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Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCAAn anonymous reader writes "The ongoing fight against the Canadian DMCA is the focus of a new documentary film called Why Copyright? Produced by Michael Geist and available as a streamed version, OGG download version, or a torrent, the film features Red Hat founder Bob Young, sci-fi writer Karl Schroeder, the owner of Skylink Technologies (which fought the DMCA garage door opener case) and many other voices from across Canada."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:38 pm So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter?
There’s even a WordPress plugin that lets you show off your Twitter usage stats to your blog visitors, and if you try hard you might just make the Tweetwasters Hall Of Fame. Tweetwasters estimates that a user spends about 30 seconds on creating a Tweet on average, which I think is a bit long. They multiply that by the number of Twitter messages you have produced and they provide you with the approximate number of seconds, minutes, hours or days of your life you have spent on Twitter. Of course, I assume most people spend more time reading tweets than writing them, so it’s probably way more than Tweetwasters will ever be able to tell you.
The service was obviously built for fun (by Sugarrae), but there’s an application called Wakoopa that actually tracks your software usage continuously and provides you with a good overview of what you use the most (both for desktop and web applications) and tells you what other software you might find useful. Information provided by CrunchBase
Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. Source: TechCrunch | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:20 pm So How Much Time Do You Waste On Twitter?Making the rounds quickly on Twitter this weekend is Tweetwasters, a site that gives you an idea of how much time you're really 'wasting' posting messages and status updates to the popular micro-sharing...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 2:20 pm The End of Individual Genius?Anonymous Coward writes "A recent study suggests the downfall of individual researchers, who are being rapidly replaced by enormous research groups. Quoting: '... in recent decades — especially since the Soviet success in launching the Sputnik satellite in 1957 — the trend has been to create massive institutions that foster more collaboration and garner big chunks of funding. And it is harder now to achieve scientific greatness. A study of Nobel Prize winners in 2005 found that the accumulation of knowledge over time has forced great minds to toil longer before they can make breakthroughs. The age at which thinkers produce significant innovations increased about six years during the 20th century.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:27 pm Orascom to launch 3G service in NKorea (AP)AP - Egypt's Orascom Telecom will launch 3G mobile telephone service in North Korea on Monday, the company said, taking to the next step an ambitious multimillion dollar project in the communist nation.Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:26 pm 5 Days of Cleaning Out My Office-Mas: Final Day
Yes, yes, and yes! It’s a Sony Location Free TV box, the LF-B20. What does it do? It’s apparently wireless and it’s apparently Sony’s answer to Slingbox. But rather worrying about all that, I’m also throwing in a grab bag of stuff from the boxes surrounding my desk. That’s right: you’re getting a surprise! So comment away. Tell us anything. Tell us your best birthday present. Tell us the name of your first homeroom teacher. Tell us how much you love us. Thanks for tuning in and remember: CrunchGear is looking out for you! Source: CrunchGear | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:11 pm Windows 7 gets tested, liked.
