Friday, March 19, 2010

Elderly NYC pair familiar with ‘Police! Open up!’

An elderly Brooklyn couple say they’re tired of hearing the phrase, “Police! Open up!” World War II veteran Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife, Rose, said police have come looking for criminals at their house about 50 times in the past eight years.

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NPR and WSJ building ‘Flash-free’ pages for iPad

For awhile, we couldn’t decide what we were more angry at: the fact that select devices wouldn’t support Flash, or that Flash was simply too demanding on select devices.

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Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

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Second Prius unintended acceleration case also questioned

The second of two Prius “unintended acceleration” incidents examined this week by Toyota has come to the same conclusion as the earlier one: the data retrieved from the hybrid does not agree with the driver’s account.

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Apple struggles to sign content deals as iPad nears launch: report

While the Wall Street Journal says that Apple has pre-sold hundreds of thousands of iPads, it adds that there’s still a piece missing in this picture. That piece is content.

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Canon First in Line for Its Own Top-Level Domain, .canon

Canon announced Wednesday it intends to be the first company to say goodbye to .com and buy its own top-level domain, taking advantage of ICANN’s decision to broadly widen the number of top-level names.

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Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone

Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time, they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail.

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Disgrunted Hacker Remotely Disables 100+ Cars

By hacking into an Austin-based car dealership’s immobilization technology, used instead of repossessing cars, a disgruntled former employee of Austin-based car dealership Texas Auto Center disabled over 100 cars, sometimes setting their horns honking wildly, as well. The suspect, Oscar Ramos-Lopez, 20, has been arrested and charged with breach of computer security.

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HTC vows to fight Apple patent lawsuit

HTC announced via a press release on Thursday that it’s not caving in to Apple’s lawsuit. Google has previously said that it would back its partner, since this lawsuit is obviously really about Android, and not HTC.

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