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Intel acquires McAfee for $7.68 billion originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A Nova Scotia company has won the latest contract to produce vehicle license plates for Saskatchewan, a move that is attracting criticism from some politicians.

Techcrunch is reporting that Facebook has annouced that it’s brand new location service goes live tonight, dubbed “Facebook Places.” The new service is similar to that of Foursquare, and allows users to check in, as well as geotag photos to a location.

The integration was actually leaked slightly early today, as…

Google today launched a new Gmail Labs feature called Apps Search that, when enabled, lets you search both your inbox and Google Docs straight from Gmail. More »

We can’t say Digitimes is overflowing with details on Toshiba’s long rumored Android tablet, but it looks like we should be marking our planners for a September or October release. As we’ve heard before the 10-inch tablet will run some version of Android and will be powered by a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. The early fall timing surely does make sense to us considering we just heard from NVIDIA this week that many of its partners are planning to release Tegra 2 devices in that time frame. Again, no real details on what Toshiba’s planning here in terms of pricing and specs, but here’s hoping it’s significantly less expensive than that new, fancy dualscreen Libretto W100.

Note: That’s not the actual Toshiba Android tablet up there — it’s just a poor Photoshop of the Toshiba JournE with a Android screen.

Toshiba’s Android tablet said to be coming in September or October originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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High school boys, rejoice! Perhaps it was Clinton’s infamous sex-ed lesson that oral sex isn’t technically sex, but whatever the reason, a new study says oral sex is occurring a lot more often.

After months of preparation in buying and investing in online video game companies, Google will be launching its very own games platform for its Chrome Internet browser.

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It’s shocking how many students put up with crappy, school-provided email and webmail clients. Break free of whichever software had the lowest campus-wide price and use whatever desktop or web-based client you’d like to check your .edu mail. More »

Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse revealed? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today, we released the latest version of Picasa with lots of cool new features but there’s one item that we’re particularly excited about.

Face movies create a movie based around one person both figuratively and literally. Instead of the usual transition from one photo to the next, the images align themselves to the face in the photo. This creates an extremely smooth viewing experience which allows the person in the photos to remain the focus rather than the transition effects themselves.

Words cannot adequately describe this feature, it’s better to see it for yourself:

Some more items in this release:

Picnik integration
A few weeks ago we announced the integration of Picnik, the powerful online photo editor, into Picasa Web Albums. We’re now excited to bring this same functionality to Picasa. You can now use Picnik’s rich editing tools and effects from right inside of Picasa and see where your creativity takes you.

Batch upload from Picasa to Picasa Web Albums
With this new version of Picasa we’re also fulfilling a popular request: batch upload from Picasa right to your Picasa Web Albums account. In addition to uploading multiple photos, you can now upload entire albums, all at the same time, plus remove albums from your Picasa Web account, change the upload size, visibility and sync state of photos that are already online.

Metadata updates
For those of us who enjoy the technical side of photography, we have some nice metadata (information stored inside of your image file) updates too, including support of Color Management. Picasa will now read the metadata from your photo and present the photo in the correct color space, thus improving the way your photo displays on your monitor or TV screen.

Picasa also has expanded support of XMP, which will be presented in an easy and accessible way alongside your image in the Properties panel. You can find people, places and tags in this space as well.

We’re also adding a few other under-the-hood updates such as improved support of external drives, increased efficiency of CPU usage, and improved settings when sharing with your Gmail contact groups.

This latest release is in English only for now, but we plan to roll out additional languages soon. Download Picasa today and, as always, feedback and questions are welcome in our forums.

Earlier today you may have heard about Windows Live Essentials beta 2 being released. With this update, Windows Live Messenger received a new feature which people have been craving for a while: the ability to chat with Facebook friends. This has been expected as in the previous beta there was…

Quebec’s highest court has acquitted former NHL hockey star Guy Lafleur, earlier convicted of giving contradictory testimony at his son’s sexual assault and forcible confinement trial.

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Tuesday rejected a hostile takeover bid from the world’s largest mining company as “grossly inadequate.”

Microsoft has just released the next major version of the Windows Live Essentials 2011 beta suite. The package comes with a number of improvements, bug fixes and added features.

Microsoft originally released a Windows Live Essentials beta on June 24. Essentials includes the popular programs Windows Live Movie Maker, Mail, Writer,…

Now every man and his donkey has a Snapdragon chip in their smartphones, it’s time for Qualcomm to look past the 1.2GHz speeds and bring us a 1.5GHz dual-core. It’s on its way, from late this year/early next year. More »

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Parents in the town of Barrie, Ontario, Canada, want their school district to disable its Wi-Fi network because, they claim, it’s making their kids sick. According to a report by The Canadian Press, parents say that, after the district went wireless, kids from 14 different schools …

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Ontario Parents Say School Wi-Fi Networks Make Kids Sick originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A school board in central Ontario is defending its decision to keep wireless internet access in classrooms despite fears from some parents that radiation from Wi-Fi transmissions is making kids sick.