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Microsoft Unveils Limited Edition Zune
2008-06-08 17:42:00 Microsoft has launched a limited edition of there digital media player “Zune”. It has been especially designed by Peter Saville to be made available to commemorate the DVD release of “Joy Division”, the critically acclaimed Documentary. The limited edition Zune will contain the film and it will also be etched with an apoptation of Saville’s ...
ShadowCaddy - An Electric Robot Caddy for Golfers
2008-06-07 23:45:00 There are so many chores where you feel having a robot to do them would make our lives so much easier! One such thing is the Golf Caddy; it would be so great if we could have an automatic caddy that could just follow you carrying all your gear so you'd be left to concentrate on your game. Apparently, ShadowCaddy does just that! An innovative breakthrough, the Shadow Caddy is the first ever robotic golf caddy that simply follows golfers around the course. Looking like a small and sleek sidecar,... Please Click the Title for the Full Story
Polaroid Pogo: Inkless Instant Digital Pocket Printer
2008-06-06 18:29:00 Polaroid has recently launched an Instant Pocket Printer called Polaroid Pogo. The small device can print the photos from a Pict-bridge enabled digital camera, without the need for a PC and the results will be available in less than 60 seconds. It prints small 2? x 3″ prints which are small enough and looks good on ...
Samsung?s YEP-S2 Pebble Launched in Korea
2008-06-05 09:04:00 Samsung has launched a new range of Digital Audio Players called YEP-S2 where ‘S’ stands for Stone. The new players comes preloaded with Samsung’s DNSe (Digital Natural Sound Engine ) audio processor. The player looks like a smooth round pebble and has an LED which provides subtle lightning effects and has keys located underneath. The LED’s change ...
The Jeep Renegade Concept Car Looks Awesome!
2008-06-04 09:39:00 A B-segment Jeep concept vehicle, the Renegade is a sporty, "minimized" two-seater ideally suited for the all-weather fun of dune-surfing or rock-crawling."Jeep has a great future and great future products, a lot of what you see in the Renegade concept will be integrated into Jeeps that we will see over the next few years," predicted explained Steve Schmelz, Sea View Chrysler Jeep, Ocean Township. "Everyone who has seen the Renegade at auto shows around America has loved it.""Everyone at our dealership is very excited with the possibility that we could one day see this vehicle on our showroom floor," said Christopher Mackey, Freehold Chrysler Jeep. "The Renegade concept puts a different twist on what it means to be "green' with parts being molded from soy and other recyclable materials."" "The Green Machine.' Jeep is taking us from Army "green' to environmental "green,' " said Anthony Maffucci, Toms River Jeep. "Good for the Earth we all dwell and dawdle on and still the best fo...
Scion Unveils Hako Coupe Concept
2008-06-04 06:22:00 Any hope that Scion would be revealing the next iteration of the tC, or a clean-sheet sports coupe with which to replace it, were dashed this afternoon in New York when the wraps were pulled off the Hako Coupe Concept. The Hako is essentially a Scion xB that's lost a couple of doors and gained a massive schnoz, a seriously upright windshield and some highly stylized accents. Scion's PR people insist that the coupe's design is inspired by the "emergence of American vintage style among young Tokyo trendsetters," which may be true, but Scion's veep, Jack Hollis' remark that the Hako "is the sporty version of a box." Oxymoronic? We think so.As with most of Scion's concepts, the Hako is a combination of form and functionality, with an emphasis on living the Scion life that the brand has fought hard to establish. As such, there's a focus on lifestyle elements that find their way inside, with storage crevices for magazines and mobile phones, flat-screen monitors and a videogame-insp...
Honlai MP100 - Palm-sized Mini Projector
2008-06-03 20:13:00 As technology advances, we are moving towards everything "nano", so from a Nano-Car, to a Nano-Projector, we've achieved quite a lot of progress! The latest mini-gadget added to the list of impressive innovations is the Honlai MP100 - the tiny palm-sized mini-LED projector which looks like a bundle of power packaged in a small frame! It looks really sleek and impressive, and is ergonomically designed to look like a mouse, and deftly fit in your palm! Honlai Technology's latest innovation is... Please Click the Title for the Full Story
An Egg with Bass? / Brando Tumbler Speaker
2008-06-02 19:26:00 Brando Releases Tumbler - Miniature USB Speaker The UK?s Brando is now offering a new egg shaped USB speaker for PMP (Portable Media Players), dubbed the Tumbler Speaker. The speaker comes in either Black or Red and claims to have substantial bass. Features: » Extension tube for bass » Pocketsize portability » Volume control » Built-in Rechargeable Battery » Black and Red ...
