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Submitted By Badgergravling: It’s an accepted fact that we love an underdog in this country. Overdogs don’t even get a look in. From “Eddie” The Eagle Edwards to his conjoined grandsons Jedward, we have a soft spot for the tryers, doomed to failure. We celebrate the unlikely hero, the well-intentioned but hapless. Given this predilection, it’s a wonder Gordon Brown isn’t ... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

AppScout: Google has an important ally in its newly revealed Chrome OS. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu--one of the more user-friendly versions of Linux around--has agreed to contribute engineering to the project, under contract. In a post on the company's blog, Canonical's VP of OEM services assured that, while there are certainly some similariti... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

AppScout: Google today announced that it has remade the mobile version of its News page for owners of iPhone, Android, and Palm webOS handsets. The new page joins existing versions for Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, and Symbian handsets. The update page "provides the same richness and personalization on your phone as Google News provides on desktop," acco... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

AppScout: Sony is taking yet another shot at Apple's music dominance. The company yesterday announced that it look to launch its own online storefront stocking music, books, apps, and movies. No release date for the store--tentatively named Sony Online Service--has been announced. Sony, which shut down its Connect Music Service last year, is looking for... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

AppScout: If you can make friends with a local cheese maker or find a spice shop in your neighborhood, I recommend doing so. But if specialty shops that suit your champagne tastes aren't available, you might like Gourmet Library. .The site is a new social network plus Web service that brings people who love food together with the food that they love You c... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Jeffisageek:  The Google Mobile team has announced a completely new Google News offering for the webOS, Android, and iPhone platforms that matches the experience that has been available to Blackbery, Windows Mobile and S60 users for some time now.  The new version "displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look and feel. Also, you c... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Morgan: The Disney Channel traditionally has avoided exposing its target audience of young viewers to the wiles and ways of those crafty advertisers looking to hook the novice viewers with advertising messages designed by marketing teams at big-name agencies, choosing instead to promote its own programming or allow brands generic “sponsored by” billboar... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

All about Microsoft: I'm not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken (some of) the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers' questions and Google's answers about it, I'm thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing by the time it rolls out in late 2010. Here's why. Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Engadget: Seriously, how awesome have the past few hours been? Engadget turns the design stakes up to 11, Google finally dishes the dirt on Chrome OS, and now you can even download the forthcoming software to have a fiddle with yourself. It's completely free, though you'll need VMWare running atop a Windows, Linux or OS X installation to make the magic h... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Louisgray: Thing Labs in their San Francisco office. Chris Wetherell, middle left, and Jason Shellen, middle right. Credit: Mark Milian / Los Angeles Times The mad scientists at Thing Labs have a very impressive track record. On the sixth floor of a trendy building in San Francisco's recently renovated Mint Plaza, four former Google employees -- scratch ... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

InfoTLC: Questo è un periodo non particolarmente facile per chi è in cerca di una nuova occupazione, ma la situazione si fa ancora più complicata per chi desidera fare un’attività nell’ambito dei media perchè è spesso difficile affermarsi in un campo dove c’è molta concorrenza. YouTube, il famoso sito internet dove è possibile rivedere video pubblicati i... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

SPIEGEL ONLINE - Netzwelt: Die Konsolen-Schwergewichte Microsoft und Sony setzen aufs soziale Web. Microsoft bohrt seinen Onlinedienst Xbox Live mit sofortige Wirkung zur Networking-Zentrale auf, samt Facebook und Twitter. Die Playstation bekommt auch eine - schwächere - Facebook-Anbindung. Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

