1. The End Of The CrunchPad 4 hours ago permalinkIt was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves – the user interface was intuitive enough that people “got it” without any instructions. And the look of ...
2. TweetDeck links in retweets, Twitter lists, maps 2 hours ago permalinkSeesmic's Twitter reader app for Mac and Windows is looking at some serious renewed competition from TweetDeck. The newly updated TweetDeck 0.32 (and AIR app for Windows and Mac,) packs in a host of changes that should make the desktop app more attractive to power tweeters. Chief among these is new behavior for retweeting, when a user shares a ...
3. Dell brings Chrome OS to its Netbook 1 hour ago permalinkDell has released an experimental version of Google's Chrome OS adapted for its own Mini 10v Netbook. Earlier this month, Google released the source code underlying the Chrome OS browser-based operating system; the first version of the software won't be complete until 2010, when it will become available only when purchased on a computer. But ...
4. Microturbine-powered hybrid supercar to debut in Los Angeles 3 hours ago permalinkIn an unlikely alliance, Capstone, manufacturer of electricity-generating microturbines, and Electronic Arts Chief Creative Director Richard Hilleman built a hybrid sports car for the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show. The CMT-380 uses an electric powertrain with a range extending diesel-fueled microturbine. A lithium-polymer battery pack gives the ...
5. Big marketing budget drives Moto Droid sales 29 minutes ago permalinkMotorola's and Verizon Wireless' $100 million marketing campaign for the Motorola Droid seems to be paying off with strong sales that will likely result in more than 1 million devices being sold in the fourth quarter of 2009.
6. Cyber Monday bargain hunters out earlier 1 hour ago permalinkAlthough information on how much money people are spending and what they're buying Monday won't be available until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest, we know just from traffic to retail Web sites that shoppers are out in force. According to Akamai's Net Usage Index for Retail, which tracks traffic to a representative set of more than 270 global e- ...
7. Convert Your iPhone Into Wireless Laptop Numpad 20 minutes ago permalinkThe most selling laptops in the market have 15 inch screen, they all lack the numpad because there is no space to fit in. The netbooks are selling like hotcakes and same is the case with them. I didn’t find the need for numpad until I started working with Office Excel 2010.
8. Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Chevron World Challenge Golf Tournament 1 hour ago permalinkTiger Woods has cancelled plans to attend his own golf tournament because of injuries he suffered in mysterious one-car crash outside his Florida home early Friday, the pro golfer said in a statement Monday.
9. Top 20 tough iPhone cases 4 hours ago permalinkHow you choose to protect--or not protect--your iPhone is a matter of personal choice. Sure, plenty of people like to leave their iPhone naked, reasoning that any protective cover diminishes its sleekness. But the majority of iPhone owners realize that it's probably a good idea to give your precious device some degree of armor, particularly if ...
10. IT Decision Makers Top 2010 Priority: Managing Costs 1 hour ago permalinkIT organizations say they are more optimistic about their prospects for 2010, but when it comes to spending money, the refrain might as well be: you first.
11. Tower of Greed: a vertical-scrolling platform Time Waster 1 hour ago permalinkFiled under: Games , Time-Wasters Tower of Greed is (mostly) a standard platform game, except that the screen scrolls upward instead of side-to-side as you climb the titular Tower. The "greed" part is because the object of the game is to amass as many gems as you can on your way to the top. There are enemies and power-ups along the way, but you ...
12. IBM Confirms Acquisition of Database Security Vendor Guardium 1 hour ago permalinkAfter declining comment this morning, IBM gave in and admitted reports that it was acquiring Guardium were in fact true. The acquisition brings Guardium's database activity monitoring and data security capabilities into IBM's software portfolio. - IBM officials confirmed the company has acquired Guardium for its database security and activity ...
13. UPDATE 2-Samsung set to beat 2009 handset sales target 1 hour ago permalinkSEOUL, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the world's No. 2 mobile phone maker, gave an upbeat forecast for 2009 mobile phone sales due to sharp growth in touchscreen models, but surging sales may not guarantee higher margins.
14. Best Tip Of The Week: I am not good with computer edition 14 minutes ago permalinkWe get a lot of e-mail at the MobileCrunch tips line. Really, a whole friggin’ lot. About 2% of them are worthwhile tips. The remaining 98% is made up of other bloggers highlighting their stories for linkage (which we don’t mind a bit), Nigerian princes asking for our bank account details (which we do mind), [...] 15. BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack 1 released 2 hours ago permalinkRIM have released Service Pack 1 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino . While BES 5.0 was an exciting launch back at WES 2009, many of the enterprise users we spoke to said they would wait for SP1 before buying, because they wanted to make sure RIM had gone through the first wave of feedback and bugs. ...
16. Tweeting Smalltalk 46 minutes ago permalinkLast week I made a small modification to the server running this site, and now every change to one of the pages on the main site gets tweeted. So if you would rather folllow us on Twitter than in the RSS feed , just go ahead and follow CincomSmalltalk on Twitter. Technorati Tags: twitter , social media 17. Media Cache: Google and News Corp. Do Need Each Other 3 hours ago permalinkTo earn new revenue from sources other than advertising, online publishers will need the help of gatekeepers like Google and Microsoft.
18. Stressing the Web, ‘NewsHour’ Begins an Overhaul 1 hour ago permalinkWith the program’s Web employees now in the fold, “NewsHour” is changing its name, adding a co-anchor and raising its presence online. 19. Maispion: Mining Email and Source Code Repositories 1 hour ago permalinkHere's another video from ESUG 2009 - Maispion, a tool built to mine information about open source projects out of email lists and source code repositories. You can get the slides here ; to watch, click on the viewer below: If you have trouble viewing that directly, you can click here to download the video directly You can also watch it on Vimeo ... 20. Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive 1 hour ago permalinkEuropean Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: Can open-source software live up to its populist traditions? |
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