http://www.techspott.com/ Computers and Technology Forums. Webmasters, Software, Drivers and many more discussions! en Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:15:07 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.techspott.com/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.techspott.com/ http://www.techspott.com/news/20773-waterfox-10-0-a.html Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:10:21 GMT ]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20773-waterfox-10-0-a.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20772-nfl-kicker-iphone-game-gets-you-ready-super-bowl-appolicious.html Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:06:21 GMT Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look... Appolicious - NFL Kicker! is the sort of game you download innocently enough looking to kill a few spare minutes; then, by the time you finally look up, you?ve spent half an hour devoted to kicking digital field goals. That?s far from a bad thing; rather it feels exciting to have a sports game on a mobile platform feel so immediate and gratifying.

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The roll overs are:

• Meet your new browser:
• See what’s new and improved with Internet Explorer
• Connect to the Cloud:
• Take your apps files and settings wherever you go
• Frequently asked questions:
• Get answers to your questions about the Windows 8 Consumer Preview
• Building Windows 8 Blog:
• Get an inside look from the Windows engineering team

At the bottom of the page are three sections; these are:

• See what’s new:
• Windows 8 Consumer Preview
• Windows Store:
• Discover great apps
• Windows Dev Center:
• All the tools you need to start coding your own apps

You can visit the site here: http://www.bing.com/?win8start=1 ]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20770-windows-8-consumer-preview-has-special-bing-homepage.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20769-u-s-government-seizes-307-domains-violating-nfl-copyrights.html Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:48 GMT While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency seized 307 different domains suspected of violating NFL copyrights. Of those, 16 were suspected of illegal streaming. The rest were allegedly selling counterfeit NFL merchandise.

The seizure was conducted under U.S. civil law, not criminal law. That means the affected parties need to prove that the internet domains were not engaging in illegal activity to get them back — an ugly mirror image of the country's usual "innocent until proven guilty" right. Many of the domains were not being operated by U.S. groups. Because they used U.S. domain suffixes .net, .com, and .org, however, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was empowered to act.

Visitors to any of the seized domains are now greeted by a message from ICE explaining the takedown. According to the government, these messages have already been viewed over 77 million times yesterday alone.

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With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits
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Asymco's Horace Dediu on Friday updated his quarterly review of mobile
phone profits, and the news for everybody but Apple just gets worse.
As the iPhone's share of the market in terms of units shipped has grown
from 3% in second quarter of 2010 to 8.7% last quarter, Apple's share of
the profits has swelled from 39% to 75%.
Dediu's chart of the eight largest manufacturers above shows this most
clearly.
Only five are seeing any kind of profit at all in mobile telephony. Samsung,
with a 16% profit share, comes closest to Apple. Nokia, Research in Motion,
and HTC are just scraping by. Motorola, LG and Sony, which bought out
Ericsson last month, are still in the red.
Remember: We're talking about all mobile phones, not just smartphones.
And the entire worldwide market, not just the U.S. This doesn't bode well
for the manufacturers who have hitched their wagon to Google's Android
or Microsoft's Windows Mobile 7.

For more of Dediu's charts, click here.


Source ]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20767-8-7-market-share-apple-has-75-cell-phone-profits.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20766-actas-eu-future-doubt-after-polish-pause-poland-freezes-anti-pira.html Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:26:59 GMT Poland's prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country.
"I consider that the arguments for a halt to the ratification process are justified," Donald Tusk told reporters.
"The issue of signing of the ACTA accord did not involve sufficient consultation with everyone who is part of the process," Tusk said, adding that he would hold broad talks on what to do next.
"The ACTA ratification process will be frozen as long as we haven't overcome all the doubts. This will probably require a review of Polish law. We can't rule out that, at the end of the day, this accord will not be approved."
Tusk's decision comes in the wake of high-profile protests mostly by young Poles who fear the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) -- aimed at creating international standards for intellectual property protection -- could significantly curtail online freedom.


Polish legislators



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More... ]]> News mldebo http://www.techspott.com/news/20765-apple-google-facebook-natural-monopolies-contributornetwork.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20764-apple-motorola-patent-struggle-germany-ap.html Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:57:19 GMT AP - Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies.

