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• Google Buzz Is the Polar Express of Social Networks [Blockquote]
  Social media researcher and general internet guru Danah Boyd gave the keynote address at SXSWi earlier today, focusing on matters of privacy. On paper, Google Buzz was a perfect social network. So wh…
• Celsius X VI II's Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone Gets Slightly Less Mysterious [Mechanics]
  Last month, I risked life and limb to tell you about Celsius X-VI-II, a shadowy French company who was building a $300,000 mechanical cellphone. The first pictures of the phone have surfaced, though…
• FujiFilm Finepix Z700 Point-and-Shoot Is the First To Offer Pet Detection [DigitalCameras]
  At least in the parts of the internet I frequent, pet pictures have been enjoying an unusual popularity as of late. FujiFilm's Finepix Z700 has technology that snaps a photo when your furry friend sm…
• Inside the Apple-Google War: It's Personal [Applegooglewar]
  The New York Times has a long, juicy look at what's been going on behind the scenes with the ever-escalating conflict between Google and Apple. The cause for all the enmity, according to insiders? Eg…
• Apple Will Replace Dead Battery iPads For $99 [Ipad]
  The Battery Replacement Service FAQ on Apple's site outlines their policy for handling iPads with diminished battery capacity, and its surprisingly generous: for a $99 service fee, they'll send you a…
• How To: Turn Your Web Apps Into Real Apps [How To]
  When you use a site like Gmail, you have to decide: Do I want to use the service's website, or do I want to use it through an app, like Outlook? Here's how to get the best of both worlds. More »
• Netflix's Million Dollar Contest Shut Down Amidst Privacy Concerns [NetFlix]
  Yesterday, Netflix announced that they're pulling the plug on the sequel to their supercool Netflix Prize in which teams competed to improve the company's recommendation algorithm for a million dolla…
• Five Foot Lego Blackberry Adds Punchline Functionality [BlackBerry]
  We're no strangers to the work of Lego master Nathan Sawaya, but his latest creation achieved the impossible: making a Blackberry exciting. It incorporates a working flat screen TV for comfortably di…
• Apple's iPad Will (Perhaps Controversially) Read E-Books Aloud [Ebooks]
  In addition to the orientation-lock button, yesterday's pre-order commencement delivered another surprise nugget: the iPad will read all EPUB books out loud. If you remember the shitstorm that surrou…
• Google Reportedly 99.9 Percent Sure To Shut Down Its Chinese Search [Censorship]
  Though the last we heard, Google was nearing a compromise that would allow them to stop censoring their Google.cn results, the Financial Times is reporting that they are almost certainly going to clo…

• Apple's Magic Mouse Gets Decidedly Unmagical Ergonomic Fix [Magicmouse]
  The Magic Mouse, for all of its sleek lines and multitouch, uh, magic, can feel a little awkward in the hand. MMFixed has the solution: a stick-on hump that gives your fingers some leverage and your…
• FCC Proposing Its Plan For America's Net Future To Congress This Week [Fcc]
  As the intertubes overtake boob tubes and telephone tubes as our primary mode of communication, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that access is available and affordable for all Americans.…
• Audio-Technica BoogieBox Speaker Handles the Heaviest of Metals [Speakers]
  There's no shortage of cutesy portable speakers for listening to music when you're out and about. But if you want something that doesn't feel like it's going to snap in two, the Audio-Technica Boogie…
• A Reminder of How Sad the Internet Can Look Without Flash [Image Cache]
  When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No Flash. And yes, it can make th…
• This Power Strip Has an Entire Miniature City On It [Art]
  As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip. They're just missing mini-people. […
• Black Ninja Monday is When the Commenter Trolls Get Their Due [Comments]
  Several star commenters have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator's time wondering about such issues a…
• By Your Accelerometers Combined, I Am Quake Catcher! [Earthquakes]
  What if computers could be turned into a worldwide earthquake detecting network? With the Quake Catcher software and your laptop's built-in accelerometer, that might just be possible. More »
• Friday Night Funnies: 8 Images to Close Out the Week [Tgif]
  It's been a long week and we could use a laugh. We've already started worrying about taxes and pre-ordering iPads, among other stresses. To sum it all up, here are some illustrations from a cartoon m…
• R/C Helicopters + Petri Dish + Flying Whale Snot = Science [Machines Vs Nature]
  Instead of harpooning a whale for samples, wouldn't it be easier to just collect their snot using an R/C helicopter? More »
• This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss [Roundups]
  We've all heard about the PlayStation Move by now, but a lot of other neat stuff happened this week in video games, including God of War III's release, Civ 5 details and...a Battlestar Galactica MMO?…
• Did You Know That Octopus Love High Definition Crabs? [Machine Vs Nature]
  New research shows that the advantages of HDTV aren't lost on octopuses. A recent study on octopus behavior made the upgrade from CRT sets to HDTVs for the playback of octopus-related videos, like on…
• This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]
  In this week's bipolar app roundup: Foursquare, squared! Slow ISPs, tattled on! Videos, easily streamed! Street Fighter fans' high standards, met! Twitter apps, set free! Your entire life, documented…
• The Whole Cosmos Seems to Live in This Furry, Glowy Pillow [Design]
  Maybe the whole cosmos isn't in this pillow, but the LEDs hidden in a zippered compartment and causing these glowing, swirling patterns sure do give the illusion that it is. More »
• Cash-and-Stock Bonus for Babysitting Apple While Steve Jobs Was Sick? $22 Million [Apple]
  First Apple COO Tim Cook received $12.3 million in stock for watching the company while Steve Jobs was on sick leave and now he's receiving an additional cash-and-stock bonus worth $22 million. More�…
• Oh MGD 64 iPhone App, Guide Me to a Healthier Lifestyle! [Beer]
  I don't know about you, but I used to be the case a day type. You know, pick up a 24 pack in the morning, sort my cardboard and aluminum recycling in the evening. Then, one app changed my life. More�…
• Non-Enclosed 3D Printer Can Build Houses [3D Printing]
  Normally they're contained in a box, so the fact that this 3D printer isn't confined means it's theoretically capable of building much larger objects that most. In fact, the owner wants to build a ca…
• Want a Verizon-Based Nexus One? You'll Have To Buy It From Google [Verizon]
  It doesn't really come as a huge surprise, but apparently the only way to get your hands on a Verizon-based Nexus One will be to order it straight from Google. More »
• Slacker Radio Planning On-Demand Music Service [Slacker]
  Wired is reporting that Slacker Radio has secretly been prepping an on-demand music subscription service that will give users unprecedented control over streaming radio. More »
• GuitarBud Plugs a Guitar Directly Into an iPhone [IPhone]
  GuitarBud is a $29 adapter that allows you to plug a guitar right into an iPhone. How is that useful? Well if I ever learned to play that guitar in my closet, I could: More »
• Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans [Opinion]
  You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and the Yelp app anytime you like without counting minutes or megabytes? Yeah, well that's all g…
• Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: Take a Look Edition [Remainders]
  In today's Remainders: sights! Visit Paris in your browser with a magnificent 24 gigapixel photograph; behold America, circa 1972, in the EPA's 15,000 photograph Documerica project, and more. More �…
• Wheelie Robot Is Great At Being Adorable While Performing Useless Task [Robots]
  I should be in awe of this autonomous, two-wheeled prototype robot by Toyota, dreaming of The Jetsons and Wall-E. But instead, all I can think is, Who needs a robot that just balances crap on its hea…
• Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]
  It all about the full packaged bundles in today's deals. Pickup an Xbox bundle with two major tiles at a discount, those wanting to dive into DSLRs have the great deal from Nikon, and nab some free p…
• First Reviews of the Panasonic TC-P50VT20 3DTV [Reviews]
  After seeing it at CES, there was little doubt. The 50-inch Panasonic TC-P50VT20 wouldn't just be among the first 3DTVs on the market, it would be among the best. The first two reviews are in, and th…
• The Void Between Protons and Electrons Makes Us All Phantoms [Science]
  Are you real? You may seem real and solid, but you are mostly made of empty space. To demonstrate it, someone enlarged an electron to the size of one pixel, proportionally showing its distance from a…
• Take the Consumer Broadband Test, Help the FCC Keep ISPs In Check [Broadband]
  Feel like your broadband's not living up to how it's advertised? Here's your chance to prove it: the FCC's introduced a Consumer Broadband Test that'll let you know exactly how good a connection you'…
• Mosspuppet Discovers Chatroulette And We All Throw Up a Little [Mosspuppet]
  I've got to hand it to Mosspuppet: he's always on top of the latest trends. This time out: Chatroulette! And while it ends with Mosspuppet's most cherished dream fulfilled, it's also. Totally. Gross.…
• PlayStation Move Requires a Scant 1-2MB of RAM [PS3]
  Sony's XMB may be a bit of a RAM hog, and Microsoft's Project Natal will require about 15% of the Xbox 360's resources. But the new PlayStation Move controller? Its footprint looks light. More »
• Insert the PlayStation Move Wand Into the Situations It'll Let You Simulate [PhotoshopContest]
  For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you to take Sony's new PlayStation Move and put it in some real contexts. It's supposed to let you pretend to play with guns, swords and other objects, right…
• The Litany of iPad Submission [Apple]
  You're considering an iPad. You're giving it serious thought. But the doubts are mounting, and you can't quite pull the trigger. You know what? Time to man up. You want the iPad. You need the iPad. D…

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engadget.com

• Lego-borne BlackBerry Tour probably still lacks WiFi
  How do you know you've reached status as an internationally-recognized icon? When someone decides to make a Lego representation of you, that's when -- so our hats go off to you, BlackBerry Tour, for…
• Dell introduces $339 G2410H 24-inch 1080p LCD monitor, we go hands-on
  Just over a year ago, Dell pushed out its latest and greatest 24-incher, the energy-sipping G2410. Today, the Round Rock powerhouse has introduced that very unit's successor (complete with a height a…
• Another optical wireless experiment shows us that LEDs will beam your future downloads
  Beaming data with light is hardly a new thing, but lately we've seen a number of attempts at making it rather more usable and, more interesting, rather more speedy. We're starting to get the feeling…
• Engadget Podcast 187 - 03.13.2010
  How many SDK's does it take to screw in a light bulb? You won't find the answer in this week's leaky edition of the Engadget Podcast Show, but you will get an exclusive chance to peer into the future…
• TomTom iPhone app hits 1.3, gains real-time traffic and Google local search
  Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom's lackluster offering…
• 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 lin…
• BlackBerry Slider undergoes further undercover inspection, side shots emerge
  We're still no closer to finding out whether this is the next iteration of the Bold, Storm or some other BlackBerry line, but the unofficially coined BlackBerry Slider continues to pique our interest…
• Ceton's quad CableCARD tuner for Media Center available for pre-order
  That's right, you can now reserve your place in line to be the first to record four HD cable shows at once on your Windows 7 Media Center. The bad news is that ship date for the InfiniTV 4 is now May…
• Lian Li's PC-T1R Spider case crawls towards a release
  Custom computer cases that look like spiders aren't generally the sort of thing that are available to public, but Lian Li's new PC-T1R case is one big exception to the rule, and it's now edged a bit…
• Packard Bell Studio ST media playback drive invades Europe
  It's not much more than a hard drive with HD media playback abilities, but the Packard Bell Studio ST certainly looks nice, doesn't it? It's Europe-only for now, but we're hoping parent company Acer…

• PlayStation Move requires only 2MB of RAM, developers breathe sigh of relief
  While it's a crying shame that Sony's PlayStation Move won't have full four-player support, at least the technology is efficient; our buddies at Joystiq are reporting that the camera-and-wand based mo…
• Scientists discover method for rapid charging Li-ion batteries
  Huzzah! Yet another discovery for us to add to our ever-expanding list of awesome things that'll never actually happen! Ibrahim Abou Hamad and colleagues from Mississippi State University have reporte…
• Make your Magic Mouse oh-so-ergonomic with this pasty silicone grip
  While it's hard to say if Apple's Magic Mouse really needs fixing -- it depends somewhat on your grip -- it's not a huge stretch to say that the slender multitouch device doesn't quite fit in the pal…
• Odroid handheld game console due early March sportin' Android 2.1
  We know you've been champing at the bit for some Odroid news... wait, you forgot already? You know, the Android-powered handheld game system that the manufacturer, Hardkernel, bills the developer-foc…
• How would you change Nokia's N900?
  Maemo 5 didn't stand on its own for long before being mashed together with Intel's Moblin, but Nokia's N900 still stands as one of the best handhelds for web browsing. It's hardly the world-beater th…
• One man band rocks the iPod touch, rescues the MIDI clarinet from obscurity
  We've seen blow-hard electronic music makers in the past (one particular didgeridoo hack comes to mind) but still, when one makes us take note we feel like we just have to pass it along. Onyx Ashanti…
• Palm offering discounted contract-free phones to developers -- too bad they're carrier locked
  Usually when we hear the phrase contract-free developer phone the words unlocked and GSM follow shortly thereafter, but apparently Palm didn't get the memo -- it just announced discounted hardware pr…
• Okoro Media Systems upgrades HTPC range with Core i3 / i5 CPUs, bitstreaming and USB 3.0
  You picked up an Okoro media PC last month, didn't you? If you're nodding up and down in a worried fashion, you're probably better off ignoring everything else we'll say in this post. For the rest of…
• Zoom G2Nu and G2.1Nu guitar effects pedals offer direct USB recording
  Zoom is kind of like Mitsubishi -- it sort of does it all. Months after shipping one of the greatest pocket audio recorders every known to man, the company is now hitting back with none other than a…
• Nokia C6 is actually a 5230-ish landscape slider?
  We hate to turn your entire world -- nay, your very belief system -- on its end, but it's at least conceivable here that the so-called Nokia Mystic with the portrait QWERTY keyboard may not be the up…
• Playcast Media nabs support from big name publishers, aims to bring STB gaming to US
  GDC is winding down here in San Francisco, but Playcast Media is hoping to snag its 15 minutes by announcing new partnerships with Atari, Capcom, Codemasters and THQ (to name a few) for use in its co…
• German student shows off camera-based input on an iPhone
  Using a camera as an input device is hardly a new idea -- even on a mobile device -- but most examples so far have been to enable functionality not possible on a touchscreen. As Master's student Dani…
• Win XP needs some TLC to use next-gen hard drives
  Solid state drives may be the fast-moving wave of the future in PC storage, but the technology for bigger and better magnetic media keeps on trucking. Only recently, that truck hit something of a poth…
• Verizon's Nexus One to be sold only through Google, have Sense UI (or not)
  This doesn't come as much of a surprise, but Android Central seems to have obtained a screen shot from a deep, dark, top-secret Verizon system that indicated that the upcoming CDMA version of the Nex…
• The Engadget Podcast, live... now!
  Hey, is there something going on that we should talk about? Join us in just a few and let's find out... together. Update: We're all wrapped up, but the regular post will be up tomorrow if you missed…
• Apple iPad -- model A1337 -- phreaks the FCC
  A pair of iPads was just revealed in the FCC's system in perfect synchrony with that little pre-order sitch with which you may or may not already be familiar. Apple, of course, has a track record of…
• Lenovo CEO says mobile internet products will soon account for '70 to 80 percent' of sales
  Lenovo may mostly be associated with laptops and all-business desktops these days, but it looks like the company's CEO hopes that won't be the case for too much longer. Speaking with the AP, Yang Yua…
• AT&T's de la Vega: HSPA+ coming 'in certain locations'
  AT&T hasn't been quite as forthcoming with the exact details of its next-gen network plans as T-Mobile and Verizon have been recently, but FierceBroadbandWireless appears to have wrested a tidbit from…
• Entourage Edge review
  Is it an Android tablet? An e-reader? Just a sweet gadget with two screens? Truth is the Entourage Edge is a little bit of everything, and that's exactly why we've been so intrigued with the dualbook…
• Nokia asks court to dismiss part of Apple patent lawsuit
  How do we know we're years away from a final resolution to the Nokia / Apple patent lawsuit? It's been six months since Nokia first filed its complaint, and the two parties are just now starting to a…
• The Engadget Show: Inside chiptunes and 8-bit visuals
  Greetings humans! If you've seen The Engadget Show, then you've been privy to some pretty incredible performances by a group of musicians and artists who eschew familiar instruments in exchange for h…
• Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on
  It's almost too much to take in all at once. Sure, the $1,999 Cintiq 21UX pen display is priced out of reach for most of us mere mortals who don't draw good, but the pure lustworthiness of this unit…
• FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband Test app for iPhone, Android and the home
  We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not this time, t…
• HDI headquarters walkthrough: details galore on the new face of in-home 3D
  Call it an inexplicable fascination, or call it all-out geek lust over a screen with three digits in the diagonal screen size specification field -- either way, we had little choice but to shuttle ov…
• iPad mute switch magicked into a 'screen rotation lock' overnight, a flurry of other tidbits emerge
  Apple's pushing out a few more scraps of info about the iPad in conjunction with the launch of pre-orders. One of the quirkier details is that what was previously known as the mute switch on the iPad…
• United puts the kibosh on in-flight video chat, one family seriously 'bummed'
  It may not be illegal to tuck your kids into bed via iChat while taking advantage of United's in-flight WiFi, but that didn't stop a flight attendant from ending John Battelle's (admittedly precious)…
• Motorola Milestone with Android 2.1 hitting Bulgaria by March 20th, rest of Europe to follow?
  We'd had some indication that Europe would be seeing Motorola Milestones running Android 2.1 roughly around this time, and it looks like we are now finally starting to get a few more specifics. Accord…
• Sony Japan busts out Mickey Mouse-ified S Series Walkmans
  Sony Japan's just outed three newly styled S Series Walkmans for the Disney fanatic. That's right, Mickey & Minnie Mouse can now be found gracing the back of your PMP -- if that's what you're into, o…
• iCub gets upgraded with tinier hands, better legs
  We're pretty familiar with iCub -- the humanoid robot modeled on a two year old -- around here. Just because we know him well, though, doesn't really change the fact that we get the slightest chill r…
• Joystiq and Sony VP Scott Rohde talk PlayStation Move
  So, we brought you along for the big reveal and some playtesting, and even presented you with this handy guide just in case you had any more questions. You still haven't got enough of Sony's new moti…

