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ATTs Suspiciously Great Zero Charger Turns Itself Off (18 March 06:51) |
| What's the catch, AT&T? We're conditioned to dislike you, for your lackluster network, your high prices, and your continued hiring of Luke Wilson. But this charger looks...awesome.The AT... |
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John Doerr to Step Down from Amazons Board (18 March 06:21) |
| John Doerr, the venture capitalist with a seat on the board at just about all of the big firms you've ever heard of, announced he would not be seeking re-election to the Amazon board in orde... |
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Microsoft Apes Google Adds Worldwide Telescope Space App to Bing Maps (18 March 02:17) |
| Microsoft WorldWide Telescope has been around since February 2008 as a standalone app, sort of like Google Earth. It allows you to pan around space thanks to images taken from Earthbound tel... |
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HTC Responds to Apples Patent Lawsuit Rejects Accusations (18 March 12:44) |
| Many have speculated that the two lawsuits Apple filed against HTC were merely a thinly veiled attack on Google, who designed the software on HTC's phones. But HTC is quick to remind us that... |
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Guard Your Living Rooms Google and Its A-Team Are Coming to TV (18 March 11:38) |
| The Team:Google: The mastermind. Of the three major connected screens users have (TV, mobile, and computer), Google has made firm stands in only the latter two--and now they're coming for TV... |
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The Secret to Funny or Dies Success Celebrities Product Placement and Above All Else Funny (18 March 07:37) |
| Swearing kids and boobie jokes may be the secret to the success of their videos, admitted Funny or Die's CEO Dick Glover and creative director Andrew Steele at SXSW this past weekend, but th... |
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Screw Monetization! Its All About Ethonomics at SXSW (18 March 03:58) |
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SXSW Interactive this year was all about ethonomics, or social media for social change. "How do we create a future we want to live in?" Danah Boyd asked in her keynote on "Privacy and Publi... |
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Visualizing the Upswing (18 March 03:13) |
| Earlier this year, FastCompany.com started tracking bright spots in the ailing economy with a series of infographics. Here's a look at some of the most revealing findings we visualized. Feel... |
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Longer Lines at Starbucks a Sign of Better Days (18 March 12:13) |
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How deeply a container ship cuts through the water just off of a port. A priest's homilies invoking the unemployed. The line at Starbucks.
Even a casual reader of The Upswing knows that we... |
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TSA Leading Charge to Co-opt Blogging Twitter for The Man (18 March 12:10) |
| Twitter and blogs started as way to give voice to the little guys. Now the big guys are using the same tools to criticize the critics. Twitter's been a breath of fresh air in the social net... |
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GM to Use Augmented Reality Tech for Safer Driving (18 March 12:07) |
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Working in conjunction with Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Southern California, General Motors has been playing around with using augmented reality to give drivers an easier ride in ... |
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What Business Card Just Scan My QR Code (17 March 09:42) |
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Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square "quick response" codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that y... |
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WANTED LG X300 Netbook With Nigh Invincible Gorilla Glass Screen (17 March 09:39) |
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LG, though not normally known in North America for their PCs, has put together a damn fine-looking one: the X300 netbook, featuring a near-invincible Gorilla glass screen.
