1. The End Of The CrunchPad  permalink

The End Of The CrunchPad
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It 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 ...

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With CrunchPad dead, the Web reacts Techcrunch Crunchpad Tablet   —  Make sure your comment is relevant to the topic discussed. Comments not relevant to the topic will be deleted. Neither you nor Popular Mechanics has the ability to make your e-mail address public. However, we ask that you submit your e-mail address to us just in case we need to contact you. Thank you for your understanding--The Editors.

2. TweetDeck links in retweets, Twitter lists, maps  permalink

TweetDeck links in retweets, Twitter lists, maps
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Seesmic'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 ...

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CNET News Daily Podcast: Black Friday and Cyber Monday kick off holiday shopping TweetDeck ups the Twitter List ante for all Twitter apps   —  When Twitter added lists not only was there a race to build (and get on) lists, but Twitter clients to add support for them. Over the past few weeks I’ve watched Hootsuite, Nambu, and others add Twitter Lists support all the while waiting for my favourite Twitter tool, TweetDeck to add support. This morning the wait is over and I think ...

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CNET News Daily Podcast: Black Friday and Cyber Monday kick off holiday shopping Tweetie 2.1 iPhone App Adds Retweet, Lists and GeoLocation Features   —  Frankly, I really don’t dig why anyone would actually pay for an iPhone app that can be had for free through another app. Take the case of Tweetie iPhone which has just released its version 2.1 (iTunes Link). While the newest version of this iPhone app is sprinkled with new features such as retweet, list [...]

3. Dell brings Chrome OS to its Netbook  permalink

Dell brings Chrome OS to its Netbook
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Dell 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 ...

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Google Chrome for Mac Beta Will Lack Several Features   —  TechCrunch is reporting that in order to meet a self-imposed end-of-year deadline for the beta release of the Chrome Web browser for Mac, Google is trimming...

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Dell brings Chrome OS to its Netbook Dell and Cloud Engines Highlight Privacy Benefits of Centralizing PHI   —  Nemertes Impact Analysis: Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is rolling out a healthcare IT solution that uses desktop virtualization to deliver medical content to a range of devices (desktops, laptops, handheld devices and thin clients) without releasing protected health information (PHI) from the data center. Fifty percent of enterprises expect to have some ...

4. Microturbine-powered hybrid supercar to debut in Los Angeles  permalink

Microturbine-powered hybrid supercar to debut in Los Angeles
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In 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 ...

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5. Big marketing budget drives Moto Droid sales  permalink

Big marketing budget drives Moto Droid sales
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Motorola'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.

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Big marketing budget drives Moto Droid sales Cyber Monday CrunchDeal: “Free” Droid Eris   —  It may not have seen as much hype as it’s big brother, the Moto Droid, but the Verizon Droid Eris is still one helluva handset. Generally coming in at around $99 bucks, it’s one of the cheapest ways to get in on all this Android-hullabaloo – and for one day, it’s even cheaper. And [...]

6. Cyber Monday bargain hunters out earlier  permalink

Cyber Monday bargain hunters out earlier
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Although 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- ...

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Five Hot Cyber Monday Bargains for Businesses   —  Holiday shopping isn't just for consumers. Here are five Cyber Monday offers on technology that small businesses and professionals can take advantage of.

7. Convert Your iPhone Into Wireless Laptop Numpad  permalink

Convert Your iPhone Into Wireless Laptop Numpad
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The 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.

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8. Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Chevron World Challenge Golf Tournament  permalink

Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Chevron World Challenge Golf Tournament
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Tiger 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.

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Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Chevron World Challenge Golf Tournament Charges Pending In Tiger Woods Accident   —  Somebody’s Going To The Big House: After being denied access to Tiger Woods at three times over the weekend, police in Central Florida say “charges” are pending in the suspicious one-car crash that left the golfer with severe cuts to his face.

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Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Chevron World Challenge Golf Tournament Report: Authorities Say Charges Pending in Tiger Woods Incident   —  After canceling a meeting with police over the weekend Tiger Woods has yet to speak with authorities about his car accident -- with charges reportedly pending.

9. Top 20 tough iPhone cases  permalink

Top 20 tough iPhone cases
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How 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 ...

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Top 20 tough iPhone cases Review: TomTom Car Kit for iPhone and iPod Touch   —  Short Version $219.94. The price says it all. The TomTom Car Kit is great; it works perfectly, and I loved using it. In fact, I wish I could keep the review unit that TomTom sent me. That said, would I ever spend 2 bills and change on it? Mayyyybe, but it’s unlikely. A standalone TomTom [...]

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Top 20 tough iPhone cases For Refurbed Apple iPhones, Cyber Monday is No Black Friday   —  AT Ts refurbished iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS deals arent quite what they were on Black Friday. But theyre still a deal and will arrive quicker than the next-generation iPhone, which new rumors are pointing to the existence of. - AT amp;Ts refurbished 16GB iPhone 3G for $49.99 was a Black Friday special only, according to AT amp;Ts online sales ...

