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The All Time Techmeme Leaderboard from The Statbot (Yuvi/The StatBot)
The Techmeme leaderboard is limited only to the past 30 days. Here's the Top 100 Sites on Techmeme, all time: … http://www.techcrunch.com … http://www.nytimes.com … http://www.engadget.com … http://news.com.com
Pandemic Studios Announces Development of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits (Robert McMillan/IDG News Service)
Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. — Called a System Management Mode (SMM) rootkit …
How AT&T spilled the Starbucks beans
Microsoft, Sony Play Console Sales Number Game for Europe
Cyclone Nargis : The making of a Perfect Disaster
Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)
We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them. Somewhere along the way, it also turned into an Alexa-like analytics service.
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Diageo to shut breweries in Kilkenny, Dundalk
An image showing the proposed changes at the St James's Gate site. The company said it would invest €650 million (£520 million) between 2009 and 2013 in the restructuring. The renovation of the St James's Gate brewing operations is expected to cost around €70 million and will see the volume of Guinness ...
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Three's Company Or Three's A Crowd? Google To Launch "Friend Connect" On Monday (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Don't they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we've heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs …
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Codemasters acquire Formula 1 licence
Facebook: Friends with Money (Spencer E. Ante/Business Week)
The social network taps a fresh source of funds for $100 million and will buy more servers to support its growth in users and applications — Facebook is about to stuff more cash into its already full coffers. Having raised $360 million in the span of seven months …
Be careful who you knit for
When we talk about intellectual property rights and copyright at Red Hat, we're usually talking about code--or music. By copyrighting popular approaches to common problems, the pool of innovation shrinks, and the end product is less than what it could be. Patterns for knitting--like music, software, ...
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod (Electronista)
As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. Although the company originally promised …
Yahoo acquisition to aid Apple searches
Inquisitor augments Safari by autocompleting search queries and showing results. Yahoo has acquired Inquisitor in a move to improve how search results appear on Apple computers. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Inquisitor founder and developer David Watanabe will continue to work with Yahoo on ...
MIT students demonstrate their Android applications
MIT students demonstrate their Android applications
Handphone: Futuristic concept to jeopardize future of handsets
Bharat: Where is your cell phone at the moment? Stop; don't trouble yourself searching for it, why search your phone when you need it? Perhaps that's what you have been doing all the while. Numerous phones have hit the stands, with avant garde technological advancements, yet this Handphone concept, ...
No Annual Fee Credit Cards
No annual fee credit cards are the best option that uses their card sparingly. No annual fee credit card basically offers a person a free credit card and many of the times annual fees is used to build up for savings on other fees. Platinum Visa® card, you can earn 1 point for every eligible dollar spent ...
Buy Spyware Doctor
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Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team (Yahoo! Search Blog)
Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community …
Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive (Laura M. Holson/New York Times)
If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. — Cellphones have become consumers' most personal technological devices. That is why some industry executives …
Madonna Album Leak Leads To Instant Music Blog Deaths
About a month ago, several music blogs were shut down (or outright deleted in some cases) due to illegal downloads of Mariah Carey's music. Def Jam took a very active role in sending out the message that they take action against any blogs offering free downloads. While it's a temporary annoyance, it's ...
What Everyone Else Was Saying
Nine Bullets has something new from the Appalachian new grassy group Medford's Black Record Collection. I don't fully understand the hoopla around of the Karen Dalton's of the world. Usually these mp3 blog weekend wrapups are devoted to posts with mp3's. Here's The Post-Rockist trying to work his way ...
Pop-Pourri: Jennifer Lopez Takes Family on the Road + More
Filed under: Pop-Pourri PopEater Music Blog : Jennifer Lopez and the twins will join Marc Anthony on his European tour. [Celebrity-Babies]Christina Aguilera has a new fragrance coming out. [Fame Crawler]Paris Hilton glams it up with punk rocker Benji Madden. ...
Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt)
The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire's and Sprint's WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. ...
Tag the World With GeoGraffiti
Now in public beta, GeoGraffiti is a free "Verbal Bulletin Board" that allows you to record and share location-specific voice notes, or "Voice Marks", whether you're on the go or in front of your computer. ...
Announcing Facebook Connect (Dave Morin/Facebook Developers)
At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go. — In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the third party websites and applications they choose.
Blinkx deal rumors have circulated for years--this time they may be for real
Blinkx deal rumors have circulated for years--this time they may be for real
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)
The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video. Just boring old display ads.
Computer Game's High Score Could Earn The Nobel Prize In Medicine
Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to idle pursuits. This week researchers will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries through a competitive protein-folding computer game. ...
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this …
Virus runs amok amid JavaOne
Sun Microsystems has bragged for 13 years now that Java security features keep the programming technology virus-free. I have experienced this at two conferences in San Antonio and Miami Beach, respectively. There are several known exploits for using java to determine PC settings, including local behind-your-firewall ...
Inquisitor joins Yahoo!
Today, I am very pleased to announce that Yahoo! has acquired the rights to Inquisitor , my instant search extension for Safari. For those unfamiliar, Inquisitor is a pioneering software extension that provides as-you-type instant search directly within the Safari web browser. ...
GNU Free Documentation License
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. But this License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter ...
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. — There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants …
The first ever Douchebag Award goes to…
Wouldn't it be cool if Jeff Koons made a giganto version of this? The gallery's e-mail states that this is because the gallery owns "the copyright to the work and all public display of images. Does the gallery really think it can control how and when people see an artist's work?
Mowser.mobi ! - Mowser has a new home! - It took a few weeks ... (Russell Beattie/Russell Beattie's Weblog)
Mowser has a new home! — It took a few weeks to work out the details, but pretty much on the day that I announced Mowser was shutting, the guys at dotMobi got in touch with us interested in the service. Today is the official announcement that they've acquired the site and technology …
The Get Out Clause, Manchester's stars of CCTV cameras
Watch "Paper", the latest The Get Out Clause video, which the band says is filmed using genuine CC-TV cameras in Manchester. Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets. They ...
Chris Paul Is A Magician
Most of us grew up during one of the best eras of NBA Basketball and because of that I think we're spoiled. Some of us got to enjoy Kareem, Barkley, Olajuwon, Malone, Stockton, Pippen, Malone, O'Neal, Bird, Drexler, Ewing, Magic, and Jordan in our lifetimes. ...
News: Reeves admits PSP needs more new games
But SCEE president promises "absolutely phenomenal" Japanese titles will be released in Europe
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod
As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. Although the company originally promised and sli. ...
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. ...
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters
Link's Crossbow Training
Takashi Tezuka has been involved in the development of the Super Mario Series, the Yoshi Series, the Animal Crossing Series, and numerous other games. So, even in these games I want people to be able to get really into the 3D geography, so it feels like you're really there, since I think it's a really ...
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters (Bloomberg)
Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark. — Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3?
Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to the sole remaining computer running XP that I have. ...
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Nokia aiming to reinvent itself as an "Internet company"
It's not good enough to be the clear leader in a mature market sector like cell phones. To stay youthfully vibrant, Nokia is embracing a new set of competitors and is repackaging itself as an "Internet company. ...
