February 2009 - Posts
The New York Times Expected To Launch Local Blog Network On Monday (Confirmed) — If this post on a local blog about Brooklyn has it right, the NY Times will be debuting a neighborhood blog project next week on Monday. Here's the gist: … Still according
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Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader — The publisher plans to introduce a large-format device this year based on electronic-ink technology. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Against a backdrop of plummeting ad revenue for newspapers and magazines, and rising costs
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Amazon Kindle 3 Rumors Surface: Bigger, Better (Of Course) — The ink has barely dried on the new production Amazon Kindle 2 e-readers and now there's a hot rumor surfacing about the Kindle 3. Among the speculation is one interesting suggestion: The Kindle
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Facebook's “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users' Social Behavior — The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150.
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Sarah Milstein on Twitter, Web2Open and Self. — I had a great phone call last week with Sarah Milstein - NYTimes.com writer, O'Reilly Radar blogger, @tweetreport geek, speaker and organizer of Web2Open, our official on-site (free) unconference. I took
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It's not always about money; sometimes hackers just hate you — Malware authors and hackers have to eat like the rest of us, but security data from 2008 suggests many engage in their illegal activities for other reasons besides a desire to get money. Twenty-four
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Facebook's “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users' Social Behavior — The famous Dunbar number, or “theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships”, is generally accepted to be about 150.
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How are you using Threading Tools? — Intel is currently running a great discount ($99) on our Threading Buidling Blocks (TBB) tools for Linux*, Windows* and Mac* in the Intel BX Software Download Store
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Obama hopes to raise $4.8B by imposing spectrum license fees on wireless providers — CONGRESS WILL HAVE TO PASS LEGISLATION TO ENACT THE PROPOSAL — President Obama called for spectrum license fees in a record $3.9 trillion budget, released today, reviving
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Rocky Mountain News to close, publish final edition Friday — Executives from E.W. Scripps Co., announce their decision on the future of the Rocky Mountain News in the 150-year-old newspaper's newsroom on 2/26/09 in Denver. In December 2008, the Rocky's
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The History of Microsoft - 1978 — For Microsoft, 1978 begins with the announcement of the Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems
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Ad Supported Public Libraries — Body: — Another potential casualty of the economic maelstrom are 11 public libraries in Philadelphia. This is not good. Many people I know, myself included
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Acer preps Ion-based Hornet nettop with air remote — Acer is planning a nettop of its own that would occupy the high end of its market, if a set of leaked presentation slides from Turkish site Donanimhaber are accurate. The Hornet would have a highly
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Microsoft sees ‘fantastic’ opportunities — CEO Ballmer emphasizes Cambridge operations will receive funding, ‘add talent’ — CAMBRIDGE - The slumping economy is deflating the high-tech business along with other industries, but Microsoft Corp. will continue
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Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook now available to order, officially — After a rocky start that is becoming increasingly common for the company, Dell has now officially made its new Mini 10 netbook available for order. The snazzy little netbook first appeared
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Kindling a Revolution: E Ink's Russ Wilcox on E-Paper, Amazon, and the Future of Publishing — Wade Roush wrote: — Almost as soon as Amazon released the Kindle e-book reader in November 2007, I settled in to wait for the Kindle 2. Like many other observers,
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Ad Supported Public Libraries — Body: — Another potential casualty of the economic maelstrom are 11 public libraries in Philadelphia. This is not good. Many people I know, myself included
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TechFest:Core Tools For Augmented Reality — This demo will explain the development of a new kind of image feature that can be used within a variety of applications, ranging from image stitching to augmented reality
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Facebook releases draft of new user terms, asks for user feedback — Facebook is now asking for user feedback on a draft version of the proposed replacement for its previously-contested terms of service. The company is also announcing a guiding set of
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Some Changes Since Beta for the RC — We've been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we've received on Windows 7. It should be no surprise but the Release Candidate for Windows 7 will have quite a few changes, many
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Anatomy of a Silverlight Game — Nikola Mihaylov has written a game in Silverlight called Shock. This is not just a “fun project over the weekend” game. There are multiple game modes, music playlists …
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Nokia considering entering laptop industry — HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday
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Starting Over — Body: — Technorati Tags: startup,entrepreneur,churchill club — This from a Churchill Club Panel on why you should start your business in this dismal economic environment. Moderator: Jason Pontin.
