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| Power-hungry gadgets endanger energy efficiency gains
May 14, 2009 at 10:54 pm
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|   The International Energy Association has performed an analysis of the efficiency of consumer appliances and electronics. The good news: both energy use and cost of appliances are plunging. The bad: electronics aren't following the same path. The International Energy Agency is a multinational group that tracks global energy use and makes projections of how current trends are likely to influence future supply and demand. Its latest report, released on Wednesday, is entitled Gadgets and Gigawatts. Not surprisingly, it focuses on consumer products, but it tells two very different tales. For appliances like dishwashers and refrigerators, energy use has been plunging in part due to government efficiency incentives, and that plunge has been accompanied by dropping prices. For electronic gadgets, in contrast, nothing is being done, and the growth in the electrical demand they're generating will put severe strain on future power supplies if business as usual continues. |
| Random House now disabling text-to-speech function of Kindle e-books
May 14, 2009 at 9:48 pm
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|   The much-touted and extremely controversial story of the text-to-speech function of Amazon's Kindle 2 could fill a very large e-book. The tale continues to get longer still, as at least one major publisher -- Random House -- has thrown the dreaded "kill switch" on about 40 of its titles, including authors such as Toni Morrison, and, ironically, Stephen King (who you will remember was part of the Kindle 2's launch). Random House disabled the function without much fanfare, or an official announcement, but you can be sure this isn't the final chapter. |
| Nintendo DSi drives April gaming sales
May 14, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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|  Nintendo proved that consumers were ready to buy an updated DS, selling over a million units of DS hardware. That's a huge bump from previous months, and can only be attributed to the release of the DSi. The rest of the industry saw a year over year slump this month, proving the hits of April 2008 are hard to beat. Lastly, Sony found a way to drive sales: $100 consoles. |
| Google To Allow Trademarks To Be Used In AdWords Copy In US
May 14, 2009 at 9:40 pm
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|  Google, which recently liberalized the use of trademark terms as a trigger for showing ads, has again opened up its ad policies to allow trademark terms to be used within ad copy, in certain circumstances, within the United States. Currently, registered trademark holders can request that Google prevent their trademarks from being used in ad copy. Trademarks can still be used by anyone to trigger ads, however. Beginning June 15th, this will change - as long as the advertiser is a reseller of a product or is providing information about it. |
| Reduce Ongoing Expenses Just By Asking
May 14, 2009 at 9:33 pm
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|  If your business has lost clients or needed to scale back, take action. Don't just wait for a rebound; use the moment to renegotiate terms with your suppliers and service providers. You might be surprised that many will be willing to cut you a break to keep your business... and keep you in business. Call everyone. Contact your land and mobile phone companies, ISP, web host, and private courier. Get in touch with your office supplier, delivery company, and other contractors. Scrutinize every bill; especially if you're paying for ongoing service, such as a cable TV connection, ask those companies for a break. |
| EasyGPS Helps PC and GPS Device Plan Trips Together
May 14, 2009 at 9:17 pm
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|  Ah, trip planning. If you'd like to set your itinerary of points of interest, landmarks, and destinations on your PC rather than struggling with a GPS's touchscreen, then EasyGPS is a nice, free solution. It works with numerous models of Eagle, Garmin, Magellan and Lowrance GPS receivers. It doesn't work with TomTom, nor does it work with the GPS receivers embedded in many popular mobile phones. |
| Images of the BlackBerry Storm 2 emerge
May 14, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|   A mere four days after the world got its first look at the upcoming BlackBerry Driftwood, the guys at CrackBerry have scored pictures of the successor to the BlackBerry Storm from the same source. Featuring similar styling queues as the Driftwood with black plastic convenience keys and a battery cover sporting the seven-dot BlackBerry logo, the Storm 2 does look a lot like the current 9500 / 9530 Storm - albeit much thinner and more streamlined. We're currently short on concrete specs other than the fact that it will launch on Verizon and feature Wi-Fi and a new screen technology called TruePress (as opposed to the current Storm's SurePress). The newest Storm also retains the metal battery cover and auto-focus 3.2 megapixel camera with flash as well. Anyway, hit the jump for a few more pics. |
| METROBuddy electric car debuts, kind of resembles a mail van
May 14, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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|  Looking from behind, one might assume that the METROBuddy is an electric car with style. Unfortunately, those hopes are dashed when peeking the whole whip from the side, as you suddenly become overwhelmed with hints of USPS mail van, garbage truck and a rather large protractor. Design gripes aside, our good pals over at AutoblogGreen were able to sneak a peek at the bantam automobile, which supposedly packs a range of around 50 to 75 miles on a full charge. There's been no mention yet of a price or global release (don't get your hopes up on the latter), but feel free to have a better look around in the vid just past the break. |
| MyLifeIsAverage: The Service Twitter Was Meant To Be
May 14, 2009 at 9:02 pm
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|   "What are you doing?" It's the message that still resides at the top Twitter, even though less and less people actually answer that question. It wasn't always that way, Twitter did just begin as a way to tell friends what you were doing. Then it got all popular, and everyone ruined it (or made it a hell of a lot better). But what if you do just want a stream of mundane updates? Then MyLifeIsAverage is for you.
