New MacBooks to be based on NVIDIA GeForce 9400 / 9300 chipsets? (5)
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Filed under: Laptops With a new MacBook announcement now just days away, speculation is unsurprisingly at a fever pitch as to exactly what Apple has in store, and the folks at PC Perspective have now pieced together a few clues to whet your appetite in anticipation of the big event. Most of those are drawn from mounting evidence from the NVIDIA camp, including the image above that made an appearance on the company's website a ...
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Shane Conder said:
I hope this is true. I also hope quad core comes to MBP like it has on the Dell lines.
Walmart has a change of heart, decides to maintain DRM servers (3)
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Filed under: Portable Audio Back by popular demand, it's the Walmart DRM servers! You heard right -- just days after Wally World announced its plans to turn the screw on its digital rights management servers, we're now being shown a big "just kidding." According to an e-mail (posted in full after the break) sent out to previous downloaders, the mega-corp be leaving things as-is for the foreseeable future, and it's all because of "feedback from ...
Sugar High: Sugar Inc Launches API And IMDB For Fashion (8)
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Sugar Inc, the company behind a network of popular women-focused blogs that includes PopSugar, is announcing two major releases tonight that take advantage of its fashion-hungry userbase. The first, dubbed PopSugar’s CelebStyle, is positioning itself as an IMDB for style, analyzing outfits from many of television’s most popular shows. Sugar Inc is also announcing a new ShopStyle API, which gives developers access to the site’s massive database of clothing and accessories which can be used ...
Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs (20)
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Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details will be provided in an official post tomorrow, but this is what we know already: Geode is a Firefox add-on that understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content. For example with Geode, a user who is looking for restaurants while they are out of town will ...
SimplyBox: Drag-And-Drop Clips Of The Web For Research, Sharing (9)
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Web bookmarks are badly in need of an overhaul. Sure, they’re fine for jumping to the dozen or so sites you visit on a daily basis, but they quickly become unwieldy whenever they’re used for research purposes. Folders of bookmarked job listings or apartment openings on Craigslists become practically useless as you frequently need to revisit them to remind yourself why you bookmarked them in the first place. Tonight sees the launch of SimplyBox, a ...
Granting Credit On The Fly. Is Bill Me Later Part Of the Problem Or Part Of The Solution? (6)
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On the same day the public markets are tanking because of the spreading credit crisis, we see one of the biggest M&A exits of the year with eBay acquiring Bill Me Later for $945 million ($820 million in cash, plus an extra $125 million in options). The only other tech exits of this size in 2008 were Sun buying MYSQL for $1 billion (which involved less cash and more options), AOL buying Bebo for $850 ...
Freddy Mini shared as favorite Apple Met Goal of 10 million iPhones Sold in 2008 (29)
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By using some fairly interesting IMEI collection, the folks at Mac Observer have found that Apple sold 10 million iPhones in 2008, reaching and potentially surpassing Steve's original stated goal. By looking at phones sold over the last few months, Mac Observer's "Apple Finance Board" found that the phone has gone through nine 1 million unit runs. Adding this to the known sales they found the total number was far above analyst expectations.
ZocDoc Adds Bezos, Benioff To $3 Million Series A Round (12)
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Zocdoc, the health appointment scheduling startup that launched at TechCrunch 40, has announced that Marc Benioff and Jeff Bezos - two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent figures - have joined the $3 million Series A funding round it raised last month that was led by Khosla Ventures. ZocDoc allows users to book their doctor appointments online, even for same-day appointments. The site is especially useful for urgent visits and procrastinators who may wait until the ...
维基与墙亲密接触？ (12)
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(Credit: scio.gov.cn) 9月27日，在天津的达沃斯年会期间碰到了老朋友，维基百科创始人Jimmy Wales，聊到他前一天和国新办副主任蔡名照碰面的事情。我随后去国新办的网站看那条新闻，发现本来的网址已经不能访问，但是从主页上仍然可以找到这条新闻，进入IP网址 （http://211.151.64.117/gzdt/ldhd/tp/200809/t222588.htm）能够看到。眼下这两个地址都可以访问，说不定是技术原因，无从考证。 说到这次见面，网站上并没有任何详细的对话内容。Keso说：不知蔡名照先生会怎样跟威尔士打哈哈，想来比较有趣。Jimmy 当然要先适应一下中国式的沙发会面方式，所以他带了PPT根本用不上。好在高层人士有高层人士的吹牛方式(High Level Bullshiting) 。Rebecca Mackinnon 在达沃斯期对Jimmy 做了非正式的采访，大致了解了会面的内容：大家至少谈到了维基百科的核心价值--- NPOV(中立观点）： 他（蔡）说，首先中国的政策始终是鼓励和帮助互联网的发展，而不是压抑互联网的发展。其次他说各个国家都有按照本国历史、国情、民俗制定的管理互联网的法律，中国也一样。他举例说比如在伊斯兰国家不准亵渎真主，或者在德国不准宣传纳粹。吉米回答说，他觉得维基百科的中立性非常适合这个规则。因为我们是写百科全书的，我们写世界上有什么，我们陈述各种观点，但是我们不是做宣传的或者传教的。我们在非伊斯兰国家里也不亵渎真主，在德国外也不宣传纳粹。---- [维基百科：互助客栈] 后面，我没有时间去北京参加维基人的聚会，相信Jimmy 也会和大家分享这次会面的详细感受。这次会面，未必会让维基百科享受更长的奥运开放优惠政策，但是至少眼下的解封让更多中国人有机会了解维基百科在严肃性方面是其他拷贝猫们无法比拟的（在中国很多人已经开始认为百度百科是自己的创新了）。 达沃斯是一个很好的平台（也许比奥运会更好），让中国的各级官员都有机会和来自全球的商业领袖或社会精英有碰撞的机会。当然了，我看到官员们也是自我成群，希望他们事后感觉到不能浪费这些交换价值的机会。
Now You Can Buy Computers Pre-Loaded With Movies (11)
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In a move that could start a new wave in PC sales, Dell and Paramount Pictures today announced that they have signed a joint venture that will see “Iron Man” come pre-loaded on Dell computers for anyone who wishes to order the unit. So far, the details of the deal are a bit disappointing. Paramount is the only studio that has signed on and “Iron Man” is the only film being offered. Dell claims that ...
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Alex Dang said:
sucks they didn't mention Cinemanow anywhere in this article even though we're the ones offering the movie. I'm still left wondering what the broader strategy is here.
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Ely said:
Now that's a creative way to add value to a laptop.
New Facebook Home Page, New Facebook Tagline Means Too Many Marketing Meetings At Facebook (23)
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Facebook launched more than a new iPhone app this evening - they also have a new home page (the page you see when you aren’t logged in) and a new tagline. Gone is all the descriptive language suggesting you sign up to “Keep up with friends and family,” “Share photos and videos,” “Control privacy online,” and “Reconnect with old classmates.” Now Facebook has a simple message to entice you to sign up: “Facebook helps you ...
Remembering Paul Newman, Humanitarian and Actor (1)
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SkyDeck Raises $3 Million To Manage, Enhance Your Phone Bill (7)
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SkyDeck, the site that uses your mobile phone bills to help you manage and analyze your relationships with your peers, has closed a $3 million Series A funding round led by Saban Ventures. The round brings SkyDeck’s total funding to $4 million, as it had previously raised $1 million in angel funding. SkyDeck originally launched its private beta in March with a basic set of features that allowed users to automatically pair contacts from their ...
Potential new TiVo interface (Infinite Abyss) (4)
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Infinite Abyss: Potential new TiVo interface — Post removed at request of TiVo.
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