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Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?Audrey23 writes "I am traveling to London from Washington state for two weeks in December for pleasure (use-it-or-lose-it vacation scenario) and was wondering if I should bother bringing my laptop. I know that I would have to change the region code on my wireless amongst other things and the power cord would have to be changed for a UK outlet. Would I be better off not bringing my laptop and just using Internet kiosks (do they exist in London?) or would having my laptop be a better choice to keep in touch, off-load my digital images etc? I plan on hitting the British Museum but was wondering what geeky things to do that are in London that might be worth going to and any tips hints on overseas travel for geeks? I travel quite a bit in the states but this will be my first trip overseas and want to make the best of my stay in merry old England. What words of advice do you travel seasoned geeks have for me?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot | 24 Nov 2009 | 3:30 am Apple's Black Friday sale to include online shopping - ZDNet (blog)
Source: Sci/Tech - Google News | 24 Nov 2009 | 3:15 am Ostendo Curved Monitor Now AvailableBy Evan Ackerman That sweet looking curvy display we first saw at CES back in 2008 is finally available to consumers with too much money to spend, only about a year late. For a mere $6500, you can be the...Source: RSS feed - channel BNBlogTech | 24 Nov 2009 | 2:46 am Google grabs another ad company - Register
Source: Sci/Tech - Google News | 24 Nov 2009 | 2:45 am Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors Burned
This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They’ve raised at least $85 million in venture capital with the help of an investment bank, Financial Technology Partners. Their most recent round, a reported $62.5 million, was funded by Spectrum Equity Investors. Canopy debuted on the 2009 Inc. 500 List at #12 in terms of the fastest growing private companies in America. In 2008 CEO Vikram Kashyap said his company had 2007 revenues of $9 million. More recently, we’ve heard, the company was saying they’d hit $60 million in revenue and $9 million or so in EBITDA. All of this may have been lies. Until recently all the venture capitalists involved proudly placed Canopy Financial on their portfolio pages. Now all trace of the company have been erased from the portfolio pages of investors GGV Capital, Spectrum Equity and Foundation Capital. And their investment bank has erased them from their trophy page as well. But here’s what these pages looked like very recently:
So what happened? Multiple sources have told us that Canopy was absolutely making up their financial statements, even forging audited statements with fake KMPG letterhead. And somehow the investment bank and all the investors never figured it out. A call to KPMG before investing tens of millions of dollars would have been a good start, although I have the benefit of hindsight here. Spectrum took the biggest hit, with their recent $62.5 million investment in the company. And we’re hearing that they’re now suing to try to recover some of that money. One of the early investors, GGVP, may have taken as much as $25 million of the recent round “off the table” from the Spectrum investment, and they’re now a defendant in the lawsuit, says one source. Canopy’s website right now is a simple information page. All deep links are broken, and the old site has been taken down (we have a screenshot here from a few months ago). We’ve reached out to just about everyone involved with the company for comment. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily. 
Source: TechCrunch | 24 Nov 2009 | 2:45 am Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors BurnedSomething really, really bad went down at high flying startup Canopy Financial. This is one of the high flying startups that had a lot of buzz the last couple of years. They've raised at least $85 million...Source: RSS feed - channel BNBlogTech | 24 Nov 2009 | 2:45 am Nokia to cut 220 R&D jobs in Japan
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For some time now, it has seemed like Foursquare was the only game in town. I mean “game” literally, as of the major location-based services, Foursquare seemed to be the only one really emphasizing gaming elements. But now Gowalla is starting to emphasize it more.
To be fair, Gowalla has had a sort of sub-game based around the dropping and picking up of items (basically, virtual goods) since the beginning. But in the latest build of its iPhone app which hit the App Store today, version 1.3, there are some new gaming aspects. The first is that items now have histories attached to them. This allows you to see who has had an item before you in a city. Looking over some of my items now, it’s actually pretty interesting to see that I know some people who have some of them before me.
While at first the idea behind including items in Gowalla didn’t make sense to me, after meeting with (Gowalla parent) Alamofire CEO Josh Williams, it makes a lot more sense. Aside from this history element, which is interesting, and that different items are of varying scarcities, there is also a plan in place to allow for the items you pick up to be exchanged in real life for actual goods, Williams says. He wasn’t ready to share any specifics just yet, but notes that there are already some interesting proposals on the table to do this. And Gowalla 1.3 is a “bit of a Trojan Horse right now,” for that, he says.
Obviously, the eventual idea behind this is that Gowalla could monetize these transactions. The core concept is similar to what Foursquare is doing with its Mayor Deals, but they too haven’t yet started to monetizing those. With location-based services still in their infancy, all of these services are simply focused on gaining users.
Williams also noted that Gowalla could eventually take a page from Alamofire’s first project, the Facebook app PackRat, and start selling certain items in Gowalla as virtual goods. Williams says they’re just thinking about the idea now, but with the iPhone’s new in-app purchases for free apps, it’s certainly possible.
And there’s another gaming element that Gowalla has added to the latest version of its iPhone app. Now, when you click on a venue, and click on the people tab for it, you can see a list of the top 10 people for that location. This is a list of the users who have checked into that venue the most amount of times over the past 90 days. In Foursquare terms, the top person would be the “mayor,” but again, this is a full top 10 list so more than just the top dog gets recognition.
Perhaps more importantly, with version 1.3, Gowalla has eased some of the GPS restrictions that curbed cheating but made it hard to check-in at certain indoor places. This should be much, much better, Williams tells us. The service is also hard at work on its native Android app, though they recently released a mobile web version that works with Android.
Gowalla is a free download in the App Store, find it here.
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By Russell Adams, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
The Web consulting firm Blue State Digital helped the Obama campaign raise some $500 million online, catapulting a relative political novice into the Oval Office.
Its next challenge: Help fashion bible Vogue magazine cash in on its far-reaching influence at a time when advertising dollars are bleeding out of print.
Vogue has hired Blue State Digital to help analyze the Conde Nast publication’s audience as part of a broader, revenue-generating push that ultimately will involve implementing paid subscriptions on Vogue.com, said Tom Florio, publishing director for Vogue and several other Conde Nast magazines.
The collaboration between magazine publisher and Web strategist began several months ago when Diego Scotti, Vogue’s executive director of marketing, emailed Blue State Digital co-founder Joe Rospars. Vogue executives, keenly aware that the monthly magazine is just one of many ways people connect with the publication, had been looking for ways to capitalize on its influence.
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We promised we’d start publishing some of the more entertaining emails we get in our inbox, in the probably ridiculous hope that publicly shaming people may actually lessen the flow of these absurd messages.
A couple of weeks ago we posted a harried email written by a reader looking for legal help (see No, Don’t Sue Facebook. Yes, Do Get A New Boyfriend).
Now we’ve got another one. Hachette Filipacchi Media, which publishes notable magazines like Elle, Car and Driver and Road & Track, wants a little help with their search engine rankings.
The company’s Digital Outreach Coordinator, Automotive Group sent us an email telling us how much they loved a recent CrunchGear post about Ford. They offered to “link to your site on our microblogs to improve your pagerank.”
Hey, great! We love links. But this link requires a little payback. They want us to link two pages on CarAndDriver.com to the anchor text “Ford Vehicle Buying Guide and/or Ford Flex Buying Guide.”
We get reciprocal link spam emails all the time (all sites do), but it’s rare for a large brand to engage in link farming so boldly. For that, we salute them (and we passed it on to Google’s Matt Cutts).
The full email is below, with the links as they suggest them. We’ve added nofollow tags, but since the email doesn’t specify that we can’t do this, we’ll expect our links back shortly.
From: [removed]@hfmus.com>
Date: November 18, 2009 4:18:11 PM EST
To: “‘tips@crunchgear.com’”
Subject: Question for MattMatt,
I read your article on Ford’s efforts to cut down on petroleum usage by using wheatgrass as an alternative in its third row storage container. This concept is extremely interesting and I would love to be able to either refer your post on one of my microblogs or link to your site on our microblogs to improve your pagerank.
What I would need from you is to place either in the article or really anywhere you think on your site that makes sense: Ford Vehicle Buying Guide and/or Ford Flex Buying Guide.
Let me know what you think!
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By Richard Bennett, Contributor, GigaOM
The rise of video streaming is dramatically affecting the Internet, according to a two-year study of Internet traffic trends that Arbor Networks recently presented to the North American Network Operators Group. Two years ago, Internet traffic was distributed evenly among a dozen Tier-1 network providers, but today the majority of traffic flows through direct peering agreements among large content providers, content delivery networks and ISPs.
