Even More Not-So-Natural-Born Google KillersMediapost.com, NY -41 minutes ago… immediacy of mobile to create shortcuts for users, it might not be long before the handset usurps the computer as the search/discovery engine of choice. …
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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 [...]
Nortel emphasizes merging of IT, communicationsInfoWorld, CA -19 hours agoAlso at the event, officials from Oracle and SAP touted mashups. SOA and mashups can play together because SOA exposes legacy applications as information …
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Court documents cited by the Wall Street Journal (also CNET) show that Microsoft has set aside $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees in the event of a successful takeover.
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Free net monitoring tool gets a makeoverComputerworld, MA -41 minutes agoBy partnering with Google AdSense, Spiceworks is able to garner revenue from clickable ads featured in the console and offer its software free to users. …
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IAC reported first quarter earnings this morning, and broke out the financials of what the new IAC would like after the pending five-way breakup of the company is completed. (A March court victory against dissenting shareholder Liberty Media clears the way for the spin offs). What’s clear from the financial statements is that [...]
Saul Hansell / Bits:The $199 iPhone? Something’s Missing from the Picture — Fortune reports that AT&T is preparing to offer a $200 subsidy for buyers of the next-generation iPhone, widely expected to be introduced this summer. It writes that since the new, presumably faster models will start …
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Alcatel-Lucent reported a fifth straight quarterly loss on Wednesday and braced investors for a bleak 2008 future, saying the telecommunication equipment market will be flat.
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Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it will spin off the rest of its cable TV business, a widely anticipated move after months of pressure from investors.
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Chinese angry about media coverageMarketplace, CA -36 minutes agoAnd then the Internet search engine censors got involved, because right now, if you type in Carrefour on one of the main Chinese search engines, …
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Filed under: Peripherals
Want your own multitouch control surface? Have a webcam, cardboard box, and photo frame? The folks at Hacknmod MacGyvered their own with just those materials. By simply pairing a fixed camera and controlled light surface, they were able to mimic what others have paid hundreds for, albeit in a decidedly less attractive package. [...]
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