Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Top Technology News

HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:00 PM PDT

Mashable / Mashable
HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle  — There are some interesting things you can do with a Kindle. One of them is the ability to subscribe to and read your favorite blogs on the go. In...

The Local Search Ranking Factors: Ranking High in Google Maps and Yahoo Local

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:28 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Davidmihm
The Local Search Ranking Factors: Ranking High in Google Maps and Yahoo Local  — 20 Local Search Marketing experts weigh in on the importance of 47 criteria that influence rankings in the Google and Yahoo Local search algorithms.

Verizon Wireless to sell HP netbook computers

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:22 PM PDT

ReutersTechnology / Reuters
Verizon Wireless to sell HP netbook computers  — (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, will start selling Hewlett-Packard Co's netbook computers...

Toshiba's Dynabook SS RX2 with world's first with 512GB SSD

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:22 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
Toshiba's Dynabook SS RX2 with world's first with 512GB SSD  —  With 512GB SSDs already announced it was just a matter of time until OEMs slapped that slim slab of solid state silicon into a laptop. Now our pat...

Laser-Cut Paper Lamps Let Chinese Lanterns Know Their 15-Minutes Are Up

Posted: 13 May 2009 02:52 PM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Laser-Cut Paper Lamps Let Chinese Lanterns Know Their 15-Minutes Are Up   — At the BKLYN Designs show this year, designers Levent Romme added a technological twist to their traditional techniques of craftsmanship by using...

Google's Last MySpace Payment: 75 Million On June 20, 2010

Posted: 13 May 2009 02:00 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
Google's Last MySpace Payment: 75 Million On June 20, 2010  — The landmark search advertising deal between Google and News Corp. is set to expire on June 30, 2010, just a little more than a year from now. The ...

A Ruling Against Intel, Unlikely to Drag It Down

Posted: 13 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT

NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes
A Ruling Against Intel, Unlikely to Drag It Down  — Advanced Micro Devices cheered the E.U.'s ruling, but the history of antitrust cases against big technology companies suggests that little will cha...

Stuck On Hotmail? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch

Posted: 13 May 2009 12:30 PM PDT

TechCrunch / TechCrunch
Stuck On Hotmail? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch  — Since launching back in 2004, Gmail has set the gold standard for webmail clients, offering a large amount of storage and a highly usable interface...

Video: HD Etch A Sketch for giant doodlers

Posted: 13 May 2009 12:22 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
Video: HD Etch A Sketch for giant doodlers  —  Jeri Ellsworth (who previously fashioned a totally superb, functioning NES purse) has cobbled together a gigantic Etch A Sketch using a 52-inch...

Google Apps Continues Push Into Enterprise: 30000 New Users at Valeo

Posted: 13 May 2009 12:15 PM PDT

ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb
Google Apps Continues Push Into Enterprise: 30000 New Users at Valeo  — Today marks another step forward for Google in pushing its web office suite Google Apps into large enterprises. Valeo, a leading automotive supplie...

HifiMAN HM-801 PMP promises to make audiophiles happy, wallets hurt

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
HifiMAN HM-801 PMP promises to make audiophiles happy, wallets hurt  —  Audiophiles can be a particular bunch when it comes to portable media players and, at the very least, can often be found carrying a not-so-discree...

Twitterific 2.0 iPhone App Lightning Review

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:52 AM PDT

Gizmodo / Gizmodo
Twitterific 2.0 iPhone App Lightning Review   — When iPhone 2.0 launched, Twitterific was the Twitter app . Beautiful, clean, simple. Then Twitter apps exploded , and several months later, it sud...

What if your refrigerator got its own electricity bill?

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:45 AM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
What if your refrigerator got its own electricity bill?  — Rafe Needleman talks with Tendril CEO Adrian Tuck about the smart grid and smarter devices.

Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from other accounts

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:28 AM PDT

Venezuela To Sign Deal For Local Santander Unit

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:18 AM PDT

Google News: Technology / OnlineWsj
Venezuela To Sign Deal For Local Santander Unit  — By Darcy Crowe Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CARACAS (Dow Jones)--Venezuela plans to close the purchase of Banco Santander SA's (STD) local affiliate by M...

RIP Internet Explorer: 1995-2021

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:15 AM PDT

Mashable / Mashable
RIP Internet Explorer: 1995-2021  — Some of us in the web community really wish Internet Explorer would die. It makes web designers' lives a pain, and it makes users' computers less ...

Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:15 AM PDT

Slashdot / Slashdot
Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another  — KentuckyFC writes "Metamaterials are synthetic substances that can steer light in any way imaginable. Their most famous incarnation is in invisibil...

DisplayLink sells a million USB graphics chips

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:07 AM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
DisplayLink sells a million USB graphics chips  —  It wasn't all that long ago that DisplayLink was still courting manufacturers and showing off its then newfangled USB graphics adapter technology,...

IBM backs full-year profit forecast

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT

YahooNewsTechnology / AP
IBM backs full-year profit forecast  — AP - IBM Corp. is again backing its forecast for profit of 9.20 per share this year.

IEA: Little gadgets consume gigawatts of power

Posted: 13 May 2009 11:00 AM PDT

CNETNews.com / CNETNews
IEA: Little gadgets consume gigawatts of power  — Home electronics account for 15 percent of electricity bills and its share is growing rapidly. The International Energy Agency calls for policies t...

