15 Billion dollars, Apple?  Someone is doing some Christmas shopping  —  So it came out last week that Apple had been saving a bit of money.  They are likely going to buy something and the internet blew up with ideas on what that should be.  Ars came up with Adobe, Tivo, Nintendo.

Source:   9 to […]

Vudu adds TV shows  —  The previously movie-only Vudu now offers some TV episodes as well  —  When we reviewed the Vudu back in September, we said “only feature films are available, but Vudu says that TV shows are on the roadmap.”  Vudu made good on that pledge today, adding 12 TV shows to its […]

Street View Images for Dallas, Detroit and Other 6 Cities  —  Every two or three months Google adds new cities to Street View.  This time Google included eight new cities from the US: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Providence (all of them are in the top 150 US cities by […]

Rice and laptops  —  Criticism of plans to get technology into the developing world is misplaced, says Bill Thompson.  —  One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is that I get to hear about interesting technologies from many different countries …

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7138061.stm

Dell Latitude XT tablet hands-on  —  We spent a few minutes with the brand new Dell Latitude XT and we have to say, as far as tablets (and especially Dells) go, this thing is top-tier.  Some thoughts:  — The whole machine’s decked in a ThinkPad-esque soft touch finish …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   […]

Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy  —  Will privacy sell?  —  Ask.com is betting it will.  The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to make their searches more private.  —  Ask.com and other major search engines like Google …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Miguel Helft
Link:   […]

Get ready for your close-up  —  Google’s acclaimed, criticized Street View bears down on Boston  —  Google Inc.’s controversial Street View feature, which offers 360-degree, street-level images of urban life so clear that passersby often can be identified, is set to make its Boston debut this morning.

Source:   Boston Globe
Author:   Robert Weisman
Link:   http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles…

In Test, Canadian ISP Splices Itself Into Google Homepage  —  A screen shot posted to the web over the weekend seems to show that Canada’s largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution technique that lets it add its own content to the webpages customers visit.

Source:   Threat Level
Author:   Sarah […]

Linux group moves ahead with Android alternative  —  A competing mobile Linux standard is moving ahead despite the threat posed by Google, InfoWorld reports.  The Linux Phone Standards Forum, or LiPS, has released the first specification of a new cellular software platform.

Source:   Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
Link:   http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/10/linux…