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| CrunchGear Contest: Win a pair of Radius Atomic Bass earphones for your iPhone
May 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|   Ok, kids, here's your chance to get a free pair of Radius Atomic Bass earphones. It'll work with any mobile phone that has a 3.5mm port, but, like everyone else, Radius thinks that iPhone owners are the only ones that listen to music on their mobile. Check out the review for the non-iPhone model of the Atomic Bass if you care to know how they perform. |
| HD Offers a Way to Save Wireline
May 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|   Just as AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is conceding to the permanent loss of wireline revenue, high definition (HD) is emerging as a way to save the all-but-abandoned asset. HD finally gives customers of AT&T and other telcos a reason to retain wireline connections, for while the somewhat better voice quality associated with wireline already provides some resistance to cord-cutting, HD yields wireline telephone calls that sound dramatically better. The HD "being there" experience can make wireline an essential service, for everyone from deal-making lawyers to texting teens.
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| Will Your Data Disappear When Your Online Storage Site Shuts Down?
May 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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|  Online storage sites, the toast of the Internet circa 2006, are shutting down in droves, putting the data and images of their users in jeopardy. Online storage services that have announced closings in the past ten months include big names in tech: AOL (Xdrive and AOL Pictures), Hewlett-Packard (Upline), Sony (Image Station), and Yahoo (Briefcase). Plenty of lesser-known online storage firms also have kicked the bucket, including Digital Railroad and Streamload MediaMax, which turned into The Linkup. |
| The App Store Crapshoot Strikes Again
May 14, 2009 at 8:48 pm
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|  Apple's notorious App Store approval process has claimed its latest victim, this time for a ‘Refresh' button gone mad. Except it hasn't. So nobody is really sure why it got rejected. The button in question belongs to an application called Read It Later, a bookmarking app that makes it easy to save interesting websites you stumble across for when you have time to read through them (it's similar to Instapaper, which incidentally has also had App Store troubles of its own). Read It Later has been available on the App Store for over a month, and developer Nathan Weiner recently submitted a new update that included some speed and feature enhancements. |
| When Google fails, the Internet fails
May 14, 2009 at 8:46 pm
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|   Here are two eye-catching illustrations of why GoogleFail, this morning's slowdown/outage of numerous Google services, was a Very Big Deal. Above, you can see how much data was transferred by 10 different Internet service providers monitored by security company Arbor Networks. Below, you can see traffic to sites run by MerchantCircle, which manages the Internet presence for 750,000 local businesses. Those dips, of course, correpond to the outage, and while we here at VentureBeat believe the phrase "falls of a cliff" is overused, well … |
| Unsafe at any speed: Memcpy() banished in Redmond
May 14, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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|  Memcpy() and brethren, your days are numbered. At least in development shops that aspire to secure coding. Microsoft plans to formally banish the popular programming function that's been responsible for an untold number of security vulnerabilities over the years, not just in Windows but in countless other applications based on the C language. Effective later this year, Microsoft will add memcpy(), CopyMemory(), and RtlCopyMemory() to its list of function calls banned under its secure development lifecycle. |
| 13 Things That Bug Us About Android - Cupcake Or No Cupcake
May 14, 2009 at 8:30 pm
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|   We like Android. But let's be honest, even without that little tag, we know this is a work in progress. Having had a chance to use our Android phones regularly for several months now, we've come across all the issues one would expect in a massive rollout of a mobile OS. Sure, battery life is way better now than it was at launch, and I don't have to reboot my phone to free up memory any more, but there are still plenty of things we'd like to see added, improved, or fixed. |
| BlackBerry Storm 2 gets pictured early
May 14, 2009 at 8:25 pm
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|  We knew it was coming, and just like its relatives the Onyx and the Gemini, yet another unreleased model has managed to escape the confines of RIM's Waterloo headquarters. This time, however, it's the Storm 2, which we've heard has been internally codenamed "Oden." We've also caught wind that this model pictured is of the GSM flavor, and yes, it's indeed packing WiFi in addition to GPS according to one of our sources. As far as that rumored "new approach to text entry," it sounds like the keyboard has been tweaked but isn't a radical departure from the first generation. From the photos, it seems that RIM has advanced in the war on buttons and axed the bottom four in favor of some touch-sensitive controls. |
