CUPERTINO, California — Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicked off a press conference Friday at his company’s headquarters with an unusual admission of fallibility. “We’re not perfect. We know that. You know that. And phones aren’t perfect either,” Jobs told the assembled crowd of about 90 journalists and bloggers, addressing widely-reported problems with the...
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Apple said that it planned to hold a news conference on Friday to discuss the iPhone 4 as concerns about problems with the device’s antenna continued to mount. Steve Dowling, a spokesman for Apple, would not give details of who would speak at the event, which is expected to be held at the company’s...
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Ebay has been slapped with a massive patent suit which could cost it at least $3.8 billion. XPRT Ventures of Connecticut said it shared the six patents – which cover online payment systems including PayPal – with eBay in confidence. The IPR holding company claims that eBay used this proprietary information to modify and incorporate...
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Cambridge, Mass. – Alternative rock favorites Deftones as well as Boys Like Girls and Crown of Thorns are in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™. With more than 400 artists, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who,...
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If you were a great big movie studio getting ready to release a major motion picture about the early days of Facebook, where would you advertise? You might want to try MySpace–or Twitter. But Facebook? Of course not. According to Sony SVP Steve Elzer, Facebook’s guidelines prohibit the new David Fincher-helmed The Social Network...
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Los Angeles, California– George A. Romero, the undisputed master of horror cinema (“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn of the Dead”, “Creepshow”, “Monkey Shines”, “Diary of the Dead”), partnered with Peter Grunwald, Artfire Films’ Art Spigel, and Ara Katz, to develop APP of the DEAD, available now for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch for $1.99. “Given the...
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Identity theft is nothing new, but now social media outlets, such as Facebook, are providing a new way for thieves to hijack identities. Diane Solomon was running in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women in downtown Los Angeles when she got a message from her neighbor in Santa Clarita saying she was talking to her...
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BERLIN – A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don’t use the social networking site. Johannes Caspar said his Hamburg data protection office had initiated legal steps that could result in Facebook being fined tens...
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Malicious hackers attacked Google’s YouTube on Sunday, exploiting a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on the ultra-popular video sharing site, hitting primarily sections where users post comments. “Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an hour , and we released a complete fix for the issue in about two hours. We’re continuing...
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Sony is recalling 535,000 Vaio notebooks because they may get so hot that the cases will bend and warp. The F-series and C-Series Vaios have been sold into various markets around the world: Japan, Asia, Europe and the US, although so far Sony has only received 39 reports of overheating problems, says the Wall...
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