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Every Flashback has a Silver Lining — We recently moved to a new building on campus that doesn't have its own cafeteria. As blasphemous as that is, we've learned to deal with the situation and have gotten
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“Big, Hairy Audacious Work” — Joshua-Michele Ross, one of my colleagues here at O'Reilly, published an article in Forbes last week with that eye-catching title. The subtitle is “How to rethink work in the 21st century
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Visual Studio Profiler Patch for Intel Core i7 Processors — Microsoft yesterday published a patch for the Visual Studio Profiler that fixes issues related to sample profiling on the Intel Core i7 Processor
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Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo — Yahoo's top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. — I have also confirmed Boerries's departure
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What Margaret Mead could teach techs — Big tech firms are hiring social scientists to help them figure out the changing landscape. — (Fortune) — While traveling in China, Genevieve Bell figured she'd have no trouble getting a cell phone. With cash, a
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Netflix to offer “streaming only” plans in future — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc Chief Financial Officer Barry McCarthy said on Wednesday it plans to offer its online streaming service on a stand-alone basis. — “We're likely to do that in the foreseeable
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IE8 compatibility and reliability update for Windows 7 beta — Microsoft has released an update for Internext Explorer build 8.0.7000.0, fixing many bugs that were fixed with the release of IE8 RC1 for Vista and XP. — Microsoft has released a patch via
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EA: We've learned our lesson on release dates — Electronic Arts has admitted it got it wrong with the releases of some of its biggest games of 2008, and insists the industry must now rethink its entire approach to putting products into the market. — Glen
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Nokia thinking about dabbling in the laptop biz — Earlier this morning on Finland's YLE (think BBC, but Finnish), Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was asked if the company had plans to expand into the laptop market. Sure enough, his response: … Yeah. Weird,
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Members of Congress twitter through Obama's big speech — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Members of Congress twittered their way through President Obama's nationally televised speech Tuesday night, providing a first-of-its-kind running commentary that took users of
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Microsoft Security Advisory (968272) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user
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TechFest: Commute UX: The next level of in-car infotainment — After deploying Blue&Me for Fiat and Sync for Ford, in-car dialog systems are morphing from cool gadgets that amaze people and sell more cars to integral parts of in-car infotainment
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40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than ... say what? — I've been meaning to write about this Slashdot poll, but other work kept getting in the way. As you'll see from the survey results, however, not everyone can claim that excuse ... at least not
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Microsoft Advertising Announces Formation of Publisher Leadership Council — Consortium of leading Web publishers will consult on next-generation advertising platform, Microsoft PubCenter. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the creation of the Publisher
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Who's Advising Tom Friedman? I Have a Guess — A lot of people have been expressing their surprise and disappointment in the recent writings of Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist who has, inarguably, become one of the nation's most influential
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Internet taking piece of cable TV business — (02-22) 16:17 PST — Hyun Gu Lee, a 26-year-old software engineer from Belmont, discontinued his cable TV service after doing a little math and exploring his options. — He kept his $60 a month cable service
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Review: Clarion Mind - Media, Internet, and Directions All-In-One? Not Quite. — For some time now, there has been a gap between PDA/phones and notebook computers, various form factors have been introduced to fill this void, but until the ASUS eeepc, none
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Why Web radio faces another crisis — Few people know this but for a little while last year, the music-royalty rates that Web radio stations have complained about for years appeared to be behind them. — In a midtown Manhattan law office last November 6,
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Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book — Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story. — SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — The Amazon Kindle has sparked huge media interest in e-books and has seemingly jump-started the market
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Samsung outs a pair of point and shoots ahead of PMA, again — Unfortunately for Samsung, we've all known about the TL320 for the last week thanks to Amazon, but the HZ15W is brand spankin' new. — The TL320 is the first digital camera with a 3-inch HVGA
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Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband — There is a constant refrain that the United States is falling behind in broadband, as if the speed of Internet service in Seoul represents a new Sputnik that is a challenge to national security. — It's certainly
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AOL upgrades Bebo with a bunch of new features — AOL continues to upgrade the Bebo social network it bought in 2008, layering in more functionality from the social data aggregator SocialThing it also acquired that year. — In December, we covered Bebo's
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TCSWeekly 006 - Silverlight is fizzing along with Moonlight and Contests — My favorite episode so far - strong news-wise (Moonlight 1.0 ships, Tim Sneath reports Silverlight is fizzing, and a $5000 Silverlight game contest) …
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6,473 Texts a Month, But at What Cost? — Constant Cellphone Messaging Keeps Kids Connected, Parents Concerned — Julie Zingeser texts at home, at school, in the car while her mother is driving. She texts during homework, after pompon practice and as she
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Create 50,000 startups and 250K jobs for $1B — Body: — Thomas Friedman of the New York Times today wrote “Startup the Risk Takers” where he suggests the US government should stimulate the economy by funding startups, not by bailing out GM and Chrysle
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Kindle 2 shipping now — Better start checking your order status, kids — Amazon's Kindle 2 has started shipping a couple days before the February 24 launch date. Of course, it's Sunday, so we'd bet these things actually ship tomorrow and arrive on Tuesday
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2006 Jetta TDI & WinCE navigation system — This is a little unrelated to my previous blogs on manageability, but yesterday I got a new used car, a 2006 WV Jetta TDI. It's actually a Diesel car which for the US is unusual. It gets great gas millage,
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A load of Twitter — Feel the need to tell everyone everything you're doing all of the time? Then tweeting is for you — “Arse, poo and widdle.” With this unholy trinity of coy expletives, Stephen Fry introduced us to the joys of Twitter earlier this month.
