We're happy to announce today that we have signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA. AdMob is a great Silicon Valley story — founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui when he couldn't find good ways to generate traffic for his mobile site. Over the past few years, Omar and his talented team have built a thriving company with great mobile advertising...
In a move that will intensify the coming war over how to treat abortion in the health care bill, more than three dozen House Dems have signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi firmly pledging to vote against the bill if it contains an anti-abortion amendment. A source sends over a working copy of the letter [...]
The deceptively simple coil proves incredibly useful in the world of electronics - the inductor's ability to store energy in an electromagnetic field is the key to making transformers, electromagnets, and many more components work. It truly is an awesome device! I knew little of how inductors worked before starting out on this vid. In fact, none of the circuits I've built ever called for them specifically....
He was screaming “Allahu Akbar” Janet. Janet Napolitano told an Arab audience today that anti-Muslim sentiment will not be tolerated. FOX News reported: “This was a terrible tragedy for all involved,” Napolitano told reporters in the United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi. “Obviously, we object to — and do not believe — that anti-Muslim sentiment should...
Apple today rolled out the 10.6.2 update to OS X Snow Leopard. This update fixes that nasty guest account bug we saw last month and in general tackles a whole host of bugs, stability issues, and other various improvements. You can check out the whole changelog here , and when you're ready to update, just fire up your Software Update tool. Find a fix in this release that addresses one of your Snow...
Imagine if you'd spent the last 90 hours of TV watching doing something more productive. Could you have built this lovable-but-treacherous portable Gamecube ? (Probably not, so don't quit your current "hobby.") Loading stock discs from a wickedly exposed spinning disc drive on the back of the device, this "Gamecube" is ironically constructed from almost everything but the charming...
Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original. Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more. All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way. The Slasher First, [...]
Link Scroll down for today's pictures & links. Marvelous Burj Dubai Fountain Show I can watch this over and over again... The tallest fountain in the world (with water reaching as high as 150 meters), near the tallest building in the world (see here ) was recently completed and tested with this water/light/music extravaganza. The musical piece is the "Time To Say Goodbye", performed by...
It was only a matter of time, right? Check out this setup where a laptop player controls "Pac-Man" while being chased by robo-vacuum ghosts. And get this: it's actually a demo of their unmanned aerial software that guides airborne vehicles. That's why the red tape marking the maze is really only there for the video. The player sees a virtual representation on screen, and the ghost roombas...
GameStops in Northeastern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio are selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 early, with one store claiming special dispensation from Activision due to...
We are launching today a donor boycott of the DNC. It's really more of a "pause," than a boycott. Boycotts sounds so final, and angry. Whereas this campaign is temporary, and is only meant to help some friends - President Obama and the Democratic party - who have lost their way. We are hopeful that via this campaign, our friends will keep their promises. So please sign the Petition and take...
Substantive red flags have surfaced in the ongoing investigation of Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. This includes details that go well beyond his radical Islamist and anti-American beliefs. The most disturbing threads of evidence link Hasan to a...
The 2009 Elias Rankings have been released, and Ed Price of AOL FanHouse has a full list of the Type-A and B free agents. Our 2010 MLB Free Agent list has been updated, and below is a summary of differences between the official rankings, and those projected by Eddie Bajek. Chone Figgins qualifies as a Type-A, not a Type-B as projected. Melvin Mora qualifies as a Type-A, not a Type-B as projected. Vladimir...
