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Apple said to be working on 'world-mode' iPhone
Blog.news.com | 13 minutes ago
The AppleInsider blog says it's gotten wind of a "hybrid iPhone," due in the third quarter of 2010, that would work on both GSM and CDMA (hear that, Verizon?).
Bird drops baguette, halts Collider
Blog.news.com | 55 minutes ago
Testing on the Large Hadron Collider is halted after a bird drops a chunk of carbohydrates into the machine, causing a power outage.
Want a Droid on the cheap? Let's start a club!
Blog.news.com | 1 hour 54 minutes ago
Right now, you have to buy one and sign a two-year contract. Is a Gadget of the Month Club the answer? Or should phone companies be more like clothes stores?
Apple Grab & Go Patent Filing
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 1 minute ago
Apple is certainly a company well known for innovation, and Steve Jobs is also quite fussy about patents, so it’s not surprise to see Apple file patents every now and then. The latest “Grab & Go” patent from the company certainly looks promising. Basically it demonstrates how synchronization of data over multiple devices can be simplified, especially with pre-defined data sets and categories like “family, entertainment or business”. With it, sharing files bet...
TELUS To Get The BlackBerry Storm2
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 1 minute ago
You may not be interested in the news that TELUS is offering their handsets through Black’s, the nation-wide digital camera chain. But while poking their the website, you might be a tad surprised to see a TELUS branded BlackBerry Storm2 sitting comfortably there, before it has had the time to be officially announced by TELUS. You’re allowed to chuckle a bit at TELUS of this, we’re sure they wouldn’t mind.Permalink: TELUS To Get The BlackBerry Storm2 from Ubergizmo | Ho...
Motorola Droid For $149.99 At Sears
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 13 minutes ago
With the Motorola Droid fast becoming one of the hottest phones in recent months, it’s no surprise to see folks busy searching the Internet for a better pricing of the device. Don’t want to go through the pain of waiting for a mail-in rebate? Well, Sears is currently offering the device for $149.99 off the shelf, which isn’t too bad. It’ll come bundled with the mandatory 2-year Verizon contract, of course, but you already knew that, right?Permalink: Motorola Droid For ...
Amazon Matches Walmart $99 Xbox Deal
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 13 minutes ago
Holiday promotions are great! Do you remember that Walmart was running an ad featuring a $199 Xbox 360 Arcade console with a $100 gift card? Well, Amazon certainly doesn’t want to lose out, and it has matched Walmart’s deal. There are only limited units, so you’d better get yours fast! The first batch has already sold out, but the deal should be running around at 12pm EST, 9am PST.Permalink: Amazon Matches Walmart $99 Xbox Deal from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e Coming In Jan
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 31 minutes ago
Lenovo looks set to launch its upcoming ThinkPad X100e netbook on January 5th 2010, which isn’t all that far off. Apparently it’s been designed as an entry level ultra portable. While there aren’t any official specs just yet, folks online are guessing that it will sport a 12.1-inch display, ATI Radeon HD 3410 graphics chip, 1.6GHz Athlon Neo processor or Intel’s Centrino 2 ULV processor, 3GB of DDR2 RAM and also 320GB or storage space. Of course, these aren’t off...
Ionic Battery Technology For The Future
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 31 minutes ago
We’ve seen laptop and computer technology improve in leaps and bounds, but one thing that’s been rather constant is the crappy battery life, thanks to lithium-ion technology which hasn’t been replaced just yet. Is that set to change? Well, Fluid Energy, a government-backed firm is certainly trying to do so. The new ionic batteries that it’s working on could increase battery life by up to 6 times, meaning we could have an average of 24-hour battery life, which is really...
iPhone App Records Your Phone Number
Ubergizmo.com | 3 hours 48 minutes ago
Now here’s something you don’t see everyday regarding Apple’s iPhone. It seems that Storm8, the developer of iPhone games like “Vampires Live” and “iMobsters”, is going to be at the receiving end of a potential class-action lawsuit. The suit alleges that Storm8 created the games with a “feature” that automatically sends the phone number of each host iPhone to the developer. A Washington resident Michael Turner is suing on grounds that this...
