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RT TellMe Rolls Out Better Speech Recognition And An Almost-Sexy New Voice Called Zira @erickschonfeld Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:28 PM PDT Twitter / Techcrunch RT TellMe Rolls Out Better Speech Recognition And An Almost-Sexy New Voice Called Zira @erickschonfeld  —

The Official White House Flickr account has some amazing candid photos of Obama shot during his first 100 days in office Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:23 PM PDT FriendFeed / ScottBeale The Official White House Flickr account has some amazing candid photos of Obama shot during his first 100 days in office  —

A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:22 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static  —  If you want to hear what the death of copper phone lines sounds like, don't just listen to ATT CEO Randall Stephenson or Verizon Communications CE...

Twitter and the DMCA: A Fine Mess Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT Techmeme / Plagiarismtoday Twitter and the DMCA: A Fine Mess   —  Twitter and the DMCA: A Fine Mess Over the past few weeks, I've been getting a lot of requests for information about Twitter and their DMCA proce...

12 Excellent Examples of “Lazy Registration” Posted: 28 Apr 2009 03:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Webjackalope 12 Excellent Examples of "Lazy Registration"  —

Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT Techmeme / NewsCnet Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data   —  Swedish ISPs vow to erase users' traffic data Having apparently been scared off illegal file sharing in large numbers by a new Swedish law that w...

GE holographic disc stores 500GB of data Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:33 PM PDT Google News: Technology / Dailytech GE holographic disc stores 500GB of data  — HTML::Element=HASH(0xab51438)

Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Techmeme / Techdirt Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation   —  Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation If there were anyone out there to whom you would not want to send a ran...

Microsoft wraps up Vista update Posted: 28 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Microsoft wraps up Vista update  — The software maker says it has finalized the code for the second service pack update to the operating system.

Four years and two lawsuits later, RIAA settles for 7000 Posted: 28 Apr 2009 01:46 PM PDT ArsTechnica / Arstechnica Four years and two lawsuits later, RIAA settles for 7000  —  One of the longest-running battles in the recording industry's war against file-sharing appears to have finally come to an end. Mi...

Ennova announces USB drive with OLED screen / fingerprint scanner Posted: 28 Apr 2009 01:37 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget Ennova announces USB drive with OLED screen / fingerprint scanner  — It's still a little ways from an actual release, but it looks like the folks at Ennova Direct just couldn't help themselves from announcing that th...

Apple's annual developer conference sells out in record time Posted: 28 Apr 2009 01:22 PM PDT AppleInsider / Appleinsider Apple's annual developer conference sells out in record time  — Apple said Tuesday that WWDC 2009 has completely sold out, marking the second time in as many years that its annual developers conference will fill...

Associated Content Raises 6 Million For Publishing Platform Posted: 28 Apr 2009 01:00 PM PDT Techmeme / Techcrunch Associated Content Raises 6 Million For Publishing Platform   —  Associated Content Raises 6 Million For Publishing Platform Online publishing platform Associated Content has closed a 6 million, Series C fina...

Flick NBA Basketball game released for iPhone, iPod touch Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:48 PM PDT Newspond / Yahoo Flick NBA Basketball game released for iPhone, iPod touch  — In addition to featuring fully 3-D modeled likenesses of 30 real NBA players who collectively represent every team in the league, Flick NBA Basketb...

Finovate: Privacy is dead, long live the PIN Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:15 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Finovate: Privacy is dead, long live the PIN  — Passwords are nice, but PINs can be far easier to remember. We take a look at four companies trying to take PINs online.

Twitter's Problems Holding Onto New Users Continue Posted: 28 Apr 2009 12:07 PM PDT PaidContent / Paidcontent Twitter's Problems Holding Onto New Users Continue  — Twitter may be bringing in millions of new users every month-but it is struggling to keep them. Nielsen Online said Tuesday that Twitter's audience...

Justice Department Is Investigating Google Books Deal Posted: 28 Apr 2009 11:45 AM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes Justice Department Is Investigating Google Books Deal  — An antitrust investigation will look into Google's settlement with authors and publishers over its Google Books service, according to two people br...

Palm Pre Shipping from China to US for June 7th Release? Posted: 28 Apr 2009 11:37 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Palm Pre Shipping from China to US for June 7th Release?   — Until Palm gives us a release date for the Pre, we plan on obsessively combing every rumor we can find...and combine them into ridiculously specula...

Child porn websites fall but more work needed Posted: 28 Apr 2009 11:31 AM PDT YahooNewsTechnology / Reuters Child porn websites fall but more work needed  — Reuters - Websites displaying child pornography fell by almost 10 percent in 2008, but most of those images were still being peddled by commercial ...

Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source Posted: 28 Apr 2009 11:30 AM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Miro Asks Users To "Adopt" Lines of Source  — soDean writes "The FOSS video player / downloader Miro is asking its users to support development by 'adopting' a line of source code for 4 a mont...