Dean Kamen's Robot Arm has Mind-control and 3D-spatial Interfaces
2008-05-31 09:47:00 Inventor extraordinaire Dean Kamen spoke at D today about the latest developments in the Luke arm. Not that it wasn't already impressive enough, but Kamen's company, DEKA Research, has made even more amazing developments in the arm's interface, complementing the early mechanical controls with spatial and neural interfaces. The shot above was taken of a man with transected nerves, which were interfaced directly to the arm, enabling him to delicately utilize numerous degrees of motion within hours of installation. Also in development for the Luke arm is a spatial interface (which would intelligently give some control of movement back to the arm itself), as well as a non-invasive mind interface that utilizes infrared to read neural signals through the skull. Furthermore, to lend in balance and motion with heavier usage, a new body-mounting chassis was built, featuring embedded bladders that tense up. Kamen said that while mines tend to blow off legs, the improvised explosives used i...
SCAVENGERS / Art Toy Figures / MINDstyle
2008-05-28 07:17:00 Slated for a June 20th (Friday) 2008 release, Kathie Olivas’ SCAVENGERS Mini-Figure Series One from MINDstyle will see 7 figures = including 6 Regular (less than 2000-pc per design made) and 1 Secret (green gas-mask @ only 300-pcs packed randomly) - all in 15-boxes packed in a specially designed flip top gift box (closed by ...
Netflix & Roku Team Up for a $99 Set-Top Box To Enable Watching Movies on T
2008-05-27 19:56:00 We all know that IPTV is "not there yet", and the rising cable and satellite prices are killing subscribers. Due to lack of high-speed internet, viewing video over IP has suffered a setback, but more and more companies are trying to come up with similar devices that could help solve this problem. Netflix, the most low-priced online DVD rental service now teams up with Roku to introduce a device which will allow customers to watch movies easily on their televisions without involving mailing... Please Click the Title for the Full Story
USB Warmer/Chiller and a 4- Port Hub
2008-05-22 22:27:00 This multi-purpose USB hub not only offers you connectivity options for another four USB 2.0 devices, it is also a 3 in 1 combo gadget-> Warmer + Cooler + Hub. Isn?t it great? This model features a warmer/chiller plate that helps keep your favorite beverage hot/cold irrespective of your room temperature. Moreover, it is also a 4 ...
Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick
2008-05-16 09:28:00 PCTV HD Pro Stick is the first ultra-compact USB 2.0 powered TV tuner in an attractive stick form factor that brings the brilliant sharpness of HDTV via ATSC to your PC. The new digital TV standard ATSC comes over the air and for free in high or standard definition, and there is no subscription required. In addition to ATSC, also standard analog TV (NTSC) can be received, via cable, satellite or antenna.Following are the salient features.Features:Watch live high quality digital HD and SD TV without service fees from anywhere on your laptop Break free and PlaceShift with the sleek USB 2.0 powered portable PCTV device Sit back and relax from afar with full remote control access The options are unlimited with full support for both analog (NTSC) and digital (ATSC) reception Instantly transform your PC into a personal digital video recorder (DVR) Take complete control of when you watch your favorite shows with TimeShifting Never miss a critical part of your favorite show again with pause...
