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  • E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers [del.icio.us]

    Brad Grier
    bgrier
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:37 pm

  • Make Money Online with the Shoemoney System

    Skylarking
    Robert Saunders
    2 Mar 2010 | 2:02 pm
    Oh, man, I hate including the number 13 in any of my headlines, but at least that date isn’t a Friday, it’s a Saturday. Small consolation. Here’s a list of some best selling items I’ve found at Tigerdirect.com. I’m uncluding coupon codes you can use at checkout to save even more on their already low prices. You can check out their special pricing for Skylarking readers here, or read on while I spotlight some of the hot items. SAVE $10 on an EVGA GeForce 9500 GT Video Card ($59 after using coupon code FEC1228 at checkout.) Do your computer games or video…

  • Fraud science used to promote Flash performance over web standards

    RoughlyDrafted Magazine
    danieleran
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:45 am

  • iPad Reserved

    Technologizer
    Harry McCracken
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:31 am
    Plastic Logic, which was planning to ship its Que e-reader in April, has concluded that it needs more time to put the finishing touches on its creation. It says it’s postponing release until summer in order to “further fine-tune features and enhance the overall product experience.” If the delay indeed ends up being a few months at most, it doesn’t seem like that huge a deal. If I were a prospective customer, I’d surely prefer to wait a few months for a rock-solid Que than get a buggy one right away. Besides, a little extra time doesn’t mean much given than…

  • Microsoft's Free Sync Service

    Pogue's Posts
    By DAVID POGUE
    11 Mar 2010 | 12:42 pm
    Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges?
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    building43

  • Opscode Gives Small Development Firms Enterprise Level IT

    Robert Scoble
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:54 am
    Twitter.  Digg.  Facebook.  37Signals.  These are companies known on every continent.  They are not publicly traded and don’t have huge offices or development teams around the world. How can such small teams build applications with such robust IT specifications?  For one, virtualization is allowing small to medium businesses to stretch their IT dollars a lot further.  There are also tools like Opscode’s Chef which help automate the cost prohibitive and time intensive work sys admins have always had to do.  Opscode’s goal is to take the focus off the “muck that…

  • Keen On III Part I

    11 Mar 2010 | 4:34 am
    Andrew Keen and Steve Gillmor debate Campaign 2008. Recorded December 7, 2007.

  • Living Small is the New Living Large

    Ben Huh
    10 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am
    This is a guest post by Ben Huh. The toughest competition I’ve ever had to deal with was The Joneses. I had never met them, but I always knew that they had the newer car, bigger house, and even their dog could do more tricks than my dog. No matter what I did, they were always getting ahead of me. During a recession, it’s necessary, if not fashionable, to be frugal. Eventually, the boom will be back, and those Joneses will be flaunting their new found wealth at your doorstep again. Often, I get questions about how I managed to get out of $40,000 in debt after the first dot com bust. The…

  • Back Up What You Build with a Free Startup Kit from Building43 and Upstack

    Michelle Greer
    9 Mar 2010 | 2:02 pm
    A lot of developers just like to code. They aren’t promoters, they hate tracking down payment, and they don’t know the first thing about SEO. For the developer who likes to code but needs a little help with the other stuff, Building43 has decided to partner with Upstack in the  Awesome Startup Giveaway. Enter to win: DESIGN: Custom Graphic Design package including: logo, website & stationery and domain registration from Upstack. HOSTING: a $500 credit for free Cloud Servers hosting from Rackspace. BILLING: a year’s worth of ShuttleBus service from Freshbooks. SEO: a…

  • Clearleap Brings the Speed of the Internet to HD TV

    Robert Scoble
    9 Mar 2010 | 5:30 am
    We always talk about all the new innovations the internet brings to your computer.  But what does it do for your TV? Atlanta based startup Clearleap is revolutionizing what TV providers can offer simply by allowing them to transmit programming via broadband rather than the traditional outlet of satellite.  According to the Clearleap website, “Content and associated advertising flows through the distribution chain from programmer to distributor to viewer in just minutes over high speed terrestrial networks.  Clearleap’s solutions, which are offered either as turnkey managed services…
 
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    ReadWriteWeb

  • Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:11 am
    Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared with large partners and select small developers building the famous Twitter ecosystem of 3rd party applications around the web. A Facebook representative did not offer a denial, saying only that the company would not comment on speculation. The huge social network was once private by default, then made controversial changes in December that pushed hundreds of millions of users…

  • Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less Power to Top Diggers

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:05 am
    Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process, a personalized homepage, an unlimited amount of topic pages, a new commenting system and better curation tools. Earlier this morning, we got a chance to sit down with Adelson to discuss these changes in greater detail. Some of these changes will surely be extremely controversial in the Digg community and might also make some publishers who rely on Digg's traffic a bit nervous. Sponsor It's hard to…

  • Cartoon: Can't Go to SXSW? We Feel Your Pain

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:24 am
    For anyone in this business who isn't at SXSW in Austin, Texas this week, pretty much every social media channel feels like sitting next to a high school clique loudly talking about a party you weren't invited to. If SXSW doesn't interest you, or if you're able to rise above it all, then my hat's off to you and your Zen-like transcendence. Sponsor For those of us who still have some lingering envy or a fear that we're missing out on... well, we're not quite sure what, but something really cool... there's actually some soothing relief this year. Check out the Twitter discussion on the…

  • Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too. Once a week we introduce our sponsors to our readers and let them know a little more about who they are and what they do. You can say thanks to the companies that make ReadWriteWeb happen by tweeting them (see the link below each sponsor) or following them using our Twitter list. Interested in being a ReadWriteWeb sponsor? Our readers are smart, tech-savvy decision makers; 40% have a graduate degree or PhD, and over 45% play a key role in information technology purchasing…

  • Universal Check-in App Confirmed: Brightkite's Stealth Service

    13 Mar 2010 | 5:14 pm
    We write this for you, the tired, the weak and the weary, the dogged attendees of the South By South West festival in Austin this weekend. We know that you're exhausted, but it's not from the booze, the parties or the product pitches - it's the endless location based check-ins. If only someone had solved this in time, right? From what we can tell, the folks over at Brightkite have the solution with Check.in, but have yet to release it to the achey-thumbed, smart-phoned masses. Sponsor According to the splash page we found at Check.in, the app, which looks to be for both iPhone and Android,…
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    RoughlyDrafted Magazine

  • Fraud science used to promote Flash performance over web standards

    danieleran
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:45 am
    Daniel Eran Dilger A report purporting to vindicate the performance of Adobe’s Flash plugin in comparison to open standards broke through the weak editorial barriers of the tech community yesterday. It’s wrong, here’s why. . The report was created by Jan Ozer, a proponent of Flash who makes his living selling books and seminars about Adobe’s technologies. The [...]

  • Microsoft Courier: the third weak link in a miserable mobile strategy

    danieleran
    5 Mar 2010 | 9:02 am
    Daniel Eran Dilger Microsoft’s Courier concept has rapidly evolved over the last three years, but in rather random directions. It now says it will have the product finished by the end of 2010, an extremely ambitious goal for a company that simply could not deliver its last several product concepts within a year of announcing ETAs, [...]

  • Podcast: Apple vs HTC over Android patent infringement

    danieleran
    4 Mar 2010 | 1:08 pm
    Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Apple’s patent suit against smartphone maker HTC. You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at [...]

  • Why Apple is suing HTC rather than Google or Android

    danieleran
    3 Mar 2010 | 9:09 am
    Daniel Eran Dilger Apple’s patent assault on HTC (the maker of most Android and Windows Mobile phones) has gotten the tech media in a tizzy. Why isn’t Apple taking on Google or Android instead, and is this action the sign of a tough new Apple that hates Google and open source and wants to kill Android? [...]

  • Tech: Hot & Cool 1 – Dealing with poor cellular service: from AT&T 3G MicroCell to WiEx Zboost XY-510

    danieleran
    3 Mar 2010 | 12:49 am
    Daniel Eran Dilger & KharaCara On our search to find the hottest and coolest stuff in the tech world, we investigate AT&T’s terrible service for US iPhone users, the 3G MicroCell you can’t get in AT&T’s worst service markets of New York and San Francisco, and a product from Wi-Ex called the Zboost XY-510. AppleInsider | Video [...]
 
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    Wired Top Stories

  • SXSW Keeps Austin Weird, Wired and Wild

    Lewis Wallace
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:08 pm
    Geeks party like rock stars at South by Southwest's interactive and film festivals. A photo tour of the Saturday night scene.

  • SXSW: Comic Bill Hicks Posthumously Rocks Austin

    Eliot Van Buskirk
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:27 pm
    The North American premiere of American: The Bill Hicks Story delivers a biting dose of the late, great stand-up's routines. But that's just the tip of the iceberg: Fans who've memorized every word will dig the documentary's inventive animation sequences.

  • SXSW: Dynamo Takes on YouTube for Indie Film Rentals

    Eliot Van Buskirk
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:51 am
    Promising a mix of revenue and flexibility, the startup will offer independent filmmakers a direct route to movie fans.

  • Google '99.9%' Sure To Shut China Search Engine: Report

    Reuters
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:41 am
    Talks with China over censorship have reached an apparent impasse and Google, the world's largest search engine, is now "99.9 percent" certain to shut its Chinese search engine, the Financial Times reports.

  • SXSW: 'Kick-Ass' Goes to Comic Book Extremes

    Lewis Wallace
    12 Mar 2010 | 11:59 pm
    Funny, fresh and amazingly violent, Matthew Vaughn's big-screen adaption of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s superhero story leaves a packed house laughing at South by Southwest.
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    Technologizer

  • FCC Begins Benchmarking ISPs’ Broadband Claims

    David Worthington
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm
    The Federal Communications Commission has begun to benchmark Internet service speeds across the United States to allow consumer to compare the real world performance of their ISP with its advertised speeds. I’d like to see some action. The program is under the aegis of the National Broadband Plan, which was created with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to accelerate broadband deployment in the United States. The FCC is gathering data down to the level of home address. “The FCC’s new digital tools will arm users with real-time information about…

  • Xbox 360 Games on Your iPhone? Yes. But Not From Microsoft

    David Worthington
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:41 pm
    On Monday, Novell will demonstrate new technology that will allow Microsoft Xbox 360 games to be translated into iPhone apps. It also has the capability to be used to create Android games, potentially taking some Xbox games to the mobile masses. Novell, a Microsoft frenemy, is making it possible for you to play Xbox games on other devices now, while Microsoft, which created the platform, will leave you waiting for Windows Phone 7 handsets, due late this year. For whatever reason, Microsoft has chosen to be less than aggressive in supporting two extremely popular smartphone platforms despite…

  • More Google Buzz Tweaks

    Harry McCracken
    12 Mar 2010 | 11:42 am
    One of Google Buzz’s major selling points is supposed to be its tight integration with Gmail. Over at Cnet, Stephen Shankland is reporting that Google is fiddling with the feature that ties them together. Users will have more control over when they get Buzz updates via e-mail, and it’ll be clearer why a particular Buzz item is showing up. Google says it’s making the changes in response to feedback that Buzz is too noisy. Me, I don’t feel like I’m being inundated with Buzz–but I’m not sure why I’m getting the Buzzes I’m getting, and I wish…

  • Plastic Logic Postponed

    Harry McCracken
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:17 am
    Plastic Logic, which was planning to ship its Que e-reader in April, has concluded that it needs more time to put the finishing touches on its creation. It says it’s postponing release until summer in order to “further fine-tune features and enhance the overall product experience.” If the delay indeed ends up being a few months at most, it doesn’t seem like that huge a deal. If I were a prospective customer, I’d surely prefer to wait a few months for a rock-solid Que than get a buggy one right away. Besides, a little extra time doesn’t mean much given than…

  • iPad Reserved

    Harry McCracken
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:31 am
    At 5:38am this morning I reserved an iPad for pickup at my local Apple Store on April 3rd, the day Apple’s new gizmo becomes available. Hey, I was up anyway–in fact, I was onboard a plane at the time, heading home from Seattle. It went smoothly, except for one glitch on the login screen. But I liked the Jobsian-sounding error I got: “This is an error message. You have failed in some way.” Share/E-Mail
 
 
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    Techmeme

  • New Version of Digg Revealed (Ben Parr/Mashable!)

    14 Mar 2010 | 5:20 am
    Ben Parr / Mashable!: New Version of Digg Revealed  —  At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.

  • iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only (Galen Gruman/PC World)

    13 Mar 2010 | 7:10 pm
    Galen Gruman / PC World: iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only  —  Apple started taking early orders yesterday for its tablet, even though no one's really sure what they're buying.  —  Recommends  —  Friday morning, the fool's parade started.  Apple is taking online “pre-orders” for its iPad tablet, which is supposed to begin shipping on April 3.

  • Clarifying a couple points (Matt Cutts/Gadgets, Google, and SEO)

    13 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO: Clarifying a couple points  —  [Just as a reminder: everything below is my personal opinion.  I haven't sent it to anyone else at Google for a review, etc.]  —  Valleywag used a recent podcast I did as material for two points in Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders.

  • Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99 (Darren Murph/Engadget)

    13 Mar 2010 | 2:50 pm
    Darren Murph / Engadget: Dead iPad battery?  Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99  —  Whoa, Nelly!  Isn't this something?  Apple has just posted details on its iPad battery replacement service, which is really not a battery replacement service at all.  Check out the company's opening line:

  • Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal (New York Times)

    13 Mar 2010 | 2:15 pm
    New York Times: Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal  —  IT looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.  —  Three years ago, Eric E. Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, jogged onto a San Francisco stage to shake hands with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's co-founder, to help him unveil …
 
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    Slashdot

  • How Sony and Microsoft Hope To Crack the Motion Control Market

    Soulskill
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:41 am
    An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed on the table this week suggest one answer to that question. It sees PlayStation Move as being an upgrade path for Wii owners — an invitation to the tens of millions of consumers who have invested in Nintendo's platform to swim upstream to the more powerful, HD-enabled system. Yet even Sony's most optimistic view of the market will be tempered by a dose of…

  • Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom

    Soulskill
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:33 am
    terets1 writes "Reuters reports that Venezuela's leader, Hugo Chavez, issued a call on Saturday for 'internet controls' to prevent rumors and inaccurate reporting from spreading. He specifically cited a case in which a website incorrectly reported that a senior minister had been assassinated and kept the story up for two days. Many of Venezuela's opposition movements use social networking sites to communicate. It is not apparent at this time exactly what kind of controls Chavez has in mind or whether those controls will be similar to the controls in Iran that have been used to silence…

  • Google Makes Apps Script Available To All

    Soulskill
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:49 am
    theodp writes "Formerly only available to Apps Users, Google has made Apps Script available to everyone (sample script), including you Google Docs low-lifers. Apps Script lets you automate actions across spreadsheets, sites, calendars, and other Google services. No spamming, kids!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Air Force Spaceplane Readying For Launch

    Soulskill
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:26 am
    FleaPlus writes "The US Air Force is currently preparing for the launch of the secretive X-37B OTV-1 (Orbital Test Vehicle 1) spaceplane, which was transferred from NASA to DARPA back in 2004 when NASA opted to focus its budget on lunar exploration. The reusable unmanned spaceplane is set to launch in April on top of a commercial Atlas V rocket, orbit for up to 270 days while testing a number of new technologies, reenter the atmosphere, then land on auto-pilot in California."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Mozilla Foundation Begins Redraft Process For MPL

    timothy
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:17 am
    Barence writes "Mozilla has announced plans to redraft the open-source license underpinning projects such as Firefox. The Mozilla Public License 1.1 has been used to distribute numerous projects including Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenSolaris and Flex for over a decade. In the first phase of this process, Mozilla will release an alpha draft based on feedback already received. This will be followed by 'commentary, discussion, and further drafting, followed by beta and release candidate drafts.' Mozilla intends to 'seriously investigate' whether it can make the MPL compatible with the Apache…
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    Truemors

  • Wolfram Alpha Claims Oscars 2010 Mastery

    Truemorist
    5 Mar 2010 | 11:23 am
    Wolfram Alpha Claims to Answer Any Oscar Question... But Gets Pwned Wolfram Alpha, that thing that's kind of like a search engine, claims to answer any Oscar nomination or award question. However, my very first...read more

  • Fan Cries Until Justin Bieber Shows Up

    Truemorist
    1 Mar 2010 | 12:53 pm
    So it's come to this. A three-year-old fan cried (on Youtube) until Justin Bieber showed up at her house. If you were to replay the video, that poor kid would be crying forever and ever. Fortunately, Justin Bieber...read more

  • Tiger Woods Apology Video Draws Nearly 700,000 Viewers

    Truemorist
    19 Feb 2010 | 11:43 am
    The Tiger Woods apology video, streamed live over every video medium known to humankind, has been watched by over 700,000 people, not counting the copied versions. That's a webful of schadenfreude. Seriously,...read more

  • Flickr Flick Pro Accounts

    Paulette Sedgwick
    18 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am
    The Internet world allows you to upload your pictures to allow family and friend's so they to can also enjoy.   Facebook, and Flickr are amongst a few you can upload FREE.  Flickr allows you to ...read more

  • Katie Price Daughter Allowed To Become Page 3

    Paulette Sedgwick
    17 Feb 2010 | 7:10 am
    Katie price is constantly in the papers for yet another public out burst for something.   With her sexual activities, men she dates including returning to the jungle watched by thousands glued to...read more
 
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    Crenk

  • How To Clear Your Cache in Sea Monkey

    Steven Finch
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:16 am
    Sea Monkey is another open source browser from Mozilla. Clearing your cache is very simple in Sea Monkey. Once your browser is open, click the Edit menu and select Preferences. In the left-side list, open the Advanced node and select Cache. Click the Clear Cache button. How to Clear Your Cache in Firefox How To Clear Your Cache in Google Chrome How to Make a Lolcat How To Install Open Office in Ubuntu How to Set up a Linksys Wireless Router

  • How to Make a Lolcat

    Steven Finch
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:08 am
    If you’re Internet-savvy, you’ve probably come across a “lolcat”–an image macro usually featuring a cat and a caption in broken English. You might subscribe to them through RSS, or even collect them. Now you can make your own by following these steps! Search for (or take) pictures of cats. Get several of them and choose which one would look funny with ‘capshuns’. If you use someone else’s image, make sure to ask for permission, or if it’s a Creative Commons image, give them credit appropriately. Think of a caption. Remember that…

  • Top 100 Engineers on Twitter

    Steven Finch
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:25 am
    We received a great tip this morning about a list of the Top 100 Engineers on Twitter. Nearly everyone knows what Twitter is these days, but its so hard to find quality people to follow. Here is the top 8 Engineers to follow on Twitter. For the full 100 list you can check it out here. Top Engineers on Twitter The below feeds are solely or mostly dedicated to the profession of engineering. 1. Kevin Mastaw : This popular engineer nearly has 9,000 other users following him. He is a self-described pensive engineer, FOREX trader, internet marketer, and fan of quantum physics. He also enjoys the…

  • Start Menu 7: Replace The Standard Windows Start Menu With Something Better

    Steven Finch
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:40 am
    Start Menu 7 is a new piece of software which replaces the standard Windows Start Menu. Start Menu 7 key features: The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name. Open any location on your PC with a single click. You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7. So it’s easy to create a list of the most used locations, popular directories, and virtual folders to access them with a single click. There is a special Run button to access seldom used locations without adding them into menu. Start Menu 7 has a customizable…

  • Tap Tap Love: Bubble Wrap iPhone Game Rip Off

    Steven Finch
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:15 am
    We received a very interesting tweet today suggesting that we take a look at Tap Tap Love. Tap Tap Love is a new game on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Tap Tap Love is exactly the same as a previously popular game in the App Store, that game was Bubble Wrap. Bubble Wrap and Tap Tap Love are games in which the user just tries to pop as many bubble or hearts as possible in an alotted time. Currently Tap Tap Love is priced at $0.99 and Im really not too sure they are going to sell many copies, especially when I can get Bubble Wrap for FREE! iCascade: Rotating Addictive Puzzle Game for iPhone / iPod…
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    CBS Technology Podcast - Larry Magid

  • CBS News Tech Report: 03/10/10

    10 Mar 2010 | 5:29 pm
    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board at its meeting Friday will consider a proposal from ICM Registry for adult sites to use the .xxx top-level domain instead of or in addition to .com.

  • Microsoft and Yahoo

    29 Jul 2009 | 10:08 am
    Barring any unlikely interference from regulators, the Microsoft Yahoo relationship is a done deal. Larry Magid reports.

  • Palm Pre Arrives

    4 Jun 2009 | 9:24 pm
    The Palm Pre is probably the most highly anticipated tech product of the year, and, finally, people are starting to get their hands on it. A few days before the launch, CBS News and CNET Tech Analyst Larry Magid spoke with Paul Cousineau, Palm's director of product management for WebOS.

  • Magid Interviews Glympse CEO

    21 May 2009 | 10:39 am
    Services like Loopt, which lets users (with permission) track their friends' locations using cell phone GPS technology, have been around for a few years. But a new player, Glympse, is launching its public beta service. Glympe CEO and co-founder Bryan Trussel says that his service is easier to use and safer because a user allows him or herself to be tracked only for a specified period of time.

  • 'Glympse' Arrives

    21 May 2009 | 7:45 am
    Location-based services like Loopt have been around for a few years, but a new player--Glympse, is launching its public beta service.
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    NG Online News

  • Will iPhone 4.0 software finally allow multitasking?

    12 Mar 2010 | 7:35 am
    While the iPhone is undeniably cool and a major 'game-changer' in the smartphone industry, one of its biggest annoyances has been its inability to allow the user to switch between apps, only allowing one to be run at any time. However, this could soon change...According to the AppleInsider, the iPhone 4.0 software will "finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background" silencing all those who have bemoaned this shortcoming of Apple's flagship device.Listening to the user base who have been complaining about this technological handicap for a while, Apple…

  • Is OnLive the future of gaming?

    11 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am
    As NetFlix pushes streaming video content for movie lovers to get rid of the need for expansive DVD and Blu Ray collections, so enters OnLive - a gaming service that is aiming to shake up the industry by streaming popular games over the Internet.OnLive launched last year, but hopes to begin streaming games by June this year getting rid of the need to buy games from high street stores or even downloading them. Instead, OnLive would offer a 'games on demand' service.Speaking to the BBC, OnLive's founder and chief operating officer saw that the company would deliver on-demand video games via…

  • XXX Internet domain plan returns

    9 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am
    Porn is a big business, especially online. The domain name, sex.com, is said to be one of the most valuable Internet domain names so if you've got some cash lying around you can bid for it on the 18 March. The starting price is $1m though...However it shows the big business that online adult sites create and as such ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has resurrected a plan to create an Internet domain specifically for adult websites, three years after it was rejected.The .xxx scheme will be pondered upon on March 12 and if approved could see the selling of .xxx domain…

  • Is Internet access a 'fundamental right'?

    8 Mar 2010 | 7:04 am
    We all have fundamental rights - the right to vote, the right to have freedom of thought, the right to have freedom of speech, if you're an American - the right to bear arms and shoot things. But is the right to get online and browse for LOLcats also a fundamental right?According to four out of five people it is, according to a BBC World Service poll. Perhaps it is because it is a place where you can buy or say anything you want, a place where you can see anything you want - a last bastion of free will if you want (unless you're in China), but according to more than 27,000 adults in 26…

  • iPad: US release - April 3rd

    5 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am
    Note the date, because from the 3rd April (a Satruday), you will be able to get your mitts on the highly anticipated Apple device - the iPad.The model released on the 3rd will be the Wi-Fi model, while the Wi-Fi + 3G model will be available later in the month. The US will get it a few weeks before the rest of the world, but Apple have stated that it will be "available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April."Revolutionary productPre-orders begin on the 12th March, with consumers reserving both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi +3G models from Apple's…
 
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    TechCrunch

  • Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove

    Guest Author
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:29 am
    Editor’s note: When venture capitalists invest in early stage startups, more than anything else they are investing in the founders of the company and their ability to lead their employees through the most improbable set of circumstances to take an idea from a germ to a real and profitable business. In this guest post, Ben Horowitz of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz explains the leadership traits he and his co-founder Marc Andreessen look for before they invest in a startup. SOme of their investments include Skype, Zynga, Factual, and RockMelt. Before becoming investing partners, Horowitz…

  • Craig Barrett Takes On Vivek Wadhwa In The Tech Education Debate

    Guest Author
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:17 am
    Editor’s note: The most valuable employees of any technology company are the engineers and scientists, which is why everyone in Silicon Valley does whatever they can to ensure the continuous supply to this talent pool. The size of the talent pool is ultimately determined by the number of people who graduate from colleges and universities with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees. The U.S. is graduating fewer and fewer scientists and engineers, causing concern in many quarters. While many people agree this is a problem, not everyone agrees on what should be done about…

  • Famebook: Because You’ve Always Wanted To Have Your Facebook Feed On Paper

    Robin Wauters
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:53 am
    Remember that time when a marketing agency’s labs unit cooked up an application that allowed you to print your tweets in a custom notebook (aka, Tweetnotebook)? Ok, fair chance you don’t – I sure do because I have one of those lying around here somewhere. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before they did the same for Facebook – and lo and behold, here’s My Famebook. Concept is the same as Tweetnotebook: you can create and order a unique notebook, featuring an item from your Facebook feed at the bottom of every page, via the website in just a few minutes. You…

  • Something Is Technically Wrong With Twitter.com

    Robin Wauters
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:36 am
    OMGTwitterisdownagain. Or extremely flaky, at least. This time, the problems seem to occur only when trying to access the Twitter website, as the API seems to be fully functional and thus not causing any trouble for third-party clients. Search also seems to work fine, as you can tell from all the people tweeting that Twitter is down for them – go figure. We’ll keep it short and sweet: use a third-party client for your tweeting needs or find something else to do (like blog about the fact that Twitterisdownagain). CrunchBase InformationTwitterInformation provided by CrunchBase

  • “No Excuses” For European Startups And More Videos And Photos From Plugg 2010

    Robin Wauters
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:53 am
    Last Thursday saw the third edition of Plugg, a conference I started in my home country Belgium back in 2008 that essentially aims to launch and inspire European tech entrepreneurs and advance the startup ecosystem in these parts. The event is closely tied to TechCrunch, with myself as lead organizer and TechCrunch Europe editor Mike Butcher running things on stage. We invited a host of speakers from all corners of Europe to deliver inspiring keynotes about a wide range of topics, and as every year had 20 (well actually, 19) startups vying for the top prize in an exhilarating pitching…
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  • Age of Empires III - from $29.95

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  • Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Deluxe Edition - from $64.08

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Take to the skies with one of the longest running flight franchises in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Featuring 55 missions that range from 15 minutes to over an hour, you can wrap your hands around the controls of 20 aircraft including the...

  • Armies of Exigo - $29.95

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Gamers wage war on dual fronts in this RTS from first-time developer Black Hole Entertainment. Armies of Exigo offers nearly all the contemporary conventions of the RTS style -- a fantasy setting, three distinctly different factions, and...

  • Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs - from $19.95

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Computer strategy enthusiasts can continue their conquest of the Americas as one of three Native American civilizations in this add-on disc for the best-selling Age of Empires III. Civilizations such as the Iroquois Confederacy or the...

  • Panasonic KV S2026C - document scanner - from $896.43

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 pm
    The KV-S2026C WorkGroup color scanner provides you superior durability with advanced image processing, all at a compact size and price. This scanner is revolutionary in design, with superb paper handling and a small footprint, making it an...
 
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  • Why is the sun producing so few sunspots?

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am
    A new study reports that the top of the gigantic conveyor belt of plasma moving inside the sun has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years.

  • Chavez: Internet should be regulated

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:56 am
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.

  • 8 HDTV myths demystified

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:40 am
    Take a look at some of the most prominent claims made on the showroom floors of big-box retailers and learn the realities, along with tips and details for buying an HDTV, selecting the best content and more.

  • SpaceX tests rocket engines for NASA role

    13 Mar 2010 | 8:32 pm
    California-based SpaceX says it has conducted a successful engine test for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle, a key milestone on the way to the inaugural launch of a rocket that could one day ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

  • It's daylight science time

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:01 pm
    It’s that time of year again, when most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. Here are answers to your questions about the time switch - and about sleep.
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  • Former Google Employees Improve Instant Messaging with imo.im

    hilzfuld
    11 Mar 2010 | 8:06 am
    By: Hillel Fuld As the Web continues to develop and change, some things seem to have stayed the same. I still remember opening my first email account, or when I first joined AIM (or was it ICQ?). After all these years, email is still here and it still plays a very central role in our online activities. OK, I know it is only second place to social media in terms of the amount of time people spend doing it online, but second place ain’t too shabby. IM is another such example. It has been around for what seems like forever, and it does not seem to be slowing down any time soon.  Mobile IM…

  • An Open Letter to Steve Jobs about iPhone Apps

    hilzfuld
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:36 am
    Dear Steve Jobs, First of all, let me say, I am a big fan. I was not one of the early Apple users who had an Apple product before it was “cool”, but ever since I got my Macbook over a year ago, I am now what they call a “fanboy”. I own numerous iPods and other Apple products, and I have been known to argue the point, specifically regarding the iPhone, that despite its shortcomings, it remains the most advanced mobile platform to date. However, and I will get straight to the point, your rejection policy is starting to raise some serious questions in my mind, especially…

  • Nokia’s Flagship N900 Is Everything The iPhone Is Not

    hilzfuld
    26 Feb 2010 | 1:39 am
    By: Hillel Fuld A few days ago I was fortunate enough to receive a nice surprise from Nokia, their flagship Maemo mobile device, the Nokia N900. To be honest, I had lowered my expectations for the device as a result of a friend’s opinion, who told me I was not going to like the phone. Before I get into details about the phone with all its shortcomings and industry-leading features and specifications, let me just state in one sentence that overall I am extremely pleased with the device and pleasantly surprised by its endless capabilities. My first impressions of the N900 as soon as I…

  • SEO: What Is It and How Do I Get Results?

    hilzfuld
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:19 am
    By: @Hilzfuld What was once a small startup company that provided a simple search engine, has become the single most powerful corporation across multiple industries. As the Web and the technology we use daily evolves and becomes more sophisticated, contrary to other areas in which the power is more distributed than ever (see politics), Google is just becoming more powerful every day. Whether it is their entry into new industries like the mobile market with their Nexus One, or their shift to the model of Cloud Computing, there is no denying that Google has become the most significant name in…

  • Why There is No Comparing The iPhone to Android Phones

    hilzfuld
    2 Feb 2010 | 11:51 pm
    By: @Hilzfuld All this talk about the Nexus One and the Droid has had two effects on me. For starters, after playing with the Nexus One, I am now 100% convinced that I want one. The phone is extremely impressive both in terms of its hardware and software. It is surprisingly thin and the screen is gigantic, relatively speaking. The entire phone is made out of some sort of rubberized material I have not seen before. In terms of the processor, the Nexus responds extremely fast, way faster than any other phone I have used, but then again, I have never used a Snapdragon device. The software though…
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  • Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson

    Adam Ostrow
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:25 am
    At last night’s “Bigg Digg Shindigg” in Austin, TX, Digg CEO Jay Adelson briefly revealed plans for a massive overhaul of the social news site. This morning, I had an opportunity to chat with Adelson in-depth about the new Digg and what users, publishers, and the web as a whole should expect.To sum it up, Adelson says the new strategy will “enable social curation of all the world’s content and the conversation around it.” To get there though, Digg has re-built its entire site from the ground up, with dramatic changes that will be rolled out over the coming weeks and months. New…

  • Classmates.com Agrees to $9.5 Million False Advertising Settlement

    Amy-Mae Elliott
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:39 am
    Classmates.com — the website that promises to reunite people with their mullet-haired friends of youth — has agreed to pay out a $9.5 million settlement for a lawsuit dating back to 2008 accusing the company of “false advertising” through “deceptive” marketing emails.The problems for Classmate.com began back in late 2007, when San Diego resident Anthony Michaels received an email from the social networking company informing him that his old classmates were trying to contact him.In order to see who and why, Michaels had to upgrade to a “Gold…

  • Why User Competency Matters in Social Design

    Adrian Chan
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:55 am
    Adrian Chan is a Sr Fellow with SNCR.org and is a social interaction design consultant and strategist. You can follow him on Twitter @gravity7 and at his blog: gravity7.com/blog/media.In designing for social participation, we can consider user goals and needs — even interests, features, functionality, adoption and scaling issues. Best practices and popular ways of using social media guide us in our decisions. But there’s a basic concern we seem to often overlook: “What is the user good at?”We each differ in what we’re good at socially, so asking this question raises…

  • Pi Day: Google Doodle Celebrates Math Nerds Everywhere

    Ben Parr
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:53 pm
    For most of the world, today is March 14th, or 3/14. To most, that date doesn’t have any special meaning. But to us math nerds, it means only one thing: today is Pi Day! Thankfully, it looks like Google has no shortage of number nerds, because the search giant is marking the occasion with a spiffy new logo filled with some of choice geometry formulas.π (Pi) is the mathematical constant that has helped school children and mathematics professors determine the circumference of a circle based on its diameter for centuries. The constant starts with 3.14 and continues forever (as it is an…

  • New Version of Digg Revealed

    Ben Parr
    13 Mar 2010 | 7:22 pm
    At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.The new version of the website is not yet available. However, if you visit New.Digg.com, you can sign up for the alpha and see a preview of what the new Digg will look like in the background. Mr. Adelson told the crowd that the site was “five years in the making.”While the…
 
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  • When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:42 pm
    We've discussed in the past how copyright isn't really "property" at all, and trying to compare it to regular property leads to all sorts of confusing problems. Take, for example, this lawsuit, found via Michael Scott, over who owns the rights to thousands of songs. The actual mess is a bit complex, but as you read through it, you realize that we're dealing with the emperor's new clothes in the form of copyrights. A bunch of different people are arguing over who owns a totally made up thing, with different people simply claiming to own it, and leaving it for the courts to figure out. Here's…

  • Williams Sonoma Nastygrams Blogger Who Helps People Build Their Own Furniture

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:59 pm
    Brad Hubbard writes "I regularly read a blog called "Knock Off Wood" -- a site where a woman teaches readers how to build various designer-looking pieces of furniture at home for a lot less. It's the best kind of "maker" site - someone who is passionate about crafting, freely sharing their passion with a community of readers and everyone learns a little something. So when Williams Sonoma, Inc (owner of Pottery Barn and West Elm among others) sent them a legal nastygram, the owner of the site was entertained more than anything." The company is alleging both trademark and copyright violations…

  • Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random Patent No One Would Ever Access A Social Network From A Mobile Phone

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:11 pm
    Wireless Ink was a company that I remember getting some buzz back in the 2005/2006 timeframe... and then they dropped completely off my radar. Honestly, I had thought they had gone out of business. So I was a bit surprised to see them suddenly pop back up with a patent (of course) and a lawsuit against both Google and Facebook, claiming infringement because both companies allow users to access social networking tools via a mobile phone. Seriously. Does anyone honestly (honestly, really) think that without this patent, no one would have ever figured out how to let people access a social…

  • Irony Alert: Hollywood Howard Berman To Introduce 'Internet Freedom' Bill

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:28 pm
    Earlier this year we noted this was likely, but now it appears that Rep. Howard Berman is getting ready to introduce an "Internet Freedom Bill," that would limit how US companies could operate in "internet-restricting countries." Now, we've already pointed out that it's odd to see politicians pushing such bills when the US itself is pushing to restrict the internet in similar ways -- but it's particularly ironic with Berman. In supporting this new legislation, Berman notes: He's trying to figure out "what's the most effective thing we can do to help people in countries where the government…

  • Viral Video Producers Want To Charge You To Embed Their Videos

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:48 pm
    You may have seen some of the rather popular videos by Common Craft, which has built a rather large following based on these videos about technology and social media using paper diagrams on whiteboards. What the videos are really good at is simplifying things in a way that's easy for people to understand. For example, the video, Twitter in Plain English has received nearly 1.7 million views and is often sent around to people who are trying to understand Twitter. Like most viral video efforts, the videos are hosted on YouTube, which makes them easy to embed and share. Except, apparently,…
 
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    The Register

  • Is EMC looking away from STEC?

    Team Register
    The silence is deafening Comment  Since STEC revealed that EMC had over-ordered back in November last year, the company has been waiting for EMC orders to get back on track. Will they?… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

  • Football U goes to 3Leaf for HPC

    Team Register
    Hut one, hut two, MPI Florida State University, like most state schools in the US with a storied (American) football program, also has a respectable comp sci department that is not afraid to spend a little cash on a new technology when it comes along. And that's how the Seminoles have ended up being one of the first customers of upstart server maker 3Leaf Systems.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

  • Toshiba BDX2000 budget Blu-ray Disc player

    Team Register
    The HD DVD company's first BD box Review  Toshiba is late to the Blu-ray party, having waited a decent interval after the death of HD-DVD. The BDX2000 - oh, how futuristic products used to seem, just by adding the millennium to their name - is its first offering. It’s a sleek unit, with a pull-down front panel that hides the disk tray, display, controls and an SD card slot.…

  • Lib Dem candidate admits to unnatural vice

    Team Register
    She once supported Labour The political blogosphere is getting itself all lathered up about the orientation of adult film producer and Lib Dem parliamentary hopeful, Anna Arrowsmith, aka Anna Span.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

  • Programmer gets 4 years in TJX hack case

    Team Register
    Dirty laundry delivered via FedEx A former Barclays Bank programmer received 46 months in prison for helping TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez launder as much as $800,000, according to news reports.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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  • NYT: Apple's Spat with Google Is Getting Personal

    14 Mar 2010 | 8:12 am
    It's no secret to anyone that while Apple sued HTC, the lawsuit is more about Google than HTC itself. Since Android is open source, and owned by no one, it's kind of hard to go after Google itself, and as such, HTC was the prime target, since it is the number one Android smartphone maker. The New York Times has an in-depth article up about the subject, with a whole boatload of quotes from people within the two companies, and it paints a picture of all this being a highly emotional and personal vendetta - especially from Apple's side.

  • Obama Sides with RIAA, MPAA; Backs ACTA

    12 Mar 2010 | 3:18 pm
    And thus, our true colours reveal. Since Obama was the young newcomer, technically savvy, many of us were hoping that he might support patent and/or copyright reform. In case our story earlier on this subject didn't already tip you off, this certainly will: Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA. No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

  • China Insists Google Must Obey the Law or Face Consequences

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:42 pm
    It's been quiet about the Google-China dispute for a while now, but today, the silence was broken by China's minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, who stated that Google must either obey Chinese law or "pay the consequences", leaving no room for a compromise. With more and more western countries building their own internet filters and internet monitoring schemes, it becomes ever harder to make a strong fist against China.

  • Nokia Asks Judge to Dismiss Apple's Antitrust Claims

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:56 am
    While we are all busy discussing Apple suing HTC for patent infringement, we're almost forgetting that Nokia and Apple are also embroiled in about ten million lawsuits going either way. The most recent move comes from Nokia, who seeks to dismiss Apple's antritrust claims using pretty much the same arguments Apple used to counter Psystar's antitrust claims.

  • Microsoft Loses Second Appeal in Word Patent Case

    12 Mar 2010 | 7:54 am
    As most of you will know, Microsoft lost the patent lawsuit filed against the Redmond giant by i4i, while also losing the first appeal. Microsoft was forced to remove the infringing functionality from Word for US customers, but they also filed a second appeal. This appeal, too, has been lost.
 
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  • Zer01 Disappears from the Web

    12 Mar 2010 | 3:03 pm
    The firm that promised mobile everything for a low, low price but owned no network has disappeared: My friend Nancy Gohring at IDG News Service wrote a series of articles in mid-2009 about Zer01, a firm that said it was not a mobile virtual network operator, but somehow had access to a national network on which it would offer unlimited calling, mobile broadband, texting, and other features at a rate far below what operators charge. Unlimited mobile data seemed particularly impossible, given carriers cap at 5 GB for laptop use, and only a handful have specific unlimited smartphone (no…

  • Apple Reveals More iPad 3G Data Plan Details

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:20 am
    Apple started taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, and provided more details of the optional 3G data plan: Apple's deal with AT&T, assumed to be somewhat similar with non-US carriers when those plans are announced, called for $15 price tag on 250 MB of combined upstream and downstream data usage, and $30 per month for unlimited usage. Neither plan required any contract commitment. [Update: To expand on a question and my answer in the comments, Apple and AT&T market the iPhone and iPad 3G unlimited plans as truly unlimited. Average iPhone user is a few hundred MBs per month; heaviest…

  • AT&T Wants to Dump Riverside Network on City

    11 Mar 2010 | 10:50 am
    One of the legacy muni-Fi networks will have new (or no) owners: Esme Vos writes at MuniWireless.com about the current state of the Riverside, Calif., network operated by AT&T. The network was the first and only bid by AT&T with MetroFi, which was unable to complete that network along with many others, and which shut down in 2008. In Riverside, AT&T kept up much of its end of the bargain, hiring Nokia Siemens to complete the network, which Vos says only reached 77 percent of the city. (One expects there's no SkyPilot gear left in place, either, but I don't know that for sure.) The network has…

  • T-Mobile Ups Ante by Lowering 3G Prices

    11 Mar 2010 | 10:35 am
    T-Mobile cuts its 3G prices by $10 per month for unsubsidized hardware: It's long been an irritation of cellular customers that even when they pay the full price of a phone or 3G modem, the monthly data charge remains the same as people who get a subsidized version. That's changing, with T-Mobile in the lead. T-Mobile cut its unsubsidized monthly fee for 3G service by $10 per month for its 200 MB and 5 GB plans. Last month, T-Mobile dropped the monthly data cost for some smarpthones by $20 per month for people who purchase outright. The New York Times noted that the MyTouch 3G is $400 without…

  • Amtrak Looks for Internet Platform

    8 Mar 2010 | 12:31 pm
    Amtrak has a request for qualifications to build a system-wide communications platform operational and passenger purposes (link not yet available): The RFQ looks to find vendors who could build a system for giving Wi-Fi to passengers, and running a host of operational data needs for the railroad. The RFQ spells out platform requirements, which include inter-car communication via wireless signals--no wires connecting cars--and dynamically assembly of a network when cars change in a train. The system has to support the ability to use multiple cellular networks, aggregating in additional…
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  • Ogg Frog Magazine #6

    The readers of Kuro5hin.org
                ____    _________|\___\_   |\.-------| |   |\   | \\       \|_[]|\\   |  \\             \\   |   \\ ____________\\                    |    +---------------+   |    |  _____  ____  |  TAKE THIS YOU IGNORANT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!   |    | |_   _||  o | |          |    | …

  • The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product

    The readers of Kuro5hin.org
    After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawford's secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest with the K5 community.

  • Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs

    The readers of Kuro5hin.org
    Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyota's recent travails provide some food for thought.

  • Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested

    The readers of Kuro5hin.org
    He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the 'trespass' occurred is on administrative leave. So why aren't the security guard and his supervisor being charged with negligence for leaving a gaping security hole and causing this whole mess? It is an equal embarrassment for TSA , not an embarrassment for the lover man who was only too stupid to know better not to let love blind him Isn't US Justice system badly need an overhaul?

  • The Jarmidor, Part 3

    The readers of Kuro5hin.org
    Having discovered that I'm not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesn't like handlebar moustaches around her lady-garden, so, thus rebuffed, I decided to see whether I could replicate Mr Tiber's success in the improvement of my tobacco. Similarly to Ghost of Tiber, I had issues with knowing precisely the humidity of my jarmidor, which I eventually decided to ignore; and with a bit of serendipity, I was able to get a result which was, if not…
 
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    GigaOM

  • SXSW: Is Privacy on the Social Web a Technical Problem?

    Liz Gannes
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:00 pm
    Updated How to deal with user privacy on social networks as they grow, mature and become more sophisticated has been a frequent topic of conversation at this year’s SXSW — and not just in researcher Danah Boyd’s keynote address that argued aggregating public information can be a privacy breach, and slammed Google and Facebook for their missteps with users’ expectations. Is privacy just a technical problem? That’s what Google engineer Brett Slatkin, co-creator of the PubSubHubbub real-time syndication protocol, proposed on a Saturday morning panel. WebFinger, a…

  • SXSW 2010: All You Need to Know, Courtesy of the GigaOM Network

    Edit Staff
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:46 pm
    The GigaOM crew is out in full force at this year’s South by Southwest, reporting on all that is nearest and dearest to our readers’ hearts –including an in-depth look at the privacy discussions taking place from Liz Gannes, and from Liz Shannon Miller, news of a new embeddable player to help independent web video producers monetize their content. Need help figuring out what to do and who or what to see? This 10-point cheat sheet will help you navigate everything from the sessions to the parties to the weather. Austin is filled with tech startups, so get away from the…

  • SXSW: Boyd Calls Out Google and Facebook for Abusing Users’ Privacy

    Liz Gannes
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:24 pm
    Researcher Danah Boyd brought fighting words to SXSW, where she delivered a well-received keynote Saturday on the interplay between private and public information online. She called out Google and Facebook for being cavalier with their users’ personal information by repurposing that which users intended for a smaller audience, implementing opt-out services that are public by default and changing settings without adequately informing users. Boyd, who works with Microsoft Research and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, based much of her assessments on interviews with…

  • Android This Week: Android Passes Palm; Backflip Crippled; Sense to Nexus One

    James Kendrick
    13 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am
    Android adoption by consumers in the U.S. is growing at an astounding rate, according to numbers released this week by comScore. Not only did the Google platform’s market share surge 153 percent from October to January, but it surpassed that of Palm’s webOS for the first time ever. Equally impressive is how Android market share is now almost half that of longtime competitor Windows Mobile. AT&T become the final major carrier in the U.S. to carry at least one Android phone with the launch of the Motorola Backflip, but early users of the device are reporting that it has been…

  • Geowars…Really?

    Om Malik
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:45 pm
    Over the past few days I’ve watched this meme about the so-called “geowars” ahead of SXSW gather steam, both in the blogosphere and on Twitter. And it’s giving me a headache. For some odd reason, people believe that SXSW is going to be a full-blown coming-out party for location-based services that will launch at least one of them into the stratosphere. Ever since Twitter made such a big splash in Austin a few years ago, many startups have come to believe that if they can do the same, they will subsequently become an overnight success — a foolish assumption. It…
 
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    Engadget

  • Lenovo unleashes three new monitors, one boasting multitouch

    Laura June
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:58 am
    Lenovo's quietly unleashed three new 1080p resolution-boasting monitors. Up first, the 21.5-inch L2261 Wide LCD, a pretty basic affair with VGA and DVI inputs. The L2361p Wide is 23-inches, with a more stylized look than the L2261, with integrated speakers and microphone, a webcam, and three USB 2.0 ports. Finally, the real star of the show, the L2461X Wide is a 23.6-inch, multitouch display. It also has integrated speakers and microphone, a 2 megapixel webcam. There is no official pricing or availability information for any of these bad boys yet, but there are two more images after the…

  • Wii Fit push up bars make sense, but this one isn't worth dollars

    Sean Hollister
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:52 am
    Push-up bars for the Wii Balance Board? Now that sounds like a fantastic idea -- just the thing broad-shouldered individuals need to play Wii Fit without backstrain. Too bad this particular set of bars isn't worth the plastic it's printed from. The latest and greatest from the minds in the chintzy plastic peripheral industry, the $25 CTA Digital Wii Push Up Bar is held in place by only your weight and a few foam strips without reinforcement of any kind, meaning it could detach itself with any significant exertion. The only good that comes out of all this is an embarrassing video demonstration…

  • Sony opens idyllic new retail store in Nagoya, Japan

    Darren Murph
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:42 am
    We heard back in January that Sony was looking to reface itself somewhat by introducing a minty fresh retail look that takes a note or two from the Apple and Microsoft shops already in existence, and for those lucky enough to find themselves in Nagoya this weekend, you can check it out in person. March 13th marked the opening of the all new Sony Store Nagoya, and with an ample of amount of glass, white demo stands and black overhead signs, it's certainly one of the more seductive retail shops that we've seen. We'd bother knocking Sony for following instead of leading, but considering just how…

  • Stanford develops safer lithium-sulfur batteries with four times the charge of lithium-ion cells

    Richard Lai
    14 Mar 2010 | 5:29 am
    Longer battery life is high atop our list of gadget prayers, and the brainiacs at Stanford are one step closer to making our dreams come true with a new lithium-sulfur technology. Half of this trick lies in the silicon nanowire anode that the same team developed back in 2007, whereas the new cathode consists of a similarly commodious lithium sulfide nanostructure. Compared to present lithium-ion batteries, Stanford's design is "significantly safer" and currently achieves 80 percent more capacity, but it's nowhere near commercial launch with just 40 to 50 charge cycles (Li-ion does "300 to…

  • Tesla switches gears, plans to keep Roadster till 2012

    Darren Murph
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:08 am
    Well, that was quick. Just weeks after hearing that Tesla would be nixing Roadster production prior to the world ending, it looks as if those planning to blow their life savings in the next 18 or so months took issue with the intentions. So much so, in fact, that Tesla has now "negotiated agreements with key suppliers that will increase total Roadster production by 40 percent and extend sales into 2012." Better still, the iconic electric supercar will soon be hitting Australia and Asia, so even if you hit the relocate button in the next little while, you should still be covered should you…
 
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    CrunchGear

  • Why are people against the FCC’s National Broadband Plan?

    Nicholas Deleon
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:30 am
    Up until a moment ago, this was going to be a standard “newsy” post: the FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan on Tuesday, here’s what it’s all about. Then I read the comments of a PC World article discussing that very same plan—many people are outraged that the government would muscle its way into the free market! If Americans wanted fast broadband then the market would provide it on its own terms. That, of course, is complete nonsense: plenty of Americans live in one-ISP towns, and if said ISP provides terrible service, well, though cookies, chico. This…

  • Review: Creative World of Warcraft headset

    Guest Author
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:50 am
    Short Version: Fresh from the box, Creative’s World of Warcraft, is here! They were designed for WoW players and their performance definitely reflects that. While a tad bulky, they don’t feel heavy. Pros • Very Comfortable • Hard to hear outside the headphones • Wireless Mic works well. Does not get in the way. • Driver allows deep customization of audio to serve your needs. Cons • No way to determine battery power. • Volume buttons feel a little flimsy. • Microphone can adjust but not very well. • In order to download drivers, you must register the product. • Reasonable…

  • Listen to Isaac Asimov talk prophetically about robots for 4 minutes

    Devin Coldewey
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:07 pm
    There’s something reassuring about the way Asimov speaks on this topic (surely one of his favorites) — even though this clip has got to be 35 or 40 years old, it rings true now and we would do well to take his advice. And how about that transcription? Like human beens indeed. It’s an interesting topic for post-brunch rumination: what would a world built around robots be like? Probably like that nightmare Korean theme park if we’re not careful. [via Metafilter]

  • Predators, the 2010 remake of Predator: This won’t end well

    John Biggs
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:04 pm
    Nowhereelse found what amounts to be a sneak peek for a new version of Predator, now called Predators which I suspect will eat les balles. Oh well.

  • Review: Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station

    John Biggs
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:22 am
    Short Version: We now have so much storage in our homes that we could probably, each of us, start our own Rapidshare service. But how do we get all that data to the other machines on our network or, better yet, out onto the Internet? Devices like the Iomega iConnect allow us to place storage space on our internal networks and expose that data to the world, as needed. However, the iConnect also creates a local iTunes share, adds a Time Machine back-up location, and performs a few other tricks all for $99. While it’s not perfect, it’s pretty cool. Features: Four USB ports…
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  • Apple's iPad battery replacement program replaces entire device

    13 Mar 2010 | 8:13 pm
    Whenever a company releases or announced a device that doesn't have a removable battery, the question is always raised over how inconvenient will it will be to replace it. Apple, a company who fits this description with many of its products, faced the same challenge with the iPhone and iPod...