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A Look Behind the Curtain at Techmeme — In late 2005 former Intel developer Gabe Rivera launched what is now TechMeme, a powerful semi-automated “meme tracker” that discovers the hottest conversations in the tech blogosphere every 5 minutes. It's an incredible
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A Stimulus Plan For Venture Capital? No Thanks. — Tom Friedman, who I admire in many ways, has an op-ed piece in today's NY Times where he suggests that the US government take the bailout money they are thinking of giving to the auto industry and instead
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Stantum's mind-blowing multitouch interface on video! — We just got a look at some amazing touchscreen interaction, running on a humble resistive touchscreen with some OMAP hardware backing it up. Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to
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How Much Data Fits On A Pin? — Researchers invent a technique that could cram 10 trillion bits onto a surface the size of a quarter. — For decades, hard-disk makers have been shrinking the electromagnetic media that store data to cram more information
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Cameraphone with physical shutter spied — Eliminates ghosting and blurring, it's claimed — MWC Camera firm Jabil has showcased an 8Mp camera module with a physical shutter. The firm hopes it could soon make its way into smartphones. — The module measures
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Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days — There may be more than 20,000 iPhone apps out there that have been downloaded more than 500 million times, but what is the average shelf life of each app? Greg Yardley,
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Sprint Shares Skyrocket 20% on Palm Pre Deal — Sprint [PALM Loading... () ], which also reported a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, saw its shares rise leap almost 20 percent to $3.25 Thursday. — The person, who asked not to be named,
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Dell's Mini 10 Packs a Punch — Many of you have been keeping track of the Mini 10 since we previewed some details at CES. Starting today, we'll begin taking preorders from customers in the United States through QVC. U.S. online availability through Dell.com
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Twitter creator Jack Dorsey illuminates the site's founding document. Part I — Twitter's prehistoric document, circa 2000. An early temporary name was “Stat.us.” — Credit: Jack Dorsey. — Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document
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Doing hard things — “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” — Walt Disney — Later this week, Hulu's content will no longer be available through Boxee. While we never had
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Change Your Windows 7 Media Center Background — Did you know you can change your Media Center background? Neither did I until I read this recent post. Although not officially a part of the Media Center software, there is a way to do it.
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TechStars coming to Boston — Body: — TechStars, a startup mentorship program similar to Ycombinator, is opening a new office in Boston. TechCrunch speculates that the move is in response to Ycombinator
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TechStars coming to Boston — Body: — TechStars, a startup mentorship program similar to Ycombinator, is opening a new office in Boston. TechCrunch speculates that the move is in response to Ycombinator closing their Cambridge office but the truth is Bill
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The Sidekick 2009 in the wild — We knew it was coming. We knew they were visiting and they answered the call. Ladies and gentlemen, it's the photo we've all been waiting for. May we present to you, the Sidekick 2009 aka the Sidekick Blade
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LG Brings Its Stylish New 3G LG-X120 Netbook to Barcelona — Barcelona, Spain, February, 16, 2009 - LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, today announced the launch of its smart and stylish new netbook, the
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Change Your Windows 7 Media Center Background — Did you know you can change your Media Center background? Neither did I until I read this recent post. Although not officially a part of the Media Center software, there is a way to do it.
