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		<title>What Is Tumblr?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.) If you&#8217;re a regular reader here at TIME Tech, you can skip this post entirely, as you already know what Tumblr is. For the rest of you, make sure your Depend elastic-leg undergarments are cinched really, really tightly, because what you&#8217;re about to read can only be fairly categorized as a technoerotic thriller. Let&#8217;s begin. What is Tumblr? Before there was social networking, there were blogs. And in an effort to muddle things, at one point in time the concept of blogging without trying too hard became known as microblogging. Tumblr is part microblogging, part social networking. If you want to write a several-thousand-word opus about something, Tumblr isn&#8217;t the place to do it. If you want to share a moving picture of a little kid acting like a detective as quickly and easily as possible, Tumblr is a good place to do it. That&#8217;s the microblogging aspect to Tumblr. Then, other Tumblr users who like moving pictures of little kids acting like detectives can follow you on Tumblr so they&#8217;re sure to see every moving little-kid-acting-like-a-detective picture you post. That&#8217;s the social networking aspect to Tumblr. For very little information about what Tumblr does, visit the main page of Tumblr.com. For more information, visit Tumblr&#8217;s About page, which says: Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, e-mail or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme&#8217;s HTML. Why is the E in Tumblr missing? Tumblr Yes, it&#8217;s very unprofessional. For a website to try to convince people that it&#8217;s cool, sometimes it will drop a random vowel from its name. You&#8217;ll notice the Tumblr logo also has a cool period at the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163048&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo-Tumblr: It&#8217;s Not What You Buy, It&#8217;s What You Do With It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/19/yahoo-tumblr-its-not-what-you-buy-but-what-you-do-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Yahoo first approached us eons ago, we were pretty skeptical. But after meeting the people on the Yahoo team and getting a picture of where they were going, we got religion. Maybe that&#8217;s too strong. We realized we were all eating at the same church potluck. The things that were important to us were: being open, building innovative stuff and kicking ass. Were these people our people? Yes. See the stuff Yahoo&#8217;s announced recently [including, of course, this]? They&#8217;re evolving in really interesting ways — and from our look inside, we know that there&#8217;s a lot more coming. Yahoo won&#8217;t be the Yahoo you&#8217;ve come to take for granted. Nope, that isn&#8217;t David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, talking about Yahoo&#8217;s $1.1 billion acquisition of the microblogging service he co-founded. Kara Swisher of All Things D is reporting that the deal is done and that her sources say it&#8217;ll be announced on Monday. We&#8217;ll hear from Karp then, presumably. Flickr in 2004, before it was a Yahoo property But the sound bite above is from March 2005, and the start-up founder who&#8217;s explaining a Yahoo buyout is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of Flickr. At the time, the photo-sharing start-up was as cool as any site on the Web; just as buying Tumblr is allegedly a gambit to make Yahoo cool again, buying Flickr was supposed to help reboot Yahoo, a company that was feeling a tad shopworn even eight years ago. The Flickr acquisition came at a time when Yahoo was snapping up interesting small companies by the carload — among the other ones it purchased in 2004–05 were Dialpad, del.icio.us, Konfabulator, Musicmatch, Stata Labs and Upcoming.org. All came with cool reputations, innovative services and smart people. Some of the acquisitions instantly stopped mattering under Yahoo ownership; others did O.K., at least for a while. (Flickr continued to boom at first, but eventually became staid and backward-looking; it was only in December that it released a really first-rate iPhone app.) None of them had a transformative effect on Yahoo, which is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163033&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Yahoo Board Approves Billion-Dollar Tumblr Deal</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/05/17/purple-power-yahoo-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-tumblr-for-up-to-1-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Gustin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet icon Yahoo is in talks to buy New York-based social blogging platform Tumblr for as much as $1 billion, according to multiple reports. via Purple Power: Yahoo! Reportedly in Talks to Buy Tumblr for Up to $1 Billion &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162973&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Electronic Army Compromises Financial Times Blogs and Twitter Feeds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/syrian-electronic-army-compromises-financial-times-blogs-and-twitter-feeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Raphael Satter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (AP) &#8212; A clutch of blogs and Twitter accounts maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the Syrian Electronic Army, a pro-government group which often attacks media organizations it sees as sympathetic to the country&#8217;s rebels. A few of the FT&#8217;s dozens of Twitter feeds and blogs broadcast messages in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad and attacking Syria&#8217;s opposition. One described the Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra as terrorists and linked to a graphic video of a hooded man shooting kneeling prisoners in the back of the head. &#8220;Syrian Electronic Army Was Here,&#8221; the group crowed on one of the FT&#8217;s Twitter feeds. One of the hackers said his group was behind the attack but declined to answer further questions. The group has apparently spent much of the past 24 hours trying to break into the FT&#8217;s system. One internal company memo distributed Thursday and seen by The Associated Press warned FT employees not to click on suspicious emails, while a second earlier Friday warned the FT was &#8220;facing a phishing attack.