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Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him. But I think his latest rant against “citizen journalism” is misplaced. ...
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JENNA WORTHAM
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NYT
Rent the Runway wants to do for high-end fashion what Netflix has done for movies by offering a simple mail-order system.
Verizon Wireless pokes fun at iPhone in latest ad calling it a 'misfit toy' from the TV classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer .
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New Verizon ad calls iPhone 'misfit toy'
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Verizon has decided to take the spirit of Christmas and shove it into the part of iPhone users' chimneys where Santa would need a pick ax. Some who viewed the first Droid teaser ad, just a couple of weeks ago, were stunned to see Verizon so baldly declare that the Apple uber-machine was, in some ways, deficient.
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Mobile and Wireless
Rumors of a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S Alight on Droid`s Big Launch Day
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Are Apple and AT T planning to launch a $99 8GB iPhone 3G S in time for the holidays? This was rumor offered by a popular source. True or not, what does it say about the Motorola Droid and the growing crop of Apple look-alikes? - On the day Verizon Wireless launched the Motorola Droid, its best shot at an iPhone killer, rumors emerged of plans ...
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First Look- Droid Phone by Motorola
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I just picked up the Motorola Droid phone from Verizon Wireless the other day, and have started taking a look at the features and benefits that the device has (or doesn’t have) over the iPhone, my current sidearm. My point in writing this is not to compare the phone to the iPhone, but to tell you what I found about the Droid so far.
Darnell Clayton
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The Blog Herald
Did BlogPress Spank WordPress And Six Apart On The iPhone?
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If it were not for the WordPress iPhone app’s ability to moderate comments, I would seriously consider deleting it right now. BlogPress, an iPhone app by CoolLittle Things has recently updated their app which now supports direct image uploading to WordPress and Movabletype blogs, instead of uploading them to Picasa Web Albums like before. ...
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NOAM COHEN
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NYT
There is way too much information — the number of tweets a day has risen to 26 million a day in October from 2.4 million in January.
 
Om Malik
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GigaOM
Cisco Systems, the Wall Street darling, might soon find itself in a street brawl with not only former enemies but also allies who are turning on it. The company, which once made its living selling core infrastructure products such as routers and switches, has more recently been chasing new markets such as video conferencing and [...]
THE inventor of the world's first permanently-tied shoelace has received acclaim from a unique source - the British Cheerleading Asssociation (BCA). Father-of-three Peter Greedy, who lives in Hanwell, got plaudits from the BCA for inventing the Greeper, the shoelace which never comes undone.
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Treehugger has an interesting story about a company that rents out goats to clear brush. Goats have many advantages: • They have a low impact on the environment due to their cloven hooves. • They are natural climbers and love steep slopes and uneven terrain. • They can go where machinery and other modes of [...]
Om Malik
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GigaOM
Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn’t work over the iPhone’s 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for VoIP over 3G with much fanfare, a move that was widely applauded, including kudos from FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. A [...]
George Lopez’s new late night talk show, Lopez Tonight, premieres this Monday night @ 11PM on TBS — and the self-proclaimed Latin King of Comedy is getting the word out with a little help from Twitter and Times Square!
Each of the famous men in Taylor Swift’s life earned name drops in her inaugural Saturday Night Live monologue over the weekend. The country singer sang about ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas, her rumored boyfriend Taylor Lautner, and the man who ambushed her at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, rapper Kanye West, as she opened the long-running ...
In a wireless market featuring high prices, limited competition and sparse regulation, it's time consumers got some protection.
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
After watching the way the Giants ended today's game, all I can say is this: I'm pining for the beginning of baseball season... Technorati Tags: football , giants
Published by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi November 8th, 2009 in NeoSmart Technologies 7 Comments Tags: Browser, Flash, HTML5, Videos, YouTube Running on Mac or Linux and tired of Adobe Flash eating up all your CPU cycles while you’re watching YouTube? Buggy plugins that crash your browser and freeze your PC? Proprietary formats that get in the way? ...
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Here’s a clip from Lady Gaga’s forthcoming vid, “Bad Romance.” The eccentric pop sensation is readying the premiere of The Fame Monster, a remastered re-release of her platinum-selling debut album
Bruce Willis just says “no” to cosmetic surgery. The Die Hard star has revealed that he is not a fan of cosmetic surgery and will never resort to going under the knife to maintain a youthful appearance.
In October Netflix announced you will be able to stream Netflix movies and TV shows on to your PlayStation 3 (PS3) game console. This Saturday it is finally became available.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Al Gore, a self-proclaimed "wanna-be geek," is on the road talking about solutions to multiple problems. The former vice president gave a speech at the First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist church here on Saturday to promote his latest book, Our Choice. Whereas Inconvenient Truth documented the reasons for global warming,
Most of the bloggers I know are satisfied to get $10 for a 250-word post. So when I read that our government is poised to spend $5 million to help “spread democracy” throughout the Mideast and North Africa, I couldn’t help but wonder if a few loyal BlogHerald readers were in for a sizable [...]
Kate Imbach
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GigaOM
Location is a core element in mobile applications and smartphones. We take our mobile devices with us everywhere we go. Their location, and the context in which we use them, changes constantly. In the next two years, location will become central to user experience and performance on hundreds of millions of handsets and applications. We [...]
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
This week we spoke to two members of the build team here at Cincom - Niall Ross and Tom Robinson. They've been working on cleaning up the build process from what it used to be - "that guy over there? He does builds" - to something more turnkey and automatic. In the process we discussed testing, build automation, and future goals. To ...
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James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
Industry Misinterpretations 161: How do You Build Cake?
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This week we spoke to two members of the build team here at Cincom - Niall Ross and Tom Robinson. They've been working on cleaning up the build process from what it used to be - "that guy over there? He does builds" - to something more turnkey and automatic. In the process we discussed testing, build automation, and future goals. To ...
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