Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber is readying the release of Part II of his platinum-selling debut album My World this March. The 15-year-old singing star has already had four singles chart in the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and he’s back for more! Take a listen to Justin’s spankin’ new single “Baby,” featuring Ludacris. The pop/R&B-influenced track was written and produced by Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, and Christina Milian.
Over the last few years we’ve noticed a troubling trend for Italian politicians to push absolutely ridiculous anti-internet policies. Some have claimed that much of this comes from the fact that current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi owns a lot of the mainstream media outlets in the country, and the lack of control over the internet bothers him and his party — which could explain why they use almost any opportunity to lash out at the internet. To make matters worse, there seems to be particular confusion over things like YouTube, leading to the ongoing lawsuit that could sentence Google execs to jailtime for not removing a video fast enough (Google took the video down within a couple hours of being alerted to it). Then there’s the politician who tried to file lawsuits against thousands of YouTube commenters.
So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that politicians in Italy are proposing that all web video in the country must first be authorized by the Communications Ministry (found via Slashdot). Officially, Italian officials say that they’re just implementing an EU directive on how to deal with product placement, but others note that this clearly goes way beyond that, with many seeing Berlusconi trying to stomp out online video competition to his media holdings.
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Susan Boyle has been unceremoniously snubbed from nominations for the 2010 Brit Awards!
The Scottish spinster’s debut LP I Dreamed A Dream spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard charts in the US and was the biggest-selling album of 2009 over the pond, but somehow managed to not earn a single nod at Britain’s annual ceremony celebrating the year’s best in music.
“The problem for the Brits is they’re supposed to be a celebration of British music – and cool,” a source told The Daily Mail Monday. “And whatever anyone thinks of Susan Boyle, she certainly isn’t cool. She’s not even shortlisted for ‘Best Female’, even though that’s usually the weakest category,” the insider further gushed.
“And it’s not just an attack on Susan. It also shows how Simon Cowell is regarded by many in the record business.”
The 30th Brit Awards will be held in London on Feb. 16.
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The Guardian is reporting that Google China is investigating its staff about The Incident. “”We’re not commenting on rumor and speculation. This is an ongoing investigation and we simply cannot comment on the details,” a Google spokeswoman said. Security analysts told Reuters the malicious software or malware used in the attack was a modification of a trojan called Hydraq. A trojan is a hidden program allowing unauthorized access to a computer. The analysts said the sophistication in the attack was in knowing whom to attack, not the malware itself.
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The 1.6 liter diesel engine, born out of Peugeot’s diesel HDi FAP technology, has made its debut in the motoring world under the hood of the 308 Coupe Cabriolet.
The 8 valve unit develops 112 HP (at 3,600 rpm) and has a peak torque of 270 Nm (at 1,750 rpm) with an overboost function which increases the latter to 285 Nm while meeting the new Euro 5 emission standards.
It is based on its 1.6 liter 110HP, 240Nm predecessor but 50% of its components have been redesigned in order to achieve the… (read more)
Creating a game on your own is no easy task. Aside from making sure you have all the artistic and programming skills necessary—or that you can assemble a team to handle those responsibilities—there’s the ever-constant need for funding to make such a project a reality.
Next to raising the necessary money to get a project off the ground, it’s comparatively easy to teach yourself how to create the elements of a game. And if you’ve got a workable demo or a finished product, you can shop it around or show it off at the Game Developers Conference in an effort to pique the interest of a publisher that will hopefully pick it up for distribution. But if you’re starting from scratch, getting someone to support nothing more than an idea is a hard sell, especially in this financial climate.
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When Top Gear went to the North Pole – actually, to be specific, when Jeremy Clarkson and James May went to the North Pole, they went in a Toyota Hilux prepared by Arctic Trucks in Iceland. Richard Hammond went via sled-and-dog-team, which, believe it or not, looked a lot less comfortable than the satnav-equipped Hilux.
In what seems like a predictable (yet awesome) result of that odyssey, Arctic Trucks is now offering multi-day tours of Iceland in their ultimately prepped Toyotas. Having just returned from a trip to Reykjavik and the glaciers – sadly not with these blokes – we can tell you it would be an excursion you will never forget. No, it isn’t the North Pole, but we’d argue it might be even better: more variety and nicer people, and no polar bears.