&#8221; Phishing describes the use of innocuous-looking emails or websites to trick users into giving up their passwords or other details. The Syrian Electronic Army has routinely used the tactic to take control of Twitter feeds of other media organizations. Recent targets have included the BBC, al-Jazeera, E! Online, and satirical newspaper The Onion. Last month the group claimed responsibility for hacking The AP&#8217;s Twitter feed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162969&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study: More Teens Killed Texting While Driving than by Drunk Driving</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/study-more-teens-killed-texting-while-driving-than-by-drunk-driving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Fox Van Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chilling new research from the Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New York suggests that texting while driving has become the number one cause of death amongst teenagers behind the wheel, surpassing drunk driving for the first time. An estimated 3,000 teenagers die each year due to sending and receiving text messages while driving, as compared to the 2,800 who died due to drunk driving. Another 300,000 teenagers were injured via texting – a number again higher than the 282,000 injured due to intoxicated drivers. The researchers involved in the study suggest that the problem isn’t that texting behind the wheel is more dangerous than driving under the influence. The problem is that teenagers text far more often than they drink, especially while driving. Having more opportunities for accidents results in, predictably, more accidents. Though the survey only took a look at the driving habits of teenagers, it would be safe to assume that texting while driving is just as dangerous to adults. A recent study by AT&#38;T showed that nearly half of all adults text while driving – a rate even higher than amongst teens. The results of this study seem to confirm a study from earlier this year stating that even hands-free texting is as dangerous as drunk driving. But though statistics may seem scary, there’s plenty you can do right now to help prevent a texting-while-driving accident in the future. Take a look at Techlicious’s guide to Safe Alternatives to Texting While Driving, which gives you a rundown of the top apps and services that restrict your teens’ phone use while driving. This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Techlicious. More from Techlicious: Apps That Offer Safe Alternatives to Texting While Driving More Adults Than Teens Text While Driving Court Rules Using Maps Apps While Driving Illegal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162772&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Square&#8217;s Second Hardware Product: A Decidedly Square-esque Cash Register</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/square-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, innovative payment-processing startup Square introduced Business in a Box, a bundle which turned an iPad into a cash register. It included a third-party stand and a third-party cash drawer; it looked really useful, but I was a bit surprised that a company as interested in controlling its user experience was willing to outsource so much of it to existing products designed by other companies. Turns out that Business in a Box was a stopgap. At an event at San Francisco&#8216;s Blue Bottle Coffee this morning, the company introduced Square Stand, a $299 iPad-as-cash-register device which it designed itself. It&#8217;s Square&#8217;s second hardware product, after its tiny headphone-jack card Square Reader swiper, and will replace Business in a Box in July. (The first version is for the iPad 2 and third-generation iPad; a version for the current iPad, with Lightning connector, is due later this year.) Square Stand exudes style: it&#8217;s white, sleek and gorgeous. With the iPad installed, it&#8217;s tough to tell where the tablet ends and the stand begins. And as with Apple products, even the packaging is an artistic statement. But Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said that how it looks is less important than how it works. Speaking of existing cash register systems for small merchants, he said that &#8220;nothing works together, nothing is seamless, nothing fits. We thought we could do better.&#8221; The overall goal, he said, was to help merchants ring up more transactions in less time, thereby making larger quantities of old and new customers happy. As with other Square variants, merchants pay a flat 2.75% transaction fee for sales made through Square Stand. Square Unlike Business in a Box, it doesn&#8217;t use Square&#8217;s headphone-jack swiper &#8212; instead, there&#8217;s an oversized, two-way swiper designed for easy, fast swiping in busy environments. &#8220;You don&#8217;t even have to look &#8212; you can look at your customer,&#8221; Dorsey said. The headphone jack is used to secure the iPad, like an improvised Kensington spot, and the whole thing swivels. It&#8217;s designed, of course, to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162745&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Windows 8 Update Will Be Free</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/microsoft-windows-8-update-will-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Microsoft says a planned update to its Windows 8 operating system will be made available for free later this year. The update is meant to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. Microsoft isn&#8217;t saying what kind of changes will be introduced with the release of the new system, though Microsoft plans to make a preview version available next month. The release of the final version is expected in time for the holiday season. Microsoft Corp. announced the update last week, but wouldn&#8217;t say at the time whether consumers would have to pay for it. Codenamed Blue, the update now has an official moniker: Windows 8.1. Microsoft made the announcement at an investors conference in Boston on Tuesday.