1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones 10 hours ago permalinkStarting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
2. IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets 9 hours ago permalinkWhen it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]
3. Patent hints at next generation Apple TV 3 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Gaming , Hardware , Video The USPTO has published seven different patents from Apple today , including one that might be found in the next generation of the Apple TV. The patent allows for a "Remote Control System that can Distinguish Stray Light Sources" -- in other words, a Wii style remote that can pick out a certain type of ...
4. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market 1 hour ago permalink3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ... 5. Street Scenes of Munich: 4 hours ago permalinkEarlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
6. WordPress for Android 1.0 Release 5 hours ago permalinkWordPress for Android 1.0 Release: The Open Source WordPress for Android application is now available for download. This is in addition to the WordPress for iPhone and WordPress for BlackBerry applications that are already available. It is built on top of the wpToGo application which has been taken over by the WordPress team and released 7. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack 5 hours ago permalinkEarly this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ... 8. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action 6 hours ago permalinkAs we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ... 9. Flash Free February 7 hours ago permalinkSo Alessandrini put out a challenge on Twitter: All those who think no flash on ipad is A-OK please uninstall flash from your current browser, use that for a month then get back to me. So I’ve gone halfsies and installed FlashBlock for Chrome, which forces me to click whenever I need to see something Flash-based, [...] 10. Black Stone Theme 7 hours ago permalinkToday we are glad to release Black Stone, a free wordpress theme. Black Stone is a 2 column theme with theme options. The theme is released under GPL License and you can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the world. Black Stone theme is brougth to you by ...
11. News report about my “Leading the Facebook Generation” half-day seminar 7 hours ago permalinkHere’s how a local TV station covered my half-day workshop, Leading the Facebook Generation, in Medicine Hat last week. What the Meeting Planner Said “This event more than doubled any other event we have ever had so we were very pleased. The feedback from the evaluations provided was very positive… Everyone enjoyed Tod’s ... 12. SA backs down on internet comment control 7 hours ago permalinkABC – “South Australia’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson admits he misjudged public opinion on the state’s attempt to curb political comment on the internet. Mr Atkinson says he will repeal a law which would have meant that anyone posting comment or blogs during an election period would have had to publish their real ... 13. Love your jailbroken iPhone? Don’t update to 3.1.3 9 hours ago permalinkConsider this a PSA from one person with a jailbroken iPhone to another: Don’t upgrade to the just released iPhone OS 3.1.3. The iPhone dev team — the guys who make all of this jailbreaking stuff possible — have just confirmed that the PwnageTool and redsn0w jailbreak/unlock tools do not work with iPhone OS 3.1.3. [...]
14. Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store? 9 hours ago permalinkNokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets? 15. Verizon: You know who should buy a Pre Plus? Your mother. 10 hours ago permalinkTwo new TV spots for the Pre Plus have just made their way out, and it looks like Verizon has taken a decidedly.. different approach to marketing Palm’s handset than they did with the Motorola Droid. Lets compare, shall we? Exhibit A – Droid commercial: Stealth planes! Missiles! Dudes with beards, explosions, and guys on horses –
16. Online effort erases language barrier between Haitian quake survivors, aid worker 9 hours ago permalinkA man writes on a wall "Crisis Committee" in Creole, in front of the rubble of the municipal asylum, January 22, 2010 in Port-au-Prince. More than 110,000 people were confirmed killed in the Haiti earthquake, the interior ministry said January 22, making it the deadliest quake on record in the Americas.
17. Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech 9 hours ago permalink“Profitability” can be a squishy term for startups — until they file for an IPO and deliver, through the SEC, what’s often the first unfiltered snapshot of their financial situation: the S-1. That’s been the case for Tesla Motors, which filed on Friday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering. 18. The Smart Mac: iTunes, iPhoto & Aperture 10 hours ago permalinkThe last stop in our series of better file management through ideas based on smart folders brings us to iTunes, iPhoto and Aperture. All of these apps provide support for organizing your files similar to Address Book and Mail. The beauty of “smart” file management, of course, is once you have defined the frameworks for [...] 19. 2010-02-02 18:19:31 11 hours ago permalinkSo this is interesting - blizzard to release auction house integration into armory. and some of it to be premium? on top of the $15 per-account per-month subscription fee, i assume. but the big question is will it support buying and selling over the web? and via an api. oooh 20. RIP, Kage Baker 11 hours ago permalinkPossibly lost in the publishing world brouhaha of the weekend, science fiction writer Kage Baker died of cancer on Sunday. I didn’t know her well and only met her once in real life, but I interviewed her several times and read many of her novels and stories. I found her an utterly charming person, a [...] |
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