"Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the first comprehensive Google phone service with unlimited free calls."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
"Google wants everyone to use their browser and what better way to do that than to provide low-cost bare-bones smartbook or netbook technology pre-installed with Chrome OS? Google may look into advertising to cover the losses they may have to take for providing these smartbooks and netbooks, but they also just acquired Teracent, a company that specializes in personalized display advertising."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
This is the mission our community has been training for: subjecting the rest of the Internet to the deal-seeking prowess you guys display so lethally in our forums every day. It’s Woot turned upside-down. Instead of us bringing the great deals to you, Deals.Woot is all about you bringing the deals to us. (And hundreds of thousands of your closest Woot friends.)
- Mark Layton
"With the introduction of eSATA and a fifth drive bay, as well as enhancements to FireWire 800 throughput, the Drobo S offers 150 percent of the performance of the current four-bay Drobo, making it an ideal storage solution for creative professionals, small offices, and home office users."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
"The Droid hits the streets today. After all of the hype around Verizon's marketing efforts, and generally favorable reviews of the Motorola Droid, users that rush out to get the new device may be in for a shock. The Droid does tethering (or at least it will very soon), but the cost will surprise people."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
Nothing Makes You Feel Insignificant Like a 648-Megapixel Image of Our Galaxy [Space] - http://gizmodo.com/5395341...
"A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
"By a margin of 52 percent to 27 percent, Americans believe President Obama has better ideas about overhauling health care than Republicans do, according to a national poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. And nearly two-thirds of the country supports creation of a government-run insurance plan, or public option."
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet
"In late August pretty much everyone lost their shizz when the news came out that The Walt Disney Company was acquiring Marvel Comics for $4 billion mainly because there was a huge fear that Disney would interfere with Marvel and ruin those characters. BUT, what if the reverse actually happened and Marvel was able to influence the nice, sweet Disney characters instead. Illustrator Jeffrey Thomas envisions what Disney characters might look like if they received the Marvel Comics treatment … here are a few of the Twisted Princesses that he envisions:"
- Mark Layton
from Bookmarklet