1. Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up  permalink

Watching the birth of Flickr co-founder's gaming start-up
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News

Stewart Butterfield and his friends are back at it with a new company. CNET's Daniel Terdiman was given exclusive, behind-the-scenes access as they built it from scratch.

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Tiny Speck Announces Glitch, A Browser-Based Massively-Multiplayer Game In depth with Tiny Speck's Glitch   —  The new online social MMO from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck puts players through a wide variety of paces. Quests, egg growing and clouds on a string are just a part of it.

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Tiny Speck Announces Glitch, A Browser-Based Massively-Multiplayer Game Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck team   —  To build Glitch, the Flickr co-founder put together an impressive team of some of his earliest collaborators on the popular photo-sharing site.

2. Google launches Nexus One phone support  permalink

Google launches Nexus One phone support
Steven Musil / CNET News

Customers suffering shipping and technical issues with the new Android phone now have more resources than online support forums.

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Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners,  48NEXUS Google Customer Service Number Now Live   —  After taking quite a beating in the blogosphere after the initial launch of the Nexus One, Google has officially launched phone support. That’s right; 888-48-NEXUS (63987) will get you customer service from Google, open daily from 7AM to 10PM EST. That’s right, from Google. Read those words, stop, close your mouth and let the wow factor hit ...

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Google initiates phone support line for Nexus One owners,  48NEXUS Mozilla dropping 10.4 support with next Firefox release   —  The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger. This comes from a mozilla.dev.planing discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes ...

3. Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux  permalink

Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux
Linuxtoday.com

"The Cambridge, Mass., start-up has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief Operating Officer Waseem Daher.

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Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux Mimio Studio 6 debuts for Mac and Linux systems   —  Mimio has announced that its Studio 6 software is now available for both Mac and Linux systems. The program is designed for the teaching industry, providing tools for creating interactive lesson content such as recordable dry-erase whiteboard notes that can be saved for later use. Teachers can also use drag-and-drop input to create animated ...

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Ksplice debuts zero downtime service for Linux   —  Ksplice Tuesday officially launched its no-reboot patching service for Linux servers. The Cambridge, Mass., startup has about 35 customers and several thousand servers using its paid Uptrack service, in which security and maintenance patches are automatically applied to Linux servers with minimal delay and no downtime, according to Chief ...

4. Google Gmail press conference  permalink

Google Gmail press conference
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We're heading to the Googleplex to find out what's happening to Gmail. Earlier reports have pointed to Google taking on Twitter. Tune in to find out if that's true.

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Google Gmail press conference Google Buzz Could Open Up Big Possibilities   —  Update: Google is holding its press event on the social announcement as I write this. I will update this article with important nuggets as they come. So far Google's Bradley Horowitz has said that they are launching something called Google Buzz. It will have five key features: 1. Auto Following 2. Rich, Fast Sharing experience... 3. Support ...

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Google Gmail press conference BREAKING: Google Goes Social with Google Buzz   —  It’s official: Google has just announced Google Buzz, its newest push into the social media foray. This confirms earlier reports of Gmail integrating a social status feature . On stage revealing the new product was Bradley Horowitz, Google’s Vice President for product Management. While introducing the product, Mr. Horowitz focused on ...

5. Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat  permalink

Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat
JENNA WORTHAM / NYT

Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat   —  Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.

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Google Maps making recommendations Foursquare Steps Up its Location-Based Content With Zagat, HBO Deals   —  Conscious of the advancing, diversifying competition to its location-based gaming/info services, Foursquare is not sitting on it's laurels : It's announcing new partnerships with some big-name media companies to add content to its system. First up is a deal with Zagat, which will add some named-quality reviews to Foursquare and act as a ...

6. Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.  permalink

Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.
Mediamemo.allthingsd.com

After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple–the ability to raise prices on their songs. Last April, iTunes introduced a “variable pricing” scheme, which gave the labels the ability to move prices from 99 cents a song to $1.29 (and for some tracks, down to 69 cents).

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Music Labels See Slower iTunes Sales Growth in Wake of Price Increases Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight   —  Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.

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Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales.   —  Book publishers itching to raise the prices on their e-books should pay attention to the music labels, which raised the prices on their downloads last spring. Consumers, it turns out, like paying less for stuff.

7. Street View hits the slopes at Whistler  permalink

Street View hits the slopes at Whistler
Google-latlong.blogspot.com

In just a few days, the events in Vancouver and Whistler will be kicking off. The world’s best skiers and snowboarders will be taking to the slopes at Whistler Mountain, tearing down the mountain at world record speeds or gracefully navigating a slalom course. You can view the terrain in stunning 3D detail in Google Earth, and we recently ...