  • Microsoft to launch Silverlight for Symbian beta within a week

    13 Mar 2010 | 10:17 am
    Back near the start of 2008, it was announced by the Redmond software-giant Microsoft and Finnish communications company Nokia that the Silverlight platform would be coming to Symbian OS phones. Fast forward to 2010, and there's still no sign of that happening – until now. Two days ago, Microsoft posted...

  • Apple's iPad estimated to have brought in $54M in 6 hours

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:06 pm
    When Apple's CEO Steve Jobs first unveiled the company's long-awaited and much-hyped tablet device, the tech community as a whole remained somewhat unimpressed. It wasn't quite clear what everybody was expecting to see, but it certainly wasn't the iPad, which ended up causing weeks of arguments and disappointment. Perhaps it...

  • Hands On: Dlink DIR - 685 review, part 2

    12 Mar 2010 | 10:04 pm
    Congrats to TibbyG on winning this router! The D-Link DIR-685 boasts a lot of features in a small little box, all while trying to look like the coolest kid on the block.  However, what about using the router, setting it up, using the software and showing pictures...

  • Apple opens the iPad pre-order flood gates, limit two per customer

    12 Mar 2010 | 1:42 pm
    Apple has begun accepting pre-orders for its long awaited iPad on Friday in both Wi-Fi and 3G flavours, but there’s a catch - customers are restricted to two each, according to a report from AppleInsider. Customers can expect their orders to be delivered on April 3rd if they ordered the Wi-Fi only...
 
 
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  • Winait CD130BT Super Slim Digital Camera

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:26 am
    Looking for a super slim digital camera to make you feel like James Bond? Well, the Winait CD130BT might be just what you’re looking for. Measuring in at just 13.5mm thick (or thin?), the camera sports some rather average specs, but you’ll probably be able to overlook than due to its ultra-slim design. For $24.99, you’ll pick up an ultra-slim camera that takes 640x480 resolution pictures, and saves them onto its 64MB of on board memory. Of course, considering how common cameras are on mobile phones nowadays, you probably already have a better alternative, albeit not in such…

  • Spiderpodium iPhone Holder Looks Creepy

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:18 am
    We’ve already seen many different cradles for Apple’s iPhone, but you have to admit that the Spiderpodium does seem to stand out from the others, not least because it has eight bendable spider-like legs. You’ll be able to bend the legs to hold up your iPhone on various surfaces, probably even the handlebars of your bike, not that we’re advocating you fiddle with your iPhone while riding it. The Spiderpodium is currently up for preorder for £14.99 ($23 USD) and it will be available on March 29th. Permalink: Spiderpodium iPhone Holder Looks Creepy from Ubergizmo |…

  • Cooler Modified Into A Beach Stereo

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:09 am
    Ever wanted to take your stereo down with you to the beach, but didn’t want it to get spoilt due to water damage? Well, check out the Beach Stereo, created by Adam. The cooler is obviously already water tight, and holes have been cut in the front and back for speakers, not to mention a water-tight bezel and cover for the controls on the deck. The unit is powered by a battery inside, allowing you to share your favorite tunes even at locations where there isn’t any electricity, and has bad weather conditions. Not too shabby eh? Certainly looks like something you could build on your…

  • Replace Your Dead iPad If The Battery Dies For $99

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:59 am
    Here’s something rather interesting regarding Apple’s iPad. Normally if your iPhone’s battery dies and needs a replacement, Apple will service the device for a fee, meaning it will probably just swap in a new battery for you. But according to the latest FAQ page from Apple regarding the iPad, it seems that it’s offering to replace your iPad for a service fee ($99) in the event that your iPad battery decides to kick the bucket. It’s hard to tell if this is a typo or a serious deal, but there are certainly pros and cons to your iPad being replaced for…

  • Sprint Getting The BlackBerry 9930 Slider Phone?

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:35 am
    Some additional information regarding the recently leaked BlackBerry slider phone has emerged, and according to the latest leak, the device actually failed the early diagnostic testing 4 out of 5 times, which certainly doesn’t sound good. If the leak/rumor is good, the BlackBerry slider could possibly be heading for Sprint, as the device spotted bore a Sprint logo. Aside from that, a GSM/HSPA version of the device dubbed the BlackBerry 9900 and BlackBerry 9930 are mentioned which will support AT&T and Rogers’ 3G networks using the 850/1900MHz UMTS bands. Do bear in mind that…
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  • New version of Digg is “five years in the making”

    Hunter Clarke
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:09 am
    Section: Web, Websites With the majority of the technology community in Austin this week for SXSW, Digg felt it was a good time to release a new version of their social bookmarking site. In, fact they decided to release the alpha version of the new site so you can get a sneak peak at it. If you go to new.digg.com, you can fill in your e-mail address for access to the alpha release. This new release, Jay Adelson (Digg CEO) claims, is, “five years in the making.” Now based on my interpretation of that statement, I’m looking for a complete revamp of the design and interaction…

  • Gamertell Review: Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver with Pokewalker for DS

    NEWS
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:57 am
    FROM GAMERTELL - Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver are the best Pokemon games currently available, and the highlight of the series. These adaptations of Pokemon Gold and Silver excel in all areas and will keep you busy for months to come. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »

  • Verizon’s Nexus One to be sold only at online store

    Hunter Clarke
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:41 am
    Section: Communications, Cellphones, Smartphones, Mobile, Web, Google Smartphone users on Verizon’s network have been patiently awaiting the release of the Nexus One for several months now. Well apparently the release date is coming up fast according to the leaked pictures floating around the web. According to the picture above, Google has decided to stay stubborn about retail stores and stick with the online store as the only provider for the “superphone.” If Google wants to turn around the poor sales that the Nexus One has been turning, they will need an enormous marketing…

  • Appletell reviews the Just Mobile Gum Plus Power Pack

    NEWS
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:39 am
    FROM APPLETELL - As your iDevice ages, you may find yourself needing a little extra battery life. Designed to fit right in with your MacBook Pro, the Gum Plus Power Pack will keep you topped off for days in style. MORE » Full Story » | Written by NEWS for Gadgetell. | Comment on this Article »

  • Netflix pulls plug on contest

    Hunter Clarke
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:22 am
    Section: Video, Video Providers Many a geek have participated in Netflix’s competition to improve their recommendation algorithm. The prize? $1 million. However, Netflix has now officially cut the second iteration of this competition short due to privacy concerns. Apparently, a woman filed a lawsuit against Netflix claiming that her private life could be violated by the huge database of customer information provided by Netflix to the participants in the contest. This is actually saddens me. I thought that the Netflix Recommendation Competition was a really cool way to not only improve…
 
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  • Sniffing Out an HTML5 Conspiracy

    Scott M. Fulton, III
    14 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    Should the next version of HTML, the Web standard that embodies how pages are laid out and constructed, include explicit specifications for inline, 2-D dynamic graphics? There's valid arguments on both sides. One side believes that the ability to plot charts and animations would have been part of the original HTML standard anyway, had the technology existed on the back end in the beginning; giving HTML 2-D graphics now, they say, plugs a hole left open for too long. Another believes the HTML5 standard should simply specify an API for plug-ins.

  • Data Storage: It's Time to Grow Up

    Bobby Moulton
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    Today's data-storage customer has lost his voice in a sea of vendor jockeying and positioning. This glut of vendors creates a noisy industry and a crowded marketplace, where all vendors sound the same and marketing materials are nearly indistinguishable from vendor to vendor. Directly because of this confusion, many data storage customers have chosen to stick with practices that they are familiar with, regardless of whether those behaviors prove detrimental to their storage environment.

  • FCC Testing Tool May Out ISPs' Bogus Speed Claims

    Richard Adhikari
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:27 pm
    The FCC unveiled a set of digital tools for consumers Friday to figure out the state of national broadband service in the United States. One tool, the Consumer Broadband Test, measures broadband service speed and latency and is available in online fixed and mobile app versions. The other is the Broadband Dead Zone Report. "The FCC's new digital tools will arm users with real-time information about their broadband connection and the agency with useful data about service across the country," FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said.

  • Can a Clown-Nosed Wand Move the Needle for PS3?

    Paul Hartsock
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:58 am
    Sony put PlayStation 3 fans in a tizzy by whipping out its latest controller, which it calls the "Move." It looks a whole lot like a black version of Nintendo's WiiMote controller, only it's got this big, clown-nose ball on the end of it. That ball actually serves a purpose. The Move's motion is partially registered by a camera PS3 users will set on top of the television. The camera tracks the motion of the Move visually, and the ball changes to the color that contrasts best with the rest of the room, so it will be more visible to the camera.

  • Android Has Enough Class for Opera

    Katherine Noyes
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:16 am
    Users of Android smartphones now have a new option for browsing the Web: A beta version of Opera Mini 5 was released Thursday for the Linux-based Android platform. New features in the software, which is an upgrade to the current version 4.2, include tabbed browsing, which lets users browse several Web pages at once; Speed Dial, which offers one-click access to a user's favorite pages; Opera Link, a way to synchronize bookmarks and Speed Dial between the user's mobile phone and desktop computer; and Download Manager, which manages downloads from the browser.
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  • Obama lines up with copyright owners

    12 Mar 2010 | 8:52 am
    As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners.

  • Why no one cares about privacy anymore

    12 Mar 2010 | 5:40 am
    Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so.

  • Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling

    11 Mar 2010 | 12:55 pm
    A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another company's patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007.

  • Target offers mobile coupons

    11 Mar 2010 | 7:03 am
    Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products.

  • Browser choice not coming to Asia

    11 Mar 2010 | 4:53 am
    Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region.
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  • Intel Core i7 Extreme Boosts Portable Workstations

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:45 am
    Intel this week offered a preview of platforms using its Core i7 Extreme Edition processor. Although the company is aiming the processor heavily at the gaming market, analysts said there are also clear business applications for the processor. Code-named Gulftown, the i7-980X Extreme Edition processor is the industry's first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads. Intel introduced the i7 family last September with its exclusive Turbo Boost technology and Hyper-Threading Technology. Turbo Boost is built into the latest-generation Nehalem micro-architecture and automatically allows…

  • Microsoft Xbox 360 Leads Gaming Sales in February

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:02 am
    Microsoft's Xbox 360 video-game console moved to the top of the U.S. market in February. The software giant's console had been number two behind the Nintendo Wii for nearly three years. The popularity of the new BioShock 2 game may have been behind Microsoft's sales of 422,000 Xbox 360s in February, an eight percent increase from a year earlier, according to NPD Group. Nintendo sold 397,900 Wiis and Sony sold 360,100 PlayStation 3 consoles in February. The BioShock 2 game for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 was released on Feb. 10 and sold 750,000 units. Of those, 75 percent, or 562,900, were…

  • iPad Will Read Books Aloud, Support Open EPUB Format

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am
    Eager to be the first on your block with an iPad? Apple started taking orders for the tablets on Friday. Wi-Fi models running from $499 to $699 will be available on April 3; 3G models, costing $629 to $829, won't be available until late April. Along with the advance orders, Apple released some details on what's expected to be a key app for the new device -- e-books. Promoting the iBooks feature of the iPad, Apple's web site explains, "iBooks works with VoiceOver, the screen reader in iPad, so it can read you the contents of any page. Even with all these extras, reading is so natural on iPad,…

  • Geolocation Stars at South by Southwest

    12 Mar 2010 | 10:58 am
    What's likely to be the hottest tech trend at this weekend's trendy South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, the powwow that has become a launch pad for the coolest, hippest new technology? Location, location, location. The conference is shaping up to be a coming-out party for Foursquare, an application that lets people flag where they are -- and for the entire category of fledgling geo-location services. A bumper crop of services, notably Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt and Where.com, are being embraced by smartphone owners to socialize and play games. Venture capitalists are pouring in money.

  • Barnes & Noble Will Be on Apple's iPad, a nook Rival

    12 Mar 2010 | 8:39 am
    With the e-book industry expected to explode into a multibillion-dollar business in the next three years, Barnes & Noble wants to open a new chapter in sales by making sure its products are available on Apple's iPad. The retail giant on Thursday confirmed reports that it is preparing an iPad application in time for the anticipated April 3 release. Digital Library Preserved "Designed specifically for the iPad, our new B&N eReader will give our customers access to more than one million e-books, magazines and newspapers in the Barnes & Noble e-bookstore, as well as the existing content in their…
 
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  • Pros and cons to Facebook's fast-growing role in digital photography

    Caitlin McDevitt
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    The glossy print, it seems, is losing its sheen. According to estimates from IDC, 42 billion photos will be printed worldwide, both commercially and personally, in 2013. That's a third fewer than the 63 billion printed in 2008. Meanwhile about 124 billion photos are on pace to be shared through s...

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  • Tax-preparation software from TurboTax and H&R Block have drawbacks, benefits

    Rob Pegoraro
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Tax-preparation programs are an unnecessary evil. We don't need special software to pay other bills, but our elected representatives' perpetual tinkering with the tax code makes paying for our share of government so mind-numbingly complex that most of us must outsource the math. It's alarming and...

  • Do laptops belong in the classroom?

    Post
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    I am a student in David Cole's class at Georgetown Law, which was featured in the March 9 front-page article "Web of diversions evicts laptops from lecture halls."

  • Pre-orders brisk for Apple's new iPad

    Paul Farhi
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Neither recession nor gadget overload shall slow the mania surrounding the introduction of Apple's iPad mobile computer.
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  • CMC hosts Career Fair for students and alumni

    Antoinette Smith
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    On Thursday, February 25 from 12:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., the Career Management Center (CMC) held the Career Fair Spring 2010 in Hermann Hall. As of February 23, the list of expected employers on cmc.iit.edu numbered 73. Some employers, like Siemens Healthcare and Garmin International, had lines that extended the length of their respective areas. Nicholas Paradiso, a second-year electrical and computer engineering undergraduate, said he was waiting in the long Siemens’ line “because there are a lot of internships and I hope to get one.” Jay Taggart, a fourth-year computer…

  • From Sodexo, with love

    Elnaz Moshfeghian
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Last Monday, the MTCC Bridge was bustling as always with packs of students lingering around information tables as others tried to push their way through to their lunchtime destination. But this 12:50 p.m. Mies Bridge rush wasn’t like any other—there was free food involved. From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. IIT Dining Services doled out samples of campus food as part of the Vendor Fair that kicked-off Customer Appreciation Week.

  • Going Home for Spring Break? Spread the word about Illinois Tech.

    Antoinette Smith
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    As you head home for Spring Break, consider bringing information about IIT along with you. Share your IIT experience with high school, home school or community college students from your hometown or neighborhood. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is offering current IIT undergraduate and graduate students – as well as faculty and staff – the opportunity to share their stories and experiences at IIT with former school(s) and community-based organizations that are important to you.

  • Sexistentialism: Why does a kiss equal a relationship?

    Becca Waterloo
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Over the years at IIT, we’ve seen a common theme: students here couple up with each other which creates inter-university relationships. IIT has its own social group which makes it easier to find someone to match up with. Many students on this campus have their first relationships here in college and the process of defining this relationship becomes the problem.

  • Study Abroad ‘07: Adventures in Amsterdam (Day 15-18)

    Raymond Ballard
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    Day 15 June 15th, 2007 Paris/Amsterdam Jake, Monique, Ruth, and I awoke around 3AM to get to Amsterdam. We walked to Gare Du Nord around 4AM and took the train to Charles De Gaulle to catch our 8AM flight. [Note: never get a flight earlier than 10AM or you will get up at a very unreasonable hour. Instead, take the train. They are much simpler.]
 
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  • Why is the sun producing so few sunspots?

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:33 am
    A new study reports that the top of the gigantic conveyor belt of plasma moving inside the sun has been running at record-high speeds for the past five years.

  • Chavez: Internet should be regulated

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:56 am
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet on Saturday while demanding authorities crack down on a critical news Web site that he accused of spreading false information.

  • 8 HDTV myths demystified

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:40 am
    Take a look at some of the most prominent claims made on the showroom floors of big-box retailers and learn the realities, along with tips and details for buying an HDTV, selecting the best content and more.

  • SpaceX tests rocket engines for NASA role

    13 Mar 2010 | 8:32 pm
    California-based SpaceX says it has conducted a successful engine test for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle, a key milestone on the way to the inaugural launch of a rocket that could one day ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

  • It's daylight science time

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:01 pm
    It’s that time of year again, when most Americans lose an hour’s sleep setting their clocks ahead. Here are answers to your questions about the time switch - and about sleep.
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  • The River of Information

    Technology Story
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
    One of the more popular areas I have been speaking about lately is the concept of a person creating an electronic river of information into their brain. I am surprised that more people are not defining this concept and investing energy into structuring it as a way to improve performance in organizations. Although hard to measure, I believe strongly that if you can raise the collective IQ of an organization, results are sure to follow. Helping people understand how to build their personal rivers of information can do this, and it is essentially free. The only investment is a little time, and…

  • Thinking About the iPad

    Technology Story
    4 Mar 2010 | 7:43 am
    Photo: Reuters OK, I have had some time to think about how the iPad might be more important than the iPhone as some people at Apple have mentioned.  I am in Mumbai India at a conference where educators from around the world have gathered to discuss best practices for utilizing laptops in the classroom.  Yesterday, we started talking about the fact that the iPad is the perfect replacement for a laptop in that setting.  It is lighter, smaller, and less expensive, so easier to purchase for kids, and easier for them to carry.  Because they have a fast start time, you don’t have to worry…

  • What was wrong with plain old email?

    Technology Story
    18 Feb 2010 | 3:32 pm
    I get a lot of email everyday.  In fact I get enough that I can actually gauge how the American workforce is doing based on the flow and quantity.   For example, one Friday afternoons, the velocity of email drops in half.  On Sunday nights, my email lights up.  I find both of these trends interesting.  Yet that is not the point of this post…  I like email.  I don’t have spam problems and people generally only send me valuable communications.  I do everything I can to keep it that way.  I have come to love sitting down to look at 20 or 30 emails that come in over a…

  • Cloud Migration Strategy

    Technology Story
    30 Jan 2010 | 10:30 am
    Open any IT magazine today and there will be at least one article, and five advertisements for some new cloud computing product or service. It is not even fun anymore to talk about how big The Cloud will one day be, now how it might change the world. The only interesting things left to think about are what might the uber cloud look like, what will the various flavors of clouds that create it be (public, private, specialized, milspec, etc), and how should organizations migrate to it. Most companies are already headed there because they are using at least one SaaS application, so even if the…

  • The Slate/Tablet Option

    Technology Story
    18 Jan 2010 | 8:53 am
    It seems that one of the most popular things for tech reporters to do these days is pass on rumors and prognostications about what Apple might do with their possible tablet product.  At the same time, a number of companies announced their slate/tablet options at CES a couple of weeks ago.  The second most popular thing to write about is dilemma these devices have in finding a home between the laptop and the smartphone.  I suspect I am pretty representative of most technology augmented workers these days as I have a laptop, iPhone and Kindle.  The last thing I really care to do is carry…
 
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  • Chad Industries, Alpha Omega Power join forces to market solar test systems, PV cell sorters

    14 Mar 2010 | 12:24 pm
    Two privately held, U.S.-based solar manufacturing equipment companies have joined forces to comarket their products. Chad Industries and Alpha Omega Power Technologies say the agreement will benefit the market by making it easier to obtain fully integrated solar simulated test systems and solar-cell sorters.

  • Order Focus: Trina Solar to ship 23MW of PV modules to Italian company Enerqos in 2010

    14 Mar 2010 | 12:09 pm
    Trina Solar has agreed to increase its yearly shipments of crystalline-silicon photovoltaic modules to Enerqos, an Italian PV system and power plant construction company headquartered in Monza. Under the terms of the deal, the vertically integrated Chinese solar manufacturer will augment its committed quantity of PV modules to Enerqos from 2MW in 2009 to 23MW this year.

  • Solar trade-show group chooses Dallas as site for SPI 2011, names Brian Tully exec director

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:53 am
    The solar industry's largest trade show in the United States, Solar Power International, will be moving outside of California, as Dallas, TX, has been chosen as the site for the event in 2011. The board of managers of Solar Energy Trade Shows (SETS) announced the decision a few days after naming Brian Tully as the organization's new executive director.

  • Applied Materials opens expanded PV, FPD manufacturing center in Taiwan

    14 Mar 2010 | 11:19 am
    Applied Materials announced last week that it has opened the newly expanded Tainan Manufacturing Center in southern Taiwan, a nearly 15,000 square-meter facility that the company says will enhance its capability to serve thin-film solar photovoltaic and flat-panel display (FPD) customers in Asia. The center employs approximately 150 people and is expected to build and ship about 100 new plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) and physical vapor deposition (PVD) production systems this year

  • Bavarian State leader opposes German feed-in tariff cuts

    12 Mar 2010 | 6:53 am
    Obtaining Bundestag approval for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Party proposal for further cuts to Germany’s solar power feed-in tariffs could be in doubt after Horst Seehofer, the Bavaria state premier and sister party, Christian Social Union (CSU) to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats told Reuters he was opposed to the cuts. The centre-right coalition has a majority of seats in the German lower house of parliament, which will have to vote on proposed cuts.
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  • VoiceCon 2010 Spotlights Convergence

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am
    Enterprise communications is speeding toward a convergence of voice, data, and video. See it all come together at VoiceCon 2010 in Orlando, March 22 - March 25.

  • MIX10: Microsoft, PreEmptive To Launch Silverlight Analytics Tools

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm
    Microsoft will unveil Silverlight Analytics Framework at the Web designers & developers conference kicking off March 15 in Las Vegas, while Preemptive will launch Runtime Intelligence Analytics Provider for Silverlight.

  • Microsoft Xbox Sales Top Wii, PS3

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:19 pm
    But sales of all gaming hardware, including the Sony PS2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS, are down from a year ago.

  • Microsoft, Motorola Strike Bing Deal

    12 Mar 2010 | 10:35 am
    The agreement puts Microsoft's Bing search on Motorola's Android smartphones.

  • China Warns Google To Obey Law

    12 Mar 2010 | 10:01 am
    Promising consequences if Google flouts China's censorship laws, Chinese authorities also chide the U.S. for its human rights record.
 
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  • Blog - Stars 'n' diamonds

    12 Mar 2010 | 9:10 pm
    The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week: Observation of an Antimatter Hypernucleus

  • Blog - Orange Dwarf Star Set to Smash into The Solar System

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:10 pm
    A new set of star velocity data indicates that Gliese 710 has an 86 percent chance of ploughing into the Solar System within the next 1.5 million years. The Solar System is surrounded by thousands of stars, but until recently it wasn't at all clear where they were all heading.

  • Packing More into Lithium Batteries

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Lithium sulfur promises a longer charge, and safer operation, compared to standard lithium batteries. Researchers at Stanford University have developed an electrode that can be used to make more energy-dense lithium-sulfur batteries. If issues surrounding life-cycle deterioration can be addressed, the battery could resolve performance and safety issues limiting the spread of longer-lasting batteries in hybrid and electric vehicles.

  • Fingerprinting Computer Chips

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Verayo is harnessing unique manufacturing flaws to make RFID tags that are impossible to copy. A company that relies on atomic-level flaws in computer chips to tell one chip from another says that its circuits could help fight counterfeiting in anything from passports to handbags. Verayo, an MIT spinoff based in San Jose, CA, says the ID tags should be more secure and relatively cheap to make.

  • Leakier Tumor Vessels Enhance Drug Delivery

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Molecules that make blood vessels more permeable might boost chemotherapeutics. Getting chemotherapy agents into solid tumors can be a challenge because high fluid pressure inside tumors makes it difficult for drugs to leave the bloodstream and attack their targets. But now researchers at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center have discovered a new way to regulate the leakiness of blood vessels: blocking certain molecules surrounding blood vessels in mice can temporarily tweak their leakiness, enhancing flow of drugs to tumors. If scientists can mimic this effect in…
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  • Star studded cast for Smurfs 3D movie

    Tom Andries
    8 Mar 2010 | 1:51 pm
    With the success of that other 3D movie featuring blue creatures, Avatar another 3D movie finally seems to be on track to be unleashed this year. Columbia Pictures is fasttracking and securing a top notch cast for many’s childhood favorite: The Smurfs.   Promising! Instead of going for a classic 3D animation movie, the Smurfs 3D will be an interesting animated-live action mix, featuring the Smurfs in 3D and live action stars. One of the live action characters will be a young dad of two who stumbles across the Smurfs’ village played by Neil Patrick Harris.   Harris…

  • Abraham Lincoln’s fight against vampires

    Tom Andries
    6 Mar 2010 | 5:41 am
    Abraham Lincoln is one of the greatest, commanding and most respected presidents in the history of America. During the civil war Lincoln led the US through one of its most daunting era’s. Yet very little is known about him. Now a revolutionary book claims he fought a secret war… against vampires!   Luckily it’s just fiction! From the writer of “Pride and prejudice and Zombies” comes Seth Grahame-Smith’s ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER. By all means it looks like an action packed entertaining novel waiting to get a Hollywood movie makeover! And…

  • Stop messing up America!

    Tom Andries
    10 Feb 2010 | 9:22 am
    It can make me so mad and so sad! No Al Queda nor Iran or North Korea… This time the threat comes from within.   American born citizens immobilizing and purposely sabotaging their democracy, their government and elected president: Republicans.   Republicans currently are committing the most shameful and unbelievable acts of unpatriotism ever seen.   “Miss me yet?” It’s a simple question with a simple answer. Hell no! George Bush’s government gave us: The worst act of domestic terrorism on American soil in history Not one, but two bloody, costly and…

  • Iron Man 2 – a second man, a second fight, a whole new suit!

    Tom Andries
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:30 am
    Get ready for another round of Hollywood blockbuster mania with the release of Iron Man 2!   May 7th, the second installment of this high paced action movie will be released with a spectacular Robert Downey Jr. reprising the epic role of Tony Stark.   One month before the boxoffice release, gaming house SEGA will unleash the Iron Man 2 game on every console format available: Playstation 3, PSP, Wii, Nindendo dsi and Xbox 360.   In anticipation you can marvel at following promising trailers! The Iron Man 2 movie trailer   Iron Man 2: the video game trailer 1   Iron Man…

  • Patrick Stewart loves his iPhone! (video)

    Tom Andries
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:12 am
    But as captain of a Star Trek space ship who’d expected differently?   Hang on, didn’t Jean LucPicard use an iPad on his outer space missions?   > What’s your opinion on all things Trekkie & tech?  
 
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  • HSBC Suffers A Data Breach Yet Again

    Dave Lewis
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:34 am
    HSBC has been having a really rough go trying to keep a handle on their data and system security. Examples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. A tad disconcerting for their customer base. From Infosecurity UK: HSBC’s Swiss banking operation – operating in an industry that is reknowned for its secrecy – has been rocked by revelations that details on as many as 24 000 of its wealthiest clients have been leaked. When the news of the data leakages – apparently caused by a rogue member of the HSBC staff – were first reported last December, it was thought that fewer than 10 accounts were involved.

  • South Korea Dealing With Massive Data Breach

    Dave Lewis
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:52 pm
    In what has the hallmarks of being the largest recorded data breach in South Korea ever, 20 million+ individuals have had their data exposed. As a result of this an investigation has begun. From AFP: South Korea said Friday it would launch a probe into security systems of major retailer Shinsegae and 24 other companies after private data on some 20 million customers was leaked. The move came a day after police arrested three South Koreans for selling private information, including IDs, passwords and addresses, of more than 20 million compatriots online. The three suspects bought the data from…

  • Atlanta VA Hospital Breach Under Investigation

    Dave Lewis
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:27 pm
    This week it appears that the data breaches are falling from the trees. In this particular case a physicians assistant was alleged to have been collecting data on patients. It was apparently for some unsanctioned study. To make matters worse the data was being stored on an unencrypted laptop. Now a criminal investigation has begun into the allegations. From Atlanta Journal Constitution: The inspector general is investigating a report that a physician assistant stored unauthorized clinical information on her personal laptop regarding veterans who were seen at one of the VA specialty clinics,…

  • Student Nabbed For Hacking School Computers

    Dave Lewis
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:57 pm
    Sometimes it appears that the influence of the 1983 film “War Games” continues to hold sway with people. Sometimes, it doesn’t end so well. From My Fox Houston: A 17-year-old Cy-Fair ISD student is facing a felony charge after he allegedly hacked into the district’s computer security network and caused more than $10,000 in damage. Cy-Fair High School student Richard Alan Urban is scheduled to appear in court April 13 on a charge of computer security breach, a state jail felony. The odd thing that I found with this article, about this apparently hapless student from…

  • Certified “Pre-Owned” Items

    Dave Lewis
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:25 pm
    Time and again I read stories about products that come pre-pwned with malicious software. Recently a few people were ruminating about pulling together a list of these battery chargers, digital frames and the like. Low and behold one already exists. Something tells me I should have assumed that it would be found here at attrition.org. From Attrition.org: For reasons unknown, vendors occasionally fail to maintain quality control over the media they ship. Whether it is CD-ROM, DVD, USB or some other form of media, it may contain viruses, trojans or even drug-runner music. When this happens, the…
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  • Magento Public Interface Walk-through - CMS Pages and Static Blocks

    Developer Techno
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:34 am
    In addition to being a top-notch eCommerce platform, Magento has the ability to display pages called CMS pages or content management system pages. CMS pages refer to any non-product page. These pages can include additional information about your eCommerce store, such as company information, about us, payment terms, and customer service. CMS pages are given their own URL address and can be customized in both appearance and layout. These pages allow you to include images and content in addition to your products.Magento also provides another form of content management called static blocks.

  • Magento Public Interface Walk-through - Compare Products

    Developer Techno
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:31 am
    Another great feature that Magento includes is giving a customer the ability to compare products side by side. Not only can customers compare pricing between two items, but they can also compare other information such as product descriptions, product skus, and other customizable options. To compare items, customers must first add a product using the compare button which is found either on the category page or the product page. It’s also noteworthy again that if a customer has javascript turned off they will not be able to compare products. Once the customer has more than one item in their…

  • Magento Public Interface Walk-through - Product Page

    Developer Techno
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:29 am
    Without a doubt the product page is the most important page inside of your eCommerce. Product pages allow you to communicate important information about your products to customers. Product pages contain product descriptions, pricing, and additional photos. Magento offers the following options when building your product pages:• Product images: Magento allows you to upload multiple images of your products. Customers can also zoom in and view images larger than the provided area, assuming javascript is enabled on the customer’s computer.• Product descriptions: There are two types of…

  • Magento Public Interface Walk-through - Categories and Category Views

    Developer Techno
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:26 am
    By default, top-level categories, known as anchor categories, are listed horizontally just below the header and above the content area of the web site. Rolling over each one of these categories will show a drop down listing of any subcategories.These use Javascript and if the user has javascript turned off these menus will not expand. Magento will also display a user-friendly message telling the user that Javascript is required to utilize the full functionality of the site.Each category and subcategory has a landing page. There are a number of different sections on category landing pages.

  • Magento Public Interface Walk-through - Page Header

    Developer Techno
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:17 am
    The top of Magento’s store is the page header. The page header provides some important functionality to your customers. It also includes a welcome message that you can customize to give customers an unique greeting.You can replace the Magento Demo Store logo with your company logo on the left-hand side of the page header. On the right-hand side, there is a search bar. Customers can search for products by using keywords or searching for text used in product descriptions. As an administrator, you have the ability to configure search terms that can be used on your site. This means that if…
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  • Parents Take Care of Virtual Child And Neglect Real One

    Ally
    7 Mar 2010 | 1:18 pm
    We all know gaming is a great way to escape reality, much like books and movies have done in the past.  You become a parent and realize that it’s actually a whole lot more work and a thankless job at that, so maybe you go online and enjoy a virtual kid much better than your own.  After all, these virtual kids can be shut down when your computer is turned off.  It’s the best of both worlds.  Except that 3 month old real babies don’t exactly take care of themselves.  Who knew?!  Well apparently one couple missed that memo. The Korean  41 year old husband and his 25 year…

  • Been Talking To Your Computer? Study Says You’re Lonely

    Ally
    5 Mar 2010 | 3:21 pm
    I’ve always talked to my cars and once I had a computer of my own, well I talked to that too.  Then again, I talk to my dog on occasion too.  I’m much worse with cars than I am with computers though.  I apologize to the car when I hit a bump too hard, mostly because I’m praying that I didn’t do any damage.  I know I’m not the only one who does goofy things along those lines, but apparently one study had to pick those of us apart that talk to random objects. Harvard University psychologists did a study on anthropomorphise to be specific.  Which means to see…

  • Burglar Forgets To Lock Cellphone And Accidentally Calls 911

    Ally
    28 Feb 2010 | 3:43 pm
    There are several things in life that most people with common sense have learned not to do.  Sadly though, common sense is apparently not something we were all born with.  One thing you might want to be careful about, make sure that your cellphone is locked before you go doing anything particularly illegal.  That’s one thing one 19 year old girl learned the hard way.  While teaching someone how to steal gadgets from cars, she somehow accidentally called 911. I really haven’t the faintest idea how she actually managed to pocket dial 911, but apparently it was just a…

  • Dalai Lama Joined Twitter…no, seriously

    Ally
    26 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    I know, there was that fake profile a long while ago that fooled thousands of people.  It’s real this time though!  It was actually confirmed by the VP of Communications Sean Garret when he formally welcomed him to the Twitter world.  Sure, it’s probably someone that works for the Dalai Lama posting things for him, but that’s about as close as you’re going to get.  I have yet to decide if this makes the Dalai Lama more cool and up to date, or if it just means Twitter is slowly taking over the world. I’m leaning towards the latter of the two.  The Dalai Lama…

  • Professionalism Overrated – Chefs Use Twitter To Retaliate

    Ally
    21 Feb 2010 | 2:47 pm
    There was a time when chefs would deal with their setbacks quietly.  If they received a bad review from a food critic they would gripe to buddies and then try their best to come back from the bad publicity.  If you had a vendor that was causing problems you either dealt with it or found a new vendor.  This day and age there’s Twitter and personal blogs though and we are apparently far past the days of acting like a professional. According to NY Times angry chefs are using the site to bicker between each other and even strike back against those that have given them bad publicity. …
 
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  • Samsung netbooks finally hit Philippine shores

    Calvin
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:00 pm
    We really don’t know why it’s only now that Samsung introduced their netbooks here in the local market considering the success of their NC10  overseas. Samsung is saying that they want to be prepared before launching their netbooks here so we’ll leave it at that. Samsung unveiled yesterday their first two netbooks for the Philippine market. Sporting the latest Intel Atom N450 processor are the N220 and the N150. The N220 has a stylish color finish (looks like glass-encased) while the more affordable N150 has a glossy scratch-resistant finish. Spec-wise both models are pretty basic:…

  • HTC Magic free on Smart Gold Plan 1800

    PTB
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:07 am
    The very first Android phone in the Philippines was introduced thru Smart with the HTC Magic. While Android phones don’t enjoy as much attention as the Apple iPhone, it’s a good alternative. Today Smart is offering the HTC Magic for free on Smart Gold Plan 1800. Not really a huge deal until you get to the part where the plan comes with unlimited surfing. Now that’s a nice mobile plan altogether. Smart’s regular Gold Plan 1800 includes 450 free SMS and 344 minutes free calls per month. Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Stumble upon something good? Share it on…

  • Olympus introduces new compact ultra-zoom cameras to local market

    Calvin
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:11 am
    Olympus recently introduced their new ultra-zoom cameras to the Philippine market. The Olympus SP-800UZ is the smallest compact digital camera in its class and the first to incorporate a whopping 30x zoom. If you’re the type of person who feels intimidated using DSLR’s or lazy enough or don’t have the patience to tinker with the manual settings just to take a shot then you would probably want to consider the SP-800UZ. The SP-800UZ is an easy to use “all-in-one” 14-megapixel camera that caters to people who wants to take good, quality shots without dwelling too much on the…

  • Apple’s Aperture 3 is way much better than previous version

    Calvin
    10 Mar 2010 | 4:44 am
    If you’re one of the many people who were not satisfied with Apple’s photo application, Aperture 1 or 2, that you were forced to switch to Adobe Lightroom, it’s time to go back and take a look at Aperture 3. They made a lot, no a TON of improvements with this version. I saw a demo of the application and I was pretty impressed (I’m a Lightroom user mind you). Familiarity for iPhoto users If you love how iPhoto ‘09 manages your photo library then you will love how it is now incorporated with Aperture 3. Yup, Aperture 3 can now replace your iPhoto as your photo editing and management…

  • Microsoft offers free Office 2010 upgrade to new Office 2007 customers

    Calvin
    7 Mar 2010 | 6:55 pm
    If you’ve been holding up in purchasing that Microsoft Office 2007 license because Office 2010 is just around the corner (expected in June), no need to wait because Microsoft is offering a tech guarantee for customers who purchase Office 2007 beginning March 5 – September 23, 2010.  Yep, new Office 2007 customers can download the Office 2010 come June at no additional cost for their free upgrade. To be eligible for the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee program, you must: Purchase Office 2007, or a new PC with Office 2007, and activate it between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010…
 
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  • iPad gains screen rotation lock, loses mute

    Andru Edwards
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:51 pm
    Looks like Apple has been hard at work making some final tweaks to the design and functionalist of the iPad. As you can see in the image above, previously there was a mute switch above the volume rocker, similar to what you’d find on an iPhone or iPod touch, but now that switch has been reassigned to provide a different function. It’s not a quick way to enable and disable the automatic screen rotation when turning the device from landscape to portrait. Our thoughts on this one? Good move. Don’t forget, you can now pre-order your iPad. Tags: iPad gains screen rotation lock,…

  • Damaka Introduces Live Video Streaming on Blackberry and Android Devices

    Andru Edwards
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:41 pm
    Damaka has announced the release of its Live Video Streaming solution for laptops and certain BlackBerry and Android devices. So, while EMT’s with BlackBerry and Android phones will be able to keep attending physicians in the ER in the loop as to an incoming patient’s condition with real-time video updates, woe betide the unlucky EMT who has a crap data plan or an iPhone. Damaka’s Live Video Streaming solution, as they’re calling it, provides instant communication of video and voice via an encrypted channel that includes session archival & annotation features. Live…

  • SxSW 2010: Austin is now the Thunderdome

    Andru Edwards
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:36 pm
    The rumor at SXSW is that attendance for Interactive badges is up by 40% from last year, which is pretty amazing when you consider that the 2009 attendance was 10,741. So the amount of people decending on Austin, TX to see the next Twitter or Foursquare make an appearance is around 15,000. It’s crazy to think that Foursquare just debuted last year and now it is the most talked about product so far at this year’s event (granted, things are just getting started.) Speaking of Foursquare, we’ll be covering their SXSW news, as well as that of what we consider to be their main…

  • iPad pre-orders begin

    Andru Edwards
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
    Just a quick heads up to any of you who want to get in on all that hot iPad action as soon as you possibly can. As of this morning, you can pre-order the Apple iPad, you know, their magical and revolutionary device, and have it delivered to your doorstep on April 3rd (although, if you pre-order the 3G version, that’ll ship in late April.) If you are the more adventurous type, you can also head on over to your local Apple Store and pre-order there, and your iPad will be ready for pick-up there on April 3rd. Probably your best bet if you don’t want to be sitting at home all day on a…

  • HP shows off Slate running Flash and Air

    Andru Edwards
    11 Mar 2010 | 4:39 pm
    At CES 2010, Microsoft gave us a sneak peek at the Windows 7-based HP slate tablet device. We didn’t get much info at all, but more has trickled out since then. However, now HP is taking an obvious jab at Apple and the iPad, having released the video above that shows off the slate tablet running Flash and Adobe Air, right on the device. Of course, the highlight here comes near the end, when the person playing with the HP Slate pulls up Hulu and begins watching content right on the device, something that the iPad can’t do just yet (although we are hearing that Hulu is working hard…
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  • Canon PIXMA MP490 Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer $49.95

    K
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:15 am
    I just came across a very nice printer deal. Amazon has the Canon PIXMA MP490 Inkjet Photo All-In-One Printer (3745B002) for $49.95 when you ordered from Amazon via Adorama. Canon makes some excellent printers and the PIXMA MP490 printer is an excellent choice at this price. Some of the features that make it an excellent buy 4800×1200 maximum color dpi ChromaLife100 enhanced FINE print head technology that can last up to 300 years with select Canon photo papers. 1.8” LCD screen Auto Photo Fix II Beautiful & Borderless upto 8.5” x 11” Auto Scan Mode Dual Color Gamut Technology…

  • Forget Curating Your Own Google Reader

    K
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    Google Reader is probably my second most visited site in a day after Gmail. As much as RSS readers have and RSS feeds have gained popularity, a vast majority of people don’t want to take the pains of setting up their Google Reader account with the sites they want to follow. Google Reader has released a cool experimental feature where a new user can browse through popular feeds as a slideshow in an attractive interface without curating their own Google reader account. Current Google Reader users can use this new feature to browse through their own RSS feeds in a new unique way. Google Reader…

  • Firefox Picks of the Week 10-03-10 Tabs Edition

    K
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    It’s been a while since I last posted on Firefox add-ons that some of you might have been convinced that I have switched to Google Chrome or even Safari with our recent 21.5” Apple iMac purchase. I am still a hardcore Firefox fan but I just have been keeping my Firefox running swift with a select group of must-have Firefox add-ons. So, I took the time to see what new ones have sneaked into my browser and found a common theme – Tabs. So here we go. BarTab Do you keep a dozen tabs open and hate the loading time when you restart your browser? BarTab lets you keep all your tabs open and it…

  • Stream and Share Your Music Online With GrooveShark

    K
    9 Mar 2010 | 9:30 am
    I have become a huge of fan of Pandora both on desktop and my iPhone to listen to and discover to music. Since then I haven’t looked into any other service. I have heard great things about Spotify but  it isn’t yet available in the United States. I just came across another extremely promising music service – Grooveshark. Grooveshark gives you a way to begin searching for music, create playlists, upload your own music, change themes and listen to music from a really cool web interface. You can browse through different bands, artists and songs and play the music. You can do all these…

  • Share And Review Documents Online With Crocodoc

    K
    8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    You might recollect an excellent note taking service by a group MIT alumni – WebNotes. The same people now bring us another cool web service to help collaborate on documents online easily. What is Crocodoc? Sharing and reviewing documents and presentations with others can be quite a pain. Crocodoc was built to change that, alleviating the need to email attachments back and forth, print and pass around hard copies, or install expensive collaboration software. Crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be…
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  • ICT4D Meetup in Austin during SXSW

    Jon
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    In Austin for South By SouthWest? Join folks interested in ICT for development at the Gingerman (3rd and Lavaca) from 4-7pm on Sunday! I'll bring my OLPC for anyone up to the challenge of figuring out how to open it for the first time, and we'll talk mapping, SMS, crisis response and more!

  • The OLPC Vaporware Product Line Vs. the iPad

    Jon
    29 Jan 2010 | 7:11 am
    iPad or OLPC? Update: the EE Times has a great, similar article on the OLPC fantasy vs Apple reality. So, the XO-2 has moved from promise to hope to scrap, and has made way for a tablet-style, iPhoneiPad-like XO-3 (Read about the 3.0 model at Forbes and Engadget, with the now-in-production 1.5 and the in-planning 1.75 XOs, both using the current design but with faster processors. OLPC, and Nick Negroponte in particular, love to use conceptual designs to create excitement. This works great in normal, commercial development a few times. Once you miss a few targets, people react very negatively…

  • The OLPC Haiti Project Reports Back

    Jon
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:37 am
    When the IDB plans to "evaluate its performance from a quantitative standpoint," it's a good sign that they mean to do just that. The XO project in Haiti, discussed here with a cost breakdown here is bearing a ton (1 pages, to be precise) fruit, with the recent IDB report (PDF). It reveals some promise, some best practices, and also reminds us of some common problems. From the "I toldya so" files Finding an XO laptop spark Somewhat unsurprisingly, there were some hassles in the basic deployment and daily use of the XOs which have been common topics of debate around OLPCNews.com for some time…

  • I'm Still Not Convinced

    Jon
    18 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    At the IADB seminar on ICT in the classroom, I asked Nicholas Negroponte why not sell the XO laptop -- at or near cost -- to anyone who wanted one? This gets beyond the hassle of having to convince bureaucrats of the value of the laptop without running pilot programs and delaying the eventual adoption. It (hopefully) creates some side markets in support, software development for non-educational uses of the laptop like rural healthcare, and could enable educational uses without going through the schools themselves, even. Granted, there are some concerns. OLPC has thus far maintained a clarity…

  • Behind the Wire: How To build your own news portal

    Jon
    2 Oct 2009 | 11:07 am
    ServiceWire.org is a refreshed version of a news system that's been part of YSA's servenet.org toolset for years. In fact, when servenet.org was launch in the mid-nineties (1996 in fact) its motto was "Our Content in Youth Info" - a few years ahead of its time in terms of "Web 2.0" concepts or peer-generated content. In late 2008 I decided it was time to bring ServiceWire up to date with current technologies. It still got a smattering of news and press release submissions from the field, but it was no longer the source of news and knowledge about what was happening in the service movement. At…
 
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  • An Argument for the President’s Health Care Reform

    Kyle Baxter
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:38 pm
    This is an argument Bart Stupak is hearing for why his amendment shouldn’t be included: What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.” Hmm… Retweet

  • “Organic Architecture,” Organic Applications

    Kyle Baxter
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:35 pm
    I’m watching PBS’s documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright, and his design philosophy struck me as terribly insightful. He called it “organic architecture”: It is not a style of imitation, because he did not claim to be building forms which were representative of nature. Instead, organic architecture is a reinterpretation of nature’s principles as they had been filtered through the intelligent minds of men and women who could then build forms which are more natural than nature itself. This is not only apt for architecture, but application design as well. Applications…

  • iBooks App Works with Other ePub Books

    Kyle Baxter
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:38 am
    Apple’s released new details about the iPad, including that iTunes will sync other ePub books to your iPad so you can read them in the iBooks application. Macworld has the details, and other new information. Retweet

  • Interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone

    Kyle Baxter
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:04 pm
    The New York Times just interviewed Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Parker commented on putting every episode online for free: To be honest, we don’t care about the money. We both have all the money we need. It’s really just about the survival of the show. First hearing about, O.K., we’re going to be putting everything on the Internet for free, I was like, Really? Wow, O.K. [laughs] That’s the world we live in. I’m actually surprised at how smooth the transition is going. Retweet

  • Page Flips Are Right

    Kyle Baxter
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:31 pm
    Chris Clark thinks page flips are better than scrolling on the iPad: Dragging through thousands of words of prose isn’t skimming, isn’t navigation… it’s laborious. You’re paginating by hand. Retweet
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  • Happy Pi 3.14 Day, Google Doodle Does Mathematical Genius

    Keith Dsouza
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:07 am
    It’s Pi day, as in the date today is 3.14, which is similar to what Pi represents in it’s basic form. To celebrate the day and mathematicians across the world, Google has come up with an excellent Google Doodle. However, a much bigger Pi day will come in 2015 in March, when the date will be 3.14.15 or as Mathematician’s would like to say 3.1415. We at Techie Buzz want to wish every Mathematician out there a Happy Pi Day, without you technology would be nothing. Share: Comment on This Post | Tweet This | Share on Facebook | Save to Delicious | Stumble This | Digg This |…

  • iPhone HD Commercial Ads?

    Keith Dsouza
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:40 am
    iPhone HD is supposedly coming soon, no one knows when yet, but thanks to a commentator on TB, we came across a new commercial for iPhone HD, whether this is real or not we can’t say, but the advertisement is definitely eye candy. Hit the link to watch the video after the break. Enjoyed So Far? Continue Reading iPhone HD Commercial Ads? Share: Comment on This Post | Tweet This | Share on Facebook | Save to Delicious | Stumble This | Digg This | Reddit This TAGS: Advertisments, Commercials, iPhone, iPhone HD iPhone HD Commercial Ads? originally appeared on Techie Buzz written by Keith…

  • NeoSearch – Search Windows the Better Way

    Soumen Halder
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Neosearch is a replacement for the default search that comes with Windows. The built-in search is a great tool to instantly search something, but there are some limitations to it also. The shared folders of any network are not indexed by the Windows search. So here is a nice work-around to help you remove this limitation. Download Neosearch and install the tool. Once you have installed it, you will be prompted to broaden the search index by selecting full system index. Choose Yes if you wish to do so. The tool sits unnoticed in the system notification area, without causing any hindrance to…

  • Wise Disk Cleaner – Cleanup your Hard Disk

    Soumen Halder
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am
    Wise Disk Cleaner is a free utility to clean up your hard disk by removing junk files such as cookies, temporary files and rarely used files. This tool also includes a disk defragment tool which is very helpful. 1. Download Wise Disk Cleaner and install it.. 2. Start the application after installing it. Choose your language. 3. You can select the scan location from the “Scan Location” dropdown. The scan location is selected for all the partitions by default. 4. Start the scan for locating the junk files that needs to be removed. Use the Play (Scan) button to the top left corner of the…

  • Facebook Has A 420 Character Status Update Limit Too

    Keith Dsouza
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:48 am
    Not sure if you have ever hit this before, but just like Twitter has a 140 character limit on updates, Facebook has a limit of 420 characters for status update. While I was busy updating my status on Facebook, I hit the error above. It says: Status Too Long Your status update is too long. The maximum status length is 420 characters, but it is 433 characters long. I am not sure for how long this has been the case, and it must have been since the Facebook was first launched, but this is definitely the first time that I have seen Facebook limiting me from posting updates, but yea I have never…
 
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  • OLED-Info upgraded

    oled
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:16 pm
    OLED-Info was upgraded today (if anyone is interested, we upgraded to Drupal 6.x from 5.8). Most of the changes are infrastructure related so you won't notice much, but hopefully the site should be faster now, more stable and more secure. If you do find any bugs, glitches or you have any comments, please let us know!

  • Osram to exhibit a large Orbeos OLED Lighting room installation

    oled
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:54 pm
    Osram will exhibit a large room filled with Orbeos OLED Lighting panels. This installation was planned under the direction of Professor Andreas Schulz together with his team of the renowned lighting design office 'LichtKunstLicht'. The OLED panels 'float' in the room, in the walls, ceiling and floor. Visitors can enter the room and walk through this installation.  The installation will be on show in the Light+Building exhibition in Frankfurt (April 11-16). Osram's Orbeos panels are round (88mm diameter), 2.1mm thick and weight 24g each (the efficiency is 25lm/W). The panels are available now…

  • AUO to recruit new employees for its OLED unit in 2010

    oled
    11 Mar 2010 | 4:39 am
    AU Optronics announced plans to recruit 2,500 new employees in 2010: fors its LCD panel production unit, PV unit and OLED business. AUO are planning to start (or resume, really) making OLED panels in 2011. AUO 14-inch OLED prototype Via digitimes

  • Vitex announces new equipment sales to Taiwan and China

    oled
    11 Mar 2010 | 4:08 am
    Vitex Systems announced that their equipment licensees SNU Precision and Sunic Systems have received multiple orders for Barix thin-film OLED encapsulation equipment. SNU Precision got their first Barix TFE tool order in Taiwan, and Sunic Systems' order came from China. This is their 2nd chinese customer. Vitex say that by the middle of 2010, there will be 16 Barix TFE tools operational at customers (some customers have multiple sets of equipment). We know that Vitex customers/partners include Samsung, UDC and LG (In December 2008 Vitex has shown a video of several products and prototypes…

  • OLED Lighting is one of the four major R&D technologies for LG

    oled
    11 Mar 2010 | 2:46 am
    LG Group has decided on four R&D technologies to focus on: lighting, solar cells, next-gen batteries and integrated heating/ventilation/air-condition systems. The lighting technologies will include LED lighting and OLED Lighting materials, developed by LG Chem. LG Chem have already announced their plans to develop OLED lighting materials and panels, and hope to start production in 2H 2010. Back in January, LG announced that they will spend most R&D money on consumer electronics, wireless communication and next-gen displays (OLEDs, 3D panels and e-paper displays). Via KoreaHerald
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  • AltSearchEngines is closed. TheNextWeb is my new blog.