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boingboing.net

• Son House, "Death Letter" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
  I could go on all weekend about Son House, one of the top and longest-lasting country bluesman, but I'll be kind to you and get to the music quickly. His original recordings are messages from a foreig…
• New Keyboard Cat is pretty great
  It's Caturday. Watch: Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat REINCARNATED! (via Sean Bonner)...
• Patagonia M10 jacket weighs only 10 ounces
  In my household, we have an almost unhealthy obsession with all things Patagonia. The environmentally conscious surf-and-climb brand from California has just released its lightest fabric ever via the…
• Add your name to "Save the Net" FB page, help the LibDems do the right thing!
  I'm delighted to report that the UK Liberal Democrats' Spring Convention have accepted the emergency motion on internet freedom, and will be debating it tomorrow morning. The LibDems were plunged into…
• Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright
  In this leaked, six-page email, Richard Mollet, the Director of Public Affairs for the British Phonographic Institute (the UK's record-industry lobbyists), sets out the BPI's strategy for ramming thro…
• Most beautiful bookstore - Buenos Aires's Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid
  Bueno Aires's Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid used to be a beautiful movie palace. Saved from the wrecker's ball, it is now one of the most majestic bookstores I've ever clapped eyes upon, a verita…
• Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Alka-seltzer lava lamp
  Intermolecular polarity is a fancy way of saying oil and water don't mix. Here, Science Bob explains why, and shows off a fun trick you can do over and over with oil, water, food coloring and alka-sel…
• Hanging Out with Kim Jong-il
  Like many in the insulated west, I've long been fascinated by North Korea, what life is like in there, and what will happen to the peninsula after the walls come down. (Of course, I'm half a world awa…
• Boba Fett accordion-busks the Zelda theme on a NYC subway platform
  Sweet busking pitch: Boba Fett costume, accordion, Zelda theme. This is what makes the NYC subway great. Boba Fett shows off his artistic side (via Digg) Previously:Dead Plants: kick-ass shoutin' hill…
• Luc Besson's steampunk movie
  Here's the latest trailer for Luc Besson's forthcoming steampunk movie, Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec. That's some heady stuff. Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adele Blanc-Sec - 2nd…

• Sci-fi: a Jesusfish raygun parody
  Looking for an automobile decor element that proudly proclaims your devotion to the earliest, persecuted science fiction fans who huddled in catacombs, scratching crude rayguns into the walls? Look no…
• Hugo nominating deadline looms
  Kate from Aussiecon, the upcoming World Science Fiction convention in Melbourne, sez, The deadline for sending in your Hugo Awards nomination ballot is fast approaching! The Hugo Awards are awards for…
• US census infographics from 1870
  The census is one of America's great institutions, the way the country knows itself. Here then is the 1870 statistical atlas of the ninth census, scanned at high rez. Your one-stop shop for 1870's bes…
• Die Antwoord to sign with Interscope, Neill Blomkamp to direct next video
  Photos: Xeni Jardin (top) and Sean Bonner The South African rap-rave internet star known as The Ninja grabs my face by the cheeks. He leans forward and stares into my eyes, like a large savannah preda…
• Marque Cornblatt retrospective art opening in Baltimore
  Harbor East is hosting an art opening called Tools, Trash and Technology - A 25-year retrospective of the Art and Design of Marque Cornblatt. Marque's whimsical, clever creations have been featured on…
• Collect whale snot using a remote control helicopter
  Scientists want to study whale diseases, but collecting blood is difficult and dangerous to the scientists and the whales. But whale snot is also good for analyzing whale health, and whales shoot it o…
• Just look at this awesome steampunk bananagun.
  Just look at it. It Shoots Monkeys (Thanks, Jessemoya!) Previously: Just look at this awesome underwear made from banana fibers. Just look at this awesome slow-moving performance artist whose face has…
• Thanks, advertising, for ruining another cherished movie cliché
  (Today's post inspired by the ghost of Andy Rooney.) Don't we get to have our cheap movie clichés anymore? The well-shod feet walking away in the rain... the lonely figure in silhouette, illuminated…
• An alternative to the atomic bomb?
  A geologist proposed bombing Japan's volcanoes to win the war in a January 1944 issue of Popular Science. [via Google Books via Pink Tentacle]...
• Laptop sleeve made out of recycled wetsuits
  As a relative newcomer to the craft of sewing, I just recently started to realize the value of fabric scraps. That's why I was intrigued when I heard of Looptworks, a new apparel company — started b…
• Taste Test: Kumquat
  Kumquat marmalade Thinly slice 24 kumquats and 2 oranges. Measure how many cups they add up to, then put them in a large pot. Add 3 cups of water for each cup of fruit, and let it sit overnight. The n…
• Mini-documentary on the British war on public photos and videos
  WorldBytes, a charity that trains people to make their own journalism got sick and tired of British policemen, bureaucrats and officials telling them that they don't have the right to shoot motion pic…
• Cosmos on Hulu
  All of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. All for free. Enjoy....
• Beyond Books: University library collections for Happy Mutants
  UCLA collects ads for patent medicine. Princeton has piles of 17th-century porn. UNLV? Showgirls and Dean Martin, of course. Mental_Floss presents a guide to some of the best weird library collections…
• Americans: Test your broadband speed, help the FCC keep ISPs honest
  James from the New America foundation sez, The FCC launched a consumer broadband test on their blog broadband.gov yesterday. Internet speeds in the US are often 50% to 80% lower than advertised and it…
• J.G. Ballard's Bang Wallop
  I'd love to read this hypothetical sequel to J.G. Ballard's Crash, since Dinos and Jake Chapman have already designed the perfect cover. Ambiguous aims: a review of Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard (NSFW…
• Richard Thompson, "For Shame of Doing Wrong" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
  Almost every Richard Thompson song could be subtitled, Watch out! You never know where it's going next and you always have to be wary, even when he's having fun. Thompson is as familiar with the dark…
• Look-at-my-scrotum lawsuit dismissed
  A Montreal man has had his lawsuit against Air Transat dismissed. He was suing the airline because the flight attendants refused to help him look at his scrotum and determine why it had started bleedi…
• Mechanical cardboard junk-horse walks the streets of Bulgaria
  Pony Express, a Bulgarian mechanical horse (created by T.J. Tangpuz) is made out of discarded packaging, plastic ties, and other detritus, and it delighted the people of Oryahovo, Bulgaria with its re…
• Miniature cities on household objects
  These beautiful, fanciful miniature cities built into household objects like power-strips and desk-fans are part of the graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. The artist is uncredite…

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pcworld.com

• A Brief History of Pi
  In honor of Pi Day (March 14), we bring you a brief history of everyone's favorite irrational constant.
• Pocket Chef for IPhone
  Developed by Gameloft, Pocket Chef is a cooking simulation game for the iPhone designed for the cooking-impaired. The app features 25 different recipes, some of...
• GDC: Mac Gaming Talk of Town, Among Winners at Award Shows
  On Saturday, the Game Developers Conference wraps up at San Francisco's Moscone Center. By all accounts, it's been a very exciting week for Mac gaming.
• The 12 Most Annoying Types of Cell Phone Users
  Seen Bluetooth Johnson, the bathroom texter, or the holster master? Hope you don't see any of these 12 annoying cell phone enthusiasts in the mirror.
• 5 Free Tools to Spring Clean Your Twitter Account
  Regain control of your Twitter account, using these utilities to sort and manage your followers and contacts.
• SXSW Notebook: Geolocation, Geolocation, Geolocation
  The marriage of geotagging and mobile social networking apps is the hot topic of conversation here in Austin.
• iPad Swapped if its Battery Fails, Apple Says
  Apple will exchange iPads with dud batteries for a whole new new device for $99 (data backup not included).
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• HDTV: Even Critters Prefer It
  It's the frame rate that adds reality, scientists decide.
• Microsoft's 4 Big Plans for Windows Phone 7
  Technical details of Windows Phone 7 will finally go on display at a conference next week.

• Molding the iPad into a Business Tool
  The Apple iPad is aimed primarily at a consumer audience, but with the right apps it can also be a functional and productive business tool.
• Government Role in ICANN Increases
  ICANN's Government Advisory Committee has expanded its role, helping choose members of policy review committees.
• The Macalope Weekly: A Sad State of Affairs
  Online technology journalism. Can't live with it and you can't shoot it in the back of the head and dump it in the creek off the old interstate bypass where all...
• Steve Jobs May Finally Have Approval to Tear Down House
  Steve Jobs is accustomed to bringing the house down—unveiling remarkable devices like the iPad, the iPhone, and the original iPod make that a pretty common...
• ZeuS Botnet Still Mutating, Still on the Move
  The newest version of the botnet toolkit is designed to help cybercrooks take remote control of infected systems.
• Plastic Logic Delays Release of Que E-Reader
  A little extra time for fine-tuning is OK; the Que and other e-readers have bigger challenges ahead.
• FCC's Broadcast Test Met with Skepticism
  The Federal Communications Commission invites you to test your broadband service, but to any point?
• Hottest Topics in PC Gaming
  Buzz aat the 2010 Game Developers Conference ranges from social issues to tomorrow's concerns.
• 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.
• OnLive's Pricing Won't Add Up for Most Gamers
  The cloud gaming service reveals some pricing details, and the value proposition looks iffy at best.
• GDC 2010: Award-Winning Video Games And a Brainwave Controller
  We check out winners in several categories of GDC's Independent Games Festival and test a game controller that uses brain activity to interact with games.
• FBI: Cyberfraud Losses Doubled in 2009
  According to the FBI, cyberfraud victims reported total losses of $559.7 million in 2009, more than double the 2008 tally.
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• Electric Bat Interactive Previews Browser-based Games
  Typically, players in a game battle for fantastical lands, important landmarks, or some other pre-determined acre of game territory. But what if the land you...
• Apple's Temporary Chief Gets Bonus That Could Be Worth $22M
  Tim Cook, Apple's COO who replaced CEO Steve Jobs during a medical leave, received a bonus that could be worth $22 million for his temporary leadership.
• ICANN Ends Meeting With No Decision on .xxx
  ICANN postponed a decision on the controversial .xxx domain until its next meeting in June.
• Xbox 360 Outsold Wii in February, Says NPD
  UPDATE: Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo's Wii in February, claiming the top spot in the U.S. monthly sales ranking for the first time in more than two years.
• Apple COO Tim Cook Awarded $22 Million Bonus
  Apple may have revealed additional details about the iPad on Friday, but perhaps a more interesting revelation came in the form of regulatory filing regarding...
• This Week in Geek: Caffeinated Cars, Six Cores, Games, and a Series of Tubes
  What made news this week in GeekTech? We cast a wide net, with stories ranging from java-powered autos to new CPUs. It's This Week in Geek!
• Accessorize Your iPad for Business
  Pre-orders began today for the Apple iPad. It is primarily a consumer device, but could have business potential--if you get the right accessories.
• Twitter Adds Location-Sharing: I'm Eating Tacos…In Texarkana
  Twitter turned on its geolocation feature Thursday allowing you to tell share your location when you tweet.
• Top 10 Big-Time, Badass Video Game Villains
  We pay homage to sweet, sweet tyranny — counting down the top ten scene-stealing villains of all time.
• Troyak Takedown, Security Blues, ICANN Meets
  The Troyak ISP, which has been linked to the Zeus botnet, was briefly taken down this week. The takedown occurred on the heels of the RSA Conference last week...
• Latest Details Make IPad a More Promising E-reader
  Shortly after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, I wondered whether the device--awesome as it seems--would truly compete as an e-book reader. Now that you can...
• FCC's National Broadband Plan: What's in It?
  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband...
• Carbon Nanotube Speakers Powered by Lasers
  New research paves the way for ubiquitous speakers made from a series of carbon nanotubes.
• Will In-Flight Video Chats Make for Unfriendly Skies?
  There are at least two plausible arguments against video calling in the air: bandwidth and seatmates.
• World Tech Update: 3D TV, Cloud Computing, and Apple iPads
  3D TVs arrive, Steve Ballmer gives his thoughts on cloud computing, the Apple iPad launch date is announced, and Final Fantasy XIII goes on sale.
• Google Local Product Search: Great Idea, Needs Tweaks
  Google's local product search lets Android, Palm WebOS and iPhone users check on stock at nearby stores. A good idea, but it's clearly a work in progress.
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• FCC Broadband Speed Tests Should Also Support Enforcement
  Now that we can allow the FCC to measure the speed of our Internet connections, perhaps the data can be used to improve and enforce carrier promises.
• GDC, Best Free Stuff, and iPad Pre-sale on PCWorld Podcast 68
  Join the editors of PC World for a lively round-table discussion of the week's hottest tech topics.
• IPad Camera Connection Kit Missing From Pre-order
  While the Apple Store is allowing pre-orders for a number of accessories alongside the iPad, one accessory is missing in action: the iPad Camera Connection Kit...
• Anticipation Grows as Apple Takes Orders for IPad
  Users are placing orders for Apple's iPad to find new ways to use the device.
• GDC: AFK Interactive Brings the MMO Experience to Your Phone
  Chat Guilds and Auction Houses May Be Going Mobile: A new development from one gaming company lets you keep track of your online gaming from your phone.
• Does the iPhone OS Need Multitasking?
  Rumors are swirling that the next major release of the iPhone operating system will include true multitasking, but does the iPhone really need it?
• Gameloft Unveils New IPhone Games
  GDC is a time for many game developers to show their stuff, each vying for media and consumer attention in the last big press period before E3. Gameloft, one of...
• Bugs & Fixes: The Mystery of the Folder That Wouldn't Open
  Today's problem is a small one with an easy fix. The mystery is what causes it in the first place.
• Portable Hard Drives
  In this video, I take a look at four portable hard drives. These drives are different from your typical portable hard drives. The four products are from Buffalo...
• Smartphones Spread Slowly in China, Despite 3G and IPhone
  China now has the iPhone and more big-name smartphones are due in the country, but high prices mean few Chinese buyers overall are choosing smartphones.
• 10 Must-Have March Madness iPhone Apps
  Prepare for the tournament (or your office pool) with these handy iPhone apps.
• FCC Offers Free Broadband Speed Test
  The results will reveal what kind of service you're getting, and the data will help the FCC in its National Broadband Plan.
• Apple Patches Safari Browser
  Version 4.0.5 is available for both Windows and Mac, just in time for competition in the Pwn2Own browser hacking competition.