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Cognizant Rallies As Q1 Revs, EPS Top Street Expectations   —  Cognizant (CTSH) shares are trading higher after the IT services provider reported better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter. CTSH posted revenue of $902.7 million and non-GAAP profits of 50 cents a share; the Street had been expecting $888.4 million and 46 cents. For Q1, the company sees $935 million and 52 cents, [...]

8. Free Trial  permalink

Free Trial
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To get a fully functional copy of Aperture 3 for your Mac, enter your name and email address below. You’ll receive an email with a link to download Aperture 3 and a serial number for activation. The free trial will expire 30 days after you open the application for the first time.

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Apple Aperture 3 gets official Apple Releases Aperture 3   —  CUPERTINO, California—February 9, 2010—Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 3, the next major release of its powerful photo editing and management software, with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Building on the innovative Faces and Places features introduced in iPhoto® ’09, Aperture 3 makes ...

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Apple Aperture 3 gets official Apple unveils Aperture 3 raw workflow software   —  Apple has unveiled Aperture 3, the latest version of its raw-conversion and photo management software. It promises faster organization of large number of images and offers over 200 new features. Changes include a new Faces and Places option that enables Face detection and geotagging, an improved slideshow feature that combines photos and HD ...

9. Texas Instruments delivers industry�s first quad-radio single chip  permalink

Texas Instruments delivers industry�s first quad-radio single chip
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TI raises the bar with WiLink™ 7.0 solution, integrating WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth® and FM transmit/receive technologies on a true single-chip DALLAS (February 9, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — Demonstrating its leadership in the wireless connectivity market, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) today unveiled its WiLink™ 7.0 ...

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Texas Instruments goes for broke, packs 4 radios into WiLink 7 chip TI makes single chip with Bluetooth, FM, GPS and Wi-Fi   —  Texas Instruments this morning brought out the WiLink 7, a design it says is the first to include four types of wireless on a single chip. It combines Bluetooth, an FM transceiver, GPS and 802.11n Wi-Fi into a single design and lets phone designers cut down on the size and energy needed. The creator estimates that it takes up half as much space ...

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Texas Instruments Announces WiLink 7 Combo Chip   —  Today Texas Instruments introduced the WiLink 7, a new Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, FM radio combination on a single chip. The Wi-Fi support includes the new Wi-Fi Direct standard, the Bluetooth includes the Bluetooth 3.0+HS standard, and the FM radio ... (follow link to read)

10. 5 Tips for Developers Targeting the iPad  permalink

5 Tips for Developers Targeting the iPad
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From a mobile developer's point of view, the iPad is a revolution waiting to happen. The gadget's 9.7-inch screen, allowing for glorious visuals and vastly superior touch navigation, simply can't be duplicated in the world of phones. And because it runs the iPhone OS, it automatically opens the App Store's 140,000 offerings to a brand new medium --

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Will Notion Ink’s Adam Be the iPad for Geeks? Panelfly Comic-Book Reader for iPad   —  The iPad screen is just short of ten inches on the diagonal. The Standard American Comic Book measures 17 x 26cm (6 ⅝ × 10 ¼-inches), which comes to 12.2-inches on the diagonal. That’s a lot closer than any other hi-resolution, slab-like media viewer. The people behind Panelfly, the highly regarded comic book viewer for the [...]

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Will Notion Ink’s Adam Be the iPad for Geeks? Apple hunts for iPad camera software engineer   —  A new Apple job listing strongly indicates that cameras are coming to future iPads. The company's Cupertino headquarters is hiring a QA engineer for its iPad Media division, with the specific intent of testing still and video camera capture, as well as playback. The first-generation iPad, which has yet to ship, lacks any form of camera....

11. Benjamin Cohen  permalink

Benjamin Cohen
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Technology correspondent Benjamin reports on the media (both old and new), Britain's growing gambling industry and technology, including detailed coverage of the problems faced by broadband consumers.

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It’s time to kill off the Dotcom Hero CEO A British Google? It could have been me   —  As I slipped out of Mr Miller’s A-level English class, I turned on my mobile phone: “Israeli embassy here. Could you call with your passport number as Binyamin Netanyahu would like to meet you at Heathrow at 3.30pm. Please do not discuss this message with anyone before calling me back.”

12. Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome  permalink

Findings: Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome
JOHN TIERNEY / NYT

A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.

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Secrets of The New York Times' Most-Emailed List, Revealed People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes   —  New York Times They also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney .

13. Why did Ofcom back down on DRM?  permalink

Cory Doctorow / Technology news

The corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts Back before the Christmas break, it looked like Ofcom was ready to do its duty and stop the BBC from adding digital rights management technology to its high-definition broadcasts. After all, DRM doesn't actually prevent copying – ...

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BBC head of religion and ethics disputes Sunday Telegraph article   —  Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s head of religion and ethics, has criticised the Sunday Telegraph for the way it presented his comments in an interview. In a BBC blog post yesterday, Ahmed writes that he had given an interview ahead of the Church Of England’s Synod debate and its motion on the issue of religious broadcasting [...]

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Why is the UK TV regulator planning to allow BBC DRM? Netflix to stream in full HD with 5.1 audio   —  Netflix looks set to stream their range of movies and TV series in full HD resolution - that's 1080p for the uninitiated, later this year in a move to boost its business. Apart from 1080p video streaming, audiences will also be able to enjoy 5.1 audio for an all round, enjoyable home-theater experience. It remains to be seen just what kinds of ...

14. AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops  permalink

AMD reveals Fusion CPU+GPU, to challege Intel in laptops
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SAN FRANCISCO—The "Llano" processor that AMD described today in an ISSCC session is not a CPU, and it's not a GPU—instead, it's a hybrid design that the chipmaker is calling an "application processor unit," or APU. Whatever you call it, it could well give Intel a run for its money in the laptop market, by combining a full DX11- ...

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Apple investigating Mac Pro performance and heat issues   —  Last week, we told you about some unusual issues affecting Nehalem-based Mac Pro models, characterized by abnormal performance degradation and CPU power draw when using on-board audio circuitry. Several sources have told Ars that Apple support technicians are now saying the problem is known, and that the issue is being actively investigated by ...

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AMD Fusion CPU/GPU combo to fight Intel in notebooks NVIDIA Optimus automates graphics switching, promises the best of both worlds   —  We've always thought switchable graphics made a lot of sense on laptops, and NVIDIA's new Optimus tech looks like it's going to bring it mainstream in a serious way -- there's no more manually toggling between the powerful discrete GPU and the power-saving integrated chip. More than just automatically switching off the discrete GPU when the ...

15. Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool  permalink

Facebook Pulls Lexicon Analytics Tool
The Steve Rubel Lifestream

Facebook has taken its promising Lexicon tool down from the site. Perhaps this happened when they pushed their new redesign. Lexicon, like Google Trends, provided limited yet interesting data on site-wide trends. You can read more about it here . From the Lexicon site .... "Thank you for your interest in Lexicon. We are removing the Lexicon ...

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Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins How Over 400 Million People Use Facebook   —  Last week, as Facebook celebrated its sixth birthday , the company announced that it was surpassing the 400 million-user milestone. That's one good reason why it pays for businesses to have Facebook Pages. That's not the only impressive number though. Facebook has released a whole slew of statistics about how the site is used by those people. ...

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Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins Navigon GPS iPhone App Gets Twitter and Facebook Support   —  Navigon’s MobileNavigator , one of the first iPhone apps to offer real turn-by-turn GPS navigation, has established itself as one of the best such applications available for Apple’s smartphone. The latest version of the app (available here ) has an option to alert your buddies to your current location via Facebook or Twitter. It also ...

16. Panasonic announces new 3D Blu-ray recorders, players  permalink

Panasonic announces new 3D Blu-ray recorders, players
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget

Looks like Panasonic's push to lead the 3D pack continues unabated. It's been just over a week since the company announced the opening of its first Blu-ray 3D authoring facility and now word's coming out of Tokyo's Yurakucho District that the world will soon be getting not one but four devices, including the DMP-BDT900-K, a pretty straight ...

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Panasonic announces new 3D Blu-ray recorders, players Sony Bravia TV sports built-in Blu-ray player   —  Still don't have a Blu-ray player in your living room? Why not kill two birds with one stone if you're thinking of upgrading your current standard definition TV to one of those newfangled HDTVs? Sony has just the thing with their latest Bravia TV which will come in 32" and 40" sizes, known as the KDL-32EX40B and KDL-40EX40B. As it is under the ...

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Panasonic announces new 3D Blu-ray recorders, players Panasonic TH-P54VT2 takes plasma HDTVs into 3D territory   —  Finally making the transition from the trade show floor to retail shelving are Panasonic's famed Viera 3D plasma HDTVs. The company has just announced it will be launching two 1080p panels on April 23 in Japan, priced at ¥530,000 ($5,932) for the 54-inch P54VT2 and ¥430,000 ($4,813) for its smaller sibling, the P50VT2 (pictured after the ...