Cloud provider Cassatt close to evaporating Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:52 PM PDT VentureBeat / Venturebeat Cloud provider Cassatt close to evaporating  —

EU says Microsoft replies to antitrust charges Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:52 PM PDT ReutersTechnology / Reuters EU says Microsoft replies to antitrust charges  — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft has responded to EU antitrust charges that it sought to thwart rivals by bundling its web browser with its Windows P...

Linux group seeks to overturn three Microsoft patents Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Linuxnewstoday Linux group seeks to overturn three Microsoft patents  —  The Open Invention Network (OIN), a Linux advocacy group today said it is publicly seeking invention data that would effectively overturn three Mi...

Cheap NY Giants Tickets Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Ticketvendor Cheap NY Giants Tickets  —

Kickstarter: Fund Ideas and Endeavors Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Kickstarter Kickstarter: Fund Ideas and Endeavors  —

Looking for hacker room mates in SF Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsYcombinator Looking for hacker room mates in SF  —

Simple online alarm clock lets you to pick a youtube video and a time to wake up Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT RedditTechnologyUpcoming / AlarmtubeHighimpactnoise Simple online alarm clock lets you to pick a youtube video and a time to wake up  —

10 Contracts for your next Agile Software Project Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Agilesoftwaredevelopment 10 Contracts for your next Agile Software Project  —

Free Hot and New MP3 Album Download Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Jbong Free Hot and New MP3 Album Download  —

[video] Obama on the Necessity of Science Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Youtube [video] Obama on the Necessity of Science  —

Twitterers Aren't Sticking With It Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:10 PM PDT NewserTechnology / Newser Twitterers Aren't Sticking With It  — Twitter's sign-up figures are skyrocketing but the site's reach will remain limited to less than a tenth of online consumers unless it can reduce t...

PerlCritic in your browser Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Afoolishmanifesto PerlCritic in your browser   —

New webOS screenshots pop courtesy of SDK's emulator Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:52 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget New webOS screenshots pop courtesy of SDK's emulator  —  Odds are you're going to have the phone to your ear nine times out of ten when this screen's showing, but it's still somehow interesting -- nay, m...

The Future of Technology Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Thefourcast The Future of Technology  —  With broadband internet available practically anywhere and hardware becoming faster and smaller, the following photos you see will become reality ...

Windows Mobile 6.5 Will Get TellMe Voice Commands Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:23 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Gizmodo Windows Mobile 6.5 Will Get TellMe Voice Commands  —  Everybody chuckled when Tellme, a mobile voice company snapped up by Microsoft almost two years ago, released its smartphone voice search applicat...

PerlCritic in your browser Posted: 28 Apr 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Afoolishmanifesto PerlCritic in your browser   —

The Future of Technology Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Thefourcast The Future of Technology  —  With broadband internet available practically anywhere and hardware becoming faster and smaller, the following photos you see will become reality ...

How to Make Your 3.5" LED Hard Drive Clock Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:10 PM PDT RedditGeek / Ian How to Make Your 3.5" LED Hard Drive Clock  —

25 Ways to Speed Up Your Mac Posted: 28 Apr 2009 06:03 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Maclife 25 Ways to Speed Up Your Mac  —  While you're waiting for Apple to nail down a release date for the next major version of OS X, here are a few easy ways to get your Mac tuned and ...

A neural net that diagnoses epilepsy Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:48 PM PDT RedditTechnology / Technologyreview A neural net that diagnoses epilepsy  —

Take That! Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Tomshardware Take That! Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm  —  Today brings more news of hacking at the hands of Pirate Bay fans endeavoring to show support and solidarity. Is anyone surprised? (Tech Industry ...

Flock Browser Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Tammycamp Flock Browser  — If you are happily using Mozilla Firefox or Apple Safari for your OS X browsing needs, do you need to bother trying out any other browsers? Softwar...

liked @atul: Building a Great Brand. Laserlike Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:28 PM PDT Twitter / Laserlike liked @atul: Building a Great Brand. Laserlike  —

Great funding model: Adopt a line of code Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Getmiro Great funding model: Adopt a line of code  —

Voices from the Hellmouth Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT RedditGeek / BlogsLubbockonline Voices from the Hellmouth   —

Hacking Human Nature to Fight Spam. Laserlike Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:08 PM PDT Twitter / Laserlike Hacking Human Nature to Fight Spam. Laserlike  —

Showcase Of Elegant And Original Blog Designs Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Smashingmagazine Showcase Of Elegant And Original Blog Designs  —  Desc : When visiting a blog for the first time, you get an instant and strong impression from the design and layout. Cluttered and confusing blog ...

Adobe Wants to Reshape Online Video Posted: 28 Apr 2009 05:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Nytimes Adobe Wants to Reshape Online Video  —

Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over ‘Secret’ CSS Code Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Wired Public Booted from DVD Copying Trial Over 'Secret' CSS Code  —  Whether the public has a right to make a fair use copy of DVDs is on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Yet the public may never know wheth...

American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all Posted: 28 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Independent American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all  —

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