Thursday, April 9, 2009

Top Technology News

Top Technology News

Nintendo not planning price cuts for hit machines

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:00 PM PDT

YahooNewsTechnology / AP
Nintendo not planning price cuts for hit machines  — In this video screen image released by Nintendo, a scene from 'Brain Age Express: Math' is shown. (AP Photo/Nintendo)

North Korea parliament renews Kim's leadership

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:47 PM PDT

YahooBuzz / Yahoo!News
North Korea parliament renews Kim's leadership   — Reuters - North Korea re-elected leader Kim Jong-il as its supreme military leader at its newly elected parliament on Thursday, marking his return ...

Hearst's Bronstein Takes On Colbert: Internet Is Not Killing Newspapers-But Google Isn't Helping

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:07 PM PDT

PaidContent / Paidcontent
Hearst's Bronstein Takes On Colbert: Internet Is Not Killing Newspapers-But Google Isn't Helping  — For some perverse reason, Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large of Hearst Newspapers and the SF Chronicle , decided to go on the Colbert Report and defen...

Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E Case Mod Charms, Impresses

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E Case Mod Charms, Impresses   — Ho-lee crap. This is one serious case mod. The incredibly precise and detailed project took one dedicated Russian modder 18 days to complete, which...

Intelligent cat door utilizes Twitter, RFID masterfully

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:37 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
Intelligent cat door utilizes Twitter, RFID masterfully  —  What goes well with a communication-enabled water dish ? Why, a Twitter / RFID-enabled kitty door, of course! The so-called Tweeting Cat Door is u...

Virgin Mobile joins prepaid price war

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

YahooNewsTechnology / AP
Virgin Mobile joins prepaid price war  — AP - Virgin Mobile USA Inc. is set to announce Thursday that it is slashing the price of its unlimited calling plan to 50 from 80 per month, a re...

Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:46 PM PDT

YahooBuzz / NewsYahoo
Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0  — Intellipedia, a classified version of Wikipedia, is transforming the way America's spy agencies are handling information "THE BEAsT"

LightPot is a Simple and Elegant way to Grow Plants in Your Lamp

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:07 PM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
LightPot is a Simple and Elegant way to Grow Plants in Your Lamp   — First, let me say that despite the name...NO, NOT THOSE KINDS OF PLANTS. LightPot is a minimalist table lamp, with a bed of soil for tending to sma...

Read It Later's new iPhone app works offline

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
Read It Later's new iPhone app works offline  — Want to read stories you've saved while online for reading offline on your iPhone? The service's new iPhone app lets you do it.

True/Slant Tests Another Model Of Web Journalism via @waltmossberg

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:08 PM PDT

U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Megite: Technology / Nytimes
U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast  —  There were conflicting reports about the situation on the container ship - the first ship with an American crew to be seized by pirates in the Hor...

Did MLB.com's video player strike out on opening day?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
Did MLB.com's video player strike out on opening day?  — The technology unit of major league baseball says a small number of subscribers saw stalled or stuttering video and some blame Adobe.

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:23 PM PDT

DiggTechnology / Smashingmagazine
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?  —  Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that's great. But wait! Do de...

Online news aggregators friend or foe?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 12:15 PM PDT

Megite: Technology / WeblogsHitwise
Online news aggregators friend or foe?  —  This week kicked off with the Associated Press voicing concerns about how websites obtain permission to distribute content and share revenues. A d...

News Flash: Amie Street Swallowed Songza Six Months Ago

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 11:45 AM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
News Flash: Amie Street Swallowed Songza Six Months Ago  —  For months, popular music store Amie Street has kept a deal it forged with Songza , a media streaming service, under wraps. But this tweet (and ...

Sweaty workouts killing iPhones?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 11:08 AM PDT

AskNews / CNET
Sweaty workouts killing iPhones?  —  CNET - Found 3 hours ago ... iPhone 3G water sensor top(Credit: Apple) iPhone 3G water sensor bottom(Credit: Apple) Some iPhone own...

Slap Widgets Bring Physical Controls To Multitouch

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 11:07 AM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Slap Widgets Bring Physical Controls To Multitouch   — Everyone knows that the future is in multitouch devices, but some may find it difficult to go cold turkey with their physical peripherals. Research...

