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Windows 7's 'XP mode': Glitches and annoyances Posted: 04 May 2009 07:32 PM PDT Google News: Technology / Infoworld Windows 7's 'XP mode': Glitches and annoyances  — Last week I wrote about my dissatisfaction with Microsoft's approach to Virtual Windows XP Mode for Windows 7. Now, after a week of poking, proddin...

MarketRiders Promises Steady Returns Through The Magic of Exchange-Traded Funds Posted: 04 May 2009 06:45 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch MarketRiders Promises Steady Returns Through The Magic of Exchange-Traded Funds  —  If you think you can beat the stock market, don't bother reading this post. This post is about a startup that wants to make investing boring and ...

Trent Reznor compares Apple to Wal-Mart Posted: 04 May 2009 06:32 PM PDT Google News: Technology / NewsCnet Trent Reznor compares Apple to Wal-Mart  — by Chris Matyszczyk "And while we're at it, I'll voice the same issue I had with Wal-Mart years ago, which is a matter of consistency and hypocrisy...

Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post’s Traffic Posted: 04 May 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Ryanspoon Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post's Traffic  —

Exclusive: Upcoming Verizon FiOS TV features Posted: 04 May 2009 04:46 PM PDT Megite: Technology / Gearlive Exclusive: Upcoming Verizon FiOS TV features  —  As most of you know, we are big fans of Verizon FiOS here at Gear Live. The actual Internet and television services are stellar, and it's pretty h...

Recession forces new focus in e-commerce marketing Posted: 04 May 2009 04:15 PM PDT YahooNewsTechnology / AP Recession forces new focus in e-commerce marketing  — AP - Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as...

Computer help service CrossLoop comes to the Mac Posted: 04 May 2009 04:07 PM PDT VentureBeat / Venturebeat Computer help service CrossLoop comes to the Mac  — CrossLoop , a screen-sharing software service, has finally come to the Macintosh. Download its desktop application, log in, share your access code ...

Windows 7 Release Candidate debuts early Posted: 04 May 2009 03:15 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Windows 7 Release Candidate debuts early  — The software, expected to be released broadly on May 5, arrives just ahead of that time on Microsoft's Web site.

Yahoo and Microsoft Deal Progress "Meaningful"-Plus the Deal Team Rosters Posted: 04 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT Techmeme / KaraAllthingsd Yahoo and Microsoft Deal Progress "Meaningful"-Plus the Deal Team Rosters   —  Yahoo and Microsoft Deal Progress Meaningful"-Plus the Deal Team Rosters Recently, BoomTown reported that talks between Microsoft and Yahoo had g...

Intel invests in chip equipment maker Posted: 04 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Intel invests in chip equipment maker  — Intel has invested in a major maker of semiconductor production equipment.

ISPs' costs, revenues don't support data cap argument Posted: 04 May 2009 02:15 PM PDT ArsTechnica / Arstechnica ISPs' costs, revenues don't support data cap argument  —  Data caps and metered billing have generated significant consumer resistance not because the idea of metered billing is always bad...

Google Reader Still Trying To Figure Out This Whole Social Thing. Still Failing. Posted: 04 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Google Reader Still Trying To Figure Out This Whole Social Thing. Still Failing.  — A lot of people use Google Reader as their primary RSS feed reader, so you'd think its social features would be extremely popular. But they're real...

BlackBerry Push API Goes After Consumers Posted: 04 May 2009 01:32 PM PDT Google News: Technology / Pcworld BlackBerry Push API Goes After Consumers  — Research In Motion is injecting the power of its popular BlackBerry push technology into the consumer arena by letting third-party developers write...

California judge blunts Internet false advertising law Posted: 04 May 2009 01:31 PM PDT YahooNewsTechnology / Reuters California judge blunts Internet false advertising law  — Reuters - A California judge on Monday threw out a 45 million false advertising lawsuit against online advertising company ValueClick Inc, in a de...