| Twitter: "We Screwed Up" on #fixreplies
May 14, 2009 at 8:18 pm
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|  TwitterTwitter reviews has done what it needed to do today: posted an apology for the poor communication around the "#fixreplies" issue. Earlier this week, an optional Twitter feature was removed for being "confusing", but after a user backlash, Twitter changed the story subtly to say that there was a technical limitation that meant the feature was not sustainable anyone. |
| Deleted cloud rebuilds self from scratch
May 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm
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| Nine months after an engineer accidentally deleted its Amazon-like compute cloud - and six months after a second major outage - FlexiScale has finally completed a software overhaul that should allow for a much quicker recovery from such outages. And if you're interested in building your own infrastructure cloud, it might sell you this new code base. |
| Twitter: The Dog Ate Our Homework
May 14, 2009 at 8:11 pm
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|  Wow. Twitter has responded yet again to the whole @replies fiasco (that's now four posts for those keeping score at home). Once again, this one is juicy. To be frank, this is exactly the post Twitter should have put up from the get-go. But it didn't, and that led to this whole mess. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone leads off by talking about the confusion among users about the change that was actually made. This was of course entirely Twitter's fault and Stone doesn't back away from that. "I did not do my homework," he says, and noting the company screwed up from a communications perspective. True. |
| Imeem Goes Mobile: Play Your Music from the Cloud
May 14, 2009 at 6:23 pm
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|   Imeem, the popular but financially troubled streaming media and music discovery service launched its iPhone and Android application today. The new app (iTunes link) allows users to stream songs they have uploaded to Imeem's servers while on the go, something that only very few of imeem's competitors can offer right now. The app, which is available for free, also allows users to create custom radio stations and it features a small set of preset stations, including a list of the top 100 songs on the service. |
| NEC abandons Japan's 'next-gen' supercomputer
May 14, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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| In tough times, you have to make tough decisions, and Japanese server maker NEC this morning announced in Tokyo that it was pulling out of the Next Generation Supercomputer Project sponsored by the Japanese government. The project involved NEC, Fujitsu, and Hitachi building a hybrid scalar/vector massively parallel system. |
| Verizon hangs 3G contract on HP netbook
May 14, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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| Verizon will unleash its 3G netbook over the weekend, and - as expected - it's an HP. The HP Mini 1151NR netbook will hit the Verizon website and US Verizon stores on Sunday, May 17, the company announced today. It will be priced at $249.99 - though Verizon prefers to call that $199.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate. Naturally, buyers must also sign a two-year contract for stateside Verizon EVDO wireless access. |
| Next Ubuntu alpha reveals video change
May 14, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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| The next Ubuntu should see improved video performance, along with updates to the underlying Linux and open-source infrastructure. A change in the video architecture has been revealed as the Ubuntu development team released alpha code for the next, planned edition: Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala. Elsewhere, the Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been added along with the latest version of Gnome: version 2.27.1 |
| Quadrics co-founder jumps to Cray
May 14, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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| Duncan Roweth, one of the founders of British parallel supercomputer switch interconnect maker Quadrics, is leaving the company to take a job over at HPC rival Cray. According to a statement released by Cray, Roweth will become the principal engineer at the supercomputer maker, reporting to Steve Scott, Cray's chief technology officer, and running Cray's research and development efforts in Europe. |
| How To Plug A Leaking Record - Don't Even Try
May 14, 2009 at 6:01 pm
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|   In the old days, back in the beginning of this decade, news that a band's new album had leaked on the Internet before it went on sale was a big deal. And it occasioned lots of wailing and hair-pulling in the music business. But that was when people still bought CDs. Now everyone from Britney Spears down to the smallest indie band routinely streams their music for free, before the disc - or iTunes download - goes on sale, in order to whet appetites - or at least promote concert tours. No big deal. |
| Best Exercise Tool?
