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Green Tech
While some progress has been made ahead of next month's climate change talks, there will still be plenty of big tangles in Copenhagen, observers say.
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Boing Boing
Scientist explains why climate scientists talk trash
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Dr Peter Watts, a PhD biologist and a hell of a science fiction writer, talks about what it means that a bunch of climate scientists Science doesn't work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least some extent, because scientists are asses. Bickering and backstabbing are essential elements of the process. Haven't any of these guys ...
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The Guardian World News
China sets first-ever carbon targets
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• China plans to slow emissions growth by up to 45% • PM Wen Jiabao to attend Copenhagen climate talks The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled firm targets for curbing the world's biggest carbon footprint for the first time. A day after the US ...
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Come early December, Oracle will meet with European Commission regulators to urge their approval of its merger with Sun Microsystems. "Two people with knowledge of the matter" tell Reuters that "Oracle has asked for a hearing which has been fixed for December 10."
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Voice Your Opinion on Potential Upcoming Java.net Enhancements!
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You may have noticed a new item in the "Get Involved" section at the upper left of the java.net home page: Java.net Enhancements . This is a new feature that's been added as a way to enable the broader java.net community to identify potential enhancements to java.net that are most important. The Java.net Future Enhancements provides many ...
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Linux Journal
Senators Nudge EU On Sun
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The acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle has become an ongoing saga, one that is reportedly seeing Sun hemorrhage cash at an alarming rate. The company's troubles have now found their way to the hallowed halls of Congress, where a majority of the U.S. Senate has entered the fray. read more
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The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer.
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TheAppleBlog
No Flash on Your iPhone? How About Silverlight, Instead?
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It’s been a double-edged sword, this no-Flash-on-the-iPhone business. On the one hand, we don’t get the complete Internet. On the other hand, the web pages we do get are less likely to crash or drag-along at a snail’s pace. And really, who wants to see yet another “Smack the monkey” banner ad? Just as we bemoaned [...]
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Steve O'Hear
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TechCrunch Europe
Little World Gifts to bring virtual gifts to the iPhone just in time for Christmas
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[UK] Liverpool-based Little World Gifts wants to re-define virtual gifts. Only the company doesn't use that word, instead preferring the term 'digital gifts' -- these aren't the typical tiny 2D icons that are gifted on sites like Facebook, they're 3D, touch-friendly and yes, you've guessed it, they run on the iPhone. Little World Gifts will ...
Mike Schramm
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Pie Guy: A web game for the iPhone
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Filed under: Gaming , Freeware , iPhone , iPod touch Back when the iPhone was first announced, there was no SDK, you'll remember. Jobs said that developers could just make web apps, and that they would be good enough . Of course, he was wrong -- given what you can do with your iPhone now compared to what you could do with your iPhone then, even ...
Steven Bink
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Bink.nu
Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb
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"The promise of Silverlight is that it's a cross-device, cross-browser, cross-platform solution, and it works the same on Macs as it does on Windows," Goldfarb responded. "The iPhone is a unique scenario. We talked to our customers...and they said, 'Look, we just need to get our content there, and it's mainly in the ...
Macworld
NDrive intros low price iPhone GPS apps, Black Friday sale
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NDrive has released two new low cost GPS applications for the iPhone in NDrive New York City and NDrive Los Angeles and announced a Black Friday sale.
MacNN
Save Benjis+ iPhone app adds support for barcode scanning
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Sol Robots has released Save Benjis+, an app that builds upon the company's previous App Store utility that had allowed users to compare product prices. The app works with the iPhoneís camera to help simplify the process by automatically scanning barcodes. It provides data on over 5 million items from hundreds of different stores, while ...
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
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Brainstorm Tech
Video: Mr. iFart appeals to Steve Jobs
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The developer of the iPhone's No. 1 flatulence app says Apple's policies stink Joel Comm Another voice has been added to the chorus of iPhone developers complaining about Apple's ( AAPL ) App Store approval process. The latest is that of author and Internet entrepreneur Joel Comm, whose iFart Mobile app is one of the iPhone's ...
Jason Chen
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Gizmodo
Stair Dismount iPhone Game Hands On
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The Stair Dismount iPhone game sent me back eight years to the time when I would waste hours sending the stickman tumbling down instead of working on my programming assignments. The iPhone game is that, with slightly better controls. Its basic premise remains unchanged: select a part of a body, an angle, and then a level of power that you want ...
Rutger Middendorp
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B R I G H T
Eerste indruk: Parrot RKi8400 autoradio
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Parrot is inmiddels de grootste speler op het gebied van handsfreesets. Met de nieuwe RKi8400 wagen ze de sprong naar autoradio's. Die overstap van handsfree naar autoradio's doen ze met een gewaagde stap: geen cd-drive meer. Achter het frontje bevindt zich een opbergvak voor je usb-stick, iPod, iPhone of andere mp3-speler. In het frontje zelf ...
Barb Dybwad
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Mashable!
Top Mobile Productivity Tools for the Small Business
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This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. As a small business owner, you’re likely constantly on the go — whether it’s in the air, on the road to clients, or even just making the rounds in your ...
Michael Santo
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Get a Tactile iPhone Keyboard With 4iThumbs
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By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews 4iThumbs has released a tactile keyboard overlay that fits on top of your iPhone screen. It provides tactile feedback to those of us who, despite our best efforts, just can’t get typing on a touch screen down as much as we might something with a QWERTY keyboard that we can feel. I’ve [...]
