- Chat With Skimlinks CEO Alicia Navarro on Skimkit Launch
Last week London-based Skimlinks launched the SkimKit, a tool that helps publishers find products that have affiliate opportunities attached. Martin Bryant from Next Web has a good overview from the l…
- Gary’s Guide Adds More NYC Service Directories
Last weekend we showed you how you can use Gary’s Guide to navigate SXSW. This week Gary has added more service directories to his event planning guide. The directories include coworking, event venu…
- Pre-SXSW Job Listing
Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. Featured Jobs: e-Commerce…
- Amtrak Adds Wi-Fi On Acela Trains
In the old days, there were two main ways to get anywhere from Boston to Washington using public transit. Those two ways were Amtrak trains and Grayhound buses. Over the past few years, new bus servic…
- Gary Helps You Find SXSW & Austin Events
We are just a few days away from the annual event known as SXSW. I’ve provided a primer for the 2010 SXSW which should help you get around and make the most out of the event. So how do you keep trac…
- reMail Goes Open Source
Two weeks ago Google acquired the email search for the iPhone service reMail. Corsin provided a good history of the reMail service. Today founder Gabor Cselle has announced that the reMail service is…
- Information Capturing Service Memonic Launches Subscription Based Option
Memonic is online information capturing and organizational service. It allows you to capture pieces of information like maps, routes, photos or text. The capturing process can be completed in a variet…
- ExpenseBay Helps You Deal With the Horror of Expense Reports
Typically corporate trips are great – you get to use someone else’s credit card for travel and meals. There’s only one time that corporate travel sucks – and that’s the time it takes to put…
- DreamIt Recruiting New Class of Startups
We’ve covered the startups from the DreamIt incubator several times over the past couple of years. Based in Philly, the DreamIt startup incubator helps people with ideas move the ideas forward into…
- Are You Ready for the iPad?
Only a few days left before the iPad hits shelves and if Apple is able to deliver even with some speculated delivery problems we will be able to dive into a new product that will probably change the w…
- Perks Consulting Acquires Esultancy
NY-based consulting firm Perks Consulting has announced the acquisition of social media consultancy Esultancy today. Esultancy is also based in New York City. Terms of the acquisition were not disclos…
- YouTellYou Helps You Create a Picture Magazine
It’s interesting that everyday we hear how email is dead yet everyday I see someone using email in a new way. The benefit of using email is that it’s understood by nearly any Internet user as oppo…
- Get Yourself a New Job!
Below are some of the latest jobs posted on the CenterNetworks Job Board. Subscribe to the CN Jobs feed and get all of the latest Web industry jobs delivered directly to you. Featured Jobs: e-Commerce…
- Announcing the New CenterNetworks Guest Post Program
If you are a regular CN reader, you’ve seen a decline in the number of stories that are posted daily. As I shift my time into a variety of programs, it’s made it harder to post the large number of…
- Code Camp Comes to NYC in March
It seems that the number of tech-related events in the NYC area keeps growing. Next Saturday, March 6, Code Camp comes to NYC. The Code Camp event will be held at the Microsoft office in midtown Manh…
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- US Considers Some Free Wireless Broadband Service
gollum123 writes US regulators may dedicate spectrum to free wireless Internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission sai…
- US Gamers Spend $3.8 Billion On MMOs Yearly
eldavojohn writes A new report from Games Industry indicates that MMO gamers in the United States paid $3.8 billion to play last year, with an analysis of five European countries bringing the total cl…
- The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack
ElectricSteve writes It's been a long time coming. While Arthur C. Clarke's geosync satellites have taken to space, and James Bond's futuristic mobile technology has become commonplace, still the drea…
- Google's Computing Power Refines Translation
gollum123 sends an excerpt from the NY Times on how Google has taken a lead in language translation, in one of the company's few unqualified successes as it attempts to broaden is offerings beyond sea…
- Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
blozza2070 notes the news that Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community…
- NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s
adeelarshad82 writes After originally rejecting the story, online retailer NewEgg confirmed that a shipment of Core i7s were indeed fake, and apologized for the affair. NewEgg has also broken off its…
- Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week
netbuzz writes When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000, it had more than doubled in a year and the dot-com bubble was already leaking in a big way. A week later th…
- Best Resource For Identifying Legit Applications?
