Posted by Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager As newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make their subscription content discoverable. Today we're...
Tiger Woods voicemail to Jaimee Grubbs - a Las Vegas Cocktail waitress he was allegedly having an affair with - can be heard after the jump. Worse yet for Tiger? There are allegations that he bedded another chick in Vegas - Kalika Moquin (right), who is something of an “it” girl in Sin City. First [...]
California Senator Barbara Boxer is upset about Climategate. …She’s upset that the emails and files were leaked. Senator Boxer wants to prosecute the hackers who leaked the emails that revealed that Global Warming is massive fraud. The Hill reported: Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) [...]
Live shots of a new HTC smartphone have leaked , supposedly the quietly rumored HTC Rome. The HTC Touch.B has a daftly punctuated name and runs Android, according to MobiFrance, and looks very much like the Windows Mobile powered HTC Touch2 . Unfortunately that’s all we know in terms of specifications, but we’re tempted to think that this is some sort of refashioned HTC Tattoo –...
Yahoo! announced this morning that it is adding Facebook Connect across many of its properties. This afternoon Google Friend Connect announced the inclusion of Twitter as a top-level log-in option. These moves will be convenient for users, but may not be good for the future of the web. People have always said that Google does what's good for the web, because what's good for the web is good for Google....
The statement from Rumsfeld: “In his speech to the nation last night, President Obama claimed that ‘Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive.’ Such a bald misstatement, at least as it pertains to the period I served as Secretary of Defense, deserves a response.” “I am not...
Family Ties mom Meredith Baxter (above, now and then), came out of the closet on the Today show following reports in the National Enquirer that she was spotted on a lesbian cruise in the Caribbean. Said Baxter: "I am a...
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance. Recent news...
We’ve seen plenty of Twittered marriage proposals , but a recent video posted to YouTube takes the cake for the most unconventional Twitter and Facebook updates. During his wedding ceremony, Dana Hanna whipped out his mobile device and not only changed his relationship status to married on Facebook, but also sent out a tweet announcing that the couple had become man and wife. The whole scene...
Launching tomorrow: Something like Play-Doh for industrial designers, Sugru is a modeling-clay-like silicone that can be used for everything from molding ergonomic grips to repairing leaky sneakers. Once removed from its packaging, it can be molded for a 30-minute period, and it then cures at room temperature in about 24 hours. Self-adhesive, waterproof, and dishwasher-safe. Check it out: There's...
Posted by Jason Toff, Associate Product Marketing Manager Every year around this time I start thinking about the annual holiday email I send to friends and family members. I usually email my mom, dad, sister, friends, and co-workers. But the one person who appreciates my season's greetings the most -- my grandma -- is stuck in the pre-digital age of snail mail. Of course, I could go to a store, aimlessly...
Chuck Lindell has posted, "Shoddy legal work alleged as execution nears," at the Austin American-Statesman's Focal Point blog. Back in 2006, I did a two-day series on embarrassingly bad legal representation provided by court-appointed appellate lawyers for death row inmates....
Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3 (via @smashingmag) - CSS3 is the partially implemented sequel to the CSS2 spec we all know and love. It's already popping up in new browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Chrome. In this article, the first of the articles that explore practical (and even far-fetched) implementation of CSS3, we start by applying CSS3 to something we all have to create: buttons...
Just a week after triumphantly smashing its first protons , the Large Hadron Collider has experienced another power failure which took not only the collider itself offline but temporarily killed its website. According to the LHC controllers, the failure took place in the early hours of the morning an affected an 18,000 volt power line; before the supercooled magnets had a chance to warm up, however,...