djay / First ever Multi-touch Scratching & Mixing software
2008-05-13 23:57:00 djay software debuts first multi-touch trackpad scratching & mixing software for Apple’s Macs. Moving your fingers up and down will scratch the record (wekka, wekka) like scratching a record on a turntable. Moving your fingers left or right will move the crossfader accordingly. Pretty SWEET!! I can’t wait for every thing on a dj mixer to become multi-touch! djay
BlackBerry Bold Officially Announced
2008-05-12 08:04:00 RIM has officially announced the release of the BlackBerry 9000 Bold. Expect the newest addition to the RIM family to appear sometime this ?summer? on AT&T, then T-Mobile.The BlackBerry Bold 9000 still looks like existing BlackBerrys, but it's packed with new power, most notably a 624-Mhz processor and high-speed 3G networking.The new BlackBerry Bold represents a tremendous step forward in business-grade smartphones and lives up to its name with incredible speed, power and functionality, all wrapped in a beautiful and confident design,? said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion.The BlackBerry Bold smartphone comes with the most vivid and bold display ever introduced on a BlackBerry smartphone. Its half-VGA (480×320 resolution) color LCD is fused to the undersurface of the lens, making images leap out with stunning definition and clarity. Pictures are vibrant and razor sharp, while videos play smoothly and web pages, documents, presentations and messages snap wit...
Nokia 8800
2008-05-11 17:14:00 From the illuminated keypad, to the precision glass and metal body and matching headset, the Nokia 8800 oozes quality. It's the Audi R8 of the celluar chic parade. Good looking, instantly desirable and frighteningly expensive.Forget touch screen, it's just Nokia's standard interface. It's a breeze to use next to some of the other fiddly phones on the market. We scrolled through the menu with the grace and style of Madame Moss in Milan.Although its features can't rival other fashion blowers such as the Sony Ericsson, it has the essentials. You get a 3MP camera with autofocus, 3G and a decent music player. But this isn't about media gumph, it's the individual touches that make the 8800 Arte so special. Turn the handset over to mute an incoming call, reveal an analogue clock by tapping the front or choose from some specially designed wallpaper.At over £300, it's expensive, but with a timeless design and superior build, you're paying for quality. A phone classic.http://feeds.fe...
Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1
2008-05-11 17:10:00 Luckily, Casio has 1200 of them -- that's how many frames its new EX-F1 can shoot every second, at top speed. This creates ultra-slo-mo movies that turn everyday sights like falling water into eye-popping, mind-bending visuals, albeit at low resolution (336x96-pixels).It can rattle off full fat 6MP snaps at a memory card-punishing 60fps, and even night time scarcely slows the Casio down, with an epilepsy-inducing stroble flash that fires seven times a second. Take a time out to look at the images, and you'll find them lively and colourful, if not overly detailed.Unlike an SLR, you can't swap the heavy, built-in 12x optical zoom lens but as it's stabilised, sharp and virtually free from distortion, it's hard to see why you'd want to (unless sluggish zooming gets on your nerves). In fact, many SLR owners will be enviously eyeing the F1's simple manual settings, intuitive click-wheel control and -- especially -- Connery-smooth full HD movie mode that can output punchy 1080i movi...
Fujifilm Finepix S100FS
2008-05-11 17:06:00 Forget triple X or even quadruple X, this bad boy has no less than 14 X zoom to its name, thanks to its eye-popping super-zoom lens. With a twist of your wrist, you can zip the FS100's generous optics from a landscape-spanning 28mm wideangle setting to a paparazzi-impressing 400mm telephoto. Basically, it lets you frame almost any scene perfectly, without waiting for a whiny motorised lens to zoom in or having to swap for more powerful glassware.But this is no digital SLR: you can't swap the lens out and the viewfinder shows only a flickery electronic image instead of the bright view you get with a real SLR. So what do you get for half a grand? Behind the crisp (and optically stablised) lens lives a respectable 11MP sensor that can pump out vivid images, smartface detection and red-eye removal technology, plus colour tweaks that aim to copy Fujifilm's old Velvia and Provia 35mm films.The detailed 2.5-inch screen can fold out to help framing, and there are manual features, burst m...
