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| First look: 1 vs. 100 brings a live game show to Xbox Live
May 17, 2009 at 8:32 pm
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|   Microsoft wants to bring live game shows-complete with an actual host, scheduled episodes, and digital prizes-to Xbox Live. We play the beta of 1 vs. 100 and interview the game's developer. The verdict? Play moves at a slow pace, but the excitement is definitely there. Ars reports on what could be the next big thing for online gaming. |
| Intel presentation promises Medfield-based smartphones by 2011
May 17, 2009 at 7:45 pm
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|   We've been hearing about Intel's Medfield processor for some time now, but much of the talk so far has been about it being an Atom-replacement for netbooks and MIDs. A seemingly recent Intel presentation obtained by the folks at UMPC Portal is now shedding a bit more light on the matter, however, and it's looking like smartphones could actually be at the heart of Intel's long-term plans... |
| Repeets Tracks Twitter's Hottest Retweets
May 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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|   A new service launching today adds more momentum to the growing "retweets" movement. Retweeting, as we covered in our article HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter, is becoming an important way to share interesting content on TwitterTwitter reviews. Newcomer Repeets tracks hot retweets from today, this week and this month. It also captures all the retweets in a thread and produces trend graphs showing what time a retweet peaked. |
| How to get cheap(er) FiOS: buy it from someone else
May 17, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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|  Want that 50Mbps FiOS goodness but don't want to pay $144.95 for it? Verizon now sells wholesale fiber access to other ISPs, one of which is offering 50Mbps service over the same lines for only $99.95. Want the 50Mbps speeds that Verizon's FiOS service can provide, but don't want to spend $144. |
| The Upside Down Mac
May 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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|   One of the benefits of having an all-in-one computer is how easily it can be tucked into spaces without an excess of cords and clutter. Today's kitchen workspace demonstrates that quite effectively. Lifehacker reader Kurt emailed in a fantastic little kitchen setup. Kurt had an iMac G5 on hand, and a great idea for turning a desk in his kitchen into a workspace... |
| LIVE: World's Longest Music Concert on UStream
May 17, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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|  A record attempt to create the world's longest music concert is well underway and being broadcast live on the web, with the artist "Gonzales" having played piano for 24 hours so far. He's attempting to play for 27 hours, beating the previous record of 26h 12 mins. The video from Ustream is embedded below.
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| Green Rules Challenge Data Centers
May 17, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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|   Nearly three-quarters of European data center managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centers -- although 60 percent of companies now have green data center policies in place. According to a survey from Campos Research, nearly 70 percent of data center professionals were concerned about the effect that the EU's new Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) regulations would have on their operations. |
| Satchel is Backpack on the iPhone done right
May 17, 2009 at 6:26 pm
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|   Being a productivity nerd who happens to love technology has its benefits. Those of us who are happy to spend a Friday night creating and destroying a list of tasks have absolutely no shortage of quality applications upon which to practice and hone our weirdo craft. For web-based task management there's the popular and venerable Backpack by 37Signals which, up until very recently, was in bad need of an equally awesome representation on our iPhones. I'm happy to say that the clouds have wandered west and the iPhone-toting Backpack lovers can rejoice at the advent of Satchel [App Store]. |
| Social Publishing Site Scribd Adds E-Commerce; 80 Percent Revenues To Publishers
May 17, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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|   Document sharing site Scribd will begin beta tests of an e-commerce platform today, an effort to tap into publishers' increasing interest in charging consumers directly for digital content. The company also hopes its e-book marketplace will tamp down continuing criticism that it abets online piracy of printed books; complaints about Scribd and competitor Wattpad were highlighted just last week in the NYT. |
| ColorRotate Creates Design Color Palettes
May 17, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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|  Need a new color palette for your next design project? ColorRotate is a color palette generator with a heavy dose of eye candy and easy-to-use controls. The default setup for ColorRotate is a 3D diamond shape, which you use to set the tint, hue, and the blending for your palette. |
| Make iTunes and Windows Media Center Work Together
May 17, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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|  Though Windows Media Center Edition and the Windows Media Player are very good at what they do, there's no native support for iTunes file types. Though this is hardly surprising given the competition between Apple and Microsoft, it's a bummer for those that shop at Apple's popular iTunes online store. In steps MCETunes (various pricing, free demo), a plug-in for MCE that lets you access your iTunes media from within MCE's ten-foot interface (what you see when you're ten feet away an using a remote control). |
| VentureBeat is going through maintenance tonight. Slow posting
May 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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|   We'll be down sometime this evening because of a server change, and hope to be up by tomorrow morning, posting as usual. |
| Weird science is way too cool for the avian flu
May 17, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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|  Berries and exercise don't mix. Misfits are survivors. Why Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody weirds out computers. All that, plus the least convincing liar on the planet in this week's edition of weird science. Exercise and a good diet are a bad combination: There's little doubt that exercise has positive effects on health, and a variety of evidence suggests that antioxidants in a diet are beneficial, as well... |
