http://www.megite.com Megite is the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now by intelligently uncovering the most relevant items from auto discovered news sites and weblogs. Copyright 2009, Megite 30 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:02:43 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_1 fba36ed352e65f696f3e86076f0274f6 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:42:53 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_2 443b635a529107a6b30af6197380670b Nearly five months after launching a free, ad-supported application for iPhone and iPod Touch, eBuddy is today introducing a paid version of the program, which enables users to communicate with contacts across various instant messaging clients. Priced at $4.99 ( iTunes link ), which in my opinion is fairly expensive, the app lets you chat with ... 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(Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:46:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_6 899eb7a62bc4ae8685a562e2a657057b The business of weather has changed dramatically since former WCCO Minneapolis chief meteorologist Paul Douglas exited the station world in 2008. An entrepreneur with a handful of multi-million-dollar weather-tech startups to his credit, Douglas launched the syndicated weather outfit WeatherNation a few months after he was laid off, with the aim ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:43:08 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_7 54118dd6b6c7234e8a86374af98f2278 It's that time of year again when we see each search engine roll out their top search queries for the year. Scrubbed for pornography and other NSFW stuff, of course. And also manipulated in other ways, like taking out old popular terms, to make sure the list is interesting, if not actually representative of anything, statistically speaking. Here ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:21:34 PST http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_8 dde1fba3aa05e97092735aab503861a2 Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert’s son, has decided to participate in a joint bid for the b2b magazines and events properties held by Nielsen Business Media, FT reports , citing an unidentified source. Last week, as Rafat first reported that Murdoch had been considering aligning himself with a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:10:13 -0800 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_9 6e03a3495a19fdfe171ea5cb45248719 As we reported Thanksgiving Day , web searches and traffic for online retailers during the holidays were significantly down as compared to previous years, according to research from Experian Hitwise. However, this Black Friday showed a 4 percent increase in site visits versus Thanksgiving Day traffic - a stat that usually falls between those two ... 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Predictably, the reports and reactions thereto pertaining varied somewhat in quality and timeliness, and predictably, this has led to paroxysms of futurist glee in some and sullen condemnation by others. Now that the smoke has cleared, (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:15:35 GMT http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_15 768dcc9204c67b178edc33fb9740cc35 It’s Sunday and I want you to be happy. That’s why I’m offering you your very own Vue Personal Video network so you can keep an eye on Santa as he sneaks up to your back porch and steals your garbage cans. (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:15:35 GMT http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_16 a82afedc00590bea9843130e031cabdf With car companies gearing up to launch a new generation of plug-in hybrid and electric cars over the next five years, the time has come to pick sites for manufacturing the vehicles. Given that many of these factories come with promises to create hundreds or thousands of jobs in the surrounding area, stakes have been high in the competition among ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:54:09 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_17 ecb3ce56d2f0bb7390284500670a50e8 Today's Learn Something Every Day intrigued me: "NASCAR driver, Tim Flock is the only driver in motor racing history to have to make a pit stop to remove a monkey from his car." The full story is over at Tim Flock's official site . The monkey's name was Jocko Flocko and actually drove with him for eight races as a publicity stunt. Flock explains ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:54:09 +0000 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:48:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_19 93113829551953ee14fc2b0eb35dd777 Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:48:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/1#item_20 345bb541f6980142af594b7822e80ee7 One of the things that has been most-surprising about the advent of Netbooks is that it has become less about the hardware as much as how mainstream operating systems and applications have had to adapt to fit within their confines. In the earlier generations of these machines, operating systems like Windows Vista just didn't cut the mustard, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:48:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/21#item_1 daf4f8c9503e7aedabbd7e75d6464a16 I just spent four hours going through my inbox and taking it from 500 emails to zero. These were old unanswered emails, not spam (which I delete regularly in the ordinary course of business). (Read on Source) ]]> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:48:44 +0000 http://www.megite.com/rww/1259593252/21#item_2 6577a12b0ea188a8be1745d5d1bf498a Fortune 500 companies are placed in a list compiled and published by Fortune magazine. These companies are ranked within the top 500 U.S. corporations by their gross revenue. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955. And since then, it has been the dream of most start-ups and established companies to be featured within this list. (Read on Source) ]]>