Monday, November 28, 2011

Linkpost | 11.26.2011 | Dwight Silverman's TechBlog

• AT&T to Offer Bigger Asset Sales to Save Takeover [1] â€" Bloomberg says AT&T will offer to sell up to 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets in order get its proposed merger past the Justice Department.

• Can Scientists Make a Battery That Will Survive 40,000 Charges? [2] â€" They’ve only got half of the puzzle solved.

• ‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects Talk To The Internet [3] â€" This startup sells small plastic squares that attach to devices and alert you to their status. Very interesting!

• Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown â€" Part of an ongoing campaign against sites the government thinks are primarily engaged in piracy. Also The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas [4] [5]

• It’s Your (Virtual) World. Feel Free to Roam or Slay. [6] â€" The NYTimes reviews Skyrim.

• Water-pump failure in Illinois wasn’t cyberattack after all [7] â€" It was actually caused by a plant contractor who happened to be traveling in Russia.

• Google Chrome to add gamepad support [8] â€" Coming in 2012, along with built-in support for videochat via webcam.

• For Online Retailing Holdouts, a Final Holiday Season of No Sales Tax [9] â€" Enjoy it while you can, if you live in California.

• Apple ahead in mobile loyalty: Gfk research firm [10] â€" Android may have the numbers, but Apple has hearts & minds engaged.

• Microsoft Tellme is NOT the same as Siri [video] [11] â€" Microsoft’s Craig Mundie says his company’s already done something like Siri, with its Tellme technology found in Windows Mobile. But is it really the same? Watch the video.

• AT&T to Offer Bigger Asset Sales to Save Takeover â€" Bloomberg says AT&T will offer to sell up to 40 percent of T-Mobile’s assets in order get its proposed merger past the Justice Department. • Can Scientists Make a Battery That Will Survive 40,000 Charges? â€" They’ve only got half of the puzzle solved. [...]

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