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techweb.com

• VoiceCon 2010 Spotlights Convergence
  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
  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 Provid…
• Microsoft Xbox Sales Top Wii, PS3
  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
  The agreement puts Microsoft's Bing search on Motorola's Android smartphones.
• China Warns Google To Obey Law
  Promising consequences if Google flouts China's censorship laws, Chinese authorities also chide the U.S. for its human rights record.
• Infor Flex Smooths App Upgrades
  Software and service bundles are designed to make implementation time and cost predictable.
• Accident Fund Names Lisa Riddle VP of Claims and Medical Operations
  Workers' comp carrier taps Riddle to oversee strategic direction of claims operations and medical cost management.
• DRC Enables Cloud Delivery of DecisionMaker Rating Enterprise
  DecisionMaker Rating Enterprise customers will be able to minimize overhead, create multiple cloned environments and quickly perform what if analysis with version 7.1, the vendor says.
• ING to Use Virtual Desktops for Disaster Recovery
  Using RingCube's virtual desktop, which copies apps, data and permissions to a USB drive.
• Examiner Sees Accounting Gimmicks in Lehman Demise
  Lehman Brothers used accounting gimmicks and had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, but there was not extensive wrongdoing, a court-appointed examiner has found…

• NYSE Euronext CEO: Appetite for Financial Reform Fading
  The appetite and sense of urgency for world financial reform have waned as markets have rebounded and the world economy has shown signs of recovering, the head of exchange operator NYSE Euronext said.
• Buffett Kept Distance from Lehman
  Warren Buffett had at least three opportunities in 2008 to help Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, but failure to enlist his aid contributed to Lehman's bankruptcy and the global financial crisis, a court-…
• Narragansett Bay Launches New Homeowner Web Site, Agent Portal
  The enhancements fall within the company's APEX project, an agent-focused series of technical initiatives to be completed in 2001 that will allow the company to fulfill new customer needs and provide…
• Storage Demand, Revenue On The Rise
  Spiking sales of PCs, external drives, and optical drives signal increasing revenue for the storage sector.
• Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Renews Contract with Sapiens
  $7 million, five-year deal involves support services for closed books.
• Global CIO: Why IBM CEO Palmisano Earned His $24.3 Million
  Column about why IBM CEO Sam Palmisano deserves his $24.3 million pay package, and why the labor-movement groups screeching about it are all wrong.
• Apple iPad Available For Pre-Order
  The company is promising to deliver its magical device in early April.
• Mobile Phones Bring Insurance to Kenyan Farmers
  Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance company.
• OCZ Releases SSD For Netbooks
  The 32 GB solid-state drive will be priced under $100, company says.
• International Center For Financial Regulation Names Academic Panel
  The London-based think-tank, which has backing from 19 financial institutions, provides training, scholarship and thought leadership on financial regulation.
• Citrix Preps XenApp 6
  XenApp 6 will launch this month with management tools designed to ease the difficulty of virtualizing enterprise applications.
• GDC: Developers Vs. Cybercriminals
  At the Game Developers Conference, accounts of run ins with hackers show many gaming firms haven't grasped how cybercrime can ruin everything.
• Cisco Plans Containerized Data Centers
  The company sees an opportunity in modular, shipping container-based data centers in military, SaaS, and other markets.
• Wipro To Boost U.S. Hiring
  Wipro To Boost U.S. Hiring
• Obama to Tap Yellen for Fed Vice Chair
  U.S. President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar with the pr…

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mashable.com

• On Google’s Impending China Decision, and How It Has Lost Its Impact
  The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.Two months ago, Google threatened to shut…
• Tweet #RefreshMashable to Support New Location App to Change Your Community
  Here in Austin, I just finished introducing SparkHelp, the project Mashable has decided to support for the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge. We’re competing against two other teams over the next few day…
• 5 Must-See Google Easter Eggs
  There’s no doubt Google has a sense of humor — its excellent April Fools jokes are a testament to that. But there’s a wealth of funnies that can found any time of the year too. Here we pull toge…
• Pete Cashmore Talks Foursquare, iPad, and Location on Bloomberg [VIDEO]
  If you had to pick the one buzzword that’s dominating social media chatter today, it would have to be location. Just over a year ago, Foursquare burst onto the scene at the SXSW conference in Austin…
• ‘Predators’ Preview Debuts at SXSW
  SXSWi (the South by Southwest Interactive conference) is certainly our favorite track of the SXSW experience, but it’s not the only portion of the festival taking place this weekend. Film goers are…
• Top 10 Twitter Trends for This Week [CHART]
  Hooray for Hollywood! — the big winner this week in our roundup of the top 10 Twitter trends. From the Oscars to Alice in Wonderland (and of course, Justin Bieber), celebrity — whether be it music…
• Chatroulette Founder Working to Preserve User Privacy
  The creator of Chatroulette has revealed that he is working on a way to preserve user’s privacy, following the launch of Chat Roulette Map, a Google Maps mashups that pinpoints the location of users…
• Giiv Lets You Give Gifts Via Text Message
  This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. T…
• Flickr Co-founder’s Startup Hunch Raises $10 Million
  Hunch, a New York City-based startup founded by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake and SiteAdvisor founder/angel investor Chris Dixon, has raised $10 million in funding for its questions and recommendati…
• Privacy Concerns Put the Kibosh on the Netflix Prize
  Amid class-action lawsuits over privacy and subsequent FTC inquiries, Netflix announced today that it will not be pursuing the next Netflix Prize.For more than three years, individuals competed to win…

• The Rise of Foursquare in Numbers [STATS]
  Yesterday, Foursquare turned one. You read that right: The mobile social network that made its splash at SXSW 2009 and has tremendous buzz is just 366 days old.Despite that short amount of time, Fours…
• Keyboard Cat: The Next Generation [VIDEO]
  For years now we have all found solace and joy in Charlie Schmidt’s “Keyboard Cat,” a musically inclined feline with Beethoven-sick skills and a mischievous mien. Now, a new kitty is on the scen…
• Why Sex-Ed Remains a Challenge for Social Media
  Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.Addressing the very private nature of intimacy remains the most…
• Thanks to Mashable’s Socially Savvy Supporters
  Thanks to this week’s advertisers and partners for enabling us to bring you the latest social media news and resources. Mashable’s sponsors are as social media savvy as our readers!Advertise with…
• Apple Sells 90,000 iPads in the First Day? [REPORT]
  The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 uni…
• How Musicians Are Using Social Media to Connect with Fans
  Greg Rollett runs a music marketing company from his laptop in Orlando, FL. He is an advocate of the New Music Economy and very hopeful that artists can still live the rock star lifestyle in the digit…
• The iPad: A Pre-Order Preview
  The iPad is now officially available for pre-order, which means that news is going to be flowing in all day about its various specs and features. We’ll keep you updated on said news with this handy-…
• StumbleUpon’s New Ad Platform: An Inside Look
  Earlier this week, the social discovery tool StumbleUpon revamped its advertising platform.These changes don’t so much change the basics of how StumbleUpon Advertising works, as much as they add add…
• 4 Ways to Effectively Use Social Media as a Catalyst
  Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb, where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb.As social media marketing beco…
• Google Buzz E-mail Notification Changes Are Coming
  Google’s new social network, Google Buzz, is getting some additional refinement, based on user feedback. Today’s news: The search giant is testing new features that will give you control over the…
• Google Wave Keeps Rolling with New Extensions Gallery
  Google has just rolled out the first version of the Google Wave extensions gallery, making it easier for users to take advantage of some of the cool add-ons developers are building into the service.Af…
• iPad: To Pre-Order or Not to Pre-Order? [POLL]
  Now that the iPad is officially available for pre-order, the question that we want to know from our readers is: Will you pre-order? The Wi-Fi iPad will be available on April 3, 2010, and the Wi-Fi + 3…
• Enjoy Paris in All of Its 26-Gigapixel Glory
  Having been to Paris, I can tell you that it’s a city you won’t be able to fully fathom in a week or a month — it takes a lifetime to see all the city has to offer. This was before, of course, t…
• Apple Store Is Down, Prepare for iPad Pre-Orders [Update: It's Back]
  Update: The Apple Store is back up, and yes, you can now pre-order the iPad. We haven’t seen any other significant changes in the Store.It’s finally here; the moment where the iPad actually comes…
• Firefox Account Manager Aims to Make Your Social Life Easier
  What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most likely, you log into various sites that require a username and password: Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quit…
• Gaming Faceoff: Project Natal vs. PlayStation Move
  On November 19, 2006, Nintendo launched its fifth home console to the world. The Nintendo Wii was both ridiculed and praised for its unique controller system — the Wiimote — which detects movement…
• Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s “Telephone” Premieres on Vevo [VIDEO]
  Fresh off having the most popular music video in YouTube/Vevo’s history (“Bad Romance” with 140 million views and counting), Lady Gaga’s latest – “Telephone” – featuring Beyonce, has m…
• iPad Pre-Orders Begin at 5:30 A.M. PT on March 12
  Apple fanatics will be able to place their iPad orders at 5:30 a.m. PST (8:30 EST) tomorrow, Friday, March 12. The pre-orders will be available through Apple.com, and are expected to ship in the Unite…
• PlayStation Move: We Take It For a Test Drive [VIDEO]
  If you’re a gamer, you might have heard about yesterday’s news about the PlayStation Move, Sony’s answer to the Wii Remote and Microsoft’s upcoming Project Natal motion controller. In a demons…
• Twilight Super Fan Goes Crazy Over “Eclipse” Trailer [Viral Video to Avoid]
  If you’re one of those folks who responded to news of the Eclipse trailer today with a disgusted, “No thanks,” you really won’t want to watch this.Super Twilight fan and YouTube star NuttyMada…

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techmeme.com

• Clarifying a couple points (Matt Cutts/Gadgets, Google, and SEO)
  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.…
• Dead iPad battery? Never mind replacing it, Apple just sends another iPad for $99 (Darren Murph/Engadget)
  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 b…
• Apple's Spat With Google Is Getting Personal (New York Times)
  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, j…
• Day 1 estimate: 120,000 iPads sold (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Brainstorm Tech)
  Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech: Day 1 estimate: 120,000 iPads sold  —  A snapshot of who's buying what based on a sample of first-day pre-orders  —  Click to enlarge.  Source: AAPL Sa…
• Google to shut China search engine (Financial Times)
  Financial Times: Google to shut China search engine  —  By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing  —  Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese s…
• Opera browser for iPhone may be 'weeks' away (Doug Gross/CNN)
  Doug Gross / CNN: Opera browser for iPhone may be ‘weeks’ away  —  Austin, Texas (CNN) — The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store fo…
• One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette (Nick Bilton/Bits)
  Nick Bilton / Bits: One on One: Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette  —  Andrey Ternovskiy, a polite, excited and eager Russian high school student scoured the Internet trying to find a Web…
• Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)
  Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Hunch Gets It Right, Adds a $10 Million Series B Round Led by Khosla Ventures  —  Hunch, a buzzy start-up that answers questions using crowdsourced recommendations, has r…
• SITE NEWS: Mediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech
  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, blog…

centernetworks.com

• SXSW: Expo Hall Photos
  This afternoon marked the opening of the SXSW 2010 expo hall. Like most things at SXSW, the expo hall seems larger than in previous years with more large companies anchoring the space. Paypal, Google,…
• SXSW: Interesting Regator Ad
  Last year at SXSW we filmed a video demo of Atlanta-based Regator. The service provides curated blog aggregation on hundreds of topics. It looks like the Regator team is in Austin again this year and…
• SXSW Day 1 Recap and Links
  Day 1 of the SXSW interactive festival is complete. Here are some of the best reads from the first full day of the conference: SXSW: Social media marketing for business – Lost Remote 12 Tips on Live…
• Is This What It’s Going To Be Like All Weekend?
  I’ve heard from multiple people along with SXSW event staff that this year’s event will be the busiest ever. I’ve been coming to SXSW for 5 years and from what I can tell, it sure is more crowde…
• Startup Career Fair in NYC on April 9th
  Since founding the Columbia Venture Community a few years back, I have watched the group continue to thrive due to the efforts of the talented leaders that have taken it upon themselves to drive the o…
• SXSW: I Hope AT&T Goes Down (video)
  Ok, I’ve never actually wanted a service to not function and I am partially joking, but it would be great if AT&T service would go down here at SXSW 2010 in Austin. Why? Because perhaps then there…
• SXSW 2010 Schwag Bag Video and Giveaway
  After waiting on line just about 90 minutes to get my badge, I was able to pick up the exciting SXSW 2010 schwag bag. The bag always contains tons of paper and a variety of small trinkets. I actually…
• It’s Not About our App, It’s About the User’s Data and Context
  The post below was authored by Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. The title provides a short answer to the question: Why do we integrate with Google Apps? An important emerging theme in cloud applications is the…
• Does the iPad Replace the Need for a Smartphone?
  We’ve covered the Apple iPad several times on CenterNetworks. The device appears to be launching next month and I believe it will be a game changer. Andreas discussed how he sees the device being us…
• 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…

