Court Doc: K-9 tracked armed robber | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR

Court Doc: K-9 tracked armed robber | Local & Regional News | KPIC CBS 4 - News, Weather and Sports - Roseburg, OR: According to Roseburg officers, they were called to the Rite Aid Pharmacy on SE Stephens Street just after 5:00 p.m., where employees reported a man with a knife had robbed them, getting away with a large number of Oxycontin pills.

iPad in the Enterprise: A videoconferencing dream machine? | Macworld

iPad in the Enterprise: A videoconferencing dream machine? | Macworld: Videoconferencing, instant messaging and collaboration on the iPad is gaining steam as more iPads make their way into the enterprise. Companies have become more comfortable with these emerging methods of communication. They’re pouring investments into Wi-Fi upgrades and videoconferencing networking technology from tech giants such as Cisco, IBM and Microsoft.

Embracing the educational iOS device | Macworld

Embracing the educational iOS device | Macworld: The Epicurious app is helping her learn to cook. Google Earth shows her our world in ways impossible when I was her age. Her monthly iTunes allowance has taught her something about budgeting and clearly evaluating what is and isn’t worth her money. And as part of that financial lesson, she’s learned that free is good. This has translated into her downloading a fair number of free (read: classic literature) books via the iBooks and Kindle apps. She may not be up on Twilight, but she’s read Conan Doyle and Verne.

Review: Rage is an old-fashioned shoot-'em-up game

Review: Rage is an old-fashioned shoot-'em-up game: Despite its state-of-the-art 3D graphics, Rage is really an old-fashioned shooter in the same mold as the now-ancient Doom and Quake.

Opinion: Apple needs to break up the iTunes band

Opinion: Apple needs to break up the iTunes band: iTunes is simultaneously Apple's most important and problematic product. It's a music and video player. It's a store, the gateway to buying music, videos, ringtones, and iOS apps. And of course, it's a syncing system, connecting to Apple devices from iPhone to iPod to Apple TV. Jason Snell thinks iTunes has gone too far.

Bare Bones releases TextWrangler 4.0

Bare Bones releases TextWrangler 4.0: Many improvements from BBEdit 10 make their way into the app's free little brother with the release of TextWrangler 4.

Four short links: 9 April 2012 - O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 9 April 2012 - O'Reilly Radar: How Big are Porn Site (ExtremeTech) -- porn sites cope with astronomical amounts of data. The only sites that really come close in term of raw bandwidth are YouTube or Hulu, but even then YouPorn is something like six times larger than Hulu.

Four short links: 9 April 2012 - O'Reilly Radar

Four short links: 9 April 2012 - O'Reilly Radar: How Big are Porn Site (ExtremeTech) -- porn sites cope with astronomical amounts of data. The only sites that really come close in term of raw bandwidth are YouTube or Hulu, but even then YouPorn is something like six times larger than Hulu.

Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion

Facebook Buys Instagram For $1 Billion: Facebook has announced it is buying the extremely popular photography app-maker Instagram for a reported $1 billion.

DC Comics Announces <cite>National Comics</cite>

DC Comics Announces National Comics: This July, DC Comics will be launching a new stand-alone series, entitled National Comics. National Comics will tell done-in-one stories, exploring some of The New 52's characters that, while interesting, don't currently have an outlet for their stories. The first four in the spotlight will be Eternity, Madame X, Rose and Thorn, and Looker. Each of these will have an issue to tell their tale and introduce the reader to their little corner of the universe, with the hopes of building from there.

D'Oh! <cite>The Simpsons: Tapped Out</cite> Is an Addictive Time Waster

D'Oh! The Simpsons: Tapped Out Is an Addictive Time Waster: I pride myself on having avoided many years worth of time-sucking, premium content peddling, screen-tapping social games like FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars. However, I do have a weakness for The Simpsons and the early SimCity games were among my favorites. Electronic Arts combined the TV Show, city building, optional social aspects and a whole lot of repetitive tasks in The Simpsons: Tapped Out, the iOS game that finally dragged me into the world of grinding, casual freemium gaming.

Plangrid brings iPad to construction sites

Plangrid brings iPad to construction sites: A new app puts blueprints with Apple's tablet, allowing construction managers and architects to leave the thick bundles of paper behind and distribute updated plans without the hassle of reprinting.

YouTube brings 3D to all -- even if the original video was 2D

YouTube brings 3D to all -- even if the original video was 2D: The online video site now lets users accessing short-form 1080p video to automatically convert them to 3D.
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Editorial Radar with Mike Loukides & Mike Hendrickson

Editorial Radar with Mike Loukides & Mike Hendrickson: How 3D Printing and personal manufacturing will revolutionize the way business is conducted in the U.S. [Discussed at the 00:43 mark ]

Loophole Could Allow Private Land Claims on Other Worlds

Loophole Could Allow Private Land Claims on Other Worlds: Moon mining and outer-space colonies remain a pie-in-the-sky dream for now. But a new paper argues that the settlement of other worlds would take off if the government could provide one thing: property rights.

Nominees Announced For 2012 Eisner Awards

Nominees Announced For 2012 Eisner Awards: The nominations for the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards have been announced. Check out the full list of this year's nominees and see if your favorite title or creator made the cut!

Larry Page's First Year As Google CEO: Impatience is a Virtue | Epicenter | Wired.com

Larry Page's First Year As Google CEO: Impatience is a Virtue | Epicenter | Wired.com: Of course, there are plenty of metrics that show that Google is doing just fine. It takes in $38 billion a year. (Its stock price has been fairly flat, but Page has always insisted that Google focuses on the long-term, not Wall Street’s quarterly calendar.) It is the world’s dominant search engine. In YouTube, it has the world’s premier internet video franchise. Its infrastructure is one of the marvels of the 21st Century.

Smaller, Quicker, Secret, Robotic: Inside America's New Space Force

Smaller, Quicker, Secret, Robotic: Inside America's New Space Force: The era of big space missions is fading. "Small" is the new watch-word for America's orbital force. Think tiny satellites, secret space planes, and so-called "pseudolites" -- that is, relatively inexpensive robots, planes and airships operating in the very-high-but-not-quite-orbit upper atmosphere. They're all part of the Pentagon's new plans to dominate its rivals in orbit.

Cheap laptop fix: How I learned to upgrade my own RAM | Crave - CNET

Cheap laptop fix: How I learned to upgrade my own RAM | Crave - CNET: It took my friend persistently reminding me that his RAM upgrade on the same laptop model (a late 2008 aluminum MacBook) paid huge dividends on performance to finally pull the trigger. I'm glad I did. Even then, I waited about six months. My computer got progressively slower with each OS X update, until Lion gave me endless spinning wheels with only one program open.
A quick search on Amazon gave me a bargain: Crucial's 4GB upgrade kit with two 2GB modules cost just $26, or $29 after tax and shipping. A no-brainer. For older laptops, getting RAM costs practically nothing at all.

Comics on the iPad: will the new iPad attract paper readers?

Comics on the iPad: will the new iPad attract paper readers?: Comics have been around for centuries, but the iconic Action Comics #1 featuring Superman in 1938 is widely considered to be the beginning of the “Golden Age.” Other metalliferous ages followed: silver, bronze, iron. Now, comics are in the “Modern Age.” And the biggest question both today and going forward—will comic books largely remain on glossy paper or transition to backlit LED?