    Charles S. Knight
    10 Mar 2010 | 11:44 am
    Here is the post that started it all The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines for January 2007 And here is the blog that published “The Most Wonderful Search Engines You’ve Never Seen” Here is where I will be writing about All Things Search starting on February 1st, 2010.

  • A plug for Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest

    Hope Leman
    31 Jan 2010 | 4:32 pm
    Okay, this post is going to be a shameless plug for a conference I am helping to organize that I think search industry folks should come to: Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest. So brace yourselves: objectivity is not going to come into play in this post. Forget about that for the moment. The key thing is to get search people into the world of online science, e-science, Big Data, Open Science, and Science 2.0 way more they have been. Opportunity knocks, group. Why do I care? Because I have loved people who have been seriously ill and I want the scientific process to become more…

  • Language and Semantics: What can you do for my search engine (and for me)?

    Guest Author
    31 Jan 2010 | 12:35 pm
    Over the last few years the World Wide Web has become a digital Gutenberg which has unleashed a completely new business and information sharing scenario. Publishers of all types of content have chosen the Web as repository for content previously found in papers or private archives. The Web has even become a medium of publication of native content such as blogs, forums and twitters. Therefore, we can only expect an exponential growth of publisher and user-generated content. In order to get hold of the explosion of content, searching technologies continue to be the only tool available to…

  • Web 3.0 and Semantic Search

    Charles S. Knight
    31 Jan 2010 | 8:55 am
    By Abhishek Gattani I recently attended the Web 3.0 conference held in Santa Clara (January 26-27). During my attendance at the conference I had the chance to listen from Google’s Johanna Wright (Director of Product Management in Search) and Microsoft’s Scott Prevost (Principal Development Manager at Bing) about how they are using semantic technologies to drive innovation in search. The conference focused on the Semantic Web which is something that we at Kosmix have been innovating in for the last three years. Our goal has been simple: to provide consumers with the best experience for…

  • Searchzooka – A long tour of features

    Charles S. Knight
    30 Jan 2010 | 7:39 pm
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  • MRAM-info upgraded

    mram
    14 Mar 2010 | 5:24 am
    MRAM-Info was upgraded today (if anyone is interested, we upgraded to Drupal 6.x from 5.8). Most of the changes are infrastructure related so you won't notice much, but hopefully the site should be faster now, more stable and more secure. If you do find any bugs, glitches or you have any comments, please let us know!

  • Renesas flash memory roadmap includes MRAM

    mram
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:45 pm
    Renesas has released a presentation about their flash memory products, which also includes one slide about their  flash memory roadmap. The roadmap includes Floating Gate HND (Hyper New DINOR), MONOS (metal Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) and also MRAM. They plan to have 100 to 150Mhz MRAM at 90nm at around 2010, and 200Mhz MRAM at 65nm at around 2012. They say MRAM is the next-generation RAM, a breakthrough beyond the limit of flash memory.

  • Fujitsu and University of Toronto develop high-reliability read-method for STT-RAM

    mram
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:35 pm
    Fujitsu Laboratories and the University of Toronto announced that they have jointly developed the world's first high-reliability read-method for use with spin-torque-transfer (STT) MRAM that is insusceptible to erroneous writes. STT-MRAM circuit embedded in a CMOS chip The newly developed read-method uses a negative resistance that is intermediate between the MTJ's high resistance and low resistance on a parallel circuit. If the MTJ is in a high-resistance state, this circuit exhibits negative-resistance characteristics. If the MTJ is in a low-resistance state, then it exhibits…

  • Macronix extends their phase-change memory alliance with IBM

    mram
    29 Jan 2010 | 12:39 am
    Digitimes reports that Macronix has signed an agreement with IBM to continue to co-develop phase-change memory (PCM) technology. The company said it is optimistic about the outlook for PCM, which is likely to be a successor to all memory products used in computers and consumer electronics devices.

  • NVE updates on Anti-Tamper MRAM research

    mram
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:12 am
    NVE says that they have completed several custom anti-temper MRAM integrated circuit designs. NVE designs conventional semiconductor ICs which they fabricate at outside foundries. Then they add the Spintronic structures, in this case spin-dependent tunnel junction memory cells, in their own factory. NVE now reveals that they have received a number of the foundry wafers they have designed and they are in the process of adding MRAM to the wafers. The prototypes look promising so far although a fair amount of development remains before production.
 
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    All things tech and beautiful

  • How our brains are tuned to the pentatonic scale- Bobby McFerrin

    27 Feb 2010 | 11:46 pm
    I am no musician, but based on what I understand, a musical scale is an arrangement of a set of notes (pitches/ frequencies) within an octave (a mathematically repeatable range). Most of us have heard about the Heptatonic scale with seven pitches. It seems that the Pentatonic scale with five pitches is something that we are naturally attuned to (even a child inherently finds it easier to understand).Most TED videos are really cool. They have added a section called the 'Best of the Web' and this one featuring Bobby McFerrin is simply amazing. Most of us know of Bobby McFerrin through his…

  • Washing Machine Sans Power

    14 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am
    Thanks to the bollywood movie 3 idiots, grassroots innovation in India has been brought to the limelight. The HoneyBee Network has been a pretty successful attempt at aggregating such innovations in India.One such innovation was the pedal powered washing machine by Remya Jose (who's also a Keralite  :) ),As anyone who has tried washing clothes on their own, without the machine, would acknowledge - it is a pain and a sheer waste of time and energy that could perhaps be put to better use. For many who have the time and do not mind a 'workout'- washing by hand still remains a…

  • 101st Post

    11 Dec 2009 | 5:41 am
    Blogger says I've already made 100 posts. Here's a post which sounds like a tweet ;)

  • Microtelecom

    11 Dec 2009 | 5:36 am
    Most of us would have heard of the term microfinance (oft misused for micro-credit). Here is an interesting company called VNL (Vihaan Networks Limited. 'Vihaan' apparently means new dawn) which promotes the concept of 'microtelecom' through its innovative, open-source, low-power, low-overhead, easily-installable, non-airconditioned, (even solar powered!) rural telecom infrastructure system called WorldGSMI believe, along with its other counter-part - solar/ low-powered mobile handsets (powering the next billion cell-phones), this forms a really viable ecosystem.The future of…

  • Sense Substitution

    23 Oct 2009 | 11:39 am
    Two interesting products from the field of neural interfaces.Both of them leverage the fact that our sensory organs are just transducers which give inputs to a really flexible and remarkable signal processing system called the brain. This makes it possible to use one sensory organ to achieve a similar result to that of another. Sensory substitution.In a very indirect way, sign-language or braille could be considered as external sense substitutions. But these two instances that I came across thanks to Engadget and Google, a few months ago, are much more direct. Interestingly, this article…
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  • 10 Billion Tweets and Counting…

    Craig Buckler
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:19 am
    It’s the end of the week, so let’s look at one of this more light-hearted stories from the past few days… Apparently, more than 10 billion tweets have been sent on Twitter since the micro-blogging service was launched in 2006. That’s a lot. The tabloid press will undoubtedly come up with metaphoric comparisons to show just how big 10 billion is. I’m going to beat them to it… If you could send a tweet every second, 24-hours per day, it’d take you more than 317 years to submit the same number of messages. You’d be bored within 10 minutes, dead…

  • Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies

    Craig Buckler
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:58 am
    Microsoft have reported that sales of Windows 7 have reached 90 million copies just 6 months after the new OS was launched to the public on October 22 2009. The sales figures are more than double those of Vista throughout a similar period. Perhaps that’s not surprising: Vista obtained a bad reputation from day one and never recovered. Windows 7 is not a huge technical leap beyond Vista and many have dubbed it little more than a service pack. However, the new OS received positive reviews from the start and people perceive that it’s a vast improvement. That’s marketing for…

  • Microsoft Fix Their Non-Random Browser Choice Screen

    Craig Buckler
    6 Mar 2010 | 10:13 am
    Here’s an interesting mathematics and computer science question: how random is Microsoft’s new EU browser choice screen? It’s not, according to several statistical analysis articles published during the past week. IBM engineer Rob Weir has produced one of the better reports about the browser ordering on browserchoice.eu. The non-randomness is quite complex and it didn’t necessarily favor Internet Explorer; IE appeared last half the time and Chrome was more likely to appear in the first 3 positions. Bringing Chaos from Order Generating random numbers on a digital device…

  • Microsoft Accuse Google of Anti-Competitive Practices

    Craig Buckler
    3 Mar 2010 | 12:49 am
    Yes, you did read the title correctly. Dave Heiner, Microsoft Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, has posted an official blog post following Google’s suggestion that the EU antitrust inquiry was instigated by companies with business connections to Microsoft. Google’s public response to this growing regulatory concern has been to point elsewhere — at Microsoft. Google is telling reporters that antitrust concerns about search are not real because some of the complaints come from one of its last remaining search competitors. It’s worth asking whether Google’s…

  • The European Browser Vote Starts Today!

    Craig Buckler
    1 Mar 2010 | 2:44 am
    Microsoft launch their “Browser Choice” update today. All European Windows XP, Vista and 7 users with Internet Explorer set as their default browser will receive an automatic update offering a choice from: Microsoft IE8 (Trident rendering engine) Mozilla Firefox (Gecko) Google Chrome (Webkit) Apple Safari (Webkit) Opera (Presto) Avant (Trident) Flock (Gecko) GreenBrowser (Trident) K-meleon (Gecko) Maxthon (Trident) Sleipnir (switchable between Trident and Gecko) Slim (Trident) If you’re concerned this will radically increase your browser testing regime — don’t…
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    SolSie.com

  • Push Notification in Windows Phone 7 Series Explained

    SolSie
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:12 am
    At the GDC-Game Developers Conference, Microsoft gave attendees a deeper look at the Windows Phone 7 Series platform, specifically as it relates to gaming. The new platform would integrate Windows PCs, the Xbox 360, and Windows Phones for app development. The video from the conference explains push notifications on Windows Phone 7 Series devices. [...]

  • Mashable’s Pete Cashmore on GeoLocation-based Apps with Bloomberg

    SolSie
    14 Mar 2010 | 7:30 am
    Certainly, South by South West (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas, is the incubator of the next hottest things on the Web as we saw real time status update service Twitter was bornin 2007 and starting from last year, carried on to 2010 is Foursquare, which is a social media service that lets users check-in [...]

  • Opera Browser for iPhone… Weeks Away From Submitting to Apple

    SolSie
    13 Mar 2010 | 6:39 am
    At the Interactive conference SXSW in Austin, TX, Opera revealed its Web browser for iPhone is only weeks away from submitting to Apple’s App store. The company fist announced its intention back in Feb 2010 at Mobile World Congress. The iPhone built-in Safari has been considered the best mobile browser to provide near desktop experience,  [...]

  • Brizzly: Twitter Client App for iPhone Released

    SolSie
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:46 am
    Lately, my Web-based favorite Twitter client has been Brizzly after the developer switched from TwitZap. I just like the simplicity of an online tool and yet feature rich app. Brizzly supports multiple Twitter & Facebook accounts; preserve your search, in-line display media, widescreen support, etc.. Another useful feature is the trends and its short [...]

  • Twitter.com Displays Location of your Tweets, (If You Opt-in)

    SolSie
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:42 pm
    Few months ago, Twitter added geo-tag along with your Tweets, but only third party apps could use it. Today, Twitter.com actually display the location where the tweet is initiated. This feature is activated only by opt-in basis, meaning you have to turn it on in your Twitter account settings. Once you’ve opted-in, you will be able [...]
 
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  • Upcoming Webinar: Leveraging Social Media for Student Engagement

    Tom Krieglstein
    25 Feb 2010 | 8:58 am
    We're excited to partner with The Student Affairs Collaborative for an upcoming webinar on Leveraging Social Media for Increased Student Engagement. This webinar is an updated version of our last webinar in December on the same topic. The biggest update is the inclusion of a student panel to talk about how they want you to engage them online.100% of the webinar proceeds go to the Student Blogging Scholarship. "Seating" is limited to allow everyone to engage in the Q&A, so check below for details and to reserve your spot. Title: Leveraging Social Media for Student EngagementDate:…

  • Students Helping Students

    Tom Krieglstein
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:27 am
    Kansas State University's "Students Helping Students" campaign has the potential to be a national theme for peer-to-peer learning. For those who've had us on campus working with your student leaders, you should recognize the Blender Events and Flash Mobs throughout the video. Enjoy!

  • What If We DO Succeed in Increasing Student Engagement?

    Tom Krieglstein
    2 Feb 2010 | 8:29 am
    Over the weekend, I was talking with a group of students and advisors from Kutztown University about student engagement. In Swift Kick, we use dance floors to describe how student leaders are the ones in the center of the dance (fully engaged), and the rest of the student body (60-84% according to NSSE) are against the wall, not participating. It looks like this:   If the above image represents an oil reserve, the outside area represents the largest pool of potential energy at an institution.Lots of tools are great at helping student affairs departments better extract 2% more energy…

  • 7 Steps to Awesome: The Tech of a Leadership Conference

    Kevin Prentiss
    19 Jan 2010 | 10:05 am
    I promised the good student affairs folk of the Penn State system that I would write up a draft outline of a tech plan for a state wide student leadership event. I delayed a bit, so that we could finish up this new sachat platform - I think it's an important example of the goal. This will be a picture of what is possible, and the benefits, complete with notes. While I will aim at "reasonable and doable," the degree of difficulty will vary by campus. This certainly isn't THE way to do this, it is a draft plan to pick apart and play with. This plan isn't about just getting something up or what…

  • The Value of Integrating Social Media into Education

    Tom Krieglstein
    15 Jan 2010 | 7:33 am
    Dean Long, of LAUS, only needs two minutes to perfectly explain how every educator should be thinking about social media. And if your life is too busy for a two minute interlude, here are the highlights:Use SM (Social Media) to cultivate a community around the activities already being done on campus Support student bloggersLet students be the producers of the school's contentGive students the capacity to think and reflect around their experiencesSchools benefit by showcasing what they do to a larger audienceUsing SM will cultivate a larger communityReflective learning is nothing new, the new…
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  • How do I open .docx files in Word 97?

    Owen
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:06 am
    I need to send my CV to a job agency but I can’t seem to open it. I last edited in on a friend’s computer with Office 2007 and am now on my own machine (which has Word 97 on it). How can I open the docx file? I got this question from a young friend of mine who was trying to send a CV for a job he found on a Miami Job Search site. Well, unfortunately there’s nothing that Microsoft supply that lets you open docx files on Word 97. You must remember that this is 13 years old now and has been out of support for some time. You might want to consider moving to a more recent version…

  • Which NVIDIA drivers do I need?

    Owen
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:51 am
    I have a laptop that has an Nvidia graphics card, at least that’s what the sticker on the outside days. The laptop is manufactured by some Korean outfit and they don’t seem to have a website. I’m looking for the video drivers for the card, is there some where else I can download them from? Image via Wikipedia You’re in luck here a Nvidia is one of the major card producers and have their own website where you can download drivers for all their products. Even better than that, their website even has a facility that will scan your computer and figure out what card…

  • Why do I get Error Code 5 on Yahoo Mail?

    Owen
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:38 am
    My wife and I use Yahoo Mail on our computers but often have problems with the site reporting Error Code 5. Is this common and how do we get about fixing it? I’ve have a poke around Yahoo Help and Yahoo Answers and it looks that the reason behind Error Code 5 is that you’re trying to use the same account from more than one place. There are a number of reasons why this might be happening: You could have more than one tab on your browser pointing at Yahoo Mail You could be using a desktop client (like Outlook) while trying to use your web mail You and your wife could be sharing the…

  • Where can I find a spacious laptop bag?

    Owen
    5 Mar 2010 | 2:04 pm
    I’ve been using my laptop bag for a couple of years now, and since I got my laptop I’ve been adding more and more kit. I now carry a couple of PCMCIA cards, a webcam, a headset, a portable hard disk and a few other pieces. My laptop bag is busting at the seams, can you recommend a more spacious one? There are a variety of laptop bag on the market, all you have to do is walk into a computer outlet or fire up your browser and have a look around and you can find tens of different ones. You can get them in all shapes and sizes, but I did come across one on sale from Buy.com that looks…

  • Why does my USB hub suddenly stop working?

    Owen
    20 Feb 2010 | 2:01 pm
    I use a USB hub for my mouse, keyboard and scanner. If I plug in an external hard disk into it, all my devices stop working. Any idea why this may be happening? Image via Wikipedia There are a couple of things to check, including making sure you have the most recent drivers for your computer and devices. However there is one thing you could check first. USB ports typically provide 500mA per port, which is fine for most devices. Hard disk however have a pretty high drain, in fact, some even come with a cable that plugs into 2 separate USB ports, just to make sure they have enough power. If…
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    Black Web 2.0

  • Step Up Your Music Discovery Game with ExtensionFM

    Amani
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:00 pm
    Introducing ExtensionFM which will open up your world of music discovery. Automatically the Chrome extension will show you exactly how many songs are available on the site. Click on the music note and you get a pop down list of all of the songs available on the site. Continue reading for more details. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....

  • Welcome to the Platinum Life: The Intial Review

    Sherri L. Smith
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:53 am
    The road to music superstardom isn't paved with gold. It's full of hard work, drama, and shows...lots of shows. It's the grind baby, and it's not for the lazy or faint of heart. But if you've got the drive, gear, and talent you have a shot at making it to the top...even in the latest social gaming phenom Platinum Life. More on this social gaming you have to grustle (grind + hustle) after the... Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....

  • Apple iPad Available for Pre-Order. You Getting One?

    rahsheen
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:58 am
    Apple’s iPad has been available for pre-order since 8:30am Friday morning. They took down their site temporarily in order to update and prepare. Not sure why a company like Apple can’t just update the site without taking the whole thing down. I assume it’s some type of marketing tactic as they do this all the [...] Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....

  • ASUS O! Play; New Gadget Wows!

    Clark Kent
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am
    If you haven't felt it in your soul, your body or your wallet -- time is going fast. Think about it. We're already in MARCH. Yeah, dig that! If you're not a part of the SuperSpeed revolution yet, that's okay, Black Web 2.0 has got you covered. See why after the jump. Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....

  • Microsoft Loses Patent Case…Again

    rahsheen
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:21 am
    The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals again upheld a jury’s verdict saying that Microsoft “willfully infringed on a patent awarded to i4i.” The verdict was originally affirmed in December and Microsoft was to pay about $240 million in damages. They were also supposed to remove a specific feature of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January. [...] Visit Black Web 2.0 for the full story....
 
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  • Quick tip: Search and Replace in MySQL

    john@johnfmorton.com
    10 Mar 2010 | 4:16 am
    During the rebuild of this site, I ended up doing a Movable Type Export from my old database and an reimportation into a new "clean" database. It worked decently, but I've still got cleaning up to do in some older posts. Doing a search and replace within my database seemed like the best way to fix the biggest offenders in my posts and that's how I cleaned up the most offending cruft that crept in. Before you try any of this on your own database, make a back up of your database! This... 

  • SuperGeekery Revamp: HTML 5, EE 2, & Design Block

    john@johnfmorton.com
    5 Mar 2010 | 5:58 am
    SuperGeekery was originally designed in one furious evening of designing in Photoshop and coding in Expression Engine version 1.something. The speedy design and development was a product of equal parts overbooked schedule and typical procrastination.  I had arrived in Las Vegas at my first CES in January 2007, a geeky badge of honor to me, and felt compelled to write about the experience, but I didn't have my site built yet. That gave me the push to just get it done and less than 24 hours... 

  • Expression Engine and the White Screen of a Failed Load

    john@johnfmorton.com
    2 Mar 2010 | 8:25 am
    During the past several months, I've had a little trouble with SuperGeekery, which is built on Expression Engine. I would often get blank white screens if I clicked through the site too quickly. I think this was always when I was logged in as a SuperAdmin and using the control panel. Asking site visitors, I don't know that anyone else was having the problem, but it happened to me regularly. I could also only get this to happen using Safari. Using other browsers, like Firefox didn't produce... 

  • Expression Engine 2 Plugin: SuperGeekery Tag Stripper, version 1.0

    john@johnfmorton.com
    1 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    The redesign of SuperGeekery coincided with the release of Expression Engine 2 which gave me the opportunity to jump into the latest version of EE on a project that I was the client on, allowing me to be potentially break things without affecting a client. It also gave me the opportunity to try my hand at creating my first EE plugin. It's called SuperGeekery Tag Stripper and you're welcome to download the plugin and use it in your own projects, personal or commercial. And the price is right.... 

  • A Quick Way To Password Protect a Web Page.

    john@johnfmorton.com
    26 Feb 2010 | 5:22 am
    There are a variety of ways to password protect pages online. Perhaps the easiest is to use an .htaccess file. The reason this is the easiest way is because it’s built into the control panel at many hosting companies. I use Dreamhost and it’s control panel makes it automatic. Sweet. If you don’t have that as part of your hosting package, check out this article at htmllite for a walk through on do it yourself. What I don’t like about the .htaccess method The .htaccess method is very secure... 
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  • This Week in the Future, March 8-12, 2010

    Paul Adams
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:46 pm
    Poor Mario has to contend with a genetically modified superfish and an army of parasite-infected kitties! Fortunately, caffeine and lightning are on his side. Welcome to the future. (Get the details, and win the T-shirt, after the jump). This week in the future on PopSci: Super Mario Gets Real Pixelated in DIY Arduino 8x8 Version Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate DARPA Plans Lightning-Based GPS for Underground Warfighters Gold Nanoparticles and Lasers Kill the Brain Parasite That Causes "Crazy Cat Lady" Syndrome This Car Runs on Coffee, in…

  • Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Collision Course With Earth

    Jeremy Hsu
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:57 am
    Gliese 710 should arrive sometime within the next 1.5 million years Our solar system's 'hood may get a bit rougher sometime during the next 1.5 million years. An astronomer has given an 86 percent chance for a neighboring star to smash into the frozen Oort Cloud surrounding the outskirts of the solar system, and may scatter some comets toward Earth, Technology Review reports. That's not the only close encounter for our sun, according to Vadim Bobylev at the Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. He combined data from several databases of stars and found at least nine more…

  • As China and US Plan to Exploit "Burning Ice" for Fuel, the Ice Race Is On

    Stuart Fox
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:12 am
    Methane hydrate crystals show promise as a clean energy source When methane and freezing cold water fuse under tremendous pressure, they create a substance as paradoxical as it coveted: burning ice. Earlier in the year, a report from the National Research Council identified the combustible water, also known as methane hydrate, as a potential source of natural gas. Now, according to the Chinese news organization Xinhau, China is joining the US, Japan, and South Korea in the hunt for this weird mineral. As explained in this comic, there's 85.4 trillion cubic feet of methane hydrate buried under…

  • First-Ever Full Sequencing of Unhealthy Genomes Illuminates Disease Roots

    Stuart Fox
    11 Mar 2010 | 9:48 am
    As sequencing becomes more affordable, the way forward for diagnosis is not DNA snippets, but full genome workups Despite coming from a range of different backgrounds, everyone whose genome has been fully sequenced has had one thing in common: they were all healthy. But now, two teams have decoded the first genomes of people who carry genetic diseases, with one group also performing the first-ever full sequencing of an entire nuclear family. By decoding the entire genome, rather than just snippets linked to a particular disease, the two research groups were able to identify the genetic roots…

  • Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate

    Jeremy Hsu
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:33 pm
    A 10-year effort has finally created pumped-up fish for commercial aquaculture Rainbow trout with six-pack abs and burly shoulders have emerged from a University of Rhode Island laboratory, and could someday find their way to humans' dinner tables. That's assuming diners don't panic at the sight of the muscular ichthyoid awaiting their knives and forks. The bodybuilder stature of the trout comes from turning off myostatin, a protein that normally slows muscle growth. Researchers had known of a natural myostatin mutation that allowed for 20 to 25 percent more muscle growth in Belgian blue…
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  • Google Adds Biking Directions To Maps

    Google just made a lot of people happy.  For what seems like ever, I've been hearing people continually ask why biking is not an option on Maps.  Well, in true Google fashion, they waited until they got it right. Today they've added the long-awaited feature to Google Maps along with "extensive ...

  • Mashable Gets Their Own Google Buzz Ad

    Well, it looks like Mashable truly has taken the crown of social media/web 2.0 blog king. Google has given Mashable their own personal ads to promote Google Buzz for a hefty profit, while TechCrunch (seen below), gives up real estate to acquire users of Google's seemingly hot new Friendfeed ...

  • PG Nominated As 10 Sexiest Programmers

    Geekosystem is running a week long competition to bring in Valentine's day by letting users battle out who the sexiest programmer is. Y Combinator's Paul Graham is up against Linus Torvald, best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. Who's your vote for? Funny stuff

  • Tesla Files for IPO

    Tesla Motors announced last week that they've filed plans for their Initial Public Offering. They are seeking to raise $100 million through the IPO. To date, Tesla has raised $240 million from investors and VC's as well as a $465 million loan from the DOE.

  • The iPad Has Arrived

    // Ladies & Gentleman...finally there's something worth writing about.  After literal years of rumors and predictions, Apple has unveiled its tablet-based computer, appropriately titled the iPad. Watch a quick video overview of it here. Price starts at $499 for the 16GB WiFi ranging all the way up to $829 for the 64GB ...
 
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  • Changing the world in 140 characters

    12 Mar 2010 | 2:12 pm
    Mar 12 - Tennis pro Andy Murray, Booker Prize winning author Margaret Atwood and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver are among the famous names backing an effort to raise money for education through 'Twestival'. Matt Cowan reports.

  • Sails help ocean trawler save fuel

    12 Mar 2010 | 8:07 am
    Mar 12 - For the first time, an industrial-sized paraglider is helping a modern trawler save fuel with old-fashioned wind-power. Developers hope it will significantly impact the vessel's energy consumption. Stuart McDill reports.

  • 3D TV hits homes

    11 Mar 2010 | 3:37 pm
    Mar 11 - Consumers can now bring the 3D experience into their homes, but programming is limited, and the prices can be high. Bobbi Rebell reports.

  • Economy grounds flying car

    10 Mar 2010 | 7:16 am
    Mar 10 - Boston-based technology company Terrafugia has created a car that can fly. The company says it's ready to begin manufacturing the flying car but the recession has stalled progress. Ben Gruber reports.

  • World's largest solar-powered vessel

    9 Mar 2010 | 8:18 am
    Mar 9 - The world's largest solar-powered boat aims to be the fastest such vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first to cross both the Pacific and Indian Oceans when it embarks around the world in 2011. Natalie Armstrong reports.
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  • Mobile spy software, Spy your child, surveilence software

    13 Mar 2010 | 7:42 pm
    http://spyaphone.blogspot.com/2010/01/cell-phone-spy-software-how-to-spy.htmlwatch this video to have a look over the online demo of Mobile spying.Author: carl89zeiss89Keywords: Mobile spy spying software hidden application stealth spying hidden spying tracking calls tracing environment Added: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:42:19 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

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    13 Mar 2010 | 7:13 pm
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  • Dr. Barry Rizzo's Client Testimonials Cathy Sloss

    13 Mar 2010 | 6:46 pm
    http://caraccident-nj.com/ Whether you are looking to just get out of pain or your looking to enjoy optimal health and wellness, we will work together to achieve your goal. We serve hundreds of patients weekly with varying needs and goals.Author: barryrizzo1Keywords: New Jersey Atlantic City Toms River Chiropractor Back Pain Neck Pain Lower Back Pain Auto Accident Personal Injury northfield linwood pleasantville Added: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:46:55 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

  • Vacuum Lift for Windows

    13 Mar 2010 | 6:35 pm
    http://www.ergonomicpartners.com/Vacuum-Lifters.aspx Ergonomic Partners specializes in custom lift assist. In this case a vacuum lift was desinged for the lift and rotation of windows.Author: mttdc2Keywords: vacuum lift window lift vacuum lifters vacuum lift assist vacuum lifting device Added: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:35:57 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

  • Dr. Barry Rizzo's Client Testimonials Dawn Rodriguiez

    13 Mar 2010 | 5:35 pm
    http://caraccident-nj.com/ Whether you are looking to just get out of pain or your looking to enjoy optimal health and wellness, we will work together to achieve your goal. We serve hundreds of patients weekly with varying needs and goals.Author: barryrizzo1Keywords: New Jersey Atlantic City Toms River Chiropractor Back Pain Neck Pain Lower Back Pain Auto Accident Personal Injury northfield linwood pleasantville Added: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:35:22 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
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  • Devon IT TC10 zero Client Brings Virtual Desktop Functionality

    Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:42 am
    Virtual desktop computing is not exactly a new concept, but the main obstacle in front of its widespread adoption has been, unsurprisingly, the performance limitations. Virtual desktop environments are convenient because they allow for data to be stored and accessed centrally but, so far, there have not been solutions capable of mat... (read more)

  • ASRock and ECS Motherboard Revenues Drop over 20%

    Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:04 am
    With the steady recovery of the worldwide economy, most companies in the IT industry, whether hardware makers, component suppliers or technology developers, have generally seen an increase in revenues and marketing performance. Nevertheless, it seems that, in some instances, certain conditions may arise, which can impact ... (read more)

  • Hard Drive and Optical Drive Market Starts Growing

    Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:31 am
    Back in 2009, worldwide revenues from HDD shipments used in PCs declined by 11.7%, with ODD (optical disk drive) revenues falling by 6.3%. Of course, this was owed to the unfavorable economic conditions that impacted upon the entire industry. Now that the economy is on a rebound, iSupply predicts that the computer stora... (read more)

  • Motherboard Makers Faced with Component Shortage

    Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:03 am
    It seems that Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA aren't the only two companies faced with inventory constraints. While they cope with 40nm-chip shortages, constraints that have only now started to be alleviated, motherboard makers are being faced with problems of their own. According to a report by Digitimes, first-tier motherboard makers can't ge... (read more)

  • TSMC Starts Hiring, Offers 2,400 Permanent Jobs

    Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:37 am
    During 2009 and 2008, whatever strikes and walkouts took place were staged as a consequence of IT companies' decision to cut thousands of jobs, due to difficult economic conditions. Now, however, it seems that the industry is recovering well enough for companies to start rebuilding their workforce. Among the companies that are offering new employme... (read more)
 
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  • 10 Billion Tweets and Counting…

    Craig Buckler
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:19 am
    It’s the end of the week, so let’s look at one of this more light-hearted stories from the past few days… Apparently, more than 10 billion tweets have been sent on Twitter since the micro-blogging service was launched in 2006. That’s a lot. The tabloid press will undoubtedly come up with metaphoric comparisons to show just how big 10 billion is. I’m going to beat them to it… If you could send a tweet every second, 24-hours per day, it’d take you more than 317 years to submit the same number of messages. You’d be bored within 10 minutes, dead…

  • Windows 7 Sells 90 Million Copies

    Craig Buckler
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:58 am
    Microsoft have reported that sales of Windows 7 have reached 90 million copies just 6 months after the new OS was launched to the public on October 22 2009. The sales figures are more than double those of Vista throughout a similar period. Perhaps that’s not surprising: Vista obtained a bad reputation from day one and never recovered. Windows 7 is not a huge technical leap beyond Vista and many have dubbed it little more than a service pack. However, the new OS received positive reviews from the start and people perceive that it’s a vast improvement. That’s marketing for…

  • Microsoft Fix Their Non-Random Browser Choice Screen

    Craig Buckler
    6 Mar 2010 | 10:13 am
    Here’s an interesting mathematics and computer science question: how random is Microsoft’s new EU browser choice screen? It’s not, according to several statistical analysis articles published during the past week. IBM engineer Rob Weir has produced one of the better reports about the browser ordering on browserchoice.eu. The non-randomness is quite complex and it didn’t necessarily favor Internet Explorer; IE appeared last half the time and Chrome was more likely to appear in the first 3 positions. Bringing Chaos from Order Generating random numbers on a digital device…

  • Microsoft Accuse Google of Anti-Competitive Practices

    Craig Buckler
    3 Mar 2010 | 12:49 am
    Yes, you did read the title correctly. Dave Heiner, Microsoft Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, has posted an official blog post following Google’s suggestion that the EU antitrust inquiry was instigated by companies with business connections to Microsoft. Google’s public response to this growing regulatory concern has been to point elsewhere — at Microsoft. Google is telling reporters that antitrust concerns about search are not real because some of the complaints come from one of its last remaining search competitors. It’s worth asking whether Google’s…

  • The European Browser Vote Starts Today!

    Craig Buckler
    1 Mar 2010 | 2:44 am
    Microsoft launch their “Browser Choice” update today. All European Windows XP, Vista and 7 users with Internet Explorer set as their default browser will receive an automatic update offering a choice from: Microsoft IE8 (Trident rendering engine) Mozilla Firefox (Gecko) Google Chrome (Webkit) Apple Safari (Webkit) Opera (Presto) Avant (Trident) Flock (Gecko) GreenBrowser (Trident) K-meleon (Gecko) Maxthon (Trident) Sleipnir (switchable between Trident and Gecko) Slim (Trident) If you’re concerned this will radically increase your browser testing regime — don’t…
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  • The Dyson DC25: Powerful But….

    Mark Evans
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:31 am
    As some of you may know, I take an odd pleasure in vacuuming. In any event, the fine folks at Strategic Objectives have been nice enough to let me play with some Dyson vacuums in recent months. The most recent trial was the DC25 Animal. After a healthy two-week trial, the DC25 Animal is a powerful machine that living up to the Dyson reputation by sucking up dirt like you wouldn’t believe. But in many ways, it’s oddly flawed. In particular, the hand-held tool isn’t user-friendly because it’s difficult to get into action, which discourages it from being used. The DC25 also comes with a…

  • Not a User But Fascinated by Foursquare

    Mark Evans
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:40 pm
    Like any good-standing member of the digit-rati, I’m bedazzled by new and shiny services. Blogs had their day in the spotlight, but now they’re un-sexy; Facebook was cool until everyone and their parents climbed on the bandwagon; and Twitter is suffering from being the most over-hyped Web 2.0 service ever. This takes us to Foursquare. Unlike blogs, Facebook and Twitter, I’m not a Foursquare user and I don’t see that changing. Simply put, broadcasting my location has little appeal because the benefits aren’t compelling. That said, I am fascinating with Foursquare.

  • A Commentary About Blog Comment Systems

    Mark Evans
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:59 am
    A few of you might have noticed that I recently switched blog comment systems – moving to Echo from IntenseDebate. The switch was mostly prompted by my frustration with IntenseDebate’s administrative features, particularly the inability to deal with spam on a volume/bulk basis as opposed to individually or groups of 10 at a time. Having used Disqus at Twitterrati, I went looking for another comment system to see if there was another good option. After a bit of research, I came across Echo, which appeared to have many of the necessary features. I particularly liked how Echo would…

  • Where Are Canada’s Tech Bloggers?

    Mark Evans
    10 Mar 2010 | 4:02 am
    Canada has a vibrant high-tech economy so it seems strange that there are so few Canadian bloggers actively writing what’s going on. By active, I mean people writing blog posts a couple to a several times a week about Canadian and non-Canadian tech news. There’s StartupNorth, TechVibes, Telecom Trends, Steve Hodson and myself. But where’s everyone else? I know they’re out there because once in awhile you run across a blog with great content. The problem is they’re difficult to find because Canada lacks a good blog directory. This makes it challenging to find any…

  • The New Akoha is Unveiled

    Mark Evans
    9 Mar 2010 | 5:59 am
    One of the major challenges facing many start-ups is what to do when their initial idea doesn’t work as well as expected. It’s difficult to recalibrate strategically once you have headed far down a particular path. Many startups simply can’t recover after investing so much time and effort. For Akoha (a client), this was a reality it had to tackle. Launched at TechCrunch50 in late-2008, Akoha was a social game that used “mission cards” to do good things for other people and your community. Akoha users completed thousands of missions in more than 65 countries but…
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  • Telus says it will sell tablets, the iPad as well?

    Murad H
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Canada’s third-largest mobile telecom today confirmed the company will further diversify its product line by offering tablet computers. The confirmation came from David Fuller, the VP of product marketing today. The comments raise speculation as to whether Telus will offer the Apple iPad. The iPad is slated for an April 3rd U.S. launch, with the device being available in Canada by the end of the same month, according to Apple. Mr. Fuller confirmed the iPad is in fact compatible on the new Telus network, but did not further elaborate. We can confirm Microsoft Corporation is working on its…

  • BMW fiscal 2009 profits and sales down, expects rebound in sales

    Peggy
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:33 am
    BMW Inc. today announced full year 2009 earnings, reporting significant declines in net profit and total sales. The company said net profit was EUR 210-million, down 36.36-percent from EUR 330-million in fiscal 2008. Operating income before taxes was up to EUR 413-million, 18-percent up from 2008. BMW said it sold 1.28-million vehicles in 2009, a sharp drop of over 12-percent from 2008 as people shifted to smaller, less luxurious and more affordably priced vehicles because of the financial and credit crunch. BMW chairman Norbert Reithofer said today the company plans “to increase sales…

  • Sony confirms 3D TVs June Japan launch

    ramy
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:44 pm
    Sony Corporation today confirmed it would begin selling 3D televisions starting June 10, 2010 starting in Japan. The company will later offer the 3D capable televisions in other countries but failed to specify when. Manufacturers are hoping to capitalize on the recent explosion of 3D content, such as the hugely successful movie “Avatar” directed by James Cameron, which has now become the highest grossing movie in history. Sony will offer up to eight 3D BRAVIA models (with 3 series, the LX900, HX800, HX900), with the LX900 series being offered first starting June 10. The other two series…

  • Microsoft redesigns MSN, Bing search market share up

    ramy
    9 Mar 2010 | 4:53 pm
    Microsoft Corporation today launched a redesign of its popular Internet portal MSN.com. The company has updated the site with a far more simple and clean design, along with new social networking features that display information from various social networks you set up such as Facebook and Twitter. A new featured called TrendWatch was also implemented, which essentially scans Twitter for local news content. The company has also now implemented full Facebook support. Microsoft has also made Bing search more visible, hoping more people will use Bing to search for online content. Microsoft is…

  • Bank of Nova Scotia reports record quarterly Q1 profits

    Peggy
    9 Mar 2010 | 4:25 pm
    Scotiabank reports record quarterly profits as credit losses materially decline Canada’s third-largest Bank, the Bank of Nova Scotia, reported today first quarter 2010 earnings, beating analyst expectations. The bank earned just under $4-billion in total revenue for Q1, reporting $988-million ($0.91 per share) in total profits for the period, compared to $842-million net income in the same period last year. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting $3.8-billion in total revenue and profits of $0.88 on a per share basis. The increase in profits is attributable to an increase in…
 
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  • TEDx Edmonton Live Blog

    13 Mar 2010 | 8:36 am
    We will be live blogging the TEDx Conference from Edmonton today here on TechVibes and at TEDxEdmonton's site. To watch live click this link. The event starts at 10:00 AM (MST).

  • What everyone ought to know about Jaclyn Konzelmann

    12 Mar 2010 | 8:48 pm
    Jaclyn Konzellman's been hard at work. Most people would consider fourth-year Mechanical Engineering hard enough, especially if it was under the auspices of as competitive an institution as the University of Waterloo, but in-between work and university life she's managed to squeeze in a little bit of time for a few remarkable achievements. She recently planned and organized the TEDxWaterloo conference, for which she headed a team of nine socialpreneurs, and she also found some time to slip into the recent Ignite Waterloo conference held last week in Waterloo and deliver one of the event's…

  • Trade Commissioner Service presents Insights from the Silicon Valley

    12 Mar 2010 | 3:16 pm
    On March 22nd, the Canada Trade Commissioner Service is hosting the first of a new speaker series called Insights from the Silicon Valley in Vancouver. In their inaugural presentation, Clint Chao of Formative Ventures will talk about Building Revenue and Market Mindshare from the Ground Up. Clint Chao is a founding general partner at Formative Ventures. Clint invests in emerging technologies start-ups in areas, most recently focusing on web infrastructure and services. Clint is an experienced technology executive who brings more than 20 years of start-up operating experience including…

  • Doritos viral campaign continues

    12 Mar 2010 | 2:54 pm
    Almost a month ago to the day Doritos launched its a nation-wide initiative that asks Canadians to name the newest Doritos unidentified flavour. However, this is not just any initiative.  There is $250,000 at stake.  As many of you may know by now, Doritos is asking Canadians to create a video that has the potential to go viral.  The video with the most "viralocity" has the chance to win the jackpot.  There will also be random prizes for over 300 contestants as well. Tony Matta is the Vice President of Marketing at Frito Lay Canada: At Doritos, we're constantly looking for…

  • Chevrolet at #SXSW to unveil industry leading technologies

    12 Mar 2010 | 2:42 pm
    What is Chevrolet doing at South by Southwest (#sxsw)?  They're not showing off their new 2020 concept cars.  The music, film and interactive conference in Austin, Texas will be introduced to three emerging technologies that Chevrolet is looking to promote and test:  location-based social networking, quick response codes, and augmented reality. Jim Campbell is the Chevrolet general manager: For Chevrolet, South by Southwest provides an invaluable opportunity to learn how best to communicate with customers in by leveraging these technologies.  Location-based social…
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  • Michael Webb aka Michael Moto is a happy man!

    w3w3.com
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:48 am
    802_ 3/8/10 - Some high growth areas throughout Asia Looking at 2009 and going forward - Michael Webb, founder of Michael Moto said "Like everyone we've been hit by the sluggish economy but we are actually picking up very, very well. We reported a profit for 2009, and a lot of that was through our operations in Japan. As you know the Yen to Dollar valuation, with the Yen being pegged about 90 yen to the dollar, has really changed the balance of trade that's going there. So for someone in Japan to buy from the U.S., their currency has never been stronger. Looking to the future,…

  • Disney buys Kerpoof, NCWIT Hero big winner!

    w3w3.com
    10 Mar 2010 | 6:38 am
    801_ 3/8/10 - Grant leads to a sale to Disney Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, and ITP present Krista Marks, Kerpoof as their featured entrepreneur in the Entrepreneurs Unplugged program. Krista Marks is the General Manager of Disney Online Kerpoof Studios. Prior to the acquisition by the Disney Interactive Media Group in July 2008, Krista was the CEO and Co-Founder of Kerpoof. With Kerpoof.com, and now Disney.com/Create, Kerpoof Studios has delivered the Internet's premier creativity platforms for children of all ages, platforms praised by press, educators, parents, and kids worldwide. Krista…

  • Celebration of Women 3/18/10 - Boulder CO

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    9 Mar 2010 | 6:50 am
    803_ 3/8/10 - Networking in these economic times The first piece of advice Bonni Doherty offers in these challenging times you want to be focused first, on your health, believe it or not. When you go out to present to a company, presenting yourself, company or service, you want to look and feel your best. If you exercise, mediate, do yoga, eat right you're going to naturally feel more relaxed and shine. Bonni Doherty is the 2009 BPW Young Careerist Winner. Bonni's been involved in health care for 15 years now and within in BPW and the promotion of legislative issues as it relates to…

  • Communications Executive of the Year

    w3w3.com
    8 Mar 2010 | 6:24 am
    804_ 3/8/10 - We're looking at an environment of chaos today  Learn some insights from a seasoned-pro. Stephanie Burnham, Vice President, CTP (Communications Technology Professionals) joins Larry in this pre-award interview with David Leonard, CTP's 2009 Executive of the Year. This is the tenth annual CEY celebration and Stephanie is anxious to share David Leonard's exemplary career accomplishments with our listeners and the many reasons he has been selected to receive this prestigious award. Recently David negotiated the sale of WildBlue to ViaSat. Stephanie asked, "Can…

  • Denver Karma - University of Denver

    w3w3.com
    5 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
    798_ The project began as a Community Capital Project 3/5/10 - Colorado nonprofits employ 123,000 full-time employees and utilize 83,000 full-time volunteers. The nonprofit sector is the 3rd largest industry in Colorado. Colorado generated $13.1 billion in revenue and spent $11.9 billion. As well as metro Denver ranking 10th of the largest 50 cities in the number of nonprofits per capital. Blair Taylor and Adam Post joined Larry Nelson to talk about an organization they cofounded along with Kristin Reid, called Denver Karma. They were attending the University of Denver. The project began as a…
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  • March New Tech Meetup – Boulder

    admin
    8 Mar 2010 | 1:48 pm
    New Tech Meetup in Boulder began with a discussion of the possibility of bringing Google’s pilot fiber network to Boulder. The City of Boulder plans to submit the required technical and factual information required in the RFI but community interest and submissions also represent an important piece of the response. Those interested in [...]

  • HepQuant Licenses CU Technology

    admin
    2 Mar 2010 | 3:35 pm
    HepQuant LLC and The University of Colorado have completed a licensing agreement that allows HepQuant to continue development of a CU diagnostic technology for evaluating liver disease. The Colorado-based company originally licensed the technology in 2008 when it also received a $100,000 seed grant from the CU Technology Transfer Office. The underlying technology [...]

  • The Week Ahead: Mar 1 – Mar 8

    admin
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:56 am
    The week is a busy one from the clean tech perspective kicking off with a DaVinci Institute program featuring Blake Jones, President of Namaste Solar. Tuesday through Thursday sees CORE’s Sustainable Opportunity Summit at the Colorado Convention Center. Tuesday sees a Boulder edition of New Tech Meetup while Wednesday offers a lunchtime [...]

  • CBSA Panel Discusses Medical Device Approval Process

    admin
    25 Feb 2010 | 1:51 pm
    CBSA’s BioBreakfast on Wednesday discussed the FDA approval process from a Medical Device Perspective. The panel discussion focused on the changing rules and attitudes that could affect medical device approval moving forward. Panelists at the event were: Mark Holmes, CaridianBCT, VP of Regulatory and Government Affairs Keith Martin, Medtronic Navigation, Senior Director Quality Systems and [...]

  • The Week Ahead: Feb 22 – Mar 1

    admin
    22 Feb 2010 | 10:02 am
    Entrepreneurs Unplugged returns to kick off the week featuring Krista Marks, CEO and co-founder of Kerpoof. Tuesday offers a Colorado Clean Tech Initiative while Wednesday morning brings a CBSA Biobreakfast. Wednesday also offers a discussion of Patent Law for Entrepreneurs offered by the Rockies Venture Club. Another clean tech event is on [...]
 
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  • CitySourced app finally launches in L.A., aiming to help city clean up graffiti and potholes

    Mark Milian
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:35 am
    A lot has happened since the Los Angeles start-up FreedomSpeaks made a splash in September with its CitySourced mobile application, a finalist at the annual TechCrunch 50 competition. The app enables anyone with an iPhone to snap a picture of graffiti, potholes or unsightly trash around town, tag it with a GPS location and transmit the data to the city. The app has been available in San Jose for months, but in talks with L.A., the founders were running in water. With frequent meetings about budget cuts, the city wasn't looking to spend any cash on relatively untested software. But…

  • How drunk is SXSW? Follow the tweeting breathalyzer

    Mark Milian
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:35 pm
    Combine a mass of Internet-obsessed geeks and alcohol, and what do you get? Aside from some very awkward social situations, the natural offspring is a Twitter-enabled breathalyzer project. The hyper-plugged-in crowd that frequents the annual South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, makes no reservations about what it will tell the world. These are the target consumers for Foursquare, a system for telling friends where you are at any given moment, and for a bathroom scale that blabs about your weight to the world on Twitter. On the first day of the conference, Danny…

  • Apple awards executive Tim Cook 75,000 stock options for navigating without Jobs

    David Sarno
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:01 pm
    Apple Inc. awarded its Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook a bonus of $5 million in cash and 75,000 stock options Friday for leading the company when its celebrity chief executive, Steve Jobs, was on medical leave.At today's prices, the stock would be worth just shy of $17 million.  Half of the shares will vest in March 2011, and the rest a year after that, according to regulatory filings.Apple's stock has been steadily rising for more than a year, more than doubling from its January 2009 price of $90 to its current value of $226 per share.  Cook oversaw the company during…

  • It's time to set the clock, but where's the manual?

    Don Reisinger
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm
    There are two reasons why I can't stand Daylight Saving Time: I'm a gadget lover and I have a big family. Let me walk you through my typical Daylight Saving day. I wake up and realize that the first order of business is to change the time on all the gadgets around the house. As a gadget lover, I own a slew of devices. It's unfortunate. Last year, I'm willing to bet that it took me about an hour (maybe two) to change the time on all those products. It was awful.Once I complete that task, I feel accomplished. I sit down and start relaxing as I prepare for another lazy Sunday.

