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It’s one thing for Fifth Ave. to get clogged up each time a new iPhone or iPad gets released, but Grand Central Terminal? Avid NYC commuters best plan their vacation days accordingly, as one of the city’s biggest transit hubs is about to get a heck of a lot more busy — and not because White Plains is the new Southampton. The New York Post is reporting that Apple and the MTA have agreed on a decade-long deal that’ll see a 23,000-square foot Apple Store take the place of Charlie Palmer’s Metrazur restaurant, with Cupertino’s rent to be set at $800,000 per year (rising to $1 million after ten years pass). For those curious, that’s around $500,000 more than the eatery before it, and Apple’s responsible for refurbishing the space. That cacophony of voices you hear? Touristy cheers drowning out local jeers.

Apple Store coming to Grand Central Terminal, travel disruptions guaranteed for next iPhone launch originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What we have here, is a decidedly low-end Android tablet from the folks at MSI (possibly a member of the Enjoy family) flying through the FCC as fast as its single-core 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU and 512MB of RAM will carry it. Inside you’ll find Bluetooth and WiFi antennas, as well as enough room for a full-sized SD card, though oddly the user manual says this model (listed as MS-N0Y1) only supports sizes up to 8GB. Up front you’ll find a camera for video chatting, the requisite buttons for navigating the customized version of Gingerbread, and a 10-inch screen sporting a rather uninspiring 800×480 resolution. There’s a second camera around back, as well as the all important FCC tag. Check out the gallery below and hit up the source for the aforementioned user manual and a special treat — schematics for those Android pushing internals.

MSI tablet moseys on through the FCC, exposes its inner secrets originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 21, 2008 by CyberNet.

Over the last few years, Encyclopaedia Britannica has had to sit and watch as more people turned to what was easily available and free, to look-up information on a certain topic or event instead of their physical encyclopedias.  The simple fact that the Internet, and particularly Wikipedia, is universally accessible to anybody with an Internet Connection and Britannica is not hasn’t been such a good thing for them. To help bring them up-to-date and up-to-speed with their competition, they’ve decided to go social which includes offering Encyclopaedia (yes, that’s how they spell it) Britannica to bloggers for no cost. The program is called WebShare.

Clearly they have to benefit somehow, right? Otherwise they wouldn’t be doing this. So here’s how bloggers are going to help. Any blogger who has gained access to the new WebShare program (bloggers have to get approved first) will have access to over 56,000 articles online. Of course that isn’t even close to the number of articles Wikipedia offers, but theirs are all professionally written and edited (to most, this fact doesn’t really matter). If a blogger is researching a topic and comes across useful information on WebShare, they can link to it and readers will be able to go view the complete article on Britannica’s website. Readers won’t be able to view anything but the article that the blogger linked to, but it still gets them to the site. In the end, the benefit to Britannica is that they’ll have all kinds of links pointing to them which will certainly help their ranking on search engines and might get more people to their site.

We also mentioned that they are incorporating a social aspect to the site.  The social aspect is made up of widgets that can be posted on a blog or web site, a new blog, a Twitter Account that people can follow, and an RSS feed.

WebShare has unofficially launched, and the official launch with a Press Release will not happen for another week. Already bloggers are able to register for an account which can be done here. The only requirement for getting the same benefits as paying subscribers is that you need to be a “Web publisher- a blogger, webmaster, or writer.” With such broad terms, just about anybody will be able to at least attempt to register for an account, although that doesn’t mean you’ll get approved.

Thanks for the tip Omar!

Source: TechCrunch

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Funny — we (almost) asked this same exact question in August of 2009, just after Snow Leopard had been loosed on the unsuspecting public. But as fate seems to have it, each and every OS overhaul brings gobs of issues, and regardless of how hard the problem finders in Cupertino work, there’s simply too many unchecked variables to squash each and every bug prior to release. And with that, we present to you just a handful of the biggest quirks that have cropped up since a cool million of you downloaded Lion. For one, you can kiss Rosetta support goodbye, and secondly, it seems as if 10.7 is seriously cramping third-party NAS support for Time Machine. We’ve also had numerous reports from folks that are having issues dragging application installs to their Applications folder, not to mention an uptick in Guest account crashes. Of course, there’s also the whole “I can’t get my free update to Lion!” thing, busted Windows partitions and a veritable plethora of dilemmas when looking at Pro Tools and Cubase. Hit the links below to join the misery party, or feel free to start your own in comments below. Oh, and if you’re furious that Lion and its incompatibilities have ruined your livelihood… well, welcome to the downside of early adoption. Here’s hoping a raft of updates cures whatever’s ailing you in the days and weeks to come.

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Mac OS X Lion: what’s broken (or working) for you? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on December 14, 2005 by CyberNet.

Microsoft released Exchange 12 today to 1,400 testers. This is going to be the next version of the mail/communication server to be released around the same time as Microsoft Office 12. The next beta will come in the second quarter of 2006 and the final release is expected in the third quarter of 2006. Of course any predictions by Microsoft are never very accurate so plan on the first quarter of 2007 at the earliest. New changes include five user selectable server roles and more unified inbox capabilities.

News Source: Microsoft Watch

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