| Microsoft Readies SharePoint Server 2010 Beta
May 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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|  Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then follow the program up with a public testing phase ahead of the Office 2010 release in the first half of next year. Earlier this week at its annual TechEd conference, Microsoft said the Office 2010 beta slated for July will not include the SharePoint Server 2010 beta. |
| Microbot controls swam of bacteria, puts all flea circuses to shame
May 17, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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|  Sylvain Martel, what hast thou sown? The director of the NanoRobotics Laboratory at the École Polytechnique de Montréal this week is presenting his latest microbot at ICRA in Japan, and it's got a pretty crazy trick. |
| KIDO'Z is a Customizable Kid-Friendly Browser
May 17, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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|  Adobe Air: KIDO'Z is an Adobe-Air-based browser for children, and a great choice if you need to exercise a high degree of control over content and browsing time. There's no substitute for direct supervision, but if you want to let a kid play on the net in a safe and fenced-off fashion without your having to watchdog every keystroke, KIDO'Z does an admirable job. It's a simplified browser with user-supplied content. The default content is a little on the fluffy side, but thankfully you can hop right in and create your own list of sites within the parental control menu. |
| Most Attacks Come from Legit but Hijacked Sites
May 17, 2009 at 4:10 pm
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|  Artwork: Diego AguirreThe number of legitimate Websites being hacked to host malware has hit startling highs in recent days, new figures from MessageLabs have revealed. Data taken from the days between May 4 and 8 showed that 84.6 percent of Websites blocked by the company for hosting malicious content were 'well-established' domains that have been around for a year or more. |
| Hackers crack flight sim community site, ruin it for everyone
May 17, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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|  Avsim, a popular website for flight simulator aficionados, was "destroyed" by hackers. The move is a blow to the flight sim community, and the senseless move will give more fodder for anti-hacking sentiment. A website for flight simulator enthusiasts, originally launched in 1996, has been essentially "destroyed" by the shenanigans of hackers. Avsim had become an important resource for flight sim users over the last 13 years, but the site has been completely shut down after hackers essentially took down both the site's servers. |
| How Do You Get Your News?
May 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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|  With the multitude of competing mediums these days, it's easy to pick and choose your information inputs. Newspapers, television, RSS, Twitter—how do you mix and pick your news sources? Thomas Baekdal details the patterns of communication over the last hundred years and the shifts that have occurred. If your great-grandparents wanted to stay current on the news, for instance, they had to make a conscious effort to be places where people were talking about it. Now you can have it streamed, beamed, and delivered. |
| Talkcast reminder: Open phones and news of the week, 10pm ET
May 17, 2009 at 3:51 pm
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|  Last week, both Mikes (Rose & Schramm) joined Steve, Kelly and the gang as they talked Mother's Day and Macdom (with a special visit from The Mac Mommy herself). You can download the show from Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes.
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| Brits Focus their Internet Time on a Few Sites
May 17, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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|  The top 10 web brands are getting stronger, despite the proliferation of new sites and services. The 10 Web brands on which Britons spend the most time accounted for nearly half of all U.K. Internet time -- compared to less than 42 percent a year ago.
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| Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs
May 17, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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|  If you haven't heard about it yet, the new computational search engine Wolfram Alpha launched this week to much fanfare and attention. The service can calculate integrals, tell you the flying time between San Francisco and London, or even the (lack of) nutritional content of your M&M's.
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| Crimson Red Dell XPS 16 in the wild?
May 17, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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|  So about that apparently canned crimson red Dell XPS 16 laptop. We received a handful of pics from a tipster who claims to have gotten one about a month ago when he returned his other, decided un-red model for a screen replacement. We don't want to say this is 100 percent legit without holding it in our hands, but if this is the beauty we once had the option to purchase, Dell, please, bring crimson back. |
| HTC Touch Pro 2 debuts on Vodafone UK - coming soon
May 17, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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|   HTC's flagship Windows Mobile Professional device, the Touch Pro 2, has made its debut on Vodafone's UK website. And yes, Voda has gone ahead and named the handset Touch "Pro 2″ while HTC refers to it as the Touch "Pro2″. Listed in the business section, the qwerty keyboard packing Touch Pro 2 is displayed only as coming soon. No pricing details have been revealed yet but, as is the case with most European phones, expect it to be heavily subsidized when higher tariffs are chosen. |
| 5 of the Best iPhone Apps for Political Junkies
May 17, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|  Are you a political junkie? Did you follow the US elections with trepidation and excitement? Or perhaps you're following international politics? Whatever your political persuasion or level of engagement, there are now plenty of great iPhone apps that put politics in your pocket. Today we pick out five of our favorites - please feel free to add your own in the comments section. |
| Teens Hack Just for Fun
May 17, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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|  Casual hacking is almost as established a part of teen life as downloading music to an iPod, a new survey of the age group has claimed.