The X300 is more ... |
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Apple Patent Beams Up Pico Projectors Into All Your Future Apple Gear (17 March 09:37) |
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Apple patent-watching is sometimes surprising, sometimes bemusing, but a newly-revealed patent for built-in projectors into Apple gizmos should be filed in the awesome category--imagine the... |
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Mobile Apps Sales to Hit $175 Billion by 2012 (17 March 08:45) |
| Put it down to the iPad effect if you like, but it's not the whole story. A study commissioned by independent app store Getjar predicts that the mobile apps market will be worth $17.5 billio... |
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Toshiba Snuffs Out Old Light Bulb Production Embraces The Shiny LED Future (17 March 08:37) |
| Toshiba hauled the gate shut for the final time on its incandescent light bulb factory today--ending a production run that dates back to 1890. The reason? The eco-unfriendly, inefficient, th... |
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Indie Band Holy Fk Debuts New Album on ChatRoulette of all Places (17 March 07:22) |
| Canadian instrumental indie rockers Holy Fuck (their music is better than their name, I promise you) have decided to take an odd route when debuting their new album, Latin: they're streaming... |
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Garmin Connect Returns to Kansas Leaves SF Team Home Alone Unemployed (17 March 06:30) |
| Last month, the Garmin Connect team, a 15-strong band of software engineers, product managers and the like, were asked by the firm to relocate from San Francisco to Kansas. And, since they w... |
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Internet Browsing and TV Watching A Match Made in Distraction Heaven (17 March 04:05) |
| Nielsen conducted a survey recently to find out who exactly is going online while watching major TV events like the Oscars or Super Bowl--and discovered what those people are doing online in... |
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Google Nexus One Launches on ATT Head to Head With iPhone (17 March 02:14) |
| Google announced today that they'll be shipping a new version of the Nexus One smartphone that's compatible with AT&T, firmly putting it up against the intra-network iPhone. Google, Appl... |
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Microsoft Finally Catches Up to the Competition With Internet Explorer 9 (17 March 01:19) |
| Today at Microsoft's Mix conference in Las Vegas, the company showed off the next generation of their venerable (and oft-maligned) web browser, Internet Explorer 9. It's a huge step in the r... |
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This Earth Day Avatar Comes to DVD Without Special Features but With Disposable Packaging (17 March 10:45) |
| Among Avatar's many messages (something about American Indians? Vietnam? Fern Gully?), an environmentalist overtone proved most important to the movie's plot and thrust. Fox will be releasin... |
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Xobnis BlackBerry App Re-Thinks Contact List Reorders by Importance but Can It Save Blackberry (17 March 04:46) |
| San Francisco-based startup Xobni today introduced its first mobile product: Xobni for BlackBerry. It takes a different approach to contact lists than traditional systems, and integrates the... |
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Pentagons Contact Us Button Yields Innovative Anti-Terror Ideas Bear-a-troopers (17 March 03:44) |
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There are many facets to what makes a good, innovative company, these days. Great products. Competitive prices. Top-notch service and support. A symbiotic relationship with one's customers.... |
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US Industry Pulls Through a Frosty Month (17 March 03:34) |
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Eight is not enough! That's the feeling right now among economy watchers as a new Federal Reserve report indicates that in February United States industrial production was up for an eighth ... |
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Seinfeld Producer and Fake Steve Jobs Working on TV Pilot About Real Steve Jobs (17 March 03:29) |
| It was only a matter of time. Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, is penning a comedy pilot about a tech mogul. Called iCON, the show has been commissioned by EPIX and will be directed by Larry ... |
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Twitter Users Dont Read the News Do Share Photos and Socialize (17 March 12:52) |
| Facebookers prefer broadcast media, while Googlers go for the dead-tree version--that was the upshot of some stats we posted earlier this month from Hitwise. Now analyst Heather Hopkins has ... |
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Apples Own iPad Peripherals Delayed Til May (17 March 12:20) |
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Before we learned its launch date, we heard scurrilous rumors Apple's iPad was facing delays in its launch schedule. Now we discover that some of the very peripherals Apple itself was totin... |
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Sexting Cyberbullying Over The Line Say Users of MTVs Online Morality Meter (16 March 11:56) |
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"Someone made an AIM account and posed as me. They were telling everyone I was a lesbian!" "Me and my friends Photoshopped our other friend to make it seem like he had man-boobs." "My boyfr... |
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Why the FCCs Broadband Plan Will Struggle to Connect with the Public (16 March 11:39) |
| Today is when the FCC delivers its National Broadband Strategy to Congress. We've already had some sneak peeks at the deets, such kitting 100 million households out with super-fast speeds wi... |
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Why Do All These Classified How to Stop Leaks Documents Keep Leaking Onto WikiLeaks (16 March 11:31) |
| Last October, WikiLeaks got a hold of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense's Defence Manual of Security, a 2,400-page, restricted document designed to help government officials "maintain informati... |
