Today’s story on a Microsoft device that helps law enforcement gather forensic evidence from a crime suspect’s computer has garnered lots of attention and raised questions about how exactly it works and what it’s able to do. Update, 5:10 p.m. I just got a response from Microsoft.
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Mobile phone ad platform provider AdMob has launched AdMob Mobile Analytics, a Google Analytics stile service for mobile advertising.AdMob Mobile Analytics offers businesses a free solution to maximize commerce, advertising and content on the mobile Internet. AdMob Mobile Analytics helps mobile site owners understand their audience, optimize their content and improve usability. The suite allows [...]
German conglomerate Siemens AG said Wednesday that its second-quarter net profit slid 67 percent, weighed down by weaker performance in its major business projects, including a large number of turnkey projects that had accumulated since 2004.
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Sorry Mario, but your Wii Wheel just got lapped, backed over and left in the dust. Heck, even the Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel looks toyish propped up next to this. Then again, neither of the previously mentioned accessories will put a $349.99 hole in your bank account, but did you really [...]
Wine Tasting is more of a traditional pursuit, like minded people gathering together to taste fine wine. Twitter wine tasting has been tried before, a wine tasting party that gathered web notables in person to try wines tried the concept back in March. But until now no Twitter wine tasting event has focused on providing [...]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Networking
Time Warner Cable, which just endeared itself to New Yorkers with a whole mess of HD channels, is finally getting a full break from parent company and all-around media conglomerate Time Warner. This has been speculated about for years, and a portion of TWC was spun off into Bright House [...]
The most publicized improvements to email in recent memory haven’t been browser-based, they’ve been extensions like Xobni and Xoopit that latch onto your existing mail client and provide auxiliary services.This tactic makes good business sense – who wants to try convincing Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and Gmail users to take a leap of faith and walk [...]
Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that let’s users track virtually any type of investment account as well. Users will now be able to manage all of their financial assets on the Mint [...]
PPK has published new event compatibility tables that test the event registration models (traditional, W3C and Microsoft) as well as event bubbling and capturing. There is a lot of data here on the quirks of the various browsers. In some fun news, it was interesting to see that PPK developed the interactive Dutch royal family tree!
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Filed under: Desktops
Engadget NYC might have gotten to play with Apple’s latest and greatest iMac yesterday, but we keep it dirty in the Chi — yep, we’ve got the first Psystar Open Computer shipped out for review. We’re just getting it set up, but check out the unboxing below, and hit us up with anything [...]
Pontiflex has received $2.5 million in Series A Funding in a round led by New Atlantic Ventures and Greenhill SAVP.The company is involved in online lead generation, facilitating interaction between advertisers and publishers. They bill themselves as “the industry’s only open and transparent lead generation marketplace”, and feature real time campaign optimization and speedy [...]
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment
There are times when form overcomes any missteps in function, and we’d probably say this is one of those times. On the downside, Brionvega’s 19-inch Alpha LCD / DVD combo display tops out at 1,280 x 1,024 and obviously boasts a 4:3 aspect ratio, but it can be equipped with a [...]
John Resig put together a nice overview of the ARIA Live Regions specification with an example of how you can track a list of people in a way that a screen reader can understand when someone is added or deleted. Imagine a todo list application. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <ol aria-live=”polite” aria-relevant=”additions removals” aria-describedby=”users-desc” id=”users”> <li>John</li> <li>Mary</li> <li>Ted</li> [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, there’s plenty of hackery going on with interactive whiteboards these days, but that doesn’t mean plain old marker-based boards have been left out of the fun completely, as evidenced by this latest contraption devised by Sprite_tm. As you can see in the video after the break, he’s managed to rig up [...]