According to Panda Security, we should take seriously the statistic it gathered from a survey of over 4,000 15 to 18 year-olds that nearly one in five of them have the knowledge to use 'advanced' Internet-distributed hacking tools... |
| Forrester: Vendors Use 'unfriendly Practices' on Support
May 17, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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|  Now is the time for companies to compel their software suppliers to lower their maintenance charges, according to Forrester Research. The recessionary times and the rise of software as a service (SaaS) models has put pressure on software vendors to cut support charges or lose business, according to Forrester senior analyst Duncan Jones. |
| Work for VentureBeat — in advertising, sales or as product manager
May 17, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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|  With VentureBeat's growth and expanding conference program, we're building our team. We've got openings for the following:
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| Microsoft's Surface gets its first Service Pack, devs and yacht owners rejoice
May 17, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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|  Forget the future for just one second.
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| 3000 Awesome Facts Pro for the IPhone
May 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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| Fact is, Nikolay Nachev's 3000 Awesome Facts Pro is a nifty trivia app for the iPhone and iPod touch. I'm not entirely certain why the app bears the "pro" appellation, however. Perhaps, as with "deluxe," some developers believe the word means something it does not. I imagine 3000 Awesome Facts will appeal to bar and café patrons, salesmen, blind dates, grocery clerks, grifters, and other raconteurs, professional or otherwise. |
| Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools
May 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|  Technology and exercise make an excellent pair; you can now track, plan, and graph your workouts more easily than ever. We're here to take a look at six of the most popular tools for the job. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite exercise tracking or planning tool. |
| Mac News Briefs: ProjectWizards Rolls out Trio of Updates
May 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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| ProjectWizards officially released new versions of its Merlin project-management software and the Merlin Server companion product that allows for collaborative product management. The newly released version 2.7 had previously been available as a public beta. In addition, ProjectWizards also released a 1.0.1 update to the Merlin iPhone app, fixing a connectivity issue. |
| Is Memcached a Good or Bad Sign for MySQL?
May 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm
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|   Several weeks ago, we saw a burst of news around memcached, an increasingly popular open-source caching software framework gaining attention from web companies and investors. Gear6 announced details of a new memcached-based product, and Schooner Information Technologies launched a set of memory-dense appliances, one targeted to MySQL, one to memcached... |
| More proof that TELUS' HSDPA network is coming soon
May 17, 2009 at 11:44 am
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|  Earlier this week we broke the exclusive news that TELUS is looking to soft-launch its HSDPA network well ahead of schedule and now the folks over at MobileSyrup have unearthed an .xml file over at the LG website that may further support our scoop. |
| Repurpose a Squeeze Bottle for Perfect Pancakes
May 17, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  If your quest for the perfectly-shaped, drip-free pancake has lead you down the dark halls of infomercial madness, take note: all it takes is the re-purposing of a condiment squeeze bottle. This trick would have never worked with the ketchup bottles of yesteryear, no sir. |
| MSI's Turbo Drive-equipped GX723 gaming laptop unveiled
May 17, 2009 at 10:45 am
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|  Looking for another option in MSI's oft-ballyhoed Turbo Drive laptop series? The company's announced the GX723, its gaming hat trick for the month. Under the hood, the 17-inch, WSXGA+ portable's packing an Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M, Windows Vista Home Premium, up to 4GB of RAM, and your choice of 320GB or 500GB HDD and six / nine cell batteries... |
| Jump Into The Stream
May 17, 2009 at 10:25 am
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|   Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages. Web companies large and small are embracing this stream. It is not just Twitter. It is Facebook and Friendfeed and AOL and Digg and Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop and Techmeme and Tweetmeme and Ustream and Qik and Kyte and blogs and Google Reader. The stream is winding its way throughout the Web and organizing it by nowness. |
| Meetings, Version 2.0, at Microsoft
May 17, 2009 at 10:10 am
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|   This interview of Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Are there areas you want to improve as a leader? A. I race too much. My brain races too much, so even if I've listened to everything somebody said, unless you show that you've digested it, people don't think they are being well heard... |
| P2P Startup Looks To Porn For Profits
May 17, 2009 at 10:00 am
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|   Peer-to-peer content distribution companies like Vuze, BitTorrent, and Pando raised millions of dollars over the last several years under the assumption that big media companies would shift some of their distribution to P2P to cut their bandwidth costs. But that hasn't happened, and now many P2P companies are looking for new business models. |
| LG's enV Touch aka Voyager 2 gets spec'd
May 17, 2009 at 9:35 am
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|  When we showed you some exclusive pics of the LG enV Touch aka Voyager 2 we didn't know a whole lot about the Verizon-bound device. Don't worry though, as some new details have now emerged thanks to a leaked Verizon Equipment Guide. |
| Inside Steve Ballmer's Brain
May 17, 2009 at 9:30 am
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|  Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer talks about management in a lengthy Q&A with the New York Times. Revealed: He'd also like to be a high school basketball coach, he wants Microsofties to be more "efficient," his favorite management book is "Built to Last" by Jim Collins, and if there's anything he'd change about himself, it'd be his speed. |
| Malware's Newest Threat: Fake URLs
May 17, 2009 at 9:25 am
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|  Artwork: Chip TaylorAccording to Websense Security Labs, criminals are seeking to mislead web surfers by flooding the internet with URLs that include words like FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter.