Follow the jump to read the press release on Arctic Trucks’ offerings, and to watch video of Top Gear’s epic polar expedition as seen in three parts. Photos your of your balloon-tired chariot can be found in the high-res gallery below.
Gallery: Arctic Trucks tours of Iceland
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We can debate the relevance of the modern minivan in the North American market until the proverbial cows come home, but the fact remains that in Europe, the MPV still plays a vital role. Few know that as well as Ford does, and now the Blue Oval has unveiled mildly revised versions of its most important people-movers at the 2010 Brussels Auto Show.
Previewed in initial details and photos a full month ago, The visual tweaks to both the Galaxy and its sportier sibling, the S-Max, are admittedly minimal, but keep both looking fresh and in stride with Ford’s latest kinetic design language. LED daytime running lights and taillamps are part of the package, and there are a host of new interior trim options, complete with a new panoramic sunroof. Ford’s also offering a Blind-Spot 
Information System (cleverly abbreviated as BLIS), along with the new 2.0-liter, 200-horsepower, direct injection four-cylinder EcoBoost gasoline engine in addition to Duratorq diesels with 115 or 163 hp.
We took a ride in a pre-facelift S-Max on the way to the airport en route back from test driving the new Ford Fiesta in Tuscany and were suitably impressed, so any effort to keep it relevant is good in our books. That’s the short of it. If you want the long version, there’s a 70-page press release after the jump with all the information you never wanted to know about Ford’s latest European people haulers. And for your viewing pleasure, high-resolution image galleries of both are included below.
Gallery: 2010 Ford S-Max
Gallery: 2010 Ford Galaxy
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Pics Aplenty: Ford launches updated Galaxy, S-Max at Brussels Auto Show originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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At least our speculation regarding the date and time of Apple’s special press event this month can now come to an end. Apple confirmed today, via invitations sent to the press, that there will indeed be a special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on January 27 at 10AM Pacific time.
Not only that, but the promotional material for the event bears the tagline “Come see our latest creation.” For those who were still skeptical that Apple would release a tablet at all, I think you should consider yourselves quite wrong. That tagline definitely wouldn’t herald a new Core i5-based MacBook Pro, and given that Apple cannot be unaware of the hype surrounding its still-mythical slate, there’s really only one thing it could refer to. Judging by my Twitter stream, not everyone thinks it’s that obvious, though.
Some people are speculating that the evidence points to a software announcement. Creative software that could produce some kind of artistic output, possibly iLife for the iPhone? That’s a reasonable enough prediction, if you don’t take into account the fact that for years now the tablet rumors have been stacking up, and Apple would realize that announcing some lame software when everyone is thinking iSlate would absolutely destroy its stock price.
Another possibility is that this will just be an announcement of the next major iPhone OS upgrade, iPhone 4.0. If the tablet is running that platform, I think we’ll see it discussed here, but Apple is not a company to use words irresponsibly. Not to mention that the last time it held such an event was March of last year, so the timing is off, and the invitations for that event couldn’t have been more obvious about the nature of the announcement. Why be coy now, when doing so could only hurt the company in the eyes of investors?
No, if you ask me, it’s tablet time. Now that we don’t have long to wait, you may want to brush up on all the latest and greatest from the rumor mill. Honestly, if I was going to link to all of our tablet-related articles, I think every word of this article would be hyperlinked, so I’ll just do this and make it much easier for all of us. Now’s the time to start getting those last minute predictions in, so that you can point back to the comments section of this post and tell all your friends “I told you so.”
Following the Mini E trial lease program, BMW AG will launch a new program for its ActiveE electric-car. The 1-Series coupe based electric-car will be leased to a limited number of customers next year in preparation for launching a plug-in vehicle in about four years, says Klaus Draeger, the BMW board member who heads up R&D.
The BMW ActiveE will be leased to customers in the United States and Europe in 2011 on a trial basis, similar to the one conducted with the Mini E electric Cooper. BMW did not say how many units it will use in the program.
