Wilson Electronics Sleek Pumps Up Cell Phone Reception

The problem of dropped calls and sluggish data service continues to plague a wide range of cell phone users--and unfortunately, there's no silver-bullet fix for all customers and situations. Case in point: the $100 (as of August 31, 2010) Wilson Electronics Sleek , which is designed to improve...



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Study ties nighttime lighting to depression

Following study linking night light to cancer growth, researchers now find that--in hamsters--night exposure to even the dim light of a computer or TV screen is linked to depression.

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Google Publishes API for Web Analytics Engine

Google has announced that its Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now available for developers....

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Review: Businesslike Droid Pro dragged down by cramped keyboard

Corporate types with small fingers will find much to like in Verizon's Android 2.2-based Motorola Droid Pro, says this eWEEK review. Most business users, however, will have trouble with the tiny keyboard, let alone the small screen, and would do better with a BlackBerry....

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It?s the Community, Stupid!

Last week's guest on Press:Here was Tim Wu, author of the new book Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Wu also wrote�this guest post for us about why we should all fear Steve Jobs. In general Wu -- who gets credit for coming up with the term "Net Neutrality" -- has a really important mission whether you agree with him or not: Raising alarm bells that the Internet, like every mass communication medium that has come before, could one day become strangled and controlled by a handful of companies. From what I've read and from our conversation on and off camera last Thursday, Wu seems to stop short of saying what has happened before on radio, telegram and television will happen with the Internet, saying it could happen. The question, he says, is whether there is something inherently different about the Internet from a technology standpoint that keeps it inevitably open. I think what keeps it from happening is something else: The community around the Internet and the age of modern entrepreneurship in which we live. Unless the FCC totally screws up on Net Neutrality, big Internet companies just don't have the luxury of shutting upstart rivals out. You want to be cynical and say money drives policy in Washington? Fine. There is more money on the side of the Internet being open than the Internet being closed.

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Microsoft's Windows 8 Direction Suggested by Job Postings

I understand why Microsoft would be reluctant to share too much about its development plans for Windows 8. After all, Windows 7 continues to sell at a steady clip (Microsoft claims 240 million licenses since the operating system's Oct. 2009 launch), and there's always the fear that officially announcing the next version will dissuade some XP and Vista holdouts from upgrading.

Nonetheless, Windows 8 rumors continue to percolate. Within the blogosphere, a 2012 release for the next-generation operating system seems the consensus. The scuttlebutt also suggests that, in keeping with Microsoft's widely touted "all in" strategy, Windows 8 will be tightly integrated with Web applications and content.

Microsoft itself may be publicly tight-lipped about Windows 8. But two new job postings on the company's Website suggest the company's actively searching for people to help build it. Both those postings have now been yanked from Microsoft's Careers Website, but blogs such as Winrumors and Windows8news have reproduced the copy in full; simply because I haven't seen these on Microsoft's Website with my own eyes (although I have no reason to distrust either of those fine blogs), take the following with a hefty grain of salt.

The first job posting seeks a Software Development Engineer who can help with work "on a Windows Azure-based service and integrating with certain Microsoft online services and Windows 8 client backup."

The second is looking for a Windows System Engineer to "play a pivotal role as we integrate our online services with Windows 8."

During the summer, an alleged internal slide deck suggested that the cloud would indeed play a big part in Windows 8. On June 26, a Website called Microsoft Journal (which soon disappeared from its Windows Live Spaces host site) posted the deck, dated April 2010, detailing Microsoft's discussions about the operating system. The features supposedly under consideration included ultra-fast booting, a "Microsoft Store" for downloading apps, fuller cloud integration, and the use of facial recognition for logins.

"Windows accounts could be connected to the cloud," read one of the slides, which followed that with a bullet point: "Roaming settings and preferences associated with a user between PCs and devices."

During a discussion at October's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2010 in Orlando, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested "the next release of Windows" posed the company's riskiest bet. Although the desktop-based Windows franchise continues to sell well, thinkers such as departing Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie believe the future lies in devices connected to the cloud--devices that take forms beyond traditional desktops and laptops.

"At this juncture, given all that has transpired in computing and communications, it's important that all of us do precisely what our competitors and customers will ultimately do: close our eyes and form a realistic picture of what a post-PC world might actually look like," Ozzie wrote in an Oct. 28 posting on his personal blog, days after the company announced his resignation.

