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TruePower UCS Power Outlet With Built-in USB Ports Patent-Pending. Pre-Order Today! Please note that orders for this item will only be charged when this item is about to ship. Do not select PayPal as the form of payment. PayPal funds are immediately transferred. This item is currently waiting on final UL Approval. It is scheduled to begin shipping in early 2010. Our custom TruePower power outlet solution includes two Universal Serial Bus (USB) charge ports in addition to the two standard three prong power outlet ports. Perfect for charging any USB powered device including- mobile, iPod, iPhone, PDA, MP3, PSP, MP4 player & digital camera. - mediaeater

Singularity 101 Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic explore the coming revolution in robotics and technology. - mediaeater

An Introduction WPA Cracker is a cloud cracking service for penetration testers and network auditors who need to check the security of WPA-PSK protected wireless networks. WPA-PSK networks are vulnerable to dictionary attacks, but running a respectable-sized dictionary over a WPA network handshake can take days or weeks. WPA Cracker gives you access to a 400CPU cluster that will run your network capture against a 135 million word dictionary created specifically for WPA passwords. While this job would take over 5 days on a contemporary dual-core PC, on our cluster it takes an average of 20 minutes, for only $17. - mediaeater

hen the privacy question appears, Google likes to talk about the people asking the questions. But the problem lies elsewhere: with the millions upon millions blissfully unaware of the questions. If you're concerned about your online privacy, you can always put the kibosh on Google's tracking cookies. You can avoid signing in to Google accounts. And, yes, you can avoid using Google for anything Eric Schmidt thinks you shouldn't be doing. But most web users don't even realize Google is hoarding their data. CNBC asks Schmidt: "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?" But he answers by scoffing at those who don't trust Google at all. - mediaeater

Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search... Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search results. Goggles also provides information about businesses near you by displaying their names directly in the camera preview. Category: Science & Technology Tags: visual search google goggles image recognition android nearby places overlay - mediaeater

Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years, tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late November, more than 2.1 million vinyl records had been sold in 2009, an increase of more than 35 percent in a year, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That total, though it represents less than 1 percent of all album sales, including CDs and digital downloads, is the highest for vinyl records in any year since Nielsen began tracking them in 1991. Sales of CDs, meanwhile, have been falling fast, displaced by the downloading of digital files of songs from services like iTunes. Sales of albums on CD, which generally cost half as much as their vinyl counterparts, have dropped almost 20 percent this year, according to Nielsen. - mediaeater

Today, 60 percent of the Fortune 500 companies use Next Jump’s technology for their employee discount programs. Next Jump also handles the rewards programs that offer deals to loyal customers of companies like Dell, Borders and Hilton Hotels, and similar programs for membership organizations like AARP and the American Federation of Teachers. More than 100 million Americans have access to Next Jump’s e-commerce marketplace, and 10 million a year are customers. - mediaeater

“I absolutely think this is the future of great software development and distribution,” Mr. Schiller says. “The idea that anyone, all the way from an individual to a large company, can create software that is innovative and be carried around in a customer’s pocket is just exploding. It’s a breakthrough, and that is the future, and every software developer sees it.” - mediaeater

News Corp. is joining a consortium of magazine companies that are working on creating a digital store and common technology and advertising standards to sell their titles on electronic readers, mobile devices and other digital devices, according to people familiar with the matter. The new venture is likely to be announced next week, according to people familiar with its plans, though it will be longer before the project is up and running. It will be owned jointly by the five participating companies, which in addition to News Corp. are Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc., Conde Nast Publications Inc., Hearst Corp. and Meredith Corp. - mediaeater

One day, tech groups will have their own talent scouts and digital versions of record labels, he predicts. For now, the “great cultural collisions” taking place worry him. “I find I’m often dealing with [technology] executives who are really quite careless and frequently arrogant about the cultural impact of what they’re doing. I wish there were an atmosphere of nurturing and respect, which I really don’t see.” - mediaeater

So I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of… $62.47 - mediaeater

8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight http://bit.ly/6k8Puj - mediaeater

Another year has come and gone, and as always, we're taking a moment to look back at the happenings of 2009—the people, events and memories that made this year unique. Each year, we examine the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search to discover the zeitgeist—the spirit of the times. As we welcome the new year, we hope you enjoy this glimpse at the past. - mediaeater

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That could be a long five-year wait. The demands of labels and the levels of achievable revenue are not in sync. Not yet. In the near term, this imbalance could exist if a company's investors are likely to have an exit. Kent said he thinks services' main ambition has been to be acquired by Google. Regardless of the buyer, the hope for an eventual acquisition has made the on-demand, ad-supported model more palatable. But as the investors of iLike and Imeem have found, an exit might not be a profitable one. And potential suitors are few and far between right now. In the absence of cashing out, music services are going to have to be more fundamentally sound. And labels are going to have to walk that fine line between being supportive and supporting the value of their music. - mediaeater

* 95% of pages have more than 10 fans * 65% of pages have more than 100 fans * 23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans * 4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans * 0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans * 0.047% of pages have more than one million fans (297 in total). - mediaeater

