NaviGadget (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
QStarz recently announced a new bluetooth GPS receiver which they claim is world's most powerful. The specs on the BT-Q818 eXtreme is pretty impressive; such as the 51 channel MTK chipset, and the 32 hours of use time thanks to the low power consumption hardware. However what makes the difference is the adjustable update rate [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
The Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, is about to make an announcement at noon ET that he and the attorneys generals from 48 other states have negotiated a deal with Facebook to implement new safety and privacy rules, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. Facebook will be making its own announcement [...]
NeoWin (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Microsoft chair Bill Gates today noted at a European news conference that sales of Windows Vista have reached 140 million copies worldwide. The update is the first since the company crossed the 100 million mark at the start of the new year, although Gates doesn't clarify when the company reached the newer threshold. This demonstrates that Vista continues to sell at a "very rapid" rate, according to...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace “Data Availability” and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of the Internet. A mockup of [...]
Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago | Technology
The word is out now that dotMobi is picking up the Mowser assets. Like I said in my post about planning to shut down Mowser, the problem wasn't with Mowser itself or the technique of content adaption or the mobile web as a whole. We just weren't able to run Mowser as a media site [...]
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Using a sphere of ice (as opposed to a cube) in your whiskey-rocks is nice because the round ice melts more slowly than the square stuff (better surface-area/volume ratio). Now a Japanese company has introduced a mold for making a perfect, seamless ice-sphere: Taisin has introduced a mold that seamlessly creates a perfect sphere, no chipping and shaving required. Simple place a chunk of ice into the...
Carrypad UMPC feed (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Expansys have put their pricing up for the 10", XP and Linux versions of the MSI Wind. The XP Home version based on the 1.6Gz Diamondville (assumed) Atom processor, 10" LED-Backlit, 80GB (2.5") hard drive, 1GB of RAM, Wifi, Bluetooth and a 1.3MP WebCam is available for pre-order for 350 pounds. The Linux version is 30 [...]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago | Technology
newVideoPlayer("iphonetivoremoteapp.flv", 475, 276,""); Remember when we showed you an iPhone controlling a TiVo over IP by means of Telnet? Well, over at the TiVo Community Forum, a user named...
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago | Technology
Yes, this is wrong. Very wrong. But I can't help myself.
Gawker (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008 | Technology
When Microsoft's bid for Yahoo fell through, hotshot reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin produced a scathing analysis of the deal-making skills of the Redmond software giant's boss, Steve Ballmer. 'Microsoft...
Zend Developer Zone (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Today I’m going to talk to Derick Rethans. Derick Rethans provides solutions for Internet related problems. He has contributed in a number of ways to PHP, including the mcrypt, Date and input-filter extensions, bug fixes, additions and leading the QA team. He now works as project leader for the eZ components project for eZ systems A.S. In his spare time he likes to work on Xdebug, watch movies, travel...
Scobleizer (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
David Risley this morning wrote about all the noise in all these systems like Twitter and FriendFeed. Of course that kicked off a whole discussion over on FriendFeed. Oh, the glorious noise! Everyone loves beating me up for causing the noise. No, I am not the cause. I pass it along. You should see my inbound [...]
Create Digital Music (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
If we’ve learned one thing on this site, it's this: if it's a computer, big or small, someone’s going to find a way to make music. The iPod / iPhone, with their Mac OS-derived software guts and a multi-touch interface, are no exception — with or without Apple’s blessing. Here’s a look at what people [...]
Moco News (Free subscription) | yesterday | Technology
Virgin Mobile USA ( NYSE: VM ), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio , we have learned, even as other PE and strategic players are still circling both the companies. Helio is now controlled by SK Telecom ( NYSE: SKM ), after Earthlink ( NSDQ: ELNK ) stopped making further investments, and has been looking at options...
