Google’s smart TV software platform, Google TV, is poised for its first significant overhaul since it launched in Logitech and Sony hardware a year ago. Via over-the-air updates that should begin streaming to hardware devices on October 30, Google TV users will find new TV-optimized Android Apps, an improved YouTube experience, [...]

Dedicated support to expand mobile broadband nationwide will be provided through a new Mobility Fund. - The Federal Communications
Commission voted unanimously to comprehensively reform its Universal Service
Fund and intercarrier compensation systems. Efforts to expand the high-speed
Internet to rural America over the next six years will increase economic growth
by billion over that [...]

crookedvulture writes “The initial reviews of the first Bulldozer-based FX processors have revealed the chips to be notably slower than their Intel counterparts. Part of the reason is the module-based nature of AMD’s new architecture, which requires more intelligent thread scheduling to extract optimum performance. This article takes a closer look at how tweaking Windows [...]

HP, having abandoned its own webOS tablet plans, is betting big that consumers and businesses will gravitate to Windows 8 on touch screens. - Hewlett-Packard, with its
market-leading PC business back in the fold, is still in the tablet
game.
“I think we need to be in the tablet business,” HP CEO Meg
Whitman told analysts [...]

An anonymous reader writes “The days of dealing with very reflective glass panels may soon be behind us. Nippon Electric Glass has used the FPD International 2011 conference in Japan this week to show off its new ‘invisible glass’ panel. What NEG has done is added anti-reflection films to both the front and back of [...]

Despite losing 800,000 members, Netflix still accounts for a whopping 32.7% of all North American peak fixed access downstream traffic, according to Sandvine's fall 2011 Global Internet Phenomena Report. That's up nearly 10% since spring 2011 and almost double the peak traffic of the next largest source, HTTP at 17.5%.

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New figures from Facebook reveal how often the social networking site’s users are hacked. In the blog post announcing the forthcoming “Trusted Friends” feature, Facebook also an included infographic detailing Facebook’s security measures. One figure in particular jumped out at security researchers: every day, “only .06%” of Facebook’s 1 billion logins are compromised. Or, to put [...]

There’s nothing quite like a perfect cup of coffee, but what’s perfect for you may be putrid to someone else. If you’re a new coffee or tea drinker it may take a little experimentation to figure out your preferred balance of coffee/tea, sweetener, and/or creamer. The MyCuppa mug from British designer Suck UK has color [...]

New submitter NarcoTraficante writes “After one of their members was kidnapped in Veracruz, Mexico by the Zetas drug cartel, Mexican Anonymous members have issued an ultimatum to the Zetas in a recently posted YouTube video. The video demands the release of the kidnapped member and threatens to publish information of cartel members and affiliates in [...]

Hugh Pickens writes "NPR reports that not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system. As recently as 2000, the U.S. was running a budget surplus, taking in more than it was spending every year — and economists were [...]