Digg.com
IPhone Owners Spend More Money
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Mac users may be more individualistic than PC owners, but new data suggests users of another Apple gizmo--the iPhone--are, on average, much freer with their online spending than their peers.
Robin Wauters
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TechCrunch
DFJ-Backed Clixtr Marries Photos With Location, Launches Website
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Clixtr , a startup that first presented itself to a wide audience at this year's TechCrunch50 Conference ( our take ), kicked off things with a relatively limited offering - a paid iPhone app - but is now upping its game with the launch of an accompanying location-aware photo sharing website. It's also dropping the price of its iPhone ...
Macworld
Review: Big Buck Hunter Pro for iPhone
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This iPhone version of the arcade classic features outstanding graphics and realistic movement, though the accuracy of where shots are placed is a source of frustration.
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F-Secure Antivirus Research
Malicious iPhone Worm
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We've received a sample of a malicious iPhone worm with botnet functionality. Like the Ikee worm , it only affects Jailbroken iPhones which have SSH installed and have not changed the default password. This one connects to a web-based command & control center running at 92.61.38.16 in Lithuania. The worm is not widespread, but it is much ...
Sam mcloughln
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PalmAddicts
IPhone worm creator lands software job
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This made me laugh, the 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Read in full via the BBC.
F-Secure Antivirus Research Team (mailto:weblog\
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F-Secure Antivirus Research
First iPhone Worm Found
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We have located the first iPhone worm, dubbed as Ikee . It's currently spreading in the wild, but it's only able to infect devices that have been " jailbroken " by their owners. Jailbreaking removes iPhone's protection mechanisms, allowing users to run any software they want. Affected users will find that their iPhone wallpaper has been altered ...
Sam mcloughln
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PalmAddicts
OK so I have to admit that I'm an iPhone nut through and through
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[From Chrisbird] OK so I have to admit that I'm an iPhone nut through and through and it is with me everywhere. I know everyone has an iPhone these days but I love all the apps I can download. Did I tell you it's jailbroken which opens up a lot of possibilities especially as my phone can multitask. I also listen to internet radio especially at ...
Jason Kaneshiro
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Webomatica
IPhone App: Cat Paint
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Performs as advertised. Just tap anywhere on the screen to place a cat there to the sound of a random cat meow. The experience oddly, highly amusing based on the limited functionality. But of course, I’m a cat nut.
Techworld.com News
Vendor rages after iPhone hacker given job
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The code was rubbish too, says Sophos. A security firm has expressed incredulity at the news that the Australian prank hacker who wrote a program targeting Apple iPhone users has been given a job by an application developer.
H.Kwint
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LXer Linux News
IPhone & HTML5 bring "streaming Silverlight content" to Linux
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LXer Feature: 26-Nov-2009 Here's a quick blog, because I'm really in hurry, so please forgive any mistakes. Microsoft worked together with Apple to bring Silverlight video to the iPhone. What this solution basically does is take a video at the server side, cut it in parts and convert the parts to separate H.264 streams. Then stream those files ...
James A. Robertson
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Smalltalk Tidbits
Silverlight Makes it to the iPhone
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You can watch video on the iPhone iif it's QuickTime, and now, apparently, if it's Silverlight. This is interesting, given the continued absence of Flash, but BetaNews has the explanation: You'd think Apple would have stood firm against Microsoft at least as aggressively as it has against Adobe, if not more so. How did this happen? We asked ...
Warp2Search.net
Apple domestic desktop sales strong, iPhone sales slow in China
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Apple has captured nearly half of all desktop revenue in the United States as iPhone sales in China have lagged. Apple domestic desktop sales strong, iPhone sales slow in China ...
PC World Latest
Top 10 iPhone Apps for Hobbyists
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Grilling. Bird watching. Shopping. Whatever your downtime passion, there's an app for that. Here's a look at ten intriguing options to help you recharge.
Adam Frucci
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Gizmodo
A Thanksgiving Message From the iPhone
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Here's a message about the holiday and Black Friday from our friend from Cupertino, the iPhone.
Andy_Plesser
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Beet.TV
Flash on the iPhone Would Be Nice, but Not Essential, Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire
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Flash for the iPhone would be helpful to developers and programmers, but it's not essential in getting the rich interactivity of Flash on the iPhone, says Jeremy Allaire, one of the principal developers of Flash. Allaire, who was CTO of Macromedia, the company that developed Flash and was sold to Adobe, is the founder and CEO of video platform ...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled its first firm target to curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to aid a global climate deal.
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Top News
Black Friday 2009: The Best Deals On The Items You Want
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Is there a better way to kick off the Holiday season then slowly dragging yourself out of your tryptophan induced coma to go shopping during the wee hours of the day after Thanksgiving a.k.a. Black Friday ? Sure, Black Friday seems utterly atrocious when thinking about it. I mean you got long lines , rabid shoppers , insane traffic , and ...
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Impact Lab
Best Investment In China? Garlic!
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A Wall Of Health and Flavor! The price of garlic in China has nearly quadrupled since March, propelled by its very pungency to rank ahead of gold and stocks as the country’s best-performing asset this year. The trigger for the bull run may have been the idea that the potent bulb can ward off H1N1 swine flu, [...]
The Seattle Times
Obama to plead US case at global warming summit
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President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month.
PC World Latest
Wipro Sets up Global Services Delivery From China
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Indian outsourcer Wipro has set up a global services delivery center in Chengdu in southwest China, targeting customers in the U.S., Europe, and other markets outside the country.
NPR Topics
China Announces Plans To Cut Carbon Emissions
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The commitment from the world's largest polluter builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month. China pledges to reduce emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output.