More... ]]> News mldebo http://www.techspott.com/news/20764-apple-motorola-patent-struggle-germany-ap.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20763-micron-ceo-appleton-dies-plane-crash-reuters.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:18:01 GMT Reuters - Micron Technology Inc Chief Executive and Chairman Steve Appleton died in a small plane crash on Friday, a major loss for a U.S. memory chipmaker already struggling with sluggish computer sales and declining prices.




More... ]]> News mldebo http://www.techspott.com/news/20763-micron-ceo-appleton-dies-plane-crash-reuters.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20762-smart-phones-overtake-client-pcs-2011-a.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:18:01 GMT PCs include pads. Canalys today released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smart phone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the... PCs include pads.



Canalys today released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smart phone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was that total annual global shipments of smart phones exceeded those of client PCs (including pads) for the first time.
Vendors shipped 158.5 million smart phones in Q4 2011, up 57% on the 101.2 million units shipped in Q4 2010. This bumper quarter took total global shipments for the whole of 2011 to 487.7 million units, up 63% on the 299.7 million smart phones shipped throughout 2010. By comparison, the global client PC market grew 15% in 2011 to 414.6 million units, with 274% growth in pad shipments. Pads accounted for 15% of all client PC shipments in 2011....

On the Smartphone front, according to Canalys, Apple in number one in 2011, shipping 93.1 million smartphones, compared to Samsung's 91.9 million and Nokia's 77.3 million.
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]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20762-smart-phones-overtake-client-pcs-2011-a.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20761-angry-birds-boss-piracy-isnt-always-bad-thing.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:18:01 GMT "Stop treating customers as users, start treating them as fans."



Piracy isn't always bad for business and can help grow an entertainment brand, so argues the boss of Angry Birds developer Rovio.


As reported by The Guardian, Mikael Hed told an audience at the Midem conference in Cannes earlier today that the entertainment industry needs to change the way it looks at consumers.


"We could learn a lot from the music industry, and the rather terrible ways the music industry has tried to combat piracy," he explained.


"We took something from the music industry, which was to stop treating the customers as users, and start treating them as fans. We do that today: we talk about how many fans we have.


"If we lose that fanbase, our business is done, but if we can grow that fanbase, our business will grow."...



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]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20761-angry-birds-boss-piracy-isnt-always-bad-thing.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20760-ceo-micron-technology-dies-plane-crash.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:18:01 GMT Just reported on MSNBC: http://bottomline.ms...-in-plane-crash... Just reported on MSNBC: http://bottomline.ms...-in-plane-crash

The CEO of Micron Tech was killed in plane crash. ]]> News News Bot http://www.techspott.com/news/20760-ceo-micron-technology-dies-plane-crash.html http://www.techspott.com/news/20759-us-military-ready-deploy-secure-android-smartphones.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:18:01 GMT Quote The US government is ready to start handing out Android smartphones to high-ranking officials and soldiers stationed throughout the world,... Quote

The US government is ready to start handing out Android smartphones to high-ranking officials and soldiers stationed throughout the world, according to new reports. We’ve heard plenty of chatter over the past year or so about the government’s interest in deploying devices running Google’s mobile OS for military use, and, the powers that be have signed off on our favorite green robot’s enlistment forms. The decision came after Google’s biggest mobile competitor, Apple, denied government officials access to iOS source code. Android became an obvious choice due to the platform’s openness and the ability for a third-party to alter the operating system’s code. This has allowed for the government to create their own custom version of Android that meets stringent security standards and allows for the transmittal of classified information.

Much work has been done testing specific applications and analyzing the sorts of data transmitted. Researchers found that many apps often ask for permissions excessive of what they actually need to function. Government-issued Android devices will allow users to see exactly what information is being sent and then decline the transmission of that data. The goal is to provide a strong layer of security while still allowing those with the devices to enjoy a casual game such as Angry Birds during down time.

The devices will be used to relay sensitive information and aid in communications between officials high on the political scale as well as soldiers in theaters of combat. Using the secure smartphones our men and women on the frontline will be able to communicate their position and better organize their military movements.

Oh, and the real kicker? One contractor working on the project has revealed that new Android OS updates will be pushed to government-grade devices in as little as two weeks. With a streamlined approval process, once software has been appropriately modified it will be fast-tracked to deployed smartphones. We’d like to see any carrier or manufacturer top that.
[via CNN | Thanks, Fort!]



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