Looks like the Windows 7 build 6956 is already a lot better than Vista, even though the beta will not be released until the 13th of January. So some folks over at Softpedia released an immersive set of screenshots yesterday so we can all live the dream. According to the article the current build works great - compared to Vista - on a virtual machine with 1.6 GB ram and an Intel Core Duo on 3 GHz. There is a benchmark gallery you might find interesting on ZDNet, not to mention the boot video if you haven’t seen it already. Source: CrunchGear | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:04 pm Shoppers as Bees - The Apifera Display Attracts Spenders to Selfridges in London (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) The Apifera window display was created by Matthew Plummer Fernandez for the Selfridges department store in London, England. The title given to the project is the Latin name given...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:59 pm Bizarre Crossover Dogvertising - Volkswagen SpaceFox Dog-Fish Campaign (VIDEO)(TrendHunter.com) This fun new ad for the Volkswagen SpaceFox in Brazil reveals that mans best friend has one wild imagination. The guy in the video is at the beach with his pet which happens to be a...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:39 pm Open Source Program Reveals Diebold BugMitch Trachtenberg writes "Ballot Browser, an open source Python program developed by Mitch Trachtenberg (yours truly) as part of the all-volunteer Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, was instrumental in revealing that Diebold counting software had dropped 197 ballots from Humboldt County, California's official election results. Despite a top-to-bottom review by the California Secretary of State's office, it appears that Diebold had not informed that office of the four-year-old bug. The Transparency Project has sites at humetp.org and http://www.humtp.com." Trachtenberg also points to his blog for the Transparency Project, and his own essay about the discovery and the process that led to it.Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:23 pm Hats for the Self-Assured - Extravagant Headwear from Tour de Force (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) East Londons Tour de Force designs extravagant headwear for fashion-forward gals. After all, it takes a confident woman to strap a silver unicorn horn accentuated with a large bow on...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:19 pm iDesign SongView iPod Alarm ClockBy Andrew Liszewski The iPod alarm clock market is pretty crowded these days, but once in a while you stumble across a design that manages to spice things up. Case in point, the iDesign SongView. Its most...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:15 pm Garment Graffiti - Thomas Voorn Dresses Up B Store (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) This unique Garment Graffiti is the work of London-based artist Thomas Voorn, who creates artistic urban signs in public places using pieces of clothing collaged together to form the...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 11:59 am $30,000 Christmas Ornaments - World's Priciest Tree Bauble(TrendHunter.com) This delicate 12 karat gold, diamond-encrusted Christmas tree ornament was made by Krebs Glas in Lauscha, Germany. The burgundy glass bauble is surrounded by a gold filigree cage thats...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 11:39 am Animal-Inspired Tree Decorations - Intricate Glass and Swarovski Ornaments (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) Jay Strongwater is an American designer of lavish jewelry, home ornaments and accessories. He has created these opulent tree embellishments modeled after animals such as dragons, leopards...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 11:19 am OGCC Day 14 - Yoda Christmas LightsBy Andrew Liszewski Ever since that fateful day on November 17, 1978 when the Star Wars Holiday Special first aired, Wookies, Jedis and droids have been as much a part of Christmas for me as Santa Claus...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 11:14 am Human Trafficking PSAs - Samilia Foundation Attached to Work Campaign (GALLERY)(TrendHunter.com) These visually disturbing anti-trafficking ads for the Samilia Foundation give another meaning to the common attached to your work phrase. The ads show trafficked workers having their...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 10:59 am Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer to Google NotebookAn anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Live Labs have introduced a new service that lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others. It's similar in concept to Mozilla's Joey, a defunct project that let people copy and paste portions of Web pages onto a single page that they could access from their mobile phones or another computer. Thumbtack is also like other available services, including Google Notebook. But Thumbtack developers think their service has a difference. 'Thumbtack stands apart in its ability to introspect on incoming data in order to automatically classify it and extract structure from it using machine learning,' according to the FAQ about the service."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:16 am Dentsu to make push in Russia ad market-sourceTOKYO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Dentsu Inc , Japan's largest advertising company, will set up a subsidiary in Russia as it aims to expand out of its mature home market, a person familiar with the matter said...Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 14 Dec 2008 | 9:11 am HOWTO electrocute yourself -- slideshow from Vienna's Technisches museumFabulous Maker and rogue photographer Bre Pettis paid a visit to the Technisches museum and snapped their "30 Ways to Die of Electrocution" exhibit. I like the emphasis on urine and pranks in the list.