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slashdot.org

• Pharma Marketing Faces a Character-Count Conundrum
  this_boat_is_real writes There's growing concern over how pharmaceutical companies use social media and the Internet to market their products. Last November, the US Food and Drug Administration held a…
• OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up
  badger.foo writes The OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are up. That means the release is done, sent off to CD production, and snapshots will turn -current again. Order now and you more likely than not will have…
• Programming the Commodore 64: the Definitive Guide
  Mirk writes Back in 1985 it was possible to understand the whole computer, from the hardware up through device drivers and the kernel through to the high-level language that came burned into the ROMs…
• Former Astronauts Call Obama NASA Plans "Catastrophic"
  krou writes Talking to the BBC at a private function held at the Royal Society in London, former astronauts Jim Lovell and Eugene Cernan both spoke out about Obama's decision to postpone further moon…
• GPS Log Analysis Uncovers Millions In NYC Taxi Overcharges
  Hugh Pickens writes The NY Times reports that New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission is using GPS data collected in every cab to review millions of trips in New York City over the past 26 month…
• Brinksmanship Continues In Google-China Row Over Censorship
  According to The Financial Times, Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now '99.9 per cent' certain to go ahead [with the closure] as talks over censor…
• Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive?
  sglines writes Over the last couple of years I've been slowly getting deaf. Too much loud rock and roll I suppose. After flubbing a couple of job interviews because I couldn't understand my inquisitor…
• Key Web App Standard Approaches Consensus
  suraj.sun tips a report up at CNet which begins: Browser makers, grappling with outmoded technology and a vision to rebuild the Web as a foundation for applications, have begun converging on a seeming…
• Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs
  An anonymous reader writes David Cummings, a programmer who worked on the Mars Pathfinder project, has written an interesting editorial in the L.A. Times encouraging Toyota to drop claims of software…
• AMARSi Project Aims To Have Robots Learn Jobs From Co-workers
  Lanxon writes Robots of the future will be capable of learning more complex behaviors than ever before if a new, pan-European research project succeeds in its goal of developing the world's first arch…

• Fastest (and Most Compact) Stellar Spinner Confirmed
  gregg writes HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting each other so closely that they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes; they are separated by a mere 8 Earth dia…
• Final Decision Deferred On ".xxx" Domains
  Hugh Pickens writes The Associated Press reports that the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has deferred a decision until June on whether to create a '.xxx' Internet suf…
• SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw
  I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes PJ of Groklaw has found some really interesting documents coming out of the never-ending SCO trial. Specifically, in SCO v. Novell, SCO doesn't want the ju…
• PA Laptop Spying Inspires FSF Crowdsourcing Effort
  holmesfsf writes Creeped out by the Lower Merion School District's remote monitoring of students? Check out the Free Software Foundation's response to the laptop spying scandal and help build a wiki l…
• The Dark Side of the Web
  Barence writes Beneath the web pages indexed by Google lies an online world that few know exists. It's a realm of huge, untapped reserves of valuable information containing sprawling databases, hidden…

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arstechnica.com

• iPad mania: hot presales, iBooks info, 3G model semipopular
  iPad mania has hit since Apple's answer to the tablet became available for pre-order on Friday morning. We already mentioned with glee that the mute switch has been transformed into an orientation lo…
• Week in Apple: iPad day looms, Mac gamers rejoice, and more
  As St. Patrick's Day draws near, Apple fans are counting themselves among the lucky. After all, Steam is finally coming to the Mac, the iPad finally has a ship date, and the iPad developer program no…
• Week in tech: ad blocking, whitelisting, and privacy
  The biggest story this past week on Ars was ad-blocking. You may not have realized it, but blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit. We discussed why that is (diminished resources to continue…
• Week in gaming: Ubisoft DRM, PlayStation Move, and God of War III
  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…
• Valve's Gabe Newell shares his thoughts on DRM
  At this year's Game Developer's Choice Awards, Vavle's Gabe Newell won the Pioneer Award, and he used the opportunity to share a slide show with the crowd of developers, press, and business people. H…
• Surprise: iPhone app use heaviest at night and on weekends
  Apple has made inroads into the professional market with the iPhone—the company has noted that some Fortune 500 companies have deployed them alongside or even replacing BlackBerrys. Despite this, a…
• Netflix settles privacy lawsuit, ditches $1 million contest
  Netflix has canceled its $1 million contest aimed at finding a better recommendation engine in the wake of a privacy lawsuit settlement. The company informed its users today via the company blog, not…
• New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net
  New Zealand's government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestia…
• China and Google playing game of Chicken over censorship
  Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Google's C-Day approaches. The C is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near fu…
• Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit
  The UK's libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a closet industry…

• Bed readers rejoice: iPad gains last-minute rotation lock
  When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—acc…
• Firefox 3.6 sees 100M downloads, now pushing notifications
  Firefox 3.6—the latest version of the popular open source Web browser—was officially released in January, but there are still many users who have not yet updated. In an effort to increase awarene…
• Five insights into the behaviors of social media users
  We do a decent amount of social media coverage here at Ars, but not everything that happens with Facebook, Twitter, and the like is worth its own story. Sometimes, though, we happen across things tha…
• New WMAP data can't erase "dark flow"
  About 18 months ago, we discussed a mysterious dark flow that was seen in early releases of the data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe data. At that time, we remarked that it was little m…
• Comcast-NBCU merger: how the regulators will decide
  Good morning, this hearing will come to order, and we welcome all. I notice that there are a few people in the room, declared Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). We're here to discuss consumers—they're…
• Hands on with Bit.Trip Runner: don't watch, listen
  The bit.trip series of games combines simple graphics with catchy songs, and then blends both together into an addictive soup. The past games in the series for the Nintendo WiiWare service have all b…
• Beautiful innovation: the first 20 hours of FF XIII
  Final Fantasy games often seem like a mixed bag. One one hand, they tend to take too long to get into; the first ten hours or so always feel like something you have to slog through before things real…
• Family of four gets their genomes sequenced
  Late last year, we described a genome sequencing technique that brought the price of consumables down to under $5,000. That technique, offered by Complete Genomics, has now been put to use: all the g…
• SOCOM 4, played with PlayStation Move: our thoughts
  We played with the PlayStation Move at the party last night, but at Sony's more intimate gathering at the W Hotel today it was easier to get a better picture of the peripheral. The main games on the…
• Or will I go from rags to riches? Hands-on with Mafia 2
  With Mafia 2, developer 2K Czech is leaving the optimism to Tony Bennett: this is not intended to be a rags to riches crime story. Don’t expect golden dreams to come true. This is the story of a ma…
• OpenGL 4 spec arrives with Direct3D 11 feature parity
  At GDC the Khronos Group announced not one but two new OpenGL specifications. The headline release, OpenGL 4, includes a raft of new features bringing OpenGL in line with Microsoft's Direct3D specifi…
• iPhone still second-place US smartphone while Android grows
  The latest data from market research firm comScore shows Apple holding on to a quarter of the US smartphone market, which grew roughly 18 percent over the last six months. That makes the iPhone the n…
• Intel's NAS-specific Atom platform hastens PCification
  Intel's announcement last week that the company is planning two versions of its Atom processor specifically for the NAS market was easy to overlook. After all, there are a few Atom-based NAS options…
• iPhone OS 4.0 may finally bring multitasking nirvana
  One complaint commonly leveled against the iPhone is that it can't run multiple apps at the same time. However, sources for AppleInsider say that Apple is finally planning to incorporate a task manag…
• Transformers: War for Cybertron shows how it all began
  Cybertron isn't just the homeworld of the Transformers... it is a Transformer itself. It was the first Transformer. In War for Cybertron you get to explore the Civil War between the Autobots and the…

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infoworld.com

• Three new options emerge for managing smartphones in the enterprise
  The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain. All three are hosted solutions…
• Apple dishes new details on iPad
  The availability of pre-orders isn’t the only new development in iPad-land. Apple also updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from information on the 3…
• Cisco to expand video calling with IME
  Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.
• Microsoft releases MVC upgrade for building Web apps
  Microsoft this week made available a final release of ASP.Net MVC 2, which provides a Model View Controller pattern for building Web applications leveraging ASP.Net.
• Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms
  Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple on Thursday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack…
• IBM stops disclosing U.S. headcount data
  IBM says it is the No. 1 technology employer in the U.S. and the world, but as time moves on it may be harder to tell just what is happening to its domestic workforce.
• Intel wins top spots in SSD storage drive ranking
  Chip giant Intel won first place in a ranking of flash memory-based solid state drives (SSDs), in which the researcher, DRAMeXchange Technology, pilloried the industry over the wide disparity of quali…
• Design firm accuses Mozilla of UI plagiarism
  A Canadian interface design firm accused Mozilla of stealing user interface (UI) elements for a development tool in the browser maker's Jetpack project, which aims to simplify add-on making.
• Google tests revamped Blogger layout design tool
  Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.
• Start your browsers: iPad set to go on pre-sale
  The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting today, Friday, March 12, at 8:30 a.m. EST.

• The ugly truth: Security vendors can't solve many threats
  At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile d…
• You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
  What happened this week? Online retailer Newegg leaped out of the frying pan and into the fire after it was found to be selling ersatz silicon. AT&T released its first Android handset to a less-than-r…
• Intel invests in social media incubator Betaworks
  Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behavior on social networks, the chip maker said on Thursday. The investment could help Int…

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news.cnet.com

• Systems engineer deemed best job in America
  A deep and detailed survey by Focus.com concludes that the best job in the United States is a tech job: systems engineer. No. 2: physician assistant. No. 3: college professor.
• Apple loses key chip executive
  Sources say Dan Dobberpuhl, PA Semi's founder and pre-acquisition chief executive, has jumped ship to work at chip-related start-up Agnilux.
• 'Runaway' Prius: Questions raised about driver
  The case of a runaway Prius in San Diego demonstrates how claims about electronic flaws requires investigators to look carefully at the human element too.
• Consensus emerges for key Web app standard
  Indexed DB isn't a sure thing, but it's got most of the right allies in the browser world to become an enabler of the cloud-computing vision.
• Week in review: Game on for Sony
  Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.
• IE 9, Windows Phone in the Mix
  At the annual Las Vegas event, Microsoft plans to show its latest browser and give developers the tools they need to write software for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 series devices.
• Thunderbird beta 'Lanikai' released
  Mozilla Messaging updates the Lanikai build of Thunderbird to beta status. Notably, Thunderbird 3.1 beta 1 shares the same Gecko engine as Firefox 3.6.
• Mozilla aggressively asks older Firefox users to update
  Most Firefox users have upgraded to Firefox 3.6. The stragglers who haven't may have their reasons, but Mozilla is starting to pressure them.
• HP aims for 'amazing' with ad campaign
  Hewlett-Packard is ready to go with a new series of ads intended to jazz up its image among businesses, consumers, and even its own employees.
• Mobile tycoon edges out Gates as richest man
  Worth $53.5 billion, Mexican mobile tycoon Carlos Slim Helu is now the world's richest man, according to Forbes, putting Bill Gates in second place with only $53 billion.

• New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11
  The cross-platform graphics interface adds support for tesselation and better general-purpose computation.
• Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A)
  Canonical veteran Jane Silber took over from founder Mark Shuttleworth on March 1. She has more of an operations focus, but the same patient approach to profitability.
• Intel debuts six-core gaming chip
  Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.
• Windows Phone 7 won't kill Zune HD
  But Microsoft is telling game developers to concentrate on the phones.
• Cooking up Google Apps at campfire event (photos)
  At campfire-themed developer meet-up, Google introduces its Google App Marketplace, where users can buy third-party applications to run atop the Google Apps suite.
• Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace
  The software maker says it is ready with a version of its Outlook Social Connector that links the e-mail program with the youth-oriented social network.
• Firm: Toyota, industry need more rigorous testing
  Latest problems linked to Toyota show the auto industry needs to fix the way it tests software, says company that specializes in software integrity.
• Mozilla to overhaul its open-source license
  The Firefox backer wants to modernize and simplify the Mozilla Public License and sets an ambitious November deadline.
• Microsoft looks to 'Elevate' California
  The software maker is bringing its free technology job training program to the Golden State, the company and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are announcing on Wednesday.
• Windows Live support via e-mail ends
  Starting Wednesday, users with problems will have to go to online forums to get answers to issues with Microsoft's consumer Web services.

