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CyanogenMod 7 on the Nook Color hands-on (video)
Samsung Wants to Block all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the US [Blip]
Angry Birds lands on Windows Phone 7, ready to explore the third ecosystem
Is Apple Refunding Users for Final Cut Pro X? [Blip]
Triggertrap Trips You Camera With Just About Anything
Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus
Exclusive Peek: Cervélo?s New Bike for the Tour de France
Oregon engineers roll out cheaper, less wasteful solar cells with inkjet printer
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CyanogenMod 7 on the Nook Color hands-on (video)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:52 PM PDT

It’s hard not to love Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color, especially if you’re amongst those who’d rather look at text on a quality backlit screen than an e-paper display. Not only did we enjoy the e-book reader when we first reviewed it, but it keeps getting better thanks to updates to its hidden Android core plus the recent addition of its own app store complete with Pandora and Angry Birds. And while there’s also a decent bundled web browser and music player, it’s not the software that we like the most — it’s the hardware, and particularly the value proposition.

See, $250 ($200 on sale) buys you a gorgeous 7-inch 1024×600 pixel capacitive IPS panel with excellent contrast and viewing angles, an 800MHz TI OMAP 3621 CPU, a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU, 512MB RAM, WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, 8GB of built-in storage, an accelerometer, and a microSD card slot — all wrapped in an attractive 12mm thin package. Sure, there’s no 3G radio, no camera, no microphone, no ambient light sensor, and no haptic feedback, but despite its lower-end specs, the Nook Color just begs to be turned into a full blown Android tablet.

And that’s just what we did, by installing CyanogenMod 7 on Barnes & Noble’s color reader, complete with Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) and the full suite of Google apps. Take a look at our screenshots gallery below and hit the break for our hands-on video and impressions.

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CyanogenMod 7 on the Nook Color hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/29/cyanogenmod-7-on-the-nook-color-hands-on-video/

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Samsung Wants to Block all iPods, iPhones, and iPads from the US [Blip]

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 01:52 PM PDT

Last we heard, Apple brought the you-copied-our-shit fight to Samsung’s home turf. Now Samsung’s firing back, asking the International Trade Commission to ban US imports of every iPod, iPhone and iPad. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-ZZ2o-5_SRg/samsung-wants-to-ban-all-ipods-iphones-and-ipads

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Angry Birds lands on Windows Phone 7, ready to explore the third ecosystem

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:52 AM PDT

Nowadays, you can’t really claim to have a mobile OS worthy of the title if your users can’t run Angry Birds on it. Good news from Microsoft, then, as Windows Phone 7 can finally be admitted at the grown-up table now that it has released its port of Rovio’s epic bird-launching experience. $2.99 is the Marketplace price for the full version, though there’s also the option to try out the first few levels for free. Because, you know, there might still be people out there who haven’t yet been exposed to the charms of this perniciously addictive little game.

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Is Apple Refunding Users for Final Cut Pro X? [Blip]

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:52 AM PDT

Final Cut Pro X, a re-imagination of how video editing should be or a botched release beyond any usable recognition, has certainly incensed its share of professional video editors. According to EOSHD, Apple may be refunding copies to placate them. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/tnWP9rWNli8/is-apple-refunding-users-for-final-cut-pro-x

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Triggertrap Trips You Camera With Just About Anything

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:52 AM PDT

Triggertrap is an open source, Arduino-based box that will take pretty much any input and use it to trigger your camera. Lasers, a clap of the hands, even your old TV remote — all of them will work to trip your camera’s shutter.
The project differs from other Kickstarter projects in a few ways. First is [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/triggertrap-trips-you-camera-with-just-about-anything/

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Gargantuan SQL injection infects 3.8 million URLs, installs rogue antivirus

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 05:52 AM PDT

Over the last few days, a mass SQL injection attack has been quickly gathering speed. Just three days ago only 28,000 URLs were affected, but at the time of writing, there could be up to 3.8 million infected URLs.

Websense has a complete write up the attack, dubbed ‘LizaMoon,’ but here’s the basic gist: it looks like someone is exploiting a vulnerabilty (or vulnerabilities) in hundreds of thousands of websites running on Microsoft SQL Server 2003 and 2005. It’s not yet known whether this is a vulnerability in SQL Server, or simply a case of outdated, unmaintained, and easily-exploitable CMSes.

The attack takes the form of an SQL injection, which then inserts a link to a JavaScript file hosted on the attacker’s server. This is repeated over and over until every Web page in the SQL database has been infected — and considering 3.8 million URLs have been infected, you can see that this is a very easy, and automated, attack.

Fortunately, the JavaScript isn’t particularly malicious: it pops up a rogue AV program called Windows Stability Center, but that’s it. Better yet, the rogue antivirus is already recognized by a bunch of real antivirus suites, including Avast, Panda and Microsoft Security Essentials.

The real problem with SQL injection attacks is that there’s nothing we surfers can do about them. There will always be old and unmaintained websites, and thus SQL injections will remain one of the easiest and most lucrative tools of hackers and spammers alike. All you can do is keep your antivirus and anti-malware software up to date, and pray.

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Exclusive Peek: Cervélo?s New Bike for the Tour de France

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 03:52 AM PDT

Cervélo, which for the past decade has made some of the most coveted race bikes in cycling, is launching a new model for the Tour de France. And we have the exclusive, including the first test ride of any media outlet on the planet. Check back tomorrow for all the details and cool behind-the-scenes photos.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/exclusive-peek-cervelo%e2%80%99s-new-bike-for-the-tour-de-france/

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Oregon engineers roll out cheaper, less wasteful solar cells with inkjet printer

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 01:52 AM PDT

It looks like the push to turn the inkjet printer into the next great manufacturer of solar cells has found another proponent in a team of engineers at Oregon State University. That group of resourceful researchers claims to have created the world’s first “CIGS solar devices with inkjet printing,” thus giving birth to a new production process that reduces raw material waste by 90 percent. CIGS (an acronym for copper, indium, gallium, and selenium) is a highly absorbent and efficient compound, especially suited to creating thin-film solar cells. The team has used inkjet technology to pump out a CIGS ink with an efficiency of five percent, and a potential efficiency of 12 percent; apparently enough to produce a “commercially viable solar cell.” Unfortunately, the group has yet to announce plans to bring the ink to our desktop printer — so much for that backyard solar farm. Full PR after the break.