Pembesut Angry Birds akan Bernilai USD 1,2 Miliar

Pembesut Angry Birds akan Bernilai USD 1,2 Miliar Jakarta - Pembesut game populer Angry Birds -- Rovio Entertainment -- dikabarkan akan menerima investasi yang membuatnya jadi bernilai USD 1,2 miliar. Belum diketahui perusahaan apa yang akan mendanai Rovio. Namun kucuran dana ini menjadi sesuatu yang menarik karena sebelumnya Rovio menolak tawaran dari beberapa investor besar.Akan tetapi bukan berarti Rovio menolak semua pendanaan. Di bulan Maret, mereka menerima USD 42 juta dari Atomico, perusahaan milik Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder...

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Facebook features new gaming canvas and ticker

Facebook has updated their game pages to feature a much bigger canvas; i.e. gamers will get to play their game in bigger / near full resolution now on facebook. Plus there is a brand new ticker on right side similar to facebook chat. This new ticker is focused for gamers and shows filtered stream of their friends gaming updates. These two changes will allow people to play without need to switch to full screen mode in games as well as always keep an eye on requests and achievements being done by other friends. You can easily remove your game related posts from wall from within the ticker. There is game bookmark option for more frequently played games too. According to Facebook these changes will allow people to find out new games that their friends started to play more easily,...

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Norton Mobile Security Lite for Android

Symantec famous for its “Norton” line up of antivirus and security software for Desktop PCs has just released a freeware security app for Android devices called: Norton Mobile Security Lite. This security app detects mobile related antivirus and malware on downloaded files as well as on inserted SD cards. The app is targeted to be very battery friendly. The Lite version also comes with feature to lock your phone remotely. Whereas the paid version called: “Norton Mobile Security 2.0″ adds to this feature set the ability to locate your phone and to wipe it remotely, among a few others. With the rampant use of smartphones and their “always-on” the internet nature leaves them vulnerable to many threats and having such an app for free may not be a bad idea for people. Get the...

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Hitachi Ingin Sederhanakan Komputasi Awan

Hitachi Ingin Sederhanakan Komputasi Awan Jakarta - Banyak yang mengira jika penerapan cloud computing (komputasi awan) merupakan sesuatu yang rumit. Padahal tidak selalu demikian adanya. Sejumlah vendor bahkan sudah memiliki cara untuk membuatnya menjadi sederhana.Salah satunya seperti yang dilakukan Hitachi Data Systems yang baru saja merilis solusi konvergensi data center yang diklaim dapat mempercepat dan menyederhanakan penerapan komputasi awan secara otomatis. Solusi tersebut memadukan sistem storage kelas enterprise dan...

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Use your real name on Google+ or get minused fast

By Suzanne ChoneyOK, Google's done foolin' around with you folks who don't want to use your real name on Google+. From here on out, if Google learns the name you're using is not your real name, you've got four days to make amends. After that — you're kicked off of Google+. That's how the hottest new social networking site rolls.aA not-very-happy looking Saurabh Sharma, product manager on the Google+ team, made the announcement late Thursday in a video shared on YouTube (above) and on Google+. He must have sensed how well this was going to go over with users.aIt was presented as an "update to how we handle potential violations of our common name policy."a One of the things we strive for on Google+ is to make connecting with people on the web more like connecting with people in the real...

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Ponsel Jadul Lebih Baik Dipakai Nelepon

Ponsel Jadul Lebih Baik Dipakai Nelepon Jakarta - Sebuah studi menyebutkan, ponsel jadul--yang masih menggunakan jaringan 2G--memiliki kemampuan lebih baik saat digunakan menelepon ketimbang smartphone yang sudah berkapasitas 3G. Ponsel generasi terbaru seperti iPhone Apple atau Galaxy S2 Samsung, memang menawarkan teknologi 3G canggih yang memungkinkan akses ke jaringan kecepatan tinggi, email dan internet.Sayangnya, berdasarkan riset yang dilakukan regulator komunikasi di Inggris Ofcom, performa ponsel canggih ini tidak begitu...

