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Announcing Brightbox Cloud – the UK's first true cloud hosting platform - Thomas Amberg

Utility to re-structure research papers published in US Letter or A4 format PDF files to remove the 2 columns layout to make it suitable for viewing in an ebook reader. - Thomas Amberg

Microsoft, the Kinect is going to get “hacked” and “reverse engineered” and a lot of people are going to do cool things you never imagined - Thomas Amberg

an open source platform for musical exploration, composition and performance. - Thomas Amberg

The camera phone is destined for Japan where it'll be sold by the DoCoMo carrier in January. With all the styling of a retro compact, it also has a 12.1MP sensor with ISO range up to 3200, and while the Pentax 1:3.6-5.5 lens is only capable of a 3x optical zoom, it can shoot video in 720p and do geotagging thanks to the phone's GPS. There's also Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G connections. - Thomas Amberg

A device containing piezoelectric nanowires can now scavenge enough energy to power small electronic devices. - Thomas Amberg

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications and Networking enables intelligent interconnecting of physical things or objects and eventually creates Internet of Things or Web of Things. - Thomas Amberg

Edmund Clark's pictures of Guantánamo Bay - Thomas Amberg

"In the datacenter, robust code is best practice. In the cloud, it's essential." - Thomas Amberg

S4 is a general-purpose, distributed, scalable, partially fault-tolerant, pluggable platform that allows programmers to easily develop applications for processing continuous unbounded streams of data. - Thomas Amberg

Flickr Schedulr is a Windows desktop application that automatically uploads pictures to Flickr based on a schedule. - Thomas Amberg

A subretinal implant inserted under the retina of three blind people has allowed them to see shapes and objects within days of the procedure - Thomas Amberg

a development kit for implementing languages on .NET platform. Unlike most existing yacc/lex-style solutions Irony does not employ any scanner or parser code generation from grammar specifications written in a specialized meta-language. In Irony the target language grammar is coded directly in c# using operator overloading to express grammar constructs - Thomas Amberg

Nokia today extends its Ovi Life Tools service to Africa, following successful launches in India, Indonesia and China. The subscription service provides users with health, agriculture, education and entertainment information and is designed to help improve users’ quality of life and prosperity. - Thomas Amberg

While the world waits for Web 3.0 and The Singularity, the real action has already begun. Itʼs called the intertwingularity. Itʼs an era at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, a place where information blurs the boundaries between products and services to enable multi-channel, cross-platform, trans-media, physico-digital user experiences. - Thomas Amberg

No. Cressey speculates, the bombmakers would have timed the phone’s alarm to go off, triggering the bomb. - Thomas Amberg

In all, we will enjoy 250 billion more years of life than if we had been born a century ago. - Thomas Amberg

a programming course at MIT that uses professional software developers to help mentor students. The professionals perform what amounts to a code review of student code. The review is not part of the grading process but part of the learning experience. - Thomas Amberg

Since I started working at MakerBot Industries, the company has hired about eight more people - Thomas Amberg

Today we’re announcing the EveryBlock partner API — a new way for our content partners to deliver neighborhood news at the level of neighborhood or city block. - Thomas Amberg

Data structures whose traversal is efficient will translate into less time spent in the GC chasing pointers, and better cache efficiency. - Thomas Amberg

even though the iOS clock changed correctly over the weekend, the alarm did not. - Thomas Amberg

So yeah, Arduino is this great maker sensor platform, but hey, here’s a consumer sensor platform [holding up phone]. Maybe we vaulted past the maker stage already and we just didn’t know it. - Thomas Amberg

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Facebook has a way of taking the innocuous and turning it into the problematic, and its new “friendship” tool may fit that category. It allows users to convert public information to pages that shine a spotlight on the relationships between two people -- and it's not clear whether both have to agree to the match-up. Advertisers, on the other hand, are salivating at the possibilities. - Thomas Amberg

OpenBlock is an open source software initiative to bring hyper-local news and data capabilities to news organizations of all sizes. - Thomas Amberg

Even if you keep your profile bare, Facebook can infer your interests from your friends' interests—and target ads towards you, according to a recent patent application. - Thomas Amberg

scan a QR code, make a payment, and acquire munchies using a smartphone. As you make your payment, the machine will tweet your purchase and notify a confirmation display. - Thomas Amberg

LodePNG is a PNG image decoder and encoder, all in one, no dependency or linkage to zlib or libpng required. - Thomas Amberg

MXShare is a platform which when installed in the core of a mobile network enables people who cannot afford to buy a handset to have a fully functioning Cloud Phone which they access using other people's shared phones. - Thomas Amberg

This year my Halloween project is the Automatic Halloween Candy Dispenser® triggered by TextforTreat®, CallforTreat® (powered by Twilio)and @TweetforTreat® technologies. Of course it can also be triggered from a Big Red push button, but where is the fun in that? When trick-or-treaters show up at my house they can text, call, or tweet a code displayed on an LCD screen to get their Halloween candy. They can also push the Big Red button. Once the candy request is made a few “special” effects are triggered by X10 modules. A low laying fog machine is activated and lights turn on while the candy shoots down from my front deck on the second floor. - Thomas Amberg