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inquisitr.com

• 10 awesome and strange motorcycles
  Even though I’ve never ridden I have always liked motorcycles. From early on custom bikes have caught my eye both for the beauty of them as well as the talent that it takes to create a unique bike.…
• Happy Pi Day 2010 , Geeks!
  The internet has a habit of inspiring new, geeky holidays, like Square Root Day, National High Five Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day and a favorite among mathletes everywhere, Pi Day. Pi Day falls on March…
• 5 Incredibly stupid tattoos
  As with all things tattoos in moderation are cool; and in some cases depending on the woman – and the tattoo – kinda sexy. However where some people go insanely overboard other get themselves stam…
• Awesome: Murray Hill Inc. runs for Congress
  A recent ruling by the Supremes granting unprecedented rights to corporations to wield influence through campaign donations has drawn widespread ire, most notably by President Obama during his State o…
• Amazing shot: Zebra puts head in hippo’s mouth
  Placing one’s head in the open mouth of an animal considered the deadliest in Africa isn’t a choice we’d all make, but that didn’t stop this zebra from leaning directly into a hippopotamus’s…
• 2010 MLB season preview: Minnesota Twins
  It’s kind of hard to imagine that just a few seasons ago the Twins were a candidate for contraction. Now in 2010 they open a new ball park. Of course giving up the confines of the Homer Dome is one…
• First sneak peak at the new Predators movie [VIDEO]
  For some the first Predator movie with Arnie Baby was a classic movie so when word came that Robert Rodriguez was going to be doing a reboot of it feeling were mixed. Well earlier tonight Rodriguez ga…
• 2009 NFL season in review: San Diego Chargers
  I know Charger fan, LT is gone, and even though this team has all that talent to warrant a Super Bowl Championship, it seems they always come up short. I have no faith that Norv Turner is the guy to l…
• UFL has six finalist for Sacramento team name
  The United Football League is holding a name the team contest for its relocated Sacramento franchise. Now they have narrowed the list down to six finalists. Here are my rankings of the six team names:…
• Nintendo: We’d be “embarrassed” if we were Sony or Microsoft
  Sony and Microsoft will both release motion-sensing controllers this year, for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively. Let’s face it: by bringing motion-sensing games to their consoles, S & M a…

• Best valet ever
  Please form an orderly queue, no shoving… [Holy Taco]
• Birth control pill linked to longer female lifespans
  New evidence suggests that women who used first generation birth control pills in the 1960s and 70s may have experienced longer lifespans as a result. The study, which followed more than 46,000 Britis…
• Could the future of Microsoft’s Windows be all Metro?
  Back in February on my Windows related blog I made a prediction regarding the next version of Windows expected some time in 2012. In the post I suggested that we could see something radically differen…
• Lebron James did not test positive for steroids
  Poor Lebron James. The 24 minute news cycle claimed a gossip victim today with misleading headlines about Lebron testing positive for steroids. While that part is technically true, it wasn’t NBA sta…
• Stephen Moyer’s Ridiculous Romance
  Stephen Moyer initially thought his relationship with Anna Paquin was “ridiculous”. The showbiz couple, who met on the set of vampire drama ‘True Blood’, were concerned about the impact their…
• Corey Haim to be Buried in Canada
  Corey Haim will be buried in his native Canada. The ‘Lost Boys’ star died aged 38 at the Los Angeles home he shared with his mother on Wednesday, March 10, and his family want his final resting pl…
• Formspring prank story plagues Twitter
  One of the top trending topics on Twitter right now is Formspring, apparently due to a fake news story circulating on the microblogging service. Formspring.me, a social media platform designed for use…
• Hilary Duff Wants Small Wedding
  Hilary Duff wants a “small” wedding. The singer-and-actress, who got engaged to hockey player Mike Comrie last month, has already started planning her nuptials and is in complete control of all th…
• NYC woman dies, struck by train while retrieving purse
  A woman was killed yesterday on an Upper East Side subway track during an attempt to retrieve a fallen gym bag. Rose Mankos, 48, was struck by a 6 train heading north at the 77th street station, despe…
• Cheryl Cole Ill With Bronchitis
  Cheryl Cole has fallen ill with bronchitis. The ‘Parachute’ singer, who has had a turbulent few weeks after dumping husband Ashley Cole following revelations he cheated on her with several women,…

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news.zdnet.com

• Obama lines up with copyright owners
  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
  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
  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
  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
  Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Twitter aims to filter out malicious links
  Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.
• Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17
  OnLive, a streaming video game service that, if properly implemented, could threaten traditional console makers.
• Drudge Report accused of serving malware
  For the second time in less than six months, visitors to the Drudge Report say they got malware in addition to the Web site's usual sensational headlines.
• Curt Schilling's 38 Studios, EA in Big Huge game deal
  Ex-baseballer Curt Schilling's developer 38 Studios has struck a deal with EA to publish an upcoming single-player role-playing game.
• HP sues Asian firms over patents
  Hewlett-Packard has filed a suit against four companies based in Hong Kong and Taiwan, accusing the defendants of patent infringement, according to various reports.

digitaldaily.allthingsd.com

• Weekend Update 03.13.10–North by Northwest Edition
  With virtually every twittery, techie media fanboy and girl swarming all over the greater Austin area this week, it feels a little empty in the Bay Area. The sun is shining, but Dolores park is just a…
• Programming Note
  Programming Note I’m off for the next few days. Stay well and see you again on Monday.
• HTC May End Up Bringing Knife to Apple Gun Fight
  When Apple first filed suit against HTC, I speculated that one reason Cupertino might have chosen the company as a target is that as a contract manufacturer, HTC may lack the strong patent portfolio n…
• Internet Access Viewed as Fundamental Human Right
  Is unfettered Internet access a fundamental human right? Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton believes it is and said as much during a speech on Internet censorship earlier this year. And it appe…
• China Unicom Hopes to Sell Wi-Fi iPhone ("Hopes" Being the Operative Word Here)
  A quick update on Apple’s relationship with China Unicom, the company’s carrier partner in China. According to China Unicom Chairman Chang Xiaobing, the two companies are discussing plans to debut…
• February Expected to Be a Great Month for Mac Sales
  February 2009 was not the greatest month for Mac sales. They were down 16 percent year over year and 10 percent from January. And while that may have been unfortunate at the time, it’s good news for…
• China: We Are in Talks With Google. Also, We Are Not in Talks With Google.
  Like so many of its services, Google’s so-called “New Approach to China” appears to be in perpetual beta. Though Google has said repeatedly that it is in discussions with Chinese officials about…
• Weekend Update 03.06.10–The Blue Meanies Edition
  All of us at AllThingsD are getting out our tuxes and gowns in anticipation of the big night. It's going to be all about the story of a huge, profit-hungry oppressor using its might to crush competiti…
• About That March iPad Release Date…
  When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the iPad on Jan. 27, he said it would be available in 60 days, implying an on-sale date of March 25. By announcing a pre-sale date of March 12, as it did this morni…
• Apple iPad Production Bottleneck Miraculously Cleared! Tablet Ships April 3, Pre-Orders Begin March 12.
  So much for those rumored iPad delays and production bottlenecks. Apple said this morning that its new tablet device will arrive at market on Saturday, April 3, with pre-orders beginning March 12. Ini…

• Palm's PDK to Allow Easy Porting of iPhone Apps
  Palm’s single biggest asset is webOS. Sadly, the company's single biggest deficit--aside from the public’s apparent lack of interest in its smartphones--is the webOS application ecosystem. But tha…
• My Prediction, Palm: Pain.
  Palm lost about half a billion dollars in market value last week after the company warned of a nasty revenue shortfall. And it seems that was only the beginning of what may prove to be a long and pain…
• Microsoft and Verizon: Pretty in Pink
  Looks like Microsoft’s long-rumored “Pink” phone project is about to make the jump from speculation to reality. Gizmodo’s managed to get its hands on some marketing materials that appear to co…
• QOTD: That's What They Said 10 Years Ago…
  QOTD: That’s What They Said 10 Years Ago… “In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant.” – John Herlihy, Google’s global ad operations chief
• iPad Production Is on Track. No, It's Not. Yes, It Is.
  Seems there’s a bit of disagreement over those rumored iPad production issues we’ve been hearing about. Last week, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek warned that a bottleneck at Apple’s manufac…

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labnol.org

• Get your Office 2010 Upgrade Even if you are Late
  Did you miss the Office 2010 upgrade offer by few days? Here's how you can still get the software for free.
• Are Web Pages Not Opening in Google Chrome?
  Oops! This link appears to be broken in Google Chrome - learn how to fix the DNS error that prevent websites from opening in Chrome.
• The Internet Classroom
  Imagine the Internet as a classroom and social networks as students of that class.
• Taxi Driver in India Uses YouTube to Find Customers
  The story of a taxi driver in India who uses YouTube to win customers from across the world.
• YouTube’s IPL Show Fails to Live up to the Hype
  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.
• Turn your Images into Spreadsheet Art
  Yes, you can use Excel spreadsheets as a drawing tool to convert images into pixel art with little effort.
• Will You Pay $100 per Month to Embed a Video on your Website?
  How much are you willing to pay to embed a useful video clip on to your website?
• iPad Unseats Downloads at the Apple Website
  The pre-iPad and post-iPad versions of the Apple website are pretty similar except for the one change.
• The Best Applications for your Google Apps
  Meet the best web applications for your Google Apps account that are completely free.
• YouTube Bonanza for Airtel Users in India
  If you have an Airtel Broadband connection in India, you get faster Internet speeds for free for watching IPL Cricket on YouTube.

• Keep Your Passwords Safe on a Piece of Paper
  A simple paper based trick that will help you create and remember strong, complex and random passwords for different websites.
• Make Your Own Laptop Bag with a Hoodie
  Learn how you can make your laptop carrying bag with a jacket.
• A Short Documentary on Google
  This short documentary on Google will give you a good idea of what Google is trying to do and how the different pieces fit in together.
• Manage Google Docs from Microsoft Outlook
  Manage your Google Docs from Microsoft Outlook. You can also send Google documents as email attachments.
• How to Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends
  This tutorial describes how you can export the email addresses of all your Facebook friends and download the contacts as a CSV file.
• The New MSN.com Homepage
  Microsoft is slowly rolling out a new design for their MSN.com homepage.
• Pop-up Reminders in Google Calendar
  Google Calendar can show pop-up reminders just like your favorite desktop email client.
• Which Social Websites are Good for your own Site?
  This handy chart compares the various social websites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. to help you make the right choice for your social media campaigns.
• [Poll] Do You Like Bing’s New Favicon?
  Microsoft has replaced the original blue favicon on Bing.com with a yellow design.
• Office 2010 Coming in June; Free Upgrade for New Office 2007 Customers
  Microsoft Office 2010, which is clearly the best version of Office ever, will be available for download in June 2010.

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crunchgear.com

• Listen to Isaac Asimov talk prophetically about robots for 4 minutes
  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 wel…
• Predators, the 2010 remake of Predator: This won’t end well
  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
  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, b…
• DIY: Stereo Cooler
  Here's a clever yet simple DIY project for you, just in time for the weekend. You could probably even through this thing together before the next camping trip, even if you are heading out tonight. It'…
• The Search for Meaning (at SXSWi 2010)
  While standing in line for an hour to get my badge and materials at this year's SXSW Interactive Conference, I had time to ponder my first trip to Austin for the event. Initially, my plans for attendi…
• Kim Jong-il caption contest
  Matt: “I see we just got the latest computer monitors. Take that, South Korea.” Devin: “Zerg him, comrade” John: “Our glorious gold farming initiative is the pride of the world.” Dave: “…
• The Joy of Tech on the iPad
  The best money making ideas are always the most simple. It's a fact and the Apple iPad proves it.
• E-book readers: will secondary features win consumers’ hearts or leave them cold?
  How many e-book readers do you think are out there right now for you to choose from? If you did a little digging, I bet you’d find 50 or so. Maybe 10 really worth checking out. But right now is a bi…
• Hands-on with the Entourage eDGe dualbook
  I received the Entourage eDGe review unit the other day, and have been playing with it quite a bit. A full review is coming soon, but suffice to say that I like what I've seen so far. Here are a handf…
• Fantasy gadgets: in-line A/V switch
  Question: why doesn't this thing exist? I'm reviewing projectors the size of decks of cards, and my phone has turn-by-turn GPS navigation, but I still need to use a full-size AV receiver when I need t…

• Video: The craziest simulator in the world
  It’s Friday, and that means only one thing: stupid videos, and lots of them. So, allow me to oblige. This here is a video found on a Brazilian Web site showing “the craziest simulator in the world…
• Review: Mission Workshop Vandal weather-proof backpack
  Short version: Versatile but not particularly compact, the Vandal is a good choice for the hardcore urban biker/family man who needs to fit everything in his backpack, rain or shine. Features: Three w…
• Netflix settles lawsuit, cancels contest
  Well, the lawyers have won again. Netflix settled the privacy lawsuit brought about by their last contest out of court, and canceled the next contest. Good thing we have outraged class action lawsuits…
• Pink Floyd only wants you to download their entire albums, not individual songs
  There was an interesting debate on today's Ron and Fez that speaks to a subject we've been whinging about for some time now: digital delivery of content, specifically of music. Pink Floyd has won a co…
• The Spring Design Alex might launch on March 16
  Watch out! Rumored launch dates are falling from the sky today. Next up is the dual-screen, Android-powered Spring Design Alex and a rumor that states the ebook reader is headed towards a March 16th l…
• Video: The HTC HD2 might not run Windows Phone 7, but it can run Windows 95!
  We know what you're thinking. Man! Now that Microsoft has confirmed (and re-confirmed) that the HD2 won't be getting an (officially endorsed) upgrade to Windows Phone 7, I can only hope that it will…
• Is the Viliv N5 launching in May?
  Viliv's first clamshell is coming soon. We knew that. But the company was previously very quiet about when. Apparently though, the N5 could launch as soon as May. *fingers crossed*
• A musical tribute to Doug Aamoth
  Godspeed, friend.
• Exclusive first look at the Viliv S10 Blade
  Laptops are becoming smaller and smaller and after we saw and lusted after the Sony Z series we were curious how the new Viliv S10 would perform. First off, it looks great. It’s very slim and the ba…
• Hey, Lenovo monitors, how’s it going? Oh, is that multi-touch I see? Cool, cool.
  There really isn't too much to say about these Lenovo monitors. To be honest, I never even knew Lenovo made monitors till now. Speaking of monitors, I sure would to find one that's not incredibly expe…

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ubergizmo.com

• Nokia C6 Sports Sideways Sliding Keyboard
  It’s always hard to confirm whether leaked pictures are authentic or not, but assuming this latest leaked picture of the Nokia C6 is authentic, it looks like the phone will be something like a Noki…
• Lian Li PC-T1R Spider Chassis Looks Menacing
  It looks like Lian Li isn’t the type of company to sit back and let Antec get all the attention with its Antec Skeleton test bench PC chassis, and now Lian Li has come up with its own PC-T1R Spider…
• Unconfirmed: Apple Sells 90,000 iPads On The First Day Of Pre-order?
  While these figures are far from official figures by Apple, it’s still very interesting to take a peek at what some people have analyzed over the latest Apple iPad pre-orders. It seems that, based…
• Discounted Palm Phones For Palm Developers
  If you’re wondering whether being a Palm Developer has any perks, it seems that there are. Palm is currently offering a 20% discount and free 2-day shipping on it devices to Palm Developers. The ba…
• Vodafone Wayfinder Falls Victim To Free Smartphone Navigation
  With Google offering free turn-by-turn navigation for Android devices, and Nokia following suit with its Ovi Maps, it was only a matter of time before all these free navigation services claimed a vic…
• Analogue Tape Glove Sounds Interesting
  Can’t think of an interesting project to kill your weekend with? Well, the guys from SignalToNoise came up with a rather interesting project, the Analogue Tape Glove. Basically it’s a mash of a c…
• ODROID Gets The Android 2.1 Treatment
  You might already have caught wind of the ODROID when we mentioned it some time ago, but in case you missed it, this device by Hardkernel is described as an entertainment device with a focus on gamin…
• More BlackBerry Slider Phone Pictures Emerge
  Just a slightly a week after we managed to get hold of some pictures of a BlackBerry slider phone, more pictures of said device have surfaced. In the latest batch of leaked pictures, you’ll be able…
• Celsius X VI II Remontage Papillon Phone
  In a world increasingly dominated by electronic devices, it’s occasionally refreshing to see a mechanical device show up again, and this time, it does so in amazing fashion. The Celsius X VI II is…
• PlayStation Move Only Needs 1-2MB Of System Memory
  The PlayStation Move certainly looks like an interesting device, though we’re fairly sure that many of you out there are wondering how demanding it will be on the console hardware, after all, we wo…