The Mini E trial, which involved 450 units in the U.S., was scheduled to end in early 2010 but was extended indefinitely with some lessees saying they would like to hold onto their electric-cars.
The BMW ActiveE, unveiled at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, is powered by a synchronous electric-motor making 170-hp and 184 lb-ft of torque. A full charge takes about 4.5 hours allowing a driving range of 100 miles.
2010 Detroit: BMW Concept ActiveE:
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“Pants On The Ground” Fever continues to sweep the nation! General Larry Platt created a musical movement when he debuted his catchy anti-saggin’ anthem during last week’s American Idol auditions in Atlanta — and now even NFL star Brett Favre is cashing in on the craze.
Watch Favre perform “Pants On The Ground” after the Vikings big win on Sunday:
For some reason, Toyko-based USB accessory maker Thanko is selling a wide range of “spy gadgets”, with a button camera and an HD video pen as the latest additions to the line-up. Today Thanko gives us a wrist watch [JP], which may look rather unassuming from the outside but actually sports a micro spy camera.
The so-called Video Camera Analog Watch is the updated version of a spy watch that Thanko started selling in late 2008. This new model has 4GB of internal memory, which is enough to store two to three hours of video in 640×480 resolution and at 30fps.
If you have a Windows machine (XP, Vista and 7 are supported), you can transfer the material via USB as AVI files to your computer. The micro camera is placed between 1 and 2 o’clock on the dial.
The watch (weight: 115g) is already available in Thanko’s Japanese online store and costs $85. If you’re interested in getting one but live outside Japan, I suggest to contact import/export specialist (and Thanko partner) Geek Stuff 4 U.
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While the computer industry waits for Apple to release an expected color tablet computer later this month, ASUS is already there. According to news reports, the company is releasing a six-inch OLED color touchscreen tablet e-reader called the DR-570 that includes Adobe Flash, either 3G or Wi-Fi — and a capacity of 122 hours on a single battery charge.
With the addition of color and additional computing power, the emerging categories of e-readers and tablet computers may begin to merge. The DR-570 is expected to be released by the end of this year.
‘Moving at a Fast Rate’
The Taiwan-based ASUS is a leader in netbooks, the subcompact laptops that have been one of the bright spots in computer sales for the last year. In addition to the color DR-570, ASUS will reportedly release 5.7-inch and nine-inch black-and-white e-readers.
The e-reader category, led by the Kindle from Amazon, several devices from Sony, the nook from Barnes & Noble, and other products, saw new entries at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. A dual-screen e-reader from MSI, for instance, is based on the Intel Atom chip used in many netbooks and will have enough power to compete with most netbooks. Samsung showed six- and 10-inch touchscreen devices, each offering text to speech and, since they use Digital Living Network Alliance standards, could be viewed on compatible TVs.
Plastic Logic showed the Que, a lightweight e-reader that is the first commercial device based on plastic transistors. In addition to less weight, this means physical flexibility. Hearst’s Skiff Reader offered the first product with a display that uses a flexible sheet of stainless steel, providing a resolution of 1200×1600.
The categories of e-readers and tablet computers are “definitely moving at a fast rate,” said Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret Research. But…
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The Konami code refers to a cheat code sequence for Nintendo devices invented by Kazuhisa Hashimoto in the mid 1980s. The code was intended to help during testing, allowing debugging of advanced game play without having to spend the time or effort actually getting to those levels. Normally, a player has to earn abilities over time. The cheat code Easter egg lets you jump from n00b-skillz directly into mad hax0r3d power. Over time, the Konami code gained traction and has been used and re-used in many games and websites since.
If you’re a fan of Konami-code accessible websites and an iPhone user, you’ll be pleased to learn that the Konami Code Sites homepage, which provides a list of enabled sites, is now iPhone compatible. Konami is “standard” for accessing built-in Easter Eggs in video games and web sites. You can now enter your コナミコマンド cheat code via gestures.
Make this happen by mirroring the standard Konami sequence (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right) using swipes instead of touching command keys. When you get to the BA sequence, a controller will appear on-screen to let you tap the B-button and then the A-button.
