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Wiimote Nerf Blaster Shoots Foam Darts, Adds Meaning to Life [Peripherals]
via Gizmodo by Haroon Malik on February 13, 2008
Every now and again a product comes along that makes us question how we ever managed without it. Well, the Wiimote Nerf Blaster has us asking ourselves the same question. Details are light at the moment, but the most amazing technology combination since the touchscreen/phone will include a fully functioning Nerf blaster, as well as providing on screen controls via the docked Wiimote. The...
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Toshiba Kills HD DVD, Official [Format War]
via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on February 19, 2008
We have been saying it for ages, but now it's official. HD DVD has been pronounced dead on Tuesday February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started, according to our Ichiroo, from Gizmodo Japan. Toshiba's press release is out in the wild. The Format War is over. Full release after the jump.Toshiba even published this in their servers even before the press release hit the...
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Apple Event for the iPhone SDK: March 6th [Breaking]
via Gizmodo by Brian Lam on February 27, 2008
Looks like the delay was true: an invite for the launch of the iPhone SDK came in, and it's showing a Town Hall event on Cupertino campus on March 6th. The mail includes a reference to "some exciting new enterprise features" as well. Research In Motion should be as excited as we are. And yes, this is when Steve tells us TSFU. At last.
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Organizing more than one world's information
via Google LatLong by elaine on March 13, 2008
Posted by Michael Weiss-Malik, Software Engineer We like to think big. Vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big (to paraphrase one of my favorite authors). And thanks to the flexibility of Google Maps technology and the world wide web, we’ve been able to work at a universal scale (literally). We first brought you Google Mars and Google Moon. And then last year's release of Sky in Google Earth...
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Last summer, somewhere in the Adirondacks...
via Google LatLong by elaine on April 02, 2008
Posted by Iljya Kalai, Bachelor of Mathematics Candidate, University of WaterlooLast summer, I used the contour lines on a topographic map to find my way around the Adirondacks. When I joined Google Seattle as an intern in the fall, I was hoping to do something that would impact everyday users. I was given the same responsibility and freedom that a full-timer enjoys, and armed with this, I set...
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A Safer Way to Search
via Yahoo! Search Blog by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online. We've also learned that solutions that require downloads and constant updating are less than ideal. To tackle the problem, we partnered with...
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Global View - WSJ.com
via online.wsj.com by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... Nations resolutions, decisions and reports condemning this or that country for this or that human rights violation (real or alleged). Between January 2003 and March 2008, tiny Israel � its population not half that of metropolitan Cairo's � was condemned no fewer than 635 times. The runners-up were Sudan at 280, the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 209, and Burma at 183. North Korea...
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What I Learned From Kanye West
via SheGeeks by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble I like approaching the world this way: what can I learn from studying other people?J. Phil is a guest author who maintains the blog scribkin - where code and culture converge. I don’t follow many “famous people” blogs. Robert Scoble is about as big as I get. But recently I found myself landing on kanYe’s blog. At first I was skeptical that it was, in fact, a blog...
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Music Industry Downfall, Part II: The Rise of Social Streaming
via Compete Blog by Alex Patriquin on May 12, 2008
If any industry has felt the brunt of the internet as a disruptive technology, it’s the music industry, which has been dealt a heavy blow by the onset of digital music distribution. On the April 28, the RIAA again confirmed this state of affairs when reporting that CD sales, the mainstay of the business for the last 15 years, were down a whopping 20.5% in 2007. Then on May 2, a Federal Court...
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Street View revisits Manhattan
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 13, 2008
Posted by Andrea Frome, Software Engineer In the last couple months, we've brought you 14 new Street View cities. Now we're touching up Manhattan, one of the first locations we launched. The new imagery, which will be available in a few hours, is more recent. For example, we now have the appropriately-named New Museum in the Bowery in its near-complete state:We also have sharper images...
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