  • In tough remarks on Google, China gives no evidence that accord is near

    David Sarno
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:55 pm
    Chinese Internet official Li Yizhong. Credit: Vincent Thian / AP A top official in China further stoked the flames of the nation's dispute with Google on Friday when he said that if the search giant didn't follow its laws, it "will have to pay the consequences." Li Yizhong, China's minister of industry and information technology, offered no new information on the status of the country's negotiations with Google, according to the Associated Press. Though Google hinted this week that an accord may be nearing over how the company will continue doing business there, the tenor of Li's comments…
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  • Finally, Breakthrough Technology That’s Positive & Negative, But Way More Positive

    samspear
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:31 am
    Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a concept vehicle that runs on power conveyed by magnets from underground lines. And this one charges the electric motor on the fly, of course without relying on a drop of gas. The Story: Magnets. It runs using magnets. Magnets buried under the ground that have a blue line painted on the pavement above, so that when the tram follows that line, the magnets recharge the electric motor located inside the vehicle. A vehicle which just so happens to be a trolley train of three or four open cars (depending on the day) at the Seoul Grand Park, a zoo and…

  • The First Baseball Shirt Ever With A Built-In Pitching Coach And Trainer

    samspear
    8 Mar 2010 | 12:11 am
    Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s an athletic shirt that logs data based on the body’s movement. Specifically, it monitors a baseball pitcher’s motion and mechanics and indicates to others if the pitcher is tiring, or even provoking injury. The Story: Elbow injuries suffered by pitchers in Major League Baseball occur frequently and result in tens of millions of dollars in losses each season, representing the money that must be paid in salaries to pitchers who cannot perform due to injury. To address this issue, three Northeastern University engineering students have…

  • Going Mute On A Cellphone, And Yet, Still Being Heard

    samspear
    4 Mar 2010 | 12:03 am
    Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s technology that enables you to speak silently on your mobile phone and having the other person on the other end of your call understand what you’re saying. The Story: How many times have you wanted to jump on your cell phone to make a call, but thought it might not be advisable in a particular venue — like a movie theater, or a public bathroom stall? Well, some researchers at the Institute for Anthropomatics at The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a technology that enables people to speak soundlessly and still to be…

  • Carrying A Very Nice Amount Of Power On Your Back

    samspear
    2 Mar 2010 | 11:46 pm
    Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a portable hydroelectric generator that can be carried like a backpack. The Story: Bourne Energy, a company based in Malibu, California, creates hydropower systems. Though the majority of its technology has been geared for large-scale operations, with multiple units generating energy on the megawatt scale, the company recently unveiled a hydroelectric generator that can generate 500 watts of power from a running stream, and can be thrown over the user’s shoulder like a 30 pound backpack. It’s actually not like a 30 pound backpack, the…

  • Wanna Interact A Little Better With That Small Touchscreen On Your Phone Or Electronic Device? Just Gimme Some Skin

    samspear
    1 Mar 2010 | 11:00 pm
    Why it’s Breakthrough: It’s a touchscreen that gets projected onto your skin so that you can interact with your phone or other small electronic device without struggling to make out the words on the small screen. The Story: Who knew tapping on the skin of your hands and arm could send readable signals to electronic devices? Some researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research Labs, that’s who. The breakthrough is called Skinput, and it could change the way we interact with those small touchscreen devices. Skinput’s researchers have shown that it can…
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  • ‘Diggnation’ @ SXSW: A New Breed of Rock Stars

    Marc Hustvedt
    14 Mar 2010 | 11:29 am
    If there was any ever doubt that a web series—without any moonlighting Hollywood celebrities or TV network backing—could galvanize throngs of faithful fans into a live rock concert adoration, well, it ended last night at SXSW. Before a sold out crowd of over 2,200 at Stubbs BBQ one of Austin’s legendary outdoor concert stages, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht took a page out of the rock star playbook at the live Diggnation taping Saturday night. The spiked hair and fire breathing magic skills of Scam School’s Brian Brushwood primed the crowd, in an opening act that probably could…

  • IAWTV Screening Reaches Beyond Two Coasts

    Jenni Powell
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:37 pm
    In a constant effort to promote Streamy-nominated content to the public and members of the voting body of the International Academy of Web Televison, the IAWTV hosted bi-coastal Streamy Awards finalist screenings on March 11th, 2010. The events took place in New York and Los Angeles (the LA screening was also streamed live via Stickam) and included clips from nominees in the 11 overall Streamy Awards categories and a presentation of various new media professionals and creators. Held at NYU’s Cantor Film Center and supported by NYU Tisch School of The Arts, The Writers Guild of America…

  • Louisiana Plays Host to Superheroes in ‘Infamous’

    Jenni Powell
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:48 am
    Inspired by the Playstation video game of the same name, Infamous shows us a world where everyday people have the regular occurance of having to deal with the fact that they are suddenly shooting lightning out of their body or hearing someone’s thoughts. A world where anyone can suddenly find themselves with superpowers and have the tough decision of whether to use their abilities for either good or evil…or sometimes a little of both. “[Co-creator] Greg [Washington] and I are both avid comic book readers,” said co-creator Joey Barto. “So, the story is kind of an…

  • MySpace and Endemol Hitch Up For More ‘Married on MySpace’

    Jenni Powell
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:25 pm
    With over 15 million views, season 1 of Married on MySpace is the most watched web series MySpace has ever produced, according to numbers from the company. Endemol USA and MySpace are hoping to match and perhaps even surpass that success by bringing the popular, fan-driven show back for a second season. The season premiered this week with the unveiling of this seasons couple, Graeham and Dehlia, as they begin their journey to the alter…and they are at the mercy of the viewers to choose every aspect of the ceremony. The audience is currently being asked to vote on the what wedding bands…

  • ‘Tyranny’ Premieres, 14 Cities in One Global Web Thriller

    Jonathan Hludzinski
    11 Mar 2010 | 8:40 am
    From the trailer you get the idea that Tyranny is a distant relative of 70’s American thrillers, where corporations rule the world and your mind. From the three episodes I’ve screened, I was convinced it was another dystopic, post-apocalyptic thriller. Dystopia, I know, but I think timing wise, this is more pre-apocalypse. At any rate this series from creator John Beck Hofman is gripping while still competently executed for its scope. Hofman plays Daniel McCarthy who in 1999 volunteers for a Berkley Grad student’s experiment that records his every thought and action throughout the day.
 
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    Free Computer Answers Online

  • How Email Works

    9 Mar 2010 | 9:30 pm
    E-Mail is short for "electronic mail" and is the most widely used tool on the Internet. It is, in fact, the universal medium. Almost everyone traveling on the Web has a private Inbox these days and most people who have an email address use it regularly to commute with others.One of the few things that hasn't changed much on the Web (and probably won't change in the near future) is the simplicity of using email. Sending a message to someone is one of the easiest things you can do online. Replying to an email is even easier.Let's explore the basics of how email works.Electronic mail is a truly…

  • 10 Most Popular Uses of the Internet

    9 Mar 2010 | 2:53 pm
    If you are new to the Internet or just have trouble figuring out just what you would use the Internet for besides sending emails here is a nice list of some things you can use the Internet for.The main attraction of the Internet is access to information. If you are looking for information on just about anything under the sun, you will probably find it somewhere online. Finding a specific tidbit of information can be rather daunting at times because there are literally millions of places and documents to search. In a future lesson we will explore practical tips and shortcuts that you can use…

  • 5 Computer Magazines Everyone Should Subscribe To

    9 Mar 2010 | 12:36 pm
    If you are a computer wizard, you already know more about this than the rest of the world. You can probably write interesting articles for a computer magazine. Even then, there are magazines you should still have magazine subscriptions for, if you want to stay updated on things that are going on in the wired world.Perhaps the most well known tech magazine that focuses largely on the computer is the Wired. It provides an in depth view of technology and how it affects our lifestyle, culture, communications and life in general. While doing that, it also provides some delicious tidbits about…

  • How to Securely Connect to a Public Wireless Network

    25 Sep 2009 | 5:23 pm
    Wireless hotspots are getting much more popular. There are locations in Starbucks, Panera Bread, Wal-Mart and more. You can connect to a public access point to get a fast Internet connection while you are away from home. Sometimes the access is free and other times you have to pay a fee. Many hotels, airports and stores provide hotspots.Most public hotspots and wireless access points don't require password and don't use any encryption or security. This means your data is unprotected an easily available to a reasonable knowledgeable hacker.Whether you are connecting to a wireless access point…

  • How to Use Search Engines

    20 Sep 2009 | 6:00 pm
    The Internet is a vast and growing place that can sometimes we overwhelming. Where do I start? What do I use it for? I will try to give you some ideas of what you can do once you have access to the Internet. This lesson will be on search engines - what they are and how to use them.Using Search EnginesWhat is a search engine?A search engine is a website that collects information from all over the Internet including information from:websitesblogsimagesvideosWhat are some search engine I can use?Search engines are changing continually as people add things to the Web. Each search engine gives you…
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    IndianWeb2.com - Web 2.0 and Technology Startup News and Reviews

  • Gmail brings Contextual Gadget for Intelligent Links Preview

    Vardaan
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:53 pm
    At recent Google’s own event Campfire Gmail has announced Gmail contextual gadget are available, currently in labs for Gmail users and also announced to soon open Gmail contextual gadgets as a new extension point for developers. These gadgets will smartly fetch information from the web and based on the content of an email message users can perform relevant actions  without leaving the Gmail inbox. Currently, one can see it in action by enabling the Gmail Contextual gadget in labs tabs under setting of all gmail accounts, theafter if anyone send you a youtube link or picassa album link…

  • Paypal to Resume Bank Withdrawals in India from 3rd March

    Vardaan
    26 Feb 2010 | 11:20 pm
    In a recent update from Paypal it will resume the much anticipated Indian bank withdrawals for plenty of businesses who uses Paypal for their services and goods from 3rd March’10 onwards. Noticeably Reserver Bank of India (RBI) has allowed Paypal to continue local bank withdrawals after Paypal made changes on how to move money to India as per Indian regulations for foreign inward remittance. Apparently on March 1st will get the needful instructions from Indian regulatory bodies and most probably from March 3rd 2010 Paypal India users can withdraw their money to their Indian bank…

  • Yahoo & Microsoft Begins Search Alliance (against Google)

    Vardaan
    19 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am
    In a major step towards the alliance of two big internet companies – Microsoft & Yahoo, they announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal and the deal which is considered as more of united alliance of two major competitors of Google so as to consolidate their resource as one and start work to give real tough fight to Google. Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the…

  • Google Brings Magical Goggle to Search the Web

    Vardaan
    18 Feb 2010 | 10:43 am
    Imagine a situation – you are seeing a thing that you don’t know anything about, say for example a restaurant menu in some foreign language or a historical monument but you know very little about it or a painting and you can’t even search it on Google because you can’t describe it in words than you think there needs to be a device which instantly get you all the information you need just in time when you seeing it. It might be very futuristic like that of a sci-fi movie but Google Goggle is a new app (although a prototype) that lets you use pictures taken with your…

  • Now Sify to Offer Cloud Storage Services

    Vardaan
    17 Feb 2010 | 10:57 am
    Better late than never and thus Sify’s consumer Internet and Enterprise services in India announced launch of its SLA driven utility based On-Demand storage services and the platform is powered by Hitachi Data Systems. Sify offers a 99% availability guarantee on the storage system. The availability of Cloud storage services will affect the hosted services by the Sify itself however the Amazon S3 services competitive rates and trusted & used services and other old and trusted Cloud storage services is the main barrier to any new services in the same sector. however, the question is…
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    ChurchCrunch

  • Keeping People on Your Site: Apture Plugin

    John Saddington
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:31 am
    The goal of most websites is to make sure the visitor stays on their website instead of going somewhere else. The most obvious jump-off point are external links.Apture hopes to remedy that, or at least give an alternative and enables external links to now load contextually within the site. This includes both media (video and images) and text links:Looks pretty neat, and I’ve already seen it on a number of people’s blogs.There are also a number of plugins for most platforms for simple integration.I personally will not be using it but that shouldn’t stop you!Check it out if…

  • Ask 8BIT

    John Saddington
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:09 am
    It’s that time again.This is our weekly Q and A session with the 8BIT Team. You can ask us anything and one of us will hook you up with an answer in the coming week.Simple, right? Oh, and did we answer your question from last week? Let us know. We are powered by Media Temple.Want to Advertise Here? Contact Us!

  • Weekly Top Commenters

    John Saddington
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am
    The following are the peeps that have commented the most in the past week… or, they have too much free time on their hands…Puaha. Love you guys. Thanks for contributing to the conversations! Nick Shoemaker (31) Scott Magdalein (23) PhillipGibb (22) Josh Miles (17) David Knapp (16) brett barner (15) dannyjbixby (13) Brian Barela (11) Stephen Bateman (11) dewde (9)Word! We are powered by Media Temple.Want to Advertise Here? Contact Us!

  • How Scared Are You About Privacy Online?

    John Saddington
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:33 pm
    Serious question: Does all the stuff you share online make you nervous? How nervous?Check out this video from one perspective about Google: We are powered by Media Temple.Want to Advertise Here? Contact Us!

  • BibleTech:2010 – 2 Free Tickets!

    John Saddington
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:26 pm
    The mission of the 8BIT Network is to resource the Church with timely, relevant, practical and exceptionally valuable content, which makes partnering with BibleTech:2010 a no-brainer.This conference is going to rock for anybody in ministry that is taking the mission to the next level.  It’s such an exciting time for Bible Technology!  Web 2.0, Mobile, open source projects and APIs are opening doors and sparking creativity in the development of technology for Bible study.Want to know what’s in store for for the next generation of Bible technologies? What software and applications…
 
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    EurakAlert!: Tech

  • Tropical Storm Tomas approaching Nadi this weekend

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical Storm Tomas is on a southern track in the South Pacific Ocean, and residents of Nadi, Fiji will be watching it as it approaches the eastern side of the island late this weekend. A tropical cyclone alert is in effect for all of Fiji this weekend.

  • Carnegie Mellon researchers seek to control blood loss

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Carnegie Mellon University) Carnegie Mellon University's Matt Obedier is developing a new hydrosurgery system to help physicians better manage excessive bleeding during surgery.

  • Securities analysts' reports new technology slow adoption, warns study in INFORMS journal

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) The reluctance of securities analysts to recommend investment in veteran companies using new techniques to grapple with radical technological change may be harming these companies as they struggle to compete, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

  • NASA's Aqua Satellite shows strong convection in Tropical Storm Ului

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm Ului during the morning hours (Eastern Time) on March 12 and noticed a large area of strong convection in the storm's center, indicating strengthening.

  • The use of cover crops in vineyards can help control the yield and quality of grapes and wine

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    (Elhuyar Fundazioa) Correct management of soil and irrigation is a vital factor in modern viticulture, due to the influence of the water balance of the vineyard on wine quality and the environmental impact of agricultural practices on vineyard soils.
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    Christopher Kusek, Technology Evangelist

  • Yes Virginia there IS FAST for the DMX! (Think FAST DMX3 and DMX4!)

    Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
    15 Feb 2010 | 7:14 pm
    Today I sat down with some of our favorite Presidents, and St Valentines since he was free after his holiday was over.  And we decided to discuss what should be announced this week.    With the importance of these holidays in order and the fact that the Olympics are on – the only Olympic and Presidential decision we could come to conclusion on was… FAST for the DMX! Whoa, hold on there wait just one minute.   You said DMX4 AND the DMX3?!? Are you serious?!?! Why yes sweetheart! (yea I know you san admins LOVE to be called sweetheart :)) This does infact…

  • Cloud Camp Chicago 2010 – Mar 5th, 6th – Get your Cloud on!

    Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
    11 Feb 2010 | 10:49 pm
    That’s right! Cloud Camp is coming to Chicago!  What?! When?! Where? Who, whatomfg?!@? (And Yes, this is a FREE Event – Thanks to our sponsors who ponied up the cash! :)) Well, let’s lay out the details.. Yes, this is indeed the (un)conference Cloud Camp, which is ever so popular world wide! CloudCamp is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas. With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in…

  • Google’s new Slogan is “Don’t be innovative” #Buzz #Wave #Fail grin

    Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:03 pm
    Disclaimer: I like google, they’ve produced some amazing innovative things [IN THE PAST], but the past year or so has been a horrible game of Catch Up, as if they’re reading the newspapers about what’s been popular for a year and decide “Let’s make a knock off TJ Maxx version of something successful” and I’m sorry but it isn’t working! Hi Google, you may know me… I use your Analytics, I host email off of your gmail redirectors, I also take advantage of numerous apps as well! I feel it’s important that we discuss a number of… pursuits you’ve made in the most recent…

  • Putting my life on the line to improve another’s – Please RT and donate

    Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:25 am
    This is actually one of the most difficult blog posts I’ve had to write!   I guess to make it easy, I best start off with a little story. This last year in September I was given an opportunity to partake in something bigger than me – I applied myself and earned my place as part of a Team! What is this teams objective you might ask?   It was to partake in running the 2010 Boston Marathon in order to raise money for the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center.    As part of this initiative I signed on to raise $5000 to help children with…

  • Putting my life on the line to improve another’s – Please RT and donate

    Christopher Kusek (PKGuild)
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:23 am
    This is actually one of the most difficult blog posts I’ve had to write!   I guess to make it easy, I best start off with a little story. This last year in September I was given an opportunity to partake in something bigger than me – I applied myself and earned my place as part of a Team! What is this teams objective you might ask?   It was to partake in running the 2010 Boston Marathon in order to raise money for the Michael Carter Lisnow Respite Center.    As part of this initiative I signed on to raise $5000 to help children with…
 
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    Random Thoughts by Jim Gaudet

  • Remove WordPress Revisions and PostMeta

    Jim Gaudet
    9 Mar 2010 | 6:45 am
    Speeding up WordPressMore like cleaning up WordPress, but anyway. I see this code all the time and I use it,but I can see how some people may get confused by it. So I am going to try and tell you how to modify it for your own WP database.The code below is pretty simple, but you cannot just copy and paste for it to work. You will need to be using PHPMyAdmin which you normally get from your hosting provider. Once inside here find your database on the left hand side and look for your WordPress tables.Normally your tables will look something like wp_posts, but if you are a little more secure then…

  • Google Fiber – Think Big with a Gig

    Jim Gaudet
    3 Mar 2010 | 6:18 am
    1 Gigabit per SecondGoogle Fiber for CommunitiesGoogle is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.From now until March 26th, we’re asking…

  • Monitoring Tsunamis and Earthquakes

    Jim Gaudet
    27 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am
    Since I moved to Costa Rica I have been paying more attention to earthquakes, even ones that are not here. Early this morning an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile and now the US government has issued a tsunami warning to Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Antarctica.Monitoring TsunamisI already wrote about monitoring earthquakes and now I will tell you where you can monitor tsunamis, which happen when an earthquakes center is in the ocean.So if you heard there was an earthquake in the ocean and you want to know if a tsunami is on the way, just go here;NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning…

  • 0×800C012E, 5 – Outlook Express Could Not Be Started

    Jim Gaudet
    24 Feb 2010 | 7:20 pm
    Failed Google Searchesthe application was unable to open the outlook express mailbox store0×800C012E, 5 “outlook express could not be started”Outlook express could not be started login / startupI spent way too much time trying to find the answer for this little problem. Basically, if a user connects to a machine connected to a Windows domain but is not an administrator of that machine, you get this error message. It doesn’t really hurt anything, but just a PitA.Howto Fix Outlook Express Error: 0×800C012E, 5After finding out that the problem is related to Windows…

  • Ubuntu 9.10 Error: Initrd is too big

    Jim Gaudet
    20 Feb 2010 | 9:42 am
    Simple SolutionUnplug any external hard drives you may have and restart!HopingI hope Google takes care of this and makes this post number one. After installing Ubuntu 9.10 and working for a day with no problems I restarted (not the first time) and received the error;Initrd is too bigThat’s it, nothing else. So of course I went to Google on another machine to search for a solution that error. There are way too many of these errors for different versions of Linux so I trimmed the search by adding “Ubuntu 9.10” at the end of the search. Keeping the quotes that way tells G that…
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    by Ron Miller

  • Pink Floyd Turns Tables, Screws the Record Company

    Ron Miller
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:55 am
    Image via WikipediaIn a classic case of 'man bites dog,' Pink Floyd won a court ruling last week that its record label EMI could no longer sell individual digital songs as it violated a 1999 contract stating albums must sold intact. Read the full post on DaniWeb.

  • Google's Slow March Toward World Domination

    Ron Miller
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:16 am
    Google seems to develop new tools every week defying the stereotypes of the large, slow company, but with each new tool, it gathers more information about us and at some point, we have to consider if the trade-off is worth it.Read my full post on DaniWeb.Photo by Peter Kaminski on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License.

  • Five Reasons to Wait for the First iPad Refresh

    Ron Miller
    8 Mar 2010 | 5:03 am
    If you can delay gratification, you might want to wait for the first revision before pulling the trigger on buying an iPad. Chances are, Apple's going to improve it.Read my full post on DaniWeb.Photo by curiouslee on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License.

  • Why We Put Up With Facebook (and other technology)

    Ron Miller
    7 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAs I was driving around the other day, it occurred to me just how bad Facebook is, but we put up with it anyway. Then I realized this is pretty much true for all technology we use on a regular basis. Read my full post on DaniWeb.

  • Engadget Movie Shows Off Possible Microsoft "Digital Journal"

    Ron Miller
    6 Mar 2010 | 6:39 am
    The Microsoft Digital Journal rumors began surfacing last September. Engadget had some detailed pictures and a movie of what this machine might look like. To me, this is way too pen-driven, although that might appeal to a small market of people who prefer to interact with a device in this fashion. I remember back in the 90s seeing a presentation of pen interfaces and this feels a lot like what I saw 15 years ago.  Hard to separate fact from fiction here, but this movie gives you a sense of what this device might look like. Keep in mind nobody really knows whether this will ever see the…
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    Brad Grier

  • E-textbooks: The New Best-sellers [del.icio.us]

    bgrier
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:37 pm
    Many educators are pointing to Apple Computer's recently announced iPad as the prototype for an e-reader that will be able to hold all the textbooks a student needs. Its color touch-screen, interactive-video capability and virtual keyboard, they say, give it greater potential for textbook users than monochrome readers like Amazon's Kindle.

  • Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

    Brad Grier
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:27 pm
    I’ve written a lot about backing up your data over the years. But even though backups are important, somehow they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the priority list. ‘Something to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as priorities shift from inside activities to outside — yard cleanup, rediscovering local parks with the dogs, etc. But back to backups. The key to keeping your data safely backed up is to make your data backup process so simple you can forget about it, until you need it, of course. In the past I’ve written about…

  • Barnes & Noble Announces iPad App: Will Apple Really Let It Fly? [del.icio.us]

    bgrier
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:38 am
    The B&N eReader app is already available in the App Store for iPhone and iPod Touch, complete with its own micropayment system for buying books, but then, Apple doesn't have its own bookstore for that platform. Why would Barnes & Noble make this announcement, knowing full well that traditional Apple would smack it down immediately in the approval process?

  • Microsoft's Courier Is Already Doomed: A Simple iPad App Shows Why [del.icio.us]

    bgrier
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:36 am
    Now, PadNotes is not Courier. It's developed by a small software company (Tirpirneni software), and though it's clever, it's evidently a first-gen piece of code. But you know by the third gen, it'll be even more awesome.

  • Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

    Brad Grier
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:41 am
    Earlier this week OK Go parted ways with their record label in order to have more creative and publishing control over their music videos. Short version — EMI was not letting their videos be published through YouTube. Longer version and overview at FastCompany. Since that relationship has ended, the following link to the YouTube video of OK Go’s awesome ‘This too shall pass’ video is my simple way of supporting their move. Well done. Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video. from the blog of Brad Grier, a Canadian technology blogger, writer, and tech enthusiast. Like…
 
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    Skylarking

  • Lunchtime with Tony’s Pizza. Have One!

    Robert Saunders
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:11 am
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ve let it slip a few times how much I like pizza, but then again who doesn’t. It’s especially easy to eat here at my desk or watching a late-night video. Tony’s® Pizza contacted me and sent me some coupons. They asked me to try their pizza, on them, and asked that I tell you about it, and share the coupons. Now I’m enjoying Tony’s Pizza’s Cripsy Crust pepperoni pizza — I’ll have pictures of this up later — fresh from my oven. Only…

  • Failed Windows Update Installations (Office 2007)

    Robert Saunders
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:47 am
    Update (Thurs. 3/11. 12:18am) : As of late Wednesday evening the page for “Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB977724)” appears to have been “taken down” by Microsoft. No word — that I can find — as to why. Possibly related to an error mentioned in the reader comments for this article. Yesterday was Tuesday, and Tuesday is the day Microsoft typically issues the free Windows Updates to patch any security problems that have been discovered, fix flaws, remove malicious software (Windows Malicious Software Tool) and add new features. Four of the six…

  • Coupons to Save on Best Sellers at TigerDirect until March 13

    Robert Saunders
    4 Mar 2010 | 2:41 pm
    Oh, man, I hate including the number 13 in any of my headlines, but at least that date isn’t a Friday, it’s a Saturday. Small consolation. Here’s a list of some best selling items I’ve found at Tigerdirect.com. I’m uncluding coupon codes you can use at checkout to save even more on their already low prices. You can check out their special pricing for Skylarking readers here, or read on while I spotlight some of the hot items. SAVE $10 on an EVGA GeForce 9500 GT Video Card ($59 after using coupon code FEC1228 at checkout.) Do your computer games or video…

  • Make Money Online with the Shoemoney System

    Robert Saunders
    2 Mar 2010 | 2:02 pm
    One of the motivator’s behind my starting this blog is Jeremy Schoemaker, who more commonly goes by the name Shoemoney. Along with John Chow, Jeremy is considered one of the top earning bloggers on the Internet today. Since late January Jeremy has been offering a course — called the Shoemoney System — on the methods he uses to earn money on the Internet promoting other people’s products and services along with his own. I’ve signed on to a few of his programs over the past year and a half, and I’ve found his methods and expectations to be quite realistic and very,…

  • Computer generated lines on football broadcasts

    Robert Saunders
    26 Feb 2010 | 11:39 am
    I’ve often marvelled at the computer generated lines they draw across the fields in the football game broadcasts. Though not really expecting an answer, I’ve asked aloud during several broadcasts, “How do they do that? How do they draw those lines on the field.” Inevitably, the answer comes back, simply, “With computers.” Image from HowStuffWorks.com “I know that, but how do they do it. Look! The lines don’t even cross over the players, it actually appears underneath them as if it were actually on the field.” “I don’t…
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    Techworld

  • All aboard the Avatar Economy

    Rodney Gedda
    25 Feb 2010 | 9:19 pm
    Earlier this year I saw James Cameron’s Avatar. What is as impressive (perhaps even more so) as the movie is the rapid ascension of the Avatar Economy. read more

  • Facebook, PayPal tie up ad payments

    Rodney Gedda
    18 Feb 2010 | 9:29 pm
    PayPal announced today an alliance with Facebook to allow Facebook ads and credits to be purchased via a PayPal account. For small business advertisers this breaks down another wall between advertising and the ever-expanding Facebook membership. PayPal's local media relations agency made the announcement so I'm confident it will be available outside the US. That may seem obvious, but even Google Checkout isn't available here yet. From the media release: read more

  • Google goes for more markets: too much too quickly?

    Rodney Gedda
    10 Feb 2010 | 5:48 pm
    A month after Google’s Nexus One smartphone announcement the search giant has thrown itself into the social networking and ISP markets. Not to mention the talk about a Google tablet. read more

  • Talk about mobile computing

    Rodney Gedda
    2 Feb 2010 | 3:39 pm
    Last year I blogged about how Nokia’s N900 was a mobile device that had a lot of potential due to support for standards-based software. In the past week two N900 developments lend some weight to that claim. read more

  • iPad arrives: can Apple crack the tablet?

    Rodney Gedda
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:12 pm
    So after years of rumour and speculation Apple has finally released a tablet PC under the humorous name of iPad. The immediate question is whether the iPad should be placed in the same league as traditional tablet PCs. read more
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    GeekSugar

  • Party On: Happy Pi Day!

    GeekSugar
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Do you know what day it is? Mar. 14 is National Pi Day - not only does 3/14 correspond to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (3.1415926535. . .), but it gives us geeks another excuse to party! Are you in? I've got a few ways that you can commemorate the date by throwing your own Pi Day party at home. Find out more after the break.

  • Ask a Geek Girl: Apple Edition

    GeekSugar
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am
    Apple was just named number one in customer computer support, but sometimes calling support for small problems isn't the best way to spend your time. Recently, there have been a lot of questions in the Ask a Geek Girl group pertaining to Apple products. Here's a roundup of Apple-related advice from me and from you. If you have a question you'd like to have answered, ask me! Create a PopSugar Account or log in to your account. Then join the Ask a Geek Girl group where you can ask everything and anything related to technology. And you never know, it could be featured on GeekSugar! Here's a…

  • Name That Tune!

    GeekSugar
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Welcome back to Name That Tune - where you dig deep into your psyche and guess the title of a geeky vintage TV theme song. Can you guess what TV show this theme song is from? Javascript is needed to listen Take the quiz

  • Play Our Who's Geekier Game For a Chance to Win $500!

    GeekSugar
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:00 am
    We love our geeks on GeekSugar, which is why we are pitting some of our favorites against one another in a battle of gadget lovers and gurus. Play our Who's Geekier? challenge to see how geeky your favorite geeks are on the geek-o-meter - you may even win $500! What are you waiting for? Click on the picture below to start playing, and check out the fine print here.

  • iPhone App Icons Make a Break For Your Coffee Table

    GeekSugar
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    If you were stoked to see your iPhone apps move from your handset to your fridge, don't let the party stop there - migrate them from your fridge to your table with these iPhone App Icon Coasters ($39). But here's the deal: you get the entire set of 17 icons (like weather, camera, phone, maps, and Safari) for one price. Next time you have a bash at your place, you've got your table (and every other surface) covered from water damage. View 5 Photos ›
 
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    HomeBiss

  • Boost Mobile launches Sanyo Incognito, the affordable social media-friendly QWERTY flip smartphone

    Saidul A Shaari
    9 Mar 2010 | 11:20 am
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine. This is just a quick post to feature a brand new QWERTY flip smartphone recently launched by my current sponsor, Boost Mobile. If you are looking for an affordable smartphone that allows you to connect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my awesome blog for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Recognizr (Augmented Identity App, powered by Social Media) helps you identify freaking strangers with your smartphone

    Saidul A Shaari
    2 Mar 2010 | 6:14 am
    Do you know that we have a mobile application (comes with built-in face recognition software) that can help us identify strangers that we’ve met anywhere in the world simply by pointing our smartphones (must have cameras) at their faces? This is no longer the stuff of science fiction! We have it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my awesome blog for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 10 Essential and Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions for Bloggers

    Saidul A Shaari
    1 Mar 2010 | 10:39 am
    Are you using Google Chrome, the super fast web browser that many say faster than Mozilla Firefox? If you are using one and you also happen to be a blogger, come and see if you are using the right kind of Chrome Extensions on your Google Chrome web browser. Read on to find out. 10 Essential and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my awesome blog for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • More and more people wanted Mobile Computers instead of iPhone-like Media Phones, says Nokia

    Saidul A Shaari
    24 Feb 2010 | 11:09 am
    There was a poll conducted by Nokia last week and the poll results were just revealed earlier today and guess what, the results should give you a big surprise! That is if you’re a geek that all this while had been given the impression that Android-powered smartphones are the coolest mobile devices... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my awesome blog for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Celcom allows Celcom Broadband subscribers to ‘bypass throttling’ (but subscribers have to buy additional bandwidth volumes)!

    Saidul A Shaari
    24 Feb 2010 | 12:15 am
    Do you know that Celcom actually allows Celcom Broadband subscribers whose accounts have been throttled to ‘bypass throttling’ by letting them buy additional bandwidth volumes? Do you know how much money subscribers have to fork out to ‘bypass throttling’? Read on to find out. Celcom allows Celcom... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my awesome blog for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog

  • 3D TV shoot-out: Samsung’s LCD vs. Panasonic’s plasma

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:11 pm
    As you might know from our previous blogs, we’ve been testing the first new 3D TVs on the market—Samsung’s 46-inch 7000- and 8000-series LCD TVs with LED backlights and 240Hz technology, and Panasonic’s 50-inch VT-20 series 1080p plasma. We bought the Samsung 7000-series set at retail, and purchased the 8000-series model and Panasonic’s plasma as pre-retail samples directly from the company. For the purposes of our tests, we connected the TVs to each company’s new 3D Blu-ray player, and then switched them to see if the Samsung Blu-ray would work on the Panasonic TV, and vice…

  • 7 things you need to know about 3D TV

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:28 pm
    First tests of 3D TVs 3D TVs arrived in stores this week, and consumers have lots of questions. The big one, of course, is whether these new TVs can recreate the 3D excitement we’ve been getting in movie theaters in our own homes. Based on our exclusive tests of the first models available, the answer is a resounding “yes,” as our video demo clearly shows. Here are seven things you need to know about 3D: 1. It looks great. The results of our preliminary tests of two Samsung LCD sets and a Panasonic plasma TV have been impressive. The high-definition, 1080p images on these TVs have…

  • Casio's (not-so-light) Brigade phone

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:42 pm
    Casio BrigadePhoto: Verizon Wireless We've been waiting for Casio GʼzOne Brigade since December. Like other rugged phones from Casio and Samsung, the Brigade ($250 from Verizon after rebates and two-year contract), has a military spec case that's shock and water-resistant. But this is the first such phone we've seen built for texting. Cracking open the Brigade’s sideways-clamshell case reveals a keyboard that’s handy for texting, e-mailing and anything else that requires text input. You also find a 2.9-in., 400 X 240 display that supports up to 65,000 colors. Other phone…

  • Daily Dispatch: FCC apps for independent speed tests; Barnes & Noble on the iPad?

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:46 am
    Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below. FCC Releases Apps To Independently Test The Speed Of Wireless Networks (PaidContent.org) ...Essentially, the app clocks how long it takes to download and upload data to the phone. The release of the two apps come just days before the Commission is set to release its new national broadband plan on March 16, which will heavily stress the…

  • New to our cell-phone Ratings: A bruiser, an imposter, and two transformers

    Consumer Reports Electronics Blog
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:01 am
    T-Mobile Tap This eclectic new batch of phones, recently added to our cell phone Ratings, are conventional models, technically speaking, because they don't have the advanced e-mail and application capabilities of smart phones. But each of the notable models below enhance their usefulness with at least one extra feature: a hardened case for use in rough terrain, a keyboard to facilitate text messaging, or a touch screen for simple navigation and Web browsing. And, as the headline implies, they do it with style. Prices are with a two-year contract. Samsung Convoy ($70) Verizon This phone is…
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  • 5 Steps To Take When Writing Your Article

    Steitiyeh
    17 Feb 2010 | 5:01 am
    “How do you write your articles?” A question that I was asked various times and I thought that I had to write an article about it and share its answer with you guys. It’s very healthy for any blogger and her/his blog to set a certain criteria/routine of how they’re going to create content for their blogs. Personally I follow some steps in every article I write that I think are “a-must” for every article, there are other steps I do with some articles only. Before listing these steps or things I do, I would like to say that with time these steps turn into a habit. 1- Collect…

  • Difficulties I Am Facing As a Part-Time Blogger

    Steitiyeh
    16 Feb 2010 | 6:48 am
    As most of you know, I am planning to take my blog to the next level and generate full income from it or at least from my online presence/connections. I have to agree that in order to take it to the next level I need to dedicate time for it and commit and honestly this is appearing to be very difficult with my current situation, since I am a full-timer and sometimes I need to stay late at work and I have some other responsibilities alongside that as well. Having said all of this, I will still try hard and do my best to make it happen and quit my 9-5 job just for the sake of this blog! Being a…

  • Is Google Buzz going to buzz?

    Steitiyeh
    10 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am
    Last night the announcement and launch of Google Buzz buzzed the whole sphere on all levels. But the question is: “Is Google Buzz going to buzz on the long-term or it’s going to be a momentum and that’s it?” I personally have various concerns about Google Buzz specially that it still has not yet been added to my Gmail, which I think is a sin in launching any new product! Earlier last year Google launched Google Wave, which I personally considered as a one great collaboration tool and I have used it in different projects ever since. When Google first launched Wave, a lot of people…

  • What are you waiting for?

    Steitiyeh
    7 Feb 2010 | 5:59 am
    Social media and blogging in specific is becoming a must for everyone. Yeah, everyone should blog and use social media even if not for making money or any other professional use. An article that created a big buzz yesterday was that The Pope Benedict XVI had a message for priests of the Catholic Church: they must proclaim the gospel by not only having a website, but by blogging and utilizing new web communication tools. Everybody is expecting 2010 to be the year of social media and blogging on ALL levels! If you don’t own a blog, why don’t you start blogging right now? Don’t…

  • Let Your Readers Spread The Love

    Steitiyeh
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:20 am
    This is a guest post by James from TheInfoPreneur. You write new content for your site, because you want people to read it. You promote it as much as you can, but there is only so much one person can do and unless you are about to employ a whole team to spread your content and products for you, you need to let your readers do it for you; Buttons Everyone wants their latest post to go viral and be the new must see web page and the very best way to do this is to have buttons. Digg, Tweetmeme, Sexy Bookmarks all of the plugins and extremely easy to put into your site and make it astonishingly…
 
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  • It’s Time to Quit!

    Aaron
    11 Mar 2010 | 3:47 pm
    On March 17, I will quit blogging! Relax folks, I am not talking about myself. I am talking about veteran problogger Joel. For the last 10 years Joel has been blogging at JoelOnsoftware.com. Joel’s blog is regarded as one of the best blogs in the software industry. The main audience of the blog comprised of Software Developers. Joel was very successful in using his blog to launch his own software company Fog Creek Software. But after 10 years of blogging, Joel is ready to go offline! Joel claims that his blog has provided a very narrow channel to promote his company and its products. Joel…

  • Tips for Making the Best Profile Picture

    Aaron
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:00 pm
    In my last post, I provided some tips for selecting a good username on Twitter. In this post I will give you some tips to get your profile picture right. The tips in this post not only apply to Twitter but also for other Social Networks. Your profile picture is the first point of contact for a person who is interested in knowing more about you. Therefore, it is important that you give some thought into the selection of your profile picture. As a business owner you need to project the right image to your clients. Here are some of my tips for selecting a good profile picture. These tips are…

  • How to Choose a Good Twitter Username

    Aaron
    8 Mar 2010 | 4:47 pm
    As a business owner you may want to give some thought into the selection of your Twitter username. A good Twitter username can give you an advantage in marketing yourself or your business. When it comes to Twitter usernames you have the following 3 choices: 1. Use Your Real Name (example @RichardBranson) This is the best option for business owners who want to promote themselves directly. For example, if you are a real estate agent you may want to promote yourself to your local community. Using your real name is very effective on Social Networks because people are interested in making…

  • How Businesses can Make Money on Twitter

    Aaron
    5 Mar 2010 | 8:38 pm
    While Twitter as a company is not making any money, entrepreneurs and businesses can make money on Twitter in number of ways. Twitter is a very valuable tool to promote your brand, build relationships with clients and eventually make money by selling your products and services. So, how your business can make money on Twitter? Here are some of my thoughts. 1. Promoting Products and Services One of the most elementary methods to make money on Twitter is to promote your products and services. Deals and Contests are two techniques that you can use to promote your products on Twitter.  Make…

  • Flavors.Me – Consolidated your Social Media Services

    Aaron
    3 Mar 2010 | 4:25 pm
    Flavors.me is a simple site that pulls all your social media content into a single location. To use flavors.me you simply signup for an account and start importing your content from other services into flavors.me. The social media sites and services supported in flavors.me include Twitter, FaceBook, Tumblr, Posterous, Blogger, Wordpress, LinkedIn, GoodReads, NetFlix, last.fm, YouTube, flickr, Four Square, Etsy and your blog’s RSS feed. I like this service because it is very simple to use. Keeping track of a person across a number of social medial sites and services can be overwhelming.
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    GadgetLite

  • Weekly Roundup 13th Mar 2010

    Editorial Staff
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:25 am
    Video: Lenovo tablet netbook S10-3t or iPad? ASUS introduces new Cine5 PC speaker New Mio Moov V780 viliv S10 Blade: Swivel multi-touch tablet netbook HTC Legend Android phone reviewed Vodafone accused of supplying malware on HTC Magic Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t: Netbook equipped with touchscreen display Latest HP EliteBook 2540p rugged laptop Latest ASUS PL30JT laptop measures less than one inch thick Toshiba launches Satellite Pro T110 notebook Panasonic Toughbook C1: New Core i5 tablet PC Review: Wicked Lasers Evolution Pro laser pointer Hope everyone has had a good weekend so far, the above…

  • Video: Lenovo tablet netbook S10-3t or iPad?

    Editorial Staff
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am
    What makes the newly unveiled Lenovo S10-3t comparable to the Apple iPad is that it is like the T91 which means its a netbook but is also capable of transforming into a touchscreen tablet. What makes the S10-3t tempting (at least for Windows users) is that it runs on Windows 7 and most users will be happy to stick with software that they’ve been using on their home desktop. While on the other hand, going for an iPad would mean having to adapt to a new OS and the only source of apps being the App Store. In a way the iPad is less open source. However, as you will see in the below video,…

  • ASUS introduces new Cine5 PC speaker

    Ady
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:55 am
    If you were in the search for better PC speakers to replace the one’s at your desktop. Then you may find the recently released ASUS Cine5 PC speaker as one of the best options available. As per Asus, the compact speaker is the world’s first speaker to integrate accurate 5-channel output in such a small form factor. The ASUS Cine5 PC speaker has been designed for use in smaller rooms with lack of space such as study rooms. It delivers highly vibrant surround sound perfect for personal entertainment and gaming. Also, the speaker is the world’s first PC speaker equipped with the novel…

  • New Mio Moov V780

    Dwarka Rao
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:00 am
    GPS technology has surely qualified the way we travel. It not only lets you reach your destination without any difficulty, it saves a great share of your precious time. Mio Technology is very popular for its GPD devices and they are all set to introduce their brand new GPD navigator labeled as Mio Moov V780. And this latest GPS device by Mio Technology features some of the most advanced multimedia capabilities. V780 packs a wide 7 inch flat TFT LCD screen which also features touchscreen technology with a picture resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. This Mio GPS navigator is very fast as it runs on…

  • viliv S10 Blade: Swivel multi-touch tablet netbook

    Dwarka Rao
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:30 am
    S10 Blade is the newest launch by viliv which is actually an incredibly gorgeous convertible netbook. This swivel, multi-touch screen netbook runs on Windows 7 and lives up to its name as it possesses blade like sharp looks. viliv S10 Blade runs on 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor. But S10 is mainly expected to rule the markets because of its eye catchy looks and sleek design. This convertible netbook is an ideal example of power and portability. It weighs just 1.2kgs and measure 10.23(W) x 7.28(L) x 0.67~1.02(H). Yes, it is just 1 inch thick. The multi touch technology featured by viliv S10…
 
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  • Speed up Outlook 2007

    mediaslap
    4 Mar 2010 | 6:29 am
    My Outlook has been very slow starting up as of late. It’s also slow when switching between my mail and calendar functions.  This is crazy since I have a really fast computer. Today I found a way to really speed it up and I had to share. Follow these steps: 1. Open Outlook as an Administrator [...]

  • Bothersome Cell Calls Identified

    mediaslap
    3 Mar 2010 | 4:12 pm
    Ever have certain unwanted repeat callers on your cell phone? Perhaps a salesman, or even worse … a stalker? I just ran across a neat tip to identify these unwanted calls when they don’t have caller ID. Create a new contact in your cell phone address book and give it the name of DO [...]

  • New Patent Changes Social Media

    mediaslap
    26 Feb 2010 | 8:06 pm
    Facebook on Tuesday was awarded a patent for a social network news feed, setting the stage for a future battle with its social networking peers over similar technologies. The patent is specifically for “dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network” and effectively grants Facebook the opportunity to pursue other social networks [...]

  • Communicate with a New Generation

    mediaslap
    23 Feb 2010 | 8:54 am
       We have a whole new generation that prefers learning in a non-sequential, mosaic way. This new generation is influenced by media and the Internet and saturated with endless sound and video bytes. I have experienced this first hand in the lives of my own children. Their life is lived out in a big media bucket. [...]

  • Robot Teachers Invading Classrooms

    mediaslap
    22 Feb 2010 | 4:06 pm
    Robot teachers have been in the movies – how far off could it be for real? It looks like things may now be progressing faster than anyone thought. According to South Korea’s etnews, plans have been announced to invest in a "R-Learning" program that promises to put robotic teaching assistants [...]
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    Microsoft EMEA Press Releases

  • Microsoft at the European e-Skills Week, March 1-5

    8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    Jan Muehlfeit, chairman of Microsoft Europe and co-chair of the European e-Skills Association (EeSA), formerly known as the ILB, and EU e-Skills week ambassadors, will be discussing the importance of developing and implementing a long term e-skills and digital literacy agenda at European e-Skills Week.

  • Interoperability in action: Eye on Earth, the global environment observatory

    8 Mar 2010 | 2:30 am
    John Vassallo, vice president EU affairs associate general counsel, Microsoft Corp. discusses on how Microsoft’s online tool Eye on Earth works by combining environmental data with mapping technologies from different technology platforms.

  • Steve Ballmer’s speech on cloud computing, March 4th at 7pm CET

    3 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am
    Steve Ballmer will discuss how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology, in a speech on Microsoft and the cloud at the University of Washington in Seattle on March 4th at 7pm CET. Watch the speech live here. The transcript and images will also be available here, following the conference.

  • Embedded World – Microsoft showcases embedded innovation in Europe

    2 Mar 2010 | 8:30 am
    Heading to Embedded World this week (March 2–4) in Nuremberg, Germany, Lorraine Bardeen, group marketing manager for Windows Embedded Business EMEA, discusses Windows Embedded’s recent rollout of Windows 7 technologies to OEMs of specialized devices, highlights of the event and Microsoft’s commitment to the embedded market in EMEA.

  • Microsoft at CeBIT 2010, March 2-6

    1 Mar 2010 | 4:00 am
    Microsoft will exhibit at the event along with over 50 partners, offering attending media the opportunity to participate in a variety of press conferences and educational sessions on Microsoft technologies. CeBIT will have a strong focus on the themes of cloud computing, the new way of working and dynamic IT. Watch Achim Berg, Microsoft Germany deliver a live webcast on Connected Worlds by Microsoft at 1400hrs CET (Monday, March 1st), Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman Microsoft Europe, on e-Skills for the future competiveness of Europe (March 2nd). Kevin Turner, COO, on Consumer Electronics & Mobile…
 
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    The Gadget 411

  • PSN Network Down With a Glitch

    Admin
    1 Mar 2010 | 7:41 am
    Today according to Sony’s Twitter & Sony PlayStation Twitter.. The PSN Network has a glitch. Sony Reports Via Twitter that this problems is only effecting the PS3 Originals and not the Slimline Editions. Stay Updated by following us on twitter @TheGadget411 or@SonyPlayStation (*Check Out Snapshot Below*) Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Buzz up! Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Post this to MySpace Share this on Facebook Tweet This! Email this to a friend? Suggest this article to ToMuse…

  • Windows Phone 7 Series Impression

    Admin
    16 Feb 2010 | 4:49 pm
    Windows Mobile team has re-written its Windows Mobile OS with the 7 Series . For the geeks out there that was looking for a “Zune Phone” that’s basically what the user interface is based off of. Featuring different Hubs such as People,Pictures,Office,Games,Music & Video this hubs can be accessed through Dynamic  Tiles on the home-screen that updates  via online services such as Facebook & Windows Live. The Windows Phone 7 in my opinion is not a big competition For its competitors,  iPhone OS & Android OS. Let us Know what you think? Leave a comment! Share this…

  • Google Does Social Networking? (Video)

    Admin
    10 Feb 2010 | 3:37 pm
    If watched the video above you would know a little something about google new tool BUZZ. Google Buzz seems it was ment to take out the social networking world , such as Twitter / Facebook,  but i think its going to need some major work.  There is nothing special about google buzz that you cant do with Twitter and/or Facebook. We are just going to have to see where this one goes google. http://www.google.com/buzz Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Buzz up! Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Share this on Mixx Post this to…

  • JooJoo Tablet Ready to ship. Should iPad be worried?

    Admin
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:37 pm
    Another tablet has entered the competition for business. A few tablets on the market or soon will be are the Microsoft Courier & Apple iPad &  HP Slate . Should  they be worried? JooJoo tablet is in production and ready to be shipped on by the end of this month. Formley the CrunchPad the JooJoo will come loaded with , a 12.1? multi-touch capacitive display with native resolution of 1366 x 768, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 4GB SSD, front-facing camera, accelerometer, support for Flash. The support for flash really hurts the Apple iPad because as of now it does support flash at all.  Only thing…

  • Motorola DEVOUR, Verizon’s first phone with MOTOBLUR

    Admin
    3 Feb 2010 | 11:53 am
    Today, Motorola announced the Motorola  DEVOUR , Verizon’s first phone to have the MOTOBLUR capabilities. MOTOBLUR allows you social network addicts, to keep tabs on your friends’ posts, emails and messages from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more. This phone is set to release in March, Stay tuned for hands on review. Check out the Spec sheet below. Motorola DEVOUR™with MOTOBLUR Talk and Standby Time2 389min/443hours Bands/Modes 800/1900, CDMA EVDO rev A Weight 180g / 5.89 oz. Dimensions 61(x) x 115.5(y) x 15.42(z) mm Size 105 cc / 6.62 ci OS Android 1.6 Battery 1400 mAh…
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    YouTube: Technology

  • Bloom Energy's CEO talks technology, efficiency

    FreshDialogues
    23 Feb 2010 | 11:09 am
    Bloom Energy's CEO talks technology, efficiency In an exclusive Fresh Dialogues interview, Bloom Energy CEO, KR Sridhar answers the questions: Is Bloom Energy's fuel cell a zero pollution product? How is it a bridge to the future and how can it become the gas station of tomorrow? For a transcript of the full interview go to www.freshdialogues.com and click on the transcripts tab. Next week's video interview: Part II - Bloom Energy's road map, team, pricing and why KR thinks the company will become number one. Alison van Diggelen was one of the first journalists to be invited…

  • 3D Technology in 2010

    ROCKETBOOM
    12 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am
    3D Technology in 2010 rocketboom.com Click on the link above for more information about today's episode! Rocketboom Tech's Ellie Rountree explains the different types of 3D viewing technology. This episode was made in collaboration with Intel! For the latest updates, follow us on Twitter! twitter.com twitter.com twitter.comintel Join us on Facebook, too, for behind the scenes pics and photos! http From: ROCKETBOOM Views: 23754 566 ratings Time: 05:25 More in Science & Technology

  • 2000s Decade Recap - Business and Technology

    WatchMojo
    19 Dec 2009 | 9:39 am
    2000s Decade Recap - Business and Technology Starting out on a high, the financial problems didnt take long to surface. Meanwhile, the 2000s brought us Wikipedia, youtube, Facebook and Twitter, while Google began its quest to take over the world. Apples ipod and iphone swept the market, and breathed new life into the Apple brand. But who can forget the financial crises, fraud and incompetence that made headlines throughout the decade? Life savings and homes lost, companies failing and government bailouts became the reality in the 2000s. In this video, www.watchmojo.com reviews these and more…

  • Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of sixthsense technology

    TEDtalksDirector
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am
    Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of sixthsense technology www.ted.com At tedindia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his sixthsense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind sixthsense, to open its possibilities to all.tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

  • Skyla - Ayo Technology - Out Now

    SteveAATW
    17 Sep 2009 | 7:49 am
    Skyla - Ayo Technology - Out Now The brand new video from Skyla! You can get the track right now on itunes along with all the remixes - click here: itunes.apple.com From: SteveAATW Views: 1264917 2586 ratings Time: 03:25 More in Music
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  • Ragdoll Blaster 2 iPhone Video | Ragdoll Blasting Perfection!

    CM
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:30 am
    Title: Ragdoll Blaster 2 iPhone App, Cost: $2.99, Category: Games, Developer: Backflip Studios http://www.crazymikesapps.com

  • Mom Maps iPhone App | Locations For Mom’s Busy Lives

    CM
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:00 am
    As the iTunes App Store continues to grow app “specialization” continues to evolve. One such iPhone app is Mom Maps developed by Family Travel Tools. This iPhone app directly targets mothers (or Mr. Mom’s) with specific locations that parents would be interested in. Locations such as parks, museums, restaurants, etc are pre-populated for easy discovery while parents are mobile or planning their battle plan for the day. Mom Maps is very easy to use with the basic location categories as previously mentioned at your finger tips once you open the app. There is a settings icon…

  • MU iPhone App | Intense iPhone Card Game

    CM
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am
    Card lovers beware! MU iPhone app developed by Steve Blanding is definitely a “card players” game. This iPhone card game is a cross between, bridge, cribbage, and other trump card games I have played in the past. I had no idea how to play this game, but following the tutorial I played my first hand. By the end of the hand, I had a solid grasp on this game. Tons of replay value for this app. MU costs $2.99 and receives 4 CrazyMikes Head’s. CM Title: MU iPhone App, Cost: $2.99 , Category: Games, Developer: Steve Blanding

  • Gelex iPhone App Video | Schizophrenic Tetris Game

    CM
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:28 am
    Title: Logos Gelex iPhone App, Cost: FREE, Category: Games, Developer: Handjoy

  • 5 FREE iPhone Apps To Avoid

    CM
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:30 pm
    5 FREE apps to avoid is a compilation of apps I suggest you avoid installing on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I will discuss each app briefly and make the case why you shouldn’t put these apps on your iPhone or Touch. My wife likes to go shelling, no not yelling. Since we live in Florida we sometimes go to the beach to collect sea shells (shelling). Naturally, the best time to go shelling is after high tide. Since, I am not MacGyver I am unable to determine when the low and high tides will be. Hence, I downloaded the TideApp by Atlantis Technology for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I suggest…
 
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  • Google / Apple / Windows Phones - Take Pictures? In my Store? Get out....!

    Derek.Dunlop
    5 Mar 2010 | 11:04 am
    My how we have come a long way since I first began in Retail, goodness that was over 20 years ago! Back then we had no internet, comparison shopping was walking down main street, or the emerging shopping malls. Social Commerce was listening to what your friends had said about a product or store, and whatever the store had information on. Social Media was trying to remember what I had to do or had forgotten to do that day, and only had myself to blame! Taking photos in a retail store was…. well a big NO NO!! I remember working in a well known Entertainment store and we had created some great…

  • Letter from America - Finance

    Derek.Dunlop
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:48 am
    Well I’ve been here (the good ol’ US of A) for over two weeks now, my how the time has flown! And what are the major differences on this side of the pond vs UK? Is what I intend to write about here and when I can I’ll update on some of the work that I’m doing with the team out here. First off I guess, everything is just bigger! I know it’s an old cliché, but it’s true, and to be honest I love it! Bigger is better and with that I noticed that the car I’m currently driving (a Chevy Suburban) you could almost fit two of my previous cars into this one… Another…

  • Retail & eCommerce: Why is it not going to plan?

