Jailbreak: Dirty word disappears from Apple iTunes store
Apple historically has fought iPhone jailbreaking by warning customers that their device warranties will be voided if they muck around with the innards of their Apple products. Now Apple appears to be taking its disapproval of jailbreaking one step further by censoring at least some references to “jailbreak” in its U.S. iTunes store. Read more
Let's see you try this with an MP3 file
Fun video here showing that vinyl records are indeed not outdated for some things, such as trick shots:
Researchers trying to solve wireless network capacity puzzle
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IPv6 bumper sticker: 1 way to make your car stand apart from the crowd
Here's one way to get yourself a few honks on the highway: An official IPv6 oval bumper sticker, from Interop in Las Vegas last week.
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Will Ruckus Wireless go to hell for this ad campaign?
Cisco might finally have met its match: A vendor that not only is fighting to win the hearts and minds of carriers and enterprises with its WiFi gear, but according to some also is attempting to control mankind's souls.
Ruckus Wireless has issued a "Public Apology" in the wake of receiving a letter taking the company to task for a recent video ad in which a passionate preacher tries to convert viewers into true Ruckus believers. Read more
Can't escape iPhone 5 rumors: Humorist David Sedaris weighs in
I gobble up iPhone 5 rumors throughout the week at work, but I figured going with my wife to see humorist and NPR favorite David Sedaris at Boston's Symphony Hall might be a respite from it all. Wrong. Read more
Volkswagen's car-of-the-future plans literally up in the air
I've been getting hit up by a slew of companies promising insights into the car of the future at the CTIA Wireless event in New Orleans next week. I can't remotely refer to myself as a car guy, but I wouldn't mind seeing one of these Volkswagen levitating cars in action:
JoeyBra offers women discreet place to store their iPhones
A pair of University of Washington students have begun promoting a bra they say can discreetly and comfortably be used to store iPhones, iPods, credit cards and more for women not carrying purses and who don't want to ask a companion to store the stuff in their pants pockets.
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Ticket for sold out 2012 Apple WWDC surfaces on eBay
The 2012 Apple WWDC website clearly states that tickets (including activation codes) to the sold-out event are "non-transferable and may not be sold, resold, or auctioned in any way," but that hasn't stopped at least one entrepreneurial sort from posting a ticket on eBay as so many have done in years past. Read more
Even Boston Bruins goalie's catlike reflexes not fast enough to handle texting and driving
An insurance company has enlisted Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas to help spread the word through a public service announcement about how bad an idea it is to text and drive simultaneously.
As Thomas, who led the Bruins to the Stanley Cup championship last season, says: "If a professional athlete with highly trained reflexes isn't quick enough to avoid [accidents while texting and driving] don't think you're special and you're going to be able to do it." Read more
MIT students play Tetris -- on a building -- to achieve Holy Grail of Hacks
(Photo: Erik Nygren, MIT)
The Boston Red Sox's 100th Fenway Park anniversary game vs. the New York Yankees might have been the toughest ticket in town on Friday, but it wasn't the only big game in town. Read more
iPhone 5 mock-up round-up: The beautiful, the bold, the ice cream
It's been more than a year since we've formally compiled iPhone 5 concept designs (see "Apple iPhoneys: The iPhone 5 edition") and with the number of new designs emerging in recent weeks that collection is looking badly outdated (though we did at least call attention to a curvaceous mockup making rounds in February). Read more
Geekiest Boston Marathon "Scream Tunnel" signs
Today is (a very hot) Boston Marathon Day, and as anyone who has ever run the Boston Marathon can tell you, the major highlight aside from the finish line is the Wellesley Scream Tunnel, a little less than halfway through the 26.2-mile course. Read more
Engrossed smartphone user vs. Black Bear
We've all heard the warnings about walking while keeping your eyes and nose in your smartphone -- yes, it's not just distracted drivers to blame for a rise in pedestrian deaths in recent years. Read more
Researchers: Those nasty, offensive violent video games make players....cooperative
New research sugggests you're better off being cooperative than aggressive to succeed when playing violent video games.
Researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, say their findings raise questions about the common perception of there being a link between violent computer games and aggressive behavior. They've published their study on How Gamers Manage Aggression in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. Read more
Google's Vint Cerf kicks off UK media museum's permanent gallery devoted to the Internet
Vinton Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and currently chief Internet evangelist at Google, helped kick off a permanent gallery called Life Online at the National Media Museum in Bradford, U.K. The gallery, which opens today, is "dedicated to exploring the social, technological and cultural impact of the internet. This permanent gallery will trace the history of the internet, uncover how it has changed people's lives and track the latest trends." Initial focus areas include open source and net neutraility. Read more
Qualcomm goes 'round the world in viral video ploy
Qualcomm is going back to the viral video well, promoting its energy efficient Snapdragon processors for smartphones and tablets in a video that shows a device going 36,000 miles around the world on one charge and being used to film a series of quirky optical illusions on the way.
The phone makes stops in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow, Dubai, Mumbai, Rio De Janeiro and Istanbul, over 20 days. Read more
MIT camera uses laser technology to peek around corners
MIT Media Lab researchers this week have had a paper published in the journal Nature Communications in which they outline a camera they've developed that can essentially take pictures around corners.
The video below illustrates how the femtosecond laser technology bounces photons off walls and the target image to produce enough data for an algorithm to chew on and allow the camera to produce 3D images. Read more
Researchers find cellphones may harm offspring, help people with mental illness
Yale School of Medicine researchers have found in studies using mice that exposure to radiation from cell phones during pregnancy can lead offspring to develop hyperactivity. Read more
Song pays tribute to sad iPad 2 buyers in wake of new iPad announcement
The laments of recent iPad 2 buyers on Twitter have inspired song-of-the-day musician Jonathan Mann to pen and record a little ditty in the wake of the new iPad announcement and inspired by a collection of the tweets on BuzzFeed. Read more
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