1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

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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Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Multitouch comes to Google’s Nexus One phone   —  Google just gave Nexus One users a big present. The company just rolled out a software update enabling multitouch, fixing a glaring weak spot for the phone since its launch last month.

Chris Ziegler / Engadget
Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Nexus One's big update can be had without the wait   —  Android's devised one of the slickest, most widely-deployed systems for delivering over-the-air operating system updates to smartphones, but there's a problem: you've got to wait until your carrier (or manufacturer) blesses you with them. They're typically deployed in rolling batches so that it's easier for the company to do one final test of ...

2. Apple Tablet Event Liveblog - We're Here  permalink

Apple Tablet Event Liveblog - We're Here
Gizmodo.com

Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 10am Pacific. The moment when Steve Jobs (or Phil Schiller) will step onstage and (probably) announce the Apple Tablet is almost here. Tune in NOW at live.gizmodo.com, so you don't miss a bit of our liveblog.

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3. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack  permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

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Another Great Reminder Not to Use the Same Password Everywhere What the deuce? Twitter changes my password   —  This morning I had an email that really looked like it was from Twitter. It suggested that my password had been changed due to "phishing attack that took place off-Twitter". I found myself thinking, "Sly, but not sly enough," followed by "hey, that really does look like Twitter; there's no hidden URL in the password reset".

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Another Great Reminder Not to Use the Same Password Everywhere Twitter forcing some users to change password. Reported threat of phishing attacks.   —  “Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset.” There have been a number of cases where phishers have targeted user accounts via DM sending them to a spoof login page that grabs passwords and then uses your account to propagate the phishing ...

4. Live From Facebook’s HipHop Technology Tasting  permalink

Live From Facebook’s HipHop Technology Tasting
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

I'm here at the Facebook Technology Tasting, where the social network is showcasing their newly open sourced PHP technology, HipHop . The new technology effectively transforms PHP into C++, resulting in a significant savings of CPU cycles on web servers. Facebook is streaming the event live, and we've embedded the live stream below. Facebook ...

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Live From Facebook’s HipHop Technology Tasting Facebook won’t be Civ-ilized for a little while yet   —  Last October’s announcement that Sid Meier would be bringing his “Civilization” franchise to Facebook elicited raucous celebrations from fans of the classic strategy game – and groans from HR reps, who saw productivity about to take another dive.  

Owen Good / Kotaku
Live From Facebook’s HipHop Technology Tasting Warcraft App: Block This Application, or Block This Friend?   —  As if we don't see enough lost sad cows and free poker chips spamming us on Facebook, now The Armory has put out a Warcraft Facebook app that will publish a constant feed of everyone's heroic deeds. The Armory says the app supports up to five characters and will publish accomplishments like level gains, achievements and boss kills, which will be ...

5. We're turning comments off for a bit  permalink

We're turning comments off for a bit
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget

Hey guys, we know you like to have your fun, voice your opinions, and argue over your favorite gear, but over the past few days the tone in comments has really gotten out of hand. What is normally a charged -- but fun -- environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations... and that' ...

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6. Android mini collectibles  permalink

Android mini collectibles
Blog.dyzplastic.com

New from artist Andrew Bell and Google’s Android™ platform comes Android mini collectibles series 01! Andrew, an avid Android user himself, teamed up with some friends at Google to bring their little green mascot to life. Series 1 features 12 different designs in blind-boxed cases of 16. Pick up a few and try your luck, or grab a ...

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Dyzplastic's authorized Android figurines not upgradeable, but guaranteed not to crash China Mobile’s OMS 2.0 Android OS supports Windows Mobile APIs. What’s that?   —  Android has had many different versions after it was created in 2008. As a result, OMS has been upgrading itself since its release, trying to catch up the pace of Android.

7. Icahn buys another million Take-Two shares  permalink

Icahn buys another million Take-Two shares
Www.gamesindustry.biz

Take-Two investor Carl Icahn has bought over a million shares in the company over the past three days, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

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8. Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs  permalink

Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs
Www.wired.com

After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.

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9. Planned Downtime on Thursday, February 4th  permalink

Store.steampowered.com

Beginning at 6:00 pm Pacific time Thursday February 4th, we will be performing software maintenance on some Steam servers. We expect the resulting downtime to last three hours at most, putting the end of the window at 9:00 pm Pacific time.