May 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|   Exercise is a perfect venue for geeking out; it lends itself well to tracking, experimenting, and using technology to facilitate superior results. This week we want to hear how you've incorporated computers into your routine. This week we want to hear about your favorite exercise tools. The emphasis is on technology, so while we can appreciate that your elliptical machine is key to your fitness routine, we're more interested in the web-based applications, desktop software, and other such tools that you use to facilitate your exercise routines and track your goals. Feel free comment about the other things you do or use, but make sure it's on a separate line after you've placed your vote. |
| Tour Asia With GeeksOnAPlane, Get To Know Half The World's Internet Users
May 14, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|  This is a guest post by Dave McClure, a startup advisor and internet marketing nerd who runs a seed-stage investment program for Founders Fund. So you consider yourself an internet entrepreneur, investor or expert, huh? Chances are you know a lot about what it's like to be a Western technologist with Western customers, but you know very little about how the other half of the world (also known as Asia) lives and works. |
| Earnings: Lack Of Hits Sent Blockbuster Profits Down Nearly 40 Percent
May 14, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|   The home video category apparently wasn't recession-proof enough for Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), which said Q1 net income plunged 39 percent to $27.7 million ($0.12 per share) from $45.4 million the year before. On an adjusted basis, profits were $41.3 million ($0.19 per share). Revenues fell 19.4 percent to $1.12 billion, compared to total revenues of $1.39 billion in Q108. A FactSet Research analyst poll expected a profit, excluding items, of $0.15 cents per share with $1.29 billion in revenue, Marketwatch reported. The company cited poor store sales and the lack of a major Q1 hit like last year's I Am Legend, which accounted for the difference in earnings results. |
| Latest "Laptop Hunters" Ad From Microsoft Hits The Web: Meet Lauren And Sue
May 14, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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| Above is the latest Laptop Hunters ad in the famous series of video advertisements Microsoft is putting out there to make people proud of being a PC again (and at the same time attack pricing for Macs). The latest ad features pre-law student Lauren and her mom, Sue, and these are the things they are looking for primarily in a laptop: speed, portability and battery life. |
| DARPA working on "Silent Talk" telepathic communication for soldiers
May 14, 2009 at 5:54 pm
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|  We're no strangers to crazy DARPA projects around here, but this one especially strikes our fantastic fancy. The agency's researchers are currently undertaking a project -- called Silent Talk -- to "allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals." That's right: they're talking about telepathy. Using an EEG to read brain waves, DARPA is going to attempt to analyze "pre-speech" thoughts, then transmit them to another person. They first plan to map people's EEG patterns to his / her individual words, then see if those patterns are common to all people. If they are, then the team will move on to developing a way to transmitting those patterns to another person. Dream big, that's what we always say! |
| Switching My Dad to Linux--Part Two
May 14, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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| As mentioned in my last posting, I'm not a very good Linux evangelist. I don't try and convert family and friends to Linux. Therefore, as surprising as it sounds, putting Ubuntu on my dad's new laptop--as I did a week ago--was the first time I've ever directly converted another individual to Linux. It's safe to say I've indirectly converted 100s of thousands of people with my books (Ubuntu Pocket Guide) has been downloaded over 500,000 times, for example). But this was my first "hands on" experience. |
| Lenovo's revamped IdeaPad S10-2 gets demoed on video
May 14, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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|  You know the drill by now -- first comes the leak, then comes the announcement, then comes the photo shoot. And now, comes the video. Right on cue, the cool cats over at GottaBeMobile have whipped out the Handycam in order to show off Lenovo's latest entrant into the oversaturated netbook arena. They seemed to appreciate most every tweak applied to the S10-2, though they did lament the fact that the new kid on the block didn't have a matte display as on the original S10. The vid's just past the break. |
| Big Profits from App Store? Maybe Not for Apple
May 14, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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| There's little doubt that Apple's App Store has proven wildly popular with iPhone and iPod touch users, who've downloaded more than a billion apps since the store opened for business less than a year ago. Naturally, most of us assume Apple's making a killing from its 30-percent cut of those App Store sales, but one number-crunching venture capitalist says that's not the case. |
| How to Hack the iPhone to Use SlingPlayer and Skype Over 3G