bjb writes While helping a somewhat computer illiterate person figure out a problem recently, they mentioned that PDF files had recently stopped working. Upon investigation I found something installed…
- Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router
CWmike writes Today Cisco Systems introduced its next-generation Internet core router, the CRS-3, with about three times the capacity of its current platform. 'The Internet will scale faster than any…
- Doctors Skirt FDA To Heal Patients With Stem Cells
kkleiner writes For many years countless individuals in the US have had to watch with envy as dogs and horses with joint and bone injuries have been cured with stem cell procedures that the FDA has re…
- The Secret Origin of Windows
harrymcc writes Windows has been so dominant for so long that it's easy to forget Windows 1.0 was vaporware, mocked both outside and inside of Microsoft — and that its immediate successors were cons…
- Open Data Needs Open Source Tools
macslocum writes Nat Torkington begins sketching out an open data process that borrows liberally from open source tools: 'Open source discourages laziness (because everyone can see the corners you've…
- HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed
Trailrunner7 writes Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Ma…
- Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09
krebsonsecurity writes Organized cyber-criminal gangs stole $25 million in the 3rd quarter alone last year, by pilfering the online bank accounts of small to midsized businesses, the FDIC reported las…
- European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA
An anonymous reader writes The European Parliament is preparing to take on ACTA. A joint resolution (DOC) has been tabled by the major EP parties that threatens to go to court unless things change. Th…
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- "PowerPoint is evil" author to monitor stimulus spending
Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed Tuf…
- Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine
Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior…
- Engineering a parasite to tell you where it has been
Many of the parasites that plague humans have life cycles that are positively baroque, hopping between species and hiding out in tissues for years before setting off a damaging infection. These habit…
- Mozilla previews new feature to guard against Flash crashes
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch claims that the company's ubiquitous Flash plug-in doesn't ship with any known crash bugs. One can only assume that he has never used the software. As Adobe representatives exhi…
- Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes
Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning to…
- Low-metal star suggests Milky Way grew by gobbling dwarfs
An unresolved question in astronomy is how the Milky Way reached its current state. One theory is that the Milky Way grew, at least in part, by cannibalizing smaller dwarf galaxies that happened to g…
- Cisco: Internet to change forever Tuesday (place your bets!)
Cisco today said that after the close of markets on Tuesday, the company will announce a significant news (we're guessing a major acquisition) which will forever change the Internet and its impact on…
- US eases restrictions on Web services exports to Iran, Cuba
The US Treasury Department today relaxed export regulations against Iran, Sudan, and Cuba, allowing US companies to provide instant messaging, e-mail, and social networking services to those countrie…
- Valve: full "Steam" ahead on Mac OS X with free syncing
Valve has stopped with the teasing and has officially announced that its online gaming service Steam is coming to the Mac. As a bonus, the company also plans to make the Mac a tier-1 platform, promi…
- reMail iPhone app re-released under Apache 2 license
Two weeks ago, we reported that Internet search giant Google had acquired third-party iPhone mail application reMail. At the time, Google rehired reMail CEO and programmer Gabor Cselle to work as a…
- Europe outsourcing CO2 emissions to developing economies
China is now the largest emitter of CO2 on the planet, as it powers a large industrial base primarily through the use of coal-fired power plants. However, many of those goods are immediately shipped…
- The best electronic key is the one you always have with you
The best camera is the one you have with you is an old photography adage, and Apple may be looking to extend that principle to its iPhone. And it's not about the iPhone as a camera, either—if you a…
- MeeGo code coming in March, will run on Atom boards and N900
In an announcement published last week, Nokia's Valtteri Halla revealed that Intel and Nokia are planning to launch the public MeeGo source code repository by the end of the month. The MeeGo project…
- Ubisoft on DRM snafu: servers attacked, pirates locked out
Those playing Assassin's Creed 2 on the PC got a rude reminder of DRM's pitfalls when the servers that authenticate the game went down. Many complained on the company's official forum, and tempers ra…
- 80% say 'Net access fundamental right, split on regulation
Access to the Internet is a fundamental right to nearly four out of five adults across the globe, and those in South Korea, Mexico, and China seem to have the strongest feelings on the topic. This is…
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