3 hours ago

Gizmodo If you were hanging out outside in Utah on Wednesday night, chances are good that you witnessed a pretty rare astronomic event: a friggin' huge meteor that lit up the entire sky. Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably traveling 80,000 miles an hour when it hit our atmosphere. He said (Read More)

8 hours ago

Submitted by Sarahintampa from Google Reader: Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file. All you need now is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with any of the vir (Read More)

7 hours ago

TechCrunch Seesmic is having a huge week. The startup that develops Twitter and Facebook clients for the web and desktop just unveiled a native Windows client at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference earlier this week. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today, Seesmic is launching its first venture into the mobile space with impressive (Read More)

12 hours ago

TechCrunch Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)

21 hours ago

TechCrunch The public debut of Google Chrome OS today has the press abuzz over the potential of the new web-based operating system. And now that it’s open sourced, you have the chance to try it out for yourself. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready to undertake the daunting task of actually taking Google’s recently open-sourced co (Read More)

21 hours ago

Engadget Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It's completely free, though you'll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X installatio (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Jrblaze from Google Reader: Approximately once a month, Woot.com sells an item called the "Random Crap," or "Bag of Crap." By purchasing this item for a measly $8.00, Woot will send you (randomly) a minimum of three randomly chosen items. These can range from broken toilets, to broken dvd players, to Xboxes, to mp3 players, to 60" plasma TVs (very, ve (Read More)

1 day ago

Gizmodo Apple told The Little App Factory to change the name of their popular app iPodRip, as it had the word iPod in it. The CEO sent a passionate letter to Steve Jobs, and he got a response. Here's the letter he sent: Dear Mr. Jobs, My name is John Devor and I'm the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Ukstevieb from Google Reader: O’Reilly has posted the video of my 15-minute keynote speech at Web 2.0 Expo this week, entitled “Making Sense of Google Wave.” There were over 2,000 people seated in the audience, and I was nervous. I wanted to communicate my enthusiasm about Wave but also get across that it’s an power tool for power users, with a learnin (Read More)

1 day ago

TechCrunch In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud, that other OS for netbooks that is completely (Read More)

1 day ago

TechRadar: All News Feeds YouTube has begun hosting full-length TV shows on the website, thanks to a partnership with Channel 4.This means that shows like Father Ted and the IT Crowd are now free to watch, with more content being added to the site as we speak.It had been rumoured for some time that Channel 4 was going to use YouTube as a hub for its (Read More)

1 day ago

Gizmodo Because browsing the web on your video game console is so painless and intuitive, there's a rumor out there that Sony is looking into bringing Firefox to the PS3. Cool, I guess. [Playstation Insider via Technabob] . (Read More)

2 days ago

Crunch Gear Cisco has confirmed that the next version of the Flip Video camera, everyones favorite tiny video camera, is getting Wi-Fi. The model is described as having “a large screen that slides to reveal the record and menu buttons underneath.”Pocket-link is also reporting there won’t be a touchscreen. You can, however, upload video (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch Regular readers will know that my browser of choice has long been Camino. It’s that other browser built by Firefox-makers Mozilla, that runs on the Mac platform and is entirely open-source. I love it because it’s much lighter and faster than Firefox is, while being extremely compatible with just about all sites on the web. (Read More)

2 days ago

Engadget Boy, AT&T sure isn't taking Verizon's Map for That campaign too well. After losing a request for an injunction (for now), the company seems to have decided that the only thing to do in the short term is to start advertising right back at Verizon. Unfortunately, it looks like AT&T threw this one together in a hurry, grabbing (Read More)

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