    Derek.Dunlop
    8 Jul 2009 | 6:31 am
    I was prompted to write this blog in a sort of pseudo response to an article in the FT  article http://tinyurl.com/RetailFT around the predictions of ecommerce and why there is not the glutton of mass adoption of this medium. Well firstly it is doing very well just now, thank you very much, across Europe online retail sales grew from €98bn in 2007 to €116bn with year on year growth at around 10.8% – so before the economic landslide of the last few months things were, going well, and to plan… However the reason why I included €uros and €urope rather than UK is that one of the…

  • Time to Reboot or Replatform Britain?

    Derek.Dunlop
    7 Jul 2009 | 4:04 am
    …or even decide that seeing as the UK Government has hidden the reboot switch – perhaps its now time that old "’Blighty’ switched the whole thing off, brought in some new hardware, OS, software and tools (metaphorically speaking of course this means remove the current Government – and replace with what……..?) Now I’m not going to deliver this as a distinct political blog – but with Digital Britain (Lord Carter – cut & run) and yesterday Reboot Britain, there just seems to be this constant knee jerk reaction that in this current economic climate, the “easy” money is…

  • Social Media Networks & Communication Services: When do you engage and How?

    Derek.Dunlop
    3 Jul 2009 | 4:29 am
    At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  concerned that there either too late, too early or will waste their money on something that could potentially damage their brand and reputation! Equally they feel that they are missing out on this new ‘Social Shopping’ (Look at Dell who have attributed $2million in sales thanks to Twitter) and would like to get their brand and company…
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    Security Cadets

  • SCars – Introducing A New Program

    AndyAtHull
    21 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am
    Securitycadets’ is proud to introduce and release SCars. SCars has been a long project for awhile now and it’s at that stage where we feel comfortable that it can be released to the general public. What is SCars? To quote the SCars home page: “SCars is a program designed to aid users in performing the regular computer maintenance tasks that should be undertaken to keep their computer working efficiently. Tasks such as updating Windows and security software, and cleaning temporary files are important to a computer’s health. In addition, SCars can be used to remind users of…

  • MS10-015 May Cause Windows XP To Blue Screen

    AndyAtHull
    13 Feb 2010 | 7:01 am
    Microsoft is aware that after installing the February security updates a limited number of users are experiencing issues restarting their computers. From reports, it has appears that this issue occurs after installing MS10-015 (KB977165). It may or may not be specific to a particular brand of PC or third party software. While Microsoft works on this problem, the update has been removed from Windows Update. You can read additional information at Security Garden and discuss it in detail in our support forums. We also provide support for Windows XP should you require it.

  • UK Residents: Become a Scambuster!

    AndyAtHull
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:50 pm
    “Between the 1-26 February 2010, Scamnesty bins will be placed around the country in public places so you can bin those pesky scam letters you have received in the post. As well as letters and mailers some scammers send emails, text messages or will call you at your home. Now you can report these phone calls and forward us your suspected scam emails and websites and help us to beat the scammers!” You can find more details about this project at the followin website: http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/scamnesty/ We really recommend that you forward this message onto any UK resident…

  • 10% of Britons’ fall for scams

    AndyAtHull
    1 Feb 2010 | 3:42 pm
    It has emerged that 10% of Britons’ fall for scams. According to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) almost 10% of adults – more than 4m people – in Britain say they have responded to a scam in their lives. BBC Technology reports – “Almost a half of those who did respond to a scam had lost more than £50, while 5% lost more than £5,000. The OFT said 73% of adults had received a scam e-mail in the past year. Some 6,500 people are also receiving letters from the authorities warning them that their names are on a “sucker list” being circulated by…

  • Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose “Disable”

    AndyAtHull
    31 Jan 2010 | 11:02 am
    Ben Edelman time again with research into Google Toolbar and it’s practices after you disable it. Ben Edelman (Direct link to the article) – “I present screenshots and screen-capture videos demonstrating that even after a user specifically chooses to “disable” the Google Toolbar, and even after the Google Toolbar disappears from view, Google Toolbar continues tracking users’ web browsing — including the specific sites visited, pages browsed, and searches conducted. I then critique Google’s installation — which lets users activate these…
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  • Watch Indian Premier League (IPL 2010) Season 3 Live Online

    Chris Martin
    2 Mar 2010 | 2:47 am
    Indian Premier League (IPL T20 2010) Season 3 is scheduled to start in India on 12-Mar-2010. The 45-day tournament will feature the top eight-ranked teams featuring 60 matches. Sony Set Max is the official broadcasters to telecast live matches on television screen. You can also watch Live cricket stream of IPL 2010 Season 3 for [...]

  • How to Block or Remove Cydia Ads on iPhone/iPod Touch

    Chris Martin
    25 Feb 2010 | 11:15 pm
    Advertisements appearing in Cydia apps and other applications on your iDevice are very annoying. Disabling or removing the ads in Cydia & other apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch is very easy. Just follow the instructions below in order to get rid of Google and fastclick ads on iPhone. How to Remove or Block advertisements [...]

  • Make More Money by Forwarding and Masking Clickbank Affiliate Links

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 11:18 pm
    If you’re trying to make money with affiliate marketing, I’m going to let you in on a little secret that could make you more money. It is really easy and simple to do and by the time you’re finished reading this, you’ll wish you would have thought of it sooner. So what is this simple [...]

  • iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 Photos.app & Safari Walkthrough [Videos]

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 9:24 am
    Recently, iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3 version for iPad was made available to handful of developers . Watch the videos of iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 Photos.app and Safari Browser. Watch iPad Photos App Walkthrough Video Watch iPad Safari Walkthrough Video

  • iPhone 3.2 Beta 3 SDK for iPad is LIVE !!!

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
    Beta 3 version of the iPhone SDK 3.2 for iPad is currently available in the hands of a few developers and not that of all.  iPhone 3.2 SDK Beta 3 brings lots of new API improvements and bug fixes. There was no discrimination by Apple but only the choice to remove from the download software that, [...]
 
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    Consultant Value Added

  • Telefonica’s 2009 results – Financial review and forecast 2010

    Carlos Valdecantos
    3 Mar 2010 | 3:37 am
    Telfónica has recently published 2009 results. I found interesting the BBVA’s TMT team review on these results and its impact in the share value. Please find it next. Enjoy. (Disclosure: No positions in any referred company). Telefonica’s results overview. Overall, we highlight (following Q409 results presentation) encouraging 2010 operating guidance (EBITDA 10: +1%/+3%). We believe this is achievable on the back of the company’s strong track record. This guidance implicitly assumes a certain improvement in the domestic business, in line with the trends seen in Q4, expecting a…

  • Reflections on on-net / off-net differential in developing markets

    Carlos Valdecantos
    2 Mar 2010 | 4:59 am
    The differential between on-net and off-net prices on mobile telephony networks is an issue that is hotly debated between telecoms operators and regulators. Small operators contend that their competitors’ high off-net prices are anticompetitive forcing them to face aggressive on-net strategies to drive market (or sim) penetration at a cost of significantly increasing on-net versus off-net price differentials. It is now widely recognized that new entrants in mobile markets face a barrier to entry due to the structure of prices charged by incumbent networks. In particular, on-net versus…

  • Who’s wining the telecom batttle in India?

    Carlos Valdecantos
    25 Feb 2010 | 4:18 am
    According to goBroadband, it is confirmed that the 3G auctions in India are likely to be held before the end of the current financial year, March-2010 even though there is no clarity on 2G license and spectrum for foreign bidders and the issue of incremental spectrum allocation. While it’s yet unclear how the 3G licence will help any of the contenders in gaining market share (of SIMs or revenues), it’s interesting to understand where’s the starting position for each of the potential bidders. Following our previous posts related to the Indian market, find next a recent update…

  • Top debates around the Smartphones market in telecom

    Carlos Valdecantos
    11 Feb 2010 | 2:03 am
    The Wireless Equipment industry is hitting hard. An interesting debate about the future of the smartphone industry is currently discussed in most of the mobile telecom operators. The key question here is: Will the smartphones drive the growth in the telecom industry for the next years? According to ML, there are five interesting hot topics to analyze and answer this question: 1) smartphone growth and forecast for the next years 2) operating system 3) appeal of the industry 4) volume and 5) margins Smartphone’s business is forecasted to grow at a 37% CAGR through 2013, driving significant…

  • Is STC loosing fuel in Saudi Arabia?

    Carlos Valdecantos
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am
    Following to my last post related to STC’s situation in 2009, I wanted to publish some interesting insights of the Saudi telecom industry coming from Al Rajhi Capital. In their opinion, the Saudi telecoms market is still booming and they expect 3.5G data to help drive mobile penetration towards 220% within five years. According to them, there are risks, but it is too early to prepare for a slowdown. I fully agree with this opinion. As written before in this blog, STC’s foreign investments seem a distraction, even if they may bear fruit in the long run. Mobily is preferred as the…
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  • Netflix Prize 2 crowdsourcing contest killed due to privacy concerns

    Alpha Doggs
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:46 pm
    Netflix announced on Friday that it is killing a contest announced last September designed to offer the public big money for helping the company come up with a better way to gauge movie watchers' preferences. From Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt, on the company blog: Read more

  • How to zap RSA authentication

    Alpha Doggs
    4 Mar 2010 | 6:53 am
    Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and e-commerce servers.   25 radical network research projects you should know about  Read more

  • Microsoft Research to strut its stuff at annual TechFest

    Alpha Doggs
    2 Mar 2010 | 7:13 am
    Microsoft Research this week will show off its latest creations, which include a Mobile Surface that lets you turn any tabletop surface into a computing input device and a telephone that lets you translate conversations between people speaking different languages. Microsoft Research is blogging the event here. Read more

  • Rutgers researchers warn against rootkit threats to smartphone security

    Alpha Doggs
    22 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    Rutgers University researchers have demonstrated how rootkits can be a threat to smartphones sporting operating systems not much unlike those in full-blown computers. They say those wielding rootkits could do dirty tricks like turning on an infected smartphone's microphone to listen in on a meeting, for example. Read more

  • Keeping an eye on Network Coding

    Alpha Doggs
    19 Feb 2010 | 6:59 am
    Network coding is one of those technologies I keep thinking could really take off. For the uninitiated, network coding enables routers not to just hand off packets but to mathematically combine them into more efficiently transferred hybrid packets. I remember first hearing about the concept about 4 years ago at a presentation at MIT by a researcher and associate professor named Dina Katabi, who spoke...
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    Simple Thoughts

  • Virgin Media Uses Telegraph Pole to Deliver Broadband

    Dipankar Das
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:13 am
    Virgin media started a new trial to deliver high-speed fibre-optic broadband over telegraph poles. Initially, they will try to deliver 50 mbps service to the Berkshire village of Woolhampton. The firm believes that they can use similar technology to reach 1 million homes in the rural areas of UK. The trial will continue for ... Read the original article on Gaea Times at : Virgin Media Uses Telegraph Pole to Deliver Broadband.

  • Macbook vs Windows Laptop Experiences

    angsuman
    14 Mar 2010 | 5:07 am
    I have  used Windows based laptops since the dawn of time (or laptops) till couple of days ago when I finally decided to spend 1000 bucks for a Macbook white. Here are my experiences with Macbook (vis-a-vis Windows Vista laptop from HP with similar CPU and memory) so far which I hope helps you to .... Read the original article  : Macbook vs Windows Laptop Experiences.

  • Bentley India Unveils Mulsanne

    shantanu
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:49 am
    more images more images MUMBAI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- The leading carmakers of the world are eyeing the Indian market and they are not planning to invade the small car market only. While the majority of the car market is dominated by compact cars, the demand of super luxury sedans are slowly picking up in India, mainly in the .... Source article on Gaea Times at  : Bentley India Unveils Mulsanne.

  • Vodafone India Unwraps App Store

    shantanu
    14 Mar 2010 | 1:13 am
    more images more images NEW DELHI, INDIA (GaeaTimes.com)- With a number of mobile service operators starting their service in the Indian market, old time players like Airtel and Vodafone are trying to retain the existing users by offering various types of add on services with their packages. After much speculation and waiting, leading mobile service operator Vodafone .... Read the original article  : Vodafone India Unwraps App Store.

  • Iran says it has dismantled US-backed cyber warfare networks, arrested 30 members

    AP
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
    Iran says it broke up US-backed cyber war networks TEHRAN, Iran — Iran says it has dismantled several U.S.-backed cyber warfare networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and provoking unrest in the country. A judiciary statement says the networks were set up by Iranian opposition groups, including the armed People's Mujahedeen, and that 30 of ... Original source on Gaea Times at : Iran says it has dismantled US-backed cyber warfare networks, arrested 30 members.
 
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  • Be Your Own Record Label on ReverbNation.com

    Anthony F.
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:17 pm
    Rahsheen | Grayson, GA | Hip Hop / R&B / Alternative | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos | ReverbNation. Between me and the above artist, we’ve tried many different ways to sell our music online. Due to legal issues I gave up but Rahsheen hasn’t. Lately he’s been on ReverbNation and it looks the best imo. Bio, playlist and store all on the same page, I love it. If you like what you heard just buy it now. I suppose the price can be adjusted accordingly on the artisits side. I can see this being a great vehicle for fledgling music companies not wanting to sign with Koch…

  • Scoble Took My Line About Google -Reader- Play…

    Anthony F.
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:40 pm
    Google Reader – Solacetech’s shared items. Thats what happens when you pause on a new google feature. It really, really reminds me of stumbleupon though. So much so that I’d have one hand over my mouth and the other hovering over my attorney’s speed dial button if I was them. What’s also eerie is the kind of offbeat content i get when I press the button. The only difference I see is the widgets/thumbnails at the bottom that allows you to skip ahead to whatever catches your eye. This make me feel a little less helpless since with SU I usually cringe with one I…

  • Kings Of Leon Revenge for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad?

    Anthony F.
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:03 pm
    Kings Of Leon Revenge for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Tapulous has been busy. Here’s their deets for Kings of Leon Revenge: ·Features “Battle Mode” to hone your skills against an opponent across a bluetooth network, four difficulty levels, an exclusive Kings Of Leon news feed, band bio and tour dates, and chat rooms ·Songs featured: Use Somebody, Crawl, The Bucket, Be Somebody, On Call, McFearless, Notion, Black Thumbnail, True Love Way and Sex On Fire ·Available for $4.99 from the iTunes App store ·PLUS, every day for the next 30 days one…

  • Street Fighter IV on The iPhone?

    Anthony F.
    10 Mar 2010 | 9:46 am
    Looks tough to play… More from solacetech Video – Nokia C5 Nokia N97 not invited To The Smartphone Party Video – Motorola CLIQ XT Spore on the iPhone Video – Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro solacetech Recommends Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone The iPhone coming to The Shack Qualcomm demos FLO TV on iPhone

  • Qik Goes Premium and Adds Support For the Nexus One

    Anthony F.
    9 Mar 2010 | 6:06 pm
    We redesigned our website | Qik Blog. Via email: Qik Premium – now in Ovi Store by Nokia Our Nokia Qikkers can now download their videos, burn them into DVDs, playback high quality videos and enjoy faster playback on slower connections with Qik Premium. For a promotional price of $4.99 / year, you will receive all the above plus access to all the other Premium features we’ll be rolling out this year. For more information refer to this blog post. Partnership with Vodafone UK We are very excited to announce that Vodafone UK is now rolling out Qik to its customers. With this…
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    [H]ardOCP

  • Apple, Why Do You Hate Me So?

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:03 am
    If you haven't heard of the "tension" between Apple and Google over the past few months, you must have been living under the proverbial rock. Well if you haven't this article brings you up to speed and then some. It looked like the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Comments

  • The Internet's Richest People

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:03 am
    Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you had thought of Google, eBay, Yahoo or Paypal? If you had followed through on your dream, you would be on the list. What does a 25 year old man do with 4 Billion dollars anyway? I could easily live on half of that The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn. Comments

  • Robo-Surgeons?

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:03 am
    At the University of Utah engineers are working on a Robo-arm of sorts. It is a computer-controlled support device that can be used to aid surgeons, artists, electronic repairs, and of course other tasks. The Active Handrest allows a person to maintain a steady hand while it senses the position of a hand-grasped tool or the force exerted by the hand -- or both Comments

  • iPad Swapping out the Charge?

    14 Mar 2010 | 10:03 am
    So lets say you bought the iPad. You love it. You nourish it. You give it a place at the dinner table. You talk to it by name. Then it starts to lose the ability to hold its charge. Well get ready re-bond with your new Apple kid, because it will be swapped with a different one at Apple. According to a recently-posted FAQ, Apple will replace your iPad if it "requires service due to the battery's diminished ability to hold an electrical charge," for $99 and a $6.95 shipping fee. Comments

  • Happy 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169 Day

    14 Mar 2010 | 9:03 am
    Today is special not only because it's the first day of Daylight Saving Time, it's also Pi Day. No not that kind of pie, not American Pie, not the Revenge of the Nerds pie, but the ratio. It's hard to pinpoint who, exactly, first became conscious of the constant ratio between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, as human civilizations seem to have been aware of it as early as 2550 BC. Comments
 
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    The 2.0 Life

  • Finally, a Bookmarking System That Works

    David Pierce
    9 Mar 2010 | 3:16 am
    Post by David Pierce. Find me onTwitter For whatever reason, the Achilles Heel of my life online has long been my bookmarking system. I read a lot, write a lot, and am constantly looking for “that thing I read that one time that would be totally perfect right now!” In my search for the perfect system, I’ve learned that many, many people have the same problem: we come across all this cool stuff, and there’s no system in place to put it somewhere we’ll reliably find it, or remember it exists, ever again. I promised that, if I figured out a system, I’d share it. Well, here goes.

  • The Digitizd Network: Gear, Library, Discuss, and Digitizd Facebook

    David Pierce
    6 Mar 2010 | 4:17 pm
    Post by David Pierce. Find me onTwitter Over the last year, the community around this site (and before, when it was The 2.0 Life) has evolved. The site is now one part techie, and one part technological novice – people coming to learn about and discover new technologies. That balance has been my hope for this site all along, and I’m thrilled that people are getting value from it. In an effort to make Digitizd an even more useful place, and to connect new people with technology and help techies get more from it, I’m launching not one, not two, but three new arms of this site. (Well,…

  • Minimalism versus Lessism

    David Pierce
    4 Mar 2010 | 3:59 am
    Post by David Pierce. Find me onTwitter Forgive the rant. There’s this funny trend happening on the Web the last few months. It started with people like Leo Babauta of Zen Habits and Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac, both of whom have sites I read daily and love. Their basic hypothesis is this: we have too much unnecessary stuff, and it affects our lives negatively. So they preach “minimalism,” the systematic getting rid of the extraneous. That idea, valiant as it is, has warped. As the trend of minimalism has caught on, the definition has changed, and the mantra has gone from being about…

  • Fixing the Computer Reading Experience

    David Pierce
    1 Mar 2010 | 3:41 am
    Post by David Pierce. Find me onTwitter A good bit of my day, every single day, is spent reading on screens. I’ll read news on my computer, and then save some interesting stuff to Instapaper to read while I’m on the subway.  I’ll read RSS feeds when I get to work, read blogs and news throughout the day, catch up on ESPN when I’m bored, and maybe end the day reading a book on my iPod Touch or my laptop while I’m sitting in bed. All of that would be fine, except that computer reading is a nightmare. There’s the obvious problems, like “you’ll go blind,” as well as a host of…

  • 53 Of The Best Tech Blogs Out There

    David Pierce
    23 Feb 2010 | 2:03 pm
    Post by David Pierce. Find me onTwitter On Twitter yesterday, I asked my followers for some of their favorite blogs. I got some great answers, which I’ll share, but what was more interesting to me was how many people were in my situation: liking reading blogs, and finding it harder and harder to find new good ones. I’ve also realized that, for most people, blogs are still a totally foreign concept. We don’t know how to find good ones, how to use those to find others, or how to connect to this whole crazy blogging world. I think that’s why the reactions to my lists of great business…
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    Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing

  • Google Apps Marketplace Discover, Deploy, and Manage Apps for Business

    DonDodge
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:05 am
    App Stores have been around for a while, but mostly for cell phones, and very few business applications. Google is making a big move into online enterprise applications with the Google Apps Marketplace already stocked with over 50 real business applications. Google Apps boasts 25 million users at more than 2 million companies, and growing very fast. Startups and small software companies love the App Store concept because it allows them to focus on building great applications while the App Marketplace takes care of sales, marketing, billing, and accounting. Google is building a vibrant…

  • Platform shifts Mainframe to Mini to PC to Mobile. Why leaders fail to make the shift

    DonDodge
    4 Mar 2010 | 7:50 am
    Platform shifts happen every decade or so in computing. The leaders of the previous generation are rarely successful in dominating the next generation platform. IBM dominated the mainframe business. They didn’t lose their dominance because another company built a better mainframe. They lost it because the market shifted to a new platform…Mini computers. Digital Equipment, Data General, and a few others dominated that market. Another platform shift is happening today, from PCs to Mobile devices, and another industry leader will be left behind. John Herlihy of Google Europe says “In three…

  • From MSFT evangelist to Mac enthusiast - the other side of the road

    DonDodge
    2 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    For five years I was a Microsoft evangelist to the startup and venture capital community. That ended a couple months ago. I am now a Developer Advocate at Google and I love it. After years of defending Microsoft against the Apple fanatics I decided to go to the other side of the road to see for myself. Microsoft frowns on employees using competitive products, and there isn't much time or budget to do it anyway. So, the move from Microsoft gave me the opportunity to try lots of new things. The move from Microsoft was complete. From Windows to Mac, from Outlook to Gmail, from Explorer to Google…

  • Google Apps announces de-support of IE6

    DonDodge
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:30 pm
    Internet Explorer 6.0 launched in August of 2001, more than 8 years ago. Microsoft’s current version is IE 8. Web developers have complained for years about needing to support multiple versions of browsers and the security risks in older browsers. Older browsers don’t support new features, particularly around voice and video. In a move to encourage users to upgrade to modern browser versions Google Apps announced they will stop supporting IE 6 effective March 1, 2010. The feedback from developers was immediate and overwhelmingly positive. Microsoft itself will end support for IE 6 on July…

  • How Google sets goals and measures success

    DonDodge
    28 Jan 2010 | 7:05 am
    Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of the culture instilled in every group at Google. Tough engineering problems don’t have obvious answers. You need to invent the solution, not just optimize something that exists. Every quarter every group at Google sets goals, called OKRs, for the next 90 days. Most big companies set annual goals like improving or growing something by x%, and then measure performance once a year. At Google a year is like a decade. Annual goals aren’t good enough. Set…
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    The Bitsource

  • The Ultra Fast Web with Varnish Web Accelerator

    Matthew Sacks
    9 Mar 2010 | 8:19 am
    By Per Buer, CEO of Varnish Software Varnish is an open source web accelerator created by Varnish Software, in Norway. Varnish accelerates your site by sitting in front of your web server, typically Apache, caching the content. It will keep the most recent requested pages in memory and serves them from memory, producing high performance responses on a Web site, both in term of capacity and response time. When content is served from memory this happens a lot faster then anything It utilizes a number of novel techniques to achieve its performance.  One of the most characteristic is how…

  • How to Install Debian Linux on an Embedded System (PPC440EPx)

    Melissa Soriano
    8 Mar 2010 | 5:00 am
    By Melissa Soriano, Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory In this article, I will describe how to bring up Debian Linux on an Embedded System. 
The hardware chosen for the embedded system is a PowerPC 440EPxX.  I have chosen Debian for the operating system of choice to load on the embedded hardware because of my prior experience with it and because it is a free distribution that continues to be actively maintained and supported.  Linux is a powerful operating system and is valuable on an embedded hardware platform for real-time applications.  An example is real-time digital signal…

  • Rich Sharples of Red Hat on Java Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6)

    Matthew Sacks
    27 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Rich Sharples, Director of Product Management for Applications Platforms and Developer Tools at Red Hat, spoke with TheBitsource.com about the recent updates in Java Enterprise Edition Six, and a look into upcoming technologies in the Java platform. Java EE 6 includes some new features such as managed beans, contexts and dependency injection, bean validation, JavaServerFaces 2.0, and the Web Profile. Rich has been involved with developing, designing and evangelizing Java and Java-based enterprise software sine 1998. He spent 8 years in the Software Group at Sun Microsystems before joining Red…

  • SCALE 8x: Pete Kronowitt: Killing Moblin

    Ryan Compton
    25 Feb 2010 | 10:59 pm
    By Ryan Compton “We basically just killed Moblin” -Pete Kronowitt Last week in Barcelona it was announced that Nokia and Intel will merge the better parts of Maemo and Moblin into a new product aimed at creating a unified framework for mobile device development, MeeGo. Today at SCALE 8x I spoke with Intel’s Pete Kronowitt about the project and what it means for the open source community. What is MeeGo? MeeGo is a new platform designed to run on mobile devices under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. The MeeGo OS is specialized to run efficiently on your netbook,…

  • PyCon 2010: Event Report

    Matthew Sacks
    23 Feb 2010 | 12:55 pm
    PyCon 2010:  Event-Wrap Up PyCon 2010 was  the largest PyCon to date, at over 1000 attendees, and had the the largest percentage of women in attendance in years past, at about 10%. This year’s PyCon presented many different interesting topics and concepts in Python development such as the core system, (which focuses more on compiler/interpreter design), testing, and Web application development. There was something for everyone at PyCon, for beginners, advanced users, and even for those with no previous experience of Python. The Community The Python community at PyCon represents a…
 
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    ATPM - About This Particular Macintosh

  • ATPM 16.03 - Cover

    About This Particular Macintosh: About the personal computing experience™--Cover art by Heather Sitarzewski

  • ATPM 16.03 - Sponsors

    SponsorsATPM is a free publication thanks to our volunteer staff and our sponsors. Your support is also appreciated and we provide several options by which you can help keep ATPM free.

  • ATPM 16.03 - Welcome

    WelcomeAuthor: Robert Paul LeitaoWarm up to each issue of ATPM with a brief welcome by Robert Paul Leitao and a spin of what’s been going on that could affect your personal computing experience. This month: the iPad, and Apple’s product strategies, market growth, and cash holdings.

  • ATPM 16.03 - E-Mail

    E-MailWe’d love to hear your thoughts about our publication. We always welcome your comments, criticisms, suggestions, and praise. Or, if you have an opinion or announcement about the Macintosh platform in general, that’s OK too. Send your e-mail to editor@atpm.com. All mail becomes the property of ATPM.This month: My First Mac, OmniFocus/TaskPaper/Things, the Services Menu, Activity Monitor, and a comment about Chrome.

  • ATPM 16.03 - Bloggable: Burn Down the Mission

    BloggableArticle Title: Burn Down the MissionAuthor: Wes MeltzerWes Meltzer returns to share what the blogosphere has to say about the iPad.
 
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  • Location Wars

    9 Mar 2010 | 3:55 pm
    So, the Location Wars have begun in earnest - Facebook and Twitter have joined Google in launching location based services. NYT on Facebook: Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of status update flow through their news feed: the current locations of their friends. Facebook plans to take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April at f8, the company’s yearly developer conference, according to several people briefed on the project, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss unannounced…

  • We can haz minimum wage nao?

    8 Mar 2010 | 2:54 pm
    NotLOLCat Talking about Sexy New Media Startups being as poor as churchmice, here 's an example - the iconic LOLCat site is that most poverty-attracting thing, being a sexy and new media site. And it would appear its using Slave labour (or something like that) - Gawker: Cheezburger Network might be the internet's largest "meme aggregator," according to Wired, with upwards of $4 million per year gleaned from other people's pet pictures, supplied to the company for free. But that doesn't mean the 30 or so employees share fairly in the bounty; as we reported last week, Huh has blogged about…

  • The Hype Hyperbola

    8 Mar 2010 | 1:26 pm
    The inverse relationship between a business's sexiness and profitability While we're on the subject, Techmeme's Mahendra Palsule pointed me towards this C:Net article arguing that the media focus on what is sexy, not a decent business (he was noting it as a part-answer to this article I wrote awhile ago). The gist of it is: A new report by ITDatabase that examines tech coverage over the last six months from eight top business news publications raises some questions, in particular: Does the business press factor companies' revenue and profits into their tech editorial agenda? The report shows…

  • Media Memes - Navel Gazing Manouevres

    8 Mar 2010 | 12:47 pm
    Techmeme has launched a new vertical, the fascinatingly recursive* Mediagazer: Today we're launching our first new news vertical in almost four years: Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production and distribution business, organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production, e-books, and digital distribution technologies. Meedja types given a mirror to look at themselves with...hmm, I recall a Greek Myth on the subject - ended in tears of course . Anyway, the venture will still have the Human Editing function: Mediagazer incoporates all these lessons. We've taken…

  • Safe for Work - the UK DMCA Bill

    7 Mar 2010 | 1:43 pm
    Paul Carr is mellowing! Yes, dear readers - he has written a well thought out post on the UK's new Digital Economy Bill. Not only that, he actually read the Bill! I haven't in detail*, so I'm just going to cut and paste Paul's stuff. As he points out, some of the huffing and puffing about Draconian Crackdowns on Free Spirits is somewhat overstated: For a start, the first point of contention – the compilation of a persistent offenders list, and the potential banning of them from accessing the Internet – isn’t quite as unfair as it sounds. Despite Doctorow’s claim that “your entire…
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    john.morriscode

  • What's on Special! Let me buy you lunch/supper!

    morriscode
    16 Feb 2010 | 3:06 pm
    Further to my What's on Special Twitter account, if you retweet what special you intend on purchasing that day you may ... Read More

  • What's on Special!

    morriscode
    27 Jan 2010 | 6:09 am
    Today I released an additional tool to allow people to find out what is on special at their favorite Island restaurants. I have setup all the specials to post to a new twitter ... Read More

  • CBC's Newsmaker of the Year

    morriscode
    27 Dec 2009 | 2:05 pm
    Eastern School District's superintendent Sandy MacDonald ends up being the CBC newsmaker of the year. He be... Read More

  • Congratulations to MusicPEI Nominee's

    morriscode
    9 Dec 2009 | 11:02 am
    Congratulations to all the nominee's announced today for the 2010 Music PEI Awards! Big congratulations goes out to Hunter's Ale House, Chr... Read More

  • Almost A Year Later, Lets Change Our Traffic Lights At Night!

    morriscode
    26 Nov 2009 | 2:05 pm
    Almost a year ago on December 18th, 2008, I wrote an article on traffic lights and how they should flash amber late at night. Here's a summary: ... Read More
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    phpslacker

  • The real reason why Flash is not on the iPhone,iPad and iPod Touch

    phpslacker
    22 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am
    Flash is slow (well… yes kind of… maybe) Sure its true that flash can be a hog. Flash optimists will proclaim that developers that write bad code are the ones giving flash a bad name. Who knows? Flash can’t do hover (some say) Of late, the latest and greatest is reason is that flash doesn’t support the hover event or something. And just in a rebuttal claiming that reason is moot. Doesn’t matter if this is true or not. I think we’re all beating around the wrong bush. Steve Jobs is deflecting IMO all the technical reasons for why flash is not on the iPhone…

  • Agile Adoption: When the going gets tough

    phpslacker
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:10 am
    Success abounds The intertubes is home to a multitude of blog posts, videos, prezzos,case studies evangelizing the agile method for software project management. Many cite phenomenal results with agile and so-called hyper-productive teams. It all sounds too good to be true because it kind of is. What’s the catch? Agile is simple but hard Agile processes are deceptively simple but the underlying principles require much understanding. Take a look at scrum for a moment, a very popular gateway to agile adoption. The official scrum guide emphasizes processes but not so much agile principles.

  • Try-catch suppress?

    phpslacker
    19 Mar 2009 | 1:17 pm
    PHP never ceases to amaze me. Just the other day a colleague discovered that you can suppress error messages reported by file_get_contents() using the try-catch statement. That should’ve raised an eyebrow. In case you missed it here’s the sample code run from php’s interactive console: Sample code, nothing odd (yet) qbook:mobilesns quinton$ php -a Interactive mode enabled <?php echo file_get_contents('bleh'); Warning: file_get_contents(bleh): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/workspaces/default/mobilesns/- on line 3 Call Stack: 19.3675…

  • session-clustering with memcache

    phpslacker
    2 Mar 2009 | 1:26 pm
    You need php session-clustering and you need it done yesterday. The project is at risk. The suits are breathing down your neck and monitoring your every tweet. Memcache to the rescue Installing memcached Not installed? Get it here. Alternatively, install via a *nix package manager eg. apt, yum, rpm etc. Start your memcache servers: /usr/local/bin/memcached -u root -d -m 1024 -l 0.0.0.0 -p 11211 Add one more to the pool: (this will make sense later. promise) /usr/local/bin/memcached -u root -d -m 1024 -l 0.0.0.0 -p 11212 Note: the port number differs for the second memcached daemon. Installing…

  • Test-drive: MySQL Workbench

    phpslacker
    21 Feb 2009 | 8:52 am
    Workbench? MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL. It is the highly anticipated successor application of the DBDesigner4 project. MySQL Workbench will be available as a native GUI tool on Window, Linux and OS X. Some history MySQL Workbench has been in the making for a while. Building on from DBDesigner 4 I’m sure there’s a community of anxious MySQL developers who can’t wait for a free and quality ERD-modelling (and more) tool for MySQL. The mysql command-line client is brilliant. I love it and will always use it BUT…
 
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    OnlyGizmos

  • Opera Mini 5 Beta released for Android

    Kunal
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:03 am
    Opera has announced its Mini 5 browser for the Google OS. Opera for Android is a beta version that allows tabbed browsing, ’speed dial’ bookmarks, power scrolling with touchscreen as well as physical keyboard support. The browser provides upto 90% compressed webpages that allows faster browsing. The Opera link feature allows the user to sync bookmarks between the mobile phone and desktop computer. It also features an in-built password manager. The browser can be downloaded free from HERE. It is also available through the Android Market. Similar Posts: Opera confirms mobile…

  • eReader app for iPad: Courtesy Barnes and Noble

    Kunal
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:35 pm
    Amid rumors doing the rounds for apps specifically designed for the iPad; Barnes & Noble have confirmed that they would be releasing an eReader application. They would be releasing the application around the time the iPad becomes available. The application has been designed exclusively for the iPad and would give iPad users access to millions of eBooks, magazines and newspapers. Existing customers can also access their Nook ebook content through their Barnes & Noble digital library. B&N have announced that the application would be available free, although the cost for the…

  • iPhone 3GS launching in India tomorrow? Is it too late?

    Annkur
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:47 pm
    The wait for iPhone 3GSs official unveiling in India has been way too long and event the most die hard Apple fans that I know have given up and purchased a 3GS from the grey market already. However we now hear (or rather our friends over at Fonearena ) that the iPhone 3GS would be launched by Apple in India tomorrow i.e. 15th March 2010 with 4 operators. To my surprise Airtel has been dropped off according to this rumor. Last year we had seen Vodafone actually pushed iPhone aside and promoted Blackberry, but then given the market size you never know if Airtel dumped iPhone or its Apple taking…

  • FERVOUR 2010: THE GREEN EFFORT

    Tassavur
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:13 pm
    The IEEE fest of Student Branch of BVCOE, FERVOUR, is organized on an annual basis. This extravaganza witnesses some truly eye catching events and is held on a large and magnanimous scale. With a wide spectrum of activities, the fest draws massive participation not only from numerous Delhi and NCR colleges, but also from premier institutes all over the country. The fest encompasses events ranging from technical to managerial, from literary to informal; thus providing the students with a perfect opportunity to portray their vivid capabilities and showcase their talents in various fields of…

  • OG Review: LG Cookie Pop / Pep GD510

    Annkur
    10 Mar 2010 | 9:30 pm
    LG is out with a refresh to its successful touchscreen series Cookie. Its amazing to see how companies like Samsung and LG have seen a great market in the low end touchscreen market after the iPhone came and swept the smartphone industry. The LG Cookie Pop would give competition to the Corby range and hopefully keep up the momentum that Cookie KP500 had set (yes the Cookie range has got new blood after a little delay IMO). Design: In this segment, what sells more than the features is the looks. LG has gone with a very simple bar shaped design, but managed to keep the phone housing a 3.0”…
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    Techdirt

  • When You Try To Figure Out Who Owns Imaginary 'Property,' Things Get Confusing Fast

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:42 pm
    We've discussed in the past how copyright isn't really "property" at all, and trying to compare it to regular property leads to all sorts of confusing problems. Take, for example, this lawsuit, found via Michael Scott, over who owns the rights to thousands of songs. The actual mess is a bit complex, but as you read through it, you realize that we're dealing with the emperor's new clothes in the form of copyrights. A bunch of different people are arguing over who owns a totally made up thing, with different people simply claiming to own it, and leaving it for the courts to figure out. Here's…

  • Williams Sonoma Nastygrams Blogger Who Helps People Build Their Own Furniture

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:59 pm
    Brad Hubbard writes "I regularly read a blog called "Knock Off Wood" -- a site where a woman teaches readers how to build various designer-looking pieces of furniture at home for a lot less. It's the best kind of "maker" site - someone who is passionate about crafting, freely sharing their passion with a community of readers and everyone learns a little something. So when Williams Sonoma, Inc (owner of Pottery Barn and West Elm among others) sent them a legal nastygram, the owner of the site was entertained more than anything." The company is alleging both trademark and copyright violations…

  • Google, Facebook Sued Because Without Some Random Patent No One Would Ever Access A Social Network From A Mobile Phone

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:11 pm
    Wireless Ink was a company that I remember getting some buzz back in the 2005/2006 timeframe... and then they dropped completely off my radar. Honestly, I had thought they had gone out of business. So I was a bit surprised to see them suddenly pop back up with a patent (of course) and a lawsuit against both Google and Facebook, claiming infringement because both companies allow users to access social networking tools via a mobile phone. Seriously. Does anyone honestly (honestly, really) think that without this patent, no one would have ever figured out how to let people access a social…

  • Irony Alert: Hollywood Howard Berman To Introduce 'Internet Freedom' Bill

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:28 pm
    Earlier this year we noted this was likely, but now it appears that Rep. Howard Berman is getting ready to introduce an "Internet Freedom Bill," that would limit how US companies could operate in "internet-restricting countries." Now, we've already pointed out that it's odd to see politicians pushing such bills when the US itself is pushing to restrict the internet in similar ways -- but it's particularly ironic with Berman. In supporting this new legislation, Berman notes: He's trying to figure out "what's the most effective thing we can do to help people in countries where the government…

  • Viral Video Producers Want To Charge You To Embed Their Videos

    Mike Masnick
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:48 pm
    You may have seen some of the rather popular videos by Common Craft, which has built a rather large following based on these videos about technology and social media using paper diagrams on whiteboards. What the videos are really good at is simplifying things in a way that's easy for people to understand. For example, the video, Twitter in Plain English has received nearly 1.7 million views and is often sent around to people who are trying to understand Twitter. Like most viral video efforts, the videos are hosted on YouTube, which makes them easy to embed and share. Except, apparently,…
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    Mean Clean Tech

  • Using IceRocket for Reputation/Social Monitoring

    Brennan Sayre
    17 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am
    There are many ways to keep track of you or your business online. The amount of social media monitoring and reputation monitoring companies is enormous. In many cases these companies are not cheap either with individual based services charging you $9.99-$79.99 a month where major monitoring companies for business can charge an upwards of $3,000 a month plus other large fees associated with alerts and consulting. The problem with this is that many of these companies are simply doing what free services such as IceRocket’s Big Buzz feature does for absolutely free. In this case I decided…

  • Google, Facebook, and Twitter Syndicating Your Private Information for Profit

    Brennan Sayre
    13 Dec 2009 | 10:31 pm
    If keeping your personal information private and your reputation under control wasn’t already difficult enough for the average web user things just got a bit harder. Google has just recently signed a deal with both Facebook and Twitter to make your status messages and tweets syndicated throughout their search engines depending on what your messages are about. This new feature is called “Real-Time Search” which also has news mixed in from blogs and major news websites that updates by the minute. The syndication can be stopped on both Facebook and Twitter by simply making your status and…

  • Get Privacy From Google with Google Dashboard

    Brennan Sayre
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:28 pm
    Google has come under fire recently for their blunt invasion of privacy for those using their systems. Whether you just search, use Gmail, or use numerous other tools Google may know a lot more about you than you think. Google has finally given us the much needed option to see what all they know about us and gives us the option to delete or make private these things from Google. Having control over your personal data is a great addition and when looking at the Dashboard it is almost overwhelming everything that Google knows, from your web history and Google Talk calls to who you email the…

  • How to Remove Your Home From Google Street View

    Brennan Sayre
    9 Sep 2009 | 11:25 pm
    Google Map’s Street View function has drawn a lot of criticism from privacy advocates and everyday citizens as anyone who has your address can see a detailed 360 degree view of your home with the ability to see different angles and even zoom in with great quality. What many people do not realize is you can have your home removed completely from view with a few quick steps. In our industry of online reputation management and internet privacy we have handled problems with Google Street View numerous times and have recently added a few complimentary privacy services that include removal of the…

  • How To Handle Negative Reviews Online

    Brennan Sayre
    25 Aug 2009 | 11:21 pm
    A bad review is seen as a terrible thing by most businesses but in all reality if handled right it can not only be a learning experience but can become a positive.  Of course I am not saying you would rather have a negative review than a positive but too many companies with a lack of experience responding to reviews on the internet are making these negatives even worse by their response. Negative reviews should be looked at as a way to learn how to improve your business as well as a way to show customers they matter to you. It is inevitable  if you are running a business that at some point…
 
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    The Next Women

  • Figures Show that Going Local may be The Best Business Model

    As many startups are looking frantically what the best business model could be for a prosperous future, recent figures show that going local may be the best way if one wants to attract advertisers to its business. Even though the figures are US based, one may assume that other markets will show a similar projection. BIA/Kelsey [...]

  • The 11 Points Action Plan for Bootstrapping your Startup

    While getting funding is on top of the agenda for many startup entrepreneurs, it does not mean that bootstrapping your company should be ignored. Christopher Fogg, the Chairman of Connect London, opened his first formal incubator in 1998 and has now started a total of 4 business incubators. He is a self-proclaimed bootstrapping expert, and [...]

  • Women Who Tech Panel at SWSX: Has The Glass Ceiling Ever Smacked You In The Butt?

    This week the allmighty SWSX conference takes place in Texas, USA, where the world gathers to discuss new developments in technology. As women & technology is still a hot debated topic, Allyson Kapin, of Women who Tech is leading a panel on the issue. She says in the Austin Chronicle: While 30% of the tech labor [...]

  • Being an Ambassador for Female Entrepreneurs, that is: without the Chocolate!

    Nadine Hill, aka The Dream PA, is UK Ambassador for Women Enterprise.  She tells TheNextWomen about her new role: If you are a woman in her mid 30’s like me, you may remember a chocolate advert from the 1990’s where the Ambassador had many Receptions, noted in Society!  As an Ambassador for Enterprise UK, I’m [...]

  • Female Internet Hero: Audio Interview with Caterina Fake of Hunch and Flickr

    As part of our Female Internet Heroes series, and in conjunction with NCWIT (the National Center for Women & Information Technology), The NextWomen are publishing audio interviews highlighting a diverse group of women innovators from small companies, larger corporations, and non-profits, whose ideas and products are changing the way we think, work, play, and communicate. [...]
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    Seth Goldstein Online

  • Why a Website Maintenance Contract is So Important

    Your site is built and online. You have spent time and money perfecting your business’s online presence and you are now ready for visitors. This is often the scenario for many business owners. They are so relieved that their site is online that they don’t consider what would happen if it mysteriously went offline or needed [...] Read more at our site.

  • I Have a Website, Now What?

    Once your site is completed and launched to the Web, the process of making it successful has only begun. Now that your site is online, you need to promote it. There are many different ways to promote your Website. There are the traditional methods: Put the Web address on your stationery, business cards, flyers, advertisements. Put an [...] Read more at our site.

  • Bookmarks for January 15th

    These are my links for January 15th: Don’t Use Social Media to Direct Market Your Entire Social Network « Social Media Marketing – Can We Make Social Media Pay? – Warning: This site may be sharing your data – Webmonkey – Mozilla Gets Ready to Weave Syncing Into Firefox – Webmonkey – Case study: Harvard Business [...] Read more at our site.

  • Bookmarks for January 14th through January 15th

    These are my links for January 14th through January 15th: PlaceWidget Allows Venues To Show Off Their Foursquare Mayors With Pride – Twitter’s Answer To Facebook Connect – 9 Specific Ways Your Business Can Use Twitter – Mozilla Drops Firefox 3.7, Switches to More Frequent Feature Updates – Where Have All The Old Tweets Gone? – [...] Read more at our site.

  • Bookmarks for January 14th

    These are my links for January 14th: “I’m With COCO” Spreads Like Wildfire On Facebook – Twitter Grows Internationally, But Very Few Use Location [STATS] – “Pants On The Ground” Becomes A Viral Sensation On Facebook – TwitPic Worth More Than $10 Million? – Twitter for Teams: Teambox Launches Web-Based Collaboration Tool – Read more at our site.
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    Mixpanel - Analytics for startups

  • Updates: Edit projects, get started with Mixpanel faster

    6 Mar 2010 | 5:12 pm
    Last night we pushed out a couple of changes that will make it easier to get up and running with Mixpanel. If you haven't seen them yet, you should sign up and take a look! Edit Projects Now you can change your project name and URL at any time - just click the Edit button on your Projects dashboard. Then change the name and click Save, and we'll update it for you. Get Started Faster We've also made it easier to get started using Mixpanel.  On your projects page, click the setup link and we'll take you to a page where you can see integration examples and generate tracking code.

  • New Feature - Funnel Trend Analysis

    6 Mar 2010 | 4:13 pm
    We're launching a new feature that allows you to view how your funnel conversion rates change over time. For example, if you are tracking your sign up process, you can see the overall conversion rate at the sign up step for each of the last 12 weeks. Let's say you made a large-scale change to your site design. Looking at funnel trends is a great way for you to track whether your new changes are improving your performance. Mouse over a step in your funnel page, and you'll notice "Click to view trends" in the tooltip. Click the step, and you will see a graph of the percent of visitors who…

  • Introducing easier funnel tracking: register_funnel API

    13 Feb 2010 | 12:10 am
    Today we've exposed a new API in our javascript library as a temporary fix for our customers who are doing funnel tracking. Have you ever found it tedious to place lots of track_funnel calls all over the code base and wished you could just use events to track your funnel steps? We hear you: mpmetrics.register_funnel takes two parameters: funnel_name and a list of events. Let me give you an example: mpmetrics.register_funnel("Status update", ["Impression", "Sign up", "View feed", "Update status"]);mpmetrics.register_funnel("Tweet again", ["Impression", "Login", "Update status"]); Please…

  • 3 New Ways to Measure the Social Web

    11 Feb 2010 | 4:05 am
    Post by Tim Trefren (Co-founder of Mixpanel, Inc.) guest posted at http://mashable.com/2010/02/02/social-analytics/ When most people think of web analytics, they think about pageview tracking; basically, measuring which pages on a website are being viewed. Pageview tracking is a well-established technology, but it’s no longer meeting the needs of many of the most well-known companies in social media. Companies like Facebook, Zynga, Slide, and RockYou are spending tons of resources building their own internal analytics tools. There’s a reason for this:…

  • Maintenance issues and an explanation

    2 Feb 2010 | 4:13 am
    Update: ETA is within the next day or day and a half to be fully caught up. Update (Feb 4th, 2:50 AM): Seeing good stability across new infrastructure and we're crunching data a lot faster. Update (Feb 4th, 7:35 PM): Processing through the backlog of data. It's about 1 day backed up however you should see data before Feb 3rd 17:00:00 UTC at least. Update (Feb 6th, 11:56 PM): We are now back to real-time and all systems are stable. For the past few days many of our customers must be wondering what's been going on with Mixpanel and why they have been seeing a lot of red percentages and zeroes.
 
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    Sample the Web

  • How to setup a Telava Mobile Broadband Bullet on OS X Snow Leopard

    C.K. Sample III
    6 Mar 2010 | 9:25 am
    I received my Telava Mobile Broadband Bullet in the mail today. This is the no-contract, use it and return it, 3G USB laptop connect card that gives you 5GBs per month of data usage for $50 and unlimited data usage for $60 a month. Additionally, you have to either spend $200 up front to buy the hardware outright, or you have to pay a $100 deposit on the device which will be refunded to you when you return the device to Telava. There is also a $30 activation fee, so to get up and running with Telava Mobile costs you $180-$190 before shipping (this includes the $100 that will be refunded when…

  • Apple’s next product will garner extravagant baseless claims in headlines!

    C.K. Sample III
    5 Mar 2010 | 6:20 am
    UPDATE: Direct from Apple: “iPad Available in US on April 3 Pre-Order on March 12″ I‘m just imagining what all the headlines we see daily on Techmeme would say if they were forced to speak the truth. Let’s look at Techmeme iPad-related stories for the past several weeks: Books in the Age of the iPad would become: Baseless Prediction about an Apple Product that I haven’t used yet as the destroyer of print. Subtitle: “Also, I design books, normally don’t blog about gadgets, but decided I’d like some pageviews for a change.” Apple Stores will…

  • Announcing Bosh & Bill

    C.K. Sample III
    2 Mar 2010 | 8:46 am
    Today marks the launch of my first serious endeavor into learning to create comics and to document the entire experience online: Bosh & Bill (which is now linked in the top nav of this site) officially launched today. Check out the site and let me know what you think. I decided to keep Bosh & Bill as its own separate entity, so that I don’t start clouding the stream here with a flood of comic-related posts. All those will live over at Bosh & Bill from now on. I also built the site soup to nuts on my own using Crowd Fusion Open Source (and okay, yes, I have a bit of an…

  • Liveblogging Jackson

    C.K. Sample III
    1 Mar 2010 | 6:39 am
    In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been basically live-blogging my son Jackson’s life since he arrived 17 days ago. I don’t plan on stopping this at all. I’ve set up a Jackson, Year 1 photoset on Flickr (added as a slideshow below; where I’m collecting all his daily pictures), and I’m sure there will be a year two, year three, etc as well. I’ve had some people unfollow me on Twitter, but I’ve also had people tell me that they look forward to my Jackson related items and even without them both Kristin and my extended family have been very…

  • Fun with baby pictures (Star Wars vs Star Trek)

    C.K. Sample III
    23 Feb 2010 | 5:27 am
    If you’re a regular internet crawler, always looking for cool things, and you’ve been online for the past several days, you’ve probably seen the Babies with Laser Eyes Photoshop tutorial. Well, after seeing it on about seven different blogs, I had to, of course, make this: Apologies to everyone who thinks this inappropriate use of a baby. However, for all of you who LOVE it, but lean more towards the Star Trek side of the geek fan spectrum, you might enjoy this one more: Related posts:Star Wars Trilogy Sunday Galactic Warfare: Star Wars-themed COD4-mod from BlackMonkeys Free…
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    GadgetGuy

  • Compact Camera Round-Up

    12 Mar 2010 | 8:41 am
    If you've ever tried to find a digital camera, you'll have found yourself surrounded by so much choice. Today, we're breaking it down for you to help you choose the right camera.

  • Samsung NX-10 'groundbreaking', not Micro Four Thirds

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Samsung's NX-10 has joined the ever-growing posse of point and shoot-type cameras that offer the creative options conferred by interchangeable lenses.

