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AT&T has promised to launch several new WiFi spots in the coming months, and it’s starting off with new zones of connectivity in New York’s Times Square, Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick’s Cathedral — all major tourist traps. Times Square already boasts free AT&T WiFi (launched in May) but it’s making the area larger as part of its new initiative. The company has also announced that it plans to launch free WiFi spots in San Francisco as well, starting with the Embarcadero Center, sometime later this year. The embellished Times Square WiFi and the two new zones will launch “in the coming days,” which we know isn’t very specific but hey: it’s the best we can do. Full press release is after the break.

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Okay, so it’s not one of the greatest guitar battles of all-time, but it’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s, so we’ll take what we can get. Guitar maker Gibson has scored a win in its fight against PaperJamz manufacturer WowWee.

Gibson got an injunction after suing WowWee and a number of high profile retailers, including Walmart, Amazon, eBay, Target, K-Mart, Toys “R” Us, and Walgreens, arguing that the musical toys are much to close to Gibson’s iconic guitar body shape. The defendants in the case are, naturally, set to appeal the decision.

A win for Gibson, whom TechDirt refers to as being “notoriously litigious.” The company has pulled in a good deal of money over the years licensing its decision to third-party companies. Of course, it’s got to sting that the decision came right after the Christmas holiday. The damage (that is, if one can really successfully argue that promoting the Gibson icon really constitutes “damage) has already been done, right?

Ever tried writing a text message or an urgent work e-mail with gloves on? Chances are what you planned to type and what came out couldn’t look more different…if anything came out at all. Digits are a $14 set of four conductive pins that, like the Dots iPhone gloves, were designed to make cold weather touchscreen use easy, and hopefully error free. Unlike Dots and other pre-made touchscreen products, however, Digits allow you to use your own gloves, provided they’re knit (unfortunately, they’re not leather-friendly). Each pin comes in two parts: one piece sticks through from inside your glove, and the other, which sports silicone caps, attaches from outside, using the same concept as this DIY set. Digits should keep your touchscreen free of scratches and your texts and e-mails free of error, even when it’s freezing out. Hopefully now you won’t end up firing when you should be filing.

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The Bottoms Up beer dispenser can pour up to 44 pints a minute, with just one person using it. Add a few helpers and it can reach 56 pints per minute, not far off one per second. That’s impressive enough, but take a look at how the glasses are “poured.” The machine fills them from the bottom:

This would be a fantastic addition to English pubs, where the 19 and 20-year old bartenders lack motivation and brains to the extent that one pint a minute is a miracle, and then the glass will be half-filled with foam. And that’s if you can get their attention to begin with.

But how does this magical machine work? Obviously, the cups have holes, but how do they reseal? Magnets. The plastic glasses have a floppy fridge-magnet inside, a circle which sticks itself to a corresponding donut-shape strip around the filling-hole. Here’s a birds-eye view, grabbed from a video on the product site.

So, the Bottoms Up pumps are fast, can hook up to any keg and – provided you have the rest of your gear clean and properly adjusted – you won’t waste beer via foam. But there is an obvious problem: waste of those glasses. Instead of a glass glass, which can be re-used over and over, these are designed to be disposable, to the extent that the little magnetic discs are pushed as an advertising opportunity:

A magnet on the fridge of the American household gets 20 impressions per day per person in the household, making this ad space the most viewed souvenir taken home from a venue. That also means it is taken home from the venue!

Still, who cares about that, right? After all, with beer coming at you at nine-times the normal speed, it’s hard to care about anything else.

Bottoms Up [Grinon Industries. Thanks, Mr. Abell!]

See Also:

• It's Beer O'Clock! Watch Has Built-In Bottle Opener
• How Wired.com Built Beer Robot, Our DIY Kegerator
• Beer Meets Bike in Limited Edition Pabst Blue Ribbon Fixie …

This article was written on July 09, 2008 by CyberNet.

Google has just taken an extra step to protect Gmail users from eBay and PayPal phishing attempts by implementing technology called DomainKeys. With the technology, email messages sent by phishers attempting to trick unsuspecting people into giving out an eBay or PayPal password are completely blocked. In the past, Gmail has done its best to put a red label at the top of messages that it suspected were phishing attempts, which was really helpful, but there’s really no need to ever receive these messages at all.

We mentioned DomainKeys the technology behind this, and it is also the same technology that Yahoo uses to protect their mail users from phishing attempts. A quick look at the DomainKeys entry on Wikipedia found that the technology was actually designed by Mark Delany of Yahoo. It’s covered under a patent assigned to Yahoo, but it’s released under a dual license scheme as well which makes it possible for Gmail to use.

Here’s how it works. DomainKeys is essentially an email authentication system and it verifies the good senders (eBay and PayPal). If the sender can’t be verified, the message won’t be delivered to a Gmail user’s inbox. Ebay and PayPal have put in work to make this effective as well, by ensuring that all of their email messages that are sent out are signed with DomainKeys and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). This move really helps fight phishing and should mean that you won’t have to worry about giving out your PayPal or eBay password to someone out there that intends to empty out your account.

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