TechCrunch:
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It’s becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I’m guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about eve (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Now that they got what they wanted – a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon – the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture they’re putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-to-launch digital music (Read More)
TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A m (Read More)
Kolkata -Cities-The Times of India:
It was exactly 21 years ago that scientists at CERN, Switzerland, developed a data sharing system that blossomed into the world Wide Web and ushered in a worldwide communication revolution. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Zune HD users should be able to download the latest firmware update now, and it's substantial enough to warrant grabbing ASAP. There's a speedier browser, predictive text entry (a la iPhone), and that's just the beginning. Updated: Update: The firmware upgrade went through just fine on my 32GB Zune HD, and I'm definitely se (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
The Men Who Stare At Goats (12A) (Grant Heslov, 2009, US) George Clooney, Ewan McGregor. 94 mins.A fiction less strange than the truth, this takes the juicy bits from Jon Ronson's startling book on the outer limits of US military research but doesn't quite know what to do with them. The result is an uneven Iraq war escapade (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Editorials & reply:
The government's proposals to create three new banks could take four years and up to £40bn of taxpayers' money to achieve (Labour's great bank sell-off, 2 November). But in the meantime there is a far simpler step the government could take to get credit flowing again to small businesses and individuals who have been frozen (Read More)
The Guardian:
For Hindus in the UK, demand for places of worship outstrips supply. The result is that everyone just has to get on"Was there a swimming pool there as well?" my mate Laurie asked when I told him about the Hindu temple I visited in Ilford. I forgive him his irreverence, because the temple in question is a converted leisure c (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
By punishing men buying sex instead of women coerced into selling it, the policing and crime bill will create a new consensusThere's been a quiet revolution in the House of Lords. Peers have been debating the policing and crime bill. Their deliberations mean that the government will take a historic step: instead of controll (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Press the button below to automatically refresh this page. And email sean.ingle@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts on what it would feel like to be punched in the face by a 7ft RussianSean will be here from around 8.30pm. In the meantime, here's an extract from Kevin Mitchell's article on the fight:If David Haye follows his (Read More)
The Guardian:
Alan Bennett's new play imagines a meeting between Britten and Auden 25 years after they fell out irrevocably. But why did their creative relationship go wrong?This is a sample of the writing Benjamin Britten set to music in his first opera, Paul Bunyan: "Let the dog who's the most sentimental of all / Throw a languishing (Read More)
The Guardian:
The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banksThe prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure that the cost of their failure would never again be borne by taxpayers.Addressing a G20 meeting in S (Read More)
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Major Internet companies like Yahoo and Google have had their brush with Chinese censors and some websites like YouTube and Twitter are blocked in China. This time, however , Google ran into a different dilemma, being accused by a group of Chinese writers of theft. (Read More)
The Guardian:
The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st centuryPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one of the few world politicians to have ridden out the global economic crisis with an enhanced reputatio (Read More)