  • Team GadgetGuy takes it off

    11 Mar 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Joining in on the cause to fight Leukaemia, Team GadgetGuy descended on Martin Place today and came back with less than they went in with.

  • Western Digital spine tingler

    11 Mar 2010 | 1:20 pm
    Ideal for photographers and creative specialists, Western Digital's My Passport Studio drives helps makes sense of all your digital stuff, by allowing you to identify and update the contents of the drive from your computer.

  • New Sharp TV among the most energy-efficient. Ever.

    11 Mar 2010 | 11:22 am
    Sharp Corporation was the first to shut down production of old-style CRT televisions in favour of LCD flat panels, and now the company is first with another first.
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    WebWorkerDaily

  • 10 More Tips For Enjoying SXSW

    Aliza Sherman
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:41 am
    I am on the fence about SXSW. It is eye candy, ear candy, brain candy, and it gives me a very big headache. It is the place to be, but you can’t really be anywhere because you are constantly worried about what — and who — you are missing. Stand and try to speak with someone, and you’ll see what I mean. Everyone’s eyes skip over your shoulders scanning the room because there just might be someone else walking in the door that they must meet. Riffing off Dawn’s SXSW tips, here are mine: Go lobby. While there are some incredible sessions, there are also duds…

  • WWD Weekend Reading List

    Simon Mackie
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:03 am
    Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Forbes: “Are You Born to Be a Billionaire?” ReadWriteWeb: “An Entrepreneur’s View On The Benefits of Coworking” Six Revisions: “8 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration” TechCrunch: “Replicators, Innovators, and Bill Gates” Freelance Writing Jobs Network: “oDesk: One Writer’s Experience and His Plea to Clients” Freelance Folder: “How to Tell When It’s Time to Take a Break” What are you reading this…

  • Telecommuting Means Billions in Savings

    Thursday Bram
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Kate Lister, the author of “Undress for Success,” has come up with some impressive figures when it comes to the amount of money that could be saved by switching U.S. employees who have jobs compatible with telecommuting to actually working from home for at least half of their working time. The bottom line, according to Lister, is a potential total saving of $500 billion. Lister’s numbers are based on the telecommuting savings calculator she’s built, using figures from the U.S. census. Currently, less than 2 percent of U.S. employees telecommute for the majority of…

  • 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week

    Simon Mackie
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:00 pm
    Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Why You Still Need Business Cards Business cards can seem like an anachronism, but Thursday explains why they’re still important. 5 Tips for Getting a Better Night’s Sleep Karen shares some tips for improving your quality of sleep. Improved Productivity: A 12-Step Program Amber shares her 12-step program for getting more productive. Use Storytelling Techniques in Personal Branding: Characterization Part of a three-part series, Georgina explains how the storytelling technique of…

  • The Small Business Web Directory: Discover Apps That Work Together

    Simon Mackie
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:00 pm
    The Small Business Web, a loosely affiliated group of web app providers that cater to small businesses, today launched a handy directory that not only lets you know which companies belong to the group and what they do, but, crucially, which of the apps integrate with each other. So, for example, if you go to Freshbooks’ entry, you’ll see that it integrates with Setster, while BatchBook, Outright, MerchantOS and Shoeboxed all integrate with the invoicing app. As I discussed in a post over on GigaOM Pro (sub. req.) “Enterprise 2.0: Web Apps and the Patchwork Quilt…
 
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  • Intel and OCZ chart as highest-performing Solid State Drives

    Stephen Schenck
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:58 pm
    The storage industry's been so immersed in hard drive technology for the past several decades that it's no wonder that there have been a few bumps in getting solid-state drive technology off the ground. We just took a look at Western Digital's first such drive, which didn't quite measure up to other SSDs out there. The analysts over at DRAMeXchange took a look at some of the leading SSDs and ran them through their benchmarks, giving you a clear picture on which drives deliver and which are the duds.To make a long story short: Intel leads the pack when it comes to SSDs. Its drives tested…

  • Qualcomm three-screen folding mobile device could be your phone, laptop, TV, and more

    Stephen Schenck
    12 Mar 2010 | 1:25 pm
    While gadgets come in all shapes and sizes, they tend to follow some basic rules for their form. Widescreen laptops for gaming, ruggedized ones for industry, and even tiny netbooks are all basically the same design, just scaled and tweaked to their intended applications. That's not to say that these relatively basic changes don't excite us - just look at the buzz around the iPad, just a scaled-up iPhone - but it's not often that we see something that just looks new. Qualcomm may be bringing such a product to market: a dual-hinged, three pane touchscreen, folding mobile device.This innovative…

  • Plastic Logic QUE e-reader delayed until summer, pre-orders get free shipping to compensate

    Stephen Schenck
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:07 pm
    TABLET POSTPONED: Plastic Logic QUE e-reader delayed until summer, pre-orders get free shipping to compensate

  • Apple iPad pre-orders now open, free shipping, two per person limit

    Stephen Schenck
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:52 am
    Apple iPad pre-orders are now open, accepting reservations for the tablet's April 3 launch date.Anticipating the demand and trying to avoid some of the hoarding that can cause new products like this to show up for a quick flip on eBay, Apple is limiting pre-orders to two per person. The prices match those we've heard before, and Apple promises free shipping (even with the tablets set to release on a Saturday).The pre-order also gives us a look at some of the official iPad accessories, including a $70 keyboard dock and a $30 keyboard-less option. For $30 you can order a VGA adapter to connect…

  • HTC Incredible specs partially revealed, should launch in a month or two

    Stephen Schenck
    11 Mar 2010 | 2:36 pm
    PHONE UPDATE: HTC Incredible specs partially revealed, should launch in a month or two
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  • Enabling Enterprise-Class Business Continuity for Less

    12 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
    This paper describes how IT organizations can use Citrix XenServer and Citrix Essentials for XenServer to:Protect IT assets from a broad range of outages and failures.Establish automated and prioritized plans for system recovery.Affordably extend these capabilities to a much greater portion of the IT infrastructure.Learn more about this simple yet powerful business continuity solution that any organization can implement easily and cost effectively. Download the white paper now!Request Free!

  • A Greener Planet Starts with Smarter IT

    9 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm
    According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the energy consumption of data centers has doubled in the past five years and is expected to nearly double again in the next five. If left unchecked, data centers, PCs, computing and telecommunications networks could be among the biggest greenhouse gas emitters by 2020, according to a new report by McKinsey & Company.Global leaders, IBM® and Cisco, are working together to prevent this from happening by helping organizations reduce their environmental impact. The two companies envision a world where everything is instrumented,…

  • A Computer Geek's Smart Productivity Guide

    4 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
    With all distractions that modern life brings, it's not easy to keep your productivity up. Whether you're an enthusiastic procrastinator, or just happen to have very little time at hand, there are a lot of people who really can't afford to lose sight of business. However, by playing your cards right, it would be well possible to get that little productivity boost you're aching for. Know your do's and dont's, and you'll be able to move more work in less time.Although this eBook is primarily aimed at the computer geek, the potential user base is far wider, as it comes packed with a lot of…

  • The Easy Guide To Computer Networks

    4 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
    To get the job right, you're expected to be up to terms with the technical network mumbo jumbo, although most everyday Joe's don't know their RDPs from their UTPs. In 33 illustrated pages, Stefan Neagu from tuxgeek.me familiarizes us with the networking knowhow, from Adapters to Zimbabwe-proxies. It's a great place to start off as a newbie, or to pick up as an already more advanced user.This guide should suffice to transform you into an amateur network admin. On upcoming parties, you'll be able to brag about WPA2 security and Virtual Private Networks. But please, don't – before long,…

  • The Mac Manual

    4 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
    Gone are the days when Macs were only considered valid ‘office' computers. These days, Macs are the slick icons of the design and music industries — and now they're also spreading to the general consumer market. But even though Macs are an overall reincarnation of simplicity and user-friendliness, most people – whether they are computer initiates or have been working with Windows their entire life – need a little help getting started.This slick, sixty-odd paged monster is based on Snow Leopard – the latest release of the Mac OS X operating system – and tells you everything you…
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  • Bloor Research White Paper: Loading and Analyzing Web Data

    11 Mar 2010 | 1:20 pm
    The demand for online analytics has expanded far beyond clickstream data to encompass activities like gaming, social networking and mobile commerce. As a result, companies ranging from online retailers to mobile service providers need to manage a greater volume and more diverse array of information than ever before. This Bloor Research white paper discusses:Different use cases with needs to analyze web-based informationTechnical considerations for loading and analyzing web dataHow open source solutions from Infobright and Talend enable fast integration and analysis of multiple sources of web…

  • The Ultimate Guide To Your Windows Mobile Phone

    9 Mar 2010 | 3:20 pm
    If you have a Windows Mobile phone, you will know that stuff can occasionally get pretty difficult. These devices, which are basically mini-computers, have endless possibilities — and thus endless possible difficulties as well. Whether you want to (re)discover the most basic features and applications of your device, extend it with new applications and tools, or even flash a custom ROM, the Windows Mobile Guide comes to the rescue. Download the Windows Mobile Guide now, and read it on your computer today, or even on your phone! With this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new…

  • Insider's Guide to Internet Marketing: Get. Convert. Measure.

    5 Mar 2010 | 8:50 am
    Websites dominate all media in the 21st century as the most effective way to reach new leads and attract new customers and sales. Coordinating multiple facets of online advertising to maximize Return on Advertising (ROA) is called Multilateral Online Marketing (MOM), a new industry term coined by Fathom SEO that more accurately expresses what it takes to succeed online – coordinating multiple programs that can efficiently reach the right target audience when diverse disciplines work well together. This guide explains 3 core steps to a successful online marketing initiative:Get…

  • Twitter: Best Practices and Tips

    4 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
    Even though half the universe is on Twitter these days, beginning out of nothing isn't always that evident. If you really want your Twitter to fly high, it doesn't end with just creating an account. Especially with this many people on Twitter, it's important to know the tools you're working with, and the dazzling reach of this innovating technology. In over forty pages this guide tackles every Twitter feature, tip and trick you can think of. Learn to work the interface, to Tweet from your desktop, cool Twitter bots and which people to follow.Download The Complete Guide to Twitter now. With…

  • Multichannel Merchant

    1 Mar 2010 | 2:50 pm
    Multichannel Merchant boasts the top columnists in their fields as well as seasoned staff writers with expert knowledge of their profession. They also have a solid understanding of the back-end of the business, from warehouse and contact center technology to shipping and handling and customer service, as well as the front-end.Multichannel Merchant gives readers the WHOLE PICTURE.Search engine optimization; social media; email marketingLists/databasesWebsite usability and navigationPrint and web copywriting; catalog paper, printing and production marketing, merchandising and brandingOperations…
 
 
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  • Boxes of Money

    Ruchi
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:54 pm
    Question: You are given b boxes and n dollar bills. The money has to be sealed in the b boxes in a way such that without thereafter opening a box, you can give someone a requested whole amount of dollars from 0 to n. How should b be related to n for this to happen? Answer: Stumped? Let’s think of an example to approach this problem. Say we have $100. A good approach to distributing $100 would be the binary number system. So you’d have $1, $2, $4, $8, $16, $32 in the first six boxes. We can’t fill the next box with $64 dollars because we are only left with $37 dollars (from a…

  • Chasing Dogs

    Ruchi
    4 Mar 2010 | 9:38 pm
    Question: There are four dogs each at the corner of a unit square. Each of the dogs starts chasing the dog in the clockwise direction. They all run at the same speed and continuously change their direction accordingly so that they are always heading straight towards the other dog. How long does it take for the dogs to catch each other and where? Answer: Let’s the dogs be A, B, C and D where A is chasing B, B is chasing C, C is chasing D and D is chasing A. All the dogs will eventually meet in the center of the square. Since all the dogs move in symmetry, the only logical answer to the…

  • Red and Blue Marbles

    Ruchi
    2 Mar 2010 | 5:12 am
    Question: You have 50 red marbles, 50 blue marbles and 2 jars. One of the jars is chosen at random and then one marble will be chosen from that jar at random. How would you maximize the chance of drawing a red marble? What is the probability of doing so? All 100 marbles should be placed in the jars. Answer: Seems tricky at first right? Given that the number of red and blue marbles are the same, you would tend to think that the odds are 50-50. You would try different combinations, such as 25 of each colored marble in a jar or putting all red marbles in one jar and all the blue in the other.

  • The Fox and The Duck

    Ruchi
    1 Mar 2010 | 5:17 am
    Question: A duck that is being chased by a fox saves itself by sitting at the center of circular pond of radius r. The duck can fly from land but cannot fly from the water. Furthermore, the fox cannot swim. The fox is four times faster than the duck. Assuming that the duck and fox are perfectly smart, is it possible for the duck to ever reach the edge of the pond and fly away to its escape from the ground? Answer: One would think that the duck could swim directly away from the fox. So the duck would have to swim a distance r. The fox would have to cover half the circumference of the pond (pi…

  • Burning Sticks

    Ruchi
    25 Feb 2010 | 11:08 pm
    Question: You have two sticks and matchbox. Each stick takes exactly an hour to burn from one end to the other. The sticks are not identical and do not burn at a constant rate. As a result, two equal lengths of the stick would not necessarily burn in the same amount of time.  How would you measure exactly 45 minutes by burning these sticks? Answer: This puzzle used to be asked in Wall Street interviews long time ago. It is very rare for this question to be asked now but it is a very good question to help you think a little outside the normal thought process. The answer is really…
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  • Tech Profile of Dr. Sandi Eveleth

    terrywhite
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
    Dr. Sandi Eveleth Owner/Creative Director Company: KISS Your Web, LLC (aka KISSyourWeb.com)   City/State: Fort Myers, FL   Your blog/website? KISSyourWeb.com/kywblog Favorite Gadget(s): iPhone, Wacom Tablet (intuous 4) Your cellphone/smartphone (make/model): iPhone 3G   I won't leave the house without: iPhone 3g (OK, this is sounding repetitive!)   Blogs I read regularly: yours (of course!), design follow, smashing magazine   Mac or PC: PC but am getting a Mac soon (I SOO have Mac-envy!)   Laptop or Desktop: Laptop   Favorite App/Software: All things…

  • Apple iPad pre-orders to begin at 8:30 AM ET Today

    terrywhite
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:24 pm
    If you're looking to order the Apple iPad (WiFi or WiFi+3G models), Apple will begin taking pre-orders today at 8:30 AM ET. You can place your order here.

  • See all of your Favorite Sites in One Spot

    terrywhite
    11 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
    The concept of a custom "newspaper" has been tossed around for years. However, not many sites really deliver on this promise in a visually compelling or easy to use way. Most frequent blog site and news site visitors rely on their favorite RSS Reader Applications and Sites to see the daily headlines of their favorite sites. There's also Read It Later and sites like it that allow you to take the web pages you want with you and read them later offline.  Alltop.com may be the one stop news site you've been looking for Alltop.com does two things for me. Like a newspaper or…

  • Tech Blog – Site Update, “speed it up!” :)

    terrywhite
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:44 pm
    Hi, this is just a quick note to my readers and many of you who have left comments or sent me messages about my tech blog being slow. First of all thanks for the heads-up. I've been working with my hosting partner (Network Solutions) on these issues for the past week and I think progress has been made. There was a combination of two-three things going on which caused the site to run slower than normal over the past few weeks. The first two being my fault. This is a Wordpress blog and with Wordpress you can have plug-ins that add enhancements to your site. My problem was that I was running…

  • The Best Technology Doesn’t Always Win

    terrywhite
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
        If you've followed my blog then you know that I'm a BIG FAN of TiVo HD! I just LOVE the TiVo interface and I have a few of them in my home (ok more than a few). However, I got an email from a few buddies asking if I was going to upgrade to the NEW TiVo Premiere unit. Quite frankly I said "no". I had heard about the New TiVo Premiere and I had read some of the info, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me as a must have. Now don't get me wrong. If I was in need of another unit for another room or if one suddenly died…
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  • Spiderpodium iPhone Holder is an Insect We Can Appreciate

    Chip Chick
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:39 pm
    We’ve never been much for creatures with several pairs of legs, but in this case, the Spiderpodium is very appealing. This plastic gadget stand is made of 8 bendable legs that are designed to grip, holster, and dock your iPhone, or any other similarly sized gadget. You can even use it to holster your iPhone on your bike’s handle bars while you’re riding. However, we certainly don’t advise trying to watch a movie while you ride a bike, lest you hurt your legs, and you certainly don’t have eight of them like the Spiderpodium does. The Spiderpodium is available for…

  • Lapaporter’s Chic Braid Leather Laptop Sleeves

    Chip Chick
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:39 pm
    This is the first time we’ve come across Lapaporter, yet we’re still quite impressed with their selection of leather mobile phone, ipod/iPhone, and laptop accessories. In particular, their leather braid laptop sleeves are very unique with their braid leather pattern. This sleeve is available in black or black coffee for 229.00EUR (about $315 USD). Alternatively, you could pick this kind of leather style for your phone or iPod. And sure, these cases are certainly expensive, but at-least they look the part.

  • Attack of the Movies 3D for Wii and X-Box 360

    Ali
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:53 am
    Even more 3D goodness for all and this time you don’t need to buy an expensive TV, you just need a Wii or X-Box 360.  Attack of the Movies 3D is the first-ever 3D shooter for Wii or X-Box 360. Just put your included 3D glasses on and grab  your Wiimote or 360 controller and blast hordes of enemies as you travel to cinematic worlds in a 3D movie type environment reminiscent of the 50’s. Fight invasions of Aliens in Cosmic Combat or get all terminator-like in Robot Rebellion. There is four player multi-player available and 4 pairs of 3D glasses are also included. The game is very arcade…

  • Hands on With the Xpand X102 3D Glasses

    Ali
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:55 pm
    A few days ago we got a hands on with the Durable XpanD X102 Series active glasses. We had been trying out different 3D glasses for the last few months now – from the simple paper ones too humongous black ones. So it was nice to try on a pair of 3D glasses that weren’t all that hideous or huge, and that didn’t leave me a headache from wearing them for too long. My overall first impression of the Xpand X102 is that they are certainly durable. These glasses are being marketed to a crowd of early adopters, as well as fans of the whole Avatar experience. I got to play two 3D based video…

  • Geek Squad Helps Sober Up Your Cellphone on St. Patricks Day

    Ali
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:49 am
    The luck of the Irish will be with all of us on Wednesday the 17th in honor of St Patrick’s Day. So it was kind of odd when we received Tupperware from Geek Squad that included a bag of uncooked rice and beef jerky for the holiday. We were left scratching our heads – what is techie about this? But after we dug deeper, we realized it was a survival guide for St. Patrick’s Day. In case you get too festive that day – these eight steps will save you, when you drop your cellphone into a big glass of ale. Step1: Turn off phone and remove battery Step 2: Dry phone (inside and…
 
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  • Hundred year old EULA on Edison’s Wax Cylinder

    Kaushik
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:07 am
    If you thought EULA (End User License Agreement) is a 21st century invention by evil businessmen, meet Sir Thomas Alva Edison. This photograph shows what could possibly be the oldest EULA ever. It’s a license statement on Edison’s Wax Cylinder, one of the oldest sound recording and reproducing medium, whose terms proves that EULAs were in existence for over a century ever since man learnt to keep record of music on physical objects. Click to enlarge The license terms read as follows. Notice how similar the wordings are to modern EULAs on software and music CDs. This record is sold…

  • How to solve high CPU usage when running Windows Virtual PC

    Kaushik
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:25 pm
    When you run a virtual machine in Windows Virtual PC, you may experience high CPU usage in the guest operating system on certain hardware platforms, such as notebooks. Oddly however, when you examine Task Manager, no CPU usage issues are displayed in the host operating system. Keystrokes in the guest operating system are delayed and there is a definite lag in the response of the system. The cause of this issue has been drilled down to the advanced power saving features that are built into the hardware of some notebooks, according to a latest report from Microsoft. To resolve this issue, use…

  • Start Menu 7 - Alternative start menu for Windows 7

    Kaushik
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:52 pm
    Start Menu 7 is a new software that replaces the Start Menu on Windows 7 with a different one. The standard Windows 7 start menu is compact, while Start Menu 7 covers a larger area and comes with additional functionality. It’s difficult to say whether the new Start Menu 7 offers a more productive alternative, but it does offer us a choice in start menus. Start Menu 7 features: The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name. Open any location on your PC with a single click. You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7.

  • Free full version of Zemana AntiLogger

    Kaushik
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:34 pm
    Zemana AntiLogger is a powerful way to protect your PC from malware attacks. The program doesn’t rely on virus signature updates and file scanning like the traditional anti-virus programs do. Using a unique technology, similar to heuristic methods used by antivirus software, Zemana AntiLogger detects when malware runs on your computer, and terminates it before it can cause damage to your system. Zemana AntiLogger eliminates threats from keyloggers, SSL banker trojans, spyware, and more. Security Features SSL Logger protection: Zemana AntiLogger's unique proactive protection prevents your…

  • How to use a fake webcam video on Chatroulette

    Kaushik
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:22 am
    Lately a website called Chatroulette is creating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere, and unless you just emerged from under a rock you have probably heard and used it too. Those who are truly clueless, here is an extract from Wikipedia: Chatroulette is a website which pairs random strangers for webcam-based conversations. Visitors to the website randomly begin an online stranger chat (video and text) with another visitor. At any point, either user may leave the current chat by initiating another random connection. When you go to Chatroulette (could be NSFW, be warned) you face a random stranger…
 
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  • Internet Agency Delays ‘.xxx’ Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:05 am
    Internet Agency Delays ‘.xxx’ Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites until June. A global Internet oversight agency on Friday deferred a decision until June on whether to create a “.xxx” Internet suffix as an online red-light district. So, Porn Web sites can’t park themselves at a “.xxx” address quite yet. Associated Press reported, The board of the Internet [...]

  • Public Records and their Impact on Us

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:36 am
    In this age when most of the world is virtual, there is always need for information from public records. In the business world, whether it is gauging a potential partner’s reputation or finding assets and ownerships, public records have increasingly gained in importance. But their validity is not confined only to the business world’s sphere [...]

  • Employees are Brands

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:25 am
    This is very simple but thought provoking question- How can human resources be leveraged as a source of competitive advantage? Let’s try to find answer to the question through the example of the Google. Google emerged as a technological powerhouse with two extra ordinary innovations: ‘Search’ and ‘Adwords’, to its credit. The company attributes this enviable [...]

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Calls For Internet Controls

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:07 pm
    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers. “The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done. Every country has to apply its own rules and norms,” Chavez said. He cited German [...] No related posts.

  • EU all set to achieve the Renewable Energy Targets

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:41 am
    The European Union is to surpass its target of 20 percent consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to national forecasts submitted to the European Commission. The EU executive found that overall, the bloc will achieve a 20.3 percent share of renewables in its energy mix. EU countries are increasing their share of energy [...]
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  • The “Iron Man: 2″ Official Second Trailer Makes It Way Online…

    Cheynne
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:06 am
    And it couldn’t be more timely… Aforementioned the new role of Don Cheadle as War Machine was far more appropriate in consideration to he and Terrance Howard’s on screen demeanors, and I’m sure come May 7th, 2010 you all will agree. Expect a more in-depth look at the plot in this follow up trailer, as well as ample Iron Man suits to go around. Catch it below the break, and I’m definitely anticipating this sequel, what about you?

  • “Martin Jetpacks” Now In Preparation For Public Consumption

    Team NWS
    10 Mar 2010 | 9:18 am
    We caught a glimpse at the Martin Jetpack approximately a year ago, and now these bad boys are just about ready to ship. Yes ladies and gents for a cool $100,000, traffic jam anticipation and anxiety will be a thing of the past. Word on the street is only 10 of these Martin Jetpacks were produced last year, and recent update disclosed that Martin is teaming up with an unnamed international aircraft company to make 500 jetpacks a year, for a more affordable price of $75,000 each… Not entirely sold? Well do acknowledge that it runs on premium gas, which is significantly more frugal than…

  • “The Beast File: Google” Will Make You Think Twice About Your Activities With The Big G…

    Team NWS
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:49 pm
    Ambitious would be quite a downplayed adjective in regards to Google’s recent activities. “The Beast File: Google”, attacks Google’s apparent insatiable appetite poignantly, and hosts the informative piece on Google’s video platform no doubt! Watch “The Beast File: Google” below, and don’t get too paranoid and start deleting your gmail accounts now… [via]

  • “Lego Sequencer” Brings Childhood Nostalgia While Keeping Your Head Nodding

    Team NWS
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:59 pm
    Japanese designer Yoshi Akai concocts electronic musical instruments from the most uncanny and unexpected objects, such as telegraph machines and stylophones. Now the Lego Step-sequencer (above) is 3 channels 8 steps sequencer that allows for creating complex musical pieces, being that the different Lego pieces each have their own unique sound. Yoshi Akai elaborates that this is more so building, than playing sound. Get a gander at the “Lego Sequencer” below… [via]

  • Digital And Analog Combine For Sweet Synergy On The “4N Watch”

    Team NWS
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:38 pm
    Manually wound the hours and minutes allegedly jump to provide a steady surge of power from the movement to the discs, so that accuracy remains unaffected. The 4N watch will be available in 18k white gold, platinum, along primarily titanium, aluminum alloys and carbon fiber trims. Look for the François Quentin designed “4N” available in a limited edition of 16 units, with launch date and pricing tentative. [via]
 
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  • Internet Agency Delays ‘.xxx’ Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 10:05 am
    Internet Agency Delays ‘.xxx’ Top-Level Domains For Porn Sites until June. A global Internet oversight agency on Friday deferred a decision until June on whether to create a “.xxx” Internet suffix as an online red-light district. So, Porn Web sites can’t park themselves at a “.xxx” address quite yet. Associated Press reported, The board of the Internet [...]

  • Public Records and their Impact on Us

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:36 am
    In this age when most of the world is virtual, there is always need for information from public records. In the business world, whether it is gauging a potential partner’s reputation or finding assets and ownerships, public records have increasingly gained in importance. But their validity is not confined only to the business world’s sphere [...]

  • Employees are Brands

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    14 Mar 2010 | 3:25 am
    This is very simple but thought provoking question- How can human resources be leveraged as a source of competitive advantage? Let’s try to find answer to the question through the example of the Google. Google emerged as a technological powerhouse with two extra ordinary innovations: ‘Search’ and ‘Adwords’, to its credit. The company attributes this enviable [...]

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Calls For Internet Controls

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:07 pm
    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers. “The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done. Every country has to apply its own rules and norms,” Chavez said. He cited German [...] No related posts.

  • EU all set to achieve the Renewable Energy Targets

    globalthoughtz@gmail.com
    13 Mar 2010 | 5:41 am
    The European Union is to surpass its target of 20 percent consumption of energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to national forecasts submitted to the European Commission. The EU executive found that overall, the bloc will achieve a 20.3 percent share of renewables in its energy mix. EU countries are increasing their share of energy [...]
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  • Charming Hotel

    hassan-b
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:43 pm
    Fixed width, 2 sidebar. Personal Blogger Templates This template for personal blogs 3 column, Right, Left sidebar Colorful color, Brown background. This is amazing template with navigation menu, 3 Column, Search box ready, Nice header, RSS Icon.. Demo Click here For Demo test Instructions Page instructions page here Source And Designer Author page Download

  • Blue Rooster

    hassan-b
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:18 pm
    This template for personal blogs Personal Blogger Templates 2 column, Right sidebar Fixed width, 1 sidebar. Black color, White background. This is nice template with top navigation menu, 3 Column at footer, Search box ready.. Demo Click here For Demo test Instructions Page instructions page here Source And Designer Author page Download

  • Simplex Portfolio

    hassan-b
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:38 pm
    Gallery Blogger Templates This template for Photography blogs 1 column, No sidebar Fixed width, no sidebar. White color, White background. This is amazing template with two navigation menu, slide show, 3 Column at footer.. Demo Click here For Demo test Instructions Page instructions page here Source And Designer Author page Download

  • Outubro

    hassan-b
    12 Mar 2010 | 3:17 pm
    2 column, Right sidebar This template for any kind of blogs Professional Blogger Templates Fixed width, 1 sidebar. Blue color, Blue background. This is amazing template with very nice navigation menu, RSS icons, Right Sidebar.. Demo Click here For Demo test Instructions Page instructions page here Source And Designer Author page Download

  • Surprise, Blogger Launches The New Blogger Templates Designer. The Full Guide, And How To Use.

    Max
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:34 pm
    Today i surprised by seeing blogger announcing the new great and amazing feature. Blogger templates designer, This feature is a revolution in blogger platform history, This option will make it easier for blogger users to make custom blogger templates in a very easy way and will save you the time to download and upload [...]
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  • ‘Who is Checking my Facebook Profile’ [Scam]

    Raju
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:20 am
    Off late I am being bombarded with loads of notifications on my Facebook profile and most of them are about me being tagged in a photo and a comment following that. And as you see in the screenshot above, they are about my friends checking ‘Who is glancing through my profile?’ or ‘Who has seen my profile?’ Yes, Facebook provides me an option to Hide and free myself from all such alerts. But the issue is that I see that there are many such apps (with different names) but doing the same thing. The app lures the users by promising to reveal which of their friends are…

  • [How to] Buy Apple iPad Outside US

    Raju
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:14 am
    “Like it or hate it, you just can’t ignore it”. I am talking about Apple’s latest revolutionary gadgets which will supposedly change the way you access the internet – the Apple iPad which is available for pre-order starting March 12th, while the shipping starts on April 3 2010. But all these only for US customers. Apple has no plans to release iPad in countries like India, China, Brazil etc till late 2010 (while UK, Spain, Switzerland etc will be getting in the end of April). So, what if you are not in US, but still want to get your hands on the wonder gadget…

  • [How to] Download YouTube Videos to iPhone/iPod Touch

    Raju
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:55 am
    There will surely be times when you really like a video on YouTube and like to save it on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Apple by default do not provide that feature, neither do they allow any app which can do that for you. Jailbreaking an iPhone or iPod Touch has its own advantages and increases the potential and possibilities of the device much beyond what Apple intends. The YourTube app lets you download Youtube videos directly from the native YouTube client, but then it is not Free. Well, now there is a free alternative for YourTube, called WatchMob which is available in Cydia under BigBoss…

  • Limit uTorrent Bandwidth Usage With Transfer Cap

    Raju
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:12 am
    uTorrent is no doubt one of the most popular and widely used torrent clients in the world. With a wide variety of files available for download on torrents, one might go overboard when downloading files and actually cross the bandwidth usage limit set by the ISP. There have been instances when the ISP has temporarily banned users (even on unlimited plan) or charge extra money for downloading excessively via torrents. Luckily, the latest version of uTorrent – v2.0 has included a new feature called Transfer Cap, which helps you keep a tab on amount of data used in last 31 days. It allows…

  • Download Opera Mini 5 Beta for Android Phones

    Raju
    10 Mar 2010 | 11:52 pm
    The developers at Opera seem to be working over-time these days. Just a few days back Opera 10.5 final was released and now Opera Mini 5 (beta) is made available for Android based phones. If you remember, couple of weeks back, we had reported that Opera Mini for iPhones will be coming soon, but now Opera has rolled out the beta release of Mini browser for Android phones. This comes within an year of releasing Opera Mini 4 for Android. The main change in this latest version of Opera mini is the introduction of “tabbed browsing” which has become a must-have feature for all…
 
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  • Top Ten Ways to Show Appreciation to Employees

    HR
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:07 pm
    Appreciation in any form, is liked by all. It acts as a booster tonic to spur people to act, take up challenges and make bold decisions. Appreciation is a must in a work environment. An employee, a...

  • ASP.NET MVC

    Software Development
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:57 pm
    A design pattern can be termed as a solution that can be reused across the application to solve a complex software engineering and design problem. It can be defined as a template of how to solve a...

  • How Do Businesses Use Social Media?

    SEM
    3 Mar 2010 | 11:21 pm
    Social Media seems to be the biggest shift in the social sphere since in the Industrial Revolution. Social media uses the wisdom of crowds to connect information. It includes forums, message boards,...

  • DCI Gears Up For CeBIT 2010

    Franklin
    1 Mar 2010 | 11:34 pm
    With CeBIT 2010 starting today, Dot Com Infoway is gearing up to showcase its decade-long technological expertise to the world. As one of the few premier IT service providers from India to exhibit in...

  • Apple Censored Adults Only Apps From iTunes Store

    SEM
    24 Feb 2010 | 8:49 pm
    Apple store has revamped their policy on ‘overtly sexual content,’ and has started removing overtly sexual apps. Apple mentions in its SDK kit that “Applications must not contain any...
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  • kaspersky Error. Fix Disk Defragmenter Corrupted File Error

    Rockstar Sid
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:23 am
    When you are constantly using an program, the errors are prone to occur on Windows machine. Antivirus like Kaspersky face no exceptions in this case. After performing an web search, I found out about the kaspersky error dealing with Disk Defragmenter which has been around for quite some time now. The error is displayed on Kaspersky Internet Security software when you try to defragment the disk. This error is caused because of an virus named Heur Trojan Script iFramer. And such message is displayed on your screen Disk Defragmenter cannot continue prescan because there is corruption in file:…

  • Gadgets Similar to Apple iPad? Err.. Not the Apple iPad Clones

    Rockstar Sid
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:15 am
    With quite little amount of time remaining for the public release of Apple iPad, the pre-order are already in queue starting this month and this sleek tablet is not the only one of it’s kind around. There have been many internet tablets gadgets that are quite similar to Apple iPad, at least the design and few functionality do match up with the iPad! Although these are not the Apple iPad clones as most of these existed much before the release of Apple iPad rumors. Targeting the Apple iPad because of the large no. of enthusiastic fans, let’s check out the lookalike iPad gadgets, thanks to…

  • Gamato Shut Down Officially – No Movies, Music For Download

    Rockstar Sid
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:04 pm
    It’s amazing how piracy has taken its toll, thanks to the internet – It’s very much easier to download movies, music and any digital products for free! Here is another site that was shut down by the police – Gamato.info and it’s been shut down officially. Mininova faced it, and so did Gamato. Gamato, with an .info extension has become one of the top website for downloading movies, music off the internet attracting more than 16 million users each and everyday, and surprisingly the site is not in English. It’s in Greek. Gamato.info has been up and running for more than seven years…

  • How to fix hl2.exe Windows Error on Steam Games

    Rockstar Sid
    13 Mar 2010 | 8:28 pm
    A close match… down to the last two players…you are crouching near the crates watching long with a mag….a small movement…you spot the last remaining T…you move the crosshair on to his head…..bang… “hl2.exe has stopped working”. There goes the game and so does your composure, none of this would have happened if windows never showed hl2.exe error. Quite a large number of gamers have encountered this problem of hl2.exe whenever they tried to play games bought from Steam. This error is prone to such games which are based on the “half-life 2 engine” like counter-strike or…

  • Speedy Fox To Optimize, Speed up Firefox Profiles For Faster Firefox Browsing

    Rockstar Sid
    13 Mar 2010 | 7:23 am
    Firefox browser is lucrative in many ways – The exhaustive collection of addons and the easy to use functionality makes it the best web browser, and it has glued to that spot from quite a long time. As the amount of addons, bookmarks and url history adds up, firefox browser gets heavy and consumes a lot of memory resources that none of the other browsers could do. Firefox stays ahead, once again! (Being sarcastic) Thanks to Crystal Idea who has developed an simple application especially for firefox browser that optimizes the firefox profile. As you might know, your bookmarks, the…
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  • PMP Brief: ICOO R8, HOTT HD390, Onda VX550

    Tablet
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:21 am
    ICOO R8 ICOO R8 PMP ICOO has introduced a new PMP — the R8 — which has a 4.3-inch touchscreen and 4GB of storage features support for 1280p HD (y’know, for when they actually make that). The PMP was announced a few weeks ago, but now we know the price and storage capacity. The R8 will cost 399 yuan (just under $60). Source: Akihabara News The HOTT HD390HOTT HD390 The HOTT HD390 has a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution touchscreen with HD video streaming through its HDMI. It supports H.264, AVI, RM, RMVB, MKV, DAT, FLV, VOB, MPG, WMV, MMP4 and M4V videos and WMA, WAV, MP3, APE,…

  • Plastic Logic delays the QUE proReader until this Summer

    Tablet
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:03 am
    Delayed until this Summer Plastic Logic has been developing their eReader for well over four years now, so a two or three month delay shouldn’t bother most people. However if you were one of the original pre-orderers for the QUE proReader that started on January 7th, this delay could cause you to be rethinking your purchase of the $649 to $799 eReader. After all, January 7th was a long time ago in the tech world. Since then we’ve seen many tablet and eReader announcements — the most notable being the Apple iPad, MSI Harmony and the Spring Design Alex. The delay, to…

  • Toshiba tablets: take two

    Tablet
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:58 am
    Will Toshiba learn from its past mistakes? Way back when consumer slate tablets were in their infancy, before anyone had christened 2010 to be the “year of the tablet,” Toshiba announced that they — as a leading electronics company — were going to lead this slate crusade with their JournE Touch. Mind you, this was back in September of last year, but at that time they were the first big company to announce their tablet intentions. Excitement was in the air. Finally were were going to see the fulfillment of the promise of tablet PCs. Then they announced the specs. It was…

  • JooJoo takes a month off, gets its groove back

    Tablet
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:31 am
    The much more inviting JooJoo interface In the last chapter in the JooJoo/Crunchpad saga, the JooJoo needed to take a break. It wasn’t you, it was them. They needed to enlist in a period of self-discovery (and fix their capacitive touchscreen problems) so they pushed back their launch date by a month. Well now it looks like Fusion Garage — makers of the JooJoo — has put that time to good use and come back with a new look and better features. To start, the JooJoo now has an interface that you can look at. Gone is the random solid color screen and tiled interface. It has been…

  • Teclast C430H and C430TH PMPs enter the market

    Tablet
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:58 am
    The Teclast C430 model PMP Teclast is expanding their PMP line with the newly announced C430H and C430TH PMPs. Both the Teclast C430H and C430TH will feature a 4.3-inch touchscreen, T8100 chipset and will play RM, RMVB, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPG, VOB, 3GP and DAT video codecs and support 1080p HD video (as well as stream it via HDMI). They also play MP3, FLAC, WMA and ACC audio and come with microSD expandable card slots. As for the differences, the C430H has 4GB of storage and will cost a minimal 299 yuan (around $45). The C430TH has 8GB of storage, a 800 x 480 resolution and will cost 399 yuan…
 
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    ElephantSquared

  • Lockerz. Did you get your pointz today?

    George T
    9 Mar 2010 | 3:56 pm
    I just got my invite for Lockerz, a fresh community where you can earn points, also known as Pointz (or “PTZ“), and trade them for gifts like a Macbook, an iPod and so on. Lockerz is an invitation-only website created to connect members through commerce, content and social networking. Once invited, you’ll be able to watch exclusive video, buy great products, discover new music, play games, and connect with friends. You’ll be able to do this all in one place, AND you’ll get rewarded for just doing the things you love. When you watch a video, play a game, or even…

  • Microsoft Courier leaked photos and videos

    George T
    6 Mar 2010 | 10:48 am
    Engadget got some photos and videos on this new revolutionary-wanna-be product coming from Microsoft this time. Though this is still a concept show-off you have to admit that it is pretty cool. The User Experience/Interface is quite breath taking. I wonder if the final product will look like anything close to this. The sure thing is that Microsoft has taken a few things under serious consideration like the UI part in the last few years. Have you seen the latest Windows Mobile, oh I mean the Windows Phone 7 series? [ via ]

  • Apple iPad. Coming April 3.

    George T
    6 Mar 2010 | 8:10 am
    The wait is over. The iPad will be available on April 3. All the Apple fan boys out there can start pre-ordering the Apple iPad on March 12. Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a…

  • Gowalla now available at the Android Market

    George T
    6 Mar 2010 | 5:59 am
    It’s been a couple of weeks since Gowalla released a beta version for Android. Now it’s time for the first release which is available at the Android Market. Just go to ‘Market’ and search for ‘Gowalla’. Obviously this is a slightly better version than the beta one. (Note: I had to uninstall the beta version first because I kept getting an installation error ‘Package file was not signed correctly’) On the other hand, Foursquare now has a new person leading the Android app development, Mark Wyszomierski. There are already some nice new features…

  • Portal 2 coming soon

    George T
    5 Mar 2010 | 2:36 pm
    I know this isn’t what I usually blog about here but I am a little bit excited about this one. Valve just announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007’s Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards. Portal was one of the best games I have ever played and if you haven’t tried it out you should do it now. Though…
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  • NYT: Apple's Spat with Google Is Getting Personal

    14 Mar 2010 | 8:12 am
    It's no secret to anyone that while Apple sued HTC, the lawsuit is more about Google than HTC itself. Since Android is open source, and owned by no one, it's kind of hard to go after Google itself, and as such, HTC was the prime target, since it is the number one Android smartphone maker. The New York Times has an in-depth article up about the subject, with a whole boatload of quotes from people within the two companies, and it paints a picture of all this being a highly emotional and personal vendetta - especially from Apple's side.

  • Obama Sides with RIAA, MPAA; Backs ACTA

    12 Mar 2010 | 3:18 pm
    And thus, our true colours reveal. Since Obama was the young newcomer, technically savvy, many of us were hoping that he might support patent and/or copyright reform. In case our story earlier on this subject didn't already tip you off, this certainly will: Obama has sided squarely with the RIAA/MPAA lobby, and backs ACTA. No copyright and/or patent reform for you, American citizens!

  • China Insists Google Must Obey the Law or Face Consequences

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:42 pm
    It's been quiet about the Google-China dispute for a while now, but today, the silence was broken by China's minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, who stated that Google must either obey Chinese law or "pay the consequences", leaving no room for a compromise. With more and more western countries building their own internet filters and internet monitoring schemes, it becomes ever harder to make a strong fist against China.

  • Nokia Asks Judge to Dismiss Apple's Antitrust Claims

    12 Mar 2010 | 11:56 am
    While we are all busy discussing Apple suing HTC for patent infringement, we're almost forgetting that Nokia and Apple are also embroiled in about ten million lawsuits going either way. The most recent move comes from Nokia, who seeks to dismiss Apple's antritrust claims using pretty much the same arguments Apple used to counter Psystar's antitrust claims.

  • Microsoft Loses Second Appeal in Word Patent Case

    12 Mar 2010 | 7:54 am
    As most of you will know, Microsoft lost the patent lawsuit filed against the Redmond giant by i4i, while also losing the first appeal. Microsoft was forced to remove the infringing functionality from Word for US customers, but they also filed a second appeal. This appeal, too, has been lost.
 
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  • Cheap Laptop Computer

    Prasanth Chandra
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:28 am
    This guide is brought to you by moneysupermarket, and is complied in such a way that it offers you with some incredible key points which would help you to make wise decisions while purchasing a brand new laptop. Size and Weight With time, companies are coming up with more and more compact laptop computers. The newest laptops are generally more lightweight. Some might find it a crucial factor while some might not. But make sure that you choose only that laptop which can be carried by you with extreme ease. Primary Memory (RAM) Days are gone when laptop computer used to be way less powerful…

  • Mp3 Bitrate Changer – Change Bitrate To Compress / Reduce Size Of MP3 Files

    Prasanth Chandra
    13 Mar 2010 | 4:55 pm
    Changing the bitrate of the MP3 files is one the best way to compress / reduce the size of the MP3 audio file. Mp3 Bitrate Changer is a free tool which lets you change the bitrate in order to compress the size of the MP3 files. Since, reducing the bitrate degrades the quality of the MP3 file, so make sure that you do not reduce it to way lower values. It supports all Mp3 bitrates specified in MPEG-1 Layer 3 Standard: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256 and 320 kbit/s. It is very fast program and is very user friendly which lets you reduce the bitrate of any MP3 without…

  • WinTinker Password Generator – Create Strong Passwords Easy To Remember

    Prasanth Chandra
    11 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm
    WinTinker Password Generator is a free program which creates / generates strong passwords that can be easily remembered. A strong password should match letters, numbers, symbols and can switch between uppercase and lowercase letters. Unfortunately most users still use common words as passwords because they are easy to remember. However, a strong password is not necessarily difficult to be memorized, there are some small changes that can transform a common word in a strong password. WinTinker Password Generator is a small free tool that helps you turn ordinary words into strong passwords,…

  • ILovePDF – Split And Merge PDF File Online For Free

    Prasanth Chandra
    8 Mar 2010 | 11:12 pm
    IlovePdf is a free web service that lets you merge and split your PDF files. So, you need not download any program for that. You can simply visit their site and start using their service. Merge PDF Files: To use this feature go to the section Merge PDF, click on the button and choose two or more files to your PC. The order of choice will be the order in which they will merge. You can select up to 10 PDF files no larger than 8 MB (each). Split PDF Files: Go to the section Split PDF. Click on the button and select a file from your PC. The file can not exceed 8Mb. Once selected the file to…

  • Free Download Full Version – Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro – License / Activation Code

    Prasanth Chandra
    8 Mar 2010 | 1:50 pm
    Here is a promotional offer for free download of full version of Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro with Serial / License / Activation Code or key. This is a giveaway by PC Authority which lets you download the license / activation code for 6 months to  Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro. Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro is a powerful security program which protects your computer for hackers, adware, malware, and many unwanted activities and parameters. It offers you with functions like Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-mail Guard, and Privacy Control. Here is the step by…
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  • Verizon Nexus One to get HTC Sense UI?

    Harshad
    13 Mar 2010 | 10:56 am
    Google’s much hyped phone, Nexus One, is now coming to Verizon. The company has planned to sell its devices through online website, and it will not be available in stores. The AndroidCenral folks have managed to grab the leaked screenshot of Verizon’s Equipment Guide. This webpage shows many important details such as features and availability of the phone. Leaked Screenshot of Verizon’s Equipment Guide If you carefully look at the screenshot, it clearly suggests that Verizon Nexus One will get Sense UI. Earlier, HTC had denied the possibilities of getting Sense UI for Nexus One, but now…

  • Windows 95 runs on HTC HD2

    Harshad
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:31 am
    We all know that Microsoft and HTC are not going to release Windows Phone 7 upgrade for HTC HD2 users. It’s really frustrating for those who have bought the mobile phone to enjoy Windows Phone 7 OS on it. But hey, there is an interesting thing you can do with your HTC HD2. A developer has designed an emulator to run the Windows 95 on the device. Watch the video running Windows 95 on HTC HD2. Windows 95 on HTC HD2 As you can see in above video, Windows 95 runs on the Qemu and HTC Hd2’s 1GHz processor is supporting really well. The developer has shown MS Paint running on the phone, but you…

  • Watch IPL 2010 Season 3 Live Streaming Online

    Harshad
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:47 am
    IPL (Indian Premier League) T20 3rd season is starting from today and this time it is being hosted in India. Both the seasons turned out to be successful in terms of revenue as well as great performances. In IPL 2010 season, people are expecting more fun and entertainment from each team. As earlier, IPL T20 matches will be telecasted on Set Max(India) so that everyone can enjoy the experience thoroughly. Although the new players have been included, there will only be eight teams competing for IPL 3 trophy. There are 60 matches to be played in the entire season of IPL 2010, and all the matches…

  • Vodafone India announced Mobile App Store

    Harshad
    9 Mar 2010 | 6:53 am
    Indian telecommunication industry has been doing great business in recent period. Mobile users are also getting more tech savvy with advancement in technology and to fulfill the needs of subscribers companies have started providing cool facilities and attractive offers on products. Vodafone Essar, one of the biggest telecom companies in India, has officially launched a new mobile app store for customers. The app store was started in last month, but Vodafone preferred to make it official after 10000 downloads. Currently, this app store serves more than 800 applications in different categories.

  • IIM Ranchi Website Hacked [Updated]

    Harshad
    8 Mar 2010 | 6:50 am
    Hacking attacks on websites is not a new thing to the world, but in recent period hackers have targeted many educational websites. Today, the official website of IIM Ranchi got hacked. (IIMs are one of the most popular and respected business schools in India.) The hacker has put up an image with a short message to educational authorities of IIM. Have a look at the screenshot of IIM Ranchi website below. Looking at the above message, it seems that the website is hacked by ex-student of the institute. However, we will have wait till the official confirmation from educational authorities. Thanks…
 
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    Megaleecher.Net

  • Leaked Apple iPhone 4G Images !

    admin
    13 Mar 2010 | 9:39 pm
    iPhone 4G rumors are hot these days and every few days new concept images gets published on internet, here we have another set of freshest rumored leaked iPhone 4G images : read more

  • Start Menu 7 - A Better Alternative To Standard Windows Start Menu

    admin
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:46 am
    Start Menu 7 is a free utility which replaces the standard Windows Start Menu with a more easier to use better looking menu, basically what Start Menu 7 does is that it displays the menu-items in a more natural and easier to find alphabetically sorted order. read more

  • AutoPatcher Updated To Support Windows 7

    admin
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:01 am
    Quite a while ago Microsoft put a lid on third-party Windows update downloader AutoPatcher forcing them to shutdown, but it seems the utility is still available and now have been updated to support Microsoft Windows 7. For starters AutoPatcher let users and system administrators download updates once and apply them to as many computers they like without needing an active internet connection. AutoPatcher works pretty much like WSUS Offline Updater utility but with the added benefit of adding custom modules enabling users to apply registry tweaks and third-party applications complete with…

  • Easily Use Cydia From Windows Via Cyder II

    admin
    10 Mar 2010 | 2:54 am
    Cydia - the iPhone application which allows users to browse and download unofficial/unapproved iPhone applications, themes, ringtones and mods on their jailbroken phones is a must use if you intend to enjoy the full potential of your iDevice in ways Apple does not allows you to do by default. If you are missing the Cydia fun because you don't have a working data plan or Wi-Fi connection on your iPhone or simply because it's a pain to use it on the phone, here we have an awesome utility Cyder II which allows you to browse, download, manage and synchronize data with Cydia from your desktop…

  • Another Reason For Why Not To Buy Apple iPad Now !

    admin
    8 Mar 2010 | 10:04 pm
    Apple iPad is soon going to be available in retail markets, but after Microsoft's demonstration of quite promising rival booklet Courier, HP has now given another reason for customers to wait before buying Apple iPad by demoing their upcoming feature-rich, full touchscreen tablet computer with Adobe Flash support dubbed - HP Slate. read more
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  • Four Google Apps Marketplace Apps Worth Trying

    Gina Trapani
    For my latest column at Fast Company, I took a spin through the just-launched Google Apps Marketplace and found four apps worth hooking up to your domain. (One of my picks, TripIt, does a smart job of merging your existing account with your Google Apps account, too--the model for how any service that plugs into Google Apps should work.) Here's the full story.

  • Three Ways You Can Help Build ThinkTank

    Gina Trapani
    Hi all! I've been working furiously on ThinkTank over at Expert Labs for about six weeks now. Once in awhile I'll post an update on where we're at with the project. This is such an update, and it's cross-posted from the Expert Labs blog. ThinkTank development has been going strong, but we need your help. If you're a ThinkTank tester and/or a web developer, join the mailing list, fork the code, install ThinkTank on your server, and help us build the software and documentation. If you don't know what you can do or where to start, here are the three main priorities for ThinkTank right now: 1.

  • This Week in Google Video Podcast Now in iTunes

    Gina Trapani
    I've been a slacker posting up the YouTube videos of each week's This Week in Google episode, so I'm getting back to it. This past week was particularly fun for me because Jeff, Leo, and I were joined by Kevin Purdy, my colleague from Lifehacker who shares my enthusiasm for Android. The TWiT folks also tell me that TWiG video is now available in the iTunes Store as well; here are the feed links for TWiG video both large and small.

