Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
chill writes "Skype's co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have agreed to transfer ownership of the remaining Skype technology that eBay didn't own, paving the way for eBay to complete its sale of a majority stake in Skype to an investor consortium. In exchange, Friis and Zennstrom will join the investor consortium and obtain a 14 percent stake in Skype. The other consortium partners,...
KIJO (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
If we're being honest (and trust us, we're being honest), Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense contraption has always baffled us . It's kind of like Sony's Rolly . It looks cool, it sounds rad, but we're fairly certain only 2.49 people actually know and fully comprehend how it works. That said, we're more than jazzed about the possibility of having wearable gesture interfaces gracing every human we come into...
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The new HTC Droid Eris has been in the past likened to a rebadged HTC Hero, so now that the guys over at engadget mobile have managed to get hold of the HTC Droid Eris they have compared the two in a face off video. Of course we have said HTC Droid Eris, HTC Hero face [...]
KIJO (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
ASRock's family of nettops may not be anything special when it comes to design, but the ION 330HT-BD can definitely handle its fair share of multimedia. The Atom CPU could unquestionably use a bit lot more oomph, but the NVIDIA Ion GPU and the integrated Blu-ray drive make this little fellow quite the entertainer. Care to see what it looks like inside and out? Hop on past the break and mash play,...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
TechnologyResource writes "More than two years ago in California, a police officer wrote Shaun Malone a ticket for going 62mph in a 45-mph zone. Malone was ordered to pay a $190 fine, but his parents appealed the decision, saying data from a GPS tracking system they installed in his car to monitor his driving proved he was not speeding. What ensued was the longest court battle over a speeding...
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
We read the blogs, so you don't have to. From the FSJ News Center: Firefox celebrates a milestone on Monday. EMI to offer on-the-spot concert recordings. The top iPhone apps of the week. Voilà, the Apple Store opens today in the City of Light. Amusez-vous bien, les Parisiens! Marissa . Sitting on a big..red..ball. ( Gizmodo ) Parisians welcome their first Apple Store , opening today at the Louvre...
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Nice to see someone from the local news picking up on the Obama insensiviity and indifference to the first terror attack committed on his watch, because that's what this was and don't let the MSM and this Muslim killer's family rewrite the script.. Terror attack by an underground double agent of Islam, not a good soldier or even human being for that matter is what it was.... and Obama didn't even...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 40 minutes ago
This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, [...]
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The latest round of iPhone rumors reads like a roundup of everything we've heard before . Now the mythical iPhone nano is back, and supposedly said device will be coming to Verizon in 2010 featuring a new hybrid cellular radio. Keep in mind this is all coming from an industry analyst report supplied to Apple Insider, and as with all analyst reports, take it with a huge chunk of rock salt. Rumor has...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Zune HD users should be able to download the latest firmware update now, and it's substantial enough to warrant grabbing ASAP. There's a speedier browser, predictive text entry (a la iPhone), and that's just the beginning. The download should be available through the Zune software, but some 16GB users are reporting it hasn't been pushed through to them yet. If you can get it, report back with anything...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This is a Think Progress repost. Click on cartoon to see the whole coloring book. Friends of Coal (FOC) is a front group created by the West Virginia Coal Association. Its mission is to “inform and educate West Virginia citizens about the coal industry” and “provide a united voice” for the industry. To make dirty coal [...]
ProBlogger (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Today’s post is by Kevin Sanders of Strong and Fit. Do you ever have those moments when seemingly random, unrelated thoughts kind of merge together in your mind? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I remembered a documentary I watched on the space shuttle years ago. Something was said about the percentage [...] Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger . Blogging is Rocket Science
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
During an episode of Sesame Street that was originally broadcast two years ago, a character tells Oscar the Grouch, who happens to be reporting for “GNN” (Grouchy News Network), that she is switching her news viewing loyalties to “Pox News,” adding, “Now there is a trashy news show.” Right winger Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Hollywood” blog [...]
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Barney's Simon Doonan and Sesame Workshop's Gary Knell at Fashion Delivers/ K.I.D.S. gala in NYC. Credit: Thomas Iannaccone, Via WWD Fashion Delivers , a non-profit organization that supplies victims of natural disasters with donated product, and Kids In Distressed Situations, Inc. (K.I.D.S.) raised almost $1.2 million dollars at their annual charity gala Read the full story on TreeHugger
Ask Slashdot (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow...
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