10. IT Decision Makers Top 2010 Priority: Managing Costs  permalink

IT Decision Makers Top 2010 Priority: Managing Costs
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IT 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.”

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IT Decision Makers Top 2010 Priority: Managing Costs Your top HR tech priorities for next year revealed   —  Working out your budgets and trying to figure out the tech priorities for your HR department in 2010? Nick Heath has a few suggestions for HR directors as to where to invest that cash on technology to get the most benefits for your team and the rest of the business.

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Global Firms' Decision-Makers For Emerging Technologies, 2009   —  Global firms report on the technologies purchasing decision making process.

11. Tower of Greed: a vertical-scrolling platform Time Waster  permalink

Tower of Greed: a vertical-scrolling platform Time Waster
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad

Filed 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 ...

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Tower of Greed: a vertical-scrolling platform Time Waster Keep your World of Warcraft add-ons up to date easily with the Curse Client   —  Filed under: Games , Freeware You know from first impressions of the Curse website and download page that this is going to be one smooth app. The Curse Client sure has come on a long way since its early, ugly, clunky days. Now, with version 4 , it has finally reached maturity . Sexy, sleek, easy-to-use maturity. The Curse Client primarily ...

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Tower of Greed: a vertical-scrolling platform Time Waster 397,284 gameplays »   —  Your goal is to escape the infamous Tower of Greed, while collecting as many valuable gems as possible. There is an exit on every 5th floor, so you may choose when and where you wish to exit with your wealth. Be careful, though, not to let your greed overwhelm you. After all, money and death don’t mix.UpdatesUpdate 1.0.7 – - – - -

12. IBM Confirms Acquisition of Database Security Vendor Guardium  permalink

IBM Confirms Acquisition of Database Security Vendor Guardium
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After 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 ...

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IBM Confirms Acquisition of Database Security Vendor Guardium Consumer Security Market Trends, 2009 To 2010: Changing Channel And Partner Dynamics   —  Consumer security vendors are faced with market forces that are mandating a change in how they take their solutions to market. Low conversion of trials and high customer churn at renewal time are combining with a diminishing effectiveness of traditional channel partners. Vendors must seek more inventive ways to boost the profile and reputation of ...

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IBM Stays Tops as Server Market Stabilizes, Gartner Says   —  IBM retained its lead over HP as the worldwide server market began to stabilize in the third quarter, Gartner said Monday.

13. UPDATE 2-Samsung set to beat 2009 handset sales target  permalink

UPDATE 2-Samsung set to beat 2009 handset sales target
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SEOUL, 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.

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Why Samsung Needs Bada   —  Investors will be keeping a close eye on next week's unveiling of bada, an open mobile platform designed to sit atop Samsung’s proprietary OS. If the company can attract developers to the platform, bada could boost Samsung’s overall phone sales and help shore up diminishing margins.

14. Best Tip Of The Week: I am not good with computer edition  permalink

Best Tip Of The Week: I am not good with computer edition
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch

We 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  permalink

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack 1 released
Kyle / BlackBerry Cool

RIM 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. ...

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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack 1 released Congratulations winners of the BlackBerry Alliance EMEA Innovation Awards   —  Over the Thanksgiving holidays RIM held the BlackBerry Alliance Program’s EMEA Innovations Awards. The awards are in their 2nd year and showcase companies innovating in the BlackBerry space. Congratulations to all the companies who won, and those participated. Life On BlackBerry Poynt took the award for Life On BlackBerry with their all-in- ...

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BlackBerry Enterprise Server Service Pack 1 released SMobile Systems launch Net Nanny for BlackBerry   —  SMobile Systems and Net Nanny have partnered to bring the Net Nanny solution to BlackBerry. Net Nanny Mobile gives parents the ability to protect their kids and family from misconduct, exploitation, unwanted communications, sexting, loss and theft, cyber bullying, malware and online predators. Features include: Monitoring View the content of ...

16. Tweeting Smalltalk  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

Last 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  permalink

ERIC PFANNER / NYT

To earn new revenue from sources other than advertising, online publishers will need the help of gatekeepers like Google and Microsoft.

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Media Cache: Google and News Corp. Do Need Each Other Stephen Gately tops Google search   —  The death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately was fastest rising search topic on Google's UK site in 2009, the firm says.

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Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'   —  November's top stories on silicon.com tackled some big questions: does my business need an office? Can I work solely on a netbook? Will the UK ever create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle of its very own?

18. Stressing the Web, ‘NewsHour’ Begins an Overhaul  permalink

ELIZABETH JENSEN / NYT

With 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  permalink

James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits

Here'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  permalink

ASHLEE VANCE / NYT

European Commission reaction to Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems has stoked a tricky debate: Can open-source software live up to its populist traditions?