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162765&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zact: Build Your Own Wireless Plan, Down to the Last Detail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/zact-build-your-own-wireless-plan-down-to-the-last-detail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to wireless service, every individual and family has different needs &#8212; and oftentimes, those needs vary from month to month. But you wouldn&#8217;t know that from the plans offered by the big U.S. carriers. Even at their most flexible, they just don&#8217;t offer enough options, and they generally encourage you to pay for more service than you actually need for fear of overages. And then there&#8217;s Zact. It&#8217;s a new wireless provider which, judging from a demo I recently received, comes as close as any I&#8217;ve ever seen to providing absolutely custom service plans. Rather than making you choose from one of a few offerings, it lets you choose from lots of them &#8212; and then allows you to refine those options further until you&#8217;re paying for exactly the service you use. It&#8217;s like a purveyor of beautifully custom-tailored suits in a world of S, M, L and XL. Zact&#8217;s service, which will be available next month, runs on Sprint&#8217;s network. But if you sign up, you&#8217;re a customer of a startup named ItsOn. Zact is ItsOn&#8217;s own consumer brand, but the company has built a software-and-service platform designed to let other companies provide similar offerings; if it&#8217;s a success, there could be many Zact-like services around the world. Zact offers contract-free service, which means you pay full price for phones but can leave whenever you like without paying an early termination fee. In some broad respects, it&#8217;s reminiscent of other price-conscious alternative wireless providers which don&#8217;t own their own networks, such as Ting and Republic Wireless. But it&#8217;s doing multiple things which are genuinely new. For instance, it gives you so much control over the services you pay for that you can choose to use a particular app without splurging on a full-blown data plan. $5 a month will get you access to Facebook &#8212; and nothing else. $1 a month lets you play Candy Crush with friends. And so on. More general-purpose options &#8212; voice, data and text &#8212; are available in multiple quantities, starting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162651&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Simplifies Free Storage into a Single 15-Gigabyte Chunk</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/google-simplifies-free-storage-into-15-gigabyte-chunk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously sliced and diced into varying increments and doled out between Gmail and other Google services, the search giant has simplified things by melting its free storage offering into a single 15-gigabyte chunk to be used as you see fit. Per the Google Drive Blog: [I]nstead of having 10 GB for Gmail and another 5 GB for Drive and Google+ Photos, you’ll now get 15 GB of unified storage for free to use as you like between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos. With this new combined storage space, you won’t have to worry about how much you’re storing and where. For example, maybe you’re a heavy Gmail user but light on photos, or perhaps you were bumping up against your Drive storage limit but were only using 2 GB in Gmail. Now it doesn’t matter, because you can use your storage the way you want. You can check your current storage here and purchase more if you need it. You may not see the 15-gigabyte clump right away: Google says the changes &#8220;will roll out over the next couple of weeks.&#8221; Bringing it all together: 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos [Google]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162648&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France Mulls Culture Tax on Smartphones and Tablets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/france-mulls-culture-tax-on-smartphones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (AP) &#8212; The French government is considering creating a new tax on smartphones and tablets in a bid to raise millions to support the creation of digital cultural content inside France. The proposal, handed to President Francois Hollande Monday, outlines a 1 percent tax on the sale of Internet-compatible devices, targeting companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon. The tax would yield about 86 million euros per year. The revenue would help cultural industries create French content such as music, images and videos. The proposal is part of France&#8217;s &#8220;cultural exception,&#8221; a policy that protects French cinema and music industries, and other creative sectors, against foreign &#8211; often American &#8211; competition. The French government will meet leading figures of the cultural sector in the next few weeks before any decision is made.