May 14, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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|   AT&T's impotent network—and good ol' fashioned greed make it do douchey things sometimes, like lock down SlingPlayer and Skype for the iPhone. But you can unlock their true 3G powers. Step 1: Free Your Phone There are lots of reasons to jailbreak your phone. Skype and SlingPlayer over 3G is just one of them. Luckily, we've got a comprehensive guide to easily jailbreak your iPhone 3G (or iPod touch). Follow it. |
| Is the Latest Apple OS Update Causing Problems?
May 14, 2009 at 5:38 pm
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|  Last last night, I ended up updating my MacBook to Mac OS X 10.5.7, the latest version of the software. It's caused two problems: The first is that it's killed the audio output on the computer; in the preferences pane, the only option I have is "digital output." The second problem has been an overall degradation in performance - think Shaq O'Neal moving around a basketball court with an injured knee. |
| Bell is pushing hard to get the Pre out in early August
May 14, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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A week ago, Canada's Bell announced that it has the exclusive rights to get the Pre party started in Canada. With an ETA as vague as 2H09 however, it's a bit hard to get excited just yet - not that those South of the 49th parallel have had a fun time with their 1H09 launch window. Thankfully we've received a little nugget of information from one of our ninjas who is now able to confirm that Bell is working feverishly to get the Palm Pre in time for an early August release, with the only real variable to this launch window being the number of devices Bell is able to score from Palm. You see, Bell doesn't want to repeat the whole BlackBerry Storm launch fiasco in which Bell "launched" the Storm on December 10th with well under a thousand devices in its possession. |
| Stat Shot: Google's Circumnavigation Edition
May 14, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  This morning, Google somehow rerouted some of its vast hordes of web traffic through Asia, causing service delays, interruptions, and a bit of craziness on Twitter. But it also managed to slow down a few retail web sites, and cause a noticeable gap in the worldwide web traffic. Check out the charts below. |
| ScriptPal 1.0.2
May 14, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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| A few years back, I extolled the virtues of Doug Adams's repository of AppleScripts for iTunes. The hundreds of iTunes scripts available from Doug's site give iTunes features you've always wanted--or never realized you needed. I covered some of my favorites in that previous article. There's just one problem: once you get hooked, iTunes's scripts menu can gets so crowded that it's tough to find a particular script. And unlike OS X's systemwide scripts menu, you can't organize the iTunes version into folders to give the menu some much-needed organization. |
| #GoogleFail…Had Something to Do With Airplanes
May 14, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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|  Google today responded to this morning's major outage, labelled #googlefail by some GoogleGoogle reviews users, which caused major services like Google ReaderGoogle Reader reviews, search, Google News and GmailGmail reviews to be inaccessible. While some questioned whether AT&T could be the cause, Google has now fessed up and admitted, through a cheery air travel-inspired metaphor, that it was entirely their fault. Google's SVP Operations, Urs Hoelzle, writes: |
| GamePark GP2X Wiz gaming handheld now available, for real
May 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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|  There's been a few false starts, and some newfound competition from upstart Pandora, but it looks like GamePark's GP2X Wiz gaming handheld is now finally, officially available. As promised earlier, it'll set you back a fairly reasonable $179, which'll get you a 533MHz ARM9 processor-based handheld that's capable of running a handful of official games and a whole boatload of unofficial games, not to mention some applications from the app store that's slated for launch this summer. All set to add one more handheld to your collection? Then hit up the link below to get your order in. |
| White House press conference overwhelmed by cell phones
May 14, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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|  Quick note: if you can't figure out how to set your phone to vibrate during a tense White House press conference, at least learn to turn the damn thing off. Video after the break. P.S.- We're actually more amazed at the second guy, who not only interrupts the briefing, but walks out of the room to take the call. Cojones! |
| Amazon to Pay Bloggers for Subscriptions
May 14, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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| Amazon.com's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader has already inspired hope for new digital business models for book and newspaper publishers. Now the Kindle wants to do business with bloggers too. On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a beta program that pays bloggers for Kindle subscriptions to their posts. The Kindle comes with an experimental Web browser that allows users to surf ordinary Web sites. But for the sake of convenience, Amazon also sells Kindle subscriptions to a select list of blogs that are automatically updated and made available on the device's home screen. Those subscriptions can cost as much as $2 per month. |
| Major Google Outages Today: #GoogleFail Or #AT&T Fail?
