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This page lists all news articles written by Andre Yoskowitz
during February, 2010. News
articles are sorted so that the latest article appears at the very top of the page
and the oldest article appears at the bottom of the page.
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February, 2010
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Last week Microsoft announced that it was shutting down the Xbox Live service for the original Xbox console starting in April, effectively killing all online play for the orphaned console, as ...
9 Feb 2010 2:21 PM | 1 comment
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Motorola has announced via Facebook that DROID users will soon be receiving on over-the-air update for Android 2.1, making the phone the second to have the latest firmware, after the Google Nexus One.
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9 Feb 2010 2:00 PM
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According to Cnet, Netflix will add 5.1 surround sound and closed captioning to their Watch Instantly streaming service soon, with 1080p playback coming later in 2011.
Current requirements ...
9 Feb 2010 1:45 PM | 2 comments
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Google has started live phone support for the Nexus One this week, finally giving users a way to directly talk with representatives from the company. Until this week, live, phone support had ...
9 Feb 2010 1:25 PM
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Adobe has announced today that Flash 10.1 will only work on Android smartphones running firmware 2.1 or later, a move that disappoints most Android phone owners out there, being that only one ...
9 Feb 2010 1:09 PM | 1 comment
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Following an FCC investigation into the overall industry, Google has slashed the fee for Nexus One owners who decide to drop their contract early.
The early termination fee, or as Google ...
8 Feb 2010 7:06 PM | 7 comments
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Christopher Poole, founder of the infamous meme site 4chan came out this week claiming that Verizon was "explicitly blocking" access to the site, and it appears Poole may have been right.
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8 Feb 2010 6:34 PM | 7 comments
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Sharp and Samsung have decided to end all ongoing patent infringement disputes over LCD displays this week, although it is unclear what the financial details are of the agreement.
"We have ...
8 Feb 2010 6:14 PM
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The Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader, which sold out within hours when it launched over the holiday season, is finally available for sale again, says the company, with the company ramping up supply ...
8 Feb 2010 4:47 PM | 1 comment
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Chinese officials have announced this week the bust of a large hacking ring that was allegedly the nation's largest distributor of hacking tools.
The Black Hawk Safety Net, which used the ...
8 Feb 2010 4:30 PM | 7 comments
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Hannover House, the video and film distributor has announced today a new deal with Google that will launch a video rental and VOD channel for Hannover on YouTube.
Starting this week, the ...
8 Feb 2010 3:46 PM
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BenQ has introduced the world's thinnest 21.5” W LED monitor, which promises "top of the line" performance as well.
Dubbed the BenQ V2220/V2220H, the 15mm-thick monitor has a 10,000,000:1 ...
8 Feb 2010 3:07 PM | 5 comments
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After first being blocked in 2008, an Italian court has once again ruled that ISPs in the nation must block access to the infamous torrent tracker The Pirate Bay, leaving millions of users without ...
8 Feb 2010 2:31 PM | 9 comments
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After one week of suspended sales, physical books published by Macmillan have now returned to Amazon, ending the dispute that begun last week over the price of digital books (e-books).
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8 Feb 2010 1:58 PM | 1 comment
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Although it is unclear whether the price cuts are temporary or permanent, Microsoft has cut the prices of their Zune HD models from $220 to $200 for the 16GB model and from $300 to $270 for the 32GB version.
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8 Feb 2010 12:00 AM | 14 comments
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According to BBLeaks, the upcoming BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) 3.0 details have been leaked, and it appears that BB owners will be getting better support for Gmail among other significant updates.
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7 Feb 2010 11:11 PM
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According to the latest IDC numbers, vendors shipped 54.5 million smartphones in the Q4 2009, a record, and a 39 percent increase year-on-year.
Nokia led the pack with 67.7 million for all ...
6 Feb 2010 6:37 PM | 1 comment
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More details have been released on the upcoming Motorola Devour from Verizon, and it appears that the Android device will launch with Adobe Flash Lite, giving the phone the Flash support that ...
6 Feb 2010 6:02 PM | 10 comments
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The latest update to Google Maps 3.4 has enabled multi-touch for the Motorola DROID, with pinch-to-zoom now available for the device, at least while using the popular app.
Last week Google ...
6 Feb 2010 5:09 PM | 1 comment
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Yesterday we reported that Microsoft had slashed the price of the 120GB Xbox 360 HDD in Europe, while at the same time releasing a 250GB HDD in Japan.
Today they have announced the same offer ...
6 Feb 2010 4:44 PM | 20 comments
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According to a pretty long thread over at Zune.net, it appears that Zune Pass subscription holders have seen their music disappear in the last week, for no reason whatsoever.
Says the first ...
5 Feb 2010 5:41 PM | 21 comments
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According to figures from Forecasting and Analysing Digital Entertainment (FADE), the Xbox Live Arcade has hit $103 million in revenue for the year 2009, a giant 34 percent increase year-on-year.
