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<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Apple's Phil Schiller says white iPhone not thicker than black]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 07:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>randemeand</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a magician stand right before your eyes and tell you that he has nothing up his sleeve Have you ever seen a card sharp on a busy street turn up the card you thought of when you know it can't be possibleAnd have you ever seen a whiteiPhone that is exactly the same thickness as a black iPhoneI ask because I read a curious report in 9 To 5 Mac. It relays details of a Twitter exchange between a reader, Ernesto Barron and Apple SVP of Product Marketing Phil Schiller-- who has a very sweet profile picture.Schiller doesn't tweet very often. Indeed, he has offered not one peep since April 14. Yet he is said to have replied, by direct message, to a public tweet by Barron.In it, Barron wondered why the white iPhone was thicker than the black one. He helpfully enclosed a little picture that seemed to offer sound visual evidence.Schiller's reported reply was curious: &quot;It's not thicker. Don't believe all the junk that you read.&quot;Um, what do you think (Credit:Tipb.com)Certainly this is sound advice. I only believe certain elements of the junk I read--principally, carefully selected sections of the National Enquirer, TMZ, and The Wall Street Journal. However, there appears to be some considerable evidence that the white iPhone is, indeed, thicker than the traditional black version.I am not sure how much this really matters. The reported difference was only 0.2mm, which, I imagine, is less than the diameter of much of the world's pocket fluff. Still, I know there will be some who will continue to be disturbed by this phenomenon.Might I therefore ask any highly committed Apple-user, collector or mere eccentric who happens to have both models, to contact us and express their most scientific appraisal of the two versions' relative thicknessIs this truly a mere touch of David Copperfield Or are our eyes being surreptitiously covered in wool in some distortion field of perception Did Apple really have to put in a little more of the white stuff so that the camera worked properly--or, for some other technically beautiful reason<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Passenger's Twitpics show hole in Southwest plane]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>randemeand</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[It's bad enough when your plane is struck by lightning. But I'm not sure how I would react if a hole suddenly appeared in the ceiling of the 737 I was on.I'm not sure my first instinct would be to take a picture. On the other hand, I'm not Shawna Malvini Redden.Yesterday, Malvini Redden was on a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Sacramento when there was something of an explosion. Then, lo and behold, there appeared a three-foot hole on high. Yes, the plane had developed a skylight, sans glass.Malvini Redden describes the situation in words on her blog, The Blue Muse.(Credit:Shawna Malvini Redden/Twitpic)She describes the shrieking and tears of others. She holds her seat mate's hand &quot;in a death grip.&quot; And yet, as the plane rapidly descends from 36,000 feet to 11,000, Malvini Redden still has time to take a few pictures, which she then posts to her Twitter account.Fortunately for those who enjoy seeing a record of such things, Malvini Redden's husband is an aviation pilot. So, as she described it, she was &quot;85 percent sure&quot; that she might still be alive, as the plane dipped for an emergency landing in Yuma, Ariz. She turned her cell phone on at 10,000 feet and texted her husband.&quot;How do you convey, 'I might die in a few minutes and I love you so much my heart aches at the thought of never seeing you again' without freaking someone the hell out I'll let you know if I figure it out.&quot; she wrote on her blog.(Credit:Shawna Malvini Redden/Twitpic)And yet her Twitpics manage to convey much of what happens on such a perilous flight. The hole in the ceiling seems so ridiculously scary that you wonder how she managed to keep her hands even vaguely steady. The Twitpic of a slightly surreal calm, but with oxygen masks lowered, is also cheerily eerie.Astoundingly, while she was still on the plane, she communicated with CNN and told it to feel free to use her tweets and Twitpics.There currently seems to be no definitive information as to what caused the gash to appear. And no one appears to have been hurt in the emergency landing.Malvini Redden has already tweeted she will be flying again Wednesday. Southwest, perhaps<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon opens its Android Appstore]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 07:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>randemeand</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=amazon-opens-its-android-appstore</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Amazon)Amazon officially opened its new and much-anticipated Android app store today.Serving up a round of competition to Google's Android Market, Amazon's Appstore for Android is stocking almost 3,800 apps for starters, with more on the way. To kick off the store opening, Amazon is giving away a free copy of Angry Birds Rio and is promising to offer one paid app for free each day.But the Amazon shop is opening amid controversy. Apple yesterday sued Amazon over the use of the term &quot;App Store,&quot; for which Apple filed a trademark after the release of theiPhone 3G. Apple is contending that use of the term could &quot;confuse and mislead customers.