Navigon 2100
2008-05-11 16:50:00 The plastic body attracts fingerprints like Pete Doherty court summons, but the Navigon 2100 is packed with features for stress-free navigation. Lane Assist highlights the lane you need to be in for motorway exits (a godsend for mid-lane hoggers). Signpost Display shows true-to-life signs; you also get a countdown to each exit and safety camera info.The 2100 is easy to use, although the keys are too small for our large fingers. Route calculation times are some of the best of test, consistently around 15 seconds, re-routing initially takes seconds, although at one point berating us to U-turn.These gripes aside, the innovative driving feature make the Navigon 2100 stand out from other mappers on the market.http://feeds.feedburner.-com/blogspot/lDpW
Nokia NGage
2008-05-11 16:46:00 In its previous incarnation Nokia's N-Gage was a handheld, but now it's back as a mobile games service, where you can download games on the move and play online. Sounds good?It is if you've got an N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95 and N95 8GB which allows you to download the service, and its even better on the new 5320 Xpress Music which come with the application pre installed. Rubbish, if you've got any other Nokia blower as it's not compatible.If you are one of the chosen few to get the "Gage" the choice of games isn't bad. Fife 08, Asphalt 3: Street Rules and World Series of Poker are available now, with Tetris, The Sims, Dogz, Crash Bandicote and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, promised soon. You can bag these from Glu, EA, THQ Wireless and Gameloft but a hefty price of £8. Cheeky.Use is unlimited though, and you can try every game for free. Unfortunately if you change your handset, you lose the game, which sucks if it's close to upgrade time.When it comes to playing the games there...
LG Secret
2008-05-11 16:36:00 First came the chocolate, then the Shine and now we've got the Secret -- the latest in LG's Black Label series. This instalment, showcasing itself as the world's thinnest five-megapixel cam-phone, is the finest to date.The UI really is a peach, with the Touch Media functionality being a particularly awesome, user-friendly feature. It allows you to control music and edit photos the ease and finesse of a Fernando Torres finish. Special mention goes to the games, which transform the Secret into somewhat of a mini-Wii remote. There's plenty of fun to be had flicking the handset towards the bullseye in darts or crashing a mammoth home run during an inning of baseball.The camera is rammed with features, but the picture quality itself still falls slightly short of some of the Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot blowers doing the rounds - still a mighty fine snapper, though.This super-slinky slider is also as pretty as pre-meltdown Britney, in pigtails, with a cherry-flavoured lollypop. The touch-...
$3.2 Billion WiMax Deal Goes Through. Take Cover.
2008-05-07 08:06:00 The deal to combine Sprint Nextel’s and Clearwire’s fledgling WiMax businesses that was rumored last March is finally expected to go through. Comcast and Intel are supposed to put in $1 billion each; Time Warner, $550 million; Google, $500 million; and regional cable provider Bright House Networks, $100 million. The new company, which ...
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Yinlips ultraportable mashes the Eee with a TI-99
2008-05-07 07:21:00 Filed under: Laptops It looks like ultraportable laptops are the new generic PMPs, and we couldn't be happier about it -- especially if we keep seeing units like the Yinlips Micro PC YDP-G77 here. While the spec list is pretty average -- 7-inch screen, 400MHz CPU (we don't know what kind), WiFi, Linux, 500MB or 1GB flash drive -- what's really getting us is the old-school TI-99 looks. All we need now is a speech synthesizer module and we'll be all set.[Via MP4 Nation]Read | Pe-rmalink | Email- this | Comments-
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Spot Runner Raises $51 Million To Expand To New Markets
2008-05-07 05:59:00 The first rule of Startup Club is take the money when you can. Spot Runner CEO Nick Grouf understands that, which is why he just raised $51 million in a C round from a group of strategic investors that include the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Grupo Televisa, Legg Mason Capital Management, and ...
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Samsung SpinPoint M6 500GB laptop drive finally on sale? in France
2008-05-07 05:54:00 Filed under: Storage We've been wondering where Samsung's 9.5mm 500GB SpinPoint M6 laptop drive has been hiding, and it turns out that it's just been vacationing in France. No word on when these might make it Stateside, but if you're desperate (or French), your lappy can unbuckle that belt another notch or two for just €197 ($306).[Thanks, onceuponamac]Read |&#-160;Permalink | -Email this | Comments-
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Switched On: The Linux ultraportable opportunity
2008-05-07 04:18:00 Filed under: LaptopsEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. The US smartphone market may continue to be dominated by mobile platforms from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM, but Linux has been creeping into ever more mobile devices in the last few years. Some Motorola RAZR 2 models have donned a Tux, Palm is looking to Linux to drive its next-generation consumer smartphones, and Android's backers hope to spread it to an even wider array of handsets. Linux is also driving many avant garde connected consumer electronics devices such as the Chumby, Nokia N810, Amazon Kindle, Dash Express, and whatever the fertile minds tinkering with Bug Labs' modules are envisioning,. Even the remote control that houses the user interface of Logitech's Squeezebox Duet is a Linux computer. However, none of these products are intended for as flexible a range of uses as a notebook PC, where Linux is being tested as a tool to achieve lo...