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162645&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Reservations About Samsung&#8217;s 5G Speed &#8216;Breakthrough&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/13/some-reservations-about-samsungs-5g-speed-breakthrough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a shop owner anticipating Christmas in July, Samsung Electronics is this morning touting new technology it claims will allow it to usher the world into the 5G era by 2020. If you can stand to wait seven years, the company&#8217;s talking about core &#8220;adaptive array transceiver&#8221; technology that delivers so-called fifth generation speeds &#8220;up to several hundred times faster&#8221; than today&#8217;s 4G networks. What&#8217;s that translate to in download speeds? Up to &#8220;several tens of Gbps per base station,&#8221; says Samsung, adding that this could allow users to sling around vast data files and ultra-HD movies &#8220;practically without limitation.&#8221; (In other words, Shazam!) The new technology reportedly solves limitations with millimeter-wave bands (operating at high frequencies) transmitting data over long distances due to atmospheric attenuation. (I don&#8217;t pretend to understand the atmospheric physics, but it involves, among other things, radio signals and the resonance of oxygen molecules, as well as &#8220;rain fade,&#8221; where radio signals are absorbed by ice, rain and snow.) Samsung says it&#8217;s been able to successfully work around this by using 64 antenna elements transmitting data at 1.056GBps at a frequency of 28GHz for up to 2 kilometers (a little over a mile). All well and good, but before we get all rapturous about downloading ultra-HD content in a blink, let&#8217;s revisit an arguably bigger problem we haven&#8217;t solved still, today &#8212; a problem higher speeds will only exacerbate. Imagine you&#8217;re zipping down the Interstate, and say the speed limit&#8217;s 80 m.p.h., but you&#8217;re &#8212; did I say zipping? &#8212; actually creeping along at half that because, you know, two lanes and rush hour &#8212; a real bumper-to-bumper slog. That&#8217;s what my smartphone&#8217;s data connection sometimes feels like living in a college town, say on (football) game day, during any of the city&#8217;s big summer festivals or, you know, when school&#8217;s in primetime session seven months a year. The trouble&#8217;s not that my 4G smartphone or tablet connection isn&#8217;t fast enough (in theory) to instantly stream high quality videos and music &#8212; even a 3G connection&#8217;s capable of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162634&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Proposes Ridiculously Fast In-Flight Internet Speeds</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/fcc-proposes-actually-tolerable-in-flight-wi-fi-speeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a slam dunk 4-0 vote, the Federal Communications Commission just proposed kicking off a process that could eventually make your experience cruising the Interwebs at 30,000 feet considerably less, shall we say, sedate. How? By auctioning off the rights to recently freed up airwaves, and allowing Internet service providers to share those airwaves with satellite companies. According to the FCC: The Commission proposes to establish an air-ground mobile broadband service, using a ground-based network to communicate with planes, by taking advantage of technical innovations to expand sharing of certain spectrum among users. Expanded availability of in-flight Wi-Fi will help meet demand from travelers to connect to a full range of communications services while flying in the contiguous United States. More options for in-flight broadband are likely to increase competition, improve the quality of service, and lead to lower prices. Today&#8217;s in-flight Internet service involves either satellite (an antenna mounted atop the plane) or air-to-ground systems (an antenna mounted beneath the plane, communicating with terrestrial towers). Anyone who&#8217;s used or had to pay monthly for satellite-based Internet knows it&#8217;s fraught with limitations, including speed (in particular latency) issues as well as high data usage prices and ridiculously punitive data caps. Air-to-ground communications are much less expensive, which is where this FCC proposal comes in, which &#8212; if it comes off, as hoped, within the next few years &#8212; could result in much more reliable in-flight broadband that matches or exceeds the speeds of existing ground-based service. How fast are we talking? As the New York Times reports: The new system would share the 14.0-14.5 gigahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, a 500-megahertz band that is far wider than the current 4-megahertz band used in air-to-ground systems. All of that means that the new system would be capable of transmitting data at up to 300 gigabits per second — or 30 times the average home broadband speed. [Update: the Times just issued a correction to this statement, writing that "The proposal envisions a combined service speed of up to 300 gigabits per second, to be shared among all the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162547&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a Huggies Device that Lets Babies Tweet When They Pee</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/10/finally-a-huggies-device-that-lets-babies-tweet-when-they-pee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is important: a device, masterfully dubbed &#8220;Huggies TweetPee,&#8221; that attaches to your baby&#8217;s derriere, then relays Twitter-like alerts to your smartphone to let you know when it&#8217;s diaper change time. No, that&#8217;s not Spanish you&#8217;re hearing in the ad above &#8212; they speak Portuguese in Brazil, and the spot&#8217;s the work of a Brazilian ad agency &#8211; but it is an honest-to-goodness device made by Huggies (yes, that Huggies) that you clip to the front of your child&#8217;s diaper, after which it monitors the vicinity for sudden changes in humidity levels, dispatching tweet-style alerts to an app on your smartphone. Like (courtesy Google&#8217;s translation): &#8220;Time to change!!!