30 Ways to Die of Electrocution
(via Geisha Asobi) Source: Boing Boing | 14 Dec 2008 | 7:55 am New BMW Z4 revealed - CNET News
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:56 am Katamari on the iPhone
Sleeper hit game Katamari Damacy has rolled onto the iPhone in a slimmer yet tilt-sensitive form called I Love Katamari. According to our man Brandon Boyer at Boing Boing Offworld, it's still a ball of fun, managing to "recapture the harrowing anxiety of the originals." Full review on Offworld. Katamari rolls onto iPhone Source: Boing Boing | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:17 am Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZvik writes "According to local media, multiple eye witnesses are reporting that a meteorite crashed into a warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand last night, setting it on fire. The warehouse roof was destroyed but no nearby buildings were damaged and there was only one minor casualty — a man who happened to be inside the building at the time. The fire service have not yet made an official announcement."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 6:06 am SwissCom Tries To Deflect Criticism Of Le Web Internet Failure
A good conference has at least three separate connections. One is for the audience and has both wifi coverage and as many ethernet cables as can be managed logistically. A separate ethernet connection should be reserved for the stage to ensure that demos go smoothly. And a final connection should be reserved for the press room so that bloggers and journalists can file reports even if the main audience connection goes down (as an aside, the press room should also have a simulcast of the stage so that press can work from there and cover the event real time). A fourth connection should be dedicated to livestreaming the event (Ustream was doing that at Le Web). Le Web, which paid €100,000 to Swisscom to ensure lightning fast Internet, had no Internet connectivity. Nothing for the audience, nothing for the stage, nothing in the press room. Ustream had 50% connectivity, and lost some great footage. Day 1 was a complete writeoff and I left mid day to work from my hotel. On day two there was some connectivity reported by a few people, but I wasn’t able to get access to the Internet until after the event was over. Le Meur apologized to attendees. Beyond that, there was really nothing he could do. He contracted with Swisscom to take care of Internet access, and Swisscom failed to provide that service. Once the event started, all he could really do was beg them to get it right. They never did. We had the same problems at TechCrunch50 (day one Internet was a write off, although we had a stage connection). We’ve settled with our provider and agreed not to trash them publicly, so I won’t name the service. But we will never do business with them again. I was planning on letting this go and not writing about it. But today Swisscom, instead of simply apologizing, denied the problem (translated version here):
This is, to put it bluntly, a lie. A complete and total fabrication. And there are 1,700 people who attended the event that can verify this (here’s one!). There was no connectivity during the event, I was not able to blog a word from the conference hall or the press room. There was not 80% coverage. Things most definitely did not “almost work smoothly.” Things didn’t work at all. In addition to managing the media side of things with outright fictions like the one above, Swisscom will be negotiating with Le Web on the fee. Part of it was undoubtedly paid up front. Whatever Le Web still owes them will be negotiated down. But forget the €100,000. Swisscom’s actions damaged Le Web considerably. Sponsors and presenters were also damaged because they couldn’t show their content on stage, and press couldn’t cover the news. I wouldn’t be surprised if some sponsors refused to pay their agreed fees. In a perfect world Swisscom would be writing a check to Le Web for 10x the fee they tried to charge, just to make them whole. But I’m guessing the company included a standard limitation of liability clause in their contract with Le Web. That isn’t bulletproof. Grossly negligent behavior, which is exactly what happened, would likely nullify the limitation. But that would require hiring lawyers and going to court, which is a nightmare and won’t happen. This is something we think about a lot at TechCrunch, because so many conferences have bad connectivity, and we need to make it perfect at TechCrunch50 next year. There’s a real business here if a large company can get it right and is willing to put a guarantee in place to conference organizers. They can charge almost anything - I’m sure Loic would have paid €200,000 if that’s what it took to get proper Internet for attendees. If they can build a reputation for reliability, and are willing to back up that reputation with a liquidated damages clause for failure in the range of, say, 5x the fee they charge, then I imagine every conference that could would hire them. Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors Source: Gizmodo | 14 Dec 2008 | 4:42 am Microsoft Dips Its Toe Into The iPhone With Seadragon MobileMicrosoft apparently isn’t going to ignore the iPhone completely. They released a Seadragon application for the iPhone today that lets users “infinitely zoom” on high quality images with near zero transition times. The embed below shows Seadragon in action, and the experience on the iPhone is very similar. We’ve covered Seadragon applications like TouchWall and pptPlex previously, and in March Microsoft built it into Silverlight. You can browse a few photosets included in the application or add your own content from Photosynth or any RSS feed. Get the application at this iTunes link. More on the excellent 148apps. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware. Source: TechCrunch | 14 Dec 2008 | 3:47 am Cornell University FPGA Class Projects for 2008Matt writes "The new crop of Cornell University ECE 5760 projects are now online. Some really cool projects, as well as the previous two years' worth of projects." Since it's mid-December, many other schools, too, have either just let out or are about to; can you point to any other online collections of cool technical projects?Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Gizmodo | 14 Dec 2008 | 1:00 am uvLayer Updates Its Enhanced Media Sharing Webtop
uvLayer, a startup that has built an intuitive webtop for sharing YouTube videos and other media, has launched the latest version of its site which introduces a host of new features, including support for more IM networks and Flickr search. uvLayer has slipped under our radar until now, but their product is impressive, allowing users to search for and organize media much as they would on their computer’s desktop. These ‘desktops in the cloud’ (called canvases by the service) can be made public, allowing users to browse through the media you’ve collected in an organized manner. These canvases are useful for purposes beyond pure entertainment - for example, teachers can organize videos into appropriate lessons folders for their students. uvLayer also includes support for sharing individual videos over IM. The site has integrated with major chat networks including AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Gtalk, making it a simple process of checking off user names when you’d like to share a movie clip or photo with some of your friends.
The company first launched in January with an application based on Adobe’s AIR platform, but soon moved on to develop a version that could be run directly in the browser with Flash. The AIR app is still available, but doesn’t add much beyond allowing users to watch movies outside of their browsers (there’s also some integration with Facebook, but this functionality will likely be coming to the Flash version soon). In the future the company hopes to adapt its technology to touch screens and to a wider array of devices. But for now, it still has some work to do - while the interface is great, the selection of content sources is very small (sites beyond YouTube and Flickr will be integrated in future releases). It would also be nice if the site supported user-uploaded content (everything on your webtop currently has to be hosted elsewhere). There are a few other sites working on similar webtop interfaces, including Wixi, a TechCrunch40 company covered here. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0 Source: TechCrunch | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:43 am Weekend Update, 12/12/08 [Digital Daily]
In this week ramping up to the holidays, good cheer–unsurprisingly–was hard to find. 2008 may well be remembered as the year the econalypse stole Christmas. Yahoo (YHOO) was bereft of cheer, for sure. BoomTown covered its long-dreaded layoffs and published Jerry Yang’s complete memo to Yahoo staff about the painful process, which began on Wednesday. Ex-Yahoos from all corners of the company declared their preferences (and vented) to BoomTown about the as-yet fruitless search for a CEO to replace Yang, who laid himself off last month. But wait–Digital Daily pointed out a singular moment of misplaced cheer–akin to fiddling while the proverbial Yahoo burns–as the company, uh, celebrated the holidays with a bafflingly lavish year-end party last Saturday–four days before its massive layoffs began. Digital Daily covered a lot more bad news this week–even some for Apple (AAPL). Belkin, historically the largest exhibitor at January’s MacWorld, announced it won’t be at the convention this year. In addition, registrations for the annual macfest are down 20 percent since last year. Fairchild became the latest in a long procession of semiconductor companies to lower estimates in the face of dwindling demand, and IPO activity dropped 50 percent in 2008, according to Ernst & Young’s year-end Global IPO Update. What’s that word? Oh yeah, schadenfreude. In a cold bit of circumstance, almost any company can feel a little bit better by comparing itself to Nortel (NT), which lost an astonishing 97 percent of its value this year. MediaMemo wrote about CBS’s (CBS) appointment with the piper–it spent $1.8 billion on CNET last year, and started paying the consequences this week. The re-org of the entire CBS Interactive group is laid out in Quincy Smith’s memo to its staff. Hulu was hurting this past week, too. Its traffic dropped sharply in the absence of Tina Fey/Sarah Palin viral videos. There was at least one happy anomaly in this week’s news, though: Microblogging site Tumblr brought back memories of the heady early days of Web 2.0, announcing a $4.5 million-dollar round of funding from Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital. On the Mossberg front, Walt is on a holiday break, but Personal Technology is not. Nick Wingfield sat in for him this week with a column about digital projectors, which are getting smaller and more portable. And in anticipation of Mac-themed holidays for Windows PC users, Katherine Boehret discussed reliable methods of getting data from a PC to a Mac. Source: Gizmodo | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:15 am Sony aims for a new virtual world order - Financial Times
Source: Google News - Sci/Tech | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:08 am The Economist Suggests Linux For NetbooksTrepidity writes "In its roundup of how to choose a netbook, The Economist suggests that users 'avoid the temptation' to go for a Windows-based netbook, and in particular to treat them as mini laptops on which you'll install a range of apps. In their view, by the time you add the specs needed to run Windows and Windows apps effectively, you might as well have just bought a smallish laptop. Instead, they suggest the sweet spot is ultra-lite, Linux-based netbooks, with a focus on pre-installed software that caters to common tasks. They particularly like OpenOffice, which they rate as easier to use than MS Word and having 'no compatibility problems,' as well as various photo-management software." Besides which, does Windows offer spinning cubes for coffee-shop demos?Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source: Slashdot | 14 Dec 2008 | 12:04 am Internet Black Market Thrives
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As a response to my on-stage comments and this post about entrepreneurial culture in Europe, Le Web organizer Loic Le Meur is asking readers if I should be “invited back at Le Web next year.”
As of the writing of this post, nearly 2/3 of respondents say no, I should not be invited to return.
If that’s how the European startup community wants to deal with criticism, C’est la vie. We sent five writers to Le Web this year to cover the startups presenting there and other tech news. Perhaps next year we’ll send none.
But I do think this is a dangerous precedent. If journalists, bloggers and speakers know that they may be punished for what they say on stage, you can’t expect a genuine dialog to occur. There is a chilling effect to merely ask if someone should be punished for expressing opinions that some find objectionable. Will the Guardian also be ejected next year for calling the event boring and reporting that there was no Internet connectivity or heat?
I expected more from the European community.
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PullMyFinger, an iPhone app, has been recently accepted into the iPhone App Store. Writes the creator:
[Apple] told me that they are going to start approving a whole new “genre” of apps, and that Pull My Finger will be the first to be accepted in this genre. As of now Pull My Finger is available in the app store.
The very kind Apple Team Member told me that they didn’t want to reject it originally, but that they were sorting out how this “genre” of apps were going to be handled. She told me they’d be lifting the restriction on them, and more apps will follow that may have been previously not allowed.
Let’s pause for a moment to reflect on the founding document of our App Store Constitution and to remember those who gave at least fifteen minutes of their precious lives to make a program that lets you make farting noises.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Apps are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Revenue. That to secure these rights, Programming Teams are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the project designer, — That whenever any Form of App Store becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the Programmers to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new App Store, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that App Stores long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such App Store, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Programmers; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Apple is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these Developers. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has forbidden his Programmers to pass Programs of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Programs for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the App Store, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
Let freedom ring, friends. Let it ring from every hillside, every dell, every corner of every city. Free at last, free at last, sweet Lord Almighty we are free at last.
 TechRadar UK | Windows XP: The OS That Won't Quit PC World - Phasing out an old operating system is nothing new for Microsoft, but Windows XP is unique in that it may be too good to die. Though market share for Windows XP dropped nearly 10 percent in 2008 as Vista slowly made gains, XP still has a market share ... Viruses hit PCs more than Macs RE[3]: My take |
The all mighty FTC came down on five virus scanning programs that attempted to dupe computer novices into thinking their system was infected by a life-running, credit stealing virus. The ruse involved tricky web advertisements with hidden code linked to a user-installed ‘anti-virus program.’ (WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus) Over one million people were tricked by the somewhat legitimate-looking system message, but hopefully this judgement will help the cause against pop-ups. LOL, right. Props to the FTC, but we all know that other programs will take the place of these scareware schemes. Pop-ups aren’t going anywhere.
Reuters - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Saturday it was canceling a December 18 meeting in response to a request by Democratic lawmakers that it pay more attention to a smooth transition to digital television early next year.
Blackberry phones at $20 a piece. There were only 10 left. All of the batteries had died. There were no chargers for sale. But people were snatching them up. So, we bought a couple.McCain Campaign Sells Info-Loaded Blackberry to FOX 5 Reporter (via Memex 1.1)And ended up with a lot more than we bargained for.
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails from early September until a few days after election night.
We traced the Blackberry back to a staffer who worked for “Citizens for McCain,” a group of democrats who threw their support behind the Republican nominee. The emails contain an insider’s look at how grassroots operations work, full of scheduling questions and rallying cries for support.
But most of the numbers were private cell phones for campaign leaders, politicians, lobbyists and journalists.
We called some of the numbers.
“Somebody made a mistake,” one owner told us. “People’s numbers and addresses were supposed to be erased.”
“They should have wiped that stuff out,” another said. But he added, “Given the way the campaign was run, this is not a surprise.”
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Digital picture frames aren’t exactly the hottest gadget item anymore, but maybe iriver can somewhat breath new life in the totally overproduced niche item. The 7-inch Framee-L has a bit of understated art deco look, while at the same time sport’n the standard fare of digiframe features. It has a 720 x 480 resolution display, 1GB of internal memory, a full array of memory card slots, a USB port, and can handle just about every video file. Japanese peeps can get their hands on the frame starting on December 20t at an estimated price of 17,800 yen ($198).
 iPhonesTalk | There’s Gold In Them iPhones Newsweek - Some kid in his bedroom can make a million bucks just by writing a little application for the Apple phone. Please fill in the following information and we'll email this link. Poo Price: Did a crude iPhone app sneak in background task ... Read all 'app store' posts in iPhone Approll |
Reuters - With more than $1 billion in sales and 50 million tracks downloaded between them -- on a base of only about 350 songs -- the "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" videogame franchises emerged this year as serious moneymakers for the music industry. But are they bringing in enough per track?
 eFluxMedia | Survey Asks: Internet Access or Sex? New York Times - By Ashlee Vance Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. Intel Survey Finds the Internet Almost as Important as Sex ... Survey Shows 46% of Women Choose Internet over Sex |
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Congratulations to Sean, Charles, and Matt, yesterday’s Office-Mas winners. Today we have a special treat, something to titillate the senses, to encourage elation in the elderly and the youthfully vibrant alike, and to cause cats to purr and mewl contentedly in empty rooms.
Today is laptop day and we have on offer a Defcon CL security cable, a MagicJack (basically a free calling service), a portable Microsoft Media Center remote which will also work for presentations, and a Microsoft Mobile Mouse 3000. I’ll also throw in a 17-inch Targus laptop cozy for your traveling pleasure. What do you have to do to get such a great deal? Do you have to send photographs of your dog? Do you have to record yourself dancing a jig in the heart of Wellington-on-Shropshire? Do you have to wear one of those weird sickness suits like that guy in Dune? No, no, and no! And no!
You have to leave a comment describing your ultimate business getaway. Is it a Holiday Inn conference center in Akron? A cheap hotel in Stockholm? A client visit that ends up being in a house full of guinea pigs (true story!)? Tell us.
 The Money Times | Car Key Device Blocks Cell Phone Use While Driving FOXNews - A new automobile ignition key can prevent teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving. The invention, by researchers at the University of Utah, is called Key2SafeDriving and is aimed at cutting down on road deaths. Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls Wireless invention jams teen drivers' cell phones |
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