1. Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact 2 hours ago permalinkMicrosoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to “de-index” its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.
2. AOL's New Branding Trades Iconic Running Man For Goldfish 19 minutes ago permalinkAOL ( NYSE: TWX ) just released its new branding look—one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different literally hundreds of “reveals” from various artists. We’re only seeing a snapshot; the new identity fully debuts when AOL rings the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange Dec. 10. (Images and ...
3. Officially Official: 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe debuts 1 hour ago permalinkFiled under: LA Auto Show , Coupe , Performance , Cadillac , Luxury 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe - Click above for high-res image gallery Today the wraps were officially removed from the 2010 Cadillac CTS Coupe. The coupe is the latest model to join the burgeoning CTS lineup, which also includes the sedan that started it all, the 556-hp CTS-V super ...
4. Mystery iPhone musical instrument 30 minutes ago permalinkMAKE Japan is having a meet up, check out this iPhone instrument! It looks like 3 iPhones mounted to a laser cut body and the player "blows" to produce music! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Gadgets | Digg this!
5. Roku Channel Store delivers ten new content portals for zero dollars 1 hour ago permalinkRoku owners already have access to Netflix , Amazon Video On Demand and MLB.tv , but now the set-top box is about to get a lot more interesting. Starting tonight and running throughout the next fortnight, existing owners of the Roku SD, Roku HD and Roku HD-XR will receive an automatic (and free) update that delivers ten new content channels. ...
6. BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer 25 minutes ago permalinkSparkFun BlueSMiRF found in credit card sniffer, interesting Sparkfun product placement. Nate writes - That is an officer of the law holding up a device that was found within a 'PIN pad' in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I didn't know what a PIN pad is, so here's a wikipedia article and google images. From the article (November 5th, 2009), it looks ... 7. Backstage Footage With Twitter COO Dick Costolo 1 hour ago permalinkWe had a great interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at the Real-Time CrunchUp on Friday. Costolo always gives the audience a few good nuggets of news and handles the more difficult questions with ease. He's a pro. After the conference I reviewed some of the backstage footage we shot of Costolo before he went on stage for the formal interview. ...
8. Industry Moves Round-Up: Atlantic Media; Tribal Fusion; Viewpoints Network; Meredith 360° 34 minutes ago permalink— Atlantic Media : Former U.S. editor of Reuters.com Adam Pasick will be heading up the new digital media brand from The Atlantic publishing group, launching in “early 2010.” Along with being U.S. editor, Pasick was also the bureau chief of Reuters ( NYSE: TRI ) Second Life, editor of Reuters Deals and editorial representative ... 9. AutoblogGreen for 1 hour ago permalinkAptera Update: Backstory uglier than we knew? Unanswered questions run deep, by the looks of it. POLL: Is the Tesla IPO for you? Money maker or bad idea? Long-Term Thinking: "Cost to Own" mindset grabs hold More ways to think about cost now that we have options to gasoline. Other news: STUDY: Air cars not worth it Toyota starts discussions on ... 10. Nov. 23, 1963: Doctor Who Materializes on BBC 1 hour ago permalink1963: At 6:15 on a cold, wet night, the BBC premieres its new family science fiction show, Doctor Who, with its first episode, “An Unearthly Child.” The series will become a legendary part of modern British folklore and the longest-running sci-fi series on TV. 11. Just Give Me One Modal Dialog .... 2 hours ago permalinkBack when I was reporting the book, I remember a meeting I had with Gary Flake, then the lead technologist at Overture, now a Fellow at Microsoft running Live Labs, responsible for stuff like Seadragon, Photosynth, and now, Pivot, an experimental approach to large datasets that attempts to rethink... 12. Chinese Dreamcast portable mod may inspire KIRFs, or already is one 2 hours ago permalinkYou thought the DreamTrooper would be the last portablized Sega Dreamcast mod you'd ever see? Nah. Turns out some folk in China quietly showed off an Oriental take on the mod -- not too dissimilar from the form factor of the GameBoy Advance -- just before the DreamTrooper's debut. Details are thin here, but we're hoping for a built-in optical ... 13. Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments 3 hours ago permalinkJason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Socialmedian sale price at that point was about $4 million in cash and stock, 14. Stained Glass d20 3 hours ago permalinkJohn F. Talarico of the podcast show Bloodthirsty Vegetarians created two 20-sided dice out of stained glass and black and copper patina. The orange one is called “Fire.” There are more detailed images in the flickr photostream.
15. OCZ's Colossus desktop SSD gets reviewed: oh yeah, it's fast 5 hours ago permalinkIt's been a long time coming, hasn't it? OCZ Technology's Colossus is the outfit's first in the desktop SSD space, and with capacities scaling as high at 1TB, it's certainly tempting for performance junkies who just can't pry themselves away from their tower. The benchmark-minded kids over at PC Perspective were able to get a drive in with final ...
16. First Time in the Field with a Canon PowerShot S90 5 hours ago permalinkYesterday, I walked with my friend Chris Gulker on the Alpine Trail in Portola Valley. I was sporting my brand new Canon PowerShot S90 camera - trying it out for the first time "in the field". Chris took a shot of me shooting and posted it over on his blog. Here's an example of my initial results - shot using the S90 in basic Auto mode in large ...
17. TripIt Launches Android App as Beta 5 hours ago permalinkTripIt, a travel aggregation service that is offered as an application on the iPhone and BlackBerry, is now available as a beta app for Google’s Android platform and can be downloaded from the Android Market. Just like us, our colleagues at jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily and TheAppleBlog are all fans of TripIt, and the Android version [...]
18. Ferrari F355 recalled over fuel system concerns... again 6 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Recalls , Ferrari We see all sorts of recall notices here at Autoblog. Most of them affect ordinary passenger vehicles, but nearly all of them get cleared up the first time around. So this is a bit of a first: Ferrari North America and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have issued a second recall notice to correct a ...
19. Spectacular slow card-flourishes from Dimitri Aleri 4 hours ago permalinkPeaceLove sez, "My buddy Chris 'Orbit' Brown just hipped me to this lovely video of one Dimitri Arleri doing some amazing card flourishes, set to an unidentified piece of ambient opera. Most flourish videos are rapid-fire montages of jaw-dropping excellence (ie. the brilliant Buck Twins ) but this guy slows the pace and goes for a more flowing, ... 20. 9ff Speed9 Takes the 911 Turbo to the Next Level 5 hours ago permalinkA Porsche is special enough for most, but for those looking for a bit more, there is no shortage of German tuners that specialize in Zuffenhausen's finest who'll be glad to bring it to the next level. Arguably foremost among them is 9ff, the relatively new outfit that made its mark with the record-breaking GT9. With the Essen aftermarket tuner ... |
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