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Facebook More Popular Than Google Let the Ad Wars Begin (16 March 09:33) |
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According to the latest Hitwise analysis, Google's lost its crown as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. last week. The new king of Web site traffic is, of course, Facebook. In the future... |
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Spring Designs Alex E-Reader Launches April 14 in iPads Shadow (16 March 09:32) |
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We've been keeping abreast of Spring Design's Alex e-reader as it's a promising little hybrid machine. It recently dropped out of the news though, prompting concerns about its future. All i... |
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Jevons Paradox and the Perils of Efficient Energy Use (16 March 09:26) |
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It's a given among Peak Oilers and New Urbanists alike that the imminent and permanent return of high oil prices will send convulsions through the suburban American landscape. But it's one ... |
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Print Your Blog on a Broadsheet with The Newspaper Club (16 March 06:52) |
| Tonight sees the grand winner of the Brit Insurance Design Awards 2010 announced (it's one of the most prestigious in the industry). And for all the usual hi-tech trickery--foldable plugs an... |
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WANTED Astro A30 Headset (16 March 05:45) |
| With its new follow-up to its successful A40 headset for tournament players, Astro Gaming tries to bring the pro-gaming audio experience to the masses. In 2008, Astro Gaming, the fledgling v... |
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Cash Is So Twentieth Century Bump iPhones to Exchange Money Instead (16 March 03:29) |
| While Paypal has been less and less relevant, thanks to competitors like Google Checkout and Amazon, they may just stage a comeback with an idea that's cute and useful at the same time: a bu... |
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MOG Announces Mobile Apps and All-You-Can-Download Service Throws Down Gauntlet (16 March 11:57) |
| MOG, the Berkeley-based do-everything music service (we're not exaggerating; its features include Lala-like streaming, Pandora-like recommendations, Last.fm-like community, and sophisticated... |
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Google Predicts Mobile Ad Rates Will Top PC Ad Rates Will Make Bank Either Way (16 March 10:07) |
| In a briefing, Google Engineering Vice President Vic Gundotra sounded off on the importance of mobile to Google's future success, saying "Google has bet big on mobile." And when Google bets ... |
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Work Smart How to Make Procrastination Productive (16 March 05:13) |
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You've got a big, important report to write for work and you're dreading it. The deadline has been weighing on your mind for weeks and so far, you've done nothing about it. At this point, y... |
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Twitter Announces Anywhere at SXSW (16 March 05:07) |
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In what was likely the most horrifically devastating keynote presentation in SXSW history--people were comparing it to the great Sarah Lacy-Mark Zuckerberg fiasco of 2008, but, hey, at leas... |
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Windows Phone 7 Apps Everything You Need To Know (16 March 04:57) |
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Windows Phone 7 Series: It's a thing! And it looks pretty great, so far. Last month's announcement, though, left a lot of questions. Questions which will be answered here, in Gizmodo's live... |
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Diggs CEO on the Redesign Every Single Thing Has Changed (16 March 04:45) |
| Confused on what Digg was and will soon be? The aggregator in chief helps us understand how he plans to make his all-new site a must-have for social Web surfers.Digg's touting its redesign, ... |
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Affresol Building a Line of Modular Homes Made Out of Recycled Plastic Waste (16 March 04:37) |
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At a time when extreme weather events seem to be relatively common, would you feel safe living in a home made out of recycled plastic? Affresol, a U.K. modular home designer, is betting on ... |
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ChatRoulettes Andrey Ternovskiy Is the New Bubble Boy (16 March 03:29) |
| On Friday, the NYT had a revealing Q&A with the founder of ChatRoulette , Andrey Ternovskiy. The 17-year-old was over in the U.S. to talk to developers and potential investors about how ... |
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Apple Dreams of a Sci-Fi Future Hires Wearable Computing Scientist (16 March 02:39) |
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Apple's done something weird, and yet nerdishly cool at the same time: It's hired a Senior Prototype Scientist with expertise in wearable computing. Knowing Apple's innovative heritage this... |
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Five Ways For Twitters Advertising to Not Suck (15 March 10:27) |
| Twitter is apparently due to bring an end to years of speculation about its money-earning plans by announcing an advertising platform today. Here's our guess, before the news presumably... |
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New Appointments at Google Apple Show Depth of Enmity Between the Two (15 March 08:56) |
| Tim Bray, legendary software developer and programmer, is off to Google. He announced his decision this morning, three weeks on from his resignation from Sun Microsystems, which came with a ... |
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Analysis When Working Days Done iPhones and Soon iPads Light Up (15 March 08:56) |
| Analysis of iPhone user trends show the devices get most play at evening time and also on the weekends, when they generate 7% more traffic than weekdays. Besides being useful for PR pur... |
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Why You Should Start a Company in Philadelphia (15 March 08:10) |
| It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In th... |
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