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China Digital Times (CDT)
China Seen Facing Protectionist Backlash Next Year
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The EU Chamber of Commerce in China has announced that China may face a protectionist backlash because Chinese manufacturers, working at overcapacity, are dumping materials on the market: [Chamber president, Jörg Wuttke] was speaking at the introduction of a study into industrial overcapacity in China, a longstanding situation that the chamber ...
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Ars sits down with Valve's director of business development Jason Holtman to discuss the future of the Steam platform and PC gaming. His theory? Listening to customers and keeping them connected are the keys to success. The evidence? Sales boosts that coincide with updates, and frequent, effective price cuts.
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Griffin McElroy
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Joystiq
Valve addresses Left 4 Dead 2 server lag on Xbox 360
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What's the only thing worse than having two dead team members, an approaching wave of special infected, and a fresh sheen of Boomer puke on your person? Having to suffer all those things while also -- fighting -- server la -- tency issues. Fortunately, that experience has become less common, as Valve recently did a bit dusting around their ...
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Christopher Grant
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Joystiq
Interview: BioWare's Greg Zeschuk on Dragon Age, DLC, and more
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Here's a Thanksgiving treat from the vault - we've dug out the following interview with BioWare co-founder (and Group Creative Officer of EA's newly formed RPG/MMO Group) Greg Zeschuk from earlier this year at PAX. But don't let the date fool you! Our discussion of multiplatform console development, DLC strategies on future BioWare titles like ...
Brian Crecente
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Kotaku
Sound Blaster Arena Surround Gaming Headset Review: Who's That Sneaking Up On Me?
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Over the years sound has increasingly taken the back seat to the other important elements of a PC gaming experience from mouse and keyboard to the graphics and light-kits. But Creative and Sound Blaster have never given up the good fight. Are their Arena Surround gaming headsets a must have for PC gamers or just another added frill? Let's see. ...
TechSpot
Steam and others kick off holiday PC games sale
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Just ahead of the Black Friday shopping extravaganza, Valve's digital distribution service, Steam, is coming through with a massive "Early Holiday Sale" event that will let you expand your PC games library on the cheap. The company will be offering big discounts on a different set of games every day for the next five days, as well as special ...
Tom
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Eurogamer
News:
Bad Company 2 PC beta delayed
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Marching to 2010 but with added features. DICE has pushed PC beta for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 back to "very early next year". The good news, studio bigwig Gordon Van Dyke explained on the game's blog, is that desktop users will get an improved build of the game. "With the huge success of the PS3 Beta we decided to drastically increase the PC ...
PC World Latest
India's PC Market Has Started Recovering, Says IDC
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India's PC sales were 2.19 million units in the third quarter, down by 3.1 percent from the same quarter a year ago, research firm IDC India said on Thursday.
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Eurogamer
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Valve upgrades L4D2 Xbox 360 servers
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Blames lag issues on demand. Valve reckons it has eliminated latency issues with the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead 2 following a series of tech changes. "We have upgraded our network infrastructure to better accommodate the huge response to L4D2," the developer wrote on its blog. "360 players will now have lag-free servers. We've also added ...
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If you've been to Times Square in New York City over the past couple weeks, on any day from 12:30-2:00pm or 6:30-8:00pm, you may have noticed that Google Search by voice is powering Times Square's largest combined displays -- the Reuters Sign and the NASDAQ sign. Anyone can call 888-376-4336 and say the name of a business or a location that they ...
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Stan Schroeder
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Mashable!
HOW TO: Try Out The New Google Search Right Now
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A couple of days ago we wrote about a redesign of the Google Search interface, with a new, snazzy sidebar on the left side. Now, the folks at Gizmodo have found out a way to test this new look out for yourself. However, before you try it, you need to be aware of the following: To get this trick to work, you must use the international version of ...
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Gizmodo
How to Disable the New Google Search
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Oh you people are never happy. I give you a way to try the new Google Search yesterday, and now you are asking about how to go back to the old one. Fine! Be that way! Here's how: Yesterday's method only set a cookie in your browser, asking Google to serve a different page layout to you. However, this will affect other Google pages in the wrong ...
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Technology Bites
How to try Google’s new search interface
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Google is testing a new search interface, the new look is not visible to everyone, but only for some users. The new look is with a new Google logo, colorful buttons and a permanently featured sidebar, something similar to Bing. The sidebar allows to narrow down the search to News, Blogs, Images, Video, Maps etc. If [...]
Alex Chitu
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Google Operating System
Google Bookmarks Promoted Search Results
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If you are logged in to a Google account and you promote a search result using the SearchWiki icons, the web page is automatically saved to Google Bookmarks . For some reason, Google labels the web page using your query, so you'll end up with a long list of labels. The list of SearchWiki annotations is already available at ...
Doug Caverly
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Top News
Google Links Coupons, Mobile Search
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Just in time for the shopping craziness that is Black Friday, Google's made it easier for companies to get coupons to consumers who are on the move. Google Local Business Center users can now make their coupons accessible to people through mobile devices. Yes, assuming that shoppers don't lose the use of their fingers due to standing outside in ...
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TechCrunch
Why Google Wave Sucks, And Why You Will Use It Anyway
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This guest post was written by Martin Seibert , a German Internet media consultant. Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment. The ambitious group collaboration and micro-messaging platform started rolling out in beta via an initial batch of 100,000 invitations two months ago. Many people still want invitations. Among those who've tried it, some ...
Pete Cashmore
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Mashable!
