Twitter Gets New Authentication and More Secure URL Shortening Service
After having launched its official Twitter for iPad app, Twitter has announced some new changes to the service that is aimed at making the social networking site a little bit more secure for users and a little easier to use, especially if you're using third-party services. As part of the change, there'll be a new URL shortener and all apps that log on to Twitter will need to now use the OAuth authentication system, which went into effect at the end of August.
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Nokia to stop Ovi Files service
Nokia's Ovi Files service that provides the facility for one to remotely access files on a PC or Mac has been discontinued, and frankly, we aren't exactly surprised since the Ovi Files service wasn't the hottest property in the market to date. You still have until September 30th to "enjoy" the Ovi Files service since it will discontinue the day after, but Nokia has already advised users to uninstall the Ovi Files Connector from their computers. Good thing no files will go missing after the service is discontinued. There won't be any substitute after this, and Ovi Files has followed the footsteps of Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat.
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Apple TV (2010) first look / hands-on!
So we had a chance to spend a little time with the new and improved (and dirt cheap) Apple TV, and we like what we see. The streaming was speedy and extremely clear during our demo, and the overall speed of the interface seemed really solid. We also learned that the box is indeed 720p (just as we'd reported earlier). Apple told us that they felt that using 720p allowed them to strike a balance between quality and bandwidth. We're guessing most people won't complain if the service works as advertised. Take a look at a few of the pics below, and we're going to go back for a deeper look!
Gallery: Apple TV (2010) hands-on
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Sony To Preempt Apple With Its Own Media Subscription Service Announcement?
Details are still scarce, but rumor is going around that Sony could be looking to try and upstage Apple's September 1st event by announcing its own media subscription service. If the rumors are accurate, Sony's music and video subscription service will be launched on the PS3 and PSP, but will eventually spread to all Sony devices, including its home theater devices, PCs, Sony Ericsson phones, and also Walkman music players. The announcement will just be an early preview of the service, which is slated to go live in 2011.
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Ksplice Now Free for Fedora Users
Ksplice, the technology that allows Linux kernel updates without a reboot, is now free for users of the Fedora distribution. Using Ksplice is like “replacing your car’s engine while speeding down the highway”, and it can potentially save your Linux systems from a lot of downtime. Since Fedora users often live on the bleeding edge of Linux development, Ksplice makes it even easier to do so, and without reboots!
Fedora joins Ubuntu Desktop as a supported desktop distribution for the free installation of Ksplice Uptrack. Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu Server and CloudLinux are supported server distributions, and pricing for these systems is pretty modest. Here’s the full press release:
Ksplice Removes Need for Rebooting on Fedora
* Ksplice Uptrack service makes Fedora the latest Linux distribution to update without a reboot
* Service to be offered free of chargeCambridge, Mass., August 31, 2010 – Ksplice Uptrack, the rebootless Linux update service, is now available for Fedora Linux.
The offering, which is free of charge, makes Fedora the latest Linux distribution to instantly install crucial updates and security patches without any downtime.
Hundreds of the world’s cloud-computing providers, Web hosting firms and enterprise Linux installations use Ksplice Uptrack to update their kernels seamlessly, without disruption to customers. Today’s news adds the same capability for millions of Fedora users.
“Ksplice was originally developed on Fedora in the first place,” said Jeff Arnold, Ksplice’s founder and chief executive. “We’re thrilled to contribute our service back to the Fedora community for free.”
“Ksplice Uptrack is an interesting technology that promises to make it easier for our users to keep Fedora installations up-to-date,” said Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader. “We appreciate Ksplice’s participation in the Fedora community.”
Major Linux distributions ask their users to install a kernel update roughly once each month. Before Uptrack, each such update required a reboot. Until a system can be updated, it remains vulnerable to security flaws. By allowing users to install kernel updates without downtime, Uptrack slashes the cost of system administration and dramatically increases compliance with security updates.
Ksplice has contributed its software to the Fedora Project for integration into future versions of the distribution itself. In addition to Fedora, Ksplice Uptrack is available for users of seven other leading versions of Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, CloudLinux, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS, and OpenVZ. The service for Fedora and Ubuntu Desktop is free of charge. For other distributions, the subscription fee starts at $3.95 per system a month, after a 30-day free trial.
About Ksplice: Ksplice is an enterprise software company making reboots a thing of the past. Organizations use Ksplice Uptrack, the company’s first product, to make their Linux systems more secure, reliable and maintainable through seamless updates. Ksplice was founded in 2008, based on research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2009, the Wall Street Journal named Ksplice the most innovative security company of the year. Ksplice is based in Cambridge, Mass. For more information, please visit http://www.ksplice.com.
