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Digg CEO Jay Adelson Weekend Interview on NPR

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:59:10 +0100

This month Digg CEO Jay Adelson has made multiple interviews and appearances as well as introduced a new version of Digg that unfortunately is not available yet. Yesterday, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday had an interview with the CEO of Digg. The interview, which was just over eight minutes long, provided some great insight into the “crowd sourcingRead More...

CTIA Wireless 2010: Opera Out in Full Force

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:15:27 +0100

This ought to be a great event for Opera Software fans. The company has announced it will be demoing and displaying many of its software products throughout the event. What will be the biggest hit for Opera? For the first time Opera Software will allow video recording and photography of Opera Mini for iPhone. An initial iPhone version was first Read More...

Canon USA Named 2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0100

Canon USA, Inc has been named by the Environmental Protection Agency as a 2010 Energy Star Partner of the Year "for its outstanding contributions towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions." An awards ceremony was held on March 18th to publicly recognize the work Canon has done to educate consumers about energy-efficient products and for its leadeRead More...

Facebook (Not Google News) Provides Biggest Benefit to News & Media Sites

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:50:16 +0100

Web users are finding their news in a manner that may not be considered a “traditional” way of Web news navigation. In February Hitwise published a report which found that Facebook beat out Google News in sending visits to top news and media Web sites. It was the fourth largest source of visits Read More...

Canon to Create ".canon" Top-Level Domain

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Canon, a leader in digital imaging solutions has announced that it will be the first company to get rid of the common .com and create its own top-level domain '.canon.' The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently expanded the generic top-level domain space to "allow for a greater degree of innovatioRead More...

Canon Updates EOS 5D Mark II Firmware

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0100

Almost a year and a half after Canon released the high-end EOS 5D Mark II SLR camera, they have upgraded the firmware that expands the video capabilities. Initially the 5D only supported 30 frames per second for video and customers were wanting more. Version 2.0.3 to the firmware changes that "to comply with TV production Read More...

International CTIA Wireless: A Look Back at 2009

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:40:00 +0100

This year's CTIA Wireless Event is about to take place in Las Vegas, and the wireless world has so much more to offer now than even last year. CTIA Wireless 2010 has a spectacular line up of events. Want some of the highlights from 2009? One major part of last year's event was the closing of the conference by former Vice President Al Gore.

Google Earth: Now With More to See

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:02:42 +0100

Google has been a roll lately. First with the addition of Google Bike Maps; then their new features for Google Buzz; and just yesterday Google introduced some changes to Google Earth. The newly updated layout for Google Earth is expected to make navigation much easier. Making it easier to navigate is great for everyonRead More...

CTIA Wireless 2010: Events to Look Out For

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:00:00 +0100

Next week the CTIA Wireless event will be held in Las Vegas. The convention is full of big name keynote speakers, such as James Cameron and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. There are also numerous keynote and educational sessions of interest to choose from.

One session, titled "Mobile Imaging 2.0: How Cameraphones aRead More...

Amazon Threatening Publishers While Fighting to Win E-Book Market

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0100

Amazon has just released the Kindle for Mac application that adds to the list of ways users can access their Kindle e-books. The company is also going to be releasing the Kindle for iPad very soon, hoping to get into the iPad-user market before Apple can win market share for e-books