Motorola waves in gesture-sensitive phone

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:52 PM PDT

TheRegister / TheRegister
Motorola waves in gesture-sensitive phone  — Shake to activate In a bullish attempt to shake up the mobile phone market, Motorola has launched a gesture-sensitive handset you must shake, rattl...

The anonymous writings

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:43 PM PDT

Insert a Record with animation slide down effect using jQuery and Ajax.

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:43 PM PDT

Java persistence with Hibernate and Annotations | united-coders.com

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:43 PM PDT

MSI's X-Slim X340 vs. X400 vs. X600 CULV laptops... Fight!

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT

Engadget / Engadget
MSI's X-Slim X340 vs. X400 vs. X600 CULV laptops... Fight!  —  The big Computex show in Taipei is just a few weeks away and that means laptops, tons and tons of laptops. Specifically, CULV thin-and-light lapto...

Californian grids are about to get a whole lot smarter

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:37 PM PDT

VentureBeat / Venturebeat
Californian grids are about to get a whole lot smarter  — California's biggest utilities all have major smart grid strategies in the works vying for a chunk of the federal stimulus bill's 4.5 billion ear...

RocketOn's Blerp adds a layer to the web with new widgets

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:22 PM PDT

VentureBeat / Venturebeat
RocketOn's Blerp adds a layer to the web with new widgets  — RocketOn is one of the companies devoted to the parallel web, meaning it can take web sites and layer things on top of them, from virtual character...

BT Swings to Loss and Warns of Job Cuts

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:22 PM PDT

MPs: end Police's music clampdown

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:22 PM PDT

TheRegister / TheRegister
MPs: end Police's music clampdown  — Scrap Form 696, says culture committee Parliament's culture committee says the Police's notorious "Form 696" should be scrapped, and called for red...

Vodafone gives up on roaming charges

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:22 PM PDT

TheRegister / TheRegister
Vodafone gives up on roaming charges  — No never, no more Vodafone UK is to give up roaming charges to 45 countries, charging travellers only their usual rates for calls and messages home...

David Hockney on why iPhones are the future for art

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / EntertainmentTimesonlineCoU…
David Hockney on why iPhones are the future for art  —  He demonstrates, tracing his finger over the tiny screen with such absorption that I worry he will stop talking altogether. Who would have though...

Google Wonder Wheel Is My SEO Wonder World

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Nicolasprudhon
Google Wonder Wheel Is My SEO Wonder World  —  If I could show you how to pick inside Google's brain, would you be interested? Would having a site exactly meeting Google's expectation helps in ...

Completely Uninstall Unwanted Applications with Perfect Uninstaller

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:03 PM PDT

Les Paul saw a need and invented something to fill it

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:03 PM PDT

HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:00 PM PDT

Mashable / Mashable
HOW TO: Publish Your Blog on the Amazon Kindle  — There are some interesting things you can do with a Kindle. One of them is the ability to subscribe to and read your favorite blogs on the go. In...

What would happen if Google and Wikipedia got it on?

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:48 PM PDT

The anonymous writings

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:43 PM PDT

Early Low Cost Parallel Digital Computer (by somone you may recognize :)

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:10 PM PDT

David Hockney on why iPhones are the future for art

Posted: 13 May 2009 07:04 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / EntertainmentTimesonlineCoU…
David Hockney on why iPhones are the future for art  —  He demonstrates, tracing his finger over the tiny screen with such absorption that I worry he will stop talking altogether. Who would have though...

Intel Hit With 1.45 Billion Fine in Europe

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:48 PM PDT

How to Solve the Browser Wars

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:43 PM PDT

The Local Search Ranking Factors: Ranking High in Google Maps and Yahoo Local

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:28 PM PDT

MixxTechnology / Davidmihm
The Local Search Ranking Factors: Ranking High in Google Maps and Yahoo Local  — 20 Local Search Marketing experts weigh in on the importance of 47 criteria that influence rankings in the Google and Yahoo Local search algorithms.

The Future of Television

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:28 PM PDT

Utopia, the largest municipal fiberoptic ISP anywhere, is offering symmetrical 100 mbps fiberoptic connections for 150 a month.

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:10 PM PDT

HornetsEye: elegant realtime computer vision for Ruby

Posted: 13 May 2009 06:03 PM PDT

Microsoft vs. ODF: arrogance on display

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:44 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Shawnkquinn
Microsoft vs. ODF: arrogance on display  —  "Were an individual software author to try this type of shenanigans, that author would be branded a sociopath, and rightfully so. Wake up and list...

Coding Horror: Why Do Computers Suck at Math?

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Declaration of parenting IT professionals about Internet Blocking

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Music industry mining some revenue from YouTube

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:25 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / LatimesblogsLatimes
Music industry mining some revenue from YouTube  —  Money continues to trickle in to music companies' bank accounts from YouTube (Tech Industry News)

HOW TO CAPSLOCK THE ENTIRE INTERNET

Posted: 13 May 2009 05:24 PM PDT

DiggTechnologyUpcoming / FffffAt
HOW TO CAPSLOCK THE ENTIRE INTERNET   —  IN THE GREAT TRADITION OF KANYE WEST (Security)

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