1. IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010  permalink

IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!

Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in others part of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...

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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 My Not-So-Epic Quest To Find The Elusive Verizon Droid Line   —  Today is Droid day — an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasn't graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the precious devices sold out. And while I was ...

Jay Hathaway / Download Squad
IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 Balloons: launch a balloon from your iPhone, see who finds it   —  Filed under: Fun , Social Software , iPhone If you ever let a helium balloon float away when you were a kid and wondered where it eventually ended up, you already know what Balloons for the iPhone is all about. This cute little app lets you launch a virtual balloon with a message and a photo attached. Anyone with the app installed call pull down ...

2. Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today  permalink

Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today
Richard Lawler / Engadget HD

Filed under: Media PCs , Cable Scant hours after the SDV tuning, DRM-relaxing firmware update for Vista and Windows 7 Digital Cable Tuner users became available, Missing Remote let us know Microsoft has come through on the other half of its CEDIA promise by pushing the Digital Cable Advisor to Media Center Extras galleries everywhere. This half ...

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet Blogs
Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today Microsoft to show off new visualization language at PDC   —  Microsoft is planning to show off a new visualization language, codenamed "Vedea" at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles in mid-November.

Pete Cashmore / Mashable!
Microsoft emancipates Digital Cable Tuners with second Media Center update today 15 Social Media Twitter Lists to Follow and Expand   —  As you can probably tell from our extensive coverage this week, we’re extremely excited about the possibilities of Twitter Lists : from how news organizations are leveraging the feature, to a full Twitter Lists FAQ to the potential for real-time journalism and the utility of lists after the tragic Fort Hood shootings . As such, we’ve ...

3. Netflix instant streaming demoed on PlayStation 3  permalink

Netflix instant streaming demoed on PlayStation 3
Darren Murph / Engadget

Aw, suki suki now! Those Netflix instant streaming discs that started floating out to anxious PS3 owners yesterday are obviously splashing down, with YouTube user (and avid Engadget reader) otimus posting up a stellar walkthrough showing everything in action. We've got to admit -- the whole thing looks exceptionally sleek, but given the PS3's ...

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Video Demo: Netflix Instant Streaming on a Sony PlayStation 3 Hands-on: Netflix on PS3   —  Many Netflix subscribers will find a rather inconspicuous red envelope in the mail today. It may look like a standard Netflix package, but inside PS3 owners will discover the "Instant Streaming Disc" which enables Netflix's instant streaming service on Sony's console.

4. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web  permalink

Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...

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Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins   —  Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

Barb Dybwad / Mashable!
Droid Does: An Ad on Google’s Homepage   —  In addition to celebrating Muppets today, Google appears to be loudly and proudly celebrating something else on its home page. With the Verizon Droid launch hot and heavily underway today, the search giant is according the highly-regarded Android phone a place of honor on Google.com today. Although it’s not unprecedented — they’ ...

5. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch  permalink

The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch

If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'

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The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM and Xbox 360 Family Settings   —  As some of you might be aware, those under the age of 18 are not able to access Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm in our public preview. I want to you let you know that this will remain the case when it launches to the world soon. We made this decision because as it stands now, parents aren’t able to use Family Settings to customize which of these ...

6. Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead?  permalink

Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead?
Uncle Dave / Dvorak Uncensored

President Obama ordered flags be flown at half staff. Governors of many, if not all, states ordered the same. Obviously what happened Thursday at Ft. Hood was a tragedy. Just as obviously, Sgt. Kimberly Munley who got shot while taking Hasan out is a hero. So are others who helped the wounded as the firing continued. So, flying the flag at half ...

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Darren Rowse / Digital Photography School
Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead? Do You Print Your Digital Images? POLL   —  Time for another poll – do you print your digital images? If so, approximately how many of them? Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. In comments below it might also be interesting to hear HOW you print them – ie do you get them [...] Post from: Digital Photography ...

7. Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice  permalink

Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM

Even though less than 1 percent of the population uses Google Voice, David Erickson, president of the Free Conferencing Corp., a conference call company whose numbers are blocked by the service, is pretty aggrieved. So he met with the FCC and filed a letter urging the regulatory agency to get Google to play fair. [...]

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Blogoscoped.com
Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice Dan Siroker: CarrotSticks, Google Chrome, and Obama   —  Dan Siroker is the founder of kid’s learning games site CarrotSticks.com. Before that, he was involved with the Obama campaign as deputy new media director; prior to that, Dan was a product manager for Google Chrome.

8. Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion  permalink

Danny Gallagher / TV Squad

Part of me is surprised that this deal took this long to happen. But when you watch the recent crop of new shows on the Chortle Network (with the exception of Tosh.0 ), it really shouldn't surprise anyone. Comedy Central has ordered a half-hour scripted pilot based on the Onion's Sports Network. The OSN is part of the popular satirical magazine' ...

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Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion Comedy Central orders the Onion TV pilot   —  The as-yet-untitled pilot will be based on the Onion Sports Network online video series and take on teams, fans, sports products and sports coverage. The show will be geared toward sports lovers and long-time followers of the Onion.

9. Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums combine for ultimate MIDI kit  permalink

Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums combine for ultimate MIDI kit
Darren Murph / Engadget

We've seen our fair share of Guitar Hero / Rock Band drum kit mods , but without exception, this one is our fav. Tipster (and tinkerer) Jordan has taken the time to wire up a Guitar Hero kit and a Rock Band kit in order to create the most bodacious set of MIDI skins this planet has ever seen. Using a combination of Osculator, JunXion Lite and ...

10. Verizon's LG Chocolate Touch is nice but nothing new  permalink

Verizon's LG Chocolate Touch is nice but nothing new
Nicole Lee / Crave

The LG Chocolate Touch from Verizon Wireless is a terrific music phone with Dolby Music equalizer settings, an FM radio, and more, but it doesn't the "wow" factor we were expecting. Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast

11. Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data  permalink

Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data
Lee Mathews / Download Squad

Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Mozilla Labs has announced a winner of the Jetpack .5 contest . While Jetpack is known primarily as a framework for allowing coders with a web development background to put together add-on type enhancements for Firefox, the winner 's project wasn't your run-of-the-mill sidebar hack. Alex Miltsev's submission was ...

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Mozilla Labs   —  Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons. We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest. Given the fantastic group of entrants, with Jetpacks that did everything from Twitter readers to a one-click text translators,

12. Unveiling the Boxee Beta in NYC on Dec 7th  permalink

Unveiling the Boxee Beta in NYC on Dec 7th
Blog.boxee.tv

The date is set for the release of the Boxee Beta. On December 7th at 7pm we are going to have an unveiling event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. At the event we will demo the new Beta, launch new applications from partners and start a 4-weeks early-access for users to test the Beta before we release it to the public at CES on Jan 7th.

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13. Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming  permalink

Brad Fitzpatrick  Talks About Programming
Blogoscoped.com

Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ...

14. Myka ION brings Hulu, Boxee and other web content to your TV  permalink

Myka ION brings Hulu, Boxee and other web content to your TV
Darren Murph / Engadget

It's been almost a full year since we heard a peep from the fine folks at Myka , but it looks like we could be talking about 'em a lot more often judging by the specs list on its latest contraption. The simply-titled ION is an Atom-based media PC that relies on NVIDIA's Ion graphics set and a customized interface that brings Hulu , Boxee and ...

15. PBS ombudsman criticizes Sesame Street for 'POX News' joke  permalink

Danny Gallagher / TV Squad

Poor Oscar the Grouch. Not even PBS' ombudsman will cut him a break. No wonder he's so grouchy. Well that and he lives in a garbage can. That would make me more than a little perturbed. A clip of a two-year episode of Sesame Street popped up on YouTube thanks to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart's on his Big Hollywood blog in which Grundgetta,

16. Tetris, Eastern Bloc stylez  permalink

Tetris, Eastern Bloc stylez
Honeyman / Dvorak Uncensored

Says it all, really. More info here .

17. FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille  permalink

FishVille Launches on Facebook; It’s Like Underwater FarmVille
Barb Dybwad / Mashable!

We were sort of surprised to discover how many of you proclaim your love for FarmVille , the social farming sim game from Zynga. We reported that the company had trademarked the name FishVille last month, and speculated that an aquatic derivative of the wildly popular social game might be in the works. And indeed it was, with FishVille launching ...

18. Top 5 most popular products for November  permalink

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We're getting close to the holidays and we know you're starting to make your wish lists. So we're treating this month's most popular products list as a request. You're spending a lot of your time viewing these products. We get it. Feel free to send this video around to friends and family as a hint.

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20. Fugly Friday : Aiseikai Hospital has no opthamologist on staff  permalink

Fugly Friday : Aiseikai Hospital has no opthamologist on staff
Grant Robertson / Download Squad

Filed under: Fugly Friday With all the hullabaloo over medical reform in the U.S., you might wonder what health care looks like in other parts of the world. At this hospital in Japan, your care comes with a healthy side order of flashing, blinking Lucky Cats, and a prescription strength dose of animated gifs. Warning : If you're epileptic, we ...