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Free Wi-Fi at Beijing Olympics It’s spotty so far

30 Jun 2010

(Credit: Wicity via Sina)
Anticipated wireless coverage areas in Beijing. If they work, they are advertised to be free until after the Olympics.
Beijing Wicity is setting out to cover several key parts of Beijing with Wi-Fi access, and it is supposed to be free until after the Olympics, which will take place August 8-28, but [...]

Lawsuit over Yelp review settled

28 Jun 2010

Biegel’s lawyer contended that Norberg’s comments on Yelp were statements of fact and thus libelous. Blacksburg maintained that the comments were opinion and therefore were constitutionally protected speech.
“This case was settled with the mutual satisfaction of both parties,” said Michael Blacksburg, who represented patient Christopher Norberg. The terms of the settlement agreement [...]

Microsoft experimenting with a pause button for in

23 Jun 2010

(Credit:
CNET Networks)
(Credit:
CNET Networks)
Unfortunately this is a client-side stop-gap on the way to having such an option on the Exchange server itself. Sure your server admin can put a pause on your account, but you can’t. This option simply turns off Outlook’s software-based e-mail antenna, so messages will still dutifully arrive on your mobile phone [...]

iRobot co-founder to step down

22 Jun 2010

iRobot will begin looking for Brooks’ replacement in 2009. Brooks will remain on iRobot’s board of directors. He will also be chairman of a newly formed technical advisory board for the company, according to iRobot.
(Credit:
iRobot)
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks is leaving his post as chief technology officer to concentrate on a new robotics company.
“I want [...]

The honeymoon is over for Chrome

18 Jun 2010

Cause for alarm? Of course not. Google never intended Chrome to be a one-day-wonder, and I doubt the company is worried about Chrome’s market share today. The battle will be won over years, and it will be fought at the developer level against Silverlight and Flash, rather than at the browser level with
Firefox and Internet [...]

Report Palin, Obama lead in election-related spam

16 Jun 2010

(Credit:
State of Alaska)
The numbers don’t mean much in terms of who actually wins the election, but they do show that spammers are staying on top of what names are hot among Internet users. A “surge” of Obama spam apparently occurred around September 3, about the time of the Republican National Convention, according to [...]

Web freeloaders can breathe easy at Web 2.0 Summit

13 Jun 2010

My discussions in past weeks with experienced CEOs and venture capitalists have led to some fairly obvious and simple advice on making a free-to-paid business model work: First, clearly, there needs to be a paid version of the product. Many great Web 2.0 apps have satisfied users that would pay for the service if [...]

Apple software supports 5D Mark II camera

04 Jun 2010

Apple has added support for raw photo files from Canon’s vaunted if imperfect 5D Mark II to its Aperture 2 and iPhoto 08 software less than a week after rival Adobe did so with Lightroom.

(Via The Mac Observer.)
(Credit:
Canon)

Also supported is Leaf’s higher-end digital photography hardware, the AFi-II 6, AFi-II 7, Aptus-II 6, and Aptus-II [...]