Thanksgiving Google Logo 2009: Snoopy and Woodstock Go Peanuts for Turkey
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Thanksgiving 2009 is upon us, and Google’s US visitors are being treated to a special logo to mark the occasion: visit Google.com today and you’ll be greeted by a logo inspired by the classic cartoon Peanuts. The Google lettering has taken on orange, brown and yellow hues, while Snoopy, Woodstock and a Thanksgiving feast adorn the ...
Chris Ziegler
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Engadget
Navigon announces nav app for Android, Google threat looms
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Google has taken much of the wind out of the turn-by-turn navigation industry's sails this Fall thanks to the introduction of fee-free Google Maps Navigation , but it's got a fatal flaw for the moment: it's only available in the States. Navigon must be banking on the fact that Mountain View is going to take its sweet time spreading the love ...
Doug Caverly
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Top News
Italian Prosecutors Request Jail Time For Google Execs
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Italian prosecutors have - sort of - tried to put several Google executives (and the company's former CFO) in jail. The prosecutors requested sentences ranging from six months to one year in connection with a case that involved a YouTube video and a disabled boy. In September of 2006, a clip showing several teens making fun of a classmate with ...
Tim Anderson
Google Chrome OS – astonishing
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I’m watching Google’s press briefing on the forthcoming Chrome OS. It is amazing. What Google is developing is a computer that answers several of the problems that have troubled users since the advent of the personal computer. Exaggeration? Here’s a quick summary of what Chrome OS is. It’s a device that you will purchase which runs in ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Case Study: The Real-Time Web at the New York Times & EnjoysThings
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This Monday we're releasing our latest premium research report, entitled The Real-Time Web and Its Future . You can pre-order this in-depth report for just $200 . One of the 50 interviews we conducted was with Ted Roden , a Creative Technologist at The New York Times. In this post, an edited extract from our new report, we explore how Roden ...
Digg.com
Google to put ancient Iraq museum collection online
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By Aseel Kami BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Google is putting thousands of images of ancient artifacts at Iraq's National Museum online, the Web search leader said on Tuesday, part of a U.S. bid to entice foreign firms to invest in Iraq. What is now...
Digg.com
Teeth-Whitening Company Sues Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ...
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A dental whitening company that admittedly used deceptive ad campaigns to trick users into signing up for expensive subscriptions is now suing Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others
Lee Odden
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Online Marketing Blog
All New Google Design
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Google is a master of innovation in the search space and while they seem to subscribe to Guy Kawasaki’s “release early and release often” new product philosophy, the attention to changing the Google search page is near-holy. Minuscule design changes at even the pixel level are cautious and carefully considered. And rare. ...
Asclepius
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Impact Lab
Fun With Google Autocomplete
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Have you experienced Google as an entertainment past time by playing with the autocompletion feature in Google search? Others have. In fact there is a blog dedicated to such activities. It reveals what will happen if you start to type in a phrase such as “Google won” or “How to ra” and so much more… Thanks to Nag On [...]
Sam Niccolls
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SEO
This Week in Search for
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Posted by Sam Niccolls Google Displaying Site Hierarchies in SERPs: Google provides yet another reason to have sound site architecture. Google Displaying Movie Times in SERPs: In addition to the many other things Google is testing , movie showtimes are being shown in the SERPs. ACC Approves Microsoft Yahoo Deal in Canada & Australia: After a ...
David Rothman
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TeleRead
Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?
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Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system. The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post (and forwarded to White House staffer Shin Inouye on Oct. 23). But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading [...]
Loren Baker
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Search Engine Journal
Thanksgiving Logos from Google, Yahoo & Bing
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Happy Thanksgiving from Search Engine Journal to all of the search industry and all readers who come across our site. This year, I'm spending my Thanksgiving morning shacked up in a Hampton Inn in Tamarc, FL .. watching the Macys Parade on the TV, enjoying my continental breakfast and getting ready to head over to Dave Snyder's parents' house for& ...
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LiewCF.com
Free Google Wave Invite Giveaway
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Here are some free Google Wave invites to giveaway.
Mike Abundo
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901am
Google Opens Chrome Extensions Gallery for Uploads
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Lusting for the speed of Chrome, but enjoying the convenience of Firefox's central plugin repository? Soon you won't have to choose. Related posts: Google Chrome Adds Bookmark Sync Google Chrome OS Screenshot? Google Chrome Frame: A Trap for Microsoft
Chris Meadows
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TeleRead
Should Google Books worry publishers? Quality problems?
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Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings. It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. [...]
Barry
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Search Engine Roundtable
Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone, it is my favorite holiday. As you can imagine, the search news (as in all news) will be slow today, so here is a look at today's special logos, themes and designs from our industry. We have...
Tim Anderson
Chrome OS: will Google keep its vision?
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I spent some time with Chrome OS over the weekend and yesterday, first doing my own build of the open source Chromium OS, and then running it and writing a review. The build process was interesting: you actually compile Chromium OS from a chroot virtual environment. My first efforts were unsuccessful, for two reasons. First, Chromium OS assumes ...
Payments News Editor
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Payments News
Holiday Discounts from PayPal, Google Checkout, Amazon Payments
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Some nifty discounts are available - almost any way you want to pay online. Both PayPal and Google Checkout are serving up discounts for purchases this holiday season. Here's PayPal's Deal page - and here's Google Checkout's Deal page. Not to be outdone, Amazon Payments is also offering special holiday deals if you shop with Amazon Payments. ...