&#8221; &#8220;Oops, did a few drops.&#8221; &#8220;All OK here.&#8221; The alerts can be sent via text messages or through social networks, according to the ad. It also keeps track of each diaper change, you know, for parents who like to toilet-trend-watch (it&#8217;s not clear if it automatically detects the change or that you have to manually enter this info). As Digital Trends notes, given the messaging intervals displayed in the ad video, the device, which resembles a tiny ovoid bluebird, probably checks at preset intervals &#8212; it&#8217;s not clear if it&#8217;s capable of alerting you on the fly. (It&#8217;s also not clear that&#8217;d be desirable, since your baby may only have piddled a little and doesn&#8217;t require an immediate change &#8212; no one wants an app that nags &#8220;Change me!&#8221; every 15 minutes.) Huggies claims the device is ergonomic (both &#8220;comfortable&#8221; and &#8220;safe&#8221;), that it&#8217;s easy to shift from diaper to diaper, that it can send alerts to anyone with permission to receive them and that you can even use the app to order new diapers (Huggies-only, surely) after it&#8217;s notified you your existing stash is low; yes, it&#8217;ll tabulate your diaper count, probably sending that info back to some master control database, which isn&#8217;t creepy at all. Undocumented, presumable bonus feature: Detecting spit-up that&#8217;s somehow found its way from your baby&#8217;s mouth past arms and short-sleeved onesie to soak the bottom of a pair of cargo<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162531&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Reportedly Working on 3D Smartphone with Eyeball Control Interface</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/amazon-reportedly-working-on-3d-smartphone-with-eyeball-control-interface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is working on &#8220;a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses.&#8221; This rumor comes to us courtesy of &#8220;people familiar with the company&#8217;s plans,&#8221; according to the Journal. Whether true or not, it shouldn&#8217;t come as an earth shattering surprise that Amazon might be working on some sort of smartphone &#8212; the company has found success in hardware devices such as its Kindle e-book readers and Kindle Fire tablets. Oh, and speculation about an Amazon smartphone has been going on since what seems like the day after the first Kindle Fire tablet was introduced (see here, here and here, for starters). However, to tout glasses-free 3D in 2013 as a major feature of a smartphone seems downright insane. We saw a handful of glasses-free 3D smartphones trickle out a few years ago, consumers yawned, and now &#8212; surprise, surprise – we don&#8217;t hear much about glasses-free 3D smartphones. The Journal&#8216;s description of this miraculous glasses-free 3D technology certainly sounds impressive &#8212; especially the bit about being able to navigate stuff with your eyeballs: One of the devices is a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for 3-D images without glasses, these people said. Using retina-tracking technology, images on the smartphone would seem to float above the screen like a hologram and appear three-dimensional at all angles, they said. Users may be able to navigate through content using just their eyes, two of the people said. But a somewhat less enthusiastic gadget user *might* read into that as a gimmick paired with a second gimmick. If the phone itself is cool and the gimmick-plus-gimmick 3D thing turns out to be a nonessential added feature, so be it. Actually, what the hell: make it the main feature and promote it heavily. I want to see what happens. The Journal also reports that Amazon is working on a second smartphone, along with &#8220;an audio-only streaming device.&#8221; The audio device would make sense given Amazon&#8217;s ownership of Audible.com; another smartphone<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162490&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Microsoft Eyes Barnes &amp; Noble Nook Business for $1 Billion</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/report-microsoft-eyes-barnes-noble-nook-business-for-1-billion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch is reporting that they&#8217;ve obtained internal documents containing an offer from Microsoft to buy Barnes &#38; Noble&#8217;s Nook business. Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion [TechCrunch]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162470&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Las Vegas to Arctic glaciers, navigate through time and space as you explore changes to Earth&#8217;s surface over the last three decades. Timelapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162459&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What You Need to Know About Mobile Security</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/09/what-you-need-to-know-about-mobile-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Mariella Moon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There might&#8217;ve been a time when you weren&#8217;t overly worried about your mobile devices getting infected by malware &#8211; after all, viruses and spyware were a threat mostly to computers. But as smartphones and tablets become increasingly popular, so do threats that target mobile devices exclusively. According to a 2013 report by Web security provider Blue Coat Systems, an increasing amount of malware is making the jump from desktops to mobile. Security company McAfee also warned in February (PDF) that