Top Stories: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 [Total Recap]

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Microsoft buys 666,624 IPv4 addresses from Nortel for $7.5 million

In times of a shortage, people tend to stockpile certain things. And with the looming exhaustion of IPv4 addresses, it's really no surprise that Microsoft jumped all over Nortel's stash of nearly 700,000 addresses when they became available for purchase. Nortel, of course, has been selling off what assets it can as the company battles through bankruptcy proceedings.

Microsoft ponied up $7.5 million for the Nortel pool, which works out to just over $11 per IP address. There were reportedly 13 other interested buyers, but only Microsoft and three others actually submitted bids.

With the last block of IPv4 addresses already issued, snatching up 2/3 of a million in one fell swoop is a smart move by Microsoft, and we're sure they have plans for the IPs. As far as what those plans actually are, we'll just have to wait and see -- though something cloud-based seems like a safe bet.

Microsoft buys 666,624 IPv4 addresses from Nortel for $7.5 million originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ffirst high-temp spin-field-effect transistor

n international team of scientists featuring Texas AandM University physicist Jairo Sinova has announced a breakthrough that gives a new spin to semiconductor nanoelectronics and the world of information technology. The team has developed an electrically controllable device whose functionality is based on an electron's spin. Their results, the culmination of a 20-year scientific quest involving a number of international scientists and groups, are reported in the current issue of Science.......

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Easing the Throb of Mobile Security Headaches

There is no denying that mobile devices like tablets are changing the way we communicate, work and share information on the go -- it's the next logical step in the "post-PC" world. In addition to an increase in cloud-based services, there is a surge in multiple mobile devices -- with consumers not only using several at one time, but also switching between them throughout the day.

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Three-In One Lightbulb Is an Energy-Saving Matryoshka

Can’t decide between a warm, instant-on halogen bulb, a long-lasting, low-power compact fluorescent or a plain old incandescent in its familiar bulb shape? You don’t have to. Just buy GE’s new hybrid and you get all three, in one handsome glass bauble.
The bulb looks like any bulb you may have bought in the last hundred [...]

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PS1 Games Make Their Way Over To Android Market

Are you the sort of Android user who is simply dieing to play their best loved Playstation One games on your smartphone? You are? Well then you’re in luck, sort of. Playstation One games have finally made their way over to the Android marketplace however have been restricted to Xperia Play handsets only, meaning you’ll [...]

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London scraps plans for cellular coverage on the tube, bums Huawei out

Technical complexity and financial naiveté have meant that London's ambitious plans to cover its underground train network with cellular signal by the 2012 Olympics are hitting the scrapheap. In spite of Huawei's most generous offer to provide £50 million ($81m) of equipment for the project for free, the London Mayor's wish that UK mobile operators be the ones to foot the installation bill -- without a penny coming out of public coffers -- has unsurprisingly found little favor. Compounded with the logistical hellride of trying to get everything up and running by next summer, that's now led to a mutual agreement among all parties concerned to abandon the project. Mind you, the plans to get WiFi up at 120 stations in time for the Olympics are still on track, so at least we'll be able to pull down some data before diving into those dark, damp tunnels.

London scraps plans for cellular coverage on the tube, bums Huawei out originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone Live 144: No new iPhone

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Chad, and Georgia discuss WWDC 2011, the sellout and the fallout, no new iPhone 5 in June, no iOS 5 event in April, Amazon Cloud Player, updated apps, and how do you IM? This is iPhone Live! Show [...]

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AVG Mobilation for Android tablets is a full-featured security suite

AVG has been offering a pair of Android security applications for a while, and both the free and paid versions of its app have proved to be extremely popular with Android users. Now the company has launched a tablet-specific version as well.

Called AVG Mobilation for Android, the new app offers protection from malware, and a handful of other useful functions. Mobilation also provides a backup system which can secure your contacts, call logs, bookmarks, apps, and SMS messages. There's an App Locker, which allows you to password protect any app you've got installed on your Android device, and as if that wasn't enough, AVG has also built spam blocking and and task killing functionality into Mobilation.