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Samsung: MetroPCS launching LTE service next month
What now, Verizon? We kid, we kid -- regional player MetroPCS' bid to become the first American carrier to launch a commercial LTE network won't likely have much bearing on the competitive landscape, but that doesn't make it any less impressive. We'd already known on the record that the company was on track for a launch before the end of 2010, but Samsung -- which is producing MetroPCS' inaugural 4G handset, the Craft -- is now saying on no uncertain terms that they're ready to flip the switch in the service's first two commercial markets, Dallas and Las Vegas, next month. Interestingly, MetroPCS won't confirm Samsung's statement, so we suspect Sammy just blew the lid off this thing before MetroPCS was ready. Whoops! Service pricing -- and device availability beyond the Craft -- both remain to be seen.
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Next Big iTunes Update to Be Social Web-Based Site and Not Cloud-Based Service? [ITunes]
Too many headlines have focused on iTV and new iPods for the upcoming Apple event that the cloud-based iTunes has almost slid into obscurity. Almost. AllThingsD's sources say to forget about a streaming service, and start thinking social. More
Playboy to Launch Game Label, Kindle 3 Reviews Hit the Web
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
- Playboy has hopped on the tech bandwagon in recent months with both a NSFW website and a 3-D print spread. The empire that Heffner built is now extending its reach into the gaming marketplace, thanks to a partnership with Bigpoint. [From: Joystiq]
- Kindle 3 reviews are starting to hit the Web, and David Pogue praises Amazon's latest e-reader as "ingeniously designed to be everything the iPad will never be: small, light and inexpensive." [From: The New York Times]
- YouTube today adds language support for Croatian, Filipino, Serbian and Slovak, continuing its march across the globe. [From: Wired]
- Sanrio fans will finally be able to live out their Hello Kitty fantasies on the Web, now that 'Hello Kitty Online' has launched. [From: Joystiq]
- Facebook has announced that it's dropping Internet Explorer 6 from the list of browsers supported by its online chat app. [From: Computerworld]
- In an attempt to recapture the so-called glory days of Facebook's college-only years, the appropriately named CollegeOnly is a new social network aimed at the collegiate set. Going live later this year, the service will launch at Ivy League schools. [From: Paid Content]
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Google introduces Voice in Gmail, free calls to US and Canada (update: impressions)
Rumors have been buzzing about since June, but Google just made it official -- the company's baking Google Voice calls right into Gmail today. Like the Google Chat text, voice and video chat integrated into the web-based email client in prior years, full phone calls will also be an option using VoIP technology from the Gizmo5 aquisition. Google's demoing the "Call from Gmail" service for us in San Francisco this morning, and it's looking like it's not free, but fairly cheap -- a product manager just called Paris for $0.02 a minute. Incoming calls pop up as a chat window in Gmail (and ring your Google Voice-equipped phones simultaneously) and you press a "Call phone" button that appears near the top of the Chat window to send an outbound call, at which point a dialer appears where you can copy and paste numbers or tap them in manually. Users can screen incoming calls or send them to voicemail with a single tap.
You'll be able to make calls to US and Canadian landlines completely free of charge, buying prepaid credits using Google Checkout for international landline calling at $0.02 a minute and a good bit more (We saw $0.19 to Spain) for calls to international mobile devices. Google will sell its own credits for the program (via Google Checkout), which should be available in a few weeks, but the Voice in Gmail service goes live today in the US and will begin rolling out to users immediately. Google's only committed to free calls to US and Canadian landlines through the end of the year, as paid international calls are the sole revenue stream here: "Our hope is we'll be able to make enough margin on international calls to keep offering it at that low price," a product manager told us. We're going to give some VoIP goodness a spin right now, check back later for impressions!
Update: Google Voice product manager Vincent Paquet confirmed that the service's newfound VoIP functionality does indeed stem from the Gizmo5 acquisition -- Call from Gmail is partially based on Gizmo5 technology, was developed by a team including Gizmo5 engineers, and resides in part on Gizmo5's backend. He wouldn't comment any more specifically on the technology than that. Also, that cherry red phone booth up top apparently isn't just for show -- Google's agreed to trial free calling booths at an airport and a pair of universities!
Update 2: We've just tested Call to Gmail and Skype side by side using the exact same setup, and found Google's service boasts surprisingly competitive voice quality to the reigning incumbent. When we called a fellow editor's iPhone 4 from a Gmail-equipped laptop, the sentences he spoke sounded much clearer than through Skype, with each individual word crisper and more recognizable even as volume and pitch sounded much the same. Unfortunately for Google, the inverse wasn't true -- Skype did a much better job canceling noise from our integrated laptop microphone in a crowded room.
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