it detected over 36,000 malware threats, most of that number targeting Android devices. Though it&#8217;s not just Android. If you have a mobile device, you need to know how malware is targeting it and what you can do about it. If malware sneaks on to your phone or tablet, it can install adware, activate SMS Trojans that send out expensive text messages from your phone without you knowing, and even let othersspy on your emails, texts and web browsing. How malware infects your mobile devices The most common way malware infects a phone or a tablet is through downloaded apps masquerading as a popular title or as a useful utility program. You&#8217;d think you wouldn&#8217;t fall victim to that if you&#8217;re careful, but some malicious programs are very well disguised as legitimate apps. In 2012, for instance, fake Angry Birds and Assassin&#8217;s Creed apps hit Google Play, and many Android users unknowingly downloaded the malicious programs that charged them a premium rate &#8211; roughly $22 &#8211; for each app. That modus operandi, however, might soon change. Security researcher Chris Astacio warns that it&#8217;s very likely for attackers to start tweaking mobile malware to infect devices via web pages instead of through apps. At a presentation at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco in late February, he revealed that software that exploits vulnerabilities on computers has been starting to look out for web hits made by iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Which indicates that, although it&#8217;s not yet an actual threat, this method might be used to attack mobile devices in the future. Abundance of Android<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162424&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Smart&#8217; Nanoparticles Can Now Control Blood Sugar in Diabetics for &#8216;Days at a Time&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/smart-nanoparticles-can-now-control-blood-sugar-in-diabetics-for-days-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say you&#8217;re diabetic: Instead of having to inject yourself with insulin multiple times a day, imagine only having to do it once a week. Crazy, right? And instead of your syringe harboring glucose-regulating insulin, imagine it filled with nanoscopic particles you fire into your bloodstream &#8212; particles capable of detecting when your body&#8217;s blood sugar levels rise and releasing insulin accordingly. Thanks to research conducted at North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Children’s Hospital Boston, what sounds like a Kurzweilian science fiction fantasy may soon be reality for the estimated 25.8 million children and adults in the U.S. alone &#8212; 8.3% of the population, according to the American Diabetes Association &#8211; with high blood sugar (and 366 million in all worldwide). &#8220;We’ve created a ‘smart’ system that is injected into the body and responds to changes in blood sugar by releasing insulin, effectively controlling blood-sugar levels,&#8221; says NC State University biomedical engineering assistant professor Dr. Zhen Gu, the lead author of a paper describing the work (via NC State news). &#8221;We’ve tested the technology in mice, and one injection was able to maintain blood sugar levels in the normal range for up to 10 days.&#8221; Diabetes, also known as diabetes mellitus to describe the full range of health complications the disease encompasses, is essentially about glucose or &#8220;blood sugar&#8221; control. Glucose is a crucial energy-delivering body fuel, but it requires the hormone insulin to convey it to the body&#8217;s cellular network. If you don&#8217;t produce enough insulin, glucose can accumulate to unhealthy levels, resulting in all sorts of unpleasant symptoms that can range from mild to life-threatening. Thus diabetics have to monitor their glucose levels throughout the day, periodically injecting themselves with insulin to regulate their blood sugar levels. That means keeping diagnostic tools &#8212; as well as insulin &#8212; handy at all times, learning how much insulin to administer with each dose (not as straightforward as it might sound, and getting this wrong poses its own complications), to say nothing of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162382&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Firms Say Syria Goes Offline Again</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/08/internet-firms-say-syria-goes-offline-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Barbara Ortutay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Syria is experiencing an Internet outage similar to a two-day blackout late last fall, according to companies that monitor online traffic around the world. Jim Cowie, the chief technology officer at Renesys, said his firm saw Syria&#8217;s networks go offline abruptly at 6:25 p.m. UTC (2:25 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday. Google Inc. also indicated that its services were inaccessible in Syria for more than three hours as of 6:00 p.m. EDT. Syrian authorities have cut phone and Internet service in select areas in the past to disrupt rebel communications when regime forces were conducting major operations. Such widespread outages, however, have been rare. Akamai Technologies Inc., which helps companies distribute online content, also confirmed the outage. &#8220;We saw our traffic to that region drop to zero,&#8221; said David Belson, who monitors the traffic at Akamai. Last fall&#8217;s communications blackout also included telephone service, but it was unclear late Tuesday if phone service was also cut off in the civil war-torn country. Belson said there was another, brief outage in early January.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162376&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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