Certain stalwart brands will survive and even thrive because of a new scarcity of quality content for niche audiences that demand more than generic information. The chip that was implanted in me when I arrived at this newspaper — you might call it New York Times Exceptionalism — leads me to conclude that this organization will be one of those, but the insurgency continues apace. Those of us who covered media were told for years that the sky was falling, and nothing happened. And then it did. Great big chunks of the sky gave way and magazines tumbled — Gourmet!? — that seemed as if they were as solid as the skyline itself. But to those of us who were here back in September of 2001, we learned that even the edifice of Manhattan itself is subject to perforation and endless loss. - mediaeater

"The darkweb"; "the deep web"; beneath "the surface web" – the metaphors alone make the internet feel suddenly more unfathomable and mysterious. Other terms circulate among those in the know: "darknet", "invisible web", "dark address space", "murky address space", "dirty address space". Not all these phrases mean the same thing. While a "darknet" is an online network such as Freenet that is concealed from non-users, with all the potential for transgressive behaviour that implies, much of "the deep web", spooky as it sounds, consists of unremarkable consumer and research data that is beyond the reach of search engines. "Dark address space" often refers to internet addresses that, for purely technical reasons, have simply stopped working. - mediaeater

The breakdown: The company did well overseas, where revenue jumped 17.8 percent after factoring out currency effects, and poorly in the U.S., where sales dropped by 7.4 percent. Digital, which grew by 11.5 percent (excluding FOREX), now makes up 21.4 percent of Warner’s revenue. Operating income dropped by 18 percent, to $54 million, but all of that decline stems from the severance charges. Factor those out and operating income would be up slightly at $68 million. - mediaeater

près la première cartographie du marché de la e-réputation mise en ligne il y a 3 mois, je reviens avec la nouvelle version, revue et enrichie avec de nouvelles entrées. J’ai tenté de prendre en considération les différents retours, recommandations et propositions qui ont été fait précédemment, mais certaines entités ne figurent pas. Les conclusions sont toujours les mêmes, à savoir un marché tiré par les offres logicielles, principalement des offres nord-américaines, et une recherche du bon positionnement métier entre le développement logiciel et la prestation de service. Il faut savoir par ailleurs, qu’aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre ou encore dans certains pays nordiques, une tendance de fond se trouve dans l’outsourcing total de ce type d’activité. Beaucoup d’entreprises préfèrent externaliser leur veille image, à la fois sur les aspects de surveillance mais aussi d’analyse. Et quand on parle d’outsourcing, on parle de l’Inde ;-) Donc, il n’est pas exclu de se..... - mediaeater

One problem is that many Internet users eschew the idea of these ads, saying they commercialize authentic dialogue and undermine people’s credibility. “It interferes with your relationship with your friends and your audience,” said Robert Scoble, a technology blogger with more than 100,000 followers on Twitter, who says he “unfollows” people on Twitter who send him ads. Facebook does not allow members to insert paid ads into status updates or profiles. “For us, it goes against the authenticity of the page,” said Brandon McCormick, a Facebook spokesman. Peer2 gets around the ban by offering users points instead of dollars; points are redeemable for Amazon products. - mediaeater

The biggest movies are still backed by megawatt ad buys. On the other hand, Paramount Pictures did not buy a single billboard to promote “Paranormal Activity,” its recent horror film. The studio also saved tens of millions of dollars by forgoing a national television campaign. Instead, Paramount depended on its publicity arm to fan interest on blogs and in traditional media. The flack attack worked: the film, made for just $10,000, has sold $104 million in tickets. - mediaeater

The map itself is to no longer be static; mapping is not either. The need is for a greater range and hybridity of mapping and user options in augmenting or examining the many layers of information in any place. The map is to longer be static, nor in the tense negatively charged stasis of the traditional maps of old. Geo-spatial integration of community , information, narrative,time , history and augmentation may be what becomes web 3.0, but it certainly is to be a key hybrid space and space of measure and discussion. - mediaeater

A demo of our FactFinder API performing real-time fact extraction of two API’s: Yahoo Boss and Twitter. - mediaeater

recently closed a deal for a new CBS drama, “NCIS: Los Angeles,” to sell its repeats for the impressive price of $2.35 million an episode. The buyer? USA network, which happens to be owned by NBC. The original “NCIS” is the most successful program on USA — in repeat episodes. Mr. Moonves noted that the two NCIS editions taken together “are a billion-dollar property.” No show created on any cable network has been able to approach that level of revenue. “My model isn’t broken,” he said. - mediaeater

Arcade Fire > Funeral (180-gram vinyl reissue) - mediaeater

To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful—and the technology will continue to improve with time. - mediaeater

Geotagging your tweets will allow you to: * Tweet about places and add context to your tweets. * Connect with other users at a local level. * Join the local conversation. Things you should consider: * Geotagging uses your exact location. * Anyone can see it: even if you delete it, we cannot guarantee it will be removed from every partner. * Turning it off does not remove historical data. You can, however, remove all of your prior data. - mediaeater

However, sources in three of the four largest music companies told the Financial Times that record labels' financial concerns were the greater hurdle. "We think Spotify is a great service but they're going to have to convince us they can convert enough people from free to paid subscriptions to make it worth our while," one label said. "As an ad-supported service the economics don't work at all." - mediaeater

BREAKING NEWS: Chairman Rockefeller Releases New Investigative Report on Aggressive Sales Tactics on the Internet and Their Impact on American Consumers - mediaeater