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Google Remains Ahead of Bing, But Relevance Drops

According to an Experian Hitwise report released Thursday, Google accounted for just more than 66 percent of searches conducted by the 10 million U.S. Internet users sampled during a four-week period last month. Microsoft's Bing-powered searches comprised 28.05 percent of the sample, of which 14.49 percent were from Yahoo Search. More than 81.36 percent of the searches in Yahoo Search resulted in a visit to a web site, with Bing a close second at 80.6 percent. By contrast, Google's success rate was significantly lower at 67.6 percent. "The share of unsuccessful searches highlights the opportunity for both the search...

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UK cops will find you, and they will shame you ... digitally

Greater Manchester Police DepartmentaThis seems about right.aBy Helen A.S. PopkinUK cops don't play.aIf you're one of the many mayhem-makers who brutalized London over the past week — your thuggery immortalized by the country's ubiquitous closed-circuit TV cameras — the police will find you, and summarily shame you. And they'll do it with the most efficient technology available in their ranks.aEven now, mobile advertising vans are driving around London, projecting digital images of suspected looters. Those same images are also projected on giant screens at Piccadilly Gardens and the Printworks as part of the Greater Manchester Police Department's (GMP) "Shop a Looter" campaign. The campaign (Twitter hashtag #shopalooter) asks citizens to help authorities identify the culprits.aGreater...

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Anonymous vows to take down Facebook

People of the world, mark your calendars for 5th November, if hacker group Anonymous (including a whole load of script kiddies and fanboys everywhere as well) is to be believed, Facebook will be “destroyed” on that day. The hacktivist group released a video on YouTube proclaiming what it dubs OpFaceBook, a plan to take down the social networking giant. Their grouse lies against the website’s widespread privacy violations. A voice garbled narrator on the video has this to say: “Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called white-hat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria....

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HTC partners with Beats by Dr. Dre

HTC is well, flush with cash these days and it was only a matter of time before they bought themselves a present. And here it is: A 51% (seemingly majority) stake in Beats Audio, a high-end, high-quality audio accessories company for $309 million. The company has been on a streak lately, having acquired Dashwire, a cloud-computing company, and S3 graphics, which specializes in graphic chips (obviously). If you’ve been living in a cave recently, Beats audio was started by legendary producer Dr. Dre, with the ‘ phones themselves being manufactured by Monster. They’ve been spotted in major blockbusters, music videos, and practically everywhere in the media. Beats and the Taiwanese manufacturer will be initially be collaborating and innovating with audio...

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Smartphone Sales Cannibalize Feature Phones

Google's Android operating system claimed a commanding share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter, Gartner reported Thursday. Android accounted for 43.4 percent of all smartphone shipments in the three months through June -- a dramatic rise from the mobile platform's 17.2 percent market share in the year-earlier period. Smartphone shipments in the U.S. mobile handset market exceeded non-smartphone sales for the very first time, noted Hugues de la Vergne, Gartner's principal analyst for mobile-device research in North America. "Sales continue to be dominated by Android and Apple's iOS operating systems,"...

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Pre-caffeine tech: OKCupid! ISP cheats! Ice Cream!

via TNWaBy Helen A.S. PopkinOur pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today:aIs your ISP cheating you out of bandwidth? A new U.S. government test offers a hint.aMeanwhile, five sentences in UK prime minister David Cameron’s address on the London riots are causing an Internet meltdown. It's a bit of an overreaction, and here's why.aUK police are trying out Scotland Yard's updated face-matching program with it photos of looters and vandals snapped in the act.   aAn Indiana schoold district messed up big time when it punished two teen girls over a racy lollipop picture, a judge ruled.aDid we mention? Soon, you'll be able to send text...

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Balas Google+, Facebook Rilis Fitur Game Baru

Balas Google+, Facebook Rilis Fitur Game Baru Jakarta - Inilah jawaban Facebook terhadap peluncuran game yang dilakukan pesaingnya, Google+. Di sini, Facebook tetap berfokus pada pengayaan game-game yang ada di situsnya, alih-alih berpaling ke platform game baru.Seperti diketahui, Google+ baru saja mendatangkan game-game populer seperti Angry Birds dan Zynga. Tak mau kalah, Facebook pun menawarkan pengalaman baru yang asyik bagi mereka yang doyan ngegame di Facebook.Berikut tiga fitur baru sebagai jawaban kepada Google+, seperti...