• Diamond iPad: You Knew It Was Coming
  Considering the trend of cramming diamonds into Apple products, nobody should be surprised to see a Diamond iPad show up on the Internet, much less from Goldstriker, the company which came up with th…
• Miniature City On A Power Strip
  This power strip that was sighted at a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design certainly looks detailed and eye catching. The only downside is that it doesn’t do anything special. I…
• Giant LEGO Sculpture Of The BlackBerry Tour 9630
  Nobody can resist giant LEGO sculptures, and next up we’ve got a giant BlackBerry Tour 9360 made out of LEGO pieces. That on its own would be a great feat, but the fact that the sculptor, Nathan Sa…
• Asus stops shipping recovery DVD with Eee PC
  The folks at Asus seem to have finally got it, as the top management decided to stop manufacturing as well as shipping the recovery DVD which comes with each package of the Eee PC. Why, you ask? Just…
• Plastic Logic QUE proReader delayed
  Folks who have long been looking forward to the Plastic Logic QUE proReader that was supposed to come out sometime in the middle of next month will be disappointed since it has been delayed to an uns…
• Tetris Chair does not look too comfy
  Want to make your living room look a whole lot better via a touch of geek? That can be done courtesy of Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas with the Tetris Chair. Doesn't look too comfortable,…
• SafeDriver Wireless Vehicle Monitor
  Getting one's driving license is more or less the first sense of freedom that a teen gets, knowing that he/she is now big enough to go anywhere they want, subject to the amount of gas left in the tan…
• Alcatel-Lucent New API Bundles for Developers
  Picture: the Alcatel-Lucent Dashboard launched at MWC, picture with new features coming soon [SXSW] Alcatel-Lucent today announced the packaged API (Application Programming Interfaces) bundles, and a…
• Nikon Photo Video Online Gallery At SXSW
  [SXSW] Today, Nikon, in partnership with Yfrog, launched an image sharing website where bloggers armed with Nikon cameras will upload their photos and videos from around Austin during the SXSW confer…
• You'll Be Able To Purchase Your iPad Data Plan Directly From The iPad Itself
  Users who are planning to purchase Apple’s iPad with a 3G modem probably already know that AT&T is offering two data plan prices for the device, which are $14.99/month for 250MB or $29.99 for unlim…
• Mozilla Is Testing Firefox Account Manager
  Considering the open source nature of Firefox, it’s always fairly easy to guess and check out the new features that Mozilla is working on. Now it seems that Mozilla is planning a rather useful acco…
• HMK 561 Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Concept
  The HMK 561 Carbon Fiber Motorbike might seem like it’s from another planet, but seeing as there’s already a prototype in place, maybe humans did come up with it after all. The HMK 561 has specia…
• Verizon Nexus One To Offer Sense UI And Will Only Be Sold Online?
  While there was a rumor going around before this that Google’s Nexus One might be sold through Verizon Wireless’ stores, if this latest rumor is true, then it will certainly quash the previous on…
• Smiley traffic light
  It is not uncommon to see a mild-mannered person turn into a monster behind the wheel, as there can be a lot of anger flowing through rush hour traffic. Well, perhaps if road transport departments wo…
• iPad comes with data limit warning
  It seems as though the iPad support page has revealed more than Apple might have liked to, where we now know that iPad 3G owners who choose the limited 250MB data plan will be greeted with a data lim…
• Eston N97 MID runs on Android OS
  Looks like the Android OS is gaining traction not only among notable hardware manufacturers, but those who walk on the clone side as well. Here we are with the Eston N97 Mobile Internet Device (MID)…
• VirtuSphere On Demo At GDC
  We’ve brought your attention to the VirtuSphere some time ago, but that was before it was ready to be shown to the general public. Now you can actually check out the VirtuSphere as it was demoed at…
• BlackBerry Tour 9630 gets OS 5.0.0.548 leak
  If you happen to own a BlackBerry Tour 9630 and are feeling a little bit more adventurous compared to other smartphone owners, why not give the OS 5.0.0.548 leak a go? After all, this is not an offic…
• Toshiba Wheelie Is A Cute And Autonomous Robot
  Toshiba looks like it’s doing its part to ensure that we all have little helper robots to serve us in the future. The company has come up with the prototype “Wheelie” robot, which is an indoor,…
• Universal Drying Apparatus
  If you happen to live at a place where snow is more common that a bright, sunny day, then chances are your shoes will suffer from the problem of being wet most of the time. While there are tons of wa…
• DEMO Spring 2010 Preferred Rate For Ubergizmo Readers
  [DEMO 2010] Ubergizmo is a media partner of DEMO and we have a good deal for our readers to attend DEMO Spring 2010 in late March: instead of $2,995 it will cost only $1836. Click here to register an…
• Sony S Series Walkmans Get The Disney Treatment
  If you’re a Disney and Sony fan, this will probably have you drooling uncontrollably. Sony Japan has officially announced its new Sony Walkman S series (NW-S740/S740K/S640/S640K Series) that come e…
• Audio Lounger Concept Looks Desirable
  We certainly don’t mind tech seeping into our everyday items, and the Audio Lounger concept certainly looks like one of those things we wouldn’t mind making room for. It sports four built-in high…
• Lunch.com Launches Communities: Yelp meets Wordpress meets Wikipedia
  [SXSW] We published about Lunch.com when it launched in April 09 at Web 2.0. Lunch.com connects people with similar interests via the proprietary “Similarity Engine” and provides them a platform…
• Sobees For SXSW and MIX10
  [SXSW] I saw Sobees for the first time at DEMO 09, it is a social sites networks aggregator that looked pretty good when I saw the demo, it offered a monetization model via brand sponsorship. Today,…
• Landport Solar Sound Speakers
  Solar gadgets never seem to get old, and next up is Landport’s Solar Sound speakers, laying claims to be Japan’s first set of solar powered speakers. The solar panel is rather obvious at the top…
• Scaled Down Nexus One Heading To India?
  This is still firmly in the rumor bin, but word is going around that Google is working on a scaled down version of its Android-powered Nexus One for new markets such as India. There isn’t any concr…
• Wii Push Up Bar For Your Exercise Needs
  If you rely on Wii Fit to help you keep in shape, you’ll probably have noticed that the Wii Fit balance board gives you a limited range of push-up motions, so you can’t do the really tough pushup…
• Microsoft Azure Unveiled In India
  While most of us haven’t moved to a cloud computing operating system just yet, Microsoft has just made its cloud-based operating system, Windows Azure, available in India. In terms of dollars and c…
• HP Launches New Let's Do Amazing Ad Campaign
  If you were wondering what HP has up its sleeve with is latest $40 million “Let’s Do Amazing” ad campaign, you’ll be able to find out now, and the company has released a couple of ads to the…

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wired.com

• E-Readers Will Survive the Onslaught of Tablets
  If you think the coming wave of tablets is about to make e-book readers obsolete, guess again. Although dozens of tablets are scheduled to hit the market this year — from companies like Apple, HP an…
• LEDs Could Transmit Future Broadband Signals
  The light from the lamps in your house could carry a wireless signal that could power internet connectivity at home, say a group of German researchers who say they have found a way to encode the signa…
• Plastic Logic Delays Que E-Reader
  Plastic Logic, which was set to ship its large screen Que e-reader in April, is now delaying it to “sometime this summer.” The company sent notifications to pre-order customers late Thursday after…
• Apple’s iPad Will Read Books Out Loud, Support Free E-Books
  When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. It turns out the iPad will read books ou…
• iPad Gets New Button: Screen Rotation Lock
  As we comb through the updated Apple website for more iPad-related clues, up pops this new picture detailing the physical buttons on the iPad. Now, in addition to the sleep/wake, home and volume butto…
• iPad and Accessories Available for Pre-Order
  The Apple Store was down for a short spell this morning, and it has popped back up with a pre-order page for the iPad. If you want to get your shiny new Wi-Fi Apple tablet delivered on April 3rd, you…
• Fingers-On with Streetfighter IV for iPhone
  There are three* video games I know anything about, and all of them I played obsessively through my college years. One of those games is Streetfighter II, Capcom’s amazingly popular (and awesome) on…
• Leaked Shots Show Sony Mirrorless Touch Camera Interface
  [UPDATE: It's official, although it's not clear whether the screen is touch-enabled. See the Sony video embedded below] The folks at Geeky Gadgets have got ahold of some screenshots from Sony’s upco…
• Cloak Bag: Shoot With the Camera Still Inside
  The Cloak Bag is a camera bag that lets you take pictures whilst your camera is still inside. It also doesn’t look anything like a normal camera bag, making it doubly secure if you’re a vulnerable…
• Solar-Powered iPhone Battery Case: Apple Approves
  Solar power combined with fancy-looking cases? The perfect storm for getting an end-of-the-week mention on the Gadget Lab. Today its the turn of the Novothink Solar Surge, an iPhone and iPad Touch cas…

slashgear.com

• FujiFilm Finepix Z700 Brings Pet Detection to the Camera Game
  FujiFilm wants to make sure that when you buy their latest point-and-shoot, the Z700, that you’re completely covered. You know, in the “detect this” department. After all, what good is a camera…
• Apple iPad Sells 120,000 Units Total on Friday
  The iPad went on pre-order status on Friday, and from early estimates, the tablet has taken on quite the success. While we’re still waiting to see some end of the weekend numbers, we’re pretty sur…
• Motorola CLIQ XT for T-Mobile gets reviewed
  Room in your heart for another Motorola Android smartphone running MOTOBLUR but stuck on Android 1.5?  The T-Mobile CLIQ XT by Motorola is set to hit the market imminently, and we’ve got our full r…
• Apple iPad orders “so overwhelming” new in-store collections frozen?
  The storm of iPad preorders this morning has reportedly been “so overwhelming” that Apple’s customer services team are apparently warning would-be buyers that there may not be stock to pick up i…
• Eye-Fi Pro X2 shipping today
  How long does it take to get an 8GB memory card to the market?  If you’re Eye-Fi, and the card is the WiFi 802.11n-toting Eye-Fi Pro X2, then it’s a couple of months; the company has announced th…
• Spring Design Alex on sale Tuesday March 16th?
  From one delayed ebook reader to another, and it’s now the turn of the Spring Design Alex to throw some grist into the rumor mill.  According to our tipster the company’s Android-based dual displ…
• Plastic Logic QUE delay confirmed: arrives Summer 2010
  As expected after this morning’s report, Plastic Logic have officially confirmed that the launch of the QUE ebook reader will be delayed until Summer 2010.  In an official statement from company CE…
• The Palm Paradox
  It’s been a rough few weeks for the folks at Palm. First false rumors about Palm shutting down production lines, followed by less than stellar results have once again started the usual suspects putt…
• iPhone Pro concept adds slide-out gaming controls, MagSafe [Video]
  If we’re being honest, we far prefer clever renders of what designers think the next-gen iPhone should look like rather than so-called “leaked” shots that smell unduly fake.  Italian design fir…
• Sony PSP Go suffering appalling Japanese sales?
  Rumors of a Sony PSP Go relaunch seem all the more believable this week, as the latest – unofficial – sales figures for the handheld are released in Japan.  According to market watchers Media Cre…

• Lenovo L2261 Wide, L2361p Wide & L2561x Wide with Multitouch 1080p LCDs outed
  A trio of new Lenovo LCD displays have been outed, though so far they’re yet to show up on the company’s own site.  The Lenovo L2261 Wide and L2361p Wide are 21.5- and 23-inches in size, while th…
• iPad gets open ePUB support; 3G control detailed
  If you’re still wavering about slapping in your credit card details for an iPad preorder, perhaps some new tidbits about functionality might change your mind.  Apple have quietly added a few new de…
• Lian Li PC-T1R Spider case gets tested: arachnophobes need not apply
  Bizarre PC cases are nothing new, but Lian Li’s PC-T1R Spider does manage to look different even in that unusual crowd.  Described as a “test bench” case – that is, one which leaves the compo…
• Apple iPad Keyboard Dock won’t ship until mid-April
  Hoping to pick up one of Apple’s more useful iPad accessories along with your iPad preorder?  Unfortunately it looks like early-adopters will have to suffer with the onscreen keyboard for a while,…
• Apple iPad up for preorder now
  The Apple Store is back, and as expected the iPad is available for preorder.  Apple’s touchscreen tablet is currently available to order in its WiFi-only form, priced from $499 with 16GB of flash s…
• Bike concept for 10 to 15-year-olds is coolest bike ever
  This has been the week of cool bike concepts. Earlier this week I talked a bit about the cool carbon fiber electric bike. Today I ran across a really cool bike concept aimed at kids from 10 to 15 year…
• Final Cut saw blade cuts and sands at same time
  I am a DIY kind of guy, in some instances anyway. I change my own oil; I can hook up your home theater and fix your computer. I’m not that great when it comes to building stuff from a pile of wood t…
• Asus P6X58D Premium mainboard for Intel LGA1366 CPUs launches
  Asus was whipping new mainboards out at CeBIT earlier this month and now that the show is over, Asus is still offering up new hardware. Asus has unveiled a new mainboard today called the P6X58D Premiu…
• Novothink Solar Surge for iPhone and iPod touch debuts
  One day I hope that all my gadgets get power from the sun or other methods that don’t require me to remember to plug them in. I like my iPhone, but the thing sucks down power when I play games on it…
• Qualcomm patent app shows multi-fold device to replace smartphone and tablets
  We all know that half the cool stuff we see in patent applications won’t ever make it to market. I have decided that lots of the really cool patents applied for are nothing more than a way to capita…
• Apple Store down: iPad incoming
  It should come as little surprise, what with the well-publicized iPad preorder sale starting today, but the Apple Store has been taken down for updating.  Apple’s new tablet kicks off at $499 and i…
• HTC Incredible snapped in Verizon livery
  Other than the iPhone, it really seems to me that Verizon gets most of the cool phones first. Maybe AT&T is afraid another cool phone that users actually use for data on their network will do them in.…
• QUE proReader delayed until summer
  I am not typically one to pre-order products. I like to be able to just walk into a store, buy the thing, and take it home. One of the reasons I don’t like pre-orders is that you never really know w…
• Zoom drops new G2Nu and G2.1Nu guitar pedals for rockers
  My lack of musical talent has been well documented. I attribute my musical inability to the lack of interest in any sort of practice. Guitarists have all sorts of gadgets and gear they can use to make…
• Wood + ratcheting tie down = ladder perfect for city folk
  About this time last year, I bought a new house. The new place has ceilings that are 12-feet tall in some rooms. The company who designed the AC system must have thought it would be funny to put the p…
• HOTT MD500 super-budget Android MID taunts us on video
  Remember the 7-inch HOTT MD700 MID spotted back at CES 2010 and tipped to be arriving at distributors priced at $120 apiece?  The Chinese company is back with another, smaller model, and the best new…
• Galaxy dual core GTS 250 video card makes geeks drool
  If you are a PC gaming geek that likes new gaming hardware for your rig, step back a bit so you don’t drool all over your $150 gaming keyboard before you read this. Galaxy has unveiled its suitably…
• OutRun real-world gaming cart simulates road, allows for real accidents
  Take a SEGA OutRun arcade cabinet, strap on a go-kart and get a university to fund the whole thing, and you’re approaching Garnet Hertz’s “immersive driving experience” project.  The UC Irvin…
• Sony PlayStation Move no memory hog but has controller limitations
  So, we already know the Sony PlayStation Move controller is coming Fall 2010 and should be priced – in “starter kit” form – at under $100, but we’re still seeing more tidbits about the motio…
• Barnes & Noble eReader for iPad promised, but will Apple approve?
  Apple have made no secret of the fact that they’re positioning the iPad as an ideal ebook reader device, but if Barnes & Noble have their way – and if they can navigate the App Store guardians –…