&quot; Lawyers will surely make note of the fact that Apple uses the term as the two-word phrase &quot;App Store,&quot; while Amazon has tweaked it slightly to the one word &quot;Appstore,&quot; perhaps in an attempt to distinguish it.Amazon's launch of its Appstore for Android comes at a time when Google's own Android Market has been facing some challenges, notably in the area of security. Google recently was forced to pull 50 different malware-infected apps that were masquerading as legitimate programs, calling into question the processes that the company uses to allow apps in its mobile store.Before shoppers at Amazon's Appstore can download Angry Birds or other apps onto their Android devices, they'll first need to install the retail giant's Appstore app on the device, a process explained on the Getting Started page. Once the Appstore app is installed, people can then browse and search for titles throughout the store. An Amazon acccount is also needed to download apps.As with most app stores, Amazon has organized its titles into a wide array of categories, including games, education, news and weather, travel, shopping, and social networking. Users wil also find apps in special categories, such as bestsellers, new releases, and free apps. Each app offers full descriptions and details along with user reviews. Amazon will also recommend certain apps based on a person's interests and history.Clicking on the &quot;Buy App&quot; or &quot;Get App&quot; button will download an app and add it to the My Apps page on the Web site or install it directly on the mobile device. People can browse, download, and buy apps either from their PCs via the full Web site or through the Appstore app on their devices.Amazon is also offering a &quot;test drive&quot; feature for many apps through which people can try before they buy. The Test Drive option lets users launch an app on Amazon's cloud-based EC2 service to get a quick feel for how it works.The Appstore for Android is generally compatible with any device running Android 1.6 or higher, according to Amazon. But there seems to be an issue with Android devices from AT&amp;amp'T. Amazon says that AT&amp;amp'T smartphone andtablet users can't currently install the Amazon Appstore app or buy apps from the store. The company says that AT&amp;amp'T is working on the issue and suggests that users visit the AT&amp;amp'T Web site to be notified when they can use the store.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo tops in the U.S. in January, ComScore finds]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>randemeand</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo reigns supreme in the U.S.The company attracted 178.9 million unique U.S. Web visitors last month, according to research firm ComScore, barely besting Google's 178.5 million unique users. Microsoft's sites came in third place, attracting 176.8 million unique users. Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five with 153 million and 111 million unique visitors in January, respectively. All told, nearly 212 million people in the U.S. were online last month, according to ComScore.Although Yahoo led the way in overall traffic, the company couldn't best Google in ads. According to ComScore, Google's advertising reached 93.1 percent of the entire U.S. audience. Yahoo's ad network was able to reach 85.5 percent of all U.S. Web users, while AOL's ads were seen by 85 percent of the U.S. Web audience. Facebook found its way into the top 10 in advertising reach, with its ads targeting 72.3 percent of the entire U.S. Web audience.Seasonality plays a crucial role in how traffic is dispersed around the Web. January was a busy month for taxpayers and travel-seekers.ComScore reported that tax-preparation sites, such as TurboTax and H&amp;R Block, saw 345 percent growth over December, attracting 26.8 million unique visitors in January. Online travel sites were up as well with 54 percent of all U.S. Web users--114.6 million people--accessing such pages during the month.New jobs were also on the mind of Americans, ComScore found. The company said that 80.2 million people explored &quot;career services and development resources&quot; in January, growing 24 percent over December.Indeed.com was the most-popular destination for job seekers.Yahoo wins the popularity contest.(Credit:ComScore Media Metrix)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Facebook tweak reveals addresses, phone numbers]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-tweak-reveals-addresses-phone-numbers</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>randemeand</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=facebook-tweak-reveals-addresses-phone-numbers</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In what is potentially another privacy misstep, Facebook has made a change to a permissions dialog box users see when downloading third-party Facebook apps--a change that potentially makes users' addresses and phone numbers available to app developers.The tweak was made known to developers of third-party apps Friday night, by way of a post on the Facebook Developer Blog. Basically, when a person starts downloading a third-party Facebook app, a Request for Permission dialog box appears that asks for access to basic information including the downloader's name, profile picture, gender, user ID, list of friends, and more. What's new as of Friday is an additional section that asks for access to the downloader's current address and mobile phone number.As mentioned in numerous media reports, the concern among Facebook users and privacy advocates is that users won't notice the change and will click the dialog box's Allow button unthinkingly. Further, people are worried that unscrupulous developers could cook up bogus apps with the sole purpose of capturing the private information--apps that wouldn't necessarily be spotted and taken down immediately. Aside from the potential for outright hacking and identity theft, it's not unheard of for app developers to sell information on Facebook users to data brokers.Screen capture of the Friday post on the Facebook Developer Blog, showing the newly tweaked Request for Permission dialog box, with addition of address and phone number section.(Credit:Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET)Users of third-party Facebook apps can simply click the Don't Allow button--which reportedly won't interfere with a successful download--or they can remove their address and phone number from their Facebook profile.Graham Cluely, with security company Sophos, suggested in his own blog post that users do the latter. (The post was brought to our attention by PC Magazine.) related Understanding what Facebook apps really know (FAQ)  &quot;My advice to you is simple,&quot; Cluely wrote, highlighting the following with boldface text, &quot;remove your home address and mobile phone number from your Facebook profile now.&quot; (CNET's Larry Magid walks you through that simple process here.)Cluely also wondered if Facebook could have taken a safer approach.&quot;Wouldn't it be better if only app developers who had been approved by Facebook were allowed to gather this information&quot; he wrote. &quot;Or--should the information be necessary for the application--wouldn't it be more acceptable for the app to request it from users, specifically, rather than automatically grabbing it&quot;CNET e-mailed Facebook a request for comment but hadn't heard back by publication time.Privacy was a major issue for Facebook last year, with the company provoking the concern of privacy advocates, lawmakers, and social-networking fans alike.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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