Using mobiles to share stories in an Indian village (2)
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Matt Jones and David Frohlich of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) developed a StoryBank for sharing stories across the digital divide… (via Vodafone receiver) The basic research objectives involved are: 1. To explore the value of novel forms of audiovisual stories for sharing local information in a development context. This includes the use of the system or content by remote developer communities as well as local originating ones. 2. To identify ways ...
Venture Capital Loves Virtual (4)
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Startups selling virtual goods and offering virtual experiences are raking in the venture capital these days. Perhaps it’s the fact that virtual gifting hit the mainstream in 2007 or because people are worried about the impact of business travel on the environment, but the virtual world is beginning to get its share of real dollars. In the first half of 2008, virtual worlds raised $345 million in venture investment, according to data from Virtual Worlds ...
Shelby sets out to build Ultimate Aero EV, the world's fastest electric car (13)
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Filed under: Transportation Who needs to be "green" when you can go really, really fast? Well, Shelby Supercars figures it can have it both ways, with an all-electric version of the Ultimate Aero, the Ultimate Aero EV. Seeing how the Ultimate Aero is already the world's faster production car (at least officially, sorry Buggati), they don't see it as much of a leap of faith for this new version to carry that mantle into the ...
Another Free Push Calendar and Contacts Source for Your iPhone [How To] (13)
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We've shown you how to set up free push email, contacts, and calendars on your iPhone, but for those who aren't using Gmail, or who only want live calendar and contact syncing, one intrepid blogger has found a free, low-key service dubbed NuevaSync that acts as a free Exchange server for just those two services (for now). Hit the link below for detailed instructions on setting up NuevaSync inside your iPhone, as well as Windows ...
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Sacha said:
so I just set this up on my iPhone (for Calendar push). it works ok, but all my Google calendars are blended together (birthdays, my work cal, my personal cal). on the whole it is a nice, free solution for push, Apple really needs to build Mobile Me out. or alternatively, Google needs to introduce support for push from all of their apps to mobile devices. (I think the latter is more likely to happen around the release of Android...)
The hipsters and the baby (2)
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When Kid M. brings a baby into that most hip of hipsterati watering holes, yes, the Herrell's in Allston, all the tatted ones want to hold the baby. Just not for the reason other people would want to. Via Allston City Limits.
DIY PVC Pipe "Kid Wash" [Weekend Project] (24)
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When the heat turns unbearable this weekend, get the kids outside anyway: head to the hardware store and pick up some PVC pipe, joints, and small plastic "mister jets." With those supplies, after drilling a few holes, screwing in a few jets, and gluing a few joints, DIY-er m32825 made a "kid wash" water spray hooked up the garden hose that the little 'uns could run and ride their bike through and cool off in ...
Official Google Blog: Hitting 40 languages (16)
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One of our goals is to give everyone using Google the information they want, wherever they are, in whatever language they speak, and through whatever device they're using. A huge part of that goal is making our services available in as many languages as possible. And as I’m sure you can imagine, that isn't as easy as simply as translating a few lines of text.Take Hebrew or Arabic, which are written from right to left. ...
Google’s first step as a paper’s platform (10)
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The other day (and again in my upcoming Guardian column) I quoted Telegraph digital head Edward Roussel speculating about shifting his paper’s platforms — business, sales, distribution — to Google. Now here’s Paul Cheesbrough, the CIO of the Telegraph Media Group, making a first step in that direction. He tells CIO that he’s not updating Microsoft Office licenses and has opened up Google Apps for the entire newsroom. “[As a pilot] we put 10 per ...
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Clint Ecker said:
“We made a conscious decision not to refresh any of [the Microsoft infrastructure]. We’re not going to remove it but we won’t upgrade it. . . . Google Apps is good enough and rich enough for us to do what we need to do. Collaboration has been very powerful [in Google Apps] and as people use Google Mail and Calendar they’ll naturally stray to use Google Docs. . . .
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Kevin Shaum said:
Wow. This sort of thing will not sit well in Redmond. The question is, is this just one data point, or an indicator of something that other enterprises are looking into as well?
Big Screen Kindle for College Kids is Brilliant (8)
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Remember how much college textbooks costs? Maybe you’ve bought some recently. It’s horrendous! And the reason is not that many are printed. These tomes are not best sellers in most cases. They’re thick, they have illustrations, and they are expensive to print. Double expensive because the printing runs are not for very many copies. Enter Amazon’s plans to introduce a new Kindle with an 8 1/2 x 11″ screen. Perfect! Kindling (sorry Fahrenheit 451 fans) ...
