RSS Digest for Thursday, July 2nd, 2009:

Latest dev diary for Batman: Arkham Asylum
Phone ringtones a “public performance”? EFF, AT&T say no
MJ Fans Flock to eBay for Memorabilia
Archos 9 Windows 7 tablet does a little hands-on time
Google App Engine misfires
Waffle House waiter sues over Taser incident
Huge 2K Games sale on Steam, plus 50% off Fallout 3
What will you do if piracy as we know it goes away? (I’ll just read more)
O2 confirmed as Palm Pre carrier in the UK, again
Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal
Will MySpace Kill MySpace Latino?
Lunar mapping satellite snaps first test images
Verizon will now offer the BlackBerry Tour to everyone
Can an SD card startup disk be used on any Mac?
Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design
What’s new at Talking About Windows.com
Leaked AT&T Memo: iPhone 3GS Generated ‘Best Ever Sales Day’
Make big bucks rolling out broadband to unserved areas!
Take the Fireworks With You For Free
10.5: Wake a sleeping Mac with via Automator
Do Lower Phone Bills Justify Ads on Your Mobile Phone?
Motorola’s Aura Celestial Edition soon taking “giant leaps” for “mankind”
Carnivorous gadgets kill insects for power
The future is now: Star Trek-like language translator debuts on the iPhone
Opinion: Why the iPhone can’t be killed
Free Windows 7 upgrade plus HP Pavilion S5110t – $339
Apple to Rate Your Karaoke Singing on Your iPhone?
PS3 Slim ready to ship in July?
HTML 5 standard won’t have an official video codec
DIY HD projector hits the right note, sub-€500 price range

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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This is the start of the weekly series that replaces the old daily ones.

Here are my news picks for the week…

Monday, March 31st 2009

Google launches free music download service in China
Disney signs deal with YouTube
Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries
Skype now officially available on iPhone

Tuesday, April 1st 2009

Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
Correction: Starter wallpaper more secure than I thought
Rob Janoff, Creator of the Apple Logo
News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 with push notifications
32GB High End iPhone and a Low End Version in Works?
What is Europe’s top browser? Stats says it’s now Firefox 3
Windows Marketplace for Mobile preview video teases the app store you want, don’t yet have

Wednesday, April 2nd 2009

Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old [Techversary]
Samsung introduces Mondi, first WiMax Mobile Internet Device
Palm opening WebOS SDK up to developers
Adrollo Launches Dynamic Ad Network Platform For The iPhone
Microsoft Office opening for iPhone
Finest Internet Jokes for April Fools’ Day 2009
Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks
TUAW Bookshelf: Apple II Reference Manual
Woz exits Dancing with the Stars
Apple Turns 33, No Fooling
Snow Leopard, Juno, and Pro App updates, oh my!
10.5.7 extension hints at upcoming Nehalem-based Xserve
News: Apple moves up in Greenpeace electronics rankings
Best April fools day jokes of 2009
4 Ways to Make Skype on the iPhone Even Better

Thursday, April 3rd 2009

Register.com goes down taking millions of websites, email address and network communications with it.
New Nmap version detects the Conficker worm
New flat-speaker tech could make public places even louder
The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
Gmail’s search gets suggestive with labs add-on
Streaming iPhone via bluetooth in the car
Digg To Finally Fix Search – See The Screenshot
SlingPlayer for iPhone will only work with new Slingboxes
Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library
Intel turns Moblin over to the Linux Foundation
Android App of the Week: GV Dials Numbers With Your Google Voice/Grand Central Number [Android Apps]
iPhone OS 3.0 beta successfully jailbroken
DiggBar Launches Today!
Windows 7 to support third-party codecs… like all other Windows versions
Free Online Stanford Course on Developing iPhone Apps
Adobe AIR, Flash big hit at Web 2.0 Expo conference
Apple Considers Having Stolen iPhones Call Police [Patents]
New iPod shuffle saw 50 percent sales increase in first week
Firefox beats IE in Europe: A duopoly to come?
Behold the Google Server, ye nations, and weep
Despite Funky HTML Encoding, Boxee Still Plays Hulu Video Just Fine [Boxee]
Canadians weigh in on network management: they don’t like it
Real or Imagined Threats?
Tabletize your laptop via USB for $99
Palm opens up, and goes back in time
ASUS 16-inch F50SV-X1 laptop now available
Video: NVIDIA’s ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch
What if IBM doesn’t buy Sun?
Netflix: Two Billion DVDs Served

Friday, April 4th 2009

How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
HP TouchSmart tx2z with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD now $450 off with coupon
Demo your iPhone without cables
MacHeist entices, annoys buyers with new TweetBlast
Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app
Google brewing ‘offline’ web office apps
AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing, data tethering
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker
VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
Tutorial released for Apple logo LCD mod
51,324 LEGO blocks + 1 virgin gamer = 1 LEGO DSi
Original founders buy and relaunch FileFront
Isaac Mizrahi designs Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Sneaky Surfing Actually Increases Productivity
Using Your Tabs
Texas Just Now Bans Vista From Government Computers [Vista]
Apple Ordering 3.2 and 5-Megapixel Camera Sensors for iPhone and Future Product?
Ready or not, IPv6 is coming
Apple Leaks Nehalem Xserve Info
Big shifts in microblog/social networking world
Google makes Gmail search accessible to all comers
Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone
Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview

Saturday, April 5th 2009

The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier
Next up for Microsoft’s ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads
Microsoft’s second Laptop Hunters commercial: Giampaulo buys an HP HDX
FCC Pressed to Investigate Apple, AT&T Regarding Skype Over 3G [Net Neutrality]
Week in Apple: Chrome, iPhone jailbreaks, security, and more!
Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks
XP is still so popular that MS decided to make it much harder to steal.
Week in review: was-Conficker-a-bust? edition
Tweet Quality
Rumor: Xserve refresh coming up soon
Week in Microsoft: builds 7068, 7070 will run on inexpensive laptops
Buying advice: Network-attached storage
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta – Expectations Too High?