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Tato Canggih Bisa Deteksi Kesehatan

Tato Canggih Bisa Deteksi Kesehatan Jakarta - Tato, selain sebagai salah satu bentuk karya seni, kini bisa juga berfungsi menjadi alat bantu medis. Bayangkan, tato yang satu ini bisa memonitor kesehatan seseorang. Tentu saja, tato yang dibuat tim ilmuwan dari University of Illinois ini tidak berwujud seperti tato pada umumnya. Tato ini lebih seperti chip yang menempel pada kulit si pasien.Dilansir New Scientist dan dikutip detikINET, Jumat (12/8/2011), tato ini, setelah ditempelkan pada kulit pasien, akan memonitor kesehatannya...

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911 Tanggapi Laporan via SMS, Foto & Video

911 Tanggapi Laporan via SMS, Foto & Video Jakarta - Untuk lebih meningkatkan layanannya pada masyarakat, panggilan darurat 911 berencana untuk tak hanya menerima panggilan telepon namun juga SMS, foto serta video.Layanan yang beroperasi di Amerika Serikat ini menerima lebih dari 650 ribu panggilan tiap harinya dan per tahunnya panggilan tersebut mencapai lebih dari 240 juta. Dari panggilan tersebut, hampir 50% berasal dari ponsel. "Dengan teknologi baru ini, kami akan melakukan tugas kami dengan lebih baik," ujar chairman...

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Pasarkan Perangkat Android, Huawei Gandeng TAM

Pasarkan Perangkat Android, Huawei Gandeng TAM Jakarta - Huawei Device mengumumkan komitmen untuk memberi kemudahan bagi konsumen Indonesia menikmati perangkat Android mereka. Hal ini diwujudkan melalui penandatanganan perjanjian kerjasama dengan PT. Teletama Artha Mandiri (TAM),distributor perangkat mobile di Indonesia.Berdasarkan Nota Kesepahaman (Memorandum of Understanding), TAM sebagai partner strategis Huawei akan mendistribusikan produk Android Huawei. Diawali dengan Huawei IDEOS S7 Slim, IDEOS X5, IDEOS X3, IDEOS X1, SONIC,...

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Waroeng Ekspres, Paduan Game Kuliner dan Budaya

Waroeng Ekspres, Paduan Game Kuliner dan Budaya Jakarta - Satu lagi game anak negeri yang dirilis untuk ponsel. Waroeng Ekspres, sebuah game ringan yang tidak hanya mengangkat tema kuliner namun juga mengungkap kebudayaan Indonesia.Game ini memiliki dua versi, yakni Waroeng Ekspres dan Waroeng Ekspres Jawa. Konon kegemaran masyarakat pada kuliner serta pentingnya pengenalan budaya Indonesia yang melatar belakangi pembuatan game ini.Dalam keterangan tertulis yang diterima detikINET, Jumat (12/8/2011), Aksara Games Studio selaku...

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Tablet PC Lenovo Mulai Menampakkan Diri

Tablet PC Lenovo Mulai Menampakkan Diri Jakarta - Sudah cukup lama gaung tablet PC Lenovo terdengar di Tanah Air. Nah, kini gadget tersebut mulai menampakan diri. Seperti apa?LePad, merupakan tablet perdana Lenovo yang diperkuat Android Froyo dengan prosesor Snapdragon 1,2 Ghz. Produk ini mengunggulkan layar sentuh 10,1 inchi dengan antarmuka khas LeOS.Nah ketika hadir di Indonesia nanti, tablet ini tampaknya akan mendapatkan beberapa penyesuaian misalnya saja sistem operasi yang akan digunakan.Ketika dijajal detikINET di FX Plaza,...

