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My Presidential Endorsement:
via Blog Maverick by Mark Cuban on February 07, 2008
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So why is it the American people allow our politicians to do the same things over and over and we believe them and expect results different from previous elections ?I've looked at the websites of current and previous candidates to get an understanding of their platforms. They all...
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Wiimote Nerf Blaster Shoots Foam Darts, Adds Meaning to Life [Peripherals]
via Gizmodo by Haroon Malik on February 12, 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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DVD Jon’s Startup Launches with Index Funding
via GigaOM by Liz Gannes on February 18, 2008
doubleTwist, the startup founded by hacker Jon “DVD Jon” Lech Johansen to combat restrictive DRM (and which we were first to write about in detail back in October 2006), launches Tuesday. The company has raised a Series A round of an unnamed amount from the top European VCs at Index Ventures.Sharing with doubleTwist from Jon Lech Johansen on Vimeo.San Francisco-based doubleTwist’s initial...
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Toshiba Kills HD DVD, Official [Format War]
via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz on February 18, 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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A Look at Social Network Popularity Around the Globe
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on February 25, 2008
The map above is a neat find by the Le Monde newspaper in France, originally created by the research firm Datamonitor. What it’s showing is the number of hours (in millions) users spend on social networks across five major worldwide regions, and which site reigns supreme within different countries.While it re-confirms much of what we know (MySpace has a slight lead on Facebook in North...
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Zoho Writer Adds New Features
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on February 26, 2008
Zoho Writer, part of the online Zoho office suite, was updated this morning to include some new features that users have been asking for. These new additions, which include support for the DocX file format, a thesaurus, a "sharing with groups" feature, and enhancements to headers/footers and endnotes/footnotes, bring Zoho Writer that much closer to being a viable alternative to desktop...
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Dock Your Old Drives with the Hard Drive USB Dock [Stuff We Like]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 26, 2008
Dock any internal hard drive in this USB dock to turn any internal drive into an external drive on-the-quick. If you've got a few old hard drives hanging around that you'd like to put to good use but they aren't really worth installing in your computer's innards and you don't feel like taking the time to convert that old drive into an external hard drive, this simple dock,...
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Apple Event for the iPhone SDK: March 6th [Breaking]
via Gizmodo by Brian Lam on February 26, 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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NBC Direct To Get a Reboot With Help From Pando
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on February 26, 2008
NBC has its nifty IPTV thing with Hulu, a joint venture with Fox. And, oh yes, it’s got its own IPTV thing, too. It’s called NBC Direct. Heard of it? Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t.If not, there may be good reason for your remaining unawares of the The Peacock’s personal Web video project: it’s not very good. Things are just…well…not going as well as Zucker & Co had initially...
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