As for the Konami-compatible websites listed, they are not as forgiving, I’m afraid. The iPhone compatibility does not extend to any of the listed pages that I tested. Given that we have fully entered the age of iPhone OS (and soon, the tablet), I think you can expect touchKonami to start expanding to ever new sites and applications. For example, Polish Demon’s Emojinabler app (currently in App Store review) uses the sequence to unlock Emoji text access on non-Japanese iPhones.
Know of a touchKonami-enabled website or App Store app? Let us know in the comments.
TUAWKonami website now iPhone-accessible originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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With the growing number of online services, it’s becoming more economical for small business to rely on web-based tools rather than expensive enterprise software. Not too long ago we brought you 5 Web Apps To Keep Your Startup Organized, and now the website Business Pundit has released their top 10 list of online collaboration tools for small businesses.
Call it Web 2.0, or Enterprise 2.0; the fact of the matter is that online services just make more sense for businesses on a budget. Because these software platforms are web-based, users can use any computer to access them at work, at home or even on the road. They eliminate the need for expensive software and fewer IT employees are required for setup, updates and patches to systems.
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Considering these benefits of online tools, Business Pundit’s list of collaborative services is an excellent resource for startups and small businesses looking to save some cash while still getting things done as efficiently as possible.
Topping their list is OfficeMedium, a service we profiled last fall which provides a wide variety of collaborative features wrapped up in an elegantly designed interface. With live chat, user profiles, polls and calendars, OfficeMedium is a social collaboration network for your company.
While the service is relatively inexpensive with monthly costs of just $6 per person and $1 per gigabyte of storage, you may be disappointed by a lack of mobile application and developer API if your company is constantly on-the-go.
Coming in just behind OfficeMedium is Basecamp, a service that we use daily here at ReadWriteWeb and which made our top 5 list of organization apps for startups. While the two services are more or less functionally comparable, Business Pundit puts Basecamp in second place due to its less-than-thrilling (though customizable) interface design and a few functionality gripes. For the mobile business, Basecamp’s API has allowed for over a dozen mobile applications, which could be a feature that makes it the #1 choice.
Rounding out the rest of the top 5 are CubeTree, WizeHive and SocialText – three powerful web applications which were deprived of the top spot by a few lacking features, design problems and ease-of-use issues. The remainder of the top 10 includes CentralDesktop, Onehub, PBWorks, Zoho Projects and Socialcast.
What do you think? Is there a better business collaboration tool out there that was left off of Business Pundit’s list? Or would you rank one of these apps higher than another? Let us know your thoughts below in the comments.
Photo by Flickr user wonderferret.
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Italian screen legend Sophia Loren looked as stunning — as always — in a black gown with sheer sleeves and sparkly shoulders at last night’s 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Loren, 75, completely stole the show and managed to look as gorgeous as ever when she appeared on stage to present the award in the Best Foreign Language Film Category, which went to German film White Ribbon.
Did you know that the Globes wasn’t the first public appearance for Ms. Loren’s sazzy little number? Committing what most actress would consider the cardinal sin of all fashion faux pases, the Nine actress also wore the design at the 2010 Pirelli Calendar launch party in November. After more than 50 years in the biz, we say this lady’s earned the right to wear anything she chooses to.
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All the big guys have been receiving their golden tickets this morning. So what can little sites like TUAW do to play along? Why, Zapruder the heck out of the invite of course. Zaprudering, as the SciFicast explains, “is a neologism derived from the Zapruder film, the amateur 8mm film that is the only known visual record of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It’s used here to indicate painstaking analysis of the trailer.” Zaprudering refers to a detailed extraction of evidence from a limited set of image data.
As you can see in the image at the top of this post, several features stood out to our TUAW team. Mike Rose was first to notice that the art used spray paint rather than finger paint, as you might expect for a tablet event invite. “Could this be a hint of MacPaint Pro?” asked Steve Sande. “That would harken back to the original Mac (MacPaint) and be very cool.”
Dave Caolo noticed that the Apple logo front-and-center, along with the thin (tablet-shaped?) border pointed to a Macbook-like presentation. It would be awesome if the tablet really could mimic and/or replace many laptop features, although all early Humint rumors point to an iPhoneOS-only system.