Services Made Flesh: 10 Weird and Not So Weird Avatar Gadgets
TechCrunch | 3 hours 54 minutes ago
The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don t answer that. Manufacturers, in their wisdom, decided to do something about it and so devices like the Peek - for email - and the CueCat - for nothing - were born. Here's a look at ten "avatar" gadgets, gadgets that brought a web service into the real world,...
iRiver Domino Inflate USB Drive
Ubergizmo.com | 4 hours ago
Looking for some cute looking thumb drives? Well, you can check out the iRiver Domino Inflate series of thumbdrives, which are available in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions, each color coded too. They’re retailing between $30 to $64, depending on which size you pick.Permalink: iRiver Domino Inflate USB Drive from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola Droid Review
Apple Introduces Reserve And Pick-up
Ubergizmo.com | 4 hours ago
While buying stuff online and getting it delivered to you are a great luxury, sometimes it’s still fun to go to the store to pick things up, and at the same time check out other things to burn your hard-earned money on, right? Well, Apple is probably realized this, and that’s why it has introduced its new Reserve and Pick-up service for the holiday reason. You’ll be able to check stuff out at the Apple site, reserve the product at an Apple store near you, and then go to the ...
Apple Introduces Reserve And Pick-up
Ubergizmo.com | 4 hours ago
Hot on the heels of the popular Photoshop for iPhone app is the Photoshop for Android. In terms of features, it’s pretty much like its iPhone counterpart, allowing users to crop, rotate and flip images. Color adjustments such as exposure, saturation, ting changes and classic black-and-white are also available. Users will also be able to upload the pictures directly to their Photoshop.com account, which comes with 2GB of free online photo storage. Check it out in further detail at mobile...
Vobis Announces Highscreen Zeus
Ubergizmo.com | 4 hours 18 minutes ago
You may not have heard of Vobis Computer, but they’ve released an Android-powered device back in July, called the PP5420. Now it has come up with its second attempt, dubbed the Highscreen Zeus, which certainly sounds a lot nicer. Retailing for about $483 in Russia, it doesn’t have any earth-shattering specs, but it’s not too bad either. Specifications include:Operating System: Google Android OSNetwork: GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA (2100 MHz)...
Is Verizon's new early-termination fee anti-consumer?
Blog.news.com | 4 hours 37 minutes ago
That $350 fee doubles the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones.
The Font Kingdom: Search, Explore, Create, and Download Fonts for Free
TechCrunch | 4 hours 49 minutes ago
Being a blogger, I often find design elements on the web for my posts or my blog in general. It's becoming a very common experience for bloggers to know a thing or two about web design. I'm guessing it is the web that taught us to be quasi-designers by offering us lots of easy-to-use tools that help us create just about everything we need: photo-editing, widgets, logos, buttons, and yes, fonts as well. Fonts are a big focus of the Web2.0 era they are now bigger, cleaner and smoother, especi...
Skype Founders Assembling Killer Team For New Online Music Startup
TechCrunch | 5 hours 37 minutes ago
Now that they got what they wanted - a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon - the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennstr m and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture they're putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-to-launch digital music startup was first talked about publicly a couple of weeks ago when the New York Times unveiled plans for its imminent online music subscription service but it's been prett...
Snoop Dogg, Entrepreneurship and Rajasthan
TechCrunch | 6 hours 57 minutes ago
I'm in India this weekend with fellow TechCrunch/BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. After we re done with the elephant rides in Jaipur, we re going to be meeting local tech startups. Then we head back to New Delhi to meet more aspiring entrepreneurs. Sarah is writing a book on how startup culture has gone global and I m researching how R&D has globalized. It never ceases to amaze me how you can find brilliant entrepreneurs everywhere whether in the middle of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan or...
Ryobi Rugged Headphones
Ubergizmo.com | 7 hours 8 minutes ago
Looking for some rugged headphones that you can take with you on camping trips? Well, the Ryobo RP4530 SmartHeadphones certainly look the part. Too bad it’s not waterproof or something, in case you happen to drop it into a pond. It is water resistant, though, allowing it to function in light right. It’s currently going for $69.97, which might hurt a bit, but if you’re looking for replacement headphones, you could check it out. Features include:Up to 24 hours continuous use p...
Apple Store In Carrousel du Louvre
Ubergizmo.com | 7 hours 8 minutes ago
Apple stores always look classy and expensive, but you can’t probably get classier than Apple’s latest store in the Carrousel du Louvre, beneath the great glass pyramid at the Louvre Museum. This is also the first Apple store in Paris and also in France, so it’s certainly something special. In case you couldn’t find the time to check out the place, you can check out pictures of it right here.Permalink: Apple Store In Carrousel du Louvre from Ubergizmo | Hot: Motorola D...
