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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

LogMeIn's Remote Access Plan For Netboks

by Jessica Dolcourt, CNET

Lunch.com Brings Yet Another Reviews Site To The Table

by Caroline McCarthy, CNET

Monday, March 30, 2009

Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick

by Ashlee Vance, New York Times

With a new Web service called MagCloud, Hewlett-Packard hopes to make it easier and cheaper to crank out a magazine than running photocopies at the local copy shop.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Google Tries To Break IPv6 Logjam By Own Example

by Stephen Shankland, CNET

Although it's been hard for companies to financially justify the expense of embracing the next-generation standard for wiring together the Internet, the incentives are now arriving--and Google itself stands to benefit from the resulting democratization of networking.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Moving Video Games To The Clouds

by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review

A startup wants to do away with consoles, games resellers, and expensive graphics chips.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Color E-Reader

by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review

The new Fujitsu color e-reader uses LCD technology but has some of the advantages of e-paper.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Steve Ballmer Maps Microsoft's Cloud-y Future

by Saul Hansell, New York Times

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Sony Reaches Deal To Share In Google's E-Book Library

by Brad Stone, New York Times

Aiming to outdo Amazon.com and recapture the crown for the most digital titles in an e-book library, Sony is announcing Thursday a deal with Google to make a half million copyright-free books available for its Reader device, a rival to the Amazon Kindle.

A More Local, Social Citysearch

by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times

Citysearch is unveiling a new Web site on Thursday that will make the site more social and more local — and, the site hopes, staunch its loss of readers.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Handoop, A Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search

by Ashlee Vance, New York Times

Foursquare Is The Breakout Mobile App At SXSW

by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable

Monday, March 16, 2009

Computer Makers Prepare To Stake Bigger Claim In Phones

by Ashlee Vance, New York Times

The computer industry has hit upon its Next Big Thing. It is called a phone.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

In Hard Times, Freelancers Turn To The Web

by Dan Fost, New York Times

Several online companies are easing the transition to a freelance economy for workers and employers.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Design Your Dream House, Lamps And All

by Ashlee Vance, New York Times

Budding home designers and decorators can now create realistic homes and stock them with virtual furniture, appliances and decorative products using a free online tool from Autodesk, which makes a wide range of powerful design software.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good.

by Leena Rao, TechCrunch

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Making Robots Give The Right Glances

by Kristina Grifantini, MIT Technology Review

By mimicking nonverbal actions, robots could become better assistants.

How Simple Features Become Complicated

by Rafe Colburn, rc3.org

This is why I generally forbid the use of the word “just” when people are making feature requests.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Start-Up Caustic Targets Ray Tracing For Graphics

by Jonathan Skillings, CNET

A start-up called Caustic Graphics aims to etch a place for itself in PC graphics, using a technique more common in Hollywood than in Silicon Valley.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Webcam Brings 3-D To Topps Sports Cards

by Eric A. Taub, New York Times

Since the 1950s, Topps has sold baseball trading cards filled with photos and stats, bringing the game to life. Now the company is bringing its cards to life.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Yahoo! Launches Major Challenge To Facebook Connect

by Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb

Yahoo! Updates, the company's answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with the launch of a new partnership with commenting infrastructure company JS-Kit.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

ZillionTV, The Next Generation Of Video On Demand

by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times

Socialtext Adds Twitter-Like "Signals" And A Desktop AIR App

by Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch

In yet another sign that this will be the year of the activity stream, Socialtext is adding a Twitter-like message stream to its enterprise wiki/workspace service.

Asus Launches Eee PC 1008HA Ultra-Thin Netbook

by Liliputing

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Always Innovating's Touch Book Sounds Amazing. Can It Deliver?

by Mg Siegler, Venture Beat

Monday, March 2, 2009

Sleuthing Software Can Reassemble Deleted Photos

by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times

One day, this software may be useful not only in its consumer applications, restoring snapshots that have accidentally been erased, but also in recovering deliberately deleted images that might provide evidence in cases of corporate spying or child pornography.

By Heng-Cheong Leong

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