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Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today in a new archive created by the British Library.

Online video viewership reached record levels in October, with YouTube passing the 20 billion views mark for the first time. That number represents a little less than 50% of all videos watched in the U.S., according to the latest statistics shared by comScore.

As Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac speculates, the iPad 2,4 mention possibly refers to a version of the Apple tablet for Sprint, which recently joined Verizon and AT&T as an carrier in the US. The various iPad 3 references most likely refer to the next-generation tablet, which is expected to debut sometime in March, according to earlier reports.

SYDNEY – Australia's aviation safety watchdog said Tuesday it was investigating after an Apple iPhone apparently began glowing red and emitting smoke on a passenger plane last week. The device partly melted and had to be doused by a flight attendant with a fire extinguisher, the Herald Sun reported.

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When his New York dentist overcharged him, submitted his records to the wrong insurance company, then refused to provide copies of his records to him so he could submit them properly himself, 42-year-old Robert Lee thought nothing of posting bad reviews to websites such as Yelp and DoctorBase. "Avoid at all cost! Scamming their customers!" he posted, hoping to warn others of the careless acts he had fallen victim to. Shortly thereafter, dentist Stacy Makhnevich demanded the sites remove the comments and threatened to sue Lee. Her practice began sending him fines in the form of $100 daily invoices for infringing on her copyright provisions.

The web is not a broadcast medium, it’s not a platform for interrupting people. It’s an interactive medium. In fact, the social web is very close to offline interaction. You wouldn’t interrupt people in the middle of a telephone conversation with an ad, so why do the same thing on Facebook? If you saw two people having an intimate chat at a party, you wouldn’t go over and suddenly interrupt them, to tell them something that is not related to their conversation. The social web requires marketers to build relationships with customers.

As the legal drama between Apple and Samsung drags on around the world, US District Court Judge has rejected Apple's request to block the sales of Galaxy devices. Reuters reports the ruling came out late Friday, with the judge deciding "It is not clear that an injunction on Samsung's accused devices would prevent Apple from being irreparably harmed,". This isn't the first rejection for the folks from Cupertino either, after a request to speed up the trial was also denied back in July. The case itself will of course go on, but this means you'll still be able to get your hands on those Galaxy Tabs, Galaxy S IIs and the like in the meantime.

Most of Gowalla's employees, including founder Josh Williams, will move to Facebook's offices in Palo Alto. The team will work on Facebook's Timeline feature, which launched at this year's F8 conference and is gradually rolling out to Facebook's 800 million members.

"It's not true," said Dan Rosenberg, a senior consultant at Virtual Security Research, who said the video shows only diagnostic information and at no point provides evidence the data is stored or sent back to Carrier IQ. "I've reverse engineered the software myself at a fairly good level of detail," Rosenberg said. "They're not recording keystroke information, they're using keystroke events as part of the application."

But now, when a serious issue like abortion searches come up, it causes confusion between the things that Siri can figure out automatically (with a lot of weakness) and the things it seems incredibly clever about (with some human help).

These results show that, as strange as it might sound, Silk appears to be faster when acceleration is turned off. Am I going to turn off acceleration on my Kindle Fire? No. I don’t want to miss out on the next wave of performance optimizations in Silk. The browser is sound. It holds its own compared to other tablet browsers. Once the acceleration gets sorted out I expect it’ll do even better.

Trying to outdo Apple's Mac App store, the Windows Store will let users download free trial copies of Metro-style apps to check out for a limited time. So developers won't have to cook up both paid and "lite" versions of their applications. Beyond that, both free and paid apps would be available. Microsoft will also run security checks and other tests to certify each app.

On Thursday, meantime, after new questions have emerged about whether your software might break wiretap laws and lead to class action lawsuits--not to mention queries about who exactly pays for the network bandwidth consumed by the Carrier IQ app--you issue another statement, answering many, but not all, of the data-collection questions that Eckhart and others had posed.

n a ruling released late on Friday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California denied Apple's request for a preliminary injunction against Samsung.

“It’s not normal human behavior to have people having a conversation with a phone on the street,

In a deal that could remake the boundaries of the cable and wireless industries, Verizon Wireless said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire wireless spectrum from three cable companies at a cost of $3.6 billion. The spectrum transfer, if approved by the government, will allow Verizon to further expand its wireless data networks. But perhaps just as important, a separate agreement announced Friday will enable the cable companies — Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks — to market Verizon services and vice versa, foreshadowing the possibility of cable television, broadband, home phone and cellphone service someday appearing on a single monthly bill.

He said those who were pushing the far-reaching antipiracy legislation have been huddling with Congressional staff members from both parties and both the House and Senate in the last few days, in an effort to answer some objections raised by Google, Yahoo and others who say the bills reach too far.

According to Wikipedia, the first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from a man named Neil Papworth using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset.

t none of the other rumored devices account for the slider form factor. Finally, CrackBerry has pegged a 10-inch BBX tablet as the Black Forest, which is purported to leave the bland PlayBook looks behind in favor of the angular lines we saw on the London.

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