14 hours ago

Engadget After a long period of incubation, Smartfish is at last ready to start shipping the first of its "ErgoMotion" devices. The ErgoMotion Mouse is a pretty straightforward wireless laser mouse, with large right and left click buttons, a nice big scroll wheel, and its own little USB wireless dongle. What makes it different is a (Read More)

13 hours ago

Engadget We've see plenty of green power research over the years, from solar plants to underwater turbines , but relying on the sun or the sea for electricity is not without its challenges: the sun doesn't always shine, for instance, and sometimes the water is calm. A group at MIT led by professor Donald Sadoway is developing grid-s (Read More)

13 hours ago

Boing Boing A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting. Snip:The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media." It's a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many folks have been doin (Read More)

11 hours ago

Engadget Hoping to put your hands on a Nook this holiday season? Here's hoping you got in the door early, because bookseller Barnes & Noble claims that the Kindle-competitor has sold out for anyone hoping to gift the thing this year. According to the New York Times, B&N says pre-orders on the device have exceeded its expectations, a (Read More)

11 hours ago

Gizmodo Specifics have not been announced, but Amazon noted via their Kindle Facebook page that a more user-friendly, organized ebook management system will arrive as an over-the-air update in the first half of 2010. As many Kindle owners already know, keeping a large number of books on the device can get a bit unruly—so this would (Read More)

11 hours ago

GigaOM Twitter COO Dick Costolo, speaking today on a panel at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp event in San Francisco, shed some light into the micromessaging service’s revenue plans, promising that it will begin taking a cut of its partners’ advertising revenues “early next year.” Meanwhile, it will “foster mechanisms that allow p (Read More)

7 hours ago

Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge Santa Clara, Calif. - Chegg.com, an online textbook rental company, said on Thursday that it has raised one of the largest funding rounds for a Silicon Valley tech company this year, landing $57 million in its fourth round.read more. (Read More)

8 hours ago

AppleInsider Apple has added a new automated layer to its approval process for App Store software, but according to one developer, it's not perfect. (Read More)

8 hours ago

AppleInsider In conjunction with its newly updated App Store software, TomTom announced it will release a car kit that will bring GPS functionality specifically to the iPod touch. (Read More)

6 hours ago

Submitted by Komakino from blog: Alexandre de Rochefort, finance director of French game developer Gameloft: “We are selling 400 times more games on iPhone than on Android.”  ★  . (Read More)

13 hours ago

Lifehacker Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)

23 hours ago

paidContent.org Even before Tim Armstrong joined Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) to take AOL independent, the company was mixing in new brands with the familiar acronym. He’s pushed that strategy even harder, to the point where the question is what brands will be added—but whether any of the major co (Read More)

17 hours ago

Boing Boing The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyo (Read More)

16 hours ago

paidContent.org Adam Cahan is the CEO of Auditude, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company that provides an ad platform for video management and monetization. He has also worked at MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) and McKinsey & Co. The world of onl (Read More)

15 hours ago

Mashable! According to Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Meyer, Google is looking to streamline its search experience. Using a jazz metaphor, Meyer explains that customers aren’t happy with the fact that Google’s search interface is too unpredictable (much like jazz, especially if you aren’t into i (Read More)

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