Mark Cuban's lawyer attacks Facebook over Holocaust denial groups Posted: 04 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Mark Cuban's lawyer attacks Facebook over Holocaust denial groups  — Cuban's brother and company attorney says Facebook is violating its TOC by allowing Holocaust denial groups that he says are illegal in some countr...

Star Trek Experience to Reopen in 2010, Feature New Movie Posted: 04 May 2009 12:52 PM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Star Trek Experience to Reopen in 2010, Feature New Movie   — The Star Trek Experience that ride at the Vegas Hilton where you used to be able to tour the Enterprise D bridge and ride in shuttlecraftis going t...

Google launches stand-alone contacts manager Posted: 04 May 2009 12:45 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Google launches stand-alone contacts manager  — New service lets you manage your contacts in Google services like Docs, Calendar, and Picasa, even if you don't use Gmail.

SMSGupShup (India's Twitter ) Grows To 20 million Users, 150000/month Revenue Posted: 04 May 2009 12:45 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch SMSGupShup (India's Twitter ) Grows To 20 million Users, 150000/month Revenue  — SMSGupShup , a Twitter-like service in India, is getting a ton of buzz over here in the U.S., too. In an interview with CEO Beerud Sheth now says t...

Attacker reportedly holds Virginia patient data hostage Posted: 04 May 2009 12:30 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Attacker reportedly holds Virginia patient data hostage  — Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program site remains down after attacker allegedly broke into the Web site and deleted data, demanding a ransom to...

Bullying may make kids psychotic Posted: 04 May 2009 12:28 PM PDT Newspond / Reuters Bullying may make kids psychotic  — CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who are bullied as children have twice the risk of having delusions, hallucinations or other psychotic symptoms as pre-t...

Sir Alan Sugar hails 30m 'equitable' Viglen win Posted: 04 May 2009 07:52 PM PDT TheRegister / TheRegister Sir Alan Sugar hails 30m 'equitable' Viglen win  — Public sector bonanza Viglen, the UK PC maker, has won a Office of Government Commerce contract worth up to 30m to supply public sector organisat...

Steve Ballmer Visits Silicon Valley, Yahoo Search Deal Rumors Buzz Posted: 04 May 2009 07:45 PM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Steve Ballmer Visits Silicon Valley, Yahoo Search Deal Rumors Buzz  — It started early Monday morning with Yahoo'ers chattering that the long awaited Microsoft search deal, first floated in the middle of last year whe...

Creating Mobile Me Aliases to Manage Spam and Protect Your P Posted: 04 May 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Bananas4apples Creating Mobile Me Aliases to Manage Spam and Protect Your P  —  More and more, everyone and their monkey is asking for an email address buying things online, listing on Craigslist, even attending the neighborh...

HTC Hero caught flashing some Android in the wild? Posted: 04 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget HTC Hero caught flashing some Android in the wild?  —  Remember that shockingly pink (false color, we presume) Hero that was allegedly part of HTC's planned Android lineup for 2009? CodeAndroid appears...

Alcatel-Lucent's Loss Widens Posted: 04 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT WallStreetJournal / FeedproxyGoogle Alcatel-Lucent's Loss Widens  —

What is this Twitter thing? Posted: 04 May 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / RwrantCoZa What is this Twitter thing?  —  Article about Twitter (Gadgets)

Like playing with blocks when you were a kid, only incredibly cooler Posted: 04 May 2009 07:23 PM PDT RedditTechnologyUpcoming / Siftables Like playing with blocks when you were a kid, only incredibly cooler  —

Australian Government Website Posted: 04 May 2009 07:23 PM PDT RedditTechnologyUpcoming / Img9ImageshackUs Australian Government Website   —

BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhone Posted: 04 May 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsAu BlackBerry Curve outsells iPhone  —

MarketRiders Promises Steady Returns Through The Magic of Exchange-Traded Funds Posted: 04 May 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Techcrunch MarketRiders Promises Steady Returns Through The Magic of Exchange-Traded Funds  —

Trent Reznor compares Apple to Wal-Mart Posted: 04 May 2009 07:15 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Trent Reznor compares Apple to Wal-Mart  — After Apple's rejection of his band's iPhone app update, Trent Reznor decides to state his position even more clearly on the NIN blog. He equates A...