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5 Feb 2010 5:29 PM | 2 comments
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Microsoft has noted that it will be dropping the price of the 120GB Xbox 360 HDD in Europe, as well as releasing an external 250GB HDD for the console in Japan.
The 120GB drive will drop ...
5 Feb 2010 4:58 PM | 6 comments
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In June 2008, Sling Media introduced an iPhone-version of the SlingPlayer software, however, it only worked over Wi-Fi, and not AT&T's 3G data service.
As of this week, it appears a 3G-compatible ...
5 Feb 2010 4:40 PM
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Deutsche Telekom AG is actively considering an IPO for its T-Mobile USA branch, as a way to help pay for the carrier's large upcoming infrastructure buildout.
Telekom is Europe's largest ...
5 Feb 2010 4:20 PM
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A newly launched site called TVGorge is promoting what millions of international citizens have wanted for years from streaming site Hulu; free access to tons of TV shows, legally.
The site ...
5 Feb 2010 3:24 PM | 3 comments
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Twentieth Century Fox has filed six new lawsuits this week, all against alleged sellers of a workprint version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which was leaked online one month before the film's ...
5 Feb 2010 3:12 PM | 14 comments
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Microsoft has announced today that they will be discontinuing Xbox Live service for the original Xbox console starting in April. The move will effectively kill all online play for the orphaned ...
5 Feb 2010 2:49 PM | 19 comments
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Apple is still working with Verizon on an iPad model that will support Verizon's 3G service says Fox News, citing a source within Verizon.
Earlier this week Fox News reported that AT&T had ...
4 Feb 2010 7:14 PM | 22 comments
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Arstechnica is reporting today that RealVideo continues its death spiral, this time with C-SPAN getting rid of the streaming video format in favor of Flash and Windows Media.
Says the C-SPAN ...
4 Feb 2010 6:35 PM | 22 comments
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Amazon has announced their acquisition of the touchscreen company Touchco, a move that will lead to the next Kindle e-reader being a touchscreen device.
The NY Times says Touchco's "interpolating ...
4 Feb 2010 6:10 PM
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Today's Video Daily comes from Google, which has announced that its upcoming Chrome OS will be used for tablets as well, with some of the concept pictures and a video posted on their blog.
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4 Feb 2010 5:52 PM | 3 comments
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The Hollywood studios have lost a landmark case against the ISP iiNet today after an eight-week trial.
The case would have impacted how Australian ISPs would have had to react to potential ...
4 Feb 2010 5:41 PM | 31 comments
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MPEG LA, the company behind the H.264 video-encoding codec, has decided to extended the royalty-free period of the tech until December 31st, 2015, allowing sites to stream using the technology for free.
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4 Feb 2010 5:24 PM | 5 comments
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A DVD-Screener copy of the highest-grossing film of all-time, Avatar, has hit P2P and torrents today, coming just a few days after Academy members received the screener from Fox.
Until today, ...
4 Feb 2010 5:01 PM | 36 comments
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According to the The Symbian Foundation, the world's most popular mobile operating system, Symbian, is going open-source.
Individual developers as well as organizations can now modify the ...
4 Feb 2010 4:46 PM | 3 comments
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Apple has released iPhone OS update 3.1.3, and along with the bug fixes and security patches comes the inevitable breaking of jailbroken devices.
Creators of jailbreaking tools such as Redsn0w, ...
3 Feb 2010 10:34 PM | 1 comment
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Twitter director of Trust and Safety Del Harvey has posted today that it will be forcing a number of users to change their passwords this week after it was discovered that hackers had used torrent ...
3 Feb 2010 3:33 PM | 5 comments
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Fox News is reporting that Verizon and AT&T fought over having their 3G service available to future iPad owners and that AT&T won the rights by outbidding the competition.
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3 Feb 2010 2:58 PM | 16 comments
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After months of leaks and rumors, Verizon has officially unveiled the Motorola Devour, and will begin selling it in March.
Touted as a younger brother to the DROID, the new phone will have ...
3 Feb 2010 2:41 PM | 5 comments
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According to an interview with IGN, Sony senior VP of marketing Peter Dille says the company is on the fast track to passing the Xbox 360 in sales soon, also saying that the PS3 will still be ...
3 Feb 2010 2:05 PM | 32 comments
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Apple has released a patch this week for the iPhone/iPod Touch that should fix five exploits, a few of which could have allowed remote access to the device in question.
If a user opened an ...
3 Feb 2010 1:50 PM | 3 comments
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Google has announced today that Nexus One owners will be receiving an over-the-air update for their smartphones this week, one that adds a number of features, the most prominent being multi-touch support.
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3 Feb 2010 1:03 PM | 3 comments
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Our first Video Daily piece today is another interesting video showing off a Nokia smartphone in action, this time connecting it to LEGO Mindstorms NXT and using both to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle.
