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Top music streaming service in the U.K. – Spotify has just expanded its coverage so to speak. Just announced is its availability on Symbian-powered mobile phones from the likes of Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Symbian phone users will now be able to get unlimited music streaming on ...
Mobile
Nokia
Symbian
Sony Ericsson
Samsung
For a supposed technology company, Microsoft sure fails to compete technologically when it comes to search. Instead of actually building a better search engine, they’re bribing newspapers in a feeble attempt to hurt a rival search engine.
We already know that Microsoft Bing is offering ...
Online
Bing
Rupert Murdoch
Microsoft
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs openly admits to experimenting with LSD in his youth. Apparently, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller is high on crack. According to Schiller, developers are happy with the iPhone’s app approval process.
Most are approved and some ...
iPhone
Apple
iPhone
Steve Jobs
What use to be a mere gadget that allows geeks to watch Internet TV on their computers is now a full blown Internet media provider. I’m talking about Roku, which has successfully expanded it’s set-top box business to release an iTunes-like store for Internet content channels.
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Online
YouTube
Flickr
Pandora
If want to create/consume rich new media at the blazingly fast pace of today’s Internet, you need tools that can keep up. Here’s one of those tools. Breaking world processor speed records, the AMD Phenom II has been successfully overclocked to an astonishing 7.08 gighertz.
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Hardware
AMD
Sony isn’t known for making interoperable or user-friendly devices, but their industrial design is almost as pretty as Apple’s. From Walkmans to readers to laptops, check out their latest design concepts for flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays.
Related ...
Hardware
Sony
Apple
OLED
Wired Magazine’s parent company Conde Nast seems to be taking the rumored iTablet PC seriously. A couple of days ago, the company was convinced by All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka to share a video demo of Wired’s iTablet PC .
The video doesn’t say much about the ...
Hardware
PC
Apple
We’re getting closer and closer to the futuristic spatial computing seen in the movie Minority Report. Last year, somebody did it with clunky mittens and a roomful of huge monitors . This year, PhD student Pranav Mistry has miniaturized it all into a pendant. Yes, that’s ...
Other
Video Games | The Sims 3: World Adventures | New Moon Parody
XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii
Leave it to new media remix culture to expose the stupidity of old media manufactured culture. The inanity of The Twilight Saga: New Moon gets suitably butchered through the ...
Gaming
The Sims 3
For days, I’ve been hearing Apple fanboys pan Verizon’s Motorola Droid ads as too geeky and unappealing for the mass market. I’ve been hearing fanboys claim that nongeeks can’t understand “open development”, that they’d be scared off by images of ...
Mobile
Apple
Verizon
Motorola
Android
Paul Allen
iPhone
Google’s recent demo of Chrome OS answered several important questions about how a browser-only OS would operate. One of those questions is how it would handle removable storage. As you can see when the demo unit is attached to a digital camera, using a Web browser as a file browser ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
Internet Explorer
Before you get drown in the wave of news items explaining what Google Chrome is and what is not, let’s not forget one important feature of the upcoming Google Chrome OS which might make it click among Internet security geeks, like us.
The Official Google Blog explains why Chrome ...
Software
Google Chrome OS
Chrome
Google Chrome OS is designed to run nothing but Web apps, so a lot of OS UI concepts will have to be remapped. Your apps become browser tabs, your browsers become desktops, and your widgets become browser panels.
Yes, it feels a little weird. With cloud computing services getting more ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
Google gets extreme in its push to get users to the cloud with Google Chrome OS. It’s essentially a browser running on a very slim Linux build — so slim, in fact, that you can’t run any native apps on it. Instead, Google is counting on the HTML 5’s enhanced ability ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
Video captions are useful not only for the hearing impaired and the deaf but also for video owners as well as it improves search findability of videos and machine translation. The thing is adding caption to videos before uploading them can be a pretty dauting task. The YouTube folks know ...
Online
YouTube
Before Facebook started counting shares and Twitter started counting retweets, Digg pretty much invented social news. Sensing more mainstream services encroaching upon its turf, the geeky pioneer is not content to rest on its laurels. At a Web 2.0 Expo keynote today, Digg founder Kevin ...
Online
Digg
Kevin Rose
Nokia has officially made available another one of its so called flagship, highly pocketable mobile computer – the N900. Actually when it was announced recently, I had a hard time distinguising it from the rest of the mobile computing devices that are available today.
But anyway, ...
Mobile
Nokia
Hulu, that streaming video site available only in the U.S. and which is consistently gaining some steam since its launch has teamed up with Norah Jones. This will bring Ms. Jones videos of songs from her latest album – the Fall available to all U.S. Hulu users.
Hulu, which is currently ...
Online
Hulu
Still not convinced of social media’s return on investment? Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics , shows us how social media has paid off for business big and small, from JetBlue to Burger King to Ford Motors.
Their crappy Seinfeld ads aside, Alex Bogusky of Crispin Porter & ...
Other
Possibly not wanting to let Xbox Live one up them, Sony has officially announced support for Facebook. The announcement was made via a post at the official Playstation blog about the latest PS3 firmware (v3.10) update. One of the new features of the firmware updates is of course ...