If these job postings prove accurate, it's yet another small bit of evidence that Microsoft's trying to apply its "all in" cloud strategy to Windows. Personally, I'm wondering just how the company will walk that tightrope between the operating system's traditional desktop emphasis and the cloud paradigm. I guess we'll find out the answer in a few years.

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Cops Zap PCP-Using Rock Band Enthusiast (With Video) [Video]

From the University of Maryland comes this tale of holiday cheer - starring GameStop, Rock Band 3, a guy on PCP, cops, and the requisite taser. More »

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Acer Jumps on Android Tablets Bandwagon

Acer, Europe’s favorite budget computer maker, has jumped into the tablet game. Introduced yesterday, and available in April, the 7 and 10-inch tablets will both run the Android OS, and both have the slim body and foolishly long widescreen display we have come to expect since the Galaxy Tab arrived.
The ten-incher has a capacitive [...]

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Microsoft Launches Lync 2010, Targeting Enterprise Communications

Microsoft Lync 2010 formally launched with a New York City event Nov. 17. Microsoft hopes the unified communications platform will appeal to businesses large and small. - Microsoft formally launched Lync 2010, the rebranding of its
Office Communications software suite, with a New York City event Nov. 17. In
addition to providing business users with a software platform for enterprise
telephony, instant messaging, and video and audio conferencing, Lync can also
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Google Chrome adds option to hide any extension's button

Google Chrome extensions can be truly handy, but there's at least one feature power users have been clamoring for since the beginning: the ability to hide an extension's browser action button. Good news, Chrome Geeks: the Canary build now lets you hide extension buttons.

Just right-click the icon you want to disappear and select hide button, and it's gone. If you should happen to get removal remorse, just head to chrome://extensions and you'll find a show button link next to any extension you've previously hidden.

Yes, you could already drag-to-resize the entire browser actions area to hide any buttons which happened to be on the right-hand side -- but now you've got full control over which extensions get space on your toolbar and which don't.

At last, extensions which you can call from the context menu or invoke with a hotkey don't have to chew up valuable toolbar real estate in Google Chrome.

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Analysts Predict Rough Road for BEA Portal Customers

CMS Watch, an analyst firm that tracks and evaluates content management technologies, is warning customers to be wary of the risk posed by changes occurring at several major portal vendors, including the fallout from Oracle's acquisition of BEA. ...

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Academia.edu Launches A Directory Of 12,500 Academic Journals

As any scientist can tell you, there are thousands of scholarly journals out there. Some, like Science and Nature, are broad in scope, covering everything from human genetics to space. Others, like the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, are a bit more specific. Unfortunately, the huge volume of research that gets published can made it tedious to keep track of the articles that are relevant to you.�Academia.edu, a social network for researchers and other academics, thinks it has a fix. Now, journal articles aren't exactly hard to come by on the web. You can always search Google Scholar for whatever you're looking for, some universities offer their own search tools, and there are plenty of topic-specific sites that can help you find relevant material. The problem, according to Academia.edu founder Richard Price, is that this content and the communities around them are very fragmented. So Academia.edu built a directory of as many journals as it could find.

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Desktop Twitter Programs Revealed

Desktop Twitter clients offer some advantages over browser-based options for the more than 175 million registered Twitter users navigating the tens of millions of daily Tweets. Desktop clients free user from the limited range of controls and UT metaphors found in the browser, and there's less chance of being bitten by a web-based exploit. Moreover, third-party browser-based clients, such as HootSuite and Slipstre.am, hint at different ways of interacting with Twitter. It's no wonder that third-party applications have emerged as a significant means of accessing Twitter, with almost 15% of unique users coming through one of the leading clients. Based upon ease of use, the number of services supporting, interfaces to additional services such as URL shortening and filter management, here are five Twitter clients worth a look.

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Kinect-Based Robot Controls: Kinda Like Having Your Own Na'vi Avatar [Video]

Since being hacked a few weeks back, there's nearly been a notable re-appropriation of Microsoft's gesture-based Kinect hardware every day. Today is no exception: a robotics firm called Willow Garage can now control a humanoid robot using Kinect. More »

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