MakeUseOf.com: For a little while, free voicemail systems were very common online. You could sign up for any number of services where callers could leave you a voicemail message, and you could retrieve those messages online. Over time, most of the voicemail services started charging or wrapping up the voicemail feature into a larger VoIP package. If you look h... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Kchau: Internet Explorer – the bane of most web developers’ existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn’t really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how to easily squash them or deal with them.... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Magitam: Daily MailMeditation 'eases heart disease'BBC NewsHeart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced death rates, US researchers have said. At a meeting of the American Heart ...Meditation can cut the risk of heart attacks by up to 47%, a new study showsDaily MailMeditation Halves Risk of Heart...Science Magazine (blog)VI... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Diet Blog: A draft report from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition suggests that the UK's recommended daily calorie intakes (currently 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men) might need to be revised. The good news? They're thinking of putting the figures up, perhaps by as much as 16% - around 400 calories for men. And the bad news..? Continue read... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Magitam: President Barack Obama was doing a tour in China this week. On one of his stops, he was at a town hall in Shanghai. The town hall meeting was streamed online and one of the questions he was asked was about Twitter. Twitter was blocked in China since this past July. A student asked the U.S. President “Do you know about the great firewall and ... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

readwriteweb: From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States. This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available. It brings to mind every petty-but-illegal transgression the casual user co... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

The Next Web: Created by Mobile Art Lab Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Loucypher: 37signals’ popular online project collaboration utility, Basecamp, is suffering from some major downtime this afternoon. Reports of Basecamp going down started appearing on Twitter more than an hour ago, and their status blog confirms that “Basecamp is currently experiencing issues.” The company says that “Basecamp is coming back on a fresh ser... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

bub.blicio.us: January 2010 brings an exciting event to San Francisco’s Girls in Tech event roster – The Catalyst Conference held at the Commonweath Club in downtown San Francisco. Aimed to catalyze the career development of women working in high-tech, The Catalyst Conference offers high-level keynotes and discussions from successful women at the top of their ... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Robdiana: So, you’ve all heard the news I take it. Don Dodge, formerly of Microsoft, has been scooped up by Google and from the sounds of it it all happened within 90 minutes of the news hitting the web. While I am happy for Don that he managed to secure a new job so fast (like there was any question about that being a problem) I have to say – after read... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Pink Lisa: Nine-year-old from Gurgaon wins nationwide contest to design search engine's homepage logo for November 14It took 90 days, over 4,000 entries and 60,000 votes for India to get its first local doodle, which will be displayed on Google's homepage on November 14, to mark Children's Day.And the winning doodler is Puru Pratap Singh, a Class IV stude... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Magitam: As I sit down each day to do my work, the vast majority of which involves writing (articles, web site content, tweets and blog posts), I can’t help but think about the writing rules drilled into me by past English teachers. In most cases, their advice is still very pertinent, and I write better by adhering to it. But there are a few rules that w... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Logicalextremes: The California Legislature long ago recognized the dangers associated with collecting and maintaining consumers’ personal identification information, finding that the practice put the physical safety of consumers at risk and jeopardized consumers’ financial security due to identify theft and credit card fraud. In response, the Legislature enacte... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Kiwiscanfly: I favorited a YouTube video: Evan Williams (Twitter, Inc.), John Battelle (Federated Media Publishing), "A Conversation with Evan Williams" Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Logicalextremes: Definition Location-based services are applications that use information about where a communication device is located. In the U.S, the European Union, and Japan, laws require that mobile telephones be able to provide location data with a fairly detailed accuracy for emergency purposes. Such information als... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

WebProNews - eBusiness News, Search News, and Business Videos: Global mobile phone sales reached 308.9 million units in the third quarter of 2009, a slight increase of 0.1 percent from the third quarter of 2008, according to a new report from Gartner. Smartphone sales showed solid growth with more than 41 million units sold for a 12.8 percent increase from the same period last year. "The third quarter of ... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Todd: Google Chrome 4.0.245.0Google Chrome is a web browser under development by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple's Safari and Firefox browsers, they are making the e... Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast

Submitted By Kiwiscanfly: I favorited a YouTube video: Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.) Markus Tripp (Mobilizy), Deborah Estrin (Computer Science Department, UCLA), Sharon Biggar (Path Intelligence), Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze), "Discussion: Humans As Sensors" Permalink - News Videos Audio Podcast