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Jurassic Park: Dino Bone ‘Printed’ in 3-D

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:56:30 +0000

Jurassic Park: Dino Bone ‘Printed’ in 3-D
For all the digging of dinosaur fossils, all the magnificent reconstructions in museums and all the research that has been devoted to them, the great beasts remain mostly a mystery to us, and paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara of Drexel University in Philadelphia says our ways of…

New iPad App, ‘The Guitar Collection: George Harrison’

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:55:41 +0000

New iPad App, ‘The Guitar Collection: George Harrison’
A new app called “The Guitar Collection: George Harrison,” scheduled to go on sale Thursday, offers an interactive way to get close to the former Beatle’s cherished instruments.

Microsoft Attacks Google With Viral Video

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:57:32 +0000

Microsoft Attacks Google With Viral Video
In an amusing viral marketing video, Microsoft has gone on the offensive, attacking Google Docs, the search giant’s collaborative, online word processing tools. The video offensive is an effort to promote its own Office 365 service. In the video, Googen Apperson, a Google Docs salesman, tries to convince…

Google Glasses Will Be Powered by Android

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:55:55 +0000

Google Glasses Will Be Powered by Android
Google will start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and ads onto the lenses, but questions have been raised on how privacy will be regulated.

Quitting Cable TV: Truth or Lie?

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:58:31 +0000

Quitting Cable TV: Truth or Lie?
Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute: More consumers are relying on broadband-only connections in their homes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cutting the cord on cable TV. Nielsen’s latest report reveals that there are now 5.1 million homes in the United States with broadband Internet…

Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures (AP)

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:57:16 +0000

Calif. pledges better mobile privacy disclosures (AP)
AP – California is clamping down on nosy mobile applications, telling them they must give people advance warning if they want to keep pulling sensitive information from smartphones and computer tablets.

Neutrino Not Faster Than Light

Jeffrey Hawkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:58:59 +0000

Neutrino Not Faster Than Light
European researchers find flaw in experiment that measured faster-than-light particles

Bits Blog: Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute

Jeffrey Hawkins — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:55:56 +0000

Bits Blog: Amazon Pulls Thousands of E-Books in Dispute
Amazon pulled more than 4,000 e-books distributed by the Independent Publishers Group off its site this week after it failed to exact better terms from the distributor.

Stunning Eclipse Seen From Space

Jeffrey Hawkins — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:56:42 +0000

Stunning Eclipse Seen From Space
There was a solar eclipse on Tuesday, and we earthlings missed it. It wasn’t our fault, really. As happens most months of the year, the moon, passing between Earth and sun, just missed casting its shadow on us. Its orbit is slightly canted so that…

Foxconn and Apple Respond to ABC News’ Exclusive Report

Jeffrey Hawkins — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:14 +0000

Foxconn and Apple Respond to ABC News’ Exclusive Report
Foxconn, Apple, and the Fair Labor Association respond to ABC News’ exclusive