Yahoo! Developer Network Blog
Tech Thursday - Python and YQL, new Google layout, Quake in Flash and LOLSQL
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Every Thursday is Tech Thursday where we share a random assortment of technical links we found and liked. Stuart Colville has done quite a trememdous job in creating a Python-YQL wrapper library. Canvas gives JavaScript quite some power as the JPG encoder for JavaScript shows. Google is about to redesign their search page and using a cookie ...
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's foreign minister on Thursday shrugged off the Palestinian dismissal of a 10-month moratorium on some building in West Bank settlements, saying winning international support was more important.
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• Alan Johnson quashes last-ditch attempt to halt extradition • Family fear hacker with Asperger's is at serious risk of suicide Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is at serious risk of suicide, relatives said today, after the home secretary rejected a last-ditch attempt to prevent his extradition to the US. In a letter today Alan Johnson ordered ...
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SFGate
UK gov't will not stop extradition of hacker to US
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The British government said Thursday it will not prevent the extradition of an autistic hacker accused of breaking into U.S. military computers. Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he will not intervene in the case of Gary McKinnon, who is accused by U.S.... Gary McKinnon - United States - Government - Her Majesty's Government - US
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Gizmodo
More Black Friday Bad News: Why Cheap TVs Might Really Cost You More
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You know Black Friday is dangerous , but our friend Gary, the HD Guru, got pretty specific on a few particularly bad deals. For example, that 32" Emerson on sale at Walmart for $248 sounds good, right? Not so fast. Gary points out that the warranty on this baby is so bad (90-day labor, 1-year parts) that if it broke, it "will cost the owner ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers may stretch tight budgets this year to reward loved ones after months of thrift, a softening of heart that store chains hope will erase the holiday season sales debacle of 2008.
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I4U News
Sam's Club Thanksgiving Day Online Sales Event Underway
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If you are a member of the Sam's Club you should check out the Members only Thanksgivind Day sale. There are some hot items on sale at prices you will not even get at the Walmart Black Friday sale tomorrow. Sam's Club offer for instance today the bargai...
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Chris Albrecht
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NewTeeVee
Given that it’s Thanksgiving, we had to do some kind of holiday-related post. I thought about doing a what I’m thankful for, but then remembered this gem from last year. You’re hard-pressed to find a tripper video than this — watch in awe as Paul McCartney (yes, THE Paul McCartney) teaches you how to cook mashed [...]
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Jason Chen
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Gizmodo
Your Wii Is Not Fancy Enough For This Horgan Becket Media Cart
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Traditional media cabinets may work well enough in the sense that it holds your TV on top and your TiVos and HTPCs and game consoles on the bottom, but do they emit the air of luxury that Horgan Becket 's does? HB's Media Cart is hand-crafted to your specifications, so don't be deterred by the fact that the sample shots only seem to have enough ...
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Tom
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Eurogamer
Interview:
Splash Damage's Paul Wedgwood
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On the Brink. In Brink, Splash Damage and Bethesda may have one of the most ambitious games of 2010: a first-person shooter that blends single- and multi-player on a fundamental level, which is also sufficiently accessible that a complete novice can go toe to toe with a veteran and both still enjoy themselves. Following his Developer Session at ...
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Michael Arrington
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TechCrunch
Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we're thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs . I'm thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn't at all a certainty that he would ever return to the company that he ...
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Ross Miller
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Engadget
Apple's Black Friday deals hit Australia site, same as it ever was
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Apple Down Under[TM] has revealed its today-only holiday gift specials, and with most deals hovering between 5 and 10 percent off, it's nothing out of the ordinary for Cupertino's wares. Still, if you're shopping for a new iMac this season, seems like the perfect opportunity to fill up your virtual shopping cart. If history tells us anything , ...
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Joachim Bean
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The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers
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Filed under: iTS , iTunes , Developer After seeing the intent by developers and artists to create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for their music, Apple has opened up the availability to develop these features to third parties. However, automatic submission for iTunes LP and iTunes Extras is not expected until early 2010; in the meantime, it's still ...
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I4U News
Apple Black Friday Sale Already Launched In Australia
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The Apple Black Friday Sale is underway down under. I am not sure if Australians are familiar with Black Friday, but it does not matter as Apple calls it special one-day Apple Shopping Event in Australia (Via MacRumors). The highlighted deals include i...
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Apple Black Friday deals hit the Australian store
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Filed under: Deals Put aside, for the moment, the incongruity of non-US stores featuring discounts for the day after a US-only holiday... just roll with it, OK? Apple's online store for Australia -- where, of course, it's already Black Friday -- has got the one-day discount page posted and ready to go. The pricing drops are in the vicinity of 8- ...
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Apple refurbs: 13, 15, and 17-inch MacBook Pros
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Today's selection of refurbished items at Apple's online store include a large selection of MacBook Pro models starting at $999 for the 2.26GHz, 13.3-inch MBP with 2GB of RAM and 160GB hard drive. Jump up to the 15-inch MBP for just a bit more, $1299 for the 2.4Ghz model with 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. Other 15-inch MBPs include the 2. ...
Ubergizmo
Motorola Beats Apple In Brand Loyalty?
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While it certainly sounds impossible at first, after sitting down and thinking about it seriously, you might begin to understand why. What are we talking about? It’s the recent survey from YouGov’s BrandIndex , which reports that that Motorola surpassed Apple in terms of brand loyalty. It’s no mystery to guess what changed ...
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Apple posts tools for building TuneKit iTunes LPs and Extras
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Apple has taken iTunes LP and Extras public, encouraging independent developers to begin work on interactive digital content for distribution in iTunes starting early next year. The new move signals a big move in taking on Adobe Flash, pushing the adoption of web standards, and creating an new business model for content that could impact how the ...
