Once in a long while a cell phone comes along that is completely unlike any other. We’ve seen fancy touch-screen phones and smartphones so clever they’re practically computers, but it’s rare we see anything that’s truly unique. The LG Decoy steps outside conventional wisdom and presents to us one such device: the first-ever handset with [...]

On its face, the signing of a deal with Warner/Chappell Music, the publishing arm of music label Warner Music Group, would appear to be a breakthrough for SpiralFrog.

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As for Pakman’s question about what the important metrics are for judging SpiralFrog’s success, it doesn’t matter. The company isn’t talking about them…anymore.

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Perhaps a little empathy, rather than blame, is therefore in order for the MySQL management team as they try to figure out how to trade in some of MySQL’s popularity for a bit more cash. It’s a fair desire but it’s by no means obvious that closing off some extensions will accomplish this. The MySQL [...]

Mr. Dean helps us to understand that divorce in England and Wales is dropping (yes, I’d heard beer sales were declining) and he compares his situation to a recent case in which a relatively famous English soccer player, Ray Parlour, once of Arsenal, suffered a mighty financial tackle from behind.
No, no. Now it’s “only in [...]

Not surprisingly, Chess and West draw parallels between the electronic systems handling our votes and those that handle our financial transactions. They conclude with several ways the federal and state governments can work with voting machine vendors to adopt business software assurance techniques into the systems they create.

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On the contest site, organizers list six reasons for hosting this event:

Contestants will be given a sample set of viruses and malicious code that they must modify and then upload through the contest portal. Once accepted, the sample will be sent through a number of leading antivirus engines (perhaps using VirusTotal.com to provide real time [...]

Note: if you can’t get enough Fallout, Bethesda promises an entirely new game in the series sometime next year, called Fallout: New Vegas.

More importantly, the Broken Steel expansion makes it possible for characters to continue to gain experience and new skills in the game (if you’re conversant with RPG lingo, the level cap has [...]

AT&T announced Tuesday it’s expanding its
iPhone international data plans, in a move designed to cut consumers’ reliance on pay-per-use data services.

Although AT&T’s two expanded data plans offer the discounted data roaming package in 67 countries, such as China, India, Israel, and the United Kingdom, the rate outside of these areas is higher.

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DirecTV is in the middle of a long-planned upgrade to new satellite broadcast technology. The company has launched new satellites that use MPEG-4 video compression to carry an ever-increasing number of HDTV stations, both local and national.
I’ll explain what happened and provide a detailed review of the HR21-700 over the next few days.
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I finally got a chance to try it out, as you can today, now that the site has gone into open alpha testing. At the current time, it’s cooler in theory than in practice, but there is a ton of potential here.

Once you tell Delver who you are, it builds your social graph [...]