Then, using the location-aware technology built into the handset, Citysense eventually begins to “learn” where you spend most of your time, and as the product grows beyond San Francisco, eventually it’ll be able to suggest nightlife options to you in cities around the country–all this without taking any kind of user registration information.
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Yahoo News has realized that there’s a lot of information out there on the Web and that people just don’t have time for all of it. That’s why the new opt-in beta of a revamped Yahoo News, which went live on Thursday, tries to cut to the chase.
“Essentially, we’ve found that news consumers want only [...]
Flip Video Mino
The Mino is slated to ship via selected online and brick-and-mortar retailers, including Amazon.com, Walmart.com, and directly from the company’s TheFlip.com, and will go into wider distribution this fall. It costs $179.99.
Maybe I’m too old to understand why everyone wouldn’t want a smaller, sleeker, and more functional–albeit slightly more expensive–version of the same [...]
Along with Google Friend Connect, MySpaceID was built with open standards OAuth, OpenSocial, and OpenID. MySpace, as well as Google, is one of the founding partners of the OpenSocial Foundation.
Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect both launched last week, spurring a return to the social-networking turf wars and power struggle for control of the almighty [...]
What do you think? Is there room in the IaaS market for a distinction between infrastructure Web service providers and cloud center providers?
Randy Bias, chief technology officer of ServePath cloud offering GoGrid, penned a post recently that raises an interesting distinction within the once uniformly defined infrastructure-as-a-service space.
By separating out the purpose of AWS [...]
User ratings have been employed to weed out the good from the bad using the same five-star system that’s found on YouTube. WooMe’s creators are also highlighting especially watch-worthy videos in a special featured section. If you find something you like you can share it with friends either through a direct link or with an [...]
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Even though the DOE made a point in acting quickly by approving a loan to Solyndra, bureaucratic delays or mismanagement are another risk.
“Investors should expect neither loans for renewable energy, manufacturing facilities and transmission projects nor matching smart grid and facility construction grants to add materially to 2009 expectations. The lion’s share of these [...]
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The service hasn’t launched yet, and is rolling out in limited markets to begin with, but you can see a demo of how it works here. Something tells me this would be a huge hit with college students if you could narrow it down [...]
Which raises the question: how much marketing should Microsoft do for Windows anyway? Rumors have been flying about a $300 million rehabilitation campaign for Vista. Why bother if OEMs like Dell are going their own way anyway? Instead, Microsoft should focus on building the most reliable, secure, multipurpose operating system it can, one that the [...]
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Will it go mainstream? Almost certainly not. But perhaps the Wiz will point the way for Nintendo and other gaming manufacturers to improve the transparency and malleability of their own devices to make innovation more of a community effort. Probably not, but it’s possible.
It’s a capable device (ARM9 533MHz processor with a 3D accelerator, 64MB [...]