MacRumors
Apple Black Friday Sales Begin in Australia and New Zealand
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Apple has launched its "Black Friday" one-day sales in Australia and New Zealand, with other countries set to follow at the appropriate times. As expected, Apple is offering only modest discounts compared to the deals offered by many other r...
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Apple Files Motion to Dismiss Psystar's Florida Case; Alternatively to Transfer Case to California
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Apple has filed a motion to dismiss Psystar's litigation in Florida, or in the alternative to transfer it to the Northern District of California, where its so-far successful litigation against Psystar is taking place and consolidate it there. It requests a 30-minute hearing on its motion. You'll recall that Apple told the California court that it ...
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Minority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
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Apple's Mac Mini could really have become the "most important Mac", as Steve Jobs once called it. Seb Janacek explains what happened instead. As a Mac user it's not often I gaze admiringly at the product pages on Dell's website but this week was a notable exception.
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Apple Black Friday Sales Begin in Australia and New Zealand
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Apple has launched its "Black Friday" one-day sales in Australia and New Zealand, with other countries set to follow at the appropriate times. As expected, Apple is offering only modest discounts comp...
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Apple MacBook Pro prices slashed by up to $300, iMacs by $180
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One Apple authorized reseller upped the ante overnight in the ongoing Black Friday Mac price war, slashing Mac notebook prices by up to $300 and iMac prices by up to $180. Apple MacBook Pro price...
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Apple Asks for Permanent Injunction, Psystar Sold 768 Machines
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We've got some progress in the other legal case Apple is involved in. The California case, Apple vs. Psystar, is more or less a done deal, but the Florida case, Psystar vs. Apple, is only just beginning. As it promised it would do, Apple has now asked the court in California to either dismiss the Florida case, or transfer it to California. Apple ...
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: Apple II Finally Discontinued
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Apple's most successful computer wasn't a Mac, wasn't even a mouse-based machine. It was the Apple II. The Apple II was designed by Woz because he simply wanted a better machine than the Apple I. Once the design was complete, the two Steves knew they were…
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In depth with Apple's Snow Leopard Server
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Computerworld's Ryan Faas shares his impressions of the OS X 10.6 version of Apple's server software.
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Using power management features on your computer can save more than 600 KWh of electricity and more than $60 a year in energy costs. That equates to nearly half a ton of CO2 – more than lowering your home thermostat by two degrees Fahrenheit in the winter or replacing six standard light bulbs with compact fluorescents1. Follow the steps ...
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There is no topic hotter than global warming. After all, Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in raising awareness, his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar, and terms like "carbon footprint" are now part of the common lexicon.
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Automakers tend to agree that the electrification of the car is inevitable, but Nissan is leading the way by readying a mass-market, affordable electric car for production. The Leaf is a midsize hatchback with a range of a little more than 100 miles, according to Nissan. Although Nissan didn't let us drive it, the company brought the Leaf to CNET' ...
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By Andrew Liszewski Whether it’s the tryptophan in the turkey that’s made you too sleepy, or the 15 helpings of pumpkin pie that’s increased gravity’s hold on your enormous posterior, this Power Assist Seat Cushion is the ultimate Thanksgiving accessory if you’re having trouble getting up from the dinner table. A ...
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Power Assist Seat Cushion
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Did you over eat during the last holiday season and have trouble getting up? Well, this year you can be prepared with the Power Assist Seat Cushion , which is going for $169.95. It supports up to 300lbs, so that certainly gives you a little room to have more of that turkey you want to eat so badly. Perhaps you could even give it to someone as a ...
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Scripting News
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Over the years, starting in 1994 , I've written Thanksgiving messages. Essays, lists, whatever. Every year the message is the same. Thanks. It's a message that never goes out of style. Thanksgiving is the best holiday. You don't have to believe in any particular god to be part of it, or even believe in god at all. This holiday includes everyone. ...
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Gizmodo
A MacGyver Chef Thanksgiving: Making Choco-Cranberry Mousse With a Hair Dryer
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To honor this most culinary holiday, I found a dessert recipe that, in true MacGyver fashion, can be made with equipment found in a hotel room. Here, a hair dryer provides heat—but couldn't save this disasterpiece. This recipe is for an ultra-simple chocolate-cranberry mousse, chosen for its simplicity (only a few easily-obtainable ...
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Inside Facebook
SocialVibe’s Thanksgiving Feast Facebook Application Raises Money to Fight Hunger
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SocialVibe works with brands to create ways for users to donate money to charity, where users engage in some sort of branded online experience, and the brand make a donation. And for Thanksgiving, SocialVibe has created a Facebook app that is a type of simple fundraising game, raising money for the United Nations World Food [...]
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Gizmodo
Send Us Your Thanksgiving Tech Support Horror Stories
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Happy Thanksgiving! If your holiday celebrations are anything like mine, they involve coming home to a large number of old people confused about how to use their tech gear, treating you like an actually competent member of the Geek Squad. Do you have any Thanksgiving tech support horror stories? Shoot them to me in email form or drop your stories,
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What Twitterers Are Thankful For
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Do you want to tell the world what you're thankful for? Will the Twitterverse suffice? How about you followers and the few people that go to TurkeyTwitter? What is TurkeyTwitter you ask? It is a site that was launched yesterday to give those celebrating Thanksgiving a place to see the collective thanks of Twitter users. Sure, you could simply ...
