Twitter frustrates developers with permissions change

From InfoWorld: Twitter on Tuesday announced via its blog various changes aimed at allowing users finer-grained control over their accounts. To date, when another application (such as TweetBot, Twitterrific, or Echofon) or Web service (such as Favstar) requested access to your...

Sharp Develops Super High-def Screen for Future TV

From PC World: Japan's Sharp has developed an 85-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) panel with resolution equivalent to 16 times that of today's HDTV panels. The screen, which is only a prototype, was developed for Super Hi-Vision, a next-generation television system currently under...

Amazon wants to buy your used gadgets

From CNET News.com: Amazon announced today it is expanding its trade-in program to allow customers to swap their used electronics for Amazon gift cards.

The online retailer said it will accept used tablets, cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, and GPS devices, regardless of where the...

Sony PSN Web Access Down Again After New Exploit Discovered

From DailyTech: It's getting rather difficult to be surprised by Sony's lack of security credentials when it comes to its PlayStation Network (PSN) service. That's why today's latest revelation can't be too much of a shocker to those that have been following this ongoing saga...

Droid X2 Heads to Verizon with Dual-core Processor

From DailyTech: Motorola has made a big comeback thanks to Google’s Android operating system. The latest offering from Motorola is heading to the Verizon network very soon and it is an impressive device.

The smartphone is the Motorola Droid X2 and it will be available online...

Via Technologies Expects Via Quad-Core Designs to Emerge Shortly

From X-bit Labs: Via Technologies, once the world's largest supplier of core-logic sets, said that it expected its partners to introduce solutions based on its dual-core and quad-core already in May, 2011. In spite of the fact that the company has been on the market of low-power...

Titanium-Free: Nvidia Introduces GeForce GTX 560

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. this week quietly introduced a new performance-mainstream graphics processing unit (GPU) called GeForce GTX 560. The new graphics board offers lower performance compared to the GeForce GTX 560 Titanium released earlier this year, but is also available at...

Sandy Bridge-Powered MacBook Airs Coming this Summer, Report Says

From PC World: New MacBook Airs are headed your way this summer sporting Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors and Thunderbolt high-speed input/output ports, according to online rumors. Apple will reportedly ship new 11.6- and 13.3- inch versions of its ultraportable laptops in May for...

Expert: Sony attack may have been multipronged

From CNET News.com: When it comes to the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network, the only thing we're sure of is what we don't know: how it was done and who did it.

In the past four weeks since Sony shut down the gaming network, security researchers have been cobbling together...

Intel Ready to Strongarm ARM

From DailyTech: Intel Corp. is preparing to unveil nearly a dozen new tablet computers that run on its chips at Computex, at the end of May, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Intel is seeking to expand beyond PCs and into the mobile market, where ARM has dominated thanks to...

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