Consequently, Tier-1 networks have shifted their business models from simple packet delivery to richer cloud computing and content hosting services, and new players Google (GOOG) and Comcast (CMCSA) have joined the top 10 list of Internet traffic producers — and the more traffic they put on the Internet, the more control it gives them over your online experience.
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By Zachary M. Seward, Assistant Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab
Because it’s my job, I’ve followed pretty much everything Steve Brill has said in public about Journalism Online, the pay-for-news firm he launched in April with Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindrey. From the start, they’ve been offering infrastructure and consulting for news organizations that want to charge for access to their websites. But as you’d expect with any new venture, the pitch has changed over time.
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By Fred Wilson, Blogger, A VC
I went down to city hall yesterday to participate in a hearing on net neutrality. I realize the NYC city council has no oversight on this issue but the lobbyists were coming out in force so I figured I might as well show up too.
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Police routinely arresting people to get DNA, inquiry claims (Image: DNA Molecule display, Oxford University, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from net_efekt's Flickr stream)The highly critical report from the government's advisory body on the development of human genetics is published as the number of innocent people on the database is disclosed to be far higher than previously thought ‑ nearing 1 million.
The commission says the policy of routinely adding the DNA profiles of all those arrested has led to a highly disproportionate impact on different ethnic groups and the stigmatisation of young black men, with the danger of their being seen as "an 'alien wedge' of criminality"...
The chairman of the commission, Prof Jonathan Montgomery, said: "It's now become pretty routine to take DNA samples on arrest. So large numbers of people on the DNA database will be there not because they have been convicted, but because they've been arrested."
He said the commission had received evidence from a former police superintendent that it was now the norm to arrest offenders for everything possible. "It is apparently understood by serving police officers that one of the reasons, if not the reason, for the change in practice is so that the DNA of the offender can be obtained," said Montgomery, adding that it would be a matter of very great concern if this was now a widespread practice.
By Vadim Lavrusik, Contributor, Poynter Online
Demand Media has advertising-driven content down to a science. Instead of creating content for the Web and hoping that it generates revenue, the company works backwards by determining how much revenue each piece will generate before anything is produced.
The company uses a series of algorithms to pick through keywords that people are searching for on the Web and aims to create content unique enough to rank highly in those search results. It also determines how much advertisers would pay to be next to that content.
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By Chris Suellentrop, Contributor, Slate.com
You may have heard that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 sold nearly 5 million copies in North America and Britain on its first day of release last week—that’s $310 million in sales, what publisher Activision (ATVI) calls “the biggest launch in history across all forms of entertainment.”
Nevertheless, the game’s more noteworthy achievement is an artistic one: It’s a first-person shooter that plays as a tragedy, not a power fantasy.
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Life goes behind-the-scenes of the 1954 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Honda makes the ultimate Paperboy gaming system
Now blinking LEDs can transmit information to cell phones via light
Must-have: Illuminated JetBib Feeding System
Ringz: First (free) Android app with in-app purchase
The reading is by Bernadette Dunne, a very talented actor. I just listened to this for the first time yesterday and I was blown away by Dunne's reading. I'm a huge audiobook nut, and I'm incredibly glad to have professional audiobook adaptations of my books from Random House -- and doubly grateful to them for supporting my commitment to DRM-free distribution. When you buy this book, you own it. The "terms of service" are "Don't violate copyright law," not "By buying this audiobook, you agree that we get to come over and kick you in the ass."
Makers, read by Bernadette Dunne
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Futurismic's Tom Marcinko does a great job of putting this in context, rounding up several links to other good commentators around the web. In a nutshell: science is about the advancement of competing theories and the evaluation of these theories in light of evidence. The East Anglia Climate Research Unit's scientists disagreed in some particulars, and used peer-review to resolve them (and continue to do so). No one is paying them to cover up evidence that climate change isn't real or isn't caused by humans -- but they are conducting science the way that scientists do.
Smart enough to hack, not sophisticated enough to appreciate the daily give-and-take of how science works-is that how we nonscientists are going to approach critical issues? Maybe we can do better than that.Those hacked climate e-mails: Good scientists, poor conspirators
Streets With No Name (via Making Light)
This past winter, the snow stayed so long we almost forgot what the ground looked like. In Detroit, there is little money for plowing; after a big storm, the streets and sidewalks disappear for days. Soon new pathways emerge, side streets get dug out one car-width wide. Bootprints through parks veer far from the buried sidewalks. Without the city to tell him where to walk, the pilgrim who first sets out in fresh snowfall creates his own path. Others will likely follow, or forge their own paths as needed.In the heart of summer, too, it becomes clear that the grid laid down by the ancient planners is now irrelevant. In vacant lots between neighborhoods and the attractions of thoroughfares, bus stops and liquor stores, well-worn paths stretch across hundreds of vacant lots. Gaston Bachelard called these les chemins du désir: pathways of desire. Paths that weren't designed but eroded casually away by individuals finding the shortest distance between where they are coming from and where they intend to go.
By studying mice and human cells, they found the harmless bacteria did this by making a molecule called lipoteichoic acid or LTA, which acted on keratinocytes - the main cell types found in the outer layer of the skin.Dirt can be good for children, say scientistsThe LTA keeps the keratinocytes in check, stopping them from mounting an aggressive inflammatory response.
Head of the research Professor Richard Gallo said: "The exciting implication of the work is that it provides a molecular basis to understand the hygiene hypothesis and has uncovered elements of the wound repair response that were previously unknown.
Specimen: Glandular structures from Fibroadenoma and Nodular Prostatic Hyperplasia cases (Thanks, Jocelyn!)
This is certainly something all museums should attempt; not only does it allow for easy browsing of the museum’s pieces, as you see here, but if correctly done it could have maps, lectures, and all sorts of other stuff going on as well. It’s pretty easy to get lost in a labyrinth like the Louvre or V&A, but a system like this could both put people where they want to go and get them to buy more prints and mugs. Can you say credit card reader? I knew you could.
Of course, it’s nearly impossible to see this thing in action because the presentazione they’ve made is so unbelievably awful. Yes, showcase your state-of-the-art technology in a 320×240 video that’s three-quarters slow zooms on pictures you already have in a gallery. And have some nice calming jungle music in there as well. Good. Ver-r-r-y gooood.
Anyway, it looks nice, though they might be getting a nice, juicy cease and desist from Apple for doing such a blatant ripoff of Cover Flow.
[via Cult of Mac and Gizmodo]
Video: Chase Whitestead and Erick Stroll of New Left Media speak to Sarah Palin fans at her book signing in Columbus, Ohio. More at Dangerous Minds.
Related: Over at The Awl this past weekend, Rudy live-blogged his reading of Sarah Palin's memoirs (so you don't have to). This follows a month-long build-up where he reviewed the entire canon of vice presidential memoirs. You're welcome. (via Jason Wishnow)
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We might be seeing the start of a new form of motorsport. Electric motorcycles have really been at the cutting edge of development recently, and it’s going to be really interesting to see exactly what happens.
In fact, the governing body of the MotoGP series is in the process of organizing some races. There are already four on the calendar, with more expected. While no official rules are yet available, it does go without saying that this will draw all kinds of attention to the electric vehicle scene.
And while electric motorcycles are certainly exciting, perhaps you’d prefer something more sedate. Turns out that Rolls-Royce is also jumping onto the green bandwagon with a electric powered Phantom. It’ll be released next year, but don’t expect your bank to finance it for you. It’s going to sell for half a million.
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There’s a bit of a kerfluffle at the moment over some of Best Buy’s holiday wishes. Well, I think this shows that they understand the true spirit of the season. Thanks, Best Buy. You’ve given the gift that keeps on giving, because it is imprisoned forever in the sunken city of R’lyeh. Ia!
Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main Woot.com site, which is often tech/geek focused, there are special subsites for shirts, wine, and a handful of others). Unlike these sites, Deals.Woot is run by its users — it’s essentially a Digg for bargains.
The new site features a list of top deals, as voted on by the community and chosen by the Deals.Woot algorithm. This will be going head to head against other deal sites like SlickDeals and FatWallet, which have well established communities. Woot already has plenty of fans, but it may take some time to build out a base of deal hunters.
But the very top of the site actually isn’t dictated by users. Instead, it’s dedicated to “Sponsored Deals”. Woot explains that these deals are paid for by advertisers, but that they’re still bargains:
OK, yes, companies pay a little something to be Sponsored Deals. But we don’t allow just any old crap in this section. Sponsored Deals are proposed to us by other retailers, manufacturers, and even other daily deal sites. If we find the deal compelling enough that our members will appreciate us bringing it to their attention, we’ll feature it here. Believe it or not, we have a reputation to uphold.