Curve Grabs Top Spot as Best-Selling Smartphone Posted: 04 May 2009 07:10 PM PDT NewserTechnology / Newser Curve Grabs Top Spot as Best-Selling Smartphone  — The Blackberry Curve has overtaken the iPhone to become America's best-selling smartphone, Ars Technica reports. First-quarter figures from researc...

Recession be damned, RGM Group launches online media firm for the affluent Posted: 04 May 2009 07:07 PM PDT VentureBeat / Venturebeat Recession be damned, RGM Group launches online media firm for the affluent  — RGM Group is launching an online media network for luxury brands today by pooling together four existing divisions. While it seems like a silly ide...

Hands On with Windows 7's XP Mode Posted: 04 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Pcmag Hands On with Windows 7's XP Mode  —  The Windows 7 Release Candidate ships with a feature called Windows XP Mode (XPM) that has left longtime Windows users excited. XPM is designed to...

15 of the Most Dangerous & Harmful Toys for Kids Posted: 04 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Kidglue 15 of the Most Dangerous & Harmful Toys for Kids  —  Since 1990 alone, CPSC has recorded 166 accidental children death. The following are some of the most interesting examples of toys that have creat...

Creating Mobile Me Aliases to Manage Spam and Protect Your P Posted: 04 May 2009 07:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Bananas4apples Creating Mobile Me Aliases to Manage Spam and Protect Your P  —  More and more, everyone and their monkey is asking for an email address buying things online, listing on Craigslist, even attending the neighborh...

What is this Twitter thing? Posted: 04 May 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / RwrantCoZa What is this Twitter thing?  —  Article about Twitter (Gadgets)

15 of the Most Dangerous & Harmful Toys for Kids Posted: 04 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Kidglue 15 of the Most Dangerous & Harmful Toys for Kids  —  Since 1990 alone, CPSC has recorded 166 accidental children death. The following are some of the most interesting examples of toys that have creat...

The Premier Edition of The GeekDad Stack: Comics For Your Kids & You Posted: 04 May 2009 06:48 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Wired The Premier Edition of The GeekDad Stack: Comics For Your Kids & You  — Many geeky parents, as I'm sure you know, are into comic books. Without comics, I don't know how I would survive...

Adobe Fix Coming Next Week Posted: 04 May 2009 06:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Bluebadger Adobe Fix Coming Next Week  — Last week we learned about a newly discovered vulnerability that affects EVERY version of Adobe's flagship product, Adobe Reader. That's millions o...

Does your monitor hurt your eyes at night? Auto-adjust your color temperature. Posted: 04 May 2009 06:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Stereopsis Does your monitor hurt your eyes at night? Auto-adjust your color temperature.  —

European Commission Calls For "Cyber Cop" Posted: 04 May 2009 06:08 PM PDT RedditTechnology / Itproportal European Commission Calls For "Cyber Cop"  —

Gawker Posted: 04 May 2009 06:08 PM PDT Twitter / ValleywagGawker Gawker  —

I, Cringely Blog Archive The Future of Internet TV Posted: 04 May 2009 05:48 PM PDT Twitter / Cringely I, Cringely Blog Archive The Future of Internet TV   —

Things Wordpress Could Improve Posted: 04 May 2009 05:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / RwrantCoZa Things Wordpress Could Improve  —  Blogging, Improvements, Wordpress (Software)

Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old Posted: 04 May 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Nytimes Internet Star @ Least 473 Years Old  —

Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post’s Traffic Posted: 04 May 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Ryanspoon Facebook Drives 19% of Huffington Post's Traffic  —

iMindmap, students don't matter? Posted: 04 May 2009 05:10 PM PDT RedditGeek / SelfGeek iMindmap, students don't matter?  —

Toxbox Changes CEO, Again Posted: 04 May 2009 05:08 PM PDT Twitter / Gigaom Toxbox Changes CEO, Again  —

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