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F1 making an appearance in GT5
via CrunchGear by Peter Ha on March 18, 2008
Today is like therapy for me. First, I admit that the iPhone is sort of great and that I want one and now I’m admitting that I want a PS3. Yikes. Well, it certainly helps when Sony has the exclusive rights to Gran Turismo and GT5 is about to drop. Ugh.Leaving tradition behind in the dust, Polyphony Digital is including an F1 Ferrari car for you to purchase for 2 million credits. You can use the...
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Samsung develops world’s smallest mobile phone camera module
via CrunchGear by Peter Ha on March 18, 2008
Those wacky Samsung folks are at it again with a 8.5mm thick optical CMOS camera phone module. The mobile phone specific module is 10 percent less than what’s available now and ISO levels have been boosted to 1600. There’s also an anti-shake feature and a super-noise processing technology called Low Light Trio that’s been implemented into the sensor. They’ve even managed to cram in facial...
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We've officially acquired DoubleClick
via Official Google Blog by Karen on March 11, 2008
Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEOI'm pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it's been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination of our two companies will bring to the online advertising market.Because we have been waiting...
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New data: New York property sales
via The EveryBlock Blog by (author unknown) on March 11, 2008
We've added our very first batch of real estate data to EveryBlock: New York property sales.Using data from the city's Department of Finance, we've given it the full EveryBlock treatment, making it browsable by sale date, by neighborhood, by borough, by ZIP code, by building class, by building class category and even by year built. As with all EveryBlock's public records, we also...
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Steven Levy loses a MacBook Air
via CrunchGear by John Biggs on March 10, 2008
Say it ain’t so, Steven! Mr. “Hackers” Levy believes his wife threw Apple’s loaner MacBook Air into the recycling chute with all the other paper, leading him to believe that no, he’s the only stupid one and that everyone else with little expectation that a featherlight computer will end up in a pile of other office detritus would do the same thing. This, friends, is why I’m going to...
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Iron Chef Supreme Cuisine: it's real and Mark Dacastic
via DS Fanboy by JC Fletcher on March 10, 2008
Filed under: News, VideoOnce nothing more than a completely plausible rumor, the Iron Chef video game has been revealed, giving two competitors one hour to devise four to five dishes featuring the game, made in their signature styles. Oh, no, wait, we're thinking of food. This has been revealed, giving you notice that it'll be out in stores this summer for people to buy.Iron Chef America:...
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Create Your Own Cross-Platform Backup Server [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on February 29, 2008
Backing up your data on a regular basis is important, and turning a spare computer into a backup server is often the best way to make sure it gets done. But most methods require either a good deal of command-line learning or serve only one operating system. Not with Restore, a free, open-source backup system that can install or run from a live CD, work with any OS and operate through a simple...
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Playing with free online tools to enhance newspaper sites
via howardowens.com by Howard Owens on March 03, 2008
One thing good developers do is play around with the new toys.The other day, Nick Sergeant was messing around with Yahoo! Pipes. He discovered that by ingesting content from one of our newspaper sites, and comparing those stories to the content in a specific story, he could automatically create related links to other stories on that site.We immediately launched this on a bevy of sites, because it...
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Exclusive Preview: Spb Mobile Shell 2.0
via pocketnow.com by Brandon Miniman on March 03, 2008
The successor to Spb Mobile Shell 1.0, which is an acclaimed interface... Read More
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The Apocalypse is upon us…video is dead!
via Mastering Multimedia by Colin on March 02, 2008
Over at Multimediashooter.com , Richard Koci Hernandez dropped a cluster bomb with this post called: Say NO to video: Conversations with the Video God.But seriously folks, I think we’ve taken the video thing too far. At first I believed it was the right approach, because I believed there was gold in those hills. I love journalism and would’ve done anything to save the profession (and MY...
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