Forget the Front Desk: Hotels Go High Tech (18)
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There’s nothing like a bit of luxury when staying at a nice hotel. Be it in-room dining or the staff waiting on your every need, feeling like a king for a day is a matter of taking advantage of the hotel’s services. Unfortunately, the systems in place for requesting such things are years behind, teetering on the edge of archaic. You can stare at the minuscule writing on the phone handset in hopes that dialing ...
Google Employees Watch In Horror As 60 Percent Of Their Stock Options Drown (28)
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The entire stock market is taking another drubbing today, and Google is no exception. Its shares tried to rally in the morning, but are now trading below the $329 they closed at yesterday. That’s a key price level Google employees are watching because a huge chunk of their options (1.7 million across the company) were granted with a weighted average exercise price of $329.78. The options are worthless under that price. In addition to that, ...
25 Fantastic Indie Gems Made for Less Than $1 Million (1)
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The following movies all had budgets under $1 million, some of them reaching as low as $7,000. Let this act as a reminder: you don't need to be backed by studio financing to make a great film.
Apparently The Financial Crisis Is The Fault Of Flickering Computer Screens (6)
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From Paul Kedrosky we find one of the most idiotic theories on where the whole financial crisis came from, out of a laughably stupid interview with author Tom Wolfe. Apparently, the problem wasn't complex securities, massive leverage, unsupportable subprime mortgage giveaways or anything of the sort. No sir. It was all those flickering screens on computers that make financial types not want to pay attention: The whole thing, starting with the subprime, is the fault ...
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Alex said:
This is hilariously, criminally, absurd.
April Fools Check: Did Google Really Release Mail Goggles? (23)
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I looked at the blog post and then I looked at the date. No, it’s not April Fools and yes Google did just release a new product, created by Jon Perlow, called Mail Goggles. The new feature, which is a play on the term Beer Goggles (which refers to being so drunk that unattractive people look attractive) has the goal of helping you unsend those crazy drunken emails that sometimes go out late at night ...
Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth (13)
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musatov writes "There's talk on The Minor Planet Mailing List about a small asteroid approaching Earth with a 99.8% probability of colliding. The entrance to the Earth's atmosphere will take place October 7 at 0246 UTC (2:35 after this story goes live) over northern Sudan, releasing the energy of about a kiloton of TNT. The asteroid is assumed to be 3-4 meters in size; it is expected to burn up completely in the atmosphere, causing ...
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Zach said:
"...it is expected to burn up completely in the atmosphere, causing no harm.""October 7 at 0246 UTC"
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Will said:
Who knows if this thingymawhatsit is man made, or just a natural part of the end of days.
Google, Yahoo Postpone Ad Deal, For Now -- Search Advertising -- InformationWeek (1)
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The companies said they would hold off on the agreement while the U.S. Department of Justice investigates complaints that the deal would concentrate too much power in one place.
The Maverick Family in Texas Asks: "Who You Callin' a Maverick?" (16)
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NYT writer and Texas son John Schwartz wrote this very funny piece about the family in Texas who bear the name being co-opted by John McCain's presidential campaign. [T]o those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive. “I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, ...
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Vhata said:
Interesting etymology of the word "maverick"
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Brodie said:
What a Maverick really is...
The VP debate: Candidates, questions, and queries (28)
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If information is the currency of democracy, as Thomas Jefferson allegedly said, then during last Thursday's vice-presidential debate between Senator Biden and Governor Palin a lot of people used Google Search to get a bit wealthier, metaphorically speaking. Using Google Hot Trends, we can see some of the more interesting things that people were researching, and you can do the same to follow along yourself during tomorrow night's second presidential debate (9 PM ET). But ...
Yahoo’s Promises v. Yahoo’s Reality: Congress Finally Gets It (27)
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Congress is finally understanding the reality of the Yahoo-Google search deal, and what it means for the state of search competition in general. It’s not about price fixing advertising rates, it’s about neutering the second place market participant. As I wrote on September 27, the current deal between Yahoo and Google will inevitably lead to the decline of Yahoo’s core search advertising business. They will insert Google ads to push revenue. But as they do ...
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Darnell Clayton said:
Awsome! I love Google, but I am not going to trade a competative Internet for one dominated soley by Google (with Microsoft yapping at it's heals).
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Nate said:
Congress gets it? Wow, I seriously wasn't expecting that, though. This is great news, nonetheless.
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Jerome said:
Sounds like Google may see itself as the next big tech company of this decade to be sent to court and tried as a monopoly.
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Michael V said:
google competing with itself now...
Build Your Sportfolio Of Athletes At OneSeason (9)
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Forget the stock market, it’s falling apart. Invest your money in OneSeason instead, a newly launched San Francisco-based startup that lets you invest real money in professional athletes. Alex Rodriguez is a steal at $7.00 per share ($17.6 million total value). I just bought one share of Kobe Bryant for $7.48 (he’s valued at $77.6 million). The company was founded by CEO Mike Sroka and CTO DJ Burdick with $250,000 in seed funding from investor ...
O.J. Simpson found guilty on all counts (3)
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O.J. Simpson and his co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart were found guilty Friday on 12 counts of armed robbery and kidnapping in a 2007 sports memorabilia heist in Las Vegas, Nevada. The verdict come 13 years to the day after a Los Angeles, California, jury acquitted him of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend.
Sound Bites of the 1908 Presidential Candidates (3)
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roncosmos writes "Science News has up a feature on the first use of sound recording in a presidential campaign. In 1908, for the first time, presidential candidates recorded their voices on wax cylinders. Their voices could be brought into the home for 35 cents, equivalent to about $8 now. In that pre-radio era, this was the only way, short of hearing a speech at a whistle stop, that you could hear the candidates. The story ...
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Doug said:
they tagged this story 'mccain' :)
Steelers bring back Davenport, Russell to bolster RB depth (1)
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Down to one healthy running back, the Pittsburgh Steelers brought back two players from last season by re-signing Najeh Davenport and promoting Gary Russell from the practice squad on Wednesday.
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Carl said:
Some call him "The Dumptruck."
If All Movie Characters Had Cell Phones (1)
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Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS (7)
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CWmike writes "Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what CEO Steve Ballmer called 'Windows Cloud.' The operating system, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications, said Ballmer, who spoke to an auditorium of IT managers at a Microsoft-sponsored conference in London. Ballmer was short on details, saying more information would spoil the announcement. Windows Cloud is a separate project from Windows 7, the operating system that Microsoft is ...
In Quotes Displays What Politicians Said About a Keyword [Politics] (32)
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Google Labs launches an addictive little webapp called In Quotes, which searches and compares things politicians have said in the news by keyword. So you can see what Obama and McCain have said recently about Iraq, health care, or energy. Hit the "Spin" button to get another quote (with a link to the source news story), or hit the politician drop-down to get quotes from the vice presidential candidates and others, from Hillary Clinton to ...
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Edison said:
Genial o uso da internet para comparar planos de governo.
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According to the Register, Sega plans to launch a new handheld console next year, and it won't just play games. The new console, called the Vision, will also play music and movies, have a built in camera, TV-Tuner and display e-books. We speculate that the battery pack will come in a separate, suitcase-sized box. Wired.comShared by aElian (20) Carl (20) Chris Patterson (1) Hooeyspewer (20) mtakeshi (44) Omar Gallaga (37) Shane (54) Squirrel Girl (28)
