Sergey Ryazanov / The Official Google Blog:Google Toolbar in Firefox: a personalized new tab page — Those of you who use Google Toolbar on Firefox are probably pretty familiar with the many features Toolbar 5 (beta) has to offer — from bookmarks to buttons and search box to “send to.” We’ve added a couple [...]
They’ve manged to make it to the five-year mark despite a few considerable bumps in the road, but it looks like one of the Mars rovers has once again hit a snag, and NASA is now furiously trying to sort out the problem. Apparently, the issue first arose earlier this week when Spirit reported that [...]
Get ready, India’s $10 laptop is set for its first unveiling on February 3rd. Ok, so it’s not quite $10… $20 actually, but that’s far better than the $100 some were estimating. It’s also much better than the $200 per OLPC XO deal that Negroponte wanted to reportedly charge the Indian government more than 2 [...]
As is becoming increasingly clear, Nissan seems to be intent on having cars do everything short of drive themselves, and it’s now taking yet another step in that direction with a proposed system that would prevent drivers from going the wrong way. While it’s all still in the planning stages at the moment, the system [...]
Michael Calore / Epicenter:Ma.gnolia Suffers Major Data Loss, Site Taken Offline — There was a meltdown at bookmark sharing website Ma.gnolia Friday morning. The service lost both its primary store of user data, as well as its backup. The site has been taken offline while the team tries to reconstruct its databases …
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Nearly a year to the day after we heard that WiFi trials were beginning on some of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit trains, WiFi Rail has announced a deal that’ll last a score and provide high-speed WiFi “throughout the BART transit system and on all BART commuter trains.” Reportedly, the network has successfully [...]
MP3 players with screens that show pretty colors are certainly nothing new, but Rhea Jeong’s Colorsonic concept is something rather different. It’s a little donut-shaped device that lacks a proper display, instead lighting its sections up to represent different types of music tagged using software at home — think Shuffle meets mood ring. You could [...]
Web 2.0 Raises Privacy QuestionsVON, Arizona -Jan 29, 2009He added: ?The Web 2.0 movement is rapidly thrusting it all in the publicacy direction [Cleland defines this as the opposite of privacy], but there is going …Cleland: Privacy battle loomingTelephonyOnlineall 3 news articles
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Communication Service Providers Turn to Mashups to Put New …CNNMoney.com -Jan 28, 2009The two companies are experimenting with mashups, or situational applications from IBM, to quickly develop software that uses a variety of enterprise and …IBM, Avaya and Kapsch Enhance Customer Service with Web 2.0 …TMCnetall 14 news articles
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It’s only been a year since Kyocera snapped up Sanyo’s cellphone business in a bid to expand its mobile empire, but it looks like the company is already being forced to reorganize its handset businesses into something leaner and, it hopes, meaner. The biggest shake-up comes in the company’s U.S. offices, which will now be [...]
Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:“This site may harm your computer” on every search result?!?! — If you did a Google search between 6:30 a.m. PST and 7:25 a.m. PST this morning, you likely saw that the message “This site may harm your computer” accompanied each and every search result. This was clearly [...]
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple warns of reduced iMac availability in near term — Apple this week is advising members of its reseller channels that supply of iMacs will be constrained in the immediate future, a move that may signal new models are nearing production. — In particular, people familiar with the matter …
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Look, we fully understand that only a handful of you were willing to force your kid to pay for their own education while you spent that eight grand in savings on the D3x, but for those hardcore enough to do just that, here’s your venting post. This beast of a DSLR has been rumored, teased [...]
Social media changing workplace interactionMLive.com, MI -5 hours agoOne public relations executive recently insulted a major client's headquarters city on a social network while – irony of ironies – flying into the city to …Why Entrepreneurs Should Use LinkedInAbout – News & Issues5 Ways to Integrate Social Media with Public RelationsSocial Computing Magazineall 5 news articles
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Study: Social networking still a telco opportunityTelephonyOnline -23 hours agoTelecom service providers can still participate in and benefit from social networking trends ? if they aim to add value to the medium rather than try to …
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