Sen. Asks Google, Apple to Control Their Peeping Tom Planes

Google and Apple are bent on a mission to provide the world -- or at least users of their respective technologies -- with digital images of every place on this planet. Using their systems is the only way many people can see for themselves what everyday life is like in faraway places. However, these companies are capturing actual people as they go about their everyday activities -- and publishing those images.

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Samsung tries to tempt iPhone owners with iOS and iTunes data transfer utility

Samsung has recently launched Easy Phone Sync for Galaxy owners that want to bring data from their old iPhone over to their shiny new Android devices. The desktop application is supposed to be able to transfer music, videos, podcasts, pictures, contacts, and text messages to any Galaxy device, inclulding the latest SGS3.

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Google drops cost of Maps API to keep developers, gives Foursquare puppy eyes

Google drops cost of Maps API to keep developers, gives Foursquare puppy eyes

Google must be feeling the pinch from developers like Foursquare who've jumped ship from Google Maps in opposition to costs, as it just cut the price of heavy Maps API use in a big, big way. Where it used to cost $4 for every 1,000 map hits beyond a 25,000 daily limit, the company is now charging as little as $1 in addition to eliminating the lower usage cap for app writers who tweak the map look. The olive branch won't make Apple change its mind, of course, but Google clearly isn't keen on anyone else using the price tag as an incentive to join the exodus. Mountain View is no doubt eager to keep as many mobile and web app developers on its side as it can -- with Google I/O just around the corner, it wouldn't do to have customers leaving at the very moment Google is trying to rally support for a big Maps update.

Google drops cost of Maps API to keep developers, gives Foursquare puppy eyes originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft's Pretty, Prosaic Thing

The newly announced -- but not yet available anywhere -- Microsoft Surface tablet looks to be quite a cool device. Judging by the outside design, it looks well-made and pleasing. That's a great start. It gets better after a guy like me grudgingly appreciates the built-in, snap-off keyboard covers.

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Kick Off Your Weekend With These Videos: Broken Jets, Action Cams, Retouched Burgers, and a Gunslinging Granny [Videos Of The Week]

Try to keep up with the endless torrent of video content on the web each day, and your brain could melt. Let us ease your fatigue with a selection of the best videos of the week. Enjoy! More »


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Domo’s Josh James: We’re Making Every Employee Embrace Social Media, And It’s Paying Off

domo logoBack in May, Josh James, the co-founder of analytics company Omniture and now CEO of business intelligence startup Domo, announced an eyebrow-raising idea: He was kicking off an eight-week initiative that would require every one of Domo's 130 employees to become active on social media. Now James says the initiative is paying off, and he has numbers and anecdotes to back it up.

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Ice Cube Vest Is an Even More Ridiculous Way To Stay Cool at Work [Cooling]

And to think last weekend we actually mocked those miniature shoe air conditioners. At least with those you could hide your feet under your desk and no one would be the wiser. It's impossible to hide the ridiculousness of wearing this Flexi Freeze Ice Vest. More »


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Great Air Conditioners for the Dog Days of Summer

Air conditioning is a complicated technology.  What I found over 15 hours of research, is that what works for one room or house may not be a good solution for another. If a fan just isn't cutting it for you, here's what you'll need to know in order to stay cool this summer.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/great-air-conditioners/

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Farragomate is a social fridge magnet game where you make up sentences

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You know those fridge magnet kits composed of a whole bunch of words? The ones you put all over your fridge door and then try to arrange into all sorts of juvenile and/or amusing sentences. Well, Farragomate is the social, webby version of that very same pastime.

You get to play with a bunch of random strangers in real-time, and make up sentences out of a pre-set collection of words, including some fairly naughty ones, and all players' nicknames. As you can imagine, some of the results are not child-friendly.

There are ten rounds to a game. Once a round is done, players get to vote for their favorite sentence from that round. You can't vote for your own creation, of course. There's in-game chat, too.

I think the vocabulary could be made a bit more eclectic, but even as it is, it's a nice way to spend a few minutes and meet random strangers on the Internet (always a thrilling experience).

Farragomate is a social fridge magnet game where you make up sentences originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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