According to a slide uncovered by the Verge, Best Buy is asking its customers for thoughts on a 42-inch, $1,500 Apple HDTV. And it sounds dreamy: runs iOS, full App Store and iCloud support, an iSight camera. Too bad it’s all probably just a guess. More »
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42-Inch "Apple HDTV" Detailed in Best Buy Customer Survey [Apple Hdtv]
Good Old Games is running a $4.99 sale on multiple Sierra titles including Space Quest and Kings Quest. The games come in packages of three and are compatible with Windows (sorry, Mac users, but here’s a consolation prize).
Each package includes three parts of each series, including Police Quest, Space Quest, and King’s Quest. This includes such hits as the original King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown rendered in beautiful 16-color CGA, a game that literally made my jaw drop when I saw it boot up on my friend’s XT computer in about 1985. That, my friends, was true gaming, before the days of rail shooters and endless RPGs.
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First time accepted submitter AWESOM-O 4k writes “It seems like the popular file sharing site BTJunkie.org is gone. On btjunkie.org you are greeted with the following: ‘2005 — 2012 This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best! ‘”
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tsu doh nimh writes “Two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of all federal government agencies. Internet Identity, a Tacoma, Wash. company that sells security services, found evidence of at least one DNSChanger infection in computers at half of all Fortune 500 firms, and 27 out of 55 major government entities. Computers still infected with DNSChanger are up against a countdown clock. As part of the DNSChanger botnet takedown, the feds secured a court order to replace the Trojan’s DNS infrastructure with surrogate, legitimate DNS servers. But those servers are only allowed to operate until March 8, 2012. Unless the court extends that order, any computers still infected with DNSChanger may no longer be able to browse the Web. The FBI is currently debating whether to extend the deadline or let it expire.”
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Yesterday we showed you a few methods for quickly chilling your Superbowl libations, but none are as fast, or easy, as West Coast Chillers new can which lowers the energy drink’s temperature by 30 degrees at the push of a button. More »
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Hugh Pickens writes “PC Magazine reports that Ting, a new reseller of Sprint’s voice, 3G and WiMax services, has a new approach to mobile pricing that lets customers buy minutes, messages, and data separately, and allows households to pool them to an unlimited number of phones and data devices on one account. ‘Household data plans are the next step for consumers, mainly because people are adding more connected screens and devices to their lifestyle,’ writes Kevin Tofel. ‘And different household members have different data needs; some use a little while others consume gobs of gigabytes. Why not average out the usage across multiple devices?’ Both AT&T and Verizon have hinted at offering shared data plans in the future, but the devil’s in the details, says Tofel. ‘My hope is that family data plans come soon, to all carriers, just like we have for family voice and messaging plans.'”
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New Mobile Plan Pools Data On Unlimited Devices
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Today’s guest is John Souchak. John works at a company called RightScale, based in Santa Barbara. RightScale provide cloud management services to individuals, small businesses, and large companies. John runs the Education department at RightScale and he’s here to talk about Cloud Computing, why you might care about it, and what RightScale provides to companies.
He’ll be answering questions such as:
1. How do you define Cloud Computing? What is it?
2. If I own a business or I am a computer, why should I care about this whole cloud computing thing?
3. Tell me about your company and what does it provide in this cloud computing market?
New submitter The Mister Purple writes “A team of German researchers appears to have cracked the GMR-1 and GMR-2 encryption algorithms used by many (though not all) satellite phones. Anyone fancy putting a cluster together for a listening party? ‘Mr. Driessen told The Telegraph that the equipment and software needed to intercept and decrypt satellite phone calls from hundreds of thousands of users would cost as little as $2,000. His demonstration system takes up to half an hour to decipher a call, but a more powerful computer would allow eavesdropping in real time, he said.'”
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Satellite Phone Encryption Cracked
In a private market auction yesterday, Facebook was valued at $94 billion, which is squarely in the ballpark of the $100 billion valuation that financial pundits have been tossing around. Don’t read much more into it than that; there’s plenty of time for the valuation to change slightly before the actual IPO (sometime in May), and either way, it’s not going to affect you in the slightest. [Bloomberg BusinessWeek] More »
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