The site has been available for weeks before now, but was only available until members up until a few hours ago.
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AP - Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cost-cutting and push into new markets is helping soften the blow from weakness in the company's mainstay businesses.
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This time they’re reconstructed the Declaration of Independence, complete with edits and comments from the founding fathers. My US History is a bit fuzzy, but there are plenty of obvious jokes nestled in here, and I’m sure the Googlers have included a few more subtle ones as well. Unfortunately, it looks like you’ll have to have a Wave account if you want to witness the creation of one of the United States’ most important documents. But we’ve tried to grab a few of the key moments in the screenshots below.
As a demonstration of what you can do with Wave, the document succeeds in some respects. But frankly it can still be confusing to tell what’s going on. For example, when the founding fathers are casting their votes, the Wave only says something vague like “Thomas Jefferson edited this message” — it’s up to you to figure out what he did.
According to a tweet a few minutes ago from Wave team member Lars Rasmussen, the idea to create famous documents came from Tim O’Reilly. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more of these soon.
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At a time when publications targeting small business owners are in decline or dying (R.I.P. Fortune Small Business), the Web is thriving with experimentation. One effort that is just getting off its feet is Bizmore, a site backed by former junk bond king Michael Milken and executive-coaching firm Vistage International. Bizmore launched last summer as a Q&A site for business advice. Today, it unveiled a new design with more magazine-like content, including a network of eight blogs, ranging from the Social Business to Workplace Trends and Creative Finance.
“I’ll have 25 blogs before the end of the year,” says editor in chief Jeffrey Davis, who used to work with me as an editor at Business 2.0 before he went on to help run Bnet. Earlier this year, Davis left Bnet to join Bizmore founder Alice Hill to try to build an online publication for small businesses from scratch. Each blog, he says, tackles “some important facet of running a small business (finance, social media, managing, etc), each written not by name journalists, but true experts who speak and consult professionally on their topic.”
Bizmore already has about 30 or so consultants, business professors and other business experts who answer readers’ questions in Q&A part of the site. The blogs expand that network of experts and give some of them a larger soapbox. They will start giving Webinars and live events as well, which is Vistage’s specialty. The original idea of the site was to have an online gathering place with real content for the tens of thousands of people who attend Vistage executive coaching seminars every year, but then lost touch in between events. It’s reaching way beyond that now, but Bizmore’s core audience still comes from this pre-existing community.
In addition to the blogs, the site has regular features, interviews, and advice on methods and tactics for running a small business. Davis is taking a page from the old Business 2.0 here by sending his journalists to find out what management tactics work in real companies and then package them up into easy steps any entrepreneur can follow. Bizmore spits out features such as “3 Essentials for Landing a Business Loan,” “CEOs: Careful Who ‘Owns’ Your Facebook Business Page,” and “The $100K Referral Bonus.”
Bizmore is not about breaking news or great narratives. Its aspiration is to be filled with tons of practical advice on how to run a business, and a network of experts and readers who help each other as well. Getting the right mix between community and content is tricky. But service journalism makes a lot more sense on the Web than in a print magazine. Features and posts can be whipped up on the fly in response to the immediate needs and questions of readers, who can also give each other advice.
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FROM APPLETELL - According to Apple’s website, this Friday will see some great discounts and deals on the range of Apple products available, including free shipping.
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It seems that flight delays could turn into a big business. FlightCaster, the startup that helps predict flight delays long before the airlines themselves usually do, has just landed a $1.3 million funding round led by Tandem Entrepreneurs and Sherpalo Ventures. FlightCaster previously recieved money as part of the Y Combinator program. Today the company is also launching a new API, which developers can learn about here.
FlightCaster’s goal is simple: it wants to let you know when your flight is delayed as early as possible. Using a variety of data sources and complex algorithms, the service will alert you whenever it thinks one of your flights will be delayed, along with an explantation of the factors that contributed to its prediction. And so far, it seems to be working — co-founder Jason Freedman says that four hours below takeoff, Flightcaster manages to predict ten times as many delays as the airlines do. And they manage to stay 90% accurate (which is on par with the airlines).
Back when I first wrote about the startup, I questioned how helpful knowing about a delay in advance really was. After all, FlightCaster’s notifications state that a flight will probably be delayed. But sometimes they’re not, so it isn’t wise to show up at the airport a few hours late. Freedman says the FlightCaster team had the same concerns, but that there are two discrete sets of users who value the service. The first group of users (which is where most people fall) just like having a heads up that their flight is delayed, mostly so that they can warn friends and co-workers that they might be late.
The second group loves FlightCaster for a different reason: they will change their plans if there’s a possibility of a delay. Freedman says these tend to be frequent fliers (likely business travelers) who don’t want to get caught in delay limbo and are willing to pay to swap flights even if a delay isn’t certain.
It’s this second group that will likely prove most valuable to FlightCaster. The company is currently in talks with a number of major travel sites (and even some airlines) to integrate their predictions. Freedman won’t get into specifics yet, but he says some of these partners are interested in helping frequent fliers rebook their flights as soon as there’s a delay alert.
Along with the parters FlightCaster is already talking with, other developers will be able to tap into the Flightcaster API for a fee.
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 TopNews United States | New Apple ads to Verizon: Can Droid do this? CNET News It seems that Apple doesn't respect Verizon's Droid phone quite as much as it does Microsoft's PCs. But two new ad spots, launching Monday evening, come as close as Apple has done thus far to directly attack the allegedly do-it-all ... Apple Enters AT&T vs. Verizon Ad War AT&T, Apple to Verizon: 'Can your phone and your network do that?' Apple Jabs Verizon with New iPhone Ads |
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There’s not a lot of people who have, or have use for an entire second monitor for their computers. However, there are some of us who wouldn’t mind having a second, much smaller monitor to put certain applications in. Mimo Monitors has realized this with their line of 7-inch secondary monitors, and today they release a new version, and knock down the prices of the rest of the line.
The new model comes in the form of the iMo Pivot Touch. The Pivot Touch is a 7-inch touchscreen with the pivoting of the iMo Pivot. The functionality is essentially the same, with the added benefit of a touchscreen, and Mac OS X drivers finally included in the box (previous models require a download for the drivers). In addition to the new model, Mimo Monitors is dropping prices on all other models in celebration of Black Friday, with the sale lasting from now until November 30. The sale also includes a free “MIMO care package” which includes a carrying case, iProtector Screen Films, and a stylus for touchscreen models (iMo Pivot Touch, and the 720-S).
Mimo’s 7-inch monitors do seem to have a certain appeal to them, and with the lower prices and the new iMo Pivot Touch, that appeal increases a bit. Having a secondary screen for an email app, Twitter app, video or whatever you want is a nice idea. However, the questions remains whether that idea is worth the $130 for the lowest models (710-S and Pivot) or $200 and $210 for the Pivot Touch and 720-S, respectively. For the same price you could get an LCD screen with a resolution much higher than 800x480, and much larger than 7-inches. Those monitors require a graphics card and their own power rather than being powered only by USB. However, larger doesn’t always mean more desirable for everyone.
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FROM GAMERTELL - On November 22, 2009, a man went to Guam and “married” a copy of his Love Plus DS dating simulation game. Technically, he “married” Nene Anegasaki, one of the characters in the game.
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In financial news, HP delivered something positive today. The fourth quarter has been a good one, with HP reporting a net income of $2.4 billion, in comparison to the $2.1 billion they reported last year. It’s nice to see some good news for a change.
HP has given credit to their Services division for the profits, despite a decline in software, imaging, and printing revenue. HP is also optimistic about 1Q 2010, and predicting earnings of $0.90 to $0.92 cents a share.
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FROM APPLETELL - Today, we were teased with Apple ‘s Black Friday event (or TGI Friday) with little detail on what exactly is on sale. A new “leaked” image may have given it away.
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 Times LIVE | Evolution vs. Intelligent Design: 6 Bones of Contention National Geographic On November 24, 2009--the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species--the theory that new species can arise from old ones through natural selection is still met with some resistance. (Explore some of Darwin's inspirations for ... Rare Darwin drafts go online Why Evolution Should Be Taught to Younger Kids The Dark Side of Darwin's Legacy |
Life360, a startup that looks to help families keep their loved ones (and their identities) safe, has closed a $750,000 funding round with investors including Seraph Group, LaunchCapital, Founders Fund (via FF Angel), the Band of Angels, and Mark Goines. The service also recently launched to the public at TechCrunch50’s DemoPit.