Sunday, April 6th 2009

Google Car Pulled Over by the Cops – Now in Street View
Data Centers get ‘black box’ flight data recorder
Web Slices a rip off of OS X feature?
Report: Sun rejects IBM offer, IBM withdraws bid
Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support
Sony: PS2 is the gateway drug to the PS3
25 Rare Wordpress Templates 2009
Wii MotionPlus Given July 10 Release Date By Obscure Amsterdam Retailer [Unconfirmed]
Leaked Dell Internal Product Roadmap Reveals Mini 11 Netbook [Dell]
Sneak peek at Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Archos 2,4 flash players appear
iPhone 4G IV could support 802.11n

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Here are the links for: Wednesday, February 11th 2009…

How Palm’s OS Went From PDAs to Smartphones [Palm OS]
50 Seriously Useful Windows 7 Tips
New Palm Pre details emerge
Elevator music files for Chapter 11
Ripdev launches anti-piracy service for iPhone developers
MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users
mophie’s Juice Pack Air: world’s thinnest iPhone 3G battery / case
Windows 7 Enterprise Edition Customer Benefits
Vizio Drops Out of Plasma TVs [Plasma]
NVidia’s Ion Netbook Platform First Appearing in a…Desktop [Nvidia]
Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book
Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech infringe authors’ copyrights?
Palm’s done with PalmOS, plans to get Pre on other carriers in 2010, speaks to patent issues
Sirius XM may go into bankruptcy
Minor OS X Dock bug could result in serious data loss
Alcatel assembling a Lego (or Lego-esque) phone?
Microsoft places stamp of approval on Vista-based Ion SFF PCs
Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email
Pandora handheld sneaking towards production, hopefully
Windows 7 handcuffs for productivity
News: Rockstar switches to iTunes for GTA music partnership
Core i7 (Nehalem) Based MacBook Pros Possible in Q4 2009?
SanDisk shows off multi-level cell make-over
Analyst predicts cut-price, updated 3G iPhone models
Archos 10 netbook reviewed: a little rough around the edges
Adobe relaunches AIR developer’s trading website

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Here are the links for: Monday, February 9th 2009…

Oregon Trail coming to the iPhone
Feeds RSS Reader For iPhone- Google Sync and MORE!
Acer Aspire One D150 reviewed, AT&T 3G deal ‘only the beginning’
Video: HP’s MIE Linux distro runs just fine on Acer’s Aspire One
Microsoft Agrees To License ActiveSync To Google
Microsoft’s war against Linux
How to Turn a Netbook Into a Net Jukebox
Archos unveils plans for an Android-based Internet Media Tablet mobile “phone”
Explay Colibri pico projector promises 70-inch images at SVGA resolution
10-inch Aspire One’s battery downgraded after reviewers have their fill
New Opera JavaScript engine supports native code generation
Google beta of Sync for mobile contacts & calendar is live
Asus Eee PC 1000HE review roundup
The iPhone Becomes a Web Server
CEA says DTV converters may run out within 2 weeks
Firefox 3.0.6 optimized build for Mac Intel
Video game technology could fuel Mass. recovery
Firefox Exec Says Windows Bundling Is a Bad Idea
Official: The Amazon Kindle 2
Kindle 1 orders automagically upgraded to the Kindle 2
Ballmer advises Windows XP users to upgrade or face backlash
e-readers: The Race for a Better Read
Mozilla to join EU suit against Microsoft
News: Orange Austria matches 8GB iPhone 3G price drop
UNIX Apocalypse
Windows 7 UAC flaws and how to fix them
AMD cores up with Phenom II
Samsung introduces Lapfit monitors in a fit of insanity
Apple to Integrate ‘QuickTime Pro’ Features into Snow Leopard?
10 obscure Linux applications you need to try
First 1-Gigabit, 44-Nano DRAM Chip Made
The Guy Who F’d Up Windows Vista Is Putting Out a Solo Album [Microsoft]

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Here are the links for: Wednesday, January 14th 2009…

Youtube beginning to mute videos with copyrighted music
Windows 7 to have fewer SKUs?
Windows 7 – Try These Features
US-bound Nintendo DSi priced and dated?
Toshiba said to be nearing deal to buy Fujitsu’s hard drive business
Three Cups of Coffee Makes You Three Times More Likely to Hallucinate [Caffeine]
The Sony VAIO P unboxed
Text of Jobs’s Email Announcing Medical Leave
Snow Leopard to Bring Unifying ‘Marble’ User Interface
Sandisk Memory Stick to hit the 2 Terabyte mark
Qt Becomes LGPL
Psystar continues to be stubborn
Pioneer pulls the plug on LD production
Nortel files for bankruptcy
Motorola lays off 4,000
‘Marble’ to be the next look-and-feel for Mac OS X?
Here comes an Archos netbook
Google rips off the band-aid, bad news all around
Gmail Grew 43 Percent Last Year. AOL Mail And Hotmail Need To Start Worrying.
First patch for Windows 7 beta addresses MP3 bug
Details on Intel Atom N280 begin to surface, are short on excitement
Comcast Installs Cable In Your Gutter, Across Your Driveway
Apple’s Mini DisplayPort Will Be Official Part of DisplayPort 1.2 Specification [Mini Displayport]
Apple suing Wired over netbook hackintosh video [Update]
Apple after Steve
Anti-Virus Solutions for the Windows 7 Beta
3rd Party Web Browsers For iPhone

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