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10. Operating System  permalink

Operating System
Www.netmarketshare.com

Read about using web analytics to identify possible click fraud

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11. Apple Demands Removal Of USB Sharing Feature In Stanza iPhone App  permalink

Apple Demands Removal Of USB Sharing Feature In Stanza iPhone App
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch

Like many people, I have the Stanza app installed on my iPhone. Made by Lexycle ( acquired by Amazon last year), Stanza is a free app for iPhone and iPod Touch that serves as a gateway to a library of more than 100,000 ebooks for easy reading on the go. Last night, I was prompted to update the app to a new version (2.1), and as usual I checked ...

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Apple makes developer remove USB sharing from Stanza iPhone app BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions   —  iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...

Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch
Apple makes developer remove USB sharing from Stanza iPhone app 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. [...]

12. Glory of Heracles Review: A Forgetful Adventure  permalink

Glory of Heracles Review: A Forgetful Adventure
Michael McWhertor / Kotaku

Ancient Greece's immortal amnesiacs want answers, damn it, and they intend to get them in Nintendo's role-playing game Glory of Heracles for the Nintendo DS . Nintendo gives North American gamers their first taste of the long-running Glory of Heracles series with the franchise's DS debut. The traditional, perhaps to a fault, Japanese RPG follows ...

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Glory of Heracles Review: A Forgetful Adventure This Week on the Nintendo Channel: Faux-fighting   —  We usually write off Nintendo Week as nothing more than the usual PR flim-flam, but this week's episode on the Nintendo Channel is one to watch. The segments on Muscle March , Super Mario RPG and Little King's Story are nice, but there's an important lesson to be learned here: New Super Mario Bros. Wii ruins friendships. If you plan on partaking ...

JC Fletcher / Joystiq [Nintendo]
Glory of Heracles Review: A Forgetful Adventure Japanese Nintendo downloads: Excitebike, Reversal Shooting   —  Japanese gamers get to experience the joy of Excitebike with a different camera angle and online play today, with the release of Excitebike World Rally (as "Excitebike World Race"). It's a pretty faithful adaptation of the original, something that can't be said for Tecmo's Are? DS ga Sakasa Desu Kedo: Gyaku Shooting , a shooter with elements of ...

13. GDC 2010 Reveals Pixar, Molyneux, Schafer Talks  permalink

GDC 2010 Reveals Pixar, Molyneux, Schafer Talks
Www.gamasutra.com

As the early registration deadline approaches, GDC 2010 organizers have revealed new lectures by Pixar notables, Lionhead's Peter Molyneux, Double Fine's Tim Schafer, Final Fantasy XIII's director Motomu Toriyama, and fantasy writer R.A. Salvatore.

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14. Wise old Miss America says kids should go back to playing with sticks  permalink

Wise old Miss America says kids should go back to playing with sticks
James Ransom-Wiley / Joystiq

[ TMZ ] Who is the real Caressa Cameron? Winner of this past weekend's 2010 Miss America pageant, this 22-year-old Virginia native was, at one point, one of us (Exhibit A: high school yearbook photo circa 2002; pictured left). But, somehow, through some unfortunate series of events, she changed -- she became an outsider (Exhibit B: Miss America; ...

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Wise old Miss America says kids should go back to playing with sticks Miss America disses video games   —  The 2010 Miss America title was awarded to Miss Virginia Caressa Cameron. The pageant took place on Saturday, January 30 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.

15. Congressman Wins G.O.P. Primary for Senate Seat  permalink

MONICA DAVEY / NYT

Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a centrist Republican, won his party’s primary, setting the stage for a battle over the seat once held by Barack Obama.

16. Ford’s Challenge to Gillibrand Splits Donors  permalink

MICHAEL BARBARO / NYT

Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Harold E. Ford Jr. are wooing and pressuring titans of finance to pick sides in what could be the marquee political battle of 2010.

17. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

18. Chaos Eases in Effort to Help Feed the Hungry in Haiti  permalink

Chaos Eases in Effort to Help Feed the Hungry in Haiti
DAMIEN CAVE / NYT

Coupons for 55 pounds of rice under a new U.N. food program have become more valuable than Haitian money.

19. After Massacre, Guinea Sees Hope of Lifted Chains  permalink

After Massacre, Guinea Sees Hope of Lifted Chains
ADAM NOSSITER / NYT

A rare thing occurred in an area often given to autocracy: a peaceful transfer of power, months after a massacre.

20. 高智晟退出中国共产党的书面声明  permalink

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