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| Tech Togs: Nine Geek Chic Outfits
May 17, 2009 at 8:30 am
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|  The Celio Club Suit—an iPod holder disguised as a tailored suit—lets you hear your favorite music and look hot. The jacket has specially designed pockets to hold an iPod flatly in place. It also has a special fabric touchpad that runs vertically along the breast label inside, which allows you to turn the iPod on, control the volume, skip forward or back, and auto-lock the device. Friends won't guess that your newfound je ne sais quoi is stylishly hidden access to your own personal soundtrack. Image credit: QIO Systems, Inc. |
| SmartQ 7 MID unboxing
May 17, 2009 at 8:07 am
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|  Our compatriots at Engadget Chinese just got ahold of that surprisingly attractive SmartQ 7 MID, and have given the thing a proper unboxing. Hands-on impressions are on the way as well, but it's not hard to see that despite the continued pointlessness of MIDs in most practical applications, they're only getting better. Except for the ones that aren't. |
| Palm Pre makes conspicuous appearance at large gathering of cool people
May 17, 2009 at 4:12 am
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|  We don't know a lot about driving cars really fast, but we do know one thing: this guy sure does seem excited about the prospect of a touchscreen-driven, QWERTY-equipped slider smartphone with webOS, from struggling handset manufacturer Palm. Apparently at some point during the race somebody from Sprint confirmed that they'll be outing a launch date in the "next couple of days." We like the sound of that. |
| Facebook Raising $150M For Staffers' Stock Buy Back
May 17, 2009 at 4:05 am
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| Facebook is in the process of wrapping up a $150 million financing as it seeks to buy back stock from hundreds of its employees, Venturebeat reports, citing unidentified sources. This latest round comes a year after the social net raised an additional $100 million in funding, which was on top of the $360 million in capital it netted over the previous six months. Since existing backers such as Accel, Greylock, Founders Fund, among others, found it difficult to supply such a large amount this time, Facebook has apparently been turning to Asian investors as it seeks to close out the round. |
| ContactPoint child database goes live despite security fears
May 17, 2009 at 3:02 am
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|  Analysis The Government has announced plans to push ahead with the next phase in launch of a controversial child protection database, despite ongoing concerns about the security of data held on the system. The delayed ContactPoint system, which is due to include names and addresses on every child under 18 in England, will be accessed by frontline care workers in real-life trials for the first time from this Monday. |
| Home built massage chair strikes inexpugnable fear into aching joints
May 17, 2009 at 2:10 am
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|  It's important to remember that when we make inevitable war with the machines, it was really all our fault -- take this guy Lin, for example. Sure, he means well, building this massage chair out of scrap for his aging wife, who suffers from joint pain, but future generations scraping together a meager existence as they huddle for protection from homicidal robots and a rage-filled Christian Bale won't be exactly forgiving of Lin's plight... |
| HOW TO: Put Twitter on Every Web Page
May 16, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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|  TBuzz is an interesting new tool that fosters Twitter buzz around web pages. The concept is incredibly simple: drag a button into your browser bookmarks and hit it whenever you visit a web page you'd like to talk about on Twitter. So, while you're reading this MashableMashable reviews post, you can add TBuzz to your browser, hit it while you're viewing the page and inform your followers that you're "Reading an article on Mashable.com". TBuzz grabs the link for you and shortens it using Bit.ly. | 
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