(Programming hint. If you’ve used the JSON approach with del.icio.us to read your bookmarks, the equivalent magic incantation with Ma.gnolia should contain http://ma.gnolia.com/json/mirrord/people/USERNAME )
Don’t get me started on weird period-ized names.
As I’ve written about previously, social bookmarking hasn’t advanced a whole lot. Frankly, I don’t care a whole lot about the social aspect beyond maybe keeping an eye on the links of a few friends who I know tu
The G1 and its supporting accessories will be available in November. Though pricing has not yet been set, Panasonic says the G1 with the 15-45mm lens should cost less than $800.
There are a couple potential downsides, however, when sizing up the G1 against dSLR competitors. Autofocus performance, for one. The G1 uses contrast AF, compared with phase-detect AF in dSLRs (though dSLRs with Live View generally use contrast AF in that mode). Contrast AF can be slower than phase detection
Psystar's Open Computer, the source of the legal dispute between the clone vendor and Apple.
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ADR, as it is known, is a way to bypass the costly legal process as well as keep the outcome private, which is one of Apple’s favorite words. I downloaded the document in question from the U.S. District Court of Northern California’s Web site (click here for PDF), and it says that Apple and Psystar have agreed to three porti
What I really want, though, is a geo-enabled Yelp, both on my desktop browser and in my mobile phone. Yelp has all the location data I could possibly want; it just doesn’t have a very good location-focused interface, or the capability to auto-locate me when I am on my mobile phone.
Being lazy, I favor the geo-focused sites that don’t require that I do any work. Everyblock (review) wins the lazy-geo award from me: It scans local news sources and public records and shows me what’s
The DroboShare mounted under a Drobo storage device
DroboShare is almost there. For the price, it should have pre-n Wi-Fi built in, as well. I mean come on, this is basically a gigabit NIC, USB 2.0 chip and a little firmware to translate four drive formats. That ain’t $200. And it should have a more elegant way to connect to the Drobo than a USB jumper cable. But like Apple, Sonos, and B&O, the Drobo folks are trying to harvest a cult, not a value-aware consumer.
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I’ll have a variety of other postings from my tour through TechFest that will go up either later Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. Later this week, I’ll also have a video interview with Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer.
The software uses a new Microsoft “visual experience engine” to gather and stitch together images from multiple data sets as well as allow a variety of users to author their own guided tou
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V2Green charges up with angel funds–Earth2Tech
"Smart charging," where you schedule when to charge your
car so as not to stress the grid, is important to accommodating plug-in hybrids.
Mazda, Hiroshima Univ aim to develop non-food bioplastic–Tech-On
Bioplastic for your car’s dash. Via Good Clean Tech
Street downgrades clobber ethanol makers, corn refiners–MarketWatch
The floods in the Midwest mean poor prospe
“This app will work great on Android,” Google’s mobile software platform launched in November, says Gundotra.
Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering at Google, shows off the new user interface of Google Web apps for the iPhone being unveiled at Macworld on Monday.
What’s next? Will more Google apps join YouTube and Google Maps on the iPhone’s home screen that shows up when the device is first turned on?
Gundotra smiles mischievously.
The company also announced a commitment to sharing its research with universities, venture capital firms, and partner companies, as well as speeding the time to market that its scientific discoveries show up in actual HP products.
“The approach (HP Labs) took before was appropriate for its time,” Banerjee said. The change is mostly driven by the speed at which individuals and enterprises demand information today. “As the Internet becomes the primary provider of IT, we need to cha
Much of Bing’s early success can be attributed to its eye-catching presentation, and Wolfram Alpha is attempting to carve out a niche in search through a completely different method of presenting results. Accuracy and relevancy are arguably just as important to searchers as they ever have been, but just about every search provider has articulated a desire to move past the “ten blue links.”
This could also allow Google to sell different types of ads on the same search results page.