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U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT

ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb
U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?  — In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in a presidential memo iss...

MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:30 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes  — EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from...

FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:01 PM PDT

Megite: Technology / Reuters
FDA confirms E. coli found in Nestle cookie dough  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday confirmed that it has found E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in a sample of N...

Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
Venture Capitalists V. Founders: Battle At Mochi Media  — Mochi Media , the fast growing Flash game advertising network and payments platform that we covered last week, is in the midst of an internal battl...

Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:22 PM PDT

VentureBeat / DigitalVenturebeat
Laptop battery claims start heading toward class action lawsuit  — A couple of weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices blew the whistle on the claims made by computer manufacturers about battery life for laptops. The chi...

Report: Worst may be over for US tech market

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT

YahooNewsTechnology / AP
Report: Worst may be over for US tech market  — AP - As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Resea...

Too Busy To Read Tweets? Try Twitter For Busy People

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:15 PM PDT

Mashable / Mashable
Too Busy To Read Tweets? Try Twitter For Busy People  — Spending too much time reading friends' Tweets? Only got 5 mins and you'd need an hour to get through em all? No worries: you can now speed-read...

Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Slashdot / Slashdot
Senators Want To Punish Nokia, Siemens Over Iran  — fast66 writes "After hearing about Nokia-Siemens sale of Internet-monitoring software to Iran, US Senators Schumer and Graham want to bar them from...

Adobe shuts down for a week

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Techmeme / Mercurynews
Adobe shuts down for a week   —  Adobe shuts down for a week Adobe Systems has shut down its North American operations for the week, as part of a cost-cutting effort that the com...

YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action Overlays, Allows Linking Off-Site

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:45 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
YouTube To Broadly Release Call-To-Action Overlays, Allows Linking Off-Site  — Tomorrow, YouTube is going to release a very important addition to its suite of advertising products, and it has the potential to have a huge impac...

Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:15 PM PDT

Mashable / Mashable
Posterous vs. Tumblr: A Head to Head  — In the space between a long-form blog and a short-form Twitter account, there are mini-blog services like Posterous and Tumblr that seek to make bl...

Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
Hackers blamed for wave of fake death tweets  — Hackers are suspected to have broken into Twitpic accounts belonging to Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, and P. Diddy to post false death announcem...

Top Domains posted on Hacker News

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:23 PM PDT

RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement 'overture'

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
RIAA: Jammie Thomas snubbed our settlement 'overture'  — Thomas-Rasset's lawyers told music industry she'll only discuss a deal that doesn't require her to pay or admit guilt.

Web Site Story: CollegeHumor's Epic Internet Musical

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:15 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
Web Site Story: CollegeHumor's Epic Internet Musical  — CollegeHumor has outdone itself again. Just a few days after unveiling Bing, the better way to Google , the site has released Web Site Story , a f...

Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 12:07 PM PDT

PaidContent / Paidcontent
Amazon Cuts More Affiliates To Avoid Sales Tax  —  Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) understandably does not want to collect state sales taxesand in order to avoid them it's cutting loose thousands o...

Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT

Slashdot / Slashdot
Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years  — selven ws one of several readers to send in the news that Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison. "Bernard Madoff's victims gasped and ...

No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:30 AM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
No more beta: Skype 3.0 for Windows phones  — Skype has shucked the beta tag to version 3.0 of its VoIP application for Windows Mobile phones. Result: gratifying features for communicating with...

Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:07 AM PDT

TheRegister / TheRegister
Notorious phone phreaker gets 11 years for swatting  — End of the (party) line A notorious phone phreaker has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after admitting he took part in a scheme that...

Mozilla's Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 11:02 AM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
Mozilla's Weave: (Too far) Ahead of its time  — Mozilla Labs' Weave project does an admirable job of synchronizing the Firefox experience across one's computers, but this may not be solving the r...

A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:45 PM PDT

NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes
A Green Way to Dump Low-Tech Electronics  — There is now somewhere to take some of the 99.1 million television sets that sit unused in closets and basements.

A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Dennogumi
A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums  —  Today, a major upgrade of the KDE Community Forums took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it's a fu...

eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / BlogZiggytek
eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?  —  California's Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar is used to playing the role of a Terminator hunting humans but now he's about to terminate the existen...

Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT

Encrypt data in Linux/Unix

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT

How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Telegraph
How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos  —  To create real tilt-shift photos, you need to buy a special lens which can cost over 1000... (Design)

FREE Ipa Wonderland

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT

Video Interview: PlanetTutor

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT

See The World in HD

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT

Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT

Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:22 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
Toyota's mind-controlled wheelchair boast fastest brainwave analysis yet, most stylish EEG cap  —  Mind-controlled wheelchairs are becoming all the rage these days, but before you start letting your thoughts wander elsewhere, this latest from re...

Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT

ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb
Grow VC Launches as Company / VC Matchmaker  — Don't you hate it when your friends set you up and all they can say about your blind date is that he's / she's "nice". Your mind races. Is he / she...

U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT

ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb
U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?  — In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in a presidential memo iss...

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Computerworld
The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault  — A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

British music boss: we should have embraced Napster

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Arstechnica
British music boss: we should have embraced Napster  — The head of UK music trade group BPI says that the major labels made a mistake by not doing a deal with Napster a decade ago. Such a deal was never...

(@atul) Building a crash-proof internet - tech

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:48 PM PDT

A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Dennogumi
A Brand New Look for KDE Community Forums  —  Today, a major upgrade of the KDE Community Forums took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it's a fu...

eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / BlogZiggytek
eBooks In Classrooms: Is it Inevitable?  —  California's Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar is used to playing the role of a Terminator hunting humans but now he's about to terminate the existen...

Airbus 310, carrying 153 people, crashes into Indian Ocean

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT

How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Telegraph
How To Fake Tilt-Shift Photos  —  To create real tilt-shift photos, you need to buy a special lens which can cost over 1000... (Design)

Yet Another Company Sues Google For Not Being In Google's Index

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Computerworld
The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault  — A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

British music boss: we should have embraced Napster

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 07:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Arstechnica
British music boss: we should have embraced Napster  — The head of UK music trade group BPI says that the major labels made a mistake by not doing a deal with Napster a decade ago. Such a deal was never...

peHUB Google Cofounder s Wife Advertises Her Company On a Blimp

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:48 PM PDT

MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Torrentfreak
MediaDefender Virus Scam Targets Torrent Site Users  —  During the last few days a virus scam targeting torrent site users has reappeared. Internet users receive an email informing them they have been m...

Introducing The Computer of 2010

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 06:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Boycottnovell
Vista 7: Disablement as a Business Model  — "Microsoft makes money from artificial limitations embedded in its software " - [Vista DRM] seems a bit like breaking the legs of Olympic athletes...

9 Essential Steps to Disaster-Proof Your PC

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Maximumpc
9 Essential Steps to Disaster-Proof Your PC  —  On the following pages, we show you how to prepare for everything from acts of God to hacker attacks, and every other mishap you're likely to enco...

Upgrade RAM To Computer Is Easy

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Clicktechnews
Upgrade RAM To Computer Is Easy  — Almost every workplace/household would have a computer available, but with so many better bigger programs coming out we've to constantly be able ...

14 Concept Appliances That Need To Be Made

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 05:08 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Mybadpad
14 Concept Appliances That Need To Be Made  — Concept appliances give us a peek into the future.