So what does the art-styled presentation hint at? To most of the team, this seemed a vote for augmented reality interaction a la Excelitech’s Virtual Graffiti app [iTunes link]. Maybe we’ll be able to interact in new ways with maps and images through a touch-based interface.
Will the target audience differ from the anticipated Kindle crowd? Maybe this touch-based creation will be aimed more at tangible creative media than at simple video and book display? Maybe the rumors about gestures gone wild with a high-powered CPU we’ve been reading about give a better sense of who Apple is aiming their “latest creation” at.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
Update: Commenters point out that the colors used almost perfectly match the current nano line.
Update: TUAW’s Megan Lavey adds “I think Apple is announcing the release of its interactive paintball set. It uses the built-in iSight camera. You mad at someone? Click a button on iChat and the paint color of your choice blasts that person in the eye.” *hee*
TUAWZaprudering the invite: Obsessive fun with TUAW originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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After years of trying to convince technologically inept relatives to stop using Internet Explorer, computer geeks worldwide may finally have something new to back up their words: the advice of the German and French governments.
The French government joined Germany today in recommending that its citizens switch to another browser in light of last week’s admission by Microsoft that Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 all contained the same security vulnerability, in which “Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution.”
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Microsoft declared in a blog post on Sunday that the security exploit was only seen in Internet Explorer 6, yet both Germany and France have recommended moving away from the browser regardless of version.
As we reported on Friday, Internet security company McAfee pointed out this security vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which allowed hackers in China to attack Google, Adobe and a large number of other companies, including Yahoo and Northrop Grumman.
We contacted Microsoft’s PR firm, but due to the holiday in the U.S. today, we weren’t able to reach anyone inside the company. An article in The Telegraph, however, paraphrased Microsoft as having said “that the German government had over-reacted about the threat posed by the vulnerability, and that general users were not at risk.”
Joe Wilcox of Beta News was not so timid, his suggestion that “it’s time to stop using any version of Microsoft’s browser — IE6, IE7, IE8 and forget someday releasing IE9.”
According to StatCounter, Internet Explorer still accounts for 45% of browser use in Europe, as opposed to 53% in North America and just over 55% worldwide.
While Microsoft is working on a fix for the problem, we have yet to hear of any resolution to the issue. We’ll have to keep an eye on this one and see if the recommendations do anything to lessen Internet Explorer’s complete and total dominance in the browser markets.
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In its heyday, ICQ was one of the most popular instant messaging networks. Today, you will probably have a hard time finding your friends on ICQ. Nevertheless, almost two year after the release of ICQ 6, ICQ just released a new version of its IM client. ICQ 7 now integrates updates from Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Flickr and YouTube. ICQ plans to add support for more social networks in the near future.
ICQ 7 is only available for Windows. Mac users can rest assured that they are not missing out on much.
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Sadly, ICQ doesn’t excel at integrating any of these social networks. Facebook users, for example, can comment on status updates from their friends but there is no button to “like” an item. Interestingly, you can “like” your own updates but not those of your friends.
The Twitter client can display updates from all your friends on the service, but you filter this feed to just see @replies or direct messages, making ICQ 7 mostly useless as a Twitter client.
ICQ’s PR material stresses that “users no longer need to open a browser and log into each and every network they’re members in.” For any meaningful interaction on these social networks, you still need to open up your browser, however.
One of the few positive aspects of ICQ’s social network integration is that it allows you to post an update to all of these networks simultaneously.
One highly annoying aspect if ICQ 7’s installation procedure is that – by default – the application wants to change your default search engine to ICQ Search and install the ICQ toolbar. While ICQ Search is an inoffensive retooling of Google Search, we would prefer the company be a bit more open about these changes. Currently, they are tucked away in the install dialog where users are likely to just click “next” instead of doing a close reading of the dialog’s text.
Besides nostalgia, there aren’t a lot of good reasons to install ICQ 7 at this point. The social networking integration is haphazard at best. As an instant messaging network, ICQ has clearly seen better days. In an age where good multi-network IM clients like Digsby, Pidgin, Meebo or Adium can easily connect you to all your friends on every network, there really isn’t a need to install a single-purpose IM client anymore.
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