Brandon Fuller
A Bear Thanksgiving
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All week I knew I needed to do something early Thanksgiving morning. Being the biggest race day of the year, a turkey trot was the obvious choice. But after looking at the Boulder course, I decided that was to curvy for me. I wanted a straight line 5k so I could PR big for Wave A. Not going to happen there. With that out of the way, I hit Jeff ...
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Thanksgiving: gratefulness on your time
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Ever since you made one of those turkeys out of an outline of your hand in kindergarten, you've probably been aware of the fact that Thanksgiving might not be the preeminent maker's holiday. Unless your forte is food. Or turkey papercraft. But being thankful, taking stock of ourselves and our world, is something we should all be able to get ...
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A Mental_Floss Thanksgiving
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Two bits of lighthearted holiday history from my old friends at mental_floss. About The Presidential Turkey Pardon The first official National Thanksgiving Turkey was presented by members of the Poultry and Egg National Board to Harry Truman in 1947. According to some reports, they ate him. Not that it necessarily matters, since the turkeys who ...
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Thanksgiving Maskers
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A photograph from the Library of Congress collection in the Flickr Commons. Thanksgiving Maskers, what the heck's that, you ask? Before Halloween became the holiday it now is in the United States, children would dress up in masks on the final Thursday in November and go door to door for treats (think: fruit!), or scramble for pennies. The ...
Chris Meadows
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TeleRead
My e-book Thanksgiving list
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists (Ars Technica, Wired, another Wired, and Wired again on things not to be thankful for), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just e-book-related things, [...]
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TV Squad
The Middle Thanksgiving was an instant classic
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There was something refreshingly pedestrian about last night's episode of The Middle . It wasn't about abundance and excess, because as a middle-class situation comedy, the current economic state doesn't reflect having plenty and living beyond your means. Frankie and Mike are doing their best to get by. But they're not bitching about it. That's ...
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Chuck Newton
A Few Thanksgiving Facts
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You might not know some of the following: 1. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, and not the eagle, to be our national bird. 2. Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor and author of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" waged the campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. 3. The original Macy's parade in New York City in 1924 on ...
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LiveSide
The Climate Mystery - A Bing Maps Game for Thanksgiving
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Feel like doing something else on Thanksgiving than playing Pictionary, Risk or Trivial Pursuit? Chris Pendleton suggests the following : Instead of breaking out the Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit or Risk you can logon to The Climate Mystery game featuring Bing Maps . The impetus for the game was to build a website about global warming in time for ...
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TV Squad
What's On Tonight: Charlie Brown, Lopez Tonight, Holiday movies & marathons
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History Channel has a Pawn Stars marathon all night. Syfy's James Bond marathon continues all night. TV Land has a marathon or Roseanne Thanksgiving episodes (starting at 9). At 7, Boomerang has The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't . At 8, ABC has A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving , followed by Beyonce...I Am Yours and Paul McCartney: Good Evening New ...
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Gawker
How to Talk to Your Conservative Relatives
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You are probably at this very moment attempting to communicate with family members you have almost nothing in common with. What do you do if it turns out Aunt Edwina is a birther? First of all, this is not a list of "counter-arguments," or methods by which you can convince a conservative relative that their beliefs are wrong. Because these are ...
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TeleRead
‘An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving’ and other Turkey Day books—including some free e-book editions
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A list of Thanksgiving-related books appears from About.com—including An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving, by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women. Also go here for other possibilities from such authors as Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis (and a Thanksgiving interview with Mark Twain). An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving may delight many parents and ...
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In online recipe queries, a snapshot of Thanksgiving trends
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If you are in Oregon this Thanksgiving, you stand a better than average chance of encountering Tofurkey. More people are looking for caterers to prepare the holiday meal in New York than anywhere else in the country. Live in the Southeast? Brace yourself for a big scoop of broccoli casserole.
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Thanksgiving, loss, and finding ourselves again...
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I spent the afternoon and the better part of the evening with my friend Dave the other day. We're close friends of ten years, both pilots and generally good buddies. We spent the day keeping each other company and - although we only briefly spoke about it - supporting each other through the anniversary of a difficult, life-changing day. It's so ...
The Seattle Times
Thanksgiving last full day in space for shuttle
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Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts will spend Thanksgiving checking their ship for the ride home.
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Search Engine Land
Happy Thanksgiving & Programming Note
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, we will likely not be writing much here today. But I did want to share with you, like I did at the Search Engine Roundtable, the various logos we have from Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, AOL and others in the search engine industry. Google: Yahoo (Flash): AOL [...] ....
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Ernie The Attorney
Thanksgiving four years after Katrina
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It's hard to believe that four years have passed since the Thanksgiving after Katrina. I spent that one alone, but was very grateful and happy as evidenced by this blog post. I learned a lot from Katrina, and I'm still...
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News: Happy Thanksgiving from TMO!
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In observance of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, The Mac Observer will be taking Thursday and Friday off. We will resume our regular coverage of the Apple world on Monday, November 30, 2009.
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Joho the Blog
Thanksgiving without a Giver
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I very much liked James Carroll's reflections on how the sense of gratitude occurs in those who do not believe there is a Giver of the gifts we have received. When it comes to atheism, I am agnostic: I'm not sure if I believe that there isn't a Giver. But that's ...
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SpendMatters
Thanksgiving Wishes: Peace, Graciousness and a Cheap but Good Turkey
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Thanksgiving, when celebrated properly, is an excellent metaphor for a well-managed and executed procurement and supplier management function. Perhaps the best illustration linking the two concepts together is turkey. Now, being the gourmet urban dwe...