New Texas Wind Power Project Is Massive (2)
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas, headquarters of America's oil industry, is about to stake a fortune on wind power. In what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U.S. history, utility officials in the Lone Star State gave preliminary approval Thursday to a $4.9 billion plan to build new transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from gusty West Texas to urban areas like Dallas. "People think about oil wells and ...
iPhone Apps We Like: Aurora Feint The Beginning [IPhone Apps] (11)
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Aurora Feint is the first strategy/MMO game that I've played on any system for more than five minutes, and I'm addicted. The main focus is a Bejeweled-like game of matching tiles, and you earn points and power to increase your abilities. You rotate the phone to get all the tiles to line up, which makes it super challenging. The points are used on blueprints and magicbooks, just timed versions of the mining game. They are ...
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tosch said:
This game is way cool. But I also don't get the RPG parts at present.
Panasonic Shows Off Surface-Like Digital Wall [Digital Wall] (6)
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Microsoft's getting some competition for its Surface device. Panasonic is showing off a very Surface-like product it's calling Digital Wall, and it's exactly what it sounds like. While at this point it doesn't appear to offer all the the features of Surface it could also come in much cheaper that the Microsoft version, and for many people that's the key. Hit the jump for a short video of the Digital Wall in action. [Digital World ...
Amazon To Target $5 Billion Textbook Market With New Kindle (64)
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Earlier this week Crunchgear broke the news on two new upcoming Kindle models: a smaller form factor Kindle to be released this year ahead of the holidays, and a large screen (probably 8.5×11) to come sometime next year. A couple of commenters in that post have pointed out that the large screen Kindle is perfect to target the college/university textbook market, a $5.5 billion market annually in the U.S. alone. Most students still buy print ...
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noattention said:
Dean Levmore would sure love this.
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Umang Saini said:
It's about freaking time to replace 'em.
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Chip R said:
...and here we go.
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Andrew said:
i just saved a million hypothetical jew gold.
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Jason said:
one of those 'why didn't i think of that' things. i will definitely be carrying a kindle in my backpack. right next to my macbook pro.
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Eli Dourado said:
But will I have to buy all new versions of my old textbooks?
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Patrick said:
I cannot wait for us to get on with the electronic book already. The vision that I would love to see become a reality is that of a school in rural Africa where the students have affordable access to all the textbooks that are available in more developed economies. For example, high-school mathematics has not changed since 1911 so, at the very least, a scanned version of all the off-copyright mathematics textbooks from that date should be available for free to anyone in the world. A single leap-frog moment similar to that which has occurred in the cellphone sector but I believe with potentially even greater consequences.
Kevin Smith To Review "Dark Knight" LIVE on /Film Mon Night! (34)
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Remember a few weeks ago when Kevin Smith saw The Dark Knight with Slashfilm editor Peter Sciretta? As much of a geekgasm as that was, there was only so much that us normal geeks could relate, seeing as how most of us had not seen The Dark Knight, nor have we ever had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Smith. However, these factors can soon be mitigated substantially, as The Dark Knight will soon be ...
Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You (28)
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kaos07 links to this ZDNet story, according to which "Researchers at software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial 'Beacon' tracking service. Responding to privacy concerns, Facebook has since moved to reassure users that it only tracks and publishes data about their purchases ...
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Bill said:
scary.
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Brian said:
after reading the Rolling Stone article on the origins of Facebook I can't help but feel that company is at least a little sleazy.
Cycling Stigma (2)
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Ezra keeps the bike debate going:...cycling in some countries is a demographically specific pursuit while in other countries, it's a broadly used form of transportation favored by substantial chunks of both genders, all age groups, and all income levels. The overarching point is simply that, in societies where cycling infrastructure is intelligently planned, there's nothing elitist, or liberal, or uncommon, about it... In America no one cycles, and when you're over thirty, really no one ...
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Alex said:
I had no idea I was making "some sort of radical lifestyle statement." Ok, some idea. Sheesh. "elitist, or liberal, or uncommon" feels like a slam, even if you live in Cambridge.
Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story (3)
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Denofgeek wrote in to tell us about their story where "Pixar's supervising animator Angus MacLane gives an interesting interview about the technical challenges in bringing Wall-E to the screen. Plus he squeezes in a bit on his love of Lego, too..."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
