Dec 19, 2008

Gizmodo: Xbox 360 In a talk with Bits about what Xbox "want[s] to be when we grow up,” Microsoft's Shane Kim clearly has video on the brain. With Netflix, he says, they're "just beginning to scratch the surface.”As examples, Kim mentions watching pro sports games on the Xbox while chatting with your friends, and reveals that they're thinking (Read More)

Dec 14, 2008

Submitted by Patrozoo from Google Reader: When you're part of a large team churning out line after line of code in order to build a spreadsheet, word processor or web browser, there's not that much scope for fun. You're just an anonymous cog in a big software machine and no one is ever going to know who you are. That's why Easter eggs were born. They're those odd l (Read More)

Dec 13, 2008

Submitted by Ezaviar: Analysts Medialets found the top Android apps based on downloads, rating, and number of comments. It's a slightly limited mix of games, social networking, and audio tools, but Android's still just a baby. (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: It's pretty much common sense that when you're ditching your old cell phone you want to erase your personal data, contacts and emails -- or at least try to. Oh sure, there are plenty of examples of failing to do so, but this one's rather... shall we say, "special." Some operatives at Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. booked over t (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows. During an ADC "iPhone Tech Talk" in San Jose, Geleynse app (Read More)

Dec 13, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: By sitting there and getting ran over by motorcars, that is. In an effort to best other power-generating highway options that involve solar panels and enlarged blender arms, Britain's Environmental Transport Association is looking to test a prototype highway that's embedded with piezoelectric crystals. Essentially, the proc (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: Just in time for new holiday computers and after its graduation from beta status, Google now lists Chrome as the default choice in its Google Pack software bundle. Google Pack used to list Firefox... (Read More)

Dec 13, 2008

Submitted by Ezaviar: Next time you receive a PDF file attachment in Gmail, hit the View link next to it. Instead of the hardly-ever-looked-good HTML view, you'll get Google Docs' full-on PDF viewer right in your browser, with thumbnails for navigating the PDF's multiple page the way your desktop PDF viewer works. Here's what it looks like:. (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: What I'm about to say will anger a lot of CE manufacturers, but this has been the laziest year in consumer electronics to date and I'm recommending that rather than spending money on the boring stuff that has come out in 2008 we all spend our money on digital media - games, music, audiobooks, ebooks, and the like. And I don (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

ReadWriteWeb A fast-growing new group of Facebook users from Bosnia called on Facebook to shut down a group on the site that celebrates the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by the Serbian army in Srebrenica. It appears that the group has been shut down while we wrote this story about it, the link to the group now redirects users (Read More)

Dec 12, 2008

Submitted by Whalen: With Google removing the "Beta" label from its Chrome web browser, we not only get some enhancements to the software, but we also get some insight into why Google’s products stay in beta sooooo long. (Read More)

Dec 09, 2008

Mashable! Every service starts up with dreams of success and becoming the leader in their niche, but even the best laid plans sometimes end up not quite making it.  What follows is a list of 7 sites and services that called it quits in 2008.  Some started in the same year they died, others really gave it a go, but in the end they all (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Delicious/missm_ Storage junkies, your dreams have just been made into reality. Addonics has just introduced a marvelous new piece of kit, the simple-yet-useful Network Attached Storage Adapter. This little box enables any USB hard drive to be placed onto a network for network access, essentially turning your stale USB HDDs into NAS drives. (Read More)

Dec 11, 2008

Submitted by Ezaviar: "Stop illegally sharing, and start legally selling" is the tagline for a start-up that wants to enable music owners to sell their unwanted MP3s.Ernesto at the blog TorrentFreak has a story about Bopaboo, which has created a digital marketplace where users operate mini download stores.Bopaboo buyers can search for music in a (Read More)

Dec 08, 2008

Submitted by Magitam from Google Reader: As a European, I’m always happy to see web companies translate their interfaces in other languages besides English. It’s common business sense, since a lot of potential users simply won’t even take a look if the application is not available in their local tongue, and they certainly won’t stay long when all their local frien (Read More)

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