Life360 offers a suite of services related to safety and security, which are designed to help prevent everything from losing your phone to losing your personal identity. One example is the site’s Emergency ID service, which provides parents with cards/bracelets for their children that instructs first responders to call a designated phone number in the event of an emergency. Calling that number will activate the service and automatically blast a message to any emergency contacts.
Other services include a Lost & Found product (you put physical tags on your valuables with with instructions on how to return the item to you) and identity protection. Life360 also offers an Android app appropriately called ‘Tracker’ which can be used to keep tabs on children during the day, though founder Chris Hulls acknowledges this isn’t all that practical yet because many children don’t have smart phones.
The company’s goal isn’t necessarily to provide all of these services itself. Rather, it wants to offer a set of core products built in-house, alongside services that are offered by third parties. Life360 works to integrate these services into their dashboard, and makes it easy to sign up for them because it can pre-populate key information. This seems like a smart play given how fragmented/confusing the privacy and security market can be, though I’m wondering if Life360 might have some trouble convincing well established services to play ball (especially if they’re going to be listed alongside competitors).
We’ve briefly covered Life360 a couple times before, when the company won the first Android Developer Challenge (good for a $300,000 award) and then again when it was part of this summer’s fbFund REV.
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Retrevo Gadgetology report has revealed some Black Friday shopping trends. The study surveyed 1100 shoppers about their Black Friday shopping plans. While 40% said they were going to buy electronics on Black Friday, over half said they planned to do so online. Only 18% said they would be going to stores like Best Buy and Radio Shack.
When asked how they did at the Black Friday sales last year, a whopping 72% said they got exactly what they wanted. 48% said they went on to buy other things in addition to those coveted items.
According to the study, the hot electronic item this holiday season is the HDTV. 30% said they are looking to buy one this year, and with sizes beyond 60 inches and below 10, there is sure to be one for every budget. Coming in second are laptops. 22% of the shoppers surveyed said they plan to pick one up, and 14% plan to get a GPS system or Blu-ray player. MP3 players came in last with just 9% saying they plan to buy one. Looks like Smartphones and iPods have won out over them.
Big spenders, not surprisingly, are in the minority this year. Only 22% said they planned to spend more than $1000 on electronics online and just 18% at stores. 25% plan to spend between $500 and $1000 in stores or online, 30% plan to spend between $200 and $500 online and 36% at stores, and 20% plan to spend less than $200 in both places.
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Here’s one good reason I’m not switching to a Droid: CatPaint, an iPhone app that will enhance my ability to annoy people by gratuitously posting photos of cats.
Indeed, with a minimal amount of stalking (i.e., following me on Twitter) you’ll notice I’ve uploaded countless photos of my kittens since I adopted them seven months ago. CatPaint is an app that enables me to insert stock images of cats onto any photo in my iPhone library. For me, that means with a few taps on the screen, I can sprinkle more photos of cats onto my photos of cats! There are eight cats you can choose from; a slider bar enlarges or decreases their size, and with a quick shake you can clear the screen and start over. It’s a feline party in your pocket! Su-purr-ific! (OK — I’ll stop. But for an even better writeup of this app, check out Slangaholic’s LOLCats translation.)
CatPaint is $1 in the App Store.
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World of Warcraft turns 5-years-old today. Back on November 23, 2004, a year before the current generation of video game systems even began (with the launch of the Xbox 360), Blizzard released the massively multi-player online game at a time when massively multi-player online games were still largely the haunt of hardcore gamers, people with fast Internet connections who were willing to pay $15 per month for access to a game that they already bought. Who can forget the message board threads: Why do I have to pay for a game that I already paid for at the store? How do you beat the game? What happens if and when I stop playing?
You won’t stop playing. Five years in, Blizzard has 11.5 million (as of December, 2008) subscribers all over the world. (Note: Not every region of the world has a pay-per-month regime. You pay by the hour in China, for example.) In these five years, the game has gone from plucky upstart, going up against other, well-established MMOGs, to the undisputed number one such game. Now, that may not necessarily be a good thing, but it’s hard to see someone knocking World of Warcraft off its perch. Well, someone other than World of Warcraft II.
I’m a veteran of vanilla WoW, but only just. I bought the game in September, 2006; The Burning Crusade came out a few months later. I bought the game because I was roped into some consulting session for a rather big company. “Hey, you’re young. Play WoW and Second Life and tell us how we can better reach young people through them.”
I don’t know if the company got what it wanted (surely it didn’t!), but it certainly set me on my current path of, oh, you know, playing the game for at least three to four hours per night on most nights of the week.
It’s pretty funny. When the game launched in 2004, I was a freshman in college, and one of my two roommates was all about the game. We’re talking stay-up-until-4am-every-night-of-the-week-to-play-it. I had no idea what the game was about, but I distinctly remember the day he walked into the dorm room with a box from Amazon: “Gentlemen, it’s here.” (Actually, knowing the kid, it was probably more along the lines of, “Yes, it’s here! Fucking A~!” Memory fades, I’m afraid.) I’m like, so what? Can’t you see we’re playing Halo 2? (Halo 2 was very big that year. I was a good sniper. It was the last time I played a multi-player game with any conviction.) I’d say we teased my roommate about his “addiction,” but I had no idea what the game was about. I had never played any of the other Warcraft games, nor Diablo. Again, I was not, and still am not, a PC gamer, so the entire Blizzard catalogue played no role in my life.
The point is, the game’s launch came and went, but my only experience with it was waking up at 3:00AM because my roommate yelled, “Yes! I can buy a mount now!”
Then September of 2006 rolls around, and I’m forced to buy the game for that aforementioned consulting session. I still had no interest in the game, and was only creating an account as part of my job. (Well, “job” only in the loosest sense of the word, getting paid to try to help a huge company better tap into the “young people” market.) So walk back to my room from the local Best Buy (I wasn’t boycotting it back then. You can listen to my ordeal as told on the podcast here.), and install it on my iMac. I create an account, and create my first character. It was an Undead Warrior named Rocktober—Undead because I thought they looked (and still look) the best, and Warrior because, well, Warrior is the noob class, right? “Warrior? I bet you get a sword and stuff. Count me in.”
I still have that character to this day.
I then set aside Rocktober, and created a Night Elf Warrior on a different server so I could play with a friend of mine. (I had casually mentioned that I was playing WoW now, and he flipped out. “Oh, dude, join my server and I’ll hook you up.”) I named the Nelf Warrior Zardoz, in honor of that godawful Sean Connery moviethat I had just seen in a movie class I was forced to take. (We all needed an “art” class, so to speak, and watching and critiquing movies was considered “art.” Fair enough.) I was able to get Zardoz all the way up to level 58—it was harder to level in those days—before growing bored of the game. The Burning Crusade was installed somewhere around this time.
A year went by without me really playing the game. Note that I was still paying for the game, just not playing it. I don’t know, I guess I never bothered to cancel my subscription. Maybe it was too much of a hassle, or maybe I didn’t notice such a small amount of money leaving my bank account every month. The point is, I’ve been paying my $15 per month non-stop since September, 2006.
I’m probably never going to stop paying, either.
So here’s to another five years (well, three years in my case) of unpredictable PUGs, guilds joined but not really participated in, Auctioneer-assisted money-making, and lost sleep. So much lost sleep.
As anticipated, Google has taken the first step to launch full extension support for its Chrome browser. Starting today, Google is allowing developers to upload the extensions they are making to the new Extensions Gallery. This gallery isn’t yet open for Chrome users to test out, but Google is saying that they will open it to “trusted testers” in the next few days.
If you are a developer working on an extension, you can simply agree to Google’s terms and upload your extension to the gallery right now. One of those terms is that Google has the right to review your extension before it’s published, but they are saying they will only do that if it includes “include an NPAPI component and all content scripts that affect “file://” URLs.” Google goes on to note that “For security reasons, developers of these types of extensions will need to provide some additional information before they can post them in the gallery.” Fair enough.
As we noted a few days ago, there are already some Google-made extensions that are working in Chrome now, such as a Gmail Checker, which is handy. These were mainly made to be examples in helping walk developers through the extension creation process. You can find their documentation on that here. Google promises the whole process (both creating and updating extensions) is simple.
Extensions are important to the growth of Chrome as they are one of the most popular features of Firefox, the browser that has been able to best combat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer over the past several years. Of course, Google is the biggest backer of Firefox-maker Mozilla, so the growing rivalry between the two is interesting.