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Samsung SWD-M100 MID Hands-On (WiMax) — Now, there's a MID (mobile internet device) that we could use to blog on the go. The Samsung SWD-M100D is a WiMax + WiFi device that has both a touch display and a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The most important feature
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Confusion reigns on Time's best blogs list — I'm a huge list nerd, so I had check out Time Magazine's list of the best and most overrated blogs of 2009. I was desperately hoping Time could clue me in to the State of the Blogosphere, and boy, did it eve
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Microsoft Reveals New Windows® Phones With Marketplace and My Phone Services — Microsoft mobile partners fly the Windows flag: HTC, LG and Orange preview first Windows® phones. — Today at Mobile World Congress 2009, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer along
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Record and Retrieve your Voice Notes with Microsoft Recite — Microsoft Recite is a search technology for your voice that runs on Windows Mobile devices. — With Microsoft Recite, you can use your voice to easily store
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What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned — Larry (@lhalff) and I have been recording a podcast for the past year called Citizen Garden that covers various topics related to the web, technology, and social networking. — Well, given Ma.gnolia's
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Can all that Twitters turn to gold amid the gloom? Twitter Inc. has spawned a new way to communicate by limiting messages to 140 keystrokes. So here's a way to describe the Internet's latest craze within Twitter's space restrictions
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Microsoft Recite for Windows Mobile previewed — Microsoft Recite Technology Preview is now available for a select few Windows Mobile phones. It allows you to take short notes and later search for them, all with just your voice. — Microsoft has released
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By now you are probably already familiar with the Samsung OmniaHD . But without official wording from the company, a few things still haven’t been made clear. While it still hasn’t been stated which mobile OS this new smartphone will really use, a bit
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MTV Pulls The Plug On Embeddable Videos [Update] — When NBC Universal and News Corporation-backed Hulu launched in Fall 2007, it was a signal that old television media might actually grasp the distributive power of the internet. Not only were great programs
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Derik Stenerson on the past, present, and future of the iCalendar specification — Derik Stenerson first came to Microsoft on an internship as a Test Engineer on Microsoft Mail.
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As The Economy Sours, LinkedIn's Popularity Grows — As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn. According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn's U.S. unique visitors shot up
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A brief history of chip fibs, flops: Intel, IBM, AMD — Even the biggest chip companies churn out their share of flops. But the hype that surrounds these chips is more fascinating than the failures. — It's been almost a year since I posted A brief history
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Sony Ericsson gets official with “Idou” 12 megapixel mobile — We didn't doubt it for a second (okay, maybe one second), but Sony's so-called Idou is for real. Though, we wouldn't go memorizing that name or anything, 'cause SE has plans to change it to
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Pitch your idea to the San Francisco Chronicle — Body: — Deborah Gage at the San Francisco Chronicle is doing her part to help startups get exposure and maybe some VC funding. The program is called “What's Your Pitch?
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Exclusive: Samsung OMNIA HD and BeatDJ — Hola! We have just arrived in Barcelona, Spain for the 2009's Mobile World Congress and before unpacking our luggage, we decided to share with you information about the surprise Samsung has for us all! In a huge
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Coding4Fun Demo - How to mask your voice using the Skype Voice Changer — Mark Heath (of NAudio fame) recently published a how-to article for Coding4Fun that shows how he plugged into Skype's audio APIs …
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Windows Mobile 6.5 feature tour sneaks onto YouTube — Well, what have we got here? Someone has upped nine breathtaking minutes of Windows Mobile 6.5 (build 21159.5.0.0, if you must know) running live on an HTC Touch HD. The action is pretty choppy — we
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The Death Of “Web 2.0″ — I'm not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0″ seems to become more
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Do We Need a New Internet? — Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny
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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Adoption By Doug Holland (Intel)
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The History of Microsoft - 1976 — For Microsoft, 1976 was the first year with an official name, it was the first time Bill Gates raised the issue of piracy and we hired our first full-time employee Marc McDonald
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Microsoft Appoints David Porter as Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores — Twenty-seven-year retail veteran will focus on transforming the PC and device-buying experience for retail consumers and developing and rolling out new Microsoft-branded store
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Twitter and status updating — In the past three years, developments in social networking and internet applications have begun providing internet users with more opportunities for sharing short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts
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Samsung unveils Blue Earth solar powered phone … Samsung Electronics has unveiled a solar-powered full touchscreen phone called “Blue Earth”. — No eco launch is complete without earthy PR speak, so the Blue Eartch is apparently designed to “symbolise