  • Latest Videos: Time Blocking and Google Wave for Business

    Gina Trapani
    My latest two videos are up at Fast Company: one's on firewalling your attention with time blocking, and the second is on three ways to use Google Wave in your business. The time blocking piece is actually a personal confession about my hermit tendencies. Sometimes I just shut everything off, fall off the face of the planet, and have some uninterrupted me-time. I've had co-workers say to me, "Um, where did you go today?" and the answer is usually "To my happy place, a distraction-free zone." As you'll hear in the video, at my last office job, I actually used to schedule a meeting with myself…

  • Rework: 37signals’ Recipe for Running a Business

    Gina Trapani
    37signals' new book Rework is a fast, inspiring read for anyone who's thought about starting a business but froze at the idea of quitting their job, getting investing, and working 24-hour days. As they do every day at their blog, in Rework the Signals break down their minimalist philosophy into a series of essays written in uncompromising language. Expect a table of contents full of sections entitled things like "Learning from mistakes is overrated," "Planning is guessing," "Outside money is plan Z," "Throw less at the problem," "Skip the rock stars," and "Meetings are toxic." While it's…
 
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  • Can’t our brains just all get along

    Rex Hammock
    1 Mar 2010 | 5:27 am
    On today’s Morning Edition on NPR, there are a couple of stories about brain development that are worth reading/listening to (which, by the way, is great — the ability to listen to, or read, content found on a website). If you have a teenager (especially one of the male persuasion) this piece by Richard Knox called, “The Teen Brain: It’s Just Not Grown Up Yet,” may help explain something you already know intuitively — your son is nuts (and if mine is reading this, you know I’m going for the cheap laugh). Okay, it doesn’t say your teen is nuts, it explains how, “nerve cells…

  • The eBook pricing debate attracts fuzzy math

    Rex Hammock
    28 Feb 2010 | 9:13 pm
    As the saying goes, if you can’t baffle them with brilliance, then befuddle them with math. Actually, that’s not the way the saying goes, but in this case, the math being “composited” (or should that be, “composted”) and the way the saying goes are the same things. Motoko Rich, in a Monday New York Times article about the pricing of ebooks, admits that “Publishers differ on how they account for various costs” but doesn’t let that stop her from coming up with a “composite” yet “necessarily simplified” cost-model that she says was based on “interviews with executives…

  • How Google’s algorithm rules everything

    Rex Hammock
    23 Feb 2010 | 9:38 am
    Steven Levy has a fascinating look at Google’s algorithm in Wired magazine. For those of us who are hopelessly wonkish about all-things-Google, there is little new in the facts presented — it’s not a “how-to” article about search engine optimization techniques, okay. However, Levy does a fantastic job — a “magazine writing” kind of job — of telling the human “story” behind the algorithm.* Favorite quote: “But for the most part, the improvement process is a relentless slog, grinding through bad results to determine what isn’t working.” The article underscores one…

  • I witnessed a miracle 30 years ago today

    Rex Hammock
    21 Feb 2010 | 10:15 pm
    [Note: Eight years ago today, on February 22, 2002 (yes, I was blogging back then), I wrote about one of the most incredible experiences of my life. The very first hockey game I ever saw in person was the most famous (in the U.S., at least) hockey game ever played, the Miracle on Ice. Today, exactly 30 years later, I still can't believe I witnessed it. But I can remember not being able to talk until the next day. Since today is the 30th anniversary of that event -- and since maybe only 12 people read my blog 8 years ago, I thought I'd repost it. (I've added an addendum at the bottom.)] (First…

  • Hire us, we can help you kick their ass

    Rex Hammock
    18 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am
    I feel the need for bluntness. Over the past several months, I’ve been in many conversations with potential clients about ways in which the content marketing company called Hammock can help find, create and syndicate content that will improve their lead generation efforts, improve their customer service, support their organic search and (without me actually saying it, turn their pretty yet boring websites into something people might find helpful and worth bookmarking). As many of these marketers are in a particular market I’m extremely familiar with, they bring up the name of a giant…
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  • Review: 23andMe DNA Testing for Health, Disease & Ancestry

    Paul Stamatiou
    5 Mar 2010 | 12:10 am
    Okay I know what you’re thinking — why is some genetics testing service being reviewed on Stammy’s tech blog? Well for one, because 23andMe is at the forefront of technology that is slowly but surely enabling the general public to get access to their genome data that would have cost thousands of dollars just a few years ago. I heard about 23andMe in 2008, when they were charging $1,000 for a DNA test and access to the results. Now the price is somewhat more reasonable, but still expensive at $399 for access to ancestry information, $429 for health or $499 for both. Each of…

  • Live Blogging: Startup Riot 2010

    Paul Stamatiou
    17 Feb 2010 | 5:37 am
    Startup Riot, the biggest and most interesting tech event (in my mind) hits Atlanta for its third year. You might remember the first two Startup Riots which I blogged about: I presented at the Startup Riot 2008 and covered Startup Riot 2009. I’ll backtrack a bit first. Startup Riot 2010 is a startup pitch event and this year 50 startups in Atlanta, GA will take the stage for 3 minutes or less and talk about their startup company with just 4 slides. It’s an all day event and by far a pillar event for the growing Atlanta tech community. That being said, Robert Scoble came into town…

  • Review: Rev iPhone app and PLX Devices Kiwi Wireless OBDII Module (Part 1)

    Paul Stamatiou
    14 Feb 2010 | 9:17 pm
    There are two things I do not usually talk about on this blog — cars (okay maybe there are one, two, three, four, five or more exceptions) and iPhone applications. The former because I am not quite sure everyone here would be interested in reading about anything except the technology behind the car and the latter because most iPhone apps do not have enough substance and utility to create a compelling review. Well I am breaking both of those rules today and for good reason. A few months ago I discovered a $40 iPhone app by DevToaster called Rev. What it does At $40 for an iPhone app, Rev…

  • How To: Apple MacBook Pro RAID 0 Array with 2 Intel X25-M SSDs

    Paul Stamatiou
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:07 pm
    In late 2008 I wrote about my experience using the first generation 80GB Intel X25-M SSD — my first SSD. I had to pay the early adopter tax for that SSD, so it cost me around $700. The speed boost alone justified the price to me. Fast-forward about a year and that SSD stopped working. I’m not quite sure what died — the controller or something else — but I RMA’d it with Intel and they sent me a new, second generation X25-M that week. The second generation (G2) X25-M is based on 34nm fabrication compared to the 50nm first generation. The G2 is also substantially…

  • How To/Review: Surf Securely with VyprVPN

    Paul Stamatiou
    14 Jan 2010 | 6:13 pm
    Knowing how to keep your web traffic data safe while browsing the web on unknown networks is a vital skill that not enough savvy Internet surfers take part in. I have previously discussed a few ways of solving this issue through the use of SSH tunnels (manually-created and application managed). I have also discussed things like “anonymous” web browsing through the Janus Privacy Adapter as well as with public Tor nodes. (Side note: Anonymous in quotes because truly anon browsing requires encrypted, signed traffic over private Tor networks — not public, published ones everyone…
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  • Easily Change the Default Operating System for Startup in Windows 7/Vista/XP MultiBoot Configuration

    Mezanul
    14 Mar 2010 | 12:06 am
    If you are running a multi-boot configuration setup with more than one Windows operating systems and want to change the default OS to boot to? Well, it’s pretty easy to configure the default boot operating system from within the current default OS.That is, if Windows 7 or Vista is currently your default operating system, then you will need to make this change from within Windows 7 or Vista, and not from Windows XP.Follow the simple steps below to easily change the default OS for startup in Windows multi-boot (or dual-boot) configuration:First open System (in Windows 7/Vista) or System…

  • My Technology Guide down for 4 hours

    Mezanul
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:40 pm
    Apologies for the major downtime that lasted around 4 hours. The main reason for the downtime reported was file system error in the web server. In order to rectify the problem, the server was restarted and checked for errors. According to the latest update, the web server is now working fine…Below is the Pingdom Uptime Report:

  • Free Download Norton 360 v4 with 90 Days Trial Subscription

    Mezanul
    12 Mar 2010 | 9:20 am
    Norton 360 is an “all-in-one” security suite that provides real-time protection against viruses, malware, Trojans, spyware and other computer security threats. The new version, Symantec Norton 360 version 4.0, can tune-up your computer, clean the registry of obsolete registry entries, remove unnecessary files to free up disk space, defragment the hard disk, optimize the computer system to keep it in top performance quickly and efficiently. In addition, the program also features an automated backup and restores system that can back up your files locally or to a secure online…

  • How To Enable/Disable Secure Log On [CTRL+ALT+DEL] in Windows 7 [Quick Tip]

    Mezanul
    11 Mar 2010 | 8:35 am
    You can easily configure Windows 7 to require all users to press CTRL+ALT+DEL to log on securely. When users press CTRL+ALT+DEL they are prompted to give a valid username and password to access the computer.When you use secure log on, it provides an extra layer of security for your computer by ensuring that the authentic Windows log on-screen appears. It is known as secure log on as when it is enabled, no other malicious program (e.g. a spyware or a virus) can intercept your user name and password as you enter it.One of the way you can configure this is through Advanced User Accounts, as…

  • Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Update for March 2010: Two Bulletins

    Mezanul
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:48 am
    Microsoft Security Response Center released an advance notification stating that Microsoft will issue two Security Bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities on Tuesday. Both of the vulnerabilities are rated “Important” and both may require a restart. The list of affected operating systems includes Windows XP (x86 and x64), Windows Vista (x86 and x64), and Windows 7 (x86 and x64). In case of Microsoft Office suites, all supported versions on both Windows and Mac OS X are affected.The exact breakdown of the bulletins is as follows:Bulletin 1: Important (Remote Code Execution),…
 
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  • Get your Office 2010 Upgrade Even if you are Late

    Amit
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:55 am
    The upcoming Office 2010 software will be available as a free upgrade to all users who have purchased a copy of Office 2007 on or after March 5, 2010. However, if you are feeling a bit unlucky because you got yourself a copy of Office 2007 just days before the upgrade offer was announced and are therefore ineligible for the free upgrade, here’s something that you should try. The Microsoft web store has a refund policy of 30 calendar days for all downloadable software. If you have bought the software in a box, it is also eligible for return within 30 days of the purchase date as long as you…

  • Are Web Pages Not Opening in Google Chrome?

    Amit
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:43 am
    Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome You are trying to open a web page in Chrome and all it gives you is this error message – “DNS Error – cannot find server.” You hit F5 to refresh a page but the error persists. You then open an alternate browser, like Firefox or IE, and the website loads up without any problem. So its a Chrome specific issue and has nothing to do with DNS Servers or your Internet connection. The support page on the Chrome website suggests that you clear your browser cache, delete the cookies and scan your computer for malicious software to fix…

  • The Internet Classroom

    Amit
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:56 am
    If the Internet were a classroom and all the different social websites were students, this is how a group photo of that class might have looked like. You can also download a landscape version of this graphic directly from Buzz. See some more infographics. The Internet ClassroomOriginally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.      

  • Taxi Driver in India Uses YouTube to Find Customers

    Amit
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:55 am
    It is always inspiring to read stories of people who may never have had an Internet connection but are still using the power of Internet to find clients from across the globe. Meet Samson – he drives an auto-rickshaw in the Souther Indian city of Chennai and has a proper website where his prospective clients can read more about his services and where they find him. Samson checks his email every week and says the best way to reach him is text: I can usually be found outside of the Taj Comorandel Hotel, please just walk down the ramp to the street and ask for Samson! I can also be contacted…

  • YouTube’s IPL Show Fails to Live up to the Hype

    Amit
    12 Mar 2010 | 7:06 am
    Have been trying to watch the IPL telecast on YouTube for some time and all I get is this “blue screen” saying they are “experiencing technical difficulties.” The video stream does appear intermittently but its extremely slow and flaky. The audio from the telecast has a very low volume and feels completely out-of-sync with video. The video quality of the live webcast isn’t any great either. On the plus side, the YouTube video player for the live-stream is beautiful – you can switch camera angles on-demand and there’s PIP (picture in picture) so you can watch two videos…
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  • TimeDriver: The Ultimate Appoitment Scheduling Tool

    FollowFlywheel
    2 Mar 2010 | 9:56 am
    TimeDriver is a service that enables you to streamline the scheduling of phone meetings and online demos.  When an appointment is created, it is automatically placed onto your Outlook or Google Calendar.  The service is like having your own personal appointment scheduling assistant. Here is a short video I recorded to explain the big picture: TimeDriver . So that was the quick summary. Now I am going to go over some of the more finite details so you can quickly add the value of this service to your business.  It all starts w/ choosing how you want to leverage your TimeDriver calendar…

  • Q3 Zoom: Finally, a Camcorder with Awesome Audio Quality

    FollowFlywheel
    23 Feb 2010 | 12:09 pm
    The Zoom Q3’s remarkable ability to record crisp and clear audio results in seemingly higher quality videos. Although the video quality parallels the Flip, the sound quality goes far beyond anything the Flip -or any other comparable recorder- offers. Despite the fact that the Zoom Q3 does not record in HD, you will still benefit from the ability to shoot quick videos with clear audio. You can directly import these videos into your jiveSYSTEMS account. This nifty little camcorder’s excellent audio quality is the result of its built-in dual condenser microphones. Getting technical, the…

  • [newsletter] It’s That Time Again, and We Have Lots of News

    FollowFlywheel
    17 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    In the past, our newsletters have been primarily a summary of the latest blog posts.  Things are changing. We are welcoming a new author to the blog, Propellerhead.  In addition to the posts I write on business and marketing, you will now be getting detailed articles on how to keep your computer in tip-top shape and other computer and software and hardware related subjects.  The Propellerhead author team is headed up by Reed LaFerriere, one of our video coaches.  His first 2 posts are invaluable resources for anyone who has used a computer and isn’t a total tech-head. Desktop…

  • The Problem Box: A Way to Keep Yourself and Others Focused

    FollowFlywheel
    10 Feb 2010 | 7:27 pm
    In the past few months, I have been using problem boxes to keep my business’ clients and team members focused on the important issues. What is a Problem Box? A problem box is a simple and effective way to isolate a specific problem and stay focused on solving it at that point in time, or to come back to it in the future. All the data is put into the problem box, organized, and then used to find the best solution. The better the input data, the more effective the solution will be. Why do I need to use a Problem Box? Large corporations spend months, even years, putting data into problem…

  • How to Increase ROI without Spending a Dime

    FollowFlywheel
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:32 pm
    If you are looking for tricks for increasing your ROI, you won’t have to look as far as you may think.  In fact, if your company currently has 200 or more prospects on its list, there are litanies of easy ways to generate more business by making little adjustments to the systems you already have in place.  These small changes will yield big returns. Start by tracing each of your lead generation funnels back to the point of sale.  If you have several, focus on the ones that have the greatest number of leads running through them.  By putting yourself in a cold prospect’s shoes and…
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  • Google Opens Apps Marketplace for Business

    Tony Tran
    9 Mar 2010 | 11:47 pm
    I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before. But Google remained mum about it until now. The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business. So whats this all about really? According to the Official Google Blog, the [...]

  • Business Blogging as Marketing Tools

    Tony Tran
    8 Mar 2010 | 9:45 pm
    Business blogging is all about promoting your business on the internet platform. Business blogging is gaining importance with every passing day because now, general public are interested in buying different product from the online resource. This change in the behavior of end users is diverting the mind of every small and big business to consider [...]

  • How Google Buzz is Different from Facebook & Twitter

    Tony Tran
    8 Mar 2010 | 9:41 pm
    Social media market is all set to become more competitive. With already cut-throat competition, surviving more for Facebook and Twitter would demand quite a bit of innovation and fierce marketing strategies. Google Buzz is in a better position to capitalize from its Gmail user base. Since Google Buzz is accessible through a link in Gmail, [...]

  • Increase the Power of your SEO Efforts

    Tony Tran
    7 Mar 2010 | 8:12 pm
    If you have been conducting search engine optimization efforts for your website for some time and you are wondering why things just are not working out like they should you might want to take a step back and take a look at some other factors that could be holding your website [...]

  • Online Personal Branding Tips to Build Now

    Tony Tran
    7 Mar 2010 | 8:10 pm
    Online personal branding and marketing helps not only your company search engine optimization, but also your own personal search engine optimization efforts. Whether you are trying to find a job or marketing your company, the bottom line is you should strive to build your name as a leader in your [...]
 
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  • Choose The Right Mate, Lover Or Friend Through Handwriting

    13 Mar 2010 | 4:12 am
    You're in love, have been in love or will be in love. How did it happen? You met him (or her) through a dating service, a "personal" ad. or at a party, dance, church, through friends or in business. What did you see in him? What caused the spark? Was it physical, his looks, the way he talks, walks or looks into your eyes? Was it his aggressiveness, forwardness, intellect or his apparent shyness? Was there the physical response we call "chemistry"? Were you too emotional to really... ( This is a content summary only. Visit our site for full links, other content, and more! )

  • How to Get an Exporter Code in India to withdraw money form PayPal

    1 Mar 2010 | 7:04 am
    If you are based in India and want to withdraw money from PayPal to your local bank account (or your credit card), you need to have an Importer Exporter Code. The Importer Exporter Code, or IEC in short, is normally required by manufacturers and companies for international trade but with this new RBI ruling, the hundreds and thousands of freelancers, programmers, web designers and small companies who depend on PayPal for foreign payment will also have to apply for an IE code. How... ( This is a content summary only. Visit our site for full links, other content, and more! )

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - By Stephen R.Covey Summarized

    1 Mar 2010 | 6:11 am
    Your habits determine your destiny.”1 That’s what Stephen R.Covey tells us in his highly acclaimed book - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. There have been many sequels written to this book, but if you follow these seven habits, you are sure to be successful in your life, agrees the whole world. The habits are summarized and are discussed here. When you take a look at some of the successful people in the world, the money they possess may blind you or the notoriety the public bestows... ( This is a content summary only. Visit our site for full links, other content, and more! )

  • Troubleshoot your Nokia Phone Problems with Nokia Diagnostics

    14 Feb 2010 | 9:59 pm
    Nokia Diagnostics is a free utility that can help you troubleshoot and resolve common problems with your Nokia phones. For instance, when you need to configure your Nokia device on a different Internet Connection (like moving from one Wi-Fi network to another), Nokia Diagnostics can automatically identify the right Internet settings for you. The utility can also help you test the phone’s battery charger, the loudspeaker and even the earpiece. Nokia Diagnostics works with... ( This is a content summary only. Visit our site for full links, other content, and more! )

  • How to Memorize Long Pieces of Text Quickly

    13 Feb 2010 | 9:53 pm
    Whether you are preparing to deliver a lengthy presentation in your company or need to memorize a long speech for an elocution contest in school, meet a useful web app that can possibly help you memorize long passages of text quickly. The app, aptly named as Memorize Now, works something like this. You copy-paste the text passages that you want to remember in the space provided and then hit the “memorize” button. The app will then replace certain words from the... ( This is a content summary only. Visit our site for full links, other content, and more! )
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  • Game Time Increases

    Hunter
    2 Mar 2010 | 2:30 pm
    Was this not to be expected? Venture Beat posted today that time spent playing video games keeps going up despite a shortage in sales. Well the majority of the games today are those that are expandable. Take for instance Rock Band, Modern Warfare 2, and World of Warcraft. While drastically different in genre, they all have the same purpose: to keep people playing after buying only one game. World of Warcraft is notorious for this approach and is capable of keeping people attached to their computers for weeks. Rock Band has days worth of songs that are available for download. Modern Warfare 2…

  • Condé Nast Magazines Coming to iPad

    Hunter
    1 Mar 2010 | 3:31 am
    Condé Nast is one of the more well known technology driven magazine publishers so it is not surprising that the makers of Wired are going to be some of the first to embrace the new iPad. As of now they look like the smartest publishers because just how many people will want to try out the reading experience on day one and say “ooh let’s try out this here Wired magazine.” Well played Condé Naste. Top Condé Nast Magazines are Coming to iPad.

  • Joojoo Shipping Date to be Delayed

    Hunter
    27 Feb 2010 | 9:53 pm
    The remnants of the once great and hyped Crunchpad were supposed to be released by the end of January. However, not surprisingly, the release date has been pushed back even further to March 25th. Good thing I lost interest in months ago… Joojoo shipping date to be delayed until March 25th – SlashGear.

  • Aurora Watch Replaces Gears With Lasers

    Hunter
    27 Feb 2010 | 4:51 pm
    This post was purely for the photo above. I have no real specs or other geeky stuff, just a photo that you might have seen over at Gizmodo of a very cool watch that replaces the old-timey gears with lasers. There is no doubt that if you buy this watch you will get one step closer to saying your name is “Bond.” Gizmodo.

  • Nexus One Finally Coming to Verizon

    Hunter
    27 Feb 2010 | 10:10 am
    The “Google Phone” originally launched solely on T-Mobile in early January. But the real surprise was the announcement that the Nexus One would be available on both Verizon and Vodafone later in the year. Now it has been reported from a source inside Google that the CDMA version of the Nexus One has a release date on Verizon of March 23 and will be coming to Vodafone in April. What will be interesting to watch is the sales of the Nexus One. This is the first smartphone to be available on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile at the same time. Nexus One reportedly coming to Verizon on…
 
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  • Increase Your Web Traffic With Social Media

    admin
    11 Mar 2010 | 8:01 am
    Once you have established your online business, it should not only be running though but should be way ahead of any competition (if you should want to quit whatever day job you have as well). Competition becomes another story considering the hundreds, if not thousands, competitor pages found on the Internet. The audience is the key as well as a snazzy website, quality products, and competitive prices if you mean business and being serious about generating traffic and sales. If not, then your efforts only amount to nothing. So here are a few web 2.0 techniques worth a try when you are looking…

  • Guidelines For Successful Blog Marketing

    admin
    10 Mar 2010 | 6:34 am
    The easiest part when you want to have a blog is to set it up at first. Then time will have to be spent on blog marketing, which could be the difficult part. If you do not do any marketing, your blog will not be found and you won’t be able to make any money with it. Here are useful blog optimization and marketing tips to make sure you will receive a steady flow of traffic to your blog: 1. In order to have a successful blog, do not opt for free hosting. Low cost hosting from providers like hostgator.com will work well. Also of use a sub domain (i.e blog.mywebsite.com) or use your very own…

  • 5 Tips For Attention-Grabbing Blog Articles

    admin
    9 Mar 2010 | 8:13 am
    Many bloggers and webmasters deal with traffic as their major challenge. Although a lot of people manage generating traffic to their website, they find it hard to sustain it consistently. You can find a few tips below on writing attention-grabbing articles and also how to keep your readers wanting more. 1. Headline A lot of people make mistakes when it comes to headlines. It is wise to keep in mind that your headline would determine how many people would be wanting to read your articles. A lot of people make excuses saying that they are not copywriters and they are not great at making…

  • Here Is How Google Indexes Your Blog Within 24 Hours

    admin
    8 Mar 2010 | 6:03 am
    Optimizing your blog so Google will index it immediately is no feat.  However, with a lot of confusing information on search engine optimization (SEO) about how to beat the natural ranking system and ranking high in Google search, many are disappointed and often times fail. The probability of Google indexing your site in 24 hours or less is possible.  However, the secret to your success in doing so is strategy.  If you already have your blog ready, read on and follow the simple steps and you’ll be surprised to see your site in Google’s search result within a day. Easy to Follow Steps…

  • Guidelines For New Blog Owners

    admin
    5 Mar 2010 | 6:47 am
    For a few weeks or months now, you have your blog.  Layout is fantastic and have a few guest articles published on other blogs.  Because of that, you’ve gained some backlinks.  Despite all these, traffic is still slow.  You are beginning to lose interest because of this.  Things are not moving the way you want them to be despite your efforts, despite your hardwork.  You’ve read a lot of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) stuff and it seems you’ve followed but still nothing.  Pretty soon, you’ll give up and eventually lose your blog into the world of anonymity.  Does this sound…
 
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  • Playing D&D on Microsoft Surface

    Christian Decker
    17 Feb 2010 | 7:36 pm
    When Microsoft first unveiled their Surface Project I thought, like so many, “Nice toy but what will it actually be used for?”. Well I just came across a nice Video of a Project by Carnegie Mellon University playing D&D on Surface. I’m a huge fan of RPGs and this ranges among the coolest accessories I’ve [...]

  • How to fix Google Buzz

    Christian Decker
    17 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am
    While I’m not quite sure on what to think about Google Buzz, just like I was ambivalent when it came to Twitter, I am quite sure that there is room for improvement. And I’m not the only one, there is an entire site dedicated to Digg style improvement idea collection called How To Fix Google [...]

  • ShowRSS down

    Christian Decker
    22 Jan 2010 | 8:16 am
    I’m a huge fan of Broadcatching because it allows me to catch up with the latest news and watch my favorite shows when I got time, and not when they are scheduled, and a nice side effect is that I don’t need to own a TV. When I wanted to find out if there is something [...]

  • Distro-Upgrading from openSuSE 11.1 to 11.2

    Christian Decker
    14 Dec 2009 | 6:58 pm
    One of the features I always envied the Ubuntu people for is the ability to do a distro upgrade without tearing down my whole system and doing the CD-Dance. While that may still be needed from time to time to ensure a nice and compact system, it is just incredibly time consuming. With the latest version [...]

  • Getting Chrome OS to run under VirtualBox

    Christian Decker
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:05 am
    You are eager to try out Chrome OS but don’t want to install it on your productive system? Well there is a great VMWare Virtual Appliance compiled by Mark Renouf. But what if you prefer VirtualBox over VMWare? That was my point exactly so here is what I did to get the image to run under [...]
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  • PENTAX Enters the Medium Format DSLR Market

    Jeff
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:54 pm
    The PENTAX Imaging Divison of Hoya has brought new life to the companies 645 line by introducing a forty megapixel DSLR called the PENTAX 645D. The PENTAX 645D has a Kodak designed 44mm by 33mm sensor and will accept the existing lenses in the analog (film) 645 cameras. This is big news to PENTAX shooters that will [...]This post is from: Gizmotastic.comPENTAX Enters the Medium Format DSLR Market

  • Out Now: New Iron Man 2 Trailer

    Jeff
    7 Mar 2010 | 10:24 pm
    We have to wait until May 7th to see Iron Man 2, but a new trailer out came been released late this evening. The action sequences from Iron Man, War Machine and Whiplash look out of this world. It looks like Jon Favreau has outdone himself. This post is from: Gizmotastic.comOut Now: New Iron Man 2 [...]This post is from: Gizmotastic.comOut Now: New Iron Man 2 Trailer

  • Speedlight Showdown

    Jeff
    3 Mar 2010 | 8:23 pm
    Today I started a replacement cycle on my portable (hot shoe) strobes. For the last 28 years I had relied on the trusty Vivitar 283s. Modern technology has left the 283 in the dust, so I went with the latest Nikon Speedlights the SB-600 and SB-900 from Nikon. Now that I have the first units in [...]This post is from: Gizmotastic.comSpeedlight Showdown

  • Needing Help On The Guitar? There’s An App For That

    Jeff
    2 Mar 2010 | 10:19 pm
    Gibson has cranked out an App for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch that will become a Go To tool for guitarist on all levels. The Gibson Learn & Master Guitar is a free App that is already in the iTunes Store. It features Chromatic Tuner with alternative tuning settings, a metronome, cord charts and free [...]This post is from: Gizmotastic.comNeeding Help On The Guitar? There’s An App For That

  • March Winds Blow In Mamiya DM40 and DM40 Digital Back

    Jeff
    1 Mar 2010 | 8:22 pm
    When I see a press release about a new camera boasting 40 megapixel, I’m going to read it. When I see that the 40 megapixel back that can fit my RB67 is available, I’m going to hope I win the lottery. Mamiya will be rolling out the DM40 this month. The medium format DSLR can capture [...]This post is from: Gizmotastic.comMarch Winds Blow In Mamiya DM40 and DM40 Digital Back
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  • Fan Friday: Finding Balance in the Force - Crafting the Jedi Consular

    5 Mar 2010 | 7:18 am
    The latest Fan Friday content has been posted on the official Old Republic site! This week Bioware writer Joanna Berry brings to light some thoughts behind crafting the Jedi Consular! "For me, the challenge � and the fun � of writing the Jedi Consular is keeping a sense of balance between intelligence and arrogance, between what�s right and what could win the war against the Empire. A Jedi Consular must sometimes accept the grayer path, the less perfect choice. He or she must make the decisions the Republic can�t, in order to save it." Be sure to check it out.

  • Daniel Erickson Answers if You Will Be Lost Playing SWTOR if You Never Played KOTOR

    1 Mar 2010 | 3:51 pm
    Daniel Erickson made an appearance on the forums to discuss a question that is often asked: Will I be lost if I never played KOTOR?. You absolutely will not have had to play KOTOR to understand The Old Republic. Even for fans of the series the last KOTOR game was years ago so it would be silly for us to expect people to have an encyclopedic knowledge at their fingertips. We want both the most casual fans of just the Star Wars movies and harcore fans of the entire extended universe to be comfortable in The Old Republic. If you have to possess a knowledge of extensive backstory in order to…

  • Fan Friday: Developer Dispatch: Returning to Taris & Threat of Peace, Issue #27

    26 Feb 2010 | 11:16 am
    The latest Fan Friday content has been posted on the official Old Republic site! This week Bioware drops the latest Developer Dispatch: Returning to Taris and Threat of Peace, Issue #27. Once home to a sprawling planet-wide city, Taris was razed long ago by the Sith Lord Darth Malak while seeking to eliminate the Jedi Knight Bastila Shan. Now, a post-apocalyptic Taris is being realized in Star Wars�: The Old Republic�. After 300 years, Republic and Jedi leaders are moving forward with the efforts at colonization. Watch insights from James Ohlen, Drew Karpyshyn, Scott Carpenter, and Mark…

  • Fan Friday: The Old Republic Community Fan Friday

    20 Feb 2010 | 5:12 am
    The latest Fan Friday content has been posted on the official Old Republic site! This week Sean is highlighting some TOR inspired community art by StandAlone, Trooper animation of the ability �Full Auto� in the Developer Corner, a 3D model rendering of a Rancor, a Fan Site Kit, new avatars, and four new polls: Welcome to another exciting Fan Friday where we shine the spotlight on talented members of Star Wars�: The Old Republic� community and share some gems from the Development Team. This week, we also want to present you with the official Star Wars: The Old Republic Fan Site Kit! We…

  • Fan Friday: Threat of Peace, Issue #26 and Latest Planet Unveiled is Taris

    12 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am
    The latest Fan Friday content has been posted on the official Old Republic site! This week Sean presents the TOR community with the twenty-sixth issue of Threat of Peace as well as unveiling the latest planet's Taris HoloNet: Once home to a thriving civilization, Taris was razed by the Sith Lord Darth Malak 300 years ago during the Jedi Civil War. As a symbol of hope, redemption, and defiance, the Republic has begun an unlikely effort to re-colonize Taris. To do so, they will have to deal with the toxic soil, dangerous pirates, and ferocious rakghouls � the only survivors of the Sith…
 
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    DanLew.com - Internet Marketing / SEO Professional

  • Melbourne SEO Courses

    Dan Lew
    5 Mar 2010 | 7:36 pm
    Have you always wondered how you could improve your websites ranking in the search engines? Or are you the few that have some good knowledge already but need to improve this knowledge to get the personal results you are striving for. If this sounds like you, then you need to be a part of this [...]

  • Australian Business Directory

    Dan Lew
    22 Feb 2010 | 7:00 pm
    For those of you who are not aware back in my recent posts about setting up an office back in Australia and discussing about doing business in Melbourne I thought what better way to top it all off by putting together an Australian Business Directory – Ausindex.com.au. For SEO purposes getting lots [...]

  • GSEO Website Review

    Dan Lew
    18 Feb 2010 | 4:33 am
    First of all I would like to thank Alan Josef Caceres who recently did a review about the GSEO website.  He gave some good opinion and insight as to what the website has to offer. I am very grateful to have good friends like Alan who support the fast growing community that took me 2 [...]

  • Creating Facebook Fan Pages for Social Marketing

    Dan Lew
    17 Feb 2010 | 5:57 pm
    Recently just for experimental reasons and of course to later to generate traffic, I was playing with the creation of Facebook fan pages. It’s really unbelievable to see some of the most basic fan pages that have thousands upon thousands of fans. So anyway I decided to also create a few fan pages that were also [...]

  • Making Money Online With CJ.com

    Dan Lew
    9 Feb 2010 | 9:44 pm
    I must say it takes a while before you start to see some money come through with CJ, but as the saying goes once it rains it pours! Between January to early February I have made a total of $235. It’s not a huge amount, but it’s something for one out of many affiliate programs [...]
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  • Flash: Game Cheats CD

    techblogger
    21 Feb 2010 | 9:25 am
    Some of my previous work to download free. Download File

  • FPS PC Game

    techblogger
    14 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am
    Akadia The Lost Empire, intelligent and entertaining adventurer FPS PC Game to Be Launched in Sri lanka.Ada Tan comes alive with intricately animated moves and abilities.New character animations and controls allow her to move through stunning environments with grace and precision.although the island seems beautiful Our unlikely hero soon finds herself fighting for survival against heavily armed opponents.Akadia Tech InfoGenre: First-Person ShooterRelease Date: To Be AnnouncedESRB: Teen System Requirements: Supported OS: Windows XP/ Vista / Windows 7 (only) Processor: AMD Athlon…

  • Mistakes Made By Most Of You With Affiliate Programs

    techblogger
    27 Nov 2009 | 7:18 am
    You spend a few weeks putting together, or finding your product - now you can sit back while your own ARMY of  eager sales people drive sales and fill your bank account.Sound about right?It can happen to you.You really can develop an online business where the vast majority of your sales come from others who are eager to share your product with their customers and subscribers.Unfortunately 95% of the affiliate programs out there don't follow the success patterns and they pay the price -- no sales, inactive affiliates, lots of administration.Here's the truth about average affiliate…

  • What Matters When It Comes To Advertising

    techblogger
    25 Nov 2009 | 8:28 am
    When advertising, you need to sell your opportunity, your products, and yourself. What sets you apart fromeveryone else?Maybe you produce a newsletter with a specific contentwhere there is a demand from a particular group of people,or you promote your own special product that no one havenot yet seen. That´s a huge benefit! That´s what youneed to sell in your ad campaign, and those are the thingsyou need to do in order to become successful.You don´t have to be worried that network marketingprosperity is difficult. It isn´t. In fact, it has never been so easy to make a decent second income…

  • There Watching You online

    techblogger
    25 Nov 2009 | 7:58 am
    When surfing the Internet you probably take your anonymity for granted, most of us do. Tapping phones, listening to confidential conversations, reading others' e-mail messages seems like something that only happens in spy movies to "other" people. However, you probably don't realize just how much information about yourself has the potential to get transmitted across the Internet every time you go online. Every computer connected to the Internet has "ports" that allow it to connect. A "port" doesn't mean you have a physical hole or opening in your computer's case or hardware, but it does mean…
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  • Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet Marketing Snake Oil)

    Tamar Weinberg
    10 Mar 2010 | 5:23 am
    I met her during my freshman year of college, though she was two years my senior. We’d exchange greetings when we passed in the dormitory hallways. Nine years later, we met again when we were assigned to the same tables at a local luncheon. She told me she worked in Internet Marketing, which I was quite excited to hear given that there was no marketing discipline taught at all in our alma mater. We started talking about the last few years and our dreams for the years ahead. We then got into the nitty gritty of business. With Internet Marketing, there are many ways to go, from affiliate…

  • How a Small New York City Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media

    Tamar Weinberg
    4 Mar 2010 | 5:39 am
    Did you know that New York City offers more opportunities than the standard tourist attractions? Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? I know when my parents come to NYC, they go to what’s familiar. When you go to a conference in Manhattan, you probably seek out hotels that you’ve also heard of. Face it, it’s a competitive landscape out there, especially for tourists who flock to familiar names but perhaps do not realize that there are other options in the city. How does one…

  • 11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

    Tamar Weinberg
    23 Feb 2010 | 5:20 am
    A few weeks ago, I posted about the seven characteristics of highly effective online video. Taking this theme a little further, I decided to branch out into the blogosphere, but using the number seven this time around was a tad too limiting. There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. These characteristics give the blogs mentioned below fame, fortune, and loyal followings. Want to build your blog and following? Here are some key ideas and takeways — as well as inspirational bloggers you might want to follow — who can help…

  • Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

    Tamar Weinberg
    16 Feb 2010 | 5:47 am
    As we know, Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform and enables businesses and individuals to build strong relationships with customers and peers. I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I consider my current @tamar network, though, either quite knowledgeable or clueless and inactive (as in the case of my family — I still love them but they’re not the target audience for my Twitter account, which is rather social-media focused). I’m not sure there’s…

  • Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging Manners Would Do

    Tamar Weinberg
    10 Feb 2010 | 5:56 am
    As a blogger, I’m sure you receive a fair number of emails pitching you with products. As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. We both have difficult jobs. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. They’re tasked with contacting bloggers about different initiatives, sending out story ideas and “press releases” (hopefully with a social component, since those are preferred by many…
 
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  • In other Howard Stern news: Gabourey Sidibe ‘most enormous fat black chick I’ve ever seen’ – Internets shocked and appalled

    andreaitis
    10 Mar 2010 | 2:25 pm
    Actress Gabourey Sidibe at the Oscars in March 2010 (Getty Images) Howard Stern is having a banner week so far.   While he’s snagging headlines for his Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant, he’s also getting slammed for his comments about Precious star and Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe. Howard Stern’s saying something shocking! (Shocker, right?) Today his target is Precious’s Gabourey Sidibe. “There’s the most enormous, fat black chick I’ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone’s pretending she’s a part of show business and she’s…

  • Jamie Jungers wins Howard Stern’s Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant

    andreaitis
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:38 pm
    For the first time in a very long time, I miss Howard Stern. I used to listen to Howard and the gang on WXRK in New York,  way back when commuters carried Sony Walkmen and still read newspapers.   In 2006 Howard moved to Sirius satellite radio, and I moved on.  I’ve thought about Howard over the years, but mostly with nostalgia and fond memories.  Until today, when my Tweetdeck informed me of the Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant.   I felt a pang, a sudden craving for the Howard I used to know and love.  So I did the next logical thing:  I googled.  And, lo and behold,…

  • Should registered sex offenders be identified in social networks?

    andreaitis
    9 Mar 2010 | 1:30 pm
    In October of last year, 17-year-old British teenager Ashleigh Hall ‘met’ a young, handsome teen named Pete Cartwright on Facebook.   They struck up a friendship and made plans to get together on October 25th.   Ashleigh told her mom she was going to stay with a friend, but instead went off to meet her Facebook friend for the very first time.   At least, she thought she was meeting Pete Cartwright.  Turns out she was really meeting Peter Chapman, a 33-year-old convicted rapist. Chapman raped and killed her, before dumping her body in a gully, close to Old Stockton Road near…

  • Arianna Huffington, Steve Case and Jay Rosen walked into a bar…

    andreaitis
    2 Mar 2010 | 12:51 pm
    Image by Getty Images via Daylife “I didn’t kill newspapers, darling.” Arianna Huffington knows a good soundbite when she says one.  Perhaps that’s why The Huffington Post co-founder quoted her own 2009 Webby Awards acceptance speech at the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ conference in San Francisco yesterday.  Ariantrepreneur (my new nickname for her) was at the4A’s conference to speak about their theme,  Transformation 2010.   Here’s a description of the conference from 4A’s site.  To help, I’ve highlighted in this…

  • Tony Kornheiser, Hannah Storm and free speech as an endangered species

    andreaitis
    24 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    Hannah Storm in the "horrifying" outfit. PS: I'd wear it. Hannah Storm’s Wikipedia entry has been updated already: In February 2010, fellow ESPN colleague Tony Kornheiser harshly criticized her outfit that day on his radio show, and was suspended from ESPN for 2 weeks. He has since apologized to her via a 15 minute phone conversation. via Wikipedia What did Kornheiser say that warranted a two-week suspension and a 15-minute apology?  Did he say she stood by and did nothing while videotaping kids bullying an autistic child?  Did he call her a racist?  Did he suggest she…
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    ITVibes Blog on Business Websites, Social Media, Marketing, Apps & Solutions

  • Email Marketing – Visit your clients often

    Siva
    19 Feb 2010 | 1:38 pm
    This is a continuation to the blog post ‘Have you spread the word out?‘. Staying in touch with your customers on a regular basis has become increasingly important for businesses. Serving information, sharing knowledge, presenting with updates on a regular basis creates trust, loyalty, and comfort level to customers and prospects. As email has become an industry standard for daily communication, sending updates through Email is the communication standard for marketing. Email Marketing Strategy Few ways to do Email Marketing: Are you tracking your sales & contacts? One of the…

  • Networking is the New Branding

    Siva
    10 Feb 2010 | 5:59 pm
    This is a continuation to blog post ‘Have you spread the word out?‘. Social Media is the new wave of networking. Understand, Strategize, and Build your Social Media presence to take advantage of the effectiveness in reaching out to real people. Companies are using Social Media to create awareness to their services, products, to publish company updates and simultaneously to receive feedback to improve their offerings. Small businesses are embarking into implementing Social Media to streamline their Sales, Marketing, Public Relations, and Customer Service and to energize their…

  • Have you spread the word out?

    Siva
    3 Feb 2010 | 5:07 pm
    Your product or service is great and awesome. But do people really know about it? Spread the word In this fast pacing online world, it has become extremely demanding for the businesses to build a rich and energetic web presence. The whole game of marketing is shifting to a new level. The traditional and conventional marketing strategies are stepping backwards, with more and more online and email marketing steps gaining momentum. With all the information, and entertainment switching to ‘on demand streaming’ the average time spent by an individual online is growing exponentially. For small…

  • Social Media Networking – it’s all about CONNECTING.

    Siva
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:17 pm
    Project EdieMcRae.com Edie McRae is a Social Media Networking Specialist. We initially worked on her Millionaire Moms Inc. blog migration and maintenance. When Edie wanted to grow into a new identity and branding we worked together to brand her as new “Edie McRae”. And of course, it’s just the new looks, but she is still her! Edie’s statement about her business and services: “Are You Missing the Social Media Revolution? If you are an entrepreneur, solo-professional, business owner, franchisee, marketing director, work-at-home-mom or a direct sales professional who would…

  • Are you a Rock Star? Even in Crisis?

    Siva
    6 Jan 2010 | 5:38 pm
    I follow Aly and Andrea’s blog from Rock Star U who are on a mission to touch a gazillion lives and make a difference in each definition of personal success. Today I read their latest post “5 Most Critical Steps to Beating Adversity, Obstacles, and Other Major Crisis in Your Life” and got inspired to write this blog post. I believe it is such an important topic to discuss as everyone relates to this both personally and professionally in their lives. Be a Rock Star (even in crisis) In continuation to the 5 most critical steps as laid out by Aly and Andrea, I want to include…
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  • HDMI Licensing, LLC releases HDMI specification v. 1.4a

    6 Mar 2010 | 6:28 am
    HDMI Licensing, LLCD which is responsible for licensing the High Definition Multimedia Interface or HDMI specification has announced the release of HDMI specification version 1.4a. The new specification features key enhancements for 3D applications such as the addition of mandatory 3D formats for broadcast content and the addition of the 3D-format called Top-and-bottom. The latest enhancements is

  • HD movie trailers for 44 inch chest, Jackie Chan In Shinjuku Incident, Falling Awake and Ajami

    10 Feb 2010 | 11:20 am
    Apple Movie Trailers have released HD movie trailers in 1080p and 720p for 44 inch chest, Jackie Chan In Shinjuku Incident (starring Jackie Chan), Falling Awake and Ajami.

  • Blu-ray releases for week 6: Couples retreat, Bronson, Stargate

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:05 pm
    These are the Blu-ray movies being released on week 6 or February 9, 2010:36BecomingBronsonCouples RetreatDareDrop ZoneHalo LegendsHard RainI Hate Valentine's DayThe PhantomThe Running ManSerious MoonlightA Serious ManStargate Universe - SGU: Season 1.0The StepfatherThe Time Traveler's WifeFor more information, visit Highdefdigest.com

  • JVC announces the Everio GZ-HM340 HD camcorder

    3 Feb 2010 | 12:14 pm
    JVC Everio GZ-HM340 HD camcorderJVC has announced their latest addition to the Everio-line of HD camcorders; the Everio GZ-HM340. The newest camera features 16 GB of internal memory, 20X optical zoom (Konica Minolta HD Lens), a SD/SDHC card slot and functions such as auto recording and time lapse recording. As with other cameras in the Everio-series, the GZ-HM340 features advancements in low

  • Acer debuts GD235HZ 23.6" 3D display in the U.S.

    2 Feb 2010 | 2:09 pm
    Acer has debuted their new 3D display GD235HZ for consumers in the United States. The display is a 23.6 inches big display which delivers Full HD 3D in 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution (16:9) with a 120 Hz refresh rate. To view 3D content such as High Definition 3D games or Blu-ray movies,  you have to combine the display with NVIDIA 3D Vision active-shutter glasses. The GD235HZ is Acer's first
 
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  • Verb: User Focused Task Management and Sharing

    srikanth
    11 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am
    VerbApp is a free web based user focused task management and sharing application. If you are looking for an effective task management application then, VerbApp is for you. It’s the perfect solution for freelances who would like to manage their tasks and collaborate in an organized manner. Features Task Management Verbapp gives you full control over your tasks. It lets you create to-do lists, set priorities, tags and due dates. It makes it easy for you to know upcoming deadlines and tasks to be done. You can create multiple projects each containing multiple tasks. You can quickly search…

  • Two Major Security Flaws, A Rant and The Fixes

    Squealing.Rat
    10 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am
    I was recently staying at a hotel that offered Wi-Fi. On the network with my Macbook, I noticed the other computers on the network. Curious, I clicked on one, expecting to see a password prompt or an access denied message. Instead, I saw the computer’s public folder and another folder. Interested in what files someone would publicly display to anyone on the network, I opened it to see files that were highly sensitive, including financial data. My mind was blown. What kind of person would do this? Perhaps a person who had no idea how to use their computer. Perhaps a person that…

  • How To Create Custom RSS Feeds for BitTorrent Clients

    UzEE
    9 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am
    I’m sure everyone here knows that BitTorrent is one of the most popular digital content delivery networks out there. The Peer to Peer distribution technology amounts for nearly 30% of the total web traffic and is used by a number of leading corporations, movie studios and media outlets including 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Paramount, Spike TV, MTV, Netgear and D-Link. Here at Lost in Technology, we have covered torrent related topics in great detail including tips on how to make torrents, open ports, optimize bandwidth utilization and improve speeds. Today, I’m going to share a neat…

  • How To Access Google Services in Chrome with One Number

    Umar.Anjum
    8 Mar 2010 | 7:00 am
    Google is constantly trying to better their products. To enhance the functionality of their internet browser, Chrome, Google has released a number of extensions that complement the browser. Many of these extensions integrate many of Google’s existing services into Chrome. For example, there is a Google extension for Gmail which places an icon in the address bar showing the number of unread messages. A similar Google extension exists for Google Reader. These extensions are quite helpful for a person who is using one of these services. But if somebody is using both services, then installing…

  • Weekly Tech Links: March 7, 2010

    Kyle Judkins
    7 Mar 2010 | 2:30 am
    This is my weekly round up of the links I have followed over the past week. You can get this list every week by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing through email. You may also follow me on Twitter or join the Facebook Fan Page to get some of these links throughout the week. As usual, catch the links after the break. How To How to sort Gmail by attachment size of emails How To Find Serial / License Key Of Windows 7 / Vista / XP And Other Windows OS | PCs Place How to Gain Access to Your Hacked Email Account – Make Tech Easier Internet Download, convert Hulu video files free Run a Total…
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  • Two New Gestures for the iPad, possibly iPhone and iPod Touch

    Evan
    11 Mar 2010 | 6:22 am
    Thanks to a great new discovery by 9to5Mac, there is news of two new types of gestures that have popped up in the iPad SDK 3.2b4. As seen in the picture below, the devices will presumably now include an option for developers to use a “3 Tap” and a “Long Press”. The long press is currently used exclusively by the OS itself for the pop-up copy menu; The 3 tap is used to toggle the display on or off while using VoiceOver. Both of these however, will now be available for developers to include within their applications to perform other functions. Although there is no…

  • Valve’s Steam is Officially Coming to the Mac

    Evan
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:32 pm
    They’ve been teasing us about this for quite some time, but now it’s official. Valve’s digital distribution service Steam is coming to Mac in April, and it is bringing it’s most popular titles with it. Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and, of course, the Half-Life series (along with Source) will all be available for Mac users everywhere. Not only that, but you will be able to play the games cross platform – starting on a Mac and continuing the game on a PC, or visa versa. Still not awesome enough? Mac and PC versions will be bundled…

  • Apple iPad Release Delayed Until April

    Evan
    5 Mar 2010 | 7:49 pm
    Apple announced today that they are delaying the release of the iPad until April. When initially unveiled on January 27th, the release date was loosely set for “late March”. Don’t panic, however, if you’ve preordered one or were planning on heading to your local Apple store to pick one up the second they’re available, you don’t have to wait long. The officially set release date when you’ll start seeing the iPad on store shelves is April 3rd, which isn’t too far of a stretch from their original “late March” guesstimates. Apple has not…

  • 5 Free Must-Have iPhone Multiplayer Games

    Evan
    2 Mar 2010 | 9:35 am
    Anyone who’s ever played multiplayer online games enjoys them and this is no exception when it comes it iPhone and/or iPod Touch (and soon to be iPad) gaming. The following 5 free games are all internet-enabled multiplayer games that any serious iPhone gamer will enjoy. Words With Friends Free is in a league of its own. As we’ve said previously, this is easily the absolute best word game available for the iPhone today and the online play earns it the top spot on this list. Don’t let the title deceive you, this should be installed even if you don’t have friends. Chess…

  • Is a camera in the iPad’s future?

    Evan
    24 Feb 2010 | 7:31 am
    Apple briefly released – and then unreleased – the iPad SDK the other day, and much to the surprise of those who got their hands on it, there was camera support. Needless to say it is impossible to know if this was for a once toyed-with feature that was taken out or for the possibility of inclusion in future models, but the software development kid includes support for a front facing camera, camera flash, zoom and even video conferencing. For those of you who consider the glass half full, this could mean the potential future inclusion of a camera, but the realists out there…
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  • ITT For Higher Engineering Education? PWND!

    Wanksta
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:08 pm
    When the economy is bad and jobs are scarce, what do people do? Do what everyone else does. Go back to school. Makes perfect sense – go back while you got the time to invest in yourself… so you can come back out when the economy recovers when the job market is back to normal and [...]

  • Facebook Friend Whores

    Joe
    12 Mar 2010 | 4:04 pm
    If you are reading this blog – then it is very likely you are on facebook (they are slowly becoming the new evil empire). One thing I absolutely HATE are people whom I briefly met or never met trying to friend me. These are the sad people of society. Their main objective to grow a large [...]

  • Get A Clue Recruiters

    Joe
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:08 pm
    For developers, we are constantly being hassled by head hunters and recruiters. The demand for a good developer is very high – and the supply is low (excluding the mediocre developers out there – you know who you are).  Good developers all have a common trait – they are smart! So to attract them, you [...]

  • How to Kill the Golden Goose (Uncle Sam, this post is for you)

    Wanksta
    8 Mar 2010 | 9:33 pm
    Thanks to brilliant, financially savvy Colorado politicians, Amazon had to let go 4,200 of it affiliates: DENVER — Amazon.com Inc. cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax. The move hurts businesses — many of them small, [...]

  • How Google Brainwashes its Employees

    Wanksta
    4 Mar 2010 | 8:23 pm
    Take something so innocent like Legos and turn it into an evil corporation’s logo:     Low and behold… THE leader:     Notice any resemblance?  
 