Apple Privately Admits White MacBook's Notorious Crack Problem

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 10:52 AM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Apple Privately Admits White MacBook's Notorious Crack Problem   — And lo, the winged horse of the Apocalypse bounded through the sky: Apple is acknowledging the white MacBook 's legendary hairline cracks along the...

Microsoft slapped with 388 million patent verdict

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 10:45 AM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
Microsoft slapped with 388 million patent verdict  — A federal jury rules that the product activation method used in some versions of Windows and Office infringes on a Uniloc patent.

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 10:40 AM PDT

21 Fantastic Examples Of Brilliant Photography With Humor

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Smashingapps
21 Fantastic Examples Of Brilliant Photography With Humor  —  Photography can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor as well . Today, we are showing you 21 Fantastic Examples O...

Glasstech Forms New Solar Systems Business Unit, Includes Several Current High Tech Systems -

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Spam level *declines*... to 97 percent of all email

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Is Silicon Valley a Systemic Risk?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:37 PM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod   — Ho-lee crap. This is one serious case mod. The incredibly precise and detailed project took one dedicated Russian modder 18 days to complete, which...

Speak Your Tweet

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT

RedditTechnologyUpcoming / Springcreekgroup
Speak Your Tweet  — 

GM And Segway unviel electric two-seater

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT

How twitter looked in 2006

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Twitter's the new driving menace: study

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT

51 Insanely Useful Emacs Shortcuts

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT

Chimpanzees Exchange Meat For Sex

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:15 PM PDT

Slashdot / Slashdot
Chimpanzees Exchange Meat For Sex  — the therapist writes "A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied chimps in the Tai Forest reserve in Iv...

Isilon's EMEA boss leaves

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:07 PM PDT

TheRegister / TheRegister
Isilon's EMEA boss leaves  — Director of technical services also obtaining coat Isilon may be sending chief technology officer Paul Rutherford to run its Europe, Middle East an...

Gold Bullion Wireless Mouse only looks like a million bucks

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:07 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
Gold Bullion Wireless Mouse only looks like a million bucks  —  Look, we fully understand the dilemma. You picked up a Pure*Gold PC late last year, and you've been tirelessly searching for a suitable mouse to u...

EFF attorney explains Obama DOJ's radical authoritarian position on wiretapping immunity to Olbermann

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT

Interesting and Entertaining Facts about Lego

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT

21 Fantastic Examples Of Brilliant Photography With Humor

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Smashingapps
21 Fantastic Examples Of Brilliant Photography With Humor  —  Photography can become more interesting and inspiring when it has creativity and humor as well . Today, we are showing you 21 Fantastic Examples O...

Is Silicon Valley a Systemic Risk?

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Guest post on TechFlash: to Google, we're all newspapers now

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 06:28 PM PDT

A Scenario for News

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:43 PM PDT

HackerNews / Buzzmachine
A Scenario for News  — 

Growing iPhone Development into a Viable Business (~ 100/day with ads)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:43 PM PDT

15 Strangest College Courses In America

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT

Linux Mint 6 “Felicia” KDE released!

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:24 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Linuxmint
Linux Mint 6 "Felicia" KDE released!  —  "This edition is based on Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, Linux 2.6.27, Xorg 7.4 and it comes with KDE 4.2 and Amarok 2.0" (Linux/Unix)

Get the titles of all the post of a wordpress blog.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Dfectuoso
Get the titles of all the post of a wordpress blog.  —  Capture the titles of all the posts of some blogs and do some statistics with them. Get the most repeated words, how many of their titles includes...

It’s Watching: Gmail Can Now Tell Which Of Your Contacts Are Awake

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT

Disruptive move: Email providers will need to have servers in India

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Git Commit History Visualization

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Facebook's COO still refuses to admit the company ever made a play for broader power over data:

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:08 PM PDT

50 Trend-setting Design Studios and Agencies

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Hongkiat
50 Trend-setting Design Studios and Agencies  —  Without a doubt, the WWW is indeed a wonderful place. It's full of beautiful and professionally designed websites but is there a creative team (w...

[GMail Blog] New in Labs: Sender time zone

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:48 PM PDT

Mark Logic CEO Blog: Regulating Venture Capital? Methinks Not.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:48 PM PDT

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