Buy An AppStore Business For 100K
Ubergizmo.com | 7 hours 8 minutes ago
Do you want to get into the Apple AppStore business, but don’t want to go through the whole icky start up process? Well, if you happen to have a spare $100,000 lying around your desk, then you won’t have too! Brice Milliorn, who owns 87 different apps in the AppStore has put his iPhone app business up for auction on eBay, with the starting bid at $100,000. You’ll get the developer account, DVD with the source code and also 2 months technical support to make sure the transiti...
Smaller iPhone Coming To Verizon?
Ubergizmo.com | 7 hours 26 minutes ago
We haven’t heard an “iPhone Mini” rumor in a while, so the rumor mill has probably decided that it’s time to kickstart things again. According to the latest whispers, it seems that Apple has signed contracts to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone, which is planned to be released in Q3 of 2010. Based on the rumor, the phone will be built around a dual-system chip from Qualcomm, allowing this “iPhone Mini” to run on virtually any GSM/UMTS cellular network world...
YouTube Is Falling Apart Again
TechCrunch | 15 hours 16 minutes ago
The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona. Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all of the surrounding parts of the site shake and fall away, while an annoying voiceover is saying something about rebirth. I don't know, maybe it...
Video: A new workout for the Wii
Blog.news.com | 15 hours 53 minutes ago
Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console?
Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year
TechCrunch | 16 hours 17 minutes ago
Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec's lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine's 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the list are a variety of female powerhouses and icons including Maya Angelou, First Lady Michelle Obama, Susan Rice, Euna Lee and Laura Ling. Mayer has been frequently pro...
The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch
TechCrunch | 18 hours 2 minutes ago
If you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek, a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won't support third party apps. But it most certainly does run Twitter. You can get it in black. Or, if you want to show a little flair, you can get i...
Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web
TechCrunch | 18 hours 47 minutes ago
Up until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web. This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, which is vital for Gowalla. The goal is to extend this mobile web support to BlackBerry and a few other location-aware devices in the next week or so, ...
Five Incredibly Useful Things You Can Do Without Ever Leaving Facebook
Micro Persuasion | 19 hours 23 minutes ago
I have been spending a fair amount of time on Facebook since they updated the news feed feature, mostly because I can get a quick read on what's new. I like how they show you "trends from friends." In the process, I am discovering that it's becoming a one-stop shop for many of my day-to-day activities. Here are five things that I recently found you can do right from within Facebook without having to leave...1) Read, search and post tweets via Twitgether, a full-featured Tw...
textPlus 2.0 Hits The App Store For Free Texting
TechCrunch | 19 hours 29 minutes ago
textPlus, a text messaging app that's powered by GOGII, has just hit the App Store. textPlus lets any iPhone or iPod Touch send free text messages to any cell number by using in-app advertising to cover its costs. There is no limit on how many text messages you can send per month, it's just a matter of getting WiFi, 3G or an Edge connection. GOGII was one of the first companies that was funded by iFund, the partnership between venture capital firm KPCB and Apple, which was announced at the ...
Mobile: Still waiting to see what sticks
Blog.news.com | 19 hours 55 minutes ago
As businesses try to capitalize on the growing mobile software market, open source can offer a way to encourage adoption and build products in the image of the prospective buyer.
Popular iPhone movie app flops on BlackBerry
Blog.news.com | 19 hours 55 minutes ago
Flixster's Movies app just isn't up to snuff on BlackBerry.
Moms More Influenced Offline, While Kids Are Wired Online
Micro Persuasion | 20 hours 1 minute ago
Two new studies point to a growing divide in how moms and kids communicate and are influencedFirst up, Nielsen/Pete Blackshaw's Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids:"In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call."And, via AdAge, parents are relying more on offline conve...
Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores
Blog.news.com | 20 hours 37 minutes ago
The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and GigaOm's Sebastian Rupley.
EMI to offer instant concert recordings
Blog.news.com | 21 hours 31 minutes ago
A new initiative called Abbey Road Live will let concert attendees buy CDs, DVDs, or flash cards with recordings of the show they just heard.
Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter
PaidContent.org: The Economics of Content | 21 hours 43 minutes ago
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Mark SusterPosition: Partner, GRP PartnersBlog name:Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup adviceBackstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters (if any) would drop the service if ads started showing up in their streams, but Suster’s firm invested $500,000 last month in Ad.ly, an in-stream Twitter ad company. A...