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coolest-gadgets.com

• Wii Balance Board Push Up Bar
  Who would have thought that playing video games might actually get you in the fitness groove? We do admit, however, that the Wii has gotten many couch potatoes off the couch in some ways, and while th…
• Tetris Chair
  If you’re a major geek and are looking for a way to spruce up your living room, might we suggest the Tetris Chair thanks to Mexican industrial designer Gabriel Cañas?You must admit, it looks totall…
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• Verizon Wireless and Casio offers the Casio G’zOne Brigade
  Both Verizon Wireless and Casio have teamed up to bring to the masses a water resistant as well as shockproof handset that ought to be able to go through thick and thin with you – we’re talking ab…
• OCZ expands SSD line with Onyx SATA II
  OCZ Technology is a name that everyone is familiar with when it comes to storage for computing systems, and this time round we have their latest release which comes in the form of the OCZ Onyx SATA II…
• Solar Surge for iPhone 3G and 3GS
  You know that the iPhone is one power guzzler, and that having an important call die on you is downright irritating, perhaps even leading up to you losing out on that business deal. Well, Novothink’…
• Skullcandy 50/50 composite ear buds
  Skullcandy is back with their 50/50 composite ear buds which come complete with in-line microphone as well as track and volume control that are compatible with the iPhone of all generations. The whole…
• Make music with your Lego
  I’ve never heard of the phrase “steampunk musician” before I wrote this post, but Yoshi Akai apparently is one. He wrote a master’s thesis on turning color into sound, and he has invented a wa…
• Tropicana creates an artificial sun
  Ever seen the movie Insomnia? In the film, Al Pacino investigates a murder in an Alaskan town, but there is never any night. As it so happens, he arrived during the time where there are six months of…
• VirtuSphere for virtual reality games at GDC
  Back in the early nineties, we all thought that the video games of 2010 would be with goggles and a toy gun. We were wrong with Virtual Boy, and we never figured out a way to get a player to run in a…

• Universal Drying Appartus for shoes and more
  Boot and shoe dryers are definitely convenient, but they only work for your shoes.  It seems like a waste of money to spend your hard earned money on a gadget with only one function.  Instead you ne…
• OrigAudio Self-Powered Speakers
  Buying a speaker, you have to decide what’s important to you.  There are so many available you can pretty much be as picky as you like.  Well these small square speakers are eco-friendly and you c…
• SafeDriver Wireless Vehicle Monitor
  There are times I genuinely feel sorry for teenagers these days.  Usually a lot of people grumble about all the new electronics that kids get to use, that they never got to have as kids.  Personally…
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• This is your life and its ending one leaf at a time
  Normally I don’t report on anything that STIHL does, as I’m not big on leaf blowers. However, the ad department came up with a very interesting ad campaign: a calendar that peels itself off. You c…
• Pixel-bots will rock your world
  Curious Displays from Julia Tsao on Vimeo. Okay, I usually like to have a still shot of what I’m reporting, but could only find this video. However, a picture wouldn’t say a thousand words on this…
• Last Call movie uses an audience member’s cell phone for even more horror
  I realize that most of you cannot stand it when someone’s cell phone rings during the theater, but imagine watching a film that was dependent on having a cell phone call from an audience member duri…
• Corner’s Communication prevents collisions with strangers
  For some reason strange mishaps tend to happen around me.  I stumble over invisible objects and usually if someone is casually tossing anything, it will definitely come in contact with my head when I…
• Wireless Remote Controlled Outlet
  If you don’t have enough remotes to lose as it is, now you can have a kit that’ll give you one more.  Sure, it’ll be helpful so long as you can manage to keep track of the remote.  Otherwise y…
• Western Digital My Passport AV portable media drive
  Western Digital is back with a new My Passport AV portable media drive, where this model was built specially for video storage and playback, capable of delivering a plug-and-play experience for digita…

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newlaunches.com

• WD's My Passport AV Portable Drives now for TV
  If you're planning to burn all of those movies from your hard drive to DVDs or Blu-ray disks then hold on. Here's something that's all out to give you the best possible solution for your problem. West…
• Smartphones of the future with PS3 level graphics?
  Yes, there is a chance that we may be seeing some amazing graphics in phones of the future. Imagination Technologies, the same guys who make the famous PowerVR chip for iPhones, Droids and Palm Pre ha…
• Verizon's Rugged Casio G'zOne Brigade
  Verizon'e flagship phone from Casio called the G'zOne Brigade seems all set to take on the tough guys. It comes with a QWERTY keyboard, Push-to-talk, visual voice mail and a 3.2 megapixel with flash.…
• Large Hadron Collider will close at the end of next year
  The whole curiousity about the Big Bang theory left a lot of minds rattled and desires to be fulfilled but thanks to scientists who have managed to come a bit closer. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) c…
• A Cuckoo Clock to freak you out
  You really do not want to own this one. It would serve as a great gift to a great enemy but to a loved one? No! If you've watched The Shining, where Jack Nicholson gives his creepy introduction of 'He…
• PlayStation Move to cost lesser the $100
  Now we know why they're all sweating it out in the Project Natal and Wii camp. Well, I'm not talking about the makers but the fanboys, because we finally have some wind on Sony's very own reply to the…
• LG Cookie Music, Pure, GT405, KS365, Viewty Smile and Jacquar 5
  LG have made quite a heavy offload from their secret gardens. With the unveiling of fix extremely superb phone models, the company seems to have done its share for this quarter already. First up is th…
• Google Maps now with bicycle directions
  Cyclists have something to look forward to now, in addition to their silly little GPS systems. The all new addition to Google Maps will help them go on to explore some cyclist friendly ends of town. T…
• You may recieve a call from the person in this movie
  A new German film has left most of those conceptual nerdheads scratching their heads. This has been a revolutionary idea to increase the interaction between the audience and the characters in the movi…
• Having Sushi on the international space station
  In a live interview with Japan's Fuji TV, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut and Expedition 22 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi demonstrates his love for cooking aboard the International Space…

• The ultimate geekasm - Girl recognizes Lego Star Wars figures by sucking on to them
  This chic has sucked them all so much that now she can tell if it is Yoda or Han Solo just by putting them inside her mouth. [Gizmodo]...
• World’s most expensive Televisions are up for $2.25 million and $1.5 million
  Rendering Midas touch to almost all the gadgets that we cannot exist without, Stuart Hughes moves on to take wraps of the world’s most expensive Televisions. Not just satisfied by offering the most…
• The best Mario furniture you will ever see
  A hardcore Mario fan would drop his jaw looking at these themed shelves. I just love the warp pipe which is made from garbage cans and serves as a stand for charging stand for mobile phones. The icing…
• Pentax 645D- Designed to be the Top of Medium-Format Digital SLR Cameras
  Pentax today announced the launch of the Pentax 645D lens-interchangeable, medium-format digital SLR camera. Thanks to the incorporation of a large image sensor, equal in performance to professional-s…
• EA Sports Active 2.0 with keep you fit
  Let the games not be the reason for your obesity as you saturate yourself before the screen and jab lazily at the buttons on your controller. EA Sports is up to something that will keep you happy, whi…

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fareastgizmos.com

• Fujitsu launches Thermal Printer Mechanism with fastest print speed
  The new Fujitsu FTP-63AMCL101/111/301/311 printer series delivers a 250mm/sec print speed, which is among the highest in the industry. Its operating life is rated for a minimum of 150km total printing…
• Sony Mickey Mouse Walkman stand
  Sony, Japan announced the Mickey Mouse Walkman stand for Sony Walkman S Series. The stand can be used to hold the walkman as well as used to charge it. The design makes one to feel Mickey holding the…
• Asus Cine5 PC speaker- World's Most Compact Five-channel Speaker
  Asus today announced the launch of the Asus Cine5 PC speaker which provides accurate 5-channel surround sound in personalized spaces such as study rooms. The Asus Cine5 is the first PC speaker in the…
• Sony PlayStation Move takes aim at Nintendo’s dominance in the gaming sector
  Sony today unveiled its highly anticipated motion controlling system PlayStation Move, as it takes aim at Nintendo’s dominance in the gaming sector. With the PlayStation Move, Sony hopes to lure gam…
• After 200 years one of the world's rarest Middlemists red camellias gets new lease on life
  It lived through the Battle of Trafalgar, survived the reign of Victoria and escaped unharmed from a Blitz bomb.So it's going to take more than a harsh British winter to stop one of the world's rarest…
• Worlds largest DNA model at Konan University in Kobe
  A 22.54-meter-high model of a DNA molecule built by Konan University has been recognized as the worlds largest by Guinness World Records. The model, completed in May last year, reproduces the double h…
• Wireless Data Usage among smartphone users in South Korea surges over 100-fold after iPhone launch
  Monthly usage of wireless data among smartphone users in South Korea surged over 100-fold during the first two months following the iPhone’s launch in Korea. KT, South Korea’s second-largest mobil…
• Silicon Power Touch 830 USB flash drive with extra touch of Northern European flavor
  Silicon Power Metal Aesthetic Touch 830 USB flash drive inherits Silicon Power’s Touch series good looks, class and ultra thin design. The new Silicon Power Touch 830 USB flash drive has been given…
• MSI X360- latest step in the evolution of MSIs beautiful X-Slim series of notebooks
  The MSI X360, the latest step in the evolution of MSI's beautiful X-Slim series of notebooks, comes with the Intel Arrandale ULV processor to provide outstanding performance with a longer-lasting, mor…
• Creative Aurvana In-Ear2 earphones with Acoustic Grille Design for an Ultra Smooth Listening Experience
  Creative today announced the Creative Aurvana In-Ear2 earphones that epitomise the peak of personal listening while on the go. Within each earphone, the Precise Balanced Armature driver is mated with…

• Creative HS-930i headset for iPhone
  Inspired by the minimalistic Zen, the Creative HS-930i headset for iPhone features a pair of precision-tuned, mini 6mm driver in a stylish in-ear metal housing. Complementing its stunning design, it a…
• Pentax 645D- Designed to be the Top of Medium-Format Digital SLR Cameras
  Pentax today announced the launch of the Pentax 645D lens-interchangeable, medium-format digital SLR camera. Thanks to the incorporation of a large image sensor, equal in performance to professional-s…
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2- Worlds first interchangeable lens system camera with touch-control shooting
  Panasonic today unveiled the new DMC-G2 from Lumix G Micro System as the world’s first interchangeable lens system camera with touch-control shooting. To develop the new DMC-G2, Panasonic focused on…
• Kingston launches Worlds First Fastest Low-Voltage Performance Memory
  Kingston today announced the release of the world's first ultra-low voltage memory running at 1.25 volts at 1600MHz.The dual-channel kit (Kingston part #: KHX1866C9D3LK2/4GX) comes preprogrammed with…
• Logitech Laptop Speaker Z205- Designed for Netbooks and Laptops
  Logitech Laptop Speaker Z205 is a lightweight speaker with an easy-to-attach clip-on design that lets you pump up the volume wherever you take your laptop. Whether you use a Mac or a Windows based lap…

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gentlemansgadgets.com

• Nigel Cabourn Mandalay packaway Coat
  Over forty years of persistent passion for vintage clothing and details, forged the trend defying design philosophy of the British original Nigel Cabourn. To be geared up towards those unpredictable..…
• Dunhill’s Holdall with the Carbon-Fibre Look
  There’s no question that Dunhill knows to supply men with premium gear, thus we’re almost used to receive extravagant releases from them just like their newly introduced Chassis...
• Sony’s colossal 3DTV - The LX900
  Albeit marketing key metrics concentrate on reflecting the consumer’s demands as accurate, and quick as possible, it took them over a decade to re-invest into a technology that already was...
• Distilleria Bottega - 10yo Riserva Privata
  Since the early 70s, the Distilleria Bottega successfully cultivates an influential position in the grappa market. Now, they’ve introduced the 10yo Riserva Privata, an exquisite blend of...
• Samsung’s little Brightness Wonder - TL500
  There’s no inevitable necessity to sacrifice a tad of quality if you prefer to carry significantly less weight around, or if you simply favor the freedom of movement a point and shoot can give...
• Hermès Arceau Duc Attele Pocket Watch
  Besides being a luxury brand of leading reputation, a fashion monopole for ties and the first address for a myriad of fashion accessories for the lady, Hermès is always good for a bright, bold...
• Asus O!Play HD2 boasts with USB 3.0
  Searching for your next entertainment room’s technical focal point, you won’t be able to avoid Asus’ visual tidbit of a media player, dubbed the O!Play HD2. Alongside an enticing...
• A warmth, and welcoming Poker Set
  The reasons for poker being such an ever appropriate, and social class overarching game lays in its formal independence coupled with unwritten yet laid-back rules, which first paragraph guarantees...
• Thick, rugged, wool Picnic Blanket
  Over the past days, the first warm breezes took a noticeable role in our daily life, and the term alfresco receives refreshed importance when it comes to arrange with friends. To this end, every...
• Koenigsegg Agera - The Stuff Track-Dreams are made of
  The comparatively small, but incredibly exclusive Swedish car manufacture Koenigsegg, has now surpassed any expectations even of those who are used to the maximum on the track and the Koenigsegg...

• Porsche Cayenne 2011
  At first, the Cayenne was prevalently feared as a marque dilution, an off-the-path attempt with more disastrous impact than fertile potential. Fortunately, Porsche’s intrepid foray into the...
• Yuketen pays homage to American Crafts and Traditions
  Moccasins were designed to be silent whilst tracking wild animals, and to maintain a decent traction for a successful chase. This requires a pair to provide a perfect fit just like a second skin,...
• The Fisherman Bag by Tusting
  Works of Tusting inhere an outstanding history of rigorous attention and exacting craftsmanship, that thrives to display anything that revolves around leather in the best possible way. The Fisherman..…
• Bentley’s Supersports Variant of the Continental Convertible
  Under four seconds from zero to 60, sound like a furious, sharp sportscar, but the fact of the matter is that these figures belong to Bentley’s bold and pompous new Supersports variant of the...
• Tissot Sailing Touch - The Watch that supports you on the Big Blue
  For those who prefer an adventurous and arduous sailing trip, the venerable experts of Tissot conceived the perfect timekeeper, which unleashes its full potential on the blue. The Sailing Touch...

