Browser  permalink

Internet Explorer 8 Officially Becomes World’s Most-Used Browser
Steven Bink / Bink.nu

This week, Net Applications released their January browser market share report . Their report shows that Internet Explorer 8 is not only the most popular browser on Windows with 27.9% usage share, but that it now has 25.6% of market share across all OS’s on a worldwide-weighted usage share basis (data provided by Net Applications). We launched ...

15. ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission  permalink

ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission
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Filed under: Text , Productivity , Op-Ed Creative writing is not an easy task, but the web gives us great opportunities to collaborate and get some help. For our own book, my friend and I set up a custom DokuWiki which does the trick quite nicely. But not everyone likes to tinker; some people simply want to get down to business and start telling ...

16. What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back?  permalink

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In a quiet moment yesterday I asked my Twitter network: “what’s one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what’s stopping you from doing it now?)” The answers were quite varied – everything from redesigns, to writing E-Books, to posting more regularly to SEO optimization, to ...

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17. The quintessential “Mallu”  permalink

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Scorpio Genius responds to Paul Zacharia’s comment on Malayalees . Movies are pretty powerful medium and see how its created a stereotype. And the objectification got naturally displaced to the mallus. The Malayalam films of the 70s and 80s, which depicted sexuality and…

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The quintessential “Mallu” The quintessential "mallu"   —  Facts, fantasies and day-to-day life in this evergreen strip of land called Kerala, with a sprinkle of life from across India

18. Level 3 to deliver uncompressed HD broadcast from Super Bowl XLIV  permalink

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@(Unverified) It depends more on your local affiliate. Most cable/sat providers don't add compression to locals. Your local affiliate may in the form of subchannels and limiting the bitrate.

19. IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets  permalink

IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
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When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]

20. Chain Reaction  permalink

Chain Reaction
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