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    Tech News, Web Design in San Diego by GeekBabel

  • Spring Into Summer

    Kelly Johnson
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:31 pm
    Spring hasn’t yet sprung, but if you’re the parent or guardian of a geek kid, it’s already time to plan for summer. The joys of summer camp are alive and well at tech-focused camps, but instead of singing kumbaya by the campfire and eating S’mores, these kids are designing computer games and building robots. Most [...]

  • Amazon Needs an iPad Strategy

    Kelly Johnson
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:15 pm
    With the iPad’s official coming out (or soon to be coming) party today, I began wondering if the reigning eReader pageant winner, the Amazon Kindle DX, was getting nervous. Sure, you can read books and magazines on the Kindle, but the iPad does all that and more. It looks and acts more like a laptop. [...]

  • Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell.

    Kelly Johnson
    11 Mar 2010 | 11:54 pm
    I’m a very private person. I have lots of friends, but the truth is, I’d rather be on the beach with a good book than partying in the Gaslamp Quarter. I don’t always answer my cell phone. Most of the time, I don’t even know where it is. I’d rather email or IM than talk. [...]

  • SEO: It’s All in the Wrist

    Kelly Johnson
    10 Mar 2010 | 11:05 pm
    There are companies that will gladly take hundreds, even thousands of your hard-earned dollars to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website. My best advice? Pay it. Quality SEO is well worth it. I’m not saying you can’t do it yourself. You absolutely can. But if you own a business, the hours you would spend [...]

  • Geek Merchandise Goes Mainstream

    Kelly Johnson
    9 Mar 2010 | 2:52 pm
    Steve Urkel defined Geek fashion for an entire generation. No more. Thanks to Big Bang Theory and Michael Cera, geeks and their geeky t shirts have entered the mainstream. It’s not just the fashion industry that has taken notice. Below, behold a plethora of clothing and other geek merchandise, perfect for birthday gifts, 40th [...]
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  • Want to sell a ccTLD to someone in the country of the domain name you own?

    admin
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:37 am
    Written by: Bruce J Tedeschi I have spoke with several domainers who own ccTLDs but have no information on how to market to end-users or what to do to get their interest. I can tell you upfront, it is not a quick flip industry for ccTLDs. There are certain things you need to do and how to do them. So I will attempt to give you a simple strategy that will allow you to your odds of selling a ccTLD for more than you thought and with a larger audience. So let’s get started. Rule #1 DO NOT park your page after you register the domain name. If it is on the net, it will be indexed and usually end…

  • Better Google “Pages From the UK” Search Engine Rankings

    admin
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:53 pm
    By David Viney Many UK webmasters find it frustrating that their website does not rank better on Google.co.uk, their home search engine. Research has shown that 3.5 times as many searchers in the UK use google.co.uk than do google.com and, of these, 35-45% regularly check the “pages from the UK” radio button to narrow down their search. Ranking near the top of these narrowed results is thus a pretty important mission for the UK-based online business! This short article (from the top-ranked SEO expert in the UK) covers some of the main points that are important to ranking well on…

  • Growth of UK Online Advertising During Recession

    admin
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:44 pm
    UK Internet advertising market is proving to be unaffected by recession. Internet advertising overcame recession mode market conditions and achieved growth as per the marketer’s expectations. As the recession is hitting the entire advertising spend, the online ad market was expected to grow slowly than predicted previously. But the recession made the ad spending to shift from traditional advertising to online advertising. The change in advertising preference helped to maintain the growth numbers even in the worst part of the recession. According to the Internet Advertising Bureau,…

  • Want to sell ccTLDs? Start a blog about it and read this article

    admin
    12 Mar 2010 | 5:14 pm
    First-timers Comprise 80 Percent of Business Blog Traffic Contrary to the widely held belief that the majority of business-related blog traffic is made up of loyal audiences, a recent study reveals just the opposite. Marketers must develop blog and social media content for first-time visitors in order to be effective, according to the survey conducted by Compendium, an enterprise platform for social media and search. In data gathered from 266 companies about blogging traffic, visitor trends and Twitter usage, the Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey found that almost…

  • The END OF .COM – Hardly

    admin
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:28 am
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  • Webdunia Win Gold Award @ Exchange4Media IDMA 2010 Mumbai

    Anish K.S
    12 Mar 2010 | 6:47 am
    Webdunia Webdunia Win Gold Award @ Exchange4Media IDMA 2010 Mumbai Webdunia.com was in spotlight at this year’s Exchange4Media Indian Digital Media Awards 2010 (IDMA) for winning “Best use of Language in Online Advertising” Gold Award. The IDMA awards, which honor the best in digital marketing and communications, were held at Taj Lands End, Mumbai on March 11, 2010. The 19-member jury of top professionals in Advertising, Media and Marketing recognized Webdunia for its creative excellence in Lingual Advertising. “We are honored to be recognized by the digital advertising…

  • Microsoft India Empowers Your Computer to Interact in your Language

    Anish K.S
    11 Mar 2010 | 4:19 am
    Microsoft India Microsoft India Empowers Your Computer to Interact in your Language Showcases host of localization solutions to enhance IT accessibility New Delhi, March 11, 2010: With over 33 major languages and 1652 dialects, India is a nation of diverse cultures and languages. About 95 percent of the nation’s population prefers working in their regional language – while just about five percent conducts its business in English. It is obvious that the disparity in language usage contributes to the digital divide. Since 1998, when Microsoft India identified localization as a key catalyst…

  • MSN India Launched a Hindi Portal – MSN Yuva

    Anish K.S
    10 Mar 2010 | 8:23 pm
    MSN India's Hindi Portal - MSN Yuva MSN India Launched a Hindi Portal – MSN Yuva MSN India has launched a Hindi portal – MSN Yuva in association with web dunia. Yuva is positioned as a one-stop shop online Hindi channel for the local and global youth of India. MSN Yuva is an effort to reach out to the Hindi speaking youth of the country. It offers a window into every aspect that interests Gen X, from sports, to entertainment, to career counselling, to the latest news. “MSN Yuva serves as a unique channel not only for information and news updates, but also as an interactive…

  • Reliance Communications launches ‘Socially’ Application on RWorld

    Anish K.S
    8 Mar 2010 | 10:42 pm
    Socially on RWorld Reliance Communications launches ‘Socially’ Application on RWorld · A 3G ready mobile phone application that bridges the gap between social networks and everyday mobile usage. · Follow friends on different social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn through a single client. Mumbai, March 09, 2010: Reliance Communications, India’s largest and only nationwide operator offering both GSM and CDMA mobile services, today announced the launch of its trendy new VAS application – Socially, made available through its data portal RWorld. The new…

  • Urlmetrix a Cool Way to get Your site Details with a Click

    Anish K.S
    8 Mar 2010 | 8:16 am
    Urlmetrix Urlmetrix a Cool Way to get Your site Details with a Click Check your site Basic Details, Traffic Rankings, Back Links and Page Indexed by Visiting urlmetrix. Basic Details : such as Title, Keywords, Page Rank Traffic Rankings : Gives the Alexa Rank, Quantcast Rank ,Compete Rank etc. Pages Indexed : Google BackLinks, Yahoo BackLinks, Delicious Bookmarks, Diigo Bookmarks, Twitter Tweets, FriendFeed Links, Wikipedia External Links etc. I recommend this site for new blogs. You can also update your site status by clicking the Update Button. Features 1, No Login/Account Required. 2, No…
 
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    StarkSilverCreek - All Things West Coast » Gadgets and Tech

  • Prediction: April show-off showers coming led by iPad-toting soccer Moms

    Clinton Stark
    13 Mar 2010 | 3:13 pm
    Let the crazy begin. Yesterday Apple opened the doors for virtual pre-orders for the much hyped, much discussed gadget that is the unfortunately named iPad. Most reports indicate that sales have been not only brisk, but chart-topping. Some say Apple had sold about 100,000 units on day 1. Others (Broadpoint AmTech) even predict total sales for 2010 alone will top 7 million. Admittedly I’ve been a party-pooping skeptic all along. I find it hard to believe consumers will fork out over $500 for yet another portable device when most of us already own a smartphone and a laptop. Plus, netbooks…

  • Verizon says 4G handsets just over 12 months away

    Mike Carrall
    12 Mar 2010 | 10:24 am
    Verizon LTE 4G Network coming 2011 Verizon says 4G networks are coming up to 6 months sooner than expected, which means consumers could start enjoying the even higher speed coverage sometime mid-2011. The new service, an upgrade to today’s 3G capability, will mean increased Internet access speeds which will result in faster Web surfing and downloading. Early reports state that the new speeds could average from 5Mbps and 12 Mbps. This performance is a huge improvement over 3G which typically average under 700Kbps. 4G could be a boon for a whole new set of services including on-demand…

  • Apple iPad: 6 reasons why it won’t kill the netbook, but will save the newspaper

    Clinton Stark
    11 Mar 2010 | 12:01 pm
    The New York Times on iPad: Twice the fun Many tout the upcoming Apple iPad as the end of the netbook. That’s hard to believe for one simple reason: typing on the thing is going to be difficult. Unless there is some real input “magic” on the device that has yet to be revealed, I see it more as the savior to the newspaper and magazine industry then I do a netbook killer. And that’s not a bad thing. However, when Steve Jobs digs in his heals, he can be the most stubborn of oxes. Build a netbook? Apple? No way. Too pedestrian, for bottom feeders. Not for a grand design,…

  • Review: Toshiba NB305 10.1″ netbook a near-perfect travel companion

    Mike Carrall
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:40 pm
    Toshiba NB305: A stellar netbook Once the reigning champion of laptops in the 1980s, it took Toshiba a while to get into the netbook game. But with the new NB305-N410 10.1″ model they’ve perfected the formula. Strong build quality, an excellent keyboard and long battery life (the Valhalla of portable computing) are just a few of the ingredients that make this netbook a winner. The $399 price tag is a little higher than the competition (check Amazon for a $378 special on this model in classy Java Brown), but you get a solid, reliable performer that we highly recommend. At 2.6…

  • Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3 Netbook: First impressions

    Mike Carrall
    9 Mar 2010 | 12:30 pm
    Lenovo S10-3 Keyboard: Best in class The Lenovo S10-3 is a third generation netbook featuring a 10.1″ screen. Built by one of the global leaders in laptops, you can expect trade mark quality and performance. We’ve been putting the new S10 through the paces, but since it just arrived I thought I’d share some first impressions. Also, Clint and I will be swapping units so we can get the gamut of testing and perspectives. A shootout for 10″ Netbook bragging rights! So far we have a Toshiba NB305-N410, a HP 5102, and, now the Lenovo S10-3 which arrived today. The Lenovo…
 
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  • 25 Basic Tips To Get Google Sitelinks

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:47 am
    I compiled these tips only after discussing with SEO gurus and experienced bloggers. I also added some points which I thought will be valuable. Before some months, I applied some of these tips and we got Google Sitelinks within weeks. Remember, Google wants your site to be clean and tidy. Sitelinks are mostly determined by [...] Related Articles :Google Created Sitelinks Of HellBound Bloggers 15+ Tips To Optimize Images For Search Engines 30+ Tips To Reduce Your Site’s Bounce Rate 20+ Tips To Improve And Increase Your Blog’s Loading Speed Submit Your Blog To Popular Search Engines

  • 70+ Resources To Download Free Icons

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    9 Mar 2010 | 5:24 am
    It is really hard to get premium quality things for free. Now, in this article we have tonnes of websites which provides tonnes of free icon sets. My applause for the talented designers and artists who designed them. Below I mentioned 50+ websites where you can download free Icons. They consist of both social media [...] Related Articles :100+ Resources To Download Excellent Free Fonts 40+ Websites For Copyright And Royalty Free Photos Create Icons Without Using Any Software Download HD YouTube Videos Online 7 Cool Features of Windows 7

  • 100+ Resources To Download Excellent Free Fonts

    Narendran.M
    6 Mar 2010 | 6:26 pm
    In this article I mentioned 100+ resources where everyone can download excellent free fonts. Fonts plays a major part in day to day life, it is the key element in the process of web and poster designing. Different types of fonts gives a true different life to the text we type. You can use these [...] Related Articles :70+ Resources To Download Free Icons 40+ Websites For Copyright And Royalty Free Photos Download HD YouTube Videos Online Free Portable Applications For Your USB Flash Drives Hide Files and Folders Through Command Prompt

  • Compare Mobile Phone Recycling

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    4 Mar 2010 | 8:44 am
    Compare mobile phone recycling provide an easy online service for people to compare who pays the most when you recycle your mobile phone. This site helps you to compare which companies pays you more cash for recycling your mobile phones. Compare mobile phone recycling is designed for everyone who wishes to utilize their services and find [...] Related Articles :Sell Your Old Mobile Phones Easily Using Sell My Mobile Sony Ericsson unveils world’s first 12MP Phone The Best Browsers For Windows Mobile Phones Create a Mobile version of your Blog/Website using MoFuse Make a Mobile Version of…

  • Top Challenges For Website Designers In Coming Years

    Jacob Josh
    3 Mar 2010 | 5:27 pm
    Being a Website Designer in 2010 is quite different than being a website designer of later years. Competent website designers own a great deal more skill sets other than being a whiz at graphics. Graphics are becoming secondary in relationship to other skill sets that enable a designer to be at the top of their [...] Related Articles :Optimized Business Website Design The First Step in Internet Marketing Twitter: A Valuable Source for Flouring the Business Mobile SEO – Next Big Revolution in Search Industry 3 Tips To Write Effective Web Content How to Build Links Successfully For Higher…
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  • 15 Brilliant CSS3 Based Articles

    Nikhil
    9 Mar 2010 | 11:03 am
    Hello everyone, lately I have been busy with my college stuff. Therefore was unable to post new articles. Actually I am having exam from 23rd of this month. I will try to post an article including weekly favorites in between. Now let’s concentrate on this post. CSS3 is becoming more and more popular these days and many developers are using it regardless (this is good) of compatibility issues with some browsers. Today probably everyone knows about CSS3 and its features. But you can extend its use further with following awesome tutorials or resources. So go ahead and try them! 1. Halftone…

  • How to Create Beautiful Minimalist Wordpress Theme in Photoshop

    Nikhil
    28 Feb 2010 | 3:40 am
    Today I am going to show you how to easily create a beautiful minimalist Wordpress theme in Photoshop. Actually I was working on the re-design of this blog and got an idea to write a tutorial for minimalist Wordpress theme. I am using  a noisy texture here a with some letterpress effect which is being used widely nowadays. Following color scheme is used in this tutorial. One of my favorite way to choose a color scheme is Adobe Kuler. Many great color palletes are available there to choose from. If you want try this tutorial with different colors; go there and choose your favorite. 1. Setting…

  • 8 Video Series: Every Web Developer Must Watch

    Nikhil
    18 Feb 2010 | 2:01 pm
    Everyone loves video; whether it’s Bryan Adams’s ‘Summer of 69′ or TV Series ‘Friends’ or Jeffrey Way’s ‘Diving into PHP’. Visual illustrations help to understand things quickly. In this post I have some awesome Video series for Web Developers. If you are a beginner then start from the beginning of each series otherwise go for the topic you want improve.  I would recommend everyone to go through the comments of these screencasts. You can find some new tips and useful stuff over there. And comment here too, so that I can get some useful advice from…

  • Using Visual Metaphors in Web Design: Part 1

    Jeff Boshers
    10 Feb 2010 | 12:35 pm
    This is the Guest Post by Jeff Boshers. If you are interested in writing for us then check out the details here. Metaphors are everywhere! Just travel over to wikipedia, take a stroll around and you see that there are many different types of metaphors. Here we will explore how visual metaphors can enhance the overall design and take it to the next level. Metaphors are Natural The human brain loves to seek the correlation between two objects. Example: What does the earth and bread have in common? While your brain is churning over that one let’s look at the definition of metaphor.

  • 10 Alternative Uses for WordPress

    Tom Walker
    6 Feb 2010 | 12:48 am
    This is the Guest Post by Tom Walker. If you are interested in writing for us then check out the details here. WordPress is the best and most popular blogging platform around. It’s free, easy to use, endlessly customizable and supported by hundreds of excellent plugins. With WordPress setting such high standards, however, many people have started to question why other types of sites are so much more difficult to set up and manage. Fortunately, WordPress has become more than simply a blogging tool; it’s now possible to run almost any type of site imaginable using the right mix of plugins…
 
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    HellBound Bloggers

  • 25 Basic Tips To Get Google Sitelinks

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    13 Mar 2010 | 12:47 am
    I compiled these tips only after discussing with SEO gurus and experienced bloggers. I also added some points which I thought will be valuable. Before some months, I applied some of these tips and we got Google Sitelinks within weeks. Remember, Google wants your site to be clean and tidy. Sitelinks are mostly determined by [...] Related Articles :Google Created Sitelinks Of HellBound Bloggers 15+ Tips To Optimize Images For Search Engines 30+ Tips To Reduce Your Site’s Bounce Rate 20+ Tips To Improve And Increase Your Blog’s Loading Speed Submit Your Blog To Popular Search Engines

  • 70+ Resources To Download Free Icons

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    9 Mar 2010 | 5:24 am
    It is really hard to get premium quality things for free. Now, in this article we have tonnes of websites which provides tonnes of free icon sets. My applause for the talented designers and artists who designed them. Below I mentioned 50+ websites where you can download free Icons. They consist of both social media [...] Related Articles :100+ Resources To Download Excellent Free Fonts 40+ Websites For Copyright And Royalty Free Photos Create Icons Without Using Any Software Download HD YouTube Videos Online 7 Cool Features of Windows 7

  • 100+ Resources To Download Excellent Free Fonts

    Narendran.M
    6 Mar 2010 | 6:26 pm
    In this article I mentioned 100+ resources where everyone can download excellent free fonts. Fonts plays a major part in day to day life, it is the key element in the process of web and poster designing. Different types of fonts gives a true different life to the text we type. You can use these [...] Related Articles :70+ Resources To Download Free Icons 40+ Websites For Copyright And Royalty Free Photos Download HD YouTube Videos Online Free Portable Applications For Your USB Flash Drives Hide Files and Folders Through Command Prompt

  • Compare Mobile Phone Recycling

    S.Pradeep Kumar
    4 Mar 2010 | 8:44 am
    Compare mobile phone recycling provide an easy online service for people to compare who pays the most when you recycle your mobile phone. This site helps you to compare which companies pays you more cash for recycling your mobile phones. Compare mobile phone recycling is designed for everyone who wishes to utilize their services and find [...] Related Articles :Sell Your Old Mobile Phones Easily Using Sell My Mobile Sony Ericsson unveils world’s first 12MP Phone The Best Browsers For Windows Mobile Phones Create a Mobile version of your Blog/Website using MoFuse Make a Mobile Version of…

  • Top Challenges For Website Designers In Coming Years

    Jacob Josh
    3 Mar 2010 | 5:27 pm
    Being a Website Designer in 2010 is quite different than being a website designer of later years. Competent website designers own a great deal more skill sets other than being a whiz at graphics. Graphics are becoming secondary in relationship to other skill sets that enable a designer to be at the top of their [...] Related Articles :Optimized Business Website Design The First Step in Internet Marketing Twitter: A Valuable Source for Flouring the Business Mobile SEO – Next Big Revolution in Search Industry 3 Tips To Write Effective Web Content How to Build Links Successfully For Higher…
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    Terry White's Tech Blog

  • Tech Profile of Dr. Sandi Eveleth

    terrywhite
    12 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
    Dr. Sandi Eveleth Owner/Creative Director Company: KISS Your Web, LLC (aka KISSyourWeb.com)   City/State: Fort Myers, FL   Your blog/website? KISSyourWeb.com/kywblog Favorite Gadget(s): iPhone, Wacom Tablet (intuous 4) Your cellphone/smartphone (make/model): iPhone 3G   I won't leave the house without: iPhone 3g (OK, this is sounding repetitive!)   Blogs I read regularly: yours (of course!), design follow, smashing magazine   Mac or PC: PC but am getting a Mac soon (I SOO have Mac-envy!)   Laptop or Desktop: Laptop   Favorite App/Software: All things…

  • Apple iPad pre-orders to begin at 8:30 AM ET Today

    terrywhite
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:24 pm
    If you're looking to order the Apple iPad (WiFi or WiFi+3G models), Apple will begin taking pre-orders today at 8:30 AM ET. You can place your order here.

  • See all of your Favorite Sites in One Spot

    terrywhite
    11 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
    The concept of a custom "newspaper" has been tossed around for years. However, not many sites really deliver on this promise in a visually compelling or easy to use way. Most frequent blog site and news site visitors rely on their favorite RSS Reader Applications and Sites to see the daily headlines of their favorite sites. There's also Read It Later and sites like it that allow you to take the web pages you want with you and read them later offline.  Alltop.com may be the one stop news site you've been looking for Alltop.com does two things for me. Like a newspaper or…

  • Tech Blog – Site Update, “speed it up!” :)

    terrywhite
    10 Mar 2010 | 10:44 pm
    Hi, this is just a quick note to my readers and many of you who have left comments or sent me messages about my tech blog being slow. First of all thanks for the heads-up. I've been working with my hosting partner (Network Solutions) on these issues for the past week and I think progress has been made. There was a combination of two-three things going on which caused the site to run slower than normal over the past few weeks. The first two being my fault. This is a Wordpress blog and with Wordpress you can have plug-ins that add enhancements to your site. My problem was that I was running…

  • The Best Technology Doesn’t Always Win

    terrywhite
    10 Mar 2010 | 12:01 am
        If you've followed my blog then you know that I'm a BIG FAN of TiVo HD! I just LOVE the TiVo interface and I have a few of them in my home (ok more than a few). However, I got an email from a few buddies asking if I was going to upgrade to the NEW TiVo Premiere unit. Quite frankly I said "no". I had heard about the New TiVo Premiere and I had read some of the info, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me as a must have. Now don't get me wrong. If I was in need of another unit for another room or if one suddenly died…
 
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    Online Marketing Mashup

  • Tips for Learning Online Marketing

    Zack
    7 Mar 2010 | 8:21 am
    Are you new to online marketing or looking to stay up on the current trends and strategies? There are many resources out there for learning online marketing. Good news is many of these resources are free or at least inexpensive. Be a sponge The best advice I can give is to be a sponge. Always be learning. There are so many resources out there. I went to college. I earned two degrees. I learned a lot. But, to be honest with you, most of what I learned about online marketing was self taught by reading and from on the job experience. Soak up knowledge like a sponge. Then put what you learn into…

  • The Best Way to Meet a Link Partner

    Zack
    28 Feb 2010 | 12:00 pm
    Link building is one of the most important SEO techniques. Since the web is getting so competitive, it is important to not only have a high quantity of links, but quality links as well. This is especially true for highly popular and competitive “money” key phrases. The fast and easy links such as social media and directory links help, but to rank well in competitive searches, you’ll need some good inbound links from relevant, high page rank authoritive sites. How do you find which sites are good? Great question! If you’re asking this you’re already heading in the right path to crush…

  • How to Outfox Your Competition with Keyword Research

    Zack
    15 Feb 2010 | 5:44 am
    The internet is a highly competitive place. Many websites get lost in the search engines and show little value to their business. Savvy companies realize the importance of SEO. Keyword research is one of the first and most important places to start when website optimization begins. There are many ways to research keywords and many do this different ways. I’ll explain a couple ways I perform keyword research and some good tips to outsmart your competitors. What do you do? What is your page about? Each page on your website is an opportunity to generate targeted traffic. Optimize each page…

  • The Secret to Social Media Success

    Zack
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:58 am
    You can argue what is important to have success in social media. One aspect most can agree on is having lots of GOOD friends. I say good, because just like in real life, not all friends are deemed equal. No matter what social network you prefer, to be successful you’ll need a good group of friends. With that being said, how to you go about getting these friends? What do you have in common? Each social network is somehow divided into categories. A great place to start is with the categories you are interested in. Here are some examples. If you’re on Twitter, begin following people who…

  • 6 SEO Sales Pitches to Stay Far Away From

    Zack
    24 Jan 2010 | 9:46 am
    #1 Rankings Guaranteed First off, the value in SEO is not all about keyword rankings. Plus, any true SEO professional would never guarantee #1 rankings in Google. Some SEO crooks will promise and even guarantee top results in the major search engines for any keyword you want! SEO is about determining your business goals and marketing objectives, and how the success of your website will help you reach those goals and objectives. Basing their entire SEO sales pitch on “#1 Rankings Guaranteed,” is a clear sign that the company does not fully understand SEO, or they are crooks looking to run…
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  • The importance of talent

    David
    7 Mar 2010 | 1:25 pm
    I watched this video of Rishad Tobaccowala (Chief Innovation Officer at Publicis) this morning and it really resonated with me. Rishad discusses the important role talented people play in building and sustaining successful creative businesses. Talent is so critically important but seems so inexplicably overlooked and undervalued in the publishing industry. I truly believe that the industry and the companies that have a disproportionate share of passionate talent will beat everybody.” Rishad Tobaccowala, 2010 So do I, Rishad. During these times when the publishing industry has the potential…

  • Rewiring magazines

    David
    17 Feb 2010 | 3:57 pm
    Wired US are going to be the first magazine on iPad. Not a big surprise, but a great move by them from a business and PR perspective. The video above is brilliant. It pitches Wired and Condé Nast at the cutting edge of global magazine publishing, which they are. Their audience and advertisers are going to want to be part of this, partly because they are exactly the sort of people who are already planning to buy an iPad and willing to advertise on them but also because Wired are being so open, sharing so much and creating such interest in what they are doing. The product itself doesn’t…

  • One way the iPad won’t change magazine design

    David
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am
    I was sent this article at work and also picked up on it again through Twitter, it’s on Pentagram’s blog. In my opinion one of the points made is wrong because it confuses what audiences want and expect from different types of publications. The point I have a problem with is below. The end of frequency Say goodbye to the idea of monthly magazines, or weeklies, or dailies. Print publications, already under siege by the Internet and 24-hour news cycle, will have to learn to adapt to a world of instantaneous updates. This is most obvious for news and business publications, but it’s…

  • Lessons from my mum: Socks

    David
    31 Jan 2010 | 12:37 pm
    It’s Sunday night and I am getting myself in order for the week ahead. The dishwasher is on and some bread is baking. How domesticated, mum would be proud. The only thing left to do is put the washing machine on, which I’ve now done. All fascinating I’m sure. While loading the washing machine I was pleased to see my favourite pair of socks (yes I have a favourite pair of socks, deal with it) and was looking forward to perhaps wearing them later in the week. To my horror I found a hole in the heal of one of them. Aghast at this discovery I felt incredibly disappointed but remembered my…

  • Avatar: Disruptive storytelling

    David
    19 Jan 2010 | 3:01 pm
    I’ve just got back from watching Avatar in 3D at the Imax. It was an incredibly immersive experience and the effects were brilliant. Having said that, as a story it’s really no better than any other well made blockbuster. So why has it taken so much money at the box office and why are audiences all over the world so excited about it? It’s already the second highest grossing film of all time and will soon topple Cameron’s last outing, Titanic, from the top spot after its 12 year stint at number 1. Avatar has done so well because James Cameron is a master at disrupting…
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    SunBlogNuke Team Blog

  • Migrate DotNetNuke Blog Entries into SunBlogNuke Module

    Baldwin
    9 Mar 2010 | 5:20 am
    Please note, this solution should work well in DNN Standard Blog Module 3.5.1 and SunBlogNuke 3.x and just tested in the above environment. As mentioned previously on that post Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke Roadmap, we are trying to develop the import feature for SunBlogNuke. I have seen multiple posts around our forum asking if there were any migration tool away from the core blog module and well now there is! In this blog post I want to share a SQL script needed to successfully migrate all blog posts from the core blog to the SunBlogNuke module. Disclaimer As with all other…

  • SunBlogNuke v3.1 Available with Automatic Authors Assignment

    Baldwin
    28 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    In the past months there are lots of feature requests for Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke from our customers; we are appreciate those feedback and review them carefully. Today the enhanced version SunBlogNuke 3.1.0 is available with automatic authors assignment, which is also one of the high priority feature requests. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes. Major Highlights (updated for fixed version 3.2) Fixed issue where all featured posts disappear when posted back. Fixed issue where there are spaces in tags. Fixed issue with the…

  • 10 Awesome Tips and Tricks to Improve Your DNN Blog

    Baldwin
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:22 am
    What sets SunBlogNuke apart from every other DNN "blog" modules out there? One of the reasons is because of its flexibility. Designers, developers, and bloggers have plenty of options. In this post we’ll look at a combination of tutorials for improving a DNN-based site with SunBlogNuke that help you improve your blog as well as your blogging experience, like providing added functionality that will bring new possibilities. 1) Build a Featured Posts Section for SunBlogNuke This tutorial covers the process of configuring the featured widget module to set up a magazine-style front…

  • Enhance Your DNN Article Footers with Author Profiles

    Baldwin
    3 Feb 2010 | 4:49 am
    There are some awesome ways to optimize your post footers, like related articles, subscription options, and social bookmarking icons allow readers to browse and share your content. Today I would like to share another ways you may be also interested in, display the author information at the bottom of each post. The following tutorial will provide you with the ability to show off the avatar, the biography with Ultimate DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke on your DNN website. I’m sure many of you may not be familiar with xhtml, css or vb.net but I assure you that this guide will walk you step by…

  • Develop Your Customized Theme for DNN Blog Module

    Baldwin
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Don’t just limit yourself to the typical blog style format. Today you will learn how to develop a customized theme quickly and easily within Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke from this tutorial. Hope it helps you a little when you look to design your blog’s theme or critique it to your needs. Actually you can modify the blog theme in the following steps: 1) Navigate to the $yourwebsite/DesktopModules/SunBlog directory. Locate the themes directory. This is the folder that contains all the themes for SunBlogNuke. 2) Inside this directory you should only see three folders. Default,…
 
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    Technology News | itechworld.info

  • Xbox 360 Outsold Wii in February, Says NPD (PC World)

    PC World - Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo's Wii in February to claim the top spot in the U.S. monthly sales ranking for the first time in more than two years, analyst group NPD said Thursday. Overall the industry had a poor month with total sales down 15 percent from ...

  • Samsung Diva review (source: Cnet)

    The Diva is a budget touchscreen phone that's designed to appeal to the ladies. We have our doubts whether all women will find its swooping fonts and pearly case irresistible, but those who do will probably also value its Facebook functionality and assorte... (source: Cnet) - RSS feeds and Feed ...

  • Video Games Hit Former NCAA Stars’ Sore Spot (source: NPR)

    Ed O'Bannon and Sam Keller are involved in two class-action lawsuits against the NCAA and Electronic Arts Sports, so they're trying to make their pain palpable — to the point that it's measurable in dollars. (source: NPR) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com View full post on ...

  • U.S. to roll out major broadband policy (Reuters)

    Reuters - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours. View full post on Yahoo! News: Technology News Related posts:Ke$ha sets female download ...

  • CNET UK Podcast 177: Will it be the Internet wot wins it? (source: Cnet)

    In this week's podcast, Flora, Rich and Ian chat about the potential for the Internet to rock the vote, as well as talking trash about Lindsay Lohan and her milk habit (source: Cnet) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com View full post on products / top stories news ...
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    ITProPortal.com

  • Khronos Updates OpenGL To Compete With DirectX 11

    13 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
    The Khronos Group, the entity behind the cross platform graphics standard Open GL, has announced the fourth version of the 2D and 3D computer graphics set at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.

  • Breaking : Orange Selling 32GB iPhone 3GS Cheap?

    13 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
    Low stocks of the 16GB version of the iPhone 3GS have apparently forced Orange to sell the more expensive 32GB version of Apple's latest smartphone for a mere £20 more than the cheaper one until tomorrow.

  • Will HTC Merge Desire & Legend Into An iPhone Killer?

    13 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
    It seems odd that HTC didn't kit the Legend with a better set of hardware in the first place, leaving instead the HTC Desire as the most powerful smartphone of its stable.

  • Vodafone Giving Away Free Ebooks Today

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
    Vodafone, one of UK's largest telecom service providers, will offer its customers a chance to download five free ebooks under its Free Fridays incentives scheme, allowing them to save almost £37 in the process.

  • BBC Staff Gets Twitter, Facebook Lessons

    12 Mar 2010 | 12:00 am
    British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) staff will be receiving optional tutorials on how to use popular social networking platform Facebook and other similar services including Bebo and Twitter, the Sun has reported.
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    Creating Consumer Electronics Evangelists - By Alex L. Goldfayn

  • Weekend Quotable: Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Licensing Your Smarts

    Alex Goldfayn
    14 Mar 2010 | 9:42 am
    Way back in 2002, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said this: “Half of Google’s revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.” What can you license to others? Functionality, ideas, platforms, coding, results, etc. Who do you view as a competitor that can actually benefit — and pay you — for what you do well? Who already has the customers you are trying to attract, and what can you license to them? Think…

  • It’s All In The Name: How Bad Product Names Kill Good Devices

    Alex Goldfayn
    12 Mar 2010 | 8:10 am
    Yesterday, Walt Mossberg reviewed a new digital book reader from a company called Irex. The full product name? The Irex DR800SG. That’s right. Four letters separated by three numbers, none of which have any meaning to consumers. That should be easy to remember. The first Linksys router listed on Amazon is called Linksys by Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router (Compatible with Linux). If you want an HP laptop, you may be interested in the HP Pavilion DM3-1140US 13.3-Inch Laptop (Silver). Don’t like HP? How about Sony? Maybe you’d consider the Sony VAIO VGN-NW240F/S…

  • Language over Platforms

    Alex Goldfayn
    11 Mar 2010 | 5:07 am
    You may have powerful platforms, but even beautifully produced primetime television commercials won’t help you if your language isn’t excellent. Above all, the language you use to talk about your products must simple. Then, it must be interesting. Captivating even. Memorable helps. It must get across the huge value of your products immediately. Every phrase, every sentence, should be powerful. The best language isn’t yours. It’s your consumers’. Use their words. Tell the best consumer stories to consumers, using consumers’ language.

  • Writing Six Days a Week

    Alex Goldfayn
    10 Mar 2010 | 7:50 am
    I’ve been writing in this blog six days per week since January. I didn’t write this much when I was a syndicated Chicago Tribune technology columnist. I didn’t write this much while working on my book, Going Digital. I can tell you, though, coming here to work so regularly has been wildly valuable. Writing so much has: Forced me to think creatively, daily. Created a systematized way to create new ideas and intellectual property. Allowed me to analyze products, companies and strategies from new points of view. Generated new credibility with clients and prospective clients.

  • 3DTVs in The Mainstream

    Alex Goldfayn
    9 Mar 2010 | 2:27 pm
    Panasonic’s first 3DTV hits the market this week in Best Buy stores. LG 3DTVs are coming in May. Vizio models will start selling in August. Sony is set to debut its first 3D television in June. It’s a 46-inch display that will retail for $3,875. Bluray players capable of playing three-dimensions are coming. Sony’s PlayStation 3 can support 3D Bluray discs now. Three-dimensional video games are coming. Discovery Channel is working on a 3D TV network. So is ESPN. Starting to feel pretty close to critical mass, no? Don’t mistake the fledgling, aspirational…
 
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  • Twitter’s Down :(

    BeatPlay
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:13 am
    This sucks, but it always fascinates me. Can’t wait to see what the reason was this time. I will be following on Google. Update: I guess they were out for about a half hour, but they seem to be working now. I’ll be looking for reasons.. Update 22: This is an article well worth reading about Twitter problems: Tweets From [...]

  • The Often Not Found Playlist #6

    BeatPlay
    13 Mar 2010 | 2:42 pm
    Another awesome group of playlist worthy artists. There's a lot of females in here this week too. Again, no particular order. Enjoy!

  • Why Not Try? – A Poem by Dante Carmelo Cullari Written: 3/12/2010

    BeatPlay
    12 Mar 2010 | 2:46 pm
    Why Not Try? What if everything you wanted was here? What if everything you needed was there? What if there was nothing left to get? Would you still care? What if your thoughts were really real? What if the darkness made you feel: alive…infinite…vast? The endless possibilities. What if the light were always right? What if you still can’t see your light? What if you [...]

  • Interview with V.I. – Musician’s Institute in Hollywood Student

    BeatPlay
    11 Mar 2010 | 10:31 pm
    So give us some background, where are you originally from? Well my name’s Vic (V.I.). I’ve been rapping n making music for about two years. I’m just starting to get serious with music, n I’m trying to take things to a new level! I’m originally from northern California, bout n hour north of San Francisco. Couple [...]

  • Promotion Online: Is it really worth it?

    BeatPlay
    10 Mar 2010 | 1:14 pm
    That all depends on your definition of success. If your definition is getting a few hundred views on your blog every week, then yea, it works great.
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  • How to Connect a PC to a TV

    5 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am
    Video formats like FLV, DivX, and many others are compatible with computer systems but not all DVD/CD/Blue-ray players. Situations do arise that we may want to connect our machine to the TV set immediately instead of going through the process of trying to convert the format to MPEG4 or any other common video formats that are generally compatible with many players. Imagine connecting the movie you got online to your big screen LED TV set. Today's generation of TV sets offers a sharper, smoother motion quality, and better image than do monitors and laptop screens.

  • TV Tuner Buying Guide

    1 Mar 2010 | 6:00 am
    Watching a movie with your laptop is very convenient and fun to do. It is simple; you just need a TV tuner and a TV signal. There are several types of TV tuners out in the market and this guide discusses what to look for in these TV Tuner Cards.

  • Google Attack Tied to Two Chinese Schools

    25 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Recent investigative findings have shown that the cyber-attacks on Google and a dozen of other American companies that were aimed at stealing trade secrets and email addresses of Chinese activists came from two Chinese schools.

  • Windows 7 Freezes While Booting Problem

    22 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    We expect a lot from Windows 7. Some people might say that Microsoft should have learned a few lessons from the Windows XP and Windows Vista launches. However, we keep getting the same old set of problems that we have seen in previous versions of the Windows operating system. One problem we have heard about from our users, tech messageboards, and tech blogs is a problem in which Windows 7 freezes when booting.

  • Windows 7 Battery Problem

    17 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    If you are having battery problems with your computer system running on Windows 7 OS, you're definitely not alone. In fact, Microsoft is investigating the case. Thousands of people have filed a complaint about it and more complaints are still expected.
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  • Publishing Fail

    primatage
    22 Feb 2010 | 11:27 pm
    I guess the hint wasn’t good enough. I’m sure this will be fixed in an hour or two, which may or may not break the link, but here it is anyway :) Edit: They pulled the article about half an hour later.

  • That’s No Kitchen

    primatage
    22 Feb 2010 | 4:14 pm
    That’s a Sound System. Image: lucyfrench123.

  • EndofWeb: Now on Alltop

    primatage
    18 Feb 2010 | 10:28 pm
    If you haven’t noticed it already (by the badge sitting atop the sidebar to the right), EndofWeb is now on Alltop. If you’re ever cruising through the Tech section over there, look me up — I’ll likely be somewhere at the very bottom, but a listing’s a listing, right? I’ve been listed on Technorati for quite some time now, though I’ve never actually cared for the place much. They’ve got a very… Well, let’s just say that if we were in the world of Dr. Zhivago, they’d probably be fleeing Russia right about now. That’s how I…

  • Evolution of an Idea

    primatage
    17 Feb 2010 | 11:33 pm
    This is how it’s done in Japan. Image: Pixiv.

  • Captchas

    primatage
    13 Feb 2010 | 1:40 am
    It’s something like that. Image: My Apokalips.
 
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  • SXSW: Some Options for Making Money From Your Online Videos

    Chris Crum
    14 Mar 2010 | 8:42 am
    At SXSW, Rob Millis and Will Coghlan of the newly launched Dynamo Player talked about different routes online video producers can take to try and make a buck. While the discussion ultimately led up to the duo's demo of its new product, it was not above representing some different options fairly. The two talked about some of the pros and cons of advertising, such as: Pros - Fosters dramatic growth (financed first forty years of TV and last 15 years of Internet content) - Blip.tv and YouTube define a stable market - Reliable high quality programs... Cons - High value advertising demands high…

  • Dynamo Player - Instant Monetization Tool for Videos Unveiled at SXSW

    Chris Crum
    14 Mar 2010 | 6:09 am
    Rob Millis and Will Cohlan, the pair beyond the web show Political Lunch, gave a presentation at SXSW called "Beyond Advertising: Can Online Video Finally Pay?" The discussion led to the unveiling of a tool for online video monetization called Dynamo Player. The goal (short-term at least) of the tool is to simplify the process of uploading a video to the web, making it portable, and quickly getting viewers to pay for it. WebProNews pulled Millis and Cohlan aside after the presentation to discuss Dynamo Player a little bit more: Dynamo's slogan is "Powering independence."…

  • CNN President "Really Afraid Of" Social Networks

    Doug Caverly
    14 Mar 2010 | 4:19 am
    Over the years, there have been more than a few arguments about whether online news sites are killing newspapers.  Now, due to some almost startling comments made by the president of CNN, it looks like the next round of old media-new media disputes might concern social networks and cable news organizations. According to the AFP, Jonathan Klein's remarks on this subject were in no way ambiguous.  He said at Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2010 Media Summit New York, "The competition I'm really afraid of are social networking sites.  That's an alternative that threatens to pull…

  • Microsoft Talks Google's Privacy "Fails" at SXSW

    Chris Crum
    13 Mar 2010 | 1:17 pm
    At the keynote today at SXSW, Microsoft's Danah Boyd placed a lot of emphasis on Google's privacy "fails" with Buzz. The topic of the keynote was the relationship between privacy and publicity, and she certainly covered much more territory and social media in general, but it was interesting that Google Buzz was essentially the first thing talked about. A lot of people will love Buzz, and will use it, but that doesn't mean Google didn't mess up in terms of privacy, she said. She says that the company did nothing wrong technologically (there were multiple ways to opt out), but that…

  • Liveblogging: Danah Boyd (Micosoft Research) SXSW Keynote

    Chris Crum
    13 Mar 2010 | 11:51 am
    I'm sitting here in the exhibit hall at SXSW getting ready for the opening remarks keynote, which is getting ready to get underway. It will be delivered by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research Her SXSW Bio: One of the world's foremost authorities on social networks, boyd works at Microsoft Research New England and also serves as a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Note: Please forgive he typos that are sure to occur in this liveblog. Also keep in mind that this is paraphrased. Liveblogging starts: 02: 08 She takes the stage. 2:09 Humbled to…
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  • Watch Indian Premier League (IPL 2010) Season 3 Live Online

    Chris Martin
    2 Mar 2010 | 2:47 am
    Indian Premier League (IPL T20 2010) Season 3 is scheduled to start in India on 12-Mar-2010. The 45-day tournament will feature the top eight-ranked teams featuring 60 matches. Sony Set Max is the official broadcasters to telecast live matches on television screen. You can also watch Live cricket stream of IPL 2010 Season 3 for [...]

  • How to Block or Remove Cydia Ads on iPhone/iPod Touch

    Chris Martin
    25 Feb 2010 | 11:15 pm
    Advertisements appearing in Cydia apps and other applications on your iDevice are very annoying. Disabling or removing the ads in Cydia & other apps on your iPhone or iPod Touch is very easy. Just follow the instructions below in order to get rid of Google and fastclick ads on iPhone. How to Remove or Block advertisements [...]

  • Make More Money by Forwarding and Masking Clickbank Affiliate Links

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 11:18 pm
    If you’re trying to make money with affiliate marketing, I’m going to let you in on a little secret that could make you more money. It is really easy and simple to do and by the time you’re finished reading this, you’ll wish you would have thought of it sooner. So what is this simple [...]

  • iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 Photos.app & Safari Walkthrough [Videos]

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 9:24 am
    Recently, iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 3 version for iPad was made available to handful of developers . Watch the videos of iPad SDK 3.2 Beta 3 Photos.app and Safari Browser. Watch iPad Photos App Walkthrough Video Watch iPad Safari Walkthrough Video

  • iPhone 3.2 Beta 3 SDK for iPad is LIVE !!!

    Chris Martin
    24 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am
    Beta 3 version of the iPhone SDK 3.2 for iPad is currently available in the hands of a few developers and not that of all.  iPhone 3.2 SDK Beta 3 brings lots of new API improvements and bug fixes. There was no discrimination by Apple but only the choice to remove from the download software that, [...]
 
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  • how should brands interact with cyber-squatters?

    admin
    24 Feb 2010 | 2:41 am
    Cyber-squatting is something that plagues brands in social media all the ruddy time. There is plenty that can be done to help prevent that ‘worse case scenario’ from becoming reality and it’s something that we advise all new businesses do from the outset. Username check is Ronseal and does exactly what it says it does and checks a variety of social tools to see whether your potential username is already in use. Hell, it even checks ones that no longer exist such as rejaw RIP, but it’s free and easy so can’t complain. But what happens if you have a pre-existing…

  • social medium – certified all-top!

    admin
    23 Feb 2010 | 3:08 am
    We’re very pleased to announce that as of yesterday evening we were officially invited into the all-top family and you can now find social medium under http://social-media.alltop.com/ and http://tech.alltop.com/. But what does this mean? Well firstly it means that if you are already using alltop and have a MyAlltop account you can now include our updates in with all of your other ones. It’s also good news for us as our updates can now be opened up to a new audience who might not otherwise have come across our blog. PS: As we’re the newbies you can find us right at the bottom…

  • we have charts & graphs to back us up

    admin
    19 Feb 2010 | 1:45 am
    We saw this and just had to post it up. It’s true, everything can be legitimised with a graph or chart. EVERYTHING….. so be warned! Also the flashier the diagram the bigger the impact! KERBLAMMO! But just an FYI… Social Media probably looks like this. Related posts:the best test of social media monitoring tools

  • the best test of social media monitoring tools

    admin
    17 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    Following on from our recent post on sentiment monitoring we thought it was only just that we conducted a scientific test battling through all the sponsored links on google to find out once and for all which social media monitoring service is the most effective and on the ball! You can often tell agencies apart based on what monitoring software they use. And if they saying they have ‘an in-house solution’ that normally just means Radian6. NEXT! But first we’re going to oil our eyes with a quick look at the top contenders in the measurement camp: 1. Sysomos This is probably…

  • is facebook copying myspace?

    admin
    11 Feb 2010 | 3:11 am
    facebook and myspace have always been completely polar. facebook concentrated on web standards and usibility but was clueless at how to make any money and saps the life out of it’s investors. MySpace on the other hand was made out of bits of old shoes but was designed so badly that it served 4x as many ads and instantly made a profit. However, are things starting to change? Facebook has a history of unethical behaviour most recently when it defaulted everyones privacy settings to public under the guise of ‘making privacy simpler‘. It also has a reputation for having a good…
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  • Badjuju just happened !? – Commentluv Problem solved

    sudharsan
    11 Mar 2010 | 2:05 am
    Finally i got a final solution for Comment luv “badjuju” problem. First i want to say clearly about the commentluv plugins and this problem. So you can understand better about this Comment Luv :- It is a plugin which enables you to display a static or your Recent Blog post when you comment on other commentluv enabled websites.. If you create one Backlink in a blog it will be doubled because this plugins enables you to show your recent blog post in other website’s. So we can get 2 backlink in one shot  !! cool na… What is badjuju error ? Meaning of Badjuju – Bad…

  • Infolinks Minimized Payout From 100$ to 50$ – Payment Made Easy

    sudharsan
    10 Mar 2010 | 3:59 am
    Now infolinks had reviewed their minimum payout from 100$ to 50$. It’s a very happy news for all new blogger like me who using infolinks Ads in their blog Infolinks is consider as the leading PPC networks next to Adsenes and Chitika. Its a very nice move to compete with both of them. If Adsense also revised the minimum payout like Infolinks it will be a very great news for all Small bloggers Since Before, the minimum payout was 100$ and it is a very tough task for a new blogger to receive payment from infolinks because it takes more time to reach 100$… To enjoy this payment, you…

  • Trick to Remove Thumbs.db File in your Computer

    sudharsan
    10 Mar 2010 | 3:36 am
    Thumbs.db is a small cache file of the current picture in that directory. To remove it do the following trick… Steps to Follow :- — Open “Windows Explorer” — Goto “Tools” — Open “Folder OPtions” — Goto “View” — Select “File and folders” — Tick mark “DO NOT CACHE THUMBNAILS” That’s it.. Now the Thumbs.db file will be removed from your computer and cannot be created back Related posts:Basic trick to become a hacker !!! Trick to create con, lpt1, aux, Pnr, nul folder kill ur…

  • 10+ Google Buzz Tricks & Tips – Part #1

    sudharsan
    7 Mar 2010 | 6:02 am
    Here comes a cool compilation of Google Buzz tricks and tips. Now Google Buzz is trending and become a Big Buzz  in internet industry, so it is important to know some information about Google Buzz 1. Update Google Buzz via E-mail :- Though Google Buzz is integrated with Gmail. You can update your status via E-mail by doing this simple tricks. Send you message to this email buzz@gmail.com and get updated automatically…. 2. Google Buzz addons for firefox and Google chrome :- Firefox Addons :- Buzz It! will make a Google buzz status update through Gmail with the link and title of the…

  • Send E-mail from Multiple Gmail-id’s at One place

    sudharsan
    7 Mar 2010 | 2:52 am
    Now i will show you the tricks to send e-mail from different and multiple mail id’s using Gmail. Now a days many person using multiple mail id’s for home, personal, business purpose. So it is difficult for them to send mail from other mail id’s. Follow these simple steps :- Open Gmail -> Settings -> Account and import -> [See the picture given below for more info] Step 1 :- Step 2:- Clik Next step… Now a confirmation mail has sent to your E-mail that you had specified in the above blank column [Here i gave it as youremail@gmail.com] Click the confirmation link…
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  • Blogging And Social Networking In India

    Himanshu
    25 Feb 2010 | 9:19 am
    Number of blog users are increasing day by day in India. Impact of various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Orkut is increasing day by day but according to the  President of Internet Service Provider in India currently only 7% population of India is using internet. Check out this video of NDTV program “Hum Log” in which journalist Pankaj Pachauri is having a discussion about pros and cons of blogging and social networking sites with bloggers of India. NDTV- Hum Log You can watch full video here. Share this on del.icio.us Digg this! Share this on Reddit Buzz up!

  • Simplest Way To Download YouTube Video in FLV, MP4 and audio MP4 Format

    Himanshu
    23 Feb 2010 | 4:37 am
    There are several tools available to download YouTube videos. We already told few  methods to download Bollywood movies on YouTube. Here I am telling you another quick and simplest way for downloading videos. Here is how YouTube URL looks like: Now  add pwn after http://www. The new URL looks like: When you hit enter, you will be redirected to the new page. Click on any of the given services and you will be redirected to download page. This service associate with many other services such as YouDDL, ClipNabber, Dowint, Dys.lexal, Dirpy, MP3ify etc. which helps you to download videos…

  • Google Dictionary: Displays Meaning Of Any Word In Chrome Browser

    Himanshu
    4 Feb 2010 | 2:36 pm
    Google Dictionary is a very useful extension for Google Chrome. It helps you to search meaning of any word on a same page without requiring you to open new tab. This extension is easy to use. Once installed, it displays a small icon on a Chrome address bar on right side. Highlight any word and click on it to see the complete definition of any word or phrase. You can also double click on any word to quickly view its definition in a small pop-up bubble as shown in a screenshot below. Right click on dictionary icon on the address bar and select “option” from right menu.You can configure…

  • Commit Web 2.0 Suicide With SuicideMachine

    Himanshu
    2 Feb 2010 | 2:35 pm
    No, I am not telling any method to commit suicide. Life is precious. But what about Web 2.0 life? Are you feel cluttered with lots of social networking websites? Sometimes these websites turn out to be biggest time wasters. Top in the list are Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Linkedin. There is a web service known as  SuicideMachine which automatically deletes all your social-networking profiles. Commiting Web2.0 suicide is easy. P