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Permanent HP Price Cut Adds To Strong Tablet Market

After Hewlett-Packard lowered the price of its TouchPad by 20 percent, a new report says cheaper devices with fewer features are fueling a surge in the tablet market. "De-featured, low-cost media tablets are being introduced by more than 50 vendors in 2011," said ABI Research mobile -devices group director Jeff Orr. "This will certainly help bolster year-over-year growth for the category, but it also creates a negative perception in the minds of the mass consumer audience about the readiness of media tablets to be fully functional within the next several years. Good user experiences and product response are needed to...

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Airbag for your smartphone? Amazon's Bezos floats idea

U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeaBy Todd Bishop, GeekWireMany of us have experienced the problem: We get careless with our mobile phones, they slip out of our hands, and all of a sudden we’re back at the store replacing a shattered device.aWell, none other than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a solution for us: Airbags for phones and other portable devices. Or springs … or a propulsion system.aNo joke. And, of course, we know this because he wants a patent on the technology.aAmazon.comaJeff BezosaA patent application made public this morning lists Bezos and Amazon VP Greg Hart as the inventors of “a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage.”aIt starts with a safety monitoring system that would use a gyroscope, camera, infrared beam, radar or other sensors to detect such...

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Good news/bad news: Twitter's becoming Facebook-like

TwitteraBy Rosa GolijanGood news: Twitter is adding some handy-dandy new tabs to its website. Bad news: The addition of those tabs makes the micro-blogging service resemble Facebook a bit.aThe two new tabs being added to the Twitter.com site are "@Username" and "Activity."aThe @Username tab shows you any Twitter activity that's related to you — such as who started following you, who replied to you, and which of your tweets which were favorites or retweeted. The Activity tab, on the other hand, shows the same information — but for people you follow. (Meaning that you can see whom they started following, which tweets they marked as favorites, and so on.)aSounds pretty useful, right?aIt is! We're just slightly concerned that it makes Twitter feel a bit like Facebook — you're...

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Saingi Apple, Amazon Rilis Kindle Cloud Reader

Saingi Apple, Amazon Rilis Kindle Cloud Reader Jakarta - Aplikasi web makin bervariasi dengan datangnya Kindle Cloud Reader besutan Amazon. Aplikasi ini berbasis HTML 5 sehingga memungkinkan user untuk mengakses konten-konten Kindle di cloud dan juga di Kindle Store.Peluncuran piranti pembaca buku elektronik berbasis web ini menanggapi perubahan kebijakan yang dikeluarkan Apple dan bisa dibilang aplikasi ini sebagai aksi hantam balik ke perusahaan Steve Jobs tersebut.Apple sejak bulan Februari melarang publisher aplikasi iOS untuk...

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Twitter, say Heello to your new competition

Shortly after Twitter announced it’s own photo sharing service (in partnership with Photobucket), TwitPic, a service that provided photo sharing service to Twitter, has launched it’s own micro-blogging website called Heello. The service does not seem to be any different to Twitter, except for the fact that it’s basic functions are named differently. As such, tweets are called ‘ping’, retweets are called ‘echo’, and following is called ‘ listen’. It has the same 140 characters limit. User reference can be made by the ‘@’ symbol as well, and the homepage ‘pings’ all the updates to whomever you are listening to. The only difference is that you can share your pings on Twitter and Facebook, however many other websites already provide a such a service, rendering Heello quite…pointless....

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Disney Kembangkan Teknologi Sentuhan Sekujur Tubuh

Disney Kembangkan Teknologi Sentuhan Sekujur Tubuh Jakarta - Sebuah teknologi sedang dikembangkan oleh Disney Research, Pittsburgh (DRP). Jika diterapkan pada game, teknologi ini bisa menghasilkan sensasi sentuhan di sekujur tubuh. Teknologi ini disebut sebagai Surround Haptics. Lewat alat yang dikenakan, pengguna bisa merasakan sensasi sentuhan pada bagian tubuh yang bahkan tidak disentuh langsung oleh alat itu. Jika diterapkan pada game, misalnya, teknologi ini bisa membantu menghadirkan sensasi 'terbang' atau 'jatuh' berupa...