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Animated Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt - Tech and Fashion Sensation
2008-05-06 15:39:00 Can you imagine your life without internet and wi-fi hot-spots?? Definitely not, right? well, the only concern would be unavailability of wireless access everywhere. Fret not, my friends, for the ultimate in fashion and technology is here, and you can buy it for simply $30!! ThinkGeek offers an animated Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt that makes your Wi-Fi dream come true. With this cool t-shirt that detects 802.11b and 802.11g networks, you no longer need to open your laptop just to find out a wi-fi... Please Click the Title for the Full Story
Tagging Goes Semantic With Zigtag
2008-05-06 08:16:00 Bookmarking and tagging websites can be a messy business. Zigtag, a new sidebar-based plugin currently in private beta, is looking to offer clean and streamlined bookmarking and tagging. The plugin differentiates itself from the multitude of other tagging services by introducing a semantic dictionary of over two million tags. The basic ...
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Zune 2.5 update brings TV downloads, Zune Card sharing
2008-05-06 07:01:00 Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Microsoft has quite a bit in store for the Zune faithful with its new Zune version 2.5 software update. The high points are the new Zune Card integration and the addition of TV show downloads on Zune Marketplace, but much-requested features like gapless playback, improved syncing controls, meta data editing, auto playlists and other tweaks have also been included. On the marketing front, Microsoft is really pushing the Zune Pass going forward, and will be launching a new TV commercial to help plug it. Subscribers will particularly benefit from the new Zune Card sharing, which lets you automatically score copies of your pal's favorite songs, artists and recent plays -- non-subscribers can view that Zune Card info, but will have to buy the tracks if they want to have a listen. Unfortunately, news on the video store front isn't so compelling: Microsoft is only adding TV shows at this point, no movies, and there's no way to pull video you'...
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We Lost A Blogging Giant Today: Duncan Riley Leaves TechCrunch
2008-05-06 06:57:00 Today was Duncan Riley’s last day at TechCrunch, and he will be greatly missed. Duncan joined us exactly one year ago and was our most prolific writer, covering tech and startup news seven days a week. He is the author of our highest trafficked post ever, and, based on TechMeme headline counts, he is the ...
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Zuckerberg Hires Another VP From Google: Elliot Schrage
2008-05-06 06:13:00 Mark Zuckerberg loves to hire folks from Google. His poaching started in earnest last year, and includes Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, CFO Gideon Yu, and others. The latest is Elliot Schrage, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs. He will join Facebook on May 14 under the same ...
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Creative?s Vado cheapcorder revealed by JR.com
2008-05-06 06:11:00 Filed under: Digital Cameras It looks like Creative's getting set to muscle in on Pure Digital's Flip Video -- online retailer JR.com has specs up for something called the Vado VF0570-P, and they're basically identical to the Flip Video Ultra, apart from a slightly larger 2-inch screen. Other than that, you're getting the same 2 hours of VGA-res video on 2GB of built-in memory and YouTube support for the same $100 price. No pics or ship dates yet, but we're guessing we'll see something official pretty soon.Read | Perm-alink | Email this | Comments-
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Signing Off, And What Does A TechCrunch Writer Actually Use?
2008-05-06 06:10:00 This is my last post at TechCrunch as a full time writer (I may yet do the occasional guest post). It’s exactly 12 months to the day since I started writing here and the date seemed like a good time to go. I won’t bore you with a self indulgent retrospective; if you are interested ...
