Hot Deals of the Day: Dell Vostro Notebook, Inspiron Desktop, Linksys Router and More

We know many of you are counting down the minutes until the end of the work day on this final Friday in March, but before you rush out and get your party on, we’ve got a fresh batch of HOT deals for you, courtesy of our friends at LogicBuy. On tap for your all today, we have a Core i7-based Dell Vostro laptop, a Phenom II X4-based Dell...

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This Arduino-Powered Robot Doodles Better Than A Spirograph

This little robot can scribble perfectly on a surface, needing just a handful of commands from your computer's arrow keys.

Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=a8643a72e706d6b30fe2003df7ca2bbc

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Specialized Turbo e-bike is too fast and furious for the western world (video)

While not quite the fastest commercially available e-bike in the world as some have suggested (as far as we can tell, that claim belongs to a DIY kit out of Taiwan by a company called Cyclone), the Specialized Turbo is still a speedy little beast. In fact, it's fast enough to find itself on the wrong side of the law both here in the US and across most of Europe. The 250 W rear hub motor is powerful enough to get this guy up to about 28 MPH, or 8 MPH over the legal limit here in America. It's the other features, though, that make this guy particularly interesting. The frame has integrated LED head and tail lights, regenerative breaking and the 342 Wh battery can be juiced in just two hours from an outlet. There's even a backlit display that lets you monitor charge and assistance level, as well as standard bike computer stats like speed, distance and time. Oh, and it even supports ANT+ for wirelessly connecting with your existing accessories. The Specialized Turbo is expected to land in some European nations in May for €5,499. Check out the video after the break to see it in action.

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Specialized Turbo e-bike is too fast and furious for the western world (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A "Big Data" Problem Could Be Starving Artists of Revenue [Music]

For nearly 100 years, performing rights organizations have tracked the music played on the radio, then the television, and now the internet. Their goal: to figure out who should get paid. More »

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Looking for the hot new video game for a holiday gift? Think sequel.

For holiday shoppers who feel out of place in a video game store but need to shop for the gamer in their life, there's a simple enough solution: Figure out which title got the most attention from that loved one in recent months, then go out and buy this year's version.

Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7cf53fa8c70315ca72c741dd56498deb

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share

We've all thought it, but never dared think it could be true: what if Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL actively monitor our instant messenger chats? What if mentions of 'bomb' and 'underage' are tracked and sent to law enforcement agencies? What if chat providers don't agree with the things we say, or the links we share, and filter or censor the content of our transmitted messages?

Well, it looks like our fears may actually have some basis in reality: Yahoo Messenger strips FilesTube links from instant messages. It doesn't tell either party that a URL has been removed from chat -- it just deletes it. Poof. FilesTube, in case you were wondering, is one of the largest file hosting meta search engines on the Web -- it indexes RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, and many other 'cyberlocker' services.

It's fairly obvious why FilesTube links are being removed -- the Censor General at Yahoo is probably one of those perplexed primates who think all uses of BitTorrent are illegal -- but this situation poses a far more important question: is Yahoo censoring messages on the client side, or the server side. Does the messenger client itself maintain a list of 'blacklisted' words -- and if so, why are we not told that FilesTube links are banned? What other words and terms does Yahoo protect us from?

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tablets Won't Kill the PC, Just Replace It

Tablets won't kill the PC any more than notebooks or ultrabooks have. They're all just different form factors of "personal computer".

Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=a0ee955476a23d1cc02afd1e02c48dcf

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Google bids $900 million for Nortel's patents to protect against litigation trolls

Nortel, once one of the biggest telecoms company in the world but now in the death throes of bankruptcy, has selected Google's $900 million bid for its patent portfolio as the stalking horse bid. This doesn't mean that Google will automatically win Nortel's massive array of telecoms patents, but it does mean that Google is the preferred buyer.

Google, which has a history of lobbying for patent law reform, has been the target of many patent litigation suits. Google's relative infancy means that it has a lot less patents in the vault than big-hitters like Microsoft, Oracle and IBM, and buying Nortel's portfolio of 6,000 patents could provide better protection against patent litigation in the future. It's worth noting that both Apple and RIM have showed interested in the portfolio, too.

Mashable speculates that the patents -- which are nearly all telecoms-related -- will be used to defend against Oracle's attacks on Android's use of Java. We reckon that Google is simply looking to cover its future endeavors in the world of networking. In the absence of patent law reform, and continued threats to net neutrality, owning a bunch of telecoms patents sounds like a very sensible move.

Google bids $900 million for Nortel's patents to protect against litigation trolls originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Spotify: by the way, you still get unlimited songs with a free account

Remember that six month deadline we warned you about back in January? Well, it looks like Spotify wasn't so gung-ho about limiting the free version of its service, after all. The site is celebrating its nine month anniversary in the States by reminding users that it still has yet to impose a song limit for the unpaid variety. Spotify is extending the deal -- it's not saying for how long, though the mere reminder could certainly be taken as a sign that the sometimes overbearing record labels aren't hounding it to switch things up anytime soon. Of course, Spotify still really wants to get you to opt into a paid account to drop some of those ads from your stream, but if you don't want to pay, that's cool too.

Spotify: by the way, you still get unlimited songs with a free account originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Glorious Apple Leader Surprises iPad Minions with Foxconn Visit and Smiles [Image Cache]

Apple CEO and fleece jacket advocate Tim Cook is in China, and decided to swing by the factory that cranks out our pads and phones. Maybe it's just all the n-hexane in the air, but things look cheery! Extra rations! More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/dC-RI01OXDY/glorious-apple-leader-surprises-ipad-minions-with-foxconn-visit-and-smiles

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O'Reilly helps Japan, offers entire e-book catalog for 50% off, today only

O'reilly make some of the best computer books in the world. They also sell them as DRM-free e-books in a bunch of formats, including PDFs and Mobi for Kindle.

They usually offer one "Deal of the Day", which is a 50% discount code for a book chosen for that one day. But just for for today, they've created a discount code -- DDJPN -- that gives you a 50% discount on their entire catalog, and they give a part of the proceeds to aid Japan relief efforts.

So far they've raised over $60,000, and the day is still young. So if you've been recently hankering after some nerdy book (or three), now would be a great time to grab one.

O'Reilly helps Japan, offers entire e-book catalog for 50% off, today only originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Will Launch New MacBook Air, Pro in Q2 and ITV in Q4 - Analyst

While attention is focused on tomorrow's launch of the new iPad, an analyst has cast some light on other potential Apple product launches coming this year.

Source: http://feeds.pcworld.com/click.phdo?i=105c456ca74da93447682b92f06f4be3

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