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06 Aug 2008
Ericsson dabble’s with mobile gaming on the W760i
Mobile gaming just got more appealing and we've got Sony Ericsson to thank for that. Their latest attempts to raise the popularity stakes involves Zeemote's JS1 Bluetooth games control (which looks very suspiciously like a cleverly disguised Nintendo Wii Nunchuck) and the W760i Walkman phone.Slave Leia looked on proudly as Admiral Ackbar walked down the aisle
It's a Star Wars wedding. Not just a a cake grandma made that, from the right angle, looks a bit like a 2D Death Star, but a proper, CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY DID THAT? Star Wars wedding. Everyone put in some effort.Bookeen CyBook Gen3 - latest epaper reading device
The Bookeen CyBook Gen3 is being described as the thinnet and lightest epaper reading device around. It's able to store 1000 books, which seems more than enough, but for any exceptionally well-read users, the simple addition of a 2GB memory card allows you to store 10,000, meaning you have a mini-library in your back pocket.HP plans touchscreen notebook in 18 months
HP intends to have a notebook with a touchscreen display on the market within the next 18 months, the company has told the Wall Street Journal. The company was one of the first to introduce a mainstream, touchscreen desktop in the TouchSmart series .THE EYE OF JUDGMENT World Championships Begin Next Week
As you may have seen last week via the THE EYE OF JUDGMENT Official Sites, we announced the EOJ World Championships beginning August 14th. The winner has the amazing opportunity to get their image on an in-game card as well as compete with Watanabe-san from the Japan studio.How To Watch The Beijing Olympics LIVE On The Web — Even If NBC Doesn’t Want You To
NBC will bring 2200 hours of Beijing Olympics streaming video to the web, starting today. But Americans will miss some of the best parts. Why? Because NBC, which has exclusive rights to the games in the United States, still makes a whole lot more serving up TV ads than Web ads.Romania, Philippines, Hungary on tap for Aug 22 iPhone 3G launch
The iPhone will make its way to Romania, the Philippines, and Hungary during the second phase of Apple's international iPhone 3G rollout later this month, local carriers announced on Wednesday. Romania Orange said it will be the exclusive prov.Buck Institute Opens New Lab to Train Researchers in Creation of Stem Cells
Posted on: Thursday, 7 August 2008, 00:00 CDT By Richard Halstead, The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif. Aug. 6--Mark Bell, a new graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, was one of 12 students learning how to...Climate change: Prepare for global temperature rise of 4C, warns top scientist - Environment
The Guardian - Aug. 7 (Special Report) - The UK should take active steps to prepare for dangerous climate change of perhaps 4C according to one of the government's chief scientific advisers. In policy areas such as flood protection, agriculture and coastal erosion Professor Bob Watson said the country should plan for the effects of a 4C global average rise on pre-industrial levels.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Armchair astronomer discovers unique ‘cosmic ghost’ - CNN.com
CNN - By Brandon Griggs - Aug. 7 (News Report) - Hanny van Arkel was poring over photos of galaxies on the Internet last August when she stumbled across a strange object in the night sky: a bright, gaseous mass with a gaping hole in its middle...The public's collective wisdom -- the same principle that guides jury trials, or Wikipedia -- proved remarkably astute, Schawinski said. For example, if 33 of 36 volunteers thought a galaxy appeared elliptical, then astronomers could be confident the classification was correct, he said.NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Bigfoot Report Gathering Steam
Associated Content - By Carl Benjamin - Aug. 7 (News Analysis) - Two guys from Georgia, Rick Dyer and Gary Parker claim to have a Bigfoot on Ice.NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It
Did Google Kill Journalism?
Huffington Post - By Steve Rosenbaum - Aug. 7 (Opinion) - There was a moment when big government and big journalism were able to keep each other in check. Eric Schmidt of Google did some pretty heartfelt navel gazing the other day - wondering if Google was in part responsible for the undermining of the economic support system that paid for investigative reporting. It's great he asked the question - but the fact is Google didn't kill journalism, Don Hewitt did...NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 from source rating - Review It
Climate-Change Program to Aid Poor Nations Is Shut
New York Times - By Andrew C. Revkin - Aug. 7 (News Report) - The National Center for Atmospheric Research, an important hub for work on the causes and consequences of climate change, has shut down a program focused on strengthening poor countries' ability to forecast and withstand droughts, floods and other climate-related hazards.NewsTrust Rating: 3.7 from source rating - Review It
Introducing Snowl - An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser (Mykmelez/Mozilla Labs)
Mykmelez / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Snowl — An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser — Conversing (a.k.a. messaging) is a common online activity, and a number of desktop and web applications enable it. But with an increasing variety of protocols and providers, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of all your conversations.
Colorware rainbowifies your 3G iPhone
There's very little improvement to be had on the 3G iPhone (battery life being one notable exception) and at first glance, you'd think the glossy black back is right on the money. But when you look at what Colorware can do with your monotone device, shelling out for a paint job doesn't seem like such a ridiculous idea.Motorola Alexander: Can a slider save Moto?
Can a Windows Mobile phone with a slide-out keypad possibly save Motorola's flagging mobile division? If these reported specs are right, just maybe...Sprint Nextel Reports a Loss as Revenue Falls
The wireless carrier cited severance and other costs for its second-quarter loss, but the company said it had slowed the loss of customers.Apple’s Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps (Arn/MacRumors)
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's Ability to Deactivate Malicious App Store Apps — When Apple launched the App Store, they suggested that the use of DRM'd and signed applications could allow them to protect the iPhone from malicious applications and suggested that they could deactivate such applications remotely.
Google Goes Gaudy With YouTube Ads (Saul Hansell/Bits)
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Goes Gaudy With YouTube Ads — Take a look at the image here and you see proof of what we all knew: Google is not going to put its highfalutin ideals above the practical realities of its business. — This is a screen grab of a YouTube player embedded in a blog.