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Yahoo To Flag Malware Sites In Search Results
2008-05-06 06:03:00 Tomorrow Yahoo will launch a partnership with McAfee and will integrate their Site Advisor malware scanning product into Yahoo search. The most dangerous websites are simply being removed from search results. Yahoo is also flagging less dangerous offending sites to warn users of specific problems that have been reported from those sites. Example warning messages ...
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Batman and Joker Be@rbrick / Hella Cool!
2008-05-01 18:58:00 Medicom’s OG Be@rbrick platform rolls forward with several crossover releases slated for April and May headlined by the 100% Batman and Joker 2-pack set. Additional releases include a Queen 100% + 400% set, the 100% tokidoki (released at NYCC earlier this month), a 400% Stussy Destiny design, and finally a 100% Naruto for anime ...
Create you own Paper Toy / Cut Snip Bam!
2008-05-01 18:45:00 PaperDotNet.co.uk has paper worksheets ready to be cut-out and designed to your liking! Who needs KidRobot right?
Netgear offers up 6-bay ReadyNAS Pro
2008-04-29 07:19:00 Filed under: Storage, Networking Four months is just too long to go without an all new ReadyNAS, so we suppose that's why Netgear is kicking out an all new 6-bay unit (6TB RNDP6610; 3TB RNDP6310; 1.5TB RNDP6350) for those obsessed with storage. The box can handle up to 6TB of HDD space and features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM (up to 4GB supported), 128MB of embedded flash for the OS, a pair of gigabit Ethernet ports, three USB 2.0 sockets and support for RAID 0/1/5/6 and Auto-Expandable X-RAID2. As expected, Windows / Mac / Linux clients can all tap in, and the unit streams all sorts of media on the side. Of course, acquiring the industry's first 6-bay small-form-factor NAS drive won't come cheap, with the ReadyNAS Pro starting at around two large.Read | Per-malink | Email this | Comments-
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Interview With Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney On Yahoo/Microsoft/Google
2008-04-29 07:15:00 Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of happening. Mahaney also estimated (on February 2) that a search advertising outsourcing arrangement ...
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InvenSense Takes $19 Million Series C
2008-04-29 07:06:00 InvenSense has taken $19 million Series C in a round led by Sierra Ventures with previous investors Artiman Ventures, Partech International and Qualcomm Ventures also participating. Strategic investors in the round included Foxconn, Inventec Appliances Corp, Skylake Ventures, DoCoMo Capital and VentureTech Alliance. Sunnyvale based InvenSense makes motion sensing solutions for mobile applications, addressing applications ...
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$3.25 Million More For Embeddable Flash Documents
2008-04-29 06:38:00 Docstoc, the professional document repository and community, has raised $3.25 Million in Series B funding. The round was led by Rustic Canyon Partners, and brings their total funding to over $4 Million. Docstoc serves as a repository for professional documents, featuring forms, templates, and a variety of other material. Its flash-based viewer can be ...
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Adventurers Unite on National Geographic?s TOPO Explorer
2008-04-29 06:15:00 Remember when wireless technology was supposed to help us get out of our offices once in a while? What happened to that? Sure, we might not be constrained to our cubicles all day - instead, we carry them around with us. And let’s be honest… We all know a certain blogger who ...
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BeamMe.Info Offers Information Sharing Via SMS
2008-04-29 06:10:00 BeamMe.info offers a web page to SMS service for sites looking to offer users an alternative to writing information down. BeamMe.info works by site owners placing a BeamMe button on their website next to relevant information users might want a copy of, for example next to address information. Users click the button and are then prompted ...
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Yelp Lets Businesses Fight Back
2008-04-29 06:00:00 Local businesses have a love/hate relationship with review site Yelp: The site sends new customer leads to the businesses reviewed. But businesses can also be reviewed (and trashed) without even knowing Yelp exists. Businesses like Oakland coffee shop Cafe Rooz felt slighted by the ratings site when a few vocal customers posted poor reviews. They went ...
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Artemis Eternal Brings ?Crowd-Funding? To Movie Making
2008-04-29 05:33:00 Jessica Mae Stover wants independent funding for her movie project “Artemis Eternal,” so she’s turning to social media for a (her term) “Crowd-Funding” drive. The idea is simple enough: visitors get to follow the entire process. Contributions for the film range from $1+ with the contributor getting an online credit for the contribution, $25+ gets the ...
