2 days ago

mashable Twitter has just begun the rollout of Project Retweet, Twitter’s official integration of the retweet. Retweeting is when a user reshares interesting tweets from his or her friends using the RT syntax (e.g. “RT @mashable”).According to Twitter, the rollout is occurring in phases, much like the Twitter Lists rollout. We wil (Read More)

3 days ago

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: It's the most expensive single thing ever built (£92bn and counting), the quickest manned vehicle in existence (17,300mph) and the staging point for future Moon and Mars missions. But when computers on board the International Space Station go down, the astronauts living there do the same as any office drone in Slough -- the (Read More)

5 days ago

mashable As the electronic book reader market heats up with a number of new offerings coming up, this was an unexpected flare up: Spring Design, makers of the Alex dual-screen eReader, are suing Barnes & Noble over their Nook eBook reader, another dual-screen device announced the day after the Alex.The lawsuit claims that Barnes & N (Read More)

5 days ago

CNET News.com Sure, rivals could profit from Yahoo's release of Traffic Server as open-source software. But overall, Yahoo bets it'll gain more than it loses by giving it away. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

ZDNet Blogs Twitter recently integrated real-time trending topics into your home page, but they never really explained them, until now. (Read More)

Oct 28, 2009

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: Visitors to technology blog Gizmodo are being warned that they could have picked up more than tips about the latest must-have gadget. (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

TechCrunch Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian have just announced that they’ll be leaving the company come October 31, when their contracts expire. The news doesn’t come as a huge surprise — it will have been three years to the day that Condé Nast acquired Reddit, and the founders likely had a three year contract as pa (Read More)

Oct 27, 2009

GigaOM While most of us were too engrossed in the somewhat ephemeral news around Google’s new attempts at becoming social, something much more profound transpired – something that can have an impact on millions upon millions of people today. Microsoft today announced that it was opening up its Outlook format and giving external pr (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

CNET News.com Sound the alarms! The U.K.'s Telegraph news outlet has a story that seems to prove the unthinkable: that onetime social-networking rivals Facebook and MySpace could actually be working on some kind of partnership.Two years about this would've been a huge deal. Now? I'm really not surprised. (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: Google is pouring personalized social data into search results with its new Google Social Search, launching in experimental mode today. Google Social Search, announced at last week's Web 2.0 Summit, adds content from your friends right into your Google searches. (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Delicious popular A new mobile phone charger that will work with any handset has been approved by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body. Industry body the GSMA predicts that 51,000 tonnes of redundant chargers are generated each year. (Read More)

Oct 23, 2009

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: Apple faces the possibility of having to pay the world's top cellphone maker Nokia up to $1 billion for the technologies used in iPhones sold so far if it loses a lawsuit brought by Nokia, analysts said. (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Engadget Confirming our belief that Japan is at once among the coolest and craziest places on this planet we all call home is Burger King's exclusive Windows 7 Whopper. Seven stacked beef patties extend your usual Whopper to over five inches in height and the whole thing costs an appropriate ¥777 (or $8.55). It'll be available for o (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit event on Wednesday and paraded out a whole slew of announcements related to turning the flagging social network into a music and media powerhouse. He showed off a massive catalog of music videos--coming from all the partners in the MySpace Music joint venture-- (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Submitted by Kepp from Google Reader: Obama's pay czar demands executive pay cuts at biggest bailout firms. Federal Reserve proposes sweeping review of pay plans at 28 largest U.S. banks. (Read More)

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