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Philip Greenspun
Thanksgiving Thoughts
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Things I am thankful for today: to have been born into the United States, a country that has been blessed with tremendous natural resources, mineral, animal, vegetable, and scenic, as well as remarkable tolerance for people of different races and beliefs the American Indians, who welcomed European settlers into this country family members who ...
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Harmonix's Rock Band Network is still working out the kinks and will launch in "early 2010." In a statement to Kotaku , the developer explained that it's working on getting the public beta tools out "before the end of the year," with the store front to launch sometime at the beginning of next year. Musicians with ample time and high computer ...
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Review:
LEGO Rock Band
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Block party. This isn't the first family-friendly reskin of a popular rhythm-action game we've seen this month. Band Hero gave Guitar Hero 5 a glittery pink-and-purple makeover and a soundtrack of cheerily meaningless pop in a rather-too-calculated approach to broadening the plastic-instrument market to women and families. The new look was ...
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Kotaku
The Xbox 360 Buyer's Guide
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New Halo, new downloadables for Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Grand Theft Auto, new Forza. It was a pretty good year for Xbox 360 owners. Pick through the list to decide which games to give and get and leave a comment to point out any you would add that we didn't review. And don't forget, this is more reference material than it is suggestion. Just ...
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Kotaku
The PlayStation 3 Buyer's Guide
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With at least one potential game of the year exclusively nesting on the Playstation 3 and a price drop under its belt, the PS3 has had a pretty darn good year. My favorite among the games listed is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which probably isn't surprising. What is yours? Anything we didn't review that you would suggest? Remember, the games ...
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Eurogamer
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LEGO Rock Band DLC trailer
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The Growth Guy
Triple Crown Winners; Fast vs. Feast; Red Paper Clip for Home; Key to Money
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"...keeping you great" HEADLINES: Right-Sized Homes -- Congratulations to Simonini Builders, the 2010 National Housing Quality Award winner and cover story of the October issue of Professional Builder. Their "Right-Sized Home" product aligns with the end of the era of...
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"What's new and interesting? The user interface changes are probably the first thing you'll notice, especially the new tabbed interface. Instead of opening messages in a new window, they'll now open in a tab. Tabs are saved between sessions by default, so you can pick up right where you left off. The toolbar has been redesigned as well,
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Nvidia releases GeForce 195.62 WHQL-candidate drivers
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Nvidia has pushed out a new WHQL-candidate GeForce driver, version 195.62. Dated November 20, the latest build adds several bug fixes and improved stability to the previously released 195.55 WHQL-candidate driver. Among the fixes is one that remedies the occasional frame stutter in Fallout 3, and another corrects antialiasing in Borderlands when ...
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Joystiq
It appears that GamePro will reveal the first details of Puzzle Quest 2 in its next issue. Beyond a single image, the mag doesn't drop any details on its website. After Infinite Interactive went a tad off course with Galactrix -- meanwhile, developing Puzzle Kingdoms , Puzzle Chronicles and Neopets Puzzle Adventure -- it's good to see the team ...
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Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova's founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site.
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Mininova stopt er grotendeels mee
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Mininova stopt met het aanbieden van torrents die gebruikers hebben geplaatst. De site gaat voor 100 procent legaal Die beslissing nam de Utrechtse torrentsite om een dwangsom die kon oplopen tot 5 miljoen euro te voorkomen. Daartoe werd Mininova onlangs veroordeeld . Volgens de rechter moest de torrentsite binnen drie maanden worden opgeschoond ...
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Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes "Legal"
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Mininova, the largest torrent site on the Internet, has removed all torrents except those that were uploaded through its content distribution service. Mininova’s founders took the drastic decision after they lost a civil dispute against Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, and were ordered to remove all infringing torrents from the site.
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Mininova ends illegal torrents
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A Dutch court ruling forces the file-sharing website Mininova to remove all torrents linked to copyright material.
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10 Alternatives To Mininova
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After nearly five years of loyal service, Mininova disabled access to over a million torrent files when it partly shut down its website. Starting today, only approved publishers are able to upload files to the site, but luckily there are plenty of alternatives and potential replacements BitTorrent users can flock to.
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Mininova Kills its Torrent Index, Mostly
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Down but not out. Those would be the words that can be used to describe the staff at Mininova right now. Although the site still survives, a Dutch court ruled in August that Mininova must comply with the demand to remove all content that may be copyrighted work. Today is the day that Mininova fully complied with that order. With much of its ...
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Gizmodo
Mininova Goes Legit, Saddens Everyone
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Mininova, the other popular BitTorrent tracker, just went legal-only. No more downloading episodes of Dexter or Mad Men off of it, but there plenty of other trackers out there still. [ Mininova Blog ]
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In October, Mac US retail desktop computer revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command so much more market share, while competing for the same revenue share.
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Retailers Funneling More Money To Bing
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Bing has managed to turn retailers' heads in a big way. After looking at statistics from part of 2008, SearchIgnite reported that retailers spent almost 50 percent more with Microsoft's search engine this time around, which puts Google and Yahoo partly to shame. What do you make of Bing's increasing popularity? Let us know in the comments section.
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Asus releases an Eee PC desktop
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The machine comes with an optical drive and a dedicated graphics chip. It is designed for home entertainment on a budget, the budget being £339 but that includes Windows 7.
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Virtual Desktops vs. Desktop Virtualization
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Virtualization is and will remain a hot topic for a while yet. There are many types of virtualization, which can lead to confusion, and the most notable confusion I’ve been asked to straighten out is desktop virtualization vs. virtual desktops. So let’s clear the air and set things straight! Desktop Virtualization Desktop virtualization is ...
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