May 14, 2009 at 12:25 pm
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|  A bunch of GoogleGoogle reviews services have been failing this morning, and we've been trying to figure out why. The hashtag #googlefail on TwitterTwitter reviews has a ton of reports of outages to key applications including GmailGmail reviews, Google's mobile apps, and even search, and we've been receiving numerous reports of issues.
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| Google Services Go Down For Many
May 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm
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| Currently, many people who use Google's services, including web search, Gmail, Google Reader and other products are either down or incredibly slow for some Google users. For Danny and myself, we are able to access these services with no problem. However, if you look at recent Tweets about Google, you will notice that many people are having extreme difficulty for the past hour or so. |
| Google News: Now With YouTube Videos
May 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm
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|  Local broadcast news video has typically been relegated to the sites of the media companies that broadcast it, plus sometimes YouTube. But now, Google News is adding local news video to its aggregation of stories, letting users watch related YouTube clips alongside the links to news content. If there's video available for a given story, you'll now see a YouTube icon under the snippet about the news. Click it and the YouTube video drops down, and can be watched right from the Google News page. Poking around the Google News homepage, it seems like maybe about 5-10 percent of stories now come with video attached. |
| HIRO, the realistic 'torso bot' for researchers and fans of El DeBarge
May 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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|  Are you a serious scientific researcher / evil genius looking for a robot for serious scientific research / "evil genius" research? Do you need something whose movements more closely approximates those of the humans who you might wish to help / destroy? Kawada Industries and General Robotix in Japan (GRX) have teamed up to develop a little something called HIRO, or "Human Interactive Robot." Designed to move in a more lifelike fashion that any robot on the market these days, this bad boy has fifteen degrees of freedom (including two in the neck, six in each arm and one in the lower back). It can also carry an object weighing up to 2kg in each arm, and its finger tip features an operating force of up to 10kgf. |
| Loose Cannon Studios to launch original video games
May 14, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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|  The indie revival in the video game industry continues to gather steam as Loose Cannon Studios announced it has launched a new game development company focused on original games. While 60 game studios have laid off 8,450 people since July (according to Wanda Meloni of M2 Research), it's interesting to see a brand new company come out of stealth. |
| Radio Player Slacker Raises $10 Million In Fourth Round
May 14, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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| Slacker, which develops portable radio players users can program according to their musical tastes, has raised $9.6 million of a $10.2 million round, according to a regulatory filing released yesterday. Funds were first raised on April 30, 2009 and the company has since raised the $9.6 million from nine investors. The filing did not specifiy whether these were new or existing investors, which include Centennial Ventures, Rho Ventures, Austin Ventures, Mission Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. We contacted the company for further details, but it did not wish to comment. |
| Windows 7's Best Underhyped Features
May 14, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  We've run down the exclusively for a week straight, the real goods are in the small stuff. While you've no doubt seen a few of these features mentioned before, most of the items below have received the least attention from Windows 7 previews. It's these less sexy, but very useful features, that make me think the more I use Windows 7, the less chance I'll ever use Vista or XP again. | | | 
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