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| | RIM has finally made the new version of its messaging phone, the Bold, official. No exact release date yet, but the press release does mention that the Bold should be available “around the world beginning this summer. ”
Key points from the announcement:
624MHz CPU
802.11 a/b/g and GPS
Half-VGA screen (480 x 320)
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP support
microSDHC support [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 06:13:06 GMT |
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| | As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:
Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 06:43:01 GMT |
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| | Eye-Fi announced two new wireless memory cards today, and they’ve dubbed their original card with a new name.
The new line-up:
Eye-Fi Explore: The Explore card can automatically locate nearby WiFi networks and geotag your photos using Skyhook’s global Wi-Fi positioning system. It can also automatically connect to any of Wayport’s 10,000+ hotspots (in other words, [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 06:08:32 GMT |
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| | PMOG, a multiplayer online game (MOG) that lets users accumulate points while passively surfing the web and then use those points to help or hurt their fellow players, launched out of private beta this morning. We first covered PMOG back in February.
To play PMOG you need to install a Firefox add-on that lets you interact [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 02:48:34 GMT |
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| | This is a follow up to our post last month that listed some of the top tech bloggers according to TechMeme. The goal was to be able to take a look at the individual bloggers who were writing headlines, not just the blogs they wrote for.
As promised, the team (Mark McGranaghan and Henry Work) has [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 02:54:18 GMT |
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| | New Indie film site The Auteurs, which is in private beta, is trying to make a big splash around the Cannes Film Festival later this week with a competition. And they’ve lined up some big sponsors to help them.
The competition is sponsored by HP, Facebook and Flip. Users pick up one of 250 free Flip [...] | | - Mon, 12 May 2008 01:00:53 GMT |
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| | Multiple Listing Services across the country are getting more comfortable with the idea of feeding lists to online real estate upstarts, with The New York Times reporting: | | johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) - Mon, 12 May 2008 00:01:00 GMT |
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| | I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malware, or (2) Yahoo or McAfee are playing a little joke.
Most results that [...] | | - Sun, 11 May 2008 23:48:34 GMT |
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| | VentureBeat reports on the demise of Pleasanton, Calif. Internet phone company Jangl and notes that Seattle-based WhitePages.com was sniffing around the assets. | | johncook@seattlepi.com (John Cook) - Sat, 10 May 2008 23:02:00 GMT |
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| | Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They’ve launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl. For now, Powerset queries only Wikipedia and augments results with data from Freebase. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company [...] | | - Sun, 11 May 2008 20:59:33 GMT |
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| | The Apple online store has stopped selling iPhones completely, stating they are currently unavailable. What does it mean? In some way I’m inclined to say “not much.” Apple rarely telegraphs its moves this far in advance. However, since O2 in the UK has stopped selling iPhones and a number of folks have had trouble buying [...] | | - Sun, 11 May 2008 13:27:12 GMT |
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| | Most of my time these days is spent crossing the blood-brain barrier between Twitter and the rest of the cloud. Twitter stands on one side, a coursing stream of social data emanating from an ad-hoc framework of asynchronous follows and vanity track filtering. On the other side, the legacy blogosphere, RSS items floated via Google [...] | | - Sun, 11 May 2008 08:13:19 GMT |
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