Macworld UK News
Classics brings real book reading experience to iPhoneA new application called Classics has been released for the iPhone that brings some realism to reading books on the iPod touch and iPhone.
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A look at competitive offerings from Dell and Toshiba reveal that the MacBook Air may not be so expensive by comparison. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider
Mobile carriers have been trying to get subscribers to watch video on their cellphones for years, but the market is still tiny: Some 6.5 million U.S. wireless subscribers watched video on their cellphones in August, or 2.8% of the U.S. mobile market, according to comScore M:Metrics.The good news for carriers and companies l (Read More)
Submitted by Yudhi0
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HONOLULU -- The state's Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate. . (Read More)
: If you read the article Twitter is not exactly "taking the lead" or even adopting or supporting OMB standards. They're just saying maybe someday. That's not enough.
: If you happen to be the 800 lb gorilla, I guess you get to make up the rules. Even though alternatives to Twitter sound interesting, I keep getting sucked back into the mothership. I would be very interested to see what organization of service has the clout to make Twitter be a better net citizen. I don't see it coming any time soon.
Talking Points Memo
For my own part, obviously, I hope Barack Obama can pull off a victory on Tuesday. But more than that, I hope the result of the election can be a rebuke, a closing of the book on McCainism and the moral filth it has come to represent. I'm under no illusion that negative or even nasty campaigning will come to an end in the (Read More)
Reuters
(Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp sued a top executive on Thursday to prevent him from joining Apple Inc , court documents showed.
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Gizmodo
The guys over at TechOn weren't content to merely handle the G1 Android phone—they wanted to play with its innards too. There was an immediate snag: two chassis screws wouldn't undo, so they had to force the casing. Once inside though, the phone revealed itself to be the standard messy circuitry and wire-looms affair, (Read More)
Mashable!
A while ago I laid down a theory that a significant number of users are using YouTube to share data that isn’t videos. Most often, it’s music, and therefore there’s a lot of videos up there that consist of a music track and some images slapped together just to make it a video. In a way, it’s untapped (Read More)
Submitted by Jmalmberg:
October 31, 2008 – This is a question that you have probably not asked yourself. According to the Constitution, to serve in the US Senate - which he currently does - requires US citizenship. But there is now a small but growing group of people who are actually questioning Obama’s citizenship credentials in the federal court (Read More)
: It's utter (and long discredited) disinformation, chiefly led by right-wing talkshow hosts who have no scruples about making completely unfounded assertions for ratings. (I know - I used to work with Michael Savage.)
Do you trust the non-partisan factcheck.org? http://tr.im/pq7 or PolitiFact http://tr.im/pq9 ? They debunked this b.s. back in June.
: @bwana Ummm... seal and signature are on the BACK SIDE of the birth certificate original, and so therefore don't appear in a scanned version as provided. Actual certificate IS signed and sealed per confirmation of the officials in Hawaii. Don't spread misinformation.
: @calgaryguru You just confirmed what I said. Do you know how easy it is to get a copy of a birth certificate for purposes like this? I can't get on a cruise ship without an _original_ copy of my birth certificate and the Obama camp provides a photocopy for proof of citizenship? And answer me this, why FREEZE the records until AFTER the election? Come on man. All I'm saying is, if it's not an issue, just provide valid proof and everyone will shut up. If you leave room for speculation, there will be speculation.
Crunch Gear
The results are in for TIME Magazine’s Gadget of the Year poll and the Peek E-mail Device has been rated highest by TIME readers, taking the top spot. It beat out the iPod Touch, the Eye-Fi SD Card, the Flip Mino, and the T-Mobile G1. I reviewed the Peek in September and found it to work well but wondered if it’d be able to (Read More)
: @larryhudson @ezaviar @jasongoldberg One of the comments on the crunchgear post: "What does this say about Time mag readers?" :) Would be interesting to see what kind of devices would show up if we had a socialmedian's Gadget of the Year poll.
Mashable!
Last year we did a post on Web development tools. A lot has changed in the past year, and there are tons of new tools available to developers. Options include drag-and-drop application builders, code repositories, project management and testing apps, and frameworks for working with a variety of coding languages, from Ajax t (Read More)
Mac Rumors
Fudzilla claims that they've been hearing whispers that iMac and Mac mini updates could be coming as soon as November 10th. They are not particularly confident about the date which would fall on a Monday.
While we don't place too ... (Read More)
: At this point, I think Apple has a neutral stance on the Mac Mini. They don't really have to update it, because Leopard runs fine on it and the demographic won't notice that it's using a 2-year-old processor and a laptop hard drive.
ReadWriteWeb
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since Hulu - the joint online video venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. - began streaming content. It's initial reception, after months of anticipation and a good helping of ridicule, was less than warm. Old media companies trying to take on YouTube? Were they serious?Clea (Read More)
: Since Hulu, I watch most of my NBC and Fox shows online, besides online specials. With videos in HD and amazing streaming speeds, I think Hulu is here to stay. Infact these days I wonder why YouTube doesn't have HD quality videos for most cases!
Engadget
Filed under: LaptopsThe new MacBook Air has landed, and folks all over are recording their impressions of the slightly-revamped ultraportable. Obviously there's very little to note externally, with the same packaging and design to the computer -- the only real difference is the new mini DisplayPort plug to replace that tota (Read More)
: It's a fantastic machine, although only for those who don't use major app's. If you travel and need something that deals with e-mail and/or web apps this is the one.
Apple have a habit of creating fashion out of function, this machine hands into that philosophy.