Netflix Wants Half Off Under Release Delay Scenario
PaidContent.org: The Economics of Content | 21 hours 49 minutes ago
The studios have put the screws to Redbox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) in order to get them to take new releases at a later date. Redbox has sued all the big studios—but Netflix is taking a different tack. During the company’s most recent earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said acknowledged the impact that cheap rentals were having on DVD sales and said that “if we can agree on low enough pricing for delayed rental, it could potentially increase profits for everyone.”...
Station crew prepares for close encounter with space junk
Blog.news.com | 22 hours 20 minutes ago
The crew of the International Space Station made preparations Friday to take refuge in their Soyuz lifeboats, if necessary, due to an expected close encounter with a piece of space debris.
MSNBC Having A Bad Friday (NSFW)
TechCrunch | 22 hours 25 minutes ago
I think it's safe to assume their Twitter account has been hacked. Update: Yep. Now suspended.
Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love
Blog.news.com | 22 hours 32 minutes ago
The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.
Chomp Eats Up Some Seed Funding. Next, Will Bite Into The Mobile Space.
TechCrunch | 22 hours 49 minutes ago
It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property right now. It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear. So what do we know? Well, the company is definitely in the mobile space. In fact, it's a "BIG mobile play," founder Ben Keighran tells us. Keighran, who in 2006 started Bluepulse, a mobile messaging app, has most recently served as the lead advisor to Aa...
Europe s Biggest Paper Blocks iPhone Browsers To Force Sales Of Its App
TechCrunch | 22 hours 49 minutes ago
So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content - at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe's biggest newspaper, BILD-Zeitung, intends to use, in effect, brute force to compel users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing its website. Now, readers will not only have to pay for the dedicated BILD iPhone app, but they also need to pony-up recurring fees for new articles. The same is planned for Axel Springer's qu...
My Not-So-Epic Quest To Find The Elusive Verizon Droid Line
TechCrunch | 22 hours 49 minutes ago
Today is Droid day an event that I, like many tech bloggers, have been looking forward to for quite some time. Unlike some people, I wasn't graced with a test Droid last week, so I was forced to go out and get one the old fashioned way: by getting to the store as early as possible, before the precious devices sold out. And while I was concerned about falling prey to a supply shortage, a part of me still hoped there would be many others like me, helping justify my early morning rise. These a...
Yes, That Is an Ad on Google's Homepage
ClickZ News Blog | 22 hours 49 minutes ago
How invested is Google in the success of Droid, the most hyped device yet to be built using its Android operating system? So much so that it's willing to sully that holy of holies -- its homepage -- with an ad promoting the smartphone. The ad appears directly below the search field, as you can see in the screenshot above. The ad points to a landing page hosted by Google, which promotes the Droid's search and navigation capabilities. It directs people to Verizon to buy the phone.
Microsoft launching health tech video show
Blog.news.com | 22 hours 50 minutes ago
Desmond Tutu is among the guests in the first episode of the Web video show, which debuts next week.
Going rogue? Palin bans gadgets, reporters from speech
Blog.news.com | 23 hours 8 minutes ago
The former Alaska governor joins a tradition of controversial politicians stoking up more press criticism by attempting to avoid it in the first place.
Exclusive Video Of The Litl Webbook
TechCrunch | 23 hours 21 minutes ago
When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren't nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies. I got a chance to sit down with CEO John Chuang for a thorough overview of the Webbook, so check out the video inside for some information about the design philosophy and user interface behind the $699 transforming internet computer.
What integrated compute stacks mean for storage professionals
Blog.news.com | 23 hours 34 minutes ago
EMC and Cisco have Vblocks. HP has Consolidated Infrastructure. Is the world changing for enterprise IT storage professionals?
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Micro Persuasion
Steve Rubel explores how the digital citizen is transforming marketing, media and public relations.
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Provides constant updates of the latest search engine marketing and other search news from Search Engine Watch and across the web.
TechCrunch
TechCrunch profiles the companies, products and events that are defining and transforming the new web. TechCrunch is written by Michael Arrington.
Ubergizmo.com
Ubergizmo is dedicated to technology and cutting-edge consumer electronics news and reviews.
ClickZ News Blog
For-the-record observations, notes, and commentary from ClickZ editors on interactive advertising and marketing news and trends.