1. Read This Before You Buy a Desktop PC! 3 hours ago permalinkProcessor: The processor (CPU or microprocessor) is the brain of your desktop PC. It reads instructions from your software and tells your computer what to do.
2. ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of 11 hours ago permalinkPart of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat out loud” ratings in our house.) But The Sports Guy went a tweet or ...
3. Ex-Microsoft VP gets North Dakota's highest honor 10 hours ago permalinkFARGO, N.D. – A philanthropist and former Microsoft Corp. executive who built a big-time company with small-town people is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award. 4. ITablet Beta Tester Breaks Embargo 10 hours ago permalinkRecently I was given just 24 hours to explore a first production build of the Apple iTablet -- and here are my first impressions and discoveries. First, it's more like an iPhone than a MacBook. The operating system depends on gestures, and expands the vocabulary. Your hand is going to be dancing.
5. An iPhone Visualization App That Syncs with the Cloud 12 hours ago permalinkRoambi announced a pro version of its iPhone application this week that syncs with Salesforce.com and other cloud-based services or on-premsie sales environments. It's a visualization application, providing mobile workers with a pretty cool way to see sales information. Integration is by far one of the most significant trends we are seeing in ...
6. Finally, MySpace Music Licenses 'Fifth Label' Merlin; Reins in Fiercest Critic 12 hours ago permalinkMySpace Music has now finalized a global licensing deal with the labels represented by Merlin , according to details tipped Friday to Digital Music News. Both companies confirmed the relationship, thanks to resolution on a major sticking point related to equity. MySpace noted that Merlin - and other indies - are now structured to “benefit ... 7. Times Publishing Sells Governing Magazine To e.Republic 12 hours ago permalinkTimes Publishing Co. has sold Governing magazine to e.Republic , a publisher of titles focused on state and local government and education. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The sale comes a few months after The Economist Group paid over $100 million to acquire Congressional Quarterly from Times Publishing. CQ was subsequently folded ... 8. Can Facebook group change World Cup game result? 13 hours ago permalinkWednesday saw one of the most painful pieces of cheating that soccer has enjoyed since, oh, since pretty much any other World Cup qualifying game. However, this occurred in the dying minutes, featured one of the most famous players in the world (yes, he's been on the front of an EA FIFA game box), affected the result of the game, and was so ...
9. An open letter to Google 15 hours ago permalinkI had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address. 1. Please take these statements at face value. 2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google. 3. I am a Google user. My primary email account is on GMail. I just ...
10. The 'i' In Silicon Valley - New Study Shows Strength of Ties With India 15 hours ago permalinkIndian entrepreneurs are everywhere in Silicon Valley. And a new report on the Bay Area Indian community measures the ties between Silicon Valley and India. Here are some facts from the report, “Global Reach,” by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute : - Indian entrepreneurs helped found many Silicon Valley companies such as Sun ... 11. Sony hopes online service will build brand loyalty 15 hours ago permalinkTOKYO — Sony's new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
12. 8tracks to Launch Playback API and Developer Program 16 hours ago permalinkIt appears that the time for freemium music services in the US has passed. Earlier this week streaming music site Imeem sold to MySpace for under $10 million dollars while laying off a large number of staff. For a company with all four major record labels signed, more than 15 million uniques a month and well over 5 million tracks in its catalogue, 13. Memento: Protocol-Based Time Travel for the Web 16 hours ago permalinkThe Web constantly changes and evolves. That, of course, is what makes the Internet so exciting, but it also means that finding older versions of a website is hard. The current push towards the real-time web is making this problem even more apparent. Memento , a project based at Old Dominion University, wants to make it easier to access older ... 14. Are you reaching your potential? via maneesh 17 hours ago permalinkAre you reaching your potential? via maneesh 15. The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web 17 hours ago permalinkThe semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language processing (NLP) and structured data that is understandable by machines for interpretation. However, with the rise of the ... 16. Likesbears: 17 hours ago permalinklikesbears : 17. Cops in Copenhagen 17 hours ago permalinkCops in Copenhagen (via Alexander ) 18. Brizzly opens up...and translates 20 hours ago permalinkWeb-based Twitter client Brizzly made a dual announcement Friday: first, it's opened up into a full public beta mode (previously, an invite code was required); and second, it can now translate tweets into your default language on the site. 19. More Social Goodness across the Web thanks to JanRain and Meebo 20 hours ago permalinkWe’re happy to point out two new YOS integrations. These come from tool-providers for developers and publishers: JanRain , a leading provider of online identity and technology, and Meebo , which enables real-time social interaction through the Meebo Bar . Both are using Yahoo! Social APIs and Yahoo! Updates to bake Yahoo! into their social ... 20. Irish school making great use of Twitter 1 day ago permalinkFrom the Computers in Education Society of Ireland mailing list comes this gem from Pauric O'Donnell at St. Eunans College in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal - |
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