Last Thursday, Google also showed off Chrome OS, it’s operating system based on the Chrome browser, for the first time. And in the next few weeks, a beta version of Chrome for Mac is slated to launch. It’s worth noting that the test extensions already work in the dev builds of Chrome for Mac.
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Attention Android owners nlikely to be 2.0-ed any time soon! You can now stop holding your breath. Google Maps Navigation is coming to 1.6, and you can download it right now. It’s missing a feature or two (voice-activated navigation, for instance), but it’s 95% there. Of course, depending on your handset, network, and so on, your mileage (so to speak) may vary.
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In the furthest reaches of India’s rural heartland, the cellphone is bringing something that television, radio and even newspapers couldn’t deliver: Instant access to music, information, entertainment, news and even worship.
Despite its rapid modernization, many of India’s 750,000 villages remain isolated except for the cellphone reception that now blankets almost the entire country after a decade of rapid expansion by operators. So in villages that don’t receive any FM radio stations, people have begun calling a number that has a recording of Bollywood tunes and listening to it on their headsets.
This primitive cellular “radio” service was used by close to 20 million Indians last year, phone company executives estimate.
“I call it the poor man’s iTunes,” says Mahesh Prasad, president of Reliance Communications Ltd., one of India’s largest cellular companies. “A villager waiting for a bus has nothing to do. When he wants to kill some time, this is the only entertainment media available.”
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Ugly and sometimes frightening, the largest “gadgets” on Earth help mankind achieve the magnificent. Take, for example, the airplane above, whose hideous looks have earned it the nickname Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Mock it all you want, but that wiener can carry more cargo than your puny human body ever will.
Last month, Wired.com presented nine of the largest machines roaming the planet. Many of you commented with even better suggestions for enormous gadgets that we somehow missed. We’ve compiled them here, along with several more mechanical marvels we found. In this gallery, you’ll see a machine that simulates earthquakes, a Ferris wheel that takes you as high as the clouds, a giant telescope that keeps an eye on our universe, airplanes that help make space exploration possible, and more.
The mustard-yellow Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (above) transports aircraft parts to Boeing from suppliers all over the world. Also called the Dreamlifter, this plane is a modified version of the commercial 747, also known as the Jumbo Jet. The original 747’s length, height and fuselage (i.e., main body section that holds cargo) were expanded to haul more cargo by volume than any airplane in the world. (One can only imagine how many actual Oscar Meyer wieners the Wienermobile could transport.)
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Though it has yet to take off in a major way, the idea behind video comments remains a potentially compelling one. And after seeing some success using its video platform to serve up videos on Twitter, Vidly thinks it can crack the case. And Grammy-winning hip-hop star Chamillionaire and the popular blog commenting system Disqus are helping them try to do that.
Launching today, Vidly Express is a way to use Vidly’s video platform on any site for visitors to add video comments or responses with the click of a button. And using celebrities like Chamillionaire is an obvious example to get the service some traction. As you can see on his own site, he’s already using it to good effect. But Chamillionaire isn’t just any celebrity endorser, as we learned first hand during this year’s TechCrunch50, he’s actually in tune with a lot of interesting things going on in tech — and uses the stuff, so his endorsement is a solid one.
Adding the Vidly Express widget to your site is as easy as copying a short script and pasting it in your code. Or if you have the Disqus commenting system implemented on your site, Vidly Express can be turned on with the flip of a switch. Disqus has actually tried video commenting before, with Seesmic, but since they’ve shifted away from the video space, Vidly is a more natural partner. And it’s better.
“While Vidy Express in DISQUS retains the familiarity of the Seesmic implementation, the major difference is that it takes advantage of distribution channels and network effects. Video responses may appear in the user’s Twitter stream and soon on Facebook,” Vidly founder Chrys Bader tells us.
Back in August, Vidly changed its name (from Twitvid.io) and decided to shift its focus towards all kind of video and away from simply being a “video Twitter” service. But Twitter remains an important element of the service, and they recently launched the first HD video option for it.
Both Vidly and Disqus are Y Combinator startups.
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This photoset is a fantastic use of 10 minutes of your time. Life apparently spent some time on the scenes of Disney’s 1954 classic and the photos have just been posted for your viewing pleasure. They are fantastic. Jump over to the site to see for yourself. [Time via Boing-Boing]
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Windows 7 plus Google’s Chrome browser is an excellent netbook combination.
The two together make pretty good use of a netbook’s most limited resources: screen size and processor power. The result is a surprisingly pleasant combination for browsing, working in GMail and Google Docs, and other lightweight tasks.
In other words, Google might be onto something with its plans to make a Chrome-based operating system for netbooks.
Over the weekend, I finally got around to upgrading the computers at home to Windows 7. As part of the chore, I also switched my MSI Wind hackintosh to Windows 7. It had been functioning primarily as the kids’ computer, although I use it for work in a pinch — for example, I used it when I was covering the Google Chrome OS press conference in Mountain View last week — and occasionally for checking e-mail at home. Running OS X on the Wind was a way of making it easier for the children to use, but it had persistent drawbacks: For instance, the trackpad didn’t always behave as expected, and the screen was sometimes squashed into the left two-thirds of the display, leaving a big black bar along the right side that only disappeared after rebooting.
That’s not a criticism of OS X. After all, it’s not made to run on a netbook, and by forcing it to do so, you have to be willing to accept the tradeoffs and bugginess that come with any hack. And, while I like working with OS X, one of its chief advantages to me is the seamless way it works. In short, working with a hacked version of OS X on nonstandard hardware takes away most of the operating system’s advantages.
In that light, it’s clear that Microsoft has a far more challenging job in building operating systems, because it has to make Windows work acceptably well with a wide range of computers, processors and accessories. It’s a credit to the Redmond company that Windows 7 works as well as it does on a netbook, and while it hasn’t entirely eliminated Vista’s annoyances (such as confirmation dialogs and an overly-aggressive automatic update system that sometimes reboots the computer, unpredictably, while I’m in the middle of doing something), it goes a long way towards making Windows more “transparent.” For the most part, it just works, and doesn’t get in the way, while I concentrate on my work.
Adding Google’s Chrome browser to Windows 7 complete the picture for the netbook user. That’s because Chrome is lightweight and fast, rendering pages (especially JavaScript-heavy ones, like Gmail) especially quickly. And because of the compact way it presents the address bar, tabs and toolbar — especially if you’re using the “Minimalist” theme — more of the screen is available to display web pages — no small consideration when you’re working with a tiny 9- or 10-inch LCD.
Windows 7 may not be as speedy as a stripped-down Linux distro, but on the other hand it is familiar, runs well enough, and appears to support every component on the MSI Wind without trouble. By deep-sixing Internet Explorer and replacing it with Chrome, it becomes the best netbook option I know of.
Photo (of an MSI Wind netbook running Windows Vista) by Jonathan Snyder/Wired.com
Reuters - Hackers have built a virus that attacks Apple Inc's iPhone by secretly taking control of the devices via their Internet connections, security experts said.
Apple’s Mac Pros are pricey desktops designed for prosumer applications, so it’s not often you see them in a person’s home. But the speedy new iMac could render Mac Pros irrelevant even in offices if Apple doesn’t upgrade its high-end desktop soon.
Benchmark testing by Macworld found that the top-of-the-line iMac, which features a 2.8-GHz Core i7 processor (one of the newest Intel chips using the Nehalem microarchitecture) and a 27-inch LCD display, is faster than the two Mac Pros available — a quad-core 2.66-GHz model and an eight-core 2.26-GHz version.
Of course, the iMac and Mac Pro are not directly comparable beasts. With the iMac you get a screen, of course, and this computer-crammed-into-a-display doesn’t have as much wiggle room for adding upgrades. With the Mac Pro you don’t get a screen, but you have a sizable case with more flexibility in terms of adding hard drives, RAM and so on.
Still, there’s probably a good number of prosumers that will choose the iMac now thanks to its performance advantage, huge display and price tag. The Core i7 iMac costs $2,500; the quad-core 2.66GHz Mac Pro costs $2,500, and the eight-core 2.26GHz version costs $3,300.
With all that said, that probably means Apple will be rolling out an upgrade for the Mac Pro fairly soon — perhaps early 2010, since Apple has said this year’s holiday lineup is set.
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Several airlines have been offering Wifi for a while now. United Airlines wants to ensure that people are actually trying it out and so through the end of the year, you can get one free session if you create a new account with Aircell’s Gogo Inflight. The offer is only good on United’s 757-200 flights between New York Kennedy and the airline’s Los Angeles and San Francisco hubs.