17. As Windows Mobile Stumbles, Which Smartphone OS Will Seize the Lead?  permalink

As Windows Mobile Stumbles, Which Smartphone OS Will Seize the Lead?
Pro.gigaom.com

The smartphone is a relatively new arrival on the mobile technology scene, yet there are quite a few companies testing the waters. Historically relegated to the enterprise market, today's smartphones are beginning to cross over into the consumer space. Companies are advertising smartphones in the mainstream, and this is fanning the flames of ...

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BlackBerry Buzz: Spyware Alert AnyDATA ASP-318 and the ASP-518 Windows smartphones   —  AnyDATA has made available a couple of Windows-powered smartphones in the form of the ASP-318 and ASP-518, where the former is easy on your pockets, making it the ideal Windows Mobile smartphone for students and enterprise workers, where it runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional, sporting a 3.2" color touchscreen display, GPS navigation, an ...

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BlackBerry Buzz: Spyware Alert Cube's 6-inch capacitive touchscreen e-reader is a Windows Mobile 6.5 fantasyland   —  If you're a sucker for immaculate specs at a discount price then the Cube e-book reader might be the device for you. The Chinese outfit is said to be working on a 6-inch, E Ink reader built around the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system with baked-in WiFi (sorry, no mention of 3G data) for "remote server synchronization." And as declared in the ...

18. Morningstar acquires footnoted!  permalink

Morningstar acquires footnoted!
Michelle Leder / Footnoted.org

For the past 6 1/2 years, we’ve written frequently about various mergers and acquisitions. Today, we have some M&A news of our own: Morningstar (MORN) has acquired footnoted.org. You can download the official press release here, but I wanted to personally share with you why I’m so excited about this deal and why I think [...]

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Morningstar Buys Footnoted.org Morningstar acquires Footnoted for undisclosed sum   —  Footnoted.org || Morningstar release Michelle Leder , who founded Footnoted.org in 2003, goes over SEC filings to find information buried in the fine print, such as evidence of aggressive accounting and excessive compensation. || Read the release . || See Footnoted items that have been posted on Romenesko.

19. Samsung announces the Monte ahead of MWC  permalink

Samsung announces the Monte ahead of MWC
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report

Sure, Mobile World Congress kicks off in just under a week, but that doesn’t mean all the big boys are going to hold off on their product announcements. Take Samsung, for example, which today announced the S5620 Monte. Running the…

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Samsung Announces Monte Smartphone Samsung TicToc Shakeable MP3 Player   —  By Andrew Liszewski It apparently wasn’t important enough to make the announcement roster during Samsung’s CES press conference, but the TicToc was on display at their booth and is a clever alternative to Apple’s iPod Shuffle. A built-in motion sensor makes switching tracks as easy as shaking the player, and it’s smart ...

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Samsung Announces Monte Smartphone Samsung Monte S5620 Phone Gets Early Reveal Prior To MWC   —  A few leaks here and there, and voila—Samsung's Monte S5620 is revealed ahead of MWC. Running the TouchWiz 2.0 Plus OS, it has full HTML browsing and the usual array of social networking tricks. A 3.0-inch capacitive WQVGA TFT touchscreen, 3.2-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.1, and Google Maps 3.0 seems to be the crux of it, ...

20. Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit  permalink

Windows 7 eclipses Vista on Steam, 64-bit dominating 32-bit
Ars Technica

We already know that Windows 7 is growing faster than Vista was when it was released, but how fast are gamers adopting it? Pretty darn quickly, according to January 2010 data from Steam, the leader of the digital distribution market. Last month, the percentage of users on Windows 7 eclipsed the number of users on Windows Vista. Windows XP is ...

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Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam Windows 7 and batteries: Shooting the messenger   —  Windows 7 is a pretty cool operating system - I think it's the best version of Windows that Microsoft has released. But some notebook PC owners would beg to differ. Last week, reports arose that Microsoft was looking into a message some Windows 7 users were seeing. A warning box appears saying: Consider replacing your battery. There is a problem ...

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Windows 7 Murders Vista on Steam MS Rejects Claims that Win7 Causes Faulty Batteries   —  Late last week, a number of Windows 7 users lit up Microsoft's TechNet forums with complaints that they were experiencing a dramatic decline in the battery lives of their laptop computers after upgrading from XP or Vista to Windows 7. In a recent statement, however, Microsoft denies the charge and has stressed that these issues are strictly ...