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NVIDIA?s GeForce 9600 GSO series GPUs get official
2008-04-28 07:51:00 Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Peripherals As of tonight NVIDIA's got one more notch to add to that bed post: the GeForce 9600 GSO, which is a little more on the cheap date end of the spectrum. The first of the card-makers to launch their 9600 GSO is EVGA, with a 650MHz, 384MB / 1900MHz DDR3, PCI Express 2.0 ditty (e-GeForce 9600GSO Superclocked 384MB), as well as an even lower end 550MHz, 384MB / 1600MHz version (e-GeForce 9600GSO 384MB). And yeah, it does DirectX 10 -- not that you should even need to ask.[Thanks, Carlos]Read | Pe-rmalink | Email- this | Comments-
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Microsoft Says Yes With Mesh
2008-04-28 07:13:00 Back in the good old days, big software companies did big things. Little companies tiptoed around in the shadow of the platform makers, gaining enough speed to liftoff and attract enough attention to survive long enough to be acquired. Like the old movie studios of the 30’s and 40’s, the technology studios of the 80’s ...
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Lenovo?s IdeaPad U110 showcased on video, available in US on April 29
2008-04-28 06:29:00 Filed under: Laptops We already knew Lenovo's 11-inch darling was shipping to eager US-based consumers "soon," but now we've got a definitive date for you to circle on that jam-packed calendar: April 29th. The IdeaPad U110 will indeed be available for order on Tuesday, and it'll be starting a full Benjamin less than we previously heard (down to $1,899, to be exact) directly from Lenovo. We're still waiting on the full list of specifications as well as the slate of retailers that will likely be selling it, but if you're anxious for more right this very moment, you can check out a promotional video of the unit in black and red right after the break.Continue reading Lenovo's IdeaPad U110 showcased on video, available in US on April 29Read | Permali-nk | Email this | Comments-
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Rumors swirl of Sanyo selloff to Matsushita / Panasonic
2008-04-28 04:20:00 Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Details are fuzzy right now -- and what details there are have been officially denied -- but the Japanese press is having a bit of a field day over the possibility of a Sanyo selloff to Matsushita / Panasonic. Apparently Goldman Sachs, Sumitomo, and Daiwa own some 67% of Sanyo's equity, and as Japanese paper Yomiuri reports, are looking at the possibility of transferring said equity to or otherwise forming a partnership with Matsushita. Again, both Matsu and Sanyo are denying the report as of now, so it's all still up in the air as the salarymen figure out whether to combine both companies to make a corporate entity larger than even Hitachi (which currently sits at the top of Japan's heap).[Via Engadget Japanese, thanks Theirry]Read | P-ermalink | Email- this | Comments-
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Sirius Starmate 5 stops by FCC, XM gets a mention
2008-04-27 06:01:00 Filed under: Portable Audio We'll cut straight to the chase: on the surface, there's nothing all that enthralling about the Sirius Starmate 5. In most every respect, it looks, smells and likely acts much like its predecessor. Granted, the color schemes have been updated a bit and you'll still find that delicious Sirius Replay support included, but the humdrum 5-line display, obligatory FM transmitter and bundled remote don't do much to get our saliva glands workin' overtime. As Orbitcast points out, however, there is one thing about the FCC filing that piques our interest more than anything else, and it's a simple phrase from a posted correspondence letter: "We used the satellite radio signal coming from either XM or Sirius." Whether or not this actually means anything is yet to be seen, but it makes for some decent fodder at the very least, yeah?[Via Orbitcast]Read | -;Permalink | Ema-il this | Comments-
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RevResponse Pays You On Free Magazine Subscriptions
2008-04-27 05:25:00 RevResponse offers payment for free subscription offers delivered by widget, allowing website owners to custom selected free content that is relevant to their readers. RevResponse pitches itself as being an alternative or addition to CPM and CPC advertising that the user maintains control of. Affiliates get to pick from 900 offers including business and trade magazines, ...
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