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inventorspot.com

• The 'Wipe Shirt' Keeps Eyeglasses And Shirts Clean
  The "Wipe Shirt" - say that carefully - combines a stylish white dress shirt with a microfiber pad. Both your eyeglasses and your shirts will stay cleaner though wearing it may cause you to look geeki…
• Simplify Dicipline With The Time Out Pad
  If you have a young child you are probably all too familiar with the struggles of discipline.  The Time Out Pad is made to help alleviate some of the stress and bewilderment associated with disciplin…
• VACO Autofit Helmet Automatically Sculpts Around Your Dome
  A new technology in snow sports, VACO Autofit promises to deliver a ski helmet with superior fit, usability and protection.
• The Samurai Maid Cafe... Stop In For A Slice!
  Maid cafes? Tokyo's full of 'em. Samurai cafes? Seen it on TV. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Samurai Maid Cafe? Yes it would... and yes there is!
• Hello Kitty Tartan Celebrates Cute Icon's 35th Birthday
  Hello Kitty is 35 and brand owner Sanrio is celebrating the event with the introduction of an official Hello Kitty Tartan - and of course, a line of goods decked out in eye-watering pink plaid.
• BMW Says "No M1 on the Horizon"....Hints at "S" Variant for the 135i
  For the past few months, rumors of the BMW "M1" have had nearly every fan of the Bavarian Auto Maker on the edges of their seats. Sadly, after an interview with Inside Line, BMW has said there are no…
• Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard Looks Like A Remote, Functions Like A Keyboard
  A functional yet sleek form factor for the HTPC remote, the Rii Wireless Mini Keyboard offers a quality alternative.
• Cellphone Sensor Tells Your Boss If You're Working Or Goofing Off
  Every slacker employee's worst nightmare is about to be brought to life, thanks to the research arm of Japan's second largest telecom company. Is goofing off on the job doomed to become a thing of the…
• The Tanda Clear Device Uses LED Light To Destroy Acne
  Acne can be a pain, especially if it persists beyond the teen years.  The Tanda Clear Acne Light Therapy Treatment uses a blue LED light to destroy the acne causing bacteria.
• 10 Iconic Designs From Ron Arad's "Restless" London Retrospective
  .... Arad is afraid of nothing; no medium, no size, no notion that is unconventional.  He experiments.  He plays... and you get to relive his pleasure through his work.  Restless is a 30-year retro…

• Flower Resurrection Service Delivers Zombie Orchids
  Japanese orchid grower Matsumura Yoran has hit on a way to bring flowers back to life. Beginning this April you can order your franken-flowers, which will soothe your soul without eating your brain.
• Is USA Today's 'Social Media Lounge' A Little Late To The Party?
  With legacy newspapers falling by the wayside and CNN worried that Facebook and Twitter might be stealing its thunder, is it any wonder that USA Today would want to rethink how to interact in the Web…
• Milk Cream Snack Cakes Look Like Cute Cows
  Please DO have a cow - though the bold bovine pattern on every Fuwamaki Milk snack cake makes them almost too cute to eat.
• Where in the World is Robert Scoble @SXSW ?
  Why is it worth your while to track down Robert Scoble? Perhaps a $1000 might be an incentive? Hint: He's attending South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas for the next couple of da…
• Junaio's App Moves Indoors To Put The AR In ScavengAR Hunt @SXSW
  Developer Metaio just released Junaio 2.0, an updated version of their augmented reality browser with the most cutting-edge features available today. Strategically planned to debut at the South by Sou…
• Snap Amazing Pictures Of Your Baby With The Shutter Buddy
  Getting a great picture of your baby may seem like an easy task, but in reality it is an arduous undertaking.  One frustrated, camera-happy dad came up with the great idea of creating an attention gr…
• Bodega: Hidden Shoe Store With Entrance Through A Vending Machine
  Everyone knows that the hottest businesses are the ones that are impossible to find, because they're just so highly sought after they have to be discreet. We've seen hidden sushi restaurants that are…
• Crappy Heels: Insa Stilettos Designed With Elephant Dung!
  Insa shoe designs are often strange, beautiful and extreme, but now they've created a design inspired directly from the world of art and it uses a unique and rather crappy material.
• Sleep Your Way To Beauty With Neocell's Super Collagen+C
  Neocell’s Super Collagen+C is taken in either a tablet or powder form and is said to have a wide range of health and beauty benefits.
• Chandelier Expresses Delight And Confusion: The Chandelirium
  Talk about design that's expressive, the Chandelirium, by lighting and furniture sculptor Aaron R. Thomas and multi-media artist Anne-Louise Ewen, far surpasses the category's qualifications.  The ch…
• Sega Home Planetarium Turns Your Bathtub Into A Spaceship
  A nice, relaxing bath can make you feel like you're floating in space. To complete the experience, set up the the Homestar Aqua home planetarium from Sega on your bathroom floor.
• Pac-Man Wants To Hold Your Hot Pans!
  After a long run as a video game star, Pac-Man has found himself going back to his roots: the kitchen.
• 'Tweet Defense' Calculates Twitter Stats For Game App Advantage
  For members of the Twitterati who have been accumulating Twitter followers just for 'bragging rights,' now you may have a legitimate reason to do so. Here's a mobile game application that actually ana…
• 3 Avatar Fashions Inspired By The Na’vi On The Planet Of Pandora
  Avatar may not have won best picture, but it did receive a couple of nods at this year's Academy Awards and there's still a ton of hype surrounding it. For those who want to follow the styles of the N…
• Call For Inventors: The 2010 DiabetesMine™ Design Challenge
  DiabetesMine, with the sponsorship of the California HealthCare Foundation, an independent philanthropy devoted to improving health care delivery, is sponsoring its second annual Design Challenge, cal…
• Klee European Brasserie: New York’s Dining On Human Breast Milk
  Some restaurants are known for providing unique menu options which is what sets them apart making them the ultimate place to dine. One New York eatery has focused upon putting unique cheese on the men…
• Evoke -The Social Network That Churns Virtual Game Theory Into 'We Are The World'
  If you were tasked with saving the world in 10 short weeks, where would you possibly begin. Well if you're a gamer or an optimist, you might consider kicking the tires of a new type of social network.…
• My Week With the Clinch Wallet - Product Review
  Guys?  Do you use your wallet as your personal filing system?  Is it now stuffed so full that it won't fit in your pocket?  If so, the Clinch Wallet may be just what you're looking for!
• Snoopy USB Hub Can Be Yours For Peanuts
  Not really "peanuts", but what goes together better than Snoopy and Peanuts? How about your computer and this cool, 3-port USB hub that evokes everyone's favorite beagle at his Red Baron-busting best?…
• I- Brite Eye Whitening Surgery Restores a Healthy Look
  The quest for physical perfection has taken another leap forward recently with the introduction of surgical eye whitening.  Yes, that’s right; I didn’t say teeth whitening – eye whitening!
• Ultime Réalité: The Ultimate Thrill With Abduction And Stalking Services
  If you've ever dreamed of being abducted or of doing a little harmless stalking that won't end in a jail sentence, then there is one French company more than ready to make those dreams come true for t…
• Celebrate Or Drown Your Sorrows With The Hellooo Happy Hour Watch!
  Last night at the Oscars, you know that all of those celebs were just dying to escape for a little late night happy hour at the after parties (as if they hadn't already hit the bottle before the award…
• Ultra-light RC Model Plane Floats Like A Butterfly
  Light as a soap bubble and almost as fragile, the radio-controlled model airplane sent aloft by Japanese hobbyists proves that when it comes to flying, less can be more.
• First Annual Internet Car and Truck of the Year Winners Announced
  More and more people are turning to the vast quantities of information on the internet when it comes time to purchase a new vehicle, rather than walk into a dealership uninformed. This is mostly due t…
• Will Steve Ballmer's Microsoft & Obama's Administration Share A Cloud?
  Much has been written about Steve Ballmer's almost fanatic focus on cloud computing this month. With catchphrases like "we're all in" and "the cloud fuels Microsoft and Microsoft fuels the cloud" he m…
• Does the "13 Function in One Pen" Actually Function? - Product Review
  James Bond would be pretty happy to have the 13 Function in One Pen.  But do all of the functions... function?
• From Russia With Love, Chatroulette 17-Yr Old Founder En Route to USA?
  While well known as a habitual truant at his high school, when 17-year old Andrey Ternovskiy is not where he's supposed to be, he's taking business lunches and entertaining offers. However the goose t…
• Weather Dresses: Wearable Art By Valerie Lamontagne Visually Depicts Weather Data
  Fashion that serves another function is always well received by those who might never think of wearing such an item, but love to gawk at the innovations. An artist recently developed a line of weather…
• Manpacks: Men’s Underwear Subscriptions Alleviates The Embarrassment Of Holey Socks!
  I recently wrote about another subscription service that helps shopophobic men maintain their personal hygiene without ever having to leave home to purchase their products. Now there's another busines…
• Natural Cooking with Human Breast milk Going Too Far
  An eco-conscious chef has taken advantage of his wife's breast, but not in the way my first few words lead you to believe. Instead he is using milk she extracted from her breastfeeding breast and maki…

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• Putting The iPad Pre-Order Numbers In Some Context
  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) was selling pre-orders for the iPad at a rate of about 25,000 an hour this morning, according to a Forbes Fortune piece. The methodology is very unscientific; it’s based on differ…
• Motorola's Two CEOs Continue Voluntary Pay Cut In 2010
  Recognizing the shaky economic climate and Motorola’s still tenuous market position, the company’s two CEOs Greg Brown and Sanjay Jha voluntarily have agreed to a 25 percent pay-cut for the second…
• 8-K Watch: Apple's Tim Cook Earns $22 Million As Part Of Jobs' Stand-In Role
  Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) COO Tim Cook was handed a $5 million bonus just for taking over Steve Jobs’ responsibilities during the six-months the CEO was on medical leave that ended in June, according to an…
• mocoNews Quick Hits 03.12.2010
  »  Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is working on a multi-fold device to be your cellphone, browser, apps interface, TV and of course, alarm clock. [GoRumors] »  American Airlines enables fliers to check in…
• Nokia Predicts 10 Percent Growth For Mobile Phones In 2010
  Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has improved the way it measures the global device market, including coming up with a better way to calculate the number of unlicensed and counterfeit products being sold in the mark…
• Free Maps From Google and Nokia Drive Vodafone To Shut Down Wayfinder
  The first victim of the free navigation wars: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is shutting down Wayfinder, the Swedish mapmaker it purchased for $30 million in late 2008. It was the carrier’s goal to use Wayfin…
• HootSuite Buys Android Developer Swift App
  Twitter client HootSuite, which recently raised $1.9 million in funding, has now made an acquisition, buying up Android app developer Swift App. HootSuite says that Swift App was behind the developmen…
• Video @ paidContent2010: A Hard Look At The Subscription Model
  Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? W…
• Cool-Seeking Newspapers Dream Of iPad
  Print publishers can’t wait for iPad to hit the streets next month, perhaps so they can once again start producing info in a similar-looking format to their core products of yesteryear. NYT’s flag…
• Hearst's App Strategy: Adding More Needles To A Growing Haystack
  Hearst has about 70 apps under its LMK banner in the iTunes App Store right now and it just plans to keep adding more and more. Most of the LMK apps sell for about $1.99, while a handful cost $0.99 pe…

• Nokia Aims New Smartphones At U.S.
  It’s long been known that Nokia’s had a hard time selling its popular devices in the U.S. But its latest smartphones coming have a series of enhancements that it hopes will make it more competitiv…
• Let The iPad Sales Begin
  Early adopters take note: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is taking pre-orders for the iPad at 5:30 a.m. Pacific on Friday. Last week, Apple announced that March 12 was the magical day for per-orders, but never sp…
• FCC Releases Apps To Independently Test The Speed Of Wireless Networks
  Looking for real-time data of its own, the FCC (yes, the regulatory body in Washington, D.C.) has released a mobile app for iPhone and Android. Don’t worry, the feds aren’t interested in listening…
• mocoNews Quick Hits 03.11.2010
  »  Why retailers shouldn’t get caught up in the mobile barcode hype. [MediaPost] »  In China, Motorola’s Android smartphones will be loaded with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Bing. [PCWorld] »  The…
• Verizon Wireless Bringing First 4G Phones To Market In Mid-2011
  If you are holding out for a 4G phone for your next purchase, don’t bother. Verizon Wireless will not have its very first 4G handset until mid-2011. While that’s about six months earlier than the…
• Requests May Signal That FTC Will Block Google's AdMob Purchase
  Google’s proposed (and now delayed) acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob appears to be drawing even more regulatory scrutiny from the FTC. Bloomberg cites sources who say that regulators now want…
• Former RealNetwork's CEO Rob Glaser Says For Now Apple Has Won
  In Rob Glaser’s first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector to…
• The Mobile Stats That Keep Microsoft's Execs Up At Night
  Here’s why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a “completely new smartphone OS.” The latest smartphone platform market share figures were released today by comScore and Microsoft posted the stee…
• News Corp. Mulling Sale Of Struggling Mobile Content Properties
  News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) may shed the ailing Fox Mobile Group, including the Jamba and Jamster brands, to focus on digital properties, like MySpace, reports The Financial Times. A sale would not be a bi…
• mocoNews Quick Hits 03.10.2010
  »  MySpace (NYSE: NWS) says it’s the top social app on the Android platform and is the third most downloaded app overall on the Android Market. [socalTECH] »  Verizon is finding a way to capital…

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• Dell XPS M1330
  The Dell XPS M1330 is a portable notebook that is designed to be powerful yet small and sleek. It is packed with features and a great amount of power but also designed to be noticed for those who pref…
• Remember Essential Features To Select Mp4 Players
  What is your perception about the latest electronic gadget of Mp4 Players? Don’t you think it unusual, that at the time when you thought you were getting a handle on MP3 players and the sea of file…
• Spend More, Get More On MP4 Players
  If you are planning on buying an electronic gadget like cell phones, iPod or an mp4 player do not compromise on something cheaper. Trust me saving that money will make you regret forever. I believe wh…
• What Is GPS Navigation?
  GPS is short for Global Positioning System, a satellite-guided system of electronically determining the position and other variables that specify the movement of an object like a ship or a craft. GPS…
• Four Basic Types Of GPS Navigation Systems
  Why carry around maps when you can make life easy with global positioning system (GPS). This system not only saves precious time but to some extent gas as well. You do not need to roam around from one…
• Features Of Your MP4 Player, And Why They Are So Great
  Everyone loves to listen to music while they are out. This is why a lot of people walk around listening to there MP3 players. However, have you ever wished that you could get a little bit more out of…
• Jeep GPS Navigator RT-300
  Jeep has equipped the RT-300 with a paltry 3.5-incher. I found the choice of this 4:3, 320-by-240-pixel screen surprising—especially considering RT-300’s relatively high price ($249.99 direct). Th…
• Asus P552W PDA phone
  The newly launched Asus P552w PDA phone features Glide – an innovative touch-responsive user interface that makes navigating and performing tasks on a mobile phone more intuitive and interactive tha…
• Owners Reports Cracks in iPhone 3G Cases
  Unlike the original iPhone, which features a metal back, the back of the new 3G iPhone is either ceramic or plastic. (Apple has not disclosed what it is made of; many people have speculated that it is…
• Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone
  There’s been a lot of random misinformation about the iPhone 3G floating around out there, like David Pogue’s baffling comment that the device’s GPS antenna is “too small” to support turn-by…