Of course this is aimed at getting more people to pay for the service, which costs $12.95 per flight. But hey, you can’t turn down free Internet. Your boss will love it.
United Airlines Introduces Try-Before-You-Buy Wi-Fi Promotion
Gogo ® Inflight Internet now available on all p.s. flightsCHICAGO, Nov. 23, 2009 – Just in time for the busy Thanksgiving holidays, United Airlines customers on transcontinental p.s. (SM) flights can enjoy a complimentary
onboard Internet session with the new Try-Before-You-Buy promotion, offered in conjunction with airborne communications provider Aircell.Through Dec. 31, first-time users of Aircell’s Gogo ® Inflight Internet service will be offered one free session upon creating a new account.
Gogo enables customers with Wi-Fi enabled devices such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs to surf the Web, check e-mail, send and receive instant messages, and access a corporate VPN.
The service is available on all of United’s p.s. flights between New York Kennedy and the airline’s Los Angeles and San Francisco hubs.
“Gogo Inflight Internet service on our p.s. flights provides our customers with an even more productive and enjoyable travel experience,” says Allen Will, managing director of strategic aircraft programs. “With Gogo Inflight Internet and an AC power port at every seat, p.s. customers will get more accomplished in the air this holiday season, leaving time for more holiday cheer on the ground.”
For more information on United’s inflight Internet service, visit united.com/Wi-Fi.
About United
United Airlines (Nasdaq: UAUA) operates approximately 3,300* flights a day on United and United Express to more than 200 U.S. domestic and international destinations from its hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago and Washington, D.C. With key global air rights in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and Latin America, United is one of the largest international carriers based in the United States. United also is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides connections for our customers to 1,071 destinations in 171 countries worldwide. United’s 47,000 employees reside in every U.S. state and in many countries around the world. News releases and other information about United can be found at the company’s Web site at united.com.*Based on United’s forward-looking flight schedule for October 2009 to October 2010.
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After market close Monday, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) reported fourth-quarter earnings that were in line with the forecast the company gave earlier this month when it acquired networking equipment maker 3Com. Excluding items, HP earned $1.14 a share on revenue of $30.8 billion, down eight percent from $33.6 billion a year earlier. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.13 a share, on $30.4 billion in revenue.
“HP’s solid performance in Services drove record profit, and the accelerated pace in signings creates strong momentum going into 2010,” said CEO Mark Hurd. “Our operational execution and improving cost structure generated strong quarterly and year-end results. We expect to outperform the market due to our significant scale, broad portfolio and market-leading position.”
Looking ahead to its first quarter, HP sees revenue of $29.6 billion to $29.9 billion and diluted earnings per share of 90 cents to 92 cents.
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Creative just announced the 3rd generation of the Vado HD. If you remember correctly, Creative launched the original Vado HD back in December of last year, so it’s due for a refresh.
So what’s new? Well, Creative has a bit of a laundry list of improvements or new features, including:
This is in addition to the 4GB of storage and HDMI output that are standard on the Vado line.
Considering that this is a camera aimed at the pocket camcorder crowd, that’s quite an impressive list of new features. Honestly, the line between a full size camera and the pocket sized version is blurring.
The new Vado HD is currently available for pre-order for $179.99 directly from Creative.
DING! The school bell rings. Time for recess at Mobile Industry Elementary.
Tension is high. During the last break, Verizon took a swing at that little Apple boy by pointing out all the things his toys could do that Apple's toys couldn't. The hallways erupted with a deafening "Ooooooooh!"; all of the kids began to form a circle around the two. "Fight, fight, fight, fight!" they clamored.
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As promised in my earlier review post, we have a giveaway for the Gadgetell readers. Up for grabs is one set of Kicker EB51 ear buds and one set of Kicker EB71 ear buds.
Due to the fact that we have two sets, we are going to have two winners.
So, with two sets of ear buds and two winners it only seems logical that we give you two ways to enter.
Contest Alert: I just entered to win a free set of Kicker earbuds on @gadgetell http://tinyurl.com/gtellkicker #gadgetell #kicker
Each person can enter the giveaway two times. In other words, each person can leave one comment and tweet one message.
Finally, this contest will run until 5PM EST on Friday November 27, 2009. Good luck!
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 CNET News | AOL Previews Brand, Trims Workforce InformationWeek The company is offering buyouts to 2500 members of its workforce as it seeks to trim its employee headcount by nearly a third. By W. David Gardner With AOL scheduled to be reincarnated as a single entity in two weeks, the company will debut with at ... AOL Unveils New Logo Ahead Of Spinoff AOL Changes Its Logo, and More New video of AOL brand idenitity |
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DING! The school bell rings. Time for recess at Mobile Industry Elementary.
Tension is high. During the last break, Verizon took a swing at that little Apple boy by pointing out all the things his toys could do that Apple’s toys couldn’t. The hallways erupted with a deafening “Ooooooooh!”; all of the kids began to form a circle around the two. “Fight, fight, fight, fight!” they clamored.
Suddenly, Apple’s dopey friend AT&T dove in. “I CHOOSE YOU, LUKE WILSON!“, he shouted. Luke Wilson appeared from a cloud of smoke, throwing two vagrant punches before succumbing to his greatest weakness; someone said “Wait, who are you?” – and just like that, Luke was gone. The bell rang, and recess was over.
This time, things would be different. Apple was ready to stand on its own. He walked over to Verizon, tapping him on the shoulder. “Fine. You’ve got a fancy flash on your camera, and you can do background processing. Sure, you’ve got a physical keyboard – that’s great. But can you do this?” he said, pulling out his iPhone. He dialed a few numbers, and then spoke into the phone. “Oh, hey – Verizon’s mom? Which movie did you want to see? Where the Wild Things are? Great, one second, let me look up the times.” He pops into the browser, tapping at the keys. “Looks like there’s a show at 8. I’ll pick you up at 7? KISSES.”
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International Business Machines (IBM) and a handful of other major marketers, including casino operator Harrah’s Entertainment and software giant Microsoft (MSFT), are experimenting with developing ad campaigns based in part on what consumers are chatting about on the Web.
For decades, advertisers have relied heavily on sometimes-dated consumer surveys and focus groups to provide grist for their ads. Now, some are using new technologies to scan the Web for key words to find out what consumers are–and aren’t–saying about their brands.
Then, they are incorporating those findings into their more-conventional research and using them not only to choose the overall themes of their marketing campaigns, but also specific text and photos for their ads.
Once the campaigns are up and running, the companies and their ad firms are using the same Web-scanning technologies to gauge consumer reaction to their messages, and to fine-tune them to boost performance.
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A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50. Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup announced the first phone to use the technology will be the Samsung Omnia II on Verizon.
As you can see in the video above, which shows a side-by-side comparison of typing on the Omnia II versus on an iPhone, the way you type with Swype is you literally swipe your finger from one letter to the next as fast as you can. In the video, the Swypist beats the iPhone typist hands down, so to speak.
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In an early Thanksgiving present, Google has rolled out Google Navigation to Android 1.6 users. Phones such as the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch can all access the free turn-by-turn navigation Google announced with the Motorola Droid. Be jealous no more, or at least, less jealous.
Also included in the release is layers for these phones. Now, users can overlay their maps with transit maps (oh so handy!) as well as info from my maps, Wikipedia and more. Sales of phones still running Android 1.6, like the HTC phones with the Sense UI, will be helped by this addition. Nice move Google.
Users can download the latest version of Google Maps from the Android Market and begin navigating all over the US (the only place it will work) today. The service is in beta and is free.
Note: some Android 2.0 functions will not work on Android 1.6. For example, the “navigate to” voice command will not work on the older Android release.
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FROM APPLETELL - SpoonJuice has embraced the diversity of iPhone apps within their own offerings, and we review four of them: Nightstand, Fun Booth, The Plateau, and the free Air Balloon.
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A little over a year ago, Swype announced at TechCrunch50 2008 that they were going to “change how the world inputs text on screens”. By allowing the user to type words by tracing a path between its letters rather than tapping them out one-by-one, Swype claims to speed up typing on a mobile handset while doing away with accuracy annoyances. Swype is the brainchild of Randy Marsden, developer of the Windows Mobile onscreen keyboard, and Cliff Kushler, co-inventor of the T9 input method.
Early next month, Swype will make the jump from the demo stage to a real world product as it debuts on the Verizon Samsung Omnia II.