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Perkuat Audio, HTC Caplok Beats Dr Dre

Perkuat Audio, HTC Caplok Beats 'Dr Dre' Jakarta - Vendor ponsel asal Taiwan HTC Corp menanamkan investasi jutaan dolar AS pada perusahaan pembuat headset dan speaker yang disokong oleh rapper Dr. Dre. Investasi ini ditujukan untuk memperkuat produk audio dan earphonenya.Nilai USD 300 juta telah disetujui oleh HTC dan Beats Electronic LLC di mana hal ini berarti HTC akan mengakuisisi 51% kepemilikan perusahaan yang berbasis di Amerika tersebut.Langkah pembelian ini akan melancarkan niat HTC dalam penawaran aksesoris di tengah persaingannya...

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Intel to launch Ultrabooks by end of this year; invest $300m in partner firms

Intel Capital, their global investment division, has announced that they will be investing $300 million in various companies developing new technologies for their upcoming “ultrabook” PCs over the next three to four years. ”We are interested in innovative technologies that deliver incremental value, for example, three-dimensional camera sensors and gesture software that will enhance interactive experiences,” said David Flanagan, Intel Capital Managing Director of Mobility Sectors, to Dow Jones Newswire. The new “ultrabook” category of portable computers is designed to be a bridging gap between laptops and tablets; the latter gaining more popularity everyday to the point of lowering PC sales globally. The first batch of ultrabooks will be coming out by the end...

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Facebook Messenger: Media Chatting Baru Facebooker

Facebook Messenger: Media Chatting Baru Facebooker Jakarta - Facebook baru saja merilis aplikasi messenger untuk iOS dan Android. Di dalamnya ada beberapa fitur mengirim pesan baik melalui jaringan 3G, WiFi, atau via SMS. Yuk, kupas satu per satu fiturnya.Facebook Messenger terbilang mendapat sambutan meriah dari pengguna. Dalam waktu singkat, aplikasi tersebut langsung merajai daftar aplikasi yang paling banyak diundah pada iTunes Store. Di Android Market, aplikasi ini memang belum memuncaki deretan aplikasi gratis terlaris diunduh,...

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Heello, Wujud Balas Dendam Pendiri Twitpic

Heello, Wujud Balas Dendam Pendiri Twitpic Jakarta - Tampilannya tidak jauh beda dengan Twitter, pun ia dijejali dengan fitur yang sama. Hanya nama fitur dan nama situsnya saja yang berbeda. Perkenalkan Heello, sebuah situs tiruan Twitter yang dibesut oleh pendiri Twitpic.Peluncuran situs ini hanya selang sehari setelah Twitter meluncurkan layanan peng-upload fotonya. Disinyalir, pembuatan Heello adalah aksi 'balas dendam' oleh Noah Everett karena layanan peng-upload foto Twitter seakan menjadi saingan langsung Twitpic yang juga...

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Tanri Abeng Perkuat Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia

Tanri Abeng Perkuat Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia Jakarta - Mantan Menteri BUMN Tanri Abeng direkrut Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia sebagai Presiden Komisaris. Nantinya, Tanri akan berkolaborasi dengan Rajeev Singh-Molares, Presiden Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pasifik, dan Frederic Chapelard, Presiden Direktur Alcatel-Lucent Indonesia.Rajeev Singh-Molares menyebut Tanri sebagai sosok yang kaya pengalaman dan sudah malang melintang di ranah bisnis. Diharapkan dengan pengetahuannya itu, Tanri dapat membantu Alcatel-Lucent untuk lebih unjuk gigi di...

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PlayStation3 3.70 Firmware Update Brings New Features

It seems like Sony wants to show the world it has more to offer in updates than just security updates.  We’ve seen them bring newer neat features with them before,  like Auto Download and Cloud Storage for saved games but the deal is about to get even better as Sony is bringing the Auto Syncing of trophies and automatic upload of Save files to the cloud server. But wait, of course it has strings attached! Like the previous services, this is only a PlayStation Plus exclusive. The new features make navigation much simpler. Though it is a paid service, you could argue that its worth the money because of all the goodies it brings in one package. Sony is also giving a separate XMB slot to video/TV Streaming services where your HULU Plus/Netflix and VUDU will go to...

