"Calling Twitter’s bluff," Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast. And as if to underline the fact, FriendFeed’s access to the Twitter firehose was terminated and vaguely replaced with a slow version that is currently delivering Twitter posts between 20 minutes... - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
"Wal-Mart Stores Inc is offering a $100 gift card along with the purchase of a BlackBerry phone for one week, in its ongoing bid to attract more holiday shoppers."
- chaz2b
from Bookmarklet
upon further review, its only the older blackberries, those with bugs and such, not worth it, :(
- chaz2b
"Microsoft's Bing now relies on Wolfram Alpha to answer some of its users' questions. This is not a full integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing, though. Instead, Bing only gets answers for queries about nutrition and math problems from Alpha"
- chaz2b
from Bookmarklet
"The team's robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet of cable dangling from a helicopter. Powered by a ground-based laser pointed up at the robot's photo voltaic cells that converted the light into electricity, the LaserMotive machine completed one of its climbs in about three minutes and 48 seconds, good for second-place money"
- chaz2b
from Bookmarklet
"Following Microsoft's announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit on Wednesday morning that its Bing search engine will begin indexing Facebook and Twitter data, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg confirmed the deal without clarifying when Facebook updates will appear in Bing."
- chaz2b
from Bookmarklet
"Los Angeles City Hall becomes tech giants' battlefield," As Google and Microsoft battle for dominance in technology, a skirmish in Los Angeles City Hall is offering a rare public glimpse into a rivalry that could help determine the fortunes of both companies -- and, quite possibly, how workers in the future will communicate. The two tech giants... - http://www.latimes.com/busines...
It was actually submitted 3 weeks ago and is still in the review process.
- Grant Gochnauer
I'm starting to think screw apple, we need to get these developers to make Android and Pre applications first. Put some heat under Apples pompous ass.
- Josh Wilkins