I got the chance to fiddle with Swype on a prototype Omnia II a few months back (albeit only for a few minutes) and was pleasantly surprised with how well it worked. I threw a bunch of random words at it of varying lengths, and I couldn’t get it to falter. If there was more than one possible option, Swype would present it in a drop-down list. It was quick, it was easy, and I enjoyed the hell out of the 10 minutes I had with it. Once you get the hang of it, it’s sort of magical; to onlookers, it’s like you’re scribbling madness only to end up with a perfectly coherent sentence. I was almost immediately typing at around the same rate as I do on my iPhone after 2 years of practice. Considering that this is all happening on a resistive touchscreen (with my finger, rather than a stylus) on WinMo 6.5, a platform I’ve berated in the past for its keyboard shortcomings, I’d say that’s quite a feat.
While the Omnia II has been available in other countries for some time now, Verizon’s is the first to sport Swype support. Look for Swype on the Verizon Omnia II when it hits the shelves on December 2nd at $199 with a 2 year contract.
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Though indisputably successful, the iPhone’s App Store has been at the center of controversy for Apple this past year. In a rare move, the company’s vice president of marketing Phil Schiller spoke on the record to defend the App Store’s review policies.
Apple has approved over 100,000 iPhone apps to date, but some questionable rejections have brought the company under fire. Among concerned developers, Joe Hewitt, developer of the popular Facebook iPhone app, spoke loud and clear that he would no longer develop for the iPhone because he disapproved of Apple’s review process.
“I am philosophically opposed to the existence of their review process,” Hewitt told TechCrunch. “I am very concerned that they are setting a horrible precedent for other software platforms, and soon gatekeepers will start infesting the lives of every software developer.”
In an interview with BusinessWeek, Schiller (right) explains why Apple has an App Store review process. In short, he said it’s necessary to ensure iPhone customers get what they’re promised. He noted that 10 percent of app rejections are related to “inappropriate” content, while 90 percent have to do with technical fixes, such as bugs. His third main point is that the App Store has an international audience, and thus several governments and political leaders are asking the company what it’s doing to ensure children are not downloading inappropriate content.
“We’ve built a store for the most part that people can trust,” he said. “You and your family and friends can download applications from the store, and for the most part they do what you’d expect, and they get onto your phone, and you get billed appropriately, and it all just works.”
The rest of the interview is available at BusinessWeek.
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The “Spy Wi-Fi Signal and Camera Lens Detector” is a cheap version of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s yacht, which can detect and shield against the paparazzi’s peeping lenses. A very cheap version, in fact, coming in at just $40 instead of a rather more expensive $1.2 billion.
In fact, the more we read, the better a bargain this seems. Unlike the Abramovich’s boat, the toy from Chinavasion also detects Wi-Fi signals. And not just any Wi-Fi signals, but spy Wi-Fi, which the description defines as anything between 1 - 6500MHz. This should ensure that the alarm will sound continually, detecting all kinds of wireless background chatter as it bounces around the airwaves.
And the camera lens detector? How does that work? It must take some pretty sophisticated tech to distinguish between a camera lens and any other glass, right? It turns out that this merely detects infra-red lasers, which means any camera lens not so equipped will remain invisible. That should count for pretty much all hidden spy cameras.
The “Everything Signal and IR Laser Detector” (as it should really be named) is available now. Buy five or more and you get a couple of bucks off. A bargain.
Product page [Chinavasion]
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When it comes to the mobile Web, increasingly there are only two mobile platforms which matter: Apple and Android. According to AdMob's October, 2009 mobile metrics report, the iPhone/iPod Touch and Android phones accounted for 75 percent of mobile Web traffic in the U.S., as measured by all the mobile ad requests it tracks. That number is up from a combined 65 percent in September, 2009.
The iPhone is miles ahead of everyone else, but Android is quickly rising as a strong second. While Android phones managed to increase their share from 17 percent in September, 2009 to 20 percent in October, 2009, the iPhone and iPod Touch gained even more, going from 48 percent to 55 percent share. Meanwhile, during that same month the Blackberry 's mobile Web traffic share went down from 14 percent to 12 percent, and Palm's webOS shrank from 10 percent to 5 percent (Ouch).
A second iPhone worm is in the wild, and unlike the jokey Australian worm authored by hacker prankster Ikee two weeks ago, this one is dangerous.
Unlike Ikee’s hack, which merely rick-rolled owners of infected iPhones, the new Dutch variant targets customers of the bank ING. When triggered, the worm redirects users visiting the banking site to an address in Lithuania which shows a fake login screen for ING online banking. It is essentially a phishing attack run on compromised iPhones.
The panic that will inevitably spread from this story is unjustified. First, if you are a regular iPhone customer you are safe, even if you are in the Netherlands. This is because, like the Ikee hack before it, the new worm will only work on a jailbroken, or hacked iPhone. Further, you will have to explicitly install SSH remote access, and then you will have to leave the root password at its default, which is alpine.
If that means nothing to you, you don’t have any reason to worry. If that does mean something to you, shame on you! You should go change that password right now.
And don’t forget, you’ll also need to live in Holland and to be a customer of the ING bank for this to work. This could explain why this “security breach”, according to the BBC, has only affected a few people: “The number of infected phones was thought to be in the hundreds rather than thousands.” And how does it spread itself? “The worm could jump from phone to phone among owners using the same wi-fi hotspot.”
While we shouldn’t ignore the threat of malware to our increasingly powerful and connected mobile devices, neither should we panic. The news of a genuine iPhone-killing piece of software seems to be treated with the same glee as news of a virus for the Mac. Thankfully, none yet exist.
New iPhone worm can act like botnet say experts [BBC] Malicious iPhone worm [F-Secure] How To: Change Your iPhone’s Default SSH Password [Cult of Mac]
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I’m not really sure if this is good or bad news for end consumers, but a couple of Japanese companies have developed a technology that makes it possible to transmit information from blinking LEDs fixed on advertisements to cell phones – using only light. The companies involved in the development include some big names such as Toshiba or NEC.
With this new system, Japanese cell phone users don’t have to scan the ubiquitous QR codes anymore to access more information on a certain product or to get coupons but can obtain the data without being physically close to the ads. If you have an ad measuring 1sqm and place LEDs on it, for example, the target user can stand as far as five meters away (the distance can be longer in the case of larger ads). If the users are interested in what’s being offered, it’s enough to point the cell phone to the ad to instantly view the information on the screen.
The LEDs blink about four million times per second and (obviously) require the use of a light-receiving handset (sorry for the silly picture – there are no official photos of the LED system yet). Advertisers can change the blinking frequency to change the content of the information they send to their potential customers.
The technology is on track to be commercialized by 2013.
Via Nikkei [registration required, paid subscription]
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Dost thou desire an Android phone in Red Passion or Oiled Bronze? Begin thy journey, brave Sir Knight, to China where you will be able to purchase the Dell Mini 3i with 3.5-inch touchscreen for a few coins of the realm.
The Mini 3i, as you’ll recall, is Dell’s first smartphone in almost half a decade and runs the Ophone platform, an Android-based system that will eventually brand most of China Mobile’s phones.
Some specs:
Popular Mini 3i Features:
* Entertainment: Access to China Mobile’s Mobile Market suite of services, games, productivity tools, wallpapers, ringtones and applications. Discover China’s popular Internet sites including 51.com, Kaixin and Renren.
* Customization: Personalize MP3 ring tones, icons and shortcuts. Run widgets on the home screen: sports, stocks, news and weather tickers.
* Navigation: GPS navigation.
* Search: Search contacts, appointments and e-mail from the home screen.
* Camera: 3 megapixel camera with zoom, auto-focus, flash, video capture and photo-editing capabilities. A 3.5 inch, widescreen (16:9), 640 x 360 display that’s ideal for viewing photos and videos.
* Popular Messaging: Support for the wide range of messaging platforms and services, including e-mail, IM, MMS and SMS.Dell Mini 3i OPhone Specifications:
* Form Factor: Tablet/PDA
* Dimensions: 58.35 x 122 x 11.7
* Display: 3.5” nHD, 640×360
* Bands/Modes: Quadband GSM/EDGE
* Weight: <105g (grams)
* Bluetooth
* GPS
* Micro SD (up to 32GB)
* Connector: Mini USB
Don’t expect this phone to hit the US this year. However, I do want to get a jacket in “oiled bronze” with matching “red passion” leather pants. I’ll look like that one traitorous dude in the Matrix, only much fatter.