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3 Feb 2010 12:40 PM | 3 comments
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uTorrent 2.0 Final is now available, says the official site, moving out of the beta stage it has been in since August.
Feature overview from the creators:
UDP trackers are a different ...
3 Feb 2010 11:41 AM | 1 comment
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A few reports have surfaced today that the Apple iPad will likely launch with a camera, despite it not being showed off during Apple's tablet unveiling last week.
A screenshot from the event ...
3 Feb 2010 12:09 AM | 20 comments
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Toshiba has hinted this week that it may be leaving the LCD production business, a way to curb ever-increasing losses.
Corporate senior executive VP Fumio Muraoka says the strong yen, steep ...
2 Feb 2010 3:41 PM | 11 comments
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AndroidCentral has posted pics today of the Motorola Devour Android device, Verizon's first phone to emphasize MOTOBLUR.
The phone will release in silver, and will not have any connection ...
2 Feb 2010 1:51 PM
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This weekend, Mozilla released the long-anticipated mobile browser, Firefox Mobile 1.0, for the Nokia Maemo.
Hoping to take market share from more established players like Opera, the Firefox ...
2 Feb 2010 1:39 PM | 5 comments
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Wikimedia, the company behind Wikipedia has said this week that they have installed a new server, one that should allow for the "huge influx" of video that is starting to be uploaded to the ...
2 Feb 2010 1:21 PM | 3 comments
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Cnet has reported today that a 53-year old grandmother almost had her Internet service suspended for alleged piracy, although it was never proven that she had downloaded anything she was accused of.
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2 Feb 2010 12:48 PM | 21 comments
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According to security researcher Steven Adair, hundreds of prominent websites including those run by the CIA and FBI are currently being attacked by the Pushdo botnet, which floods the sites with junk data.
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2 Feb 2010 12:06 PM | 10 comments
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According to new data from ABI Research, the Apple iPhone lost smartphone market share in the fourth quarter 2009 compared to the Q3, dropping from 18.1 percent of all sales in the third to ...
2 Feb 2010 11:34 AM | 9 comments
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The blockbuster epic Avatar is set to pass Titanic as the highest-grossing film of all-time today (non adjusted for inflation), also becoming the second movie to ever surpass the $600 million ...
2 Feb 2010 11:20 AM | 19 comments
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Video game industry analyst Michael Pachter has said today that he expects the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 to receive price cuts again this year, which will lead to the Wii being forced into ...
1 Feb 2010 5:13 PM | 12 comments
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has given his response to last week's iPad unveiling, calling the device "a bigger iPod Touch," with "no surprises."
Additionally, Iwata denied rumors that ...
1 Feb 2010 4:50 PM | 17 comments
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Intellect Wireless, a small company based in Virginia has sued Apple this month over wireless communication technology found in the iPhone, in what has got to be the millionth time Apple has ...
1 Feb 2010 4:22 PM | 9 comments
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TechOn is reporting today that large OLED panels should become available mainstream starting in 2010, with LG Display planning 20-inch displays for this year and 40-inch displays by 2012.
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1 Feb 2010 4:02 PM | 8 comments
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According to recent figures from Valve, active Steam accounts grew by 25 percent, year-on-year, to over 25 million.
Monthly "player minutes" has reached 13 billion, an all-time high, says the company.
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1 Feb 2010 3:46 PM | 4 comments
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Sony has announced that it will debut a new reality series, via the PlayStation Network, beginning later this month dubbed The Tester, in which 11 contestants compete in challenges to win the ...
1 Feb 2010 3:23 PM | 5 comments
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According to the latest Net Applications data, the Google Chrome browser continues to take market share from rivals Internet Explorer and even Mozilla Firefox, moving to over 5 percent market ...
1 Feb 2010 2:16 PM | 16 comments
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The Spanish language blog MuyComputer has reported today that Microsoft will be launching the long-anticipated Zune Phone this month at the Mobile World Congress event in Spain.
The presentation ...
1 Feb 2010 1:46 PM | 4 comments
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Microsoft has announced they will begin selling a 250GB HDD add-on for the Xbox 360 in Japan starting next month.
Beginning March 11th, the drive will cost ¥15,540 (about $172 USD).
The ...
1 Feb 2010 1:31 PM | 13 comments
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Xbox 'Halo 2' fans to have one last battle on April 14th 
Android 2.1 headed to Motorola DROID this week
Netflix to add 5.1 surround sound, captions to streaming service
Video Daily: Adobe Flash 10.1 limited to Android 2.1
Nook e-reader is available again
China shuts down large hacker ring
Hannover, YouTube make streaming deal
BenQ releases 'world’s slimmest' LED monitor
DVD Shrink v3.2.0.15
VLC v1.0.5
Nero Burning ROM v9.4.26.0
Asus M2N-MX SE
Nintendo Wii
Sony PlayStation Portable
LG BD370
Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite
TeamSpeak Client for Mac OS X v3.0.0 Beta 15