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Guidance on Windows Deployments for Business Customers — Hi, I'm Gavriella; welcome to the new Windows for your Business Blog. — Let me introduce myself: I'm a member of the Windows Product Management team and have been at Microsoft for 13 years. For
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Tweet. Meet. Give. — On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. — Join us by: — Attending one of the events
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WiMAX on World Tour — Intel just offered its pre-Mobile World Congress update on the state of WiMAX: — Executive Vice President Sean Maloney says WiMAX has become “a global reality.” PC OEMS, Acer, Fujistu, Lenovo, Panasonic and others are offering new
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Obama: I'm a PC — I realize people have bigger things on their minds these days, but how did the blogosphere not pick up on this yesterday? — Because while it's interesting (and important) to note that Intel (INTC) has committed to spending $7 billion
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Twitter Fast Growing Beyond Its Messaging Roots — Thanks to its open-ended design and a thriving user community, Twitter is fast outgrowing its roots as a simple, easy-to-use messaging service. Enterprising hackers are creating apps for sharing music
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-002 - Critical
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How Tweet It Is — Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth. — In case you don't remember the precise details
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Say hello to Hikaru — You're right! It's Hikaru. As you know from this image, Hikaru will be awesome Walkman-branded slider phone with metal housing. Hikaru is high-end device and it got high-end features: 2.6? screen, 8-Mp camera, 8 GB memory, Walkman
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Google Sync Beta for iPhone, WinMo and SyncML Phones — One of the hardest parts about switching phones is getting your address book and calendar to your new device. We're making that process a little easier by releasing a beta version of Google Sync for
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Introducing Amazon Kindle 2 — Kindle's Revolutionary Wireless Delivery and Massive Selection of Content — Now in a New Slimmer Design With Longer Battery Life, Faster Page Turns, Over 7X More Storage, Crisper Images and New Read-to-Me Feature — Amazon.com,
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Presence, status, and alerts the secret sauce of social networks — Body: — Facebook announced they are opening up their status API to other applications. AllFacebook says “Say Goodbye To Twitter”
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Time to Hang Up the Pajamas — I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn't one of them. — From the magazine issue dated Feb 16, 2009 — For two years I was obsessed with trying to turn a blog into
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Mapping the Victorian fires — By now, you're undoubtedly aware of the terrible bushfire tragedy that is unfolding in Victoria. — We've today pulled together a Flash Map, containing the latest up-to-date information about fire locations and their status
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Sales of PCs to fall for first time in eight years — Problems in the personal computer business have increased the likelihood that 2009 will bring the first decline in PC sales since 2001, according to industry analysts. — Evidence has been accumulating
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Tune your TV into a GPS — Television broadcasts may help carriers put tiny cellular base stations into subscribers' homes. Sounds like a strange link, but Rosum aims to provide GPS assistance to femtocells and other devices by tuning into TV. — Rosum
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Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? (GOOG) — The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early candidates. Today Yahoo and Ebay are struggling, and I think
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Nvidia-based Microsoft smartphone coming? — Nvidia's Tegra chip will be used in an upcoming Microsoft smartphone, according to an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech. — The San Francisco-based research firm also is speculating that Apple will eventually use
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How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers — This is the story about a girl that's actually a dude who's brought in 3.8 - 19.4 million visitors* to Village Voice Media websites by gaming Digg. — Village Voice Media appears to be running
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LESSON 1: Adding Web Slices to a Web page LESSON 1: Adding Web Slices to a Web page [This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.] This tutorial explains how to add Web Slices to Web pages. In order to create a Web Slice, you must add two
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Isaacson's pitch for micropayments — Today Walter Isaacson, the venerable former editor of Time and current boss of the Aspen Institute, unleashes a multipronged offensive on behalf of the idea of micropayments for news. In a lecture delivered yesterday
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Descry Source Code, MIX09 and More — I was recently interviewed by Mike Swanson and Jennifer Ritzinger for their “Countdown to MIX09” show. I figured I'd share the video because it's very relevant to our latest issue on information visualization: Descry
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Shush! Samsung Acme i8910 is Leaked — Be the first to hear it here, as we have exclusive leaked photos sent to Gaj-It showing Samsungs latest addition to their eclectic portfolio of mobile phones. This new, but very ‘hush hush’ arrival is the Samsung
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Microsoft offers to just ‘Fix it’ — When people encounter a problem with their PC, they often go to the Web and do a search to see if others have had the problem. If they are lucky, someone has found a fix and listed the steps on either a support document
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Next Steps in Openness — Enabling social information to flow through the Web is one of the core goals of Facebook. In the two months since Facebook Connect became generally available, over 4,000 sites and desktop applications have gone live with the service
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