Free and Pro versions of AVG Mobilation for Android tablets are due soon, but pricing and dates have yet to be confirmed.

AVG Mobilation for Android tablets is a full-featured security suite originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon: Ralph Langner on TED.com

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Give $1 to Stop Terminators. Seriously. [Donate]

There's nothing you can do to prevent another Terminator movie. But if you have a buck, you can do something to stop real Terminators...or at least ensure that they'll like us when they show up. More »

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Why Does the Sun Look So Weird and Beautiful In this Photo? [Astronomy]

This is a solar eclipse. One like you have probably never seen before, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory in space. It looks really weird, as if the Sun is fizzling away, fading into the darkness of space. Why is the edge of the shadow fuzzy? More »

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Daily Crunch: Feat of Strength Edition

x-Ar Exoskeleton Arm Lets You Lift Like a Robot: Indefatigably Gemini Introduces FirstMix, A USB DJ Controller For Noobs The Chevy Orlando Play-Doh Edition Hits London Streets The Kinect Earns A Guinness Record For Fastest-Selling Device Just In Time For March Madness: Hannspree 55-inch Basketball TV

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Daily Crunch: Shapes Edition

Yes. These Pallet Coasters Are Industrial-Strength Awesome Hela Disc: The Aerobie, Evolved LEGO Outs The First Official Minifig Flash Drive Students Make The World’s Largest Sierpinski Triangle (As Far As They Know) Porto: Denmark Creates Text Message Postage Stamp

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WinZip System Utilities Suite giveaway

WinZip has just released WinZip System Utilities Suite! Earlier today we published a quick hands-on with the app, but why should we have all the fun?

While you can always download the trial version, WinZip has also provided us with 10 full System Utilities licenses to give away! To enter our random draw, you just have to leave a comment. Full terms and conditions are after the break.

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WinZip System Utilities Suite giveaway originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Agilyx Raises $22 Million To Turn Plastics (Back) Into Oil

A Portland area startup selling patented systems that turn plastic trash into synthetic crude oil, Agilyx, closed a $22 million series B round, the company revealed on Thursday. The systems (image below) look like the kind of equipment you'd see in a brewery. Here's how they work, according to the company website: Plastic feedstock, a mix of everything from grocery bags to vehicle dashboards and computer monitor cases, are dropped by a crane into a sizable vessel, where they are indirectly heated until they turn into a liquid, and then a gas...

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Tron Project and Walk-Through

Holy Monday batman! I decided to release the Tron-Pilot Project file created in After Effects with a short video walk-through. I talk about creating the 3D text and building a few expressions. It doesn’t demonstrate every little detail but it should be enough to help you through the project file.  For the background blur, try [...]

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Windows Phone 7’s Mango update briefly spotted in action?

Microsoft may not be pushing the Windows Phone 7 Mango update until sometime around the fall, but a new video showing off the platform's NoDo update may have just given us an early glimpse at WP7's next big update. At around the 2:45 mark in the video below, the camera pans down to a second smartphone with a feature not present in...

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How Secure is My Password lets you know just that

We've all heard it before; you need to select a lengthy password, one that's hard to guess. Not a dictionary word. And it has to have some capital letters in it too, and some digits, and a symbol or two won't hurt either.

That's a handy set of rules to keep in mind, but How Secure is My Password helps us understand why they're important.

It's basically like a full-screen version of one of those password-strength meters websites sometimes use. But instead of showing you a bar going from "weak" to "strong", it shows you an estimation of how long your password would take to crack. That's a much more visceral way to understand why your password is strong.

For example, when I entered "rabbit", it came back with "your password is one of the 500 most common passwords. It could be cracked almost instantly". "rabbit5" would take two hours, "$rabbit5" would take 38 days, and "$rabbitZ5" would take 237 years. It's quite enlightening to see what a difference three simple characters can make.

How Secure is My Password lets you know just that originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HTC Pyramid specs and renders leaked

Rumors are saying that HTC is bringing a dual core phone to the table. After some leaks here we are with some images and details of the new upcoming HTC Pyramid. A lot of sites surfaced some specs about the new device from HTC and by the first looks this is going to be a [...]

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