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New USB 3.0 Spec Could Deliver Up To 100 Watts

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group is working on a new specification to significantly extend the power capabilities of the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 standard. The goal is to enable a new generation of USB 3.0 cables and hubs to deliver up to 100 watts of power to PC peripherals while maintaining compatibility with the USB battery-charging 1.2 spec and USB-powered applications already in use. Founded by Hewlett-Packard, Intel , Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group hopes to build on the rapidly increasing industry momentum for using USB power to charge a broad range of mobile...

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Amazon sidesteps Apple with HTML5 'Kindle Cloud Reader'

By Todd Bishop, GeekWireFrom a business perspective, the new “Kindle Cloud Reader” Web app released by Amazon.com this morning will let the online retailer link iPad users to its digital bookstore without sharing 30 percent of the revenue with Apple. It follows a standoff between Apple and online content providers over Apple’s new rules for revenue sharing inside native apps on its iOS devices.aBut it's also pretty interesting from a technology perspective: Kindle Cloud Reader takes advantage of the expanding capabilities of Web browsers — using HTML5, the latest generation of the underlying language of the Web — to make the experience more like an app downloaded and installed from a mobile marketplace.aA button inside the app links to the Kindle Store. That's a feature...

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The unofficial Google+ theme song

Heads up! There are a few words in this song which might offend the more sensitive listeners -- or bosses who might be within earshot.aBy Rosa GolijanEverything in life should have a theme song. Everything.aIn lieu of a theme song for every single thing, person, and pet though, we are willing to settle for a handful of really awesome tunes dedicated to the Internet trends we love and hate.aThe "Google+ Song" created by the folks of Break Media — and embedded above — happens to satisfy that requirement perfectly. It's set to the tune of Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" and has lyrics which celebrate the judgmental attitude we can develop when using certain social networks.aRelated stories:a Games coming to Google+? 'Anti-social network' video spoof mocks Google+ Google+ app works...

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Twitter Rekrut Mantan Bos TI Yahoo

Twitter Rekrut Mantan Bos TI Yahoo Jakarta - Twitter melebarkan ekspansi bisnisnya dengan melakukan langkah akuisisi terhadap perusahaan start-up bernama Bagcheck. Satu yang istimewa dari aksi korporasi tersebut adalah, mantan bos TI Yahoo juga termasuk dalam paket pembelian.Dia adalah Sam Pullara yang merupakan salah satu pendiri Bagcheck. Nama Pullara sempat naik daun setelah sosok ini sempat dipercaya menjabat sebagai Chief Technologist Yahoo.Yahoo Pipes, Yahoo Query Language, Yahoo Search BOSS dan beragam inovasi teknologi...

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Down but not out: Nintendo shoots for 3DS comeback

NintendoaCan a new color, a new price and some new games revive the Nintendo 3DS' flagging sales?aBy Winda BenedettiThe Nintendo 3DS may be down, but don't count the struggling new game system with the eye-grabbing 3-D powers out just yet. Or so says Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America.aFor the first time since Nintendo revealed the extent of its financial woes and slashed the price of its 3DS game system by a whopping $80 (this after a mere five months on store shelves) Fils-Aime is talking about what went wrong with the gadget's launch and what Nintendo plans to do to fix those mistakes.a I had a chance to talk with him Tuesday and one thing seemed clear: Nintendo is shooting for a 3DS comeback this holiday season.aThe company has just announced that it will launch the 3DS...

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LG P920, Perangkat 3D Dalam Genggaman

LG P920, Perangkat 3D Dalam Genggaman Jakarta - Menikmati konten 3 dimensi (3D) dengan menggunakan kacamata khusus mungkin sudah biasa, tapi tanpa kacamata itu memang luar biasa, terlebih lagi untuk sebuah ponsel.Era ponsel 3D tampaknya bakal dimulai dengan kehadiran LG P920, atau yang akan dikenal sebagai Optimus 3D. Ponsel ini tidak hanya mampu menampilkan video dan foto dalam modus 3D tapi juga mampu membuat konten tersebut. Selain itu, fitur apa saja yang ditawarkannya?Desain: Besar dan SederhanaBagi siapa pun yang baru memang...

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