China Mobile Becomes First to Sell Dell Mini 3i Smart Phones
* The Mini 3i, in Red Passion and Oiled Bronze colors, will begin arriving across China later this month
* China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, serves more than 500 million subscribersBEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE)–China Mobile will soon become the first mobile operator to sell the Mini 3i, a sleek and slim new multi-touch smart phone from Dell designed to leverage the power, flexibility and applications of China Mobile’s new OPhone and Mobile Market platforms. Available in Red Passion and Oiled Bronze colors, the Mini 3i will begin arriving through China Mobile’s nation-wide channels (its authorized stores) by the end of this month and Dell direct to follow.
The Mini 3i runs China Mobile’s flexible OPhone open source platform, and includes the latest in popular entertainment including pre-loaded 139Mail e-mail, Fetion chat and digital maps for navigation. A large 3.5-inch widescreen creates a big-screen experience, making photos and videos bigger and more intense. The Mini 3i is also compatible with a range of consumer applications, e-mail platforms, and office productivity software.
“People today want to carry their lives with them – they want to discover, capture and share new content as they roam around the world,” said Michael Yang, vice president and general manager for Greater China Consumer of Dell. “We believe Dell’s year-long development collaboration with China Mobile will amplify those experiences better than anyone else in the industry.”
“This signals an important milestone in the long term partnership between China Mobile and Dell,” said a China Mobile spokesperson. “We are excited for Dell to be among the first manufacturers to introduce new technology based on the OPhone platform. We look forward to working with Dell as it brings innovative new products and services to add value to our customers’ lives.”
The Mini 3i is the result of a year-long collaboration with China Mobile and further illustrates Dell’s ongoing investment in smarter and more mobile products. China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile service provider with more than 500 million subscribers, teamed with Dell earlier this year to develop a new product for the rapidly growing base of mobile broadband users in China, embedding 3G technology in the Dell Mini 10 netbook.
With the recent launch of the OPhone platform, industry analysts are estimating that the current base of 180 million mobile broadband users in China will continue to grow at a rapid pace. The Mini 3i is specifically engineered to give those customers a smart phone that delivers fast, easy and fun access to the internet, e-mail, chat, music and video.
Popular Mini 3i Features:
* Entertainment: Access to China Mobile’s Mobile Market suite of services, games, productivity tools, wallpapers, ringtones and applications. Discover China’s popular Internet sites including 51.com, Kaixin and Renren.
* Customization: Personalize MP3 ring tones, icons and shortcuts. Run widgets on the home screen: sports, stocks, news and weather tickers.
* Navigation: GPS navigation.
* Search: Search contacts, appointments and e-mail from the home screen.
* Camera: 3 megapixel camera with zoom, auto-focus, flash, video capture and photo-editing capabilities. A 3.5 inch, widescreen (16:9), 640 x 360 display that’s ideal for viewing photos and videos.
* Popular Messaging: Support for the wide range of messaging platforms and services, including e-mail, IM, MMS and SMS.Dell Mini 3i OPhone Specifications:
* Form Factor: Tablet/PDA
* Dimensions: 58.35 x 122 x 11.7
* Display: 3.5” nHD, 640×360
* Bands/Modes: Quadband GSM/EDGE
* Weight: <105g (grams)
* Bluetooth
* GPS
* Micro SD (up to 32GB)
* Connector: Mini USB
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TomTom is set to sell a GPS Kit for the iPod Touch, further closing the gap between Apple’s top-end iPod and the iPhone. The unit will have a built-in GPS receiver which “turns your iPod touch into a mobile navigation device.”
Many people choose the iPod Touch over the iPhone because you don’t have to sell your life to a cellphone carrier for two years to get it. But there are omissions from the hardware which are much more painful than losing the ability to make phone calls. Along with the lack of GPS, you lose always-on internet access, the camera and the compass. TomTom goes partway to fixing this, although the fact that it is a cradle instead of a case (like the add-on from Dual Electronics) means that utility is severely limited outside of a car.
The $100 kit is otherwise the same as the iPhone kit, with a line out for audio, iPod charging and a spinning (landscape or portrait) windshield mount. Best of all, it will work with any iPod Touch, back to the first generation model. Like the iPhone kit, you’ll also have to spring for the $100 TomTom satnav application. As you can really only use this when driving, you might wonder why you don’t just spring for a standalone in-car GPS box for less money than the kit and software combined. Supposedly available now from Apple.
Product page [TomTom]
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The Dutchess, from magnificently-named designer Wytze van Mansum, is the best concept bike we have seen in a long time. It is both practical, innovative and, even better, exists in the real world as a proper working machine.
Designed for Cannondale, the Dutchess is a woman’s bike based on the heavy old Dutch bikes popular in Europe (hence the punnish, creatively misspelled name). At fist glance you actually see nothing more than a streamlined, duck-egg blue version of the these omafiets (granny-bikes). But take another glance at the hubs, bottom-bracket, handlebars and even the rear fender and it starts to reveal itself as a rather futuristic machine.
First, the frame itself. The whole bike weighs in at just 14 Kg (31 pounds) and is based around the swooping bar that runs from the handlebar all the way to the back. On top of that is the tubular fender, which is structural and can support up to 50 Kg, or 110 pounds. Inside these hollow tubes are contained the brake lines (they are hydraulic) and cabling for the lights (they’re built-in and powered by the hubs).
Speaking of the hubs, these are innovative in themselves. The rims are laced to a generic hub into which can be slotted various cassettes. This means that both front and back wheels are identical, only the rear has the drive system and brake, and the front a generator and a brake. This would make repairs easier as you don’t have to rebuild the whole wheel just to change hubs. Wytze is realistic, though. Speaking to the excellent Bicycle Design blog, he says that “This is dreaming: [the hub] is a better standard then the current solution, but it will never happen.”
Another thing that may never happen is the crank, which as you can see does not use a chain. The actual drive train has not been revealed by Wytze, although it may have something in common with another design he came up with for a folding bike, which uses a cord and a cone-shaped freewheel to transfer power. In the accompanying video (below) it seems to work fine, and Wytze told Bicycle Design that the efficiency is a resectable 96%, compared to a chain’s 98%.
Up at the front, those handlebars can be left where they are or, with the flick of a locking lever, swept forwards or backwards for a more sporty or more comfortable position. A side-effect is that if the bars are pushed right back, the ends touch. As they can be locked in place, this forms a low-security lock that could be looped around a post.
When the handlebars are locked like this, the brakes are also secured (pressure is kept on the hydraulic fluid) for added security.
There is more. The gap between the rear fender and what would be the chain-stay on any other bike is covered with a skirt (or overcoat) guard, and everything is designed to be maintenance-free: the original sketches even put airless tires on there for puncture-free riding. The rear fender has a pull-out extension for really rainy days and the design (but not the prototype, which took five months to build) has a front basket and a kick-stand.
This is a very nice update to the Dutch bike. Even without all the smart extra features the weight advantage alone is worth it (and means you can carry it upstairs to your apartment to sleep). For more, check out the interview with Wytze over at Bicycle Design, and view some more (hot) product shots at his Flickr page.
Cannondale Dutch Follow-Up [Bicycle Design]
Van Mansum’s portfolio [Van Mansum]
Dutchess on Flickr [Flickr/carltonreid]
The first two iPhones had terrible cameras, something Apple fixed with the 3GS. Those of us who like to complain can still find fault with the lack of an optical zoom lens. Those who don’t just whine go out and fix this for themselves.
Instructables member T-skware did just that, grabbing the lid of an old pickle jar, some lenses ripped from the eye-sockets of donor cameras, a suction cup and sundry old computer and Walkman parts. With these he made a suck-on carousel of macro lenses which will magnify close-up shots taken with the iPhone. He didn’t stop there: In the center of the spinning lens-disk is an LED lamp powered by a 3V battery. The results obtained by shooting through this lens setup won’t replace you DSLR macro setup, but then, it is also essentially free (apart from the iPhone of course).
If you want to make your own, head over to the step by step instructions. You don’t even need an iPhone: With a few tweaks this should work with any cellphone cam.
iPhone Magnifying Camera Mod [Instructables]
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Apple made it possible for iPhone developers to offer in-app purchase five weeks ago, an option Android devs currently don’t have. But now Shanghai-based mobile technology company Urbian found a work-around to enable in-app purchase, saying they’re the first developers that did. The app in question is Ringz, a puzzle game that’s available for free on the Android market (the iPhone version is in review by the way).
Ringz lets you buy and download more levels (so-called Level Packs) from within the app. If the extension is returned or deinstalled, the extra functionality disappears from the base application. Urbian says some users tried copying the Level Pack files to a different path on an SD card to return them later and then use the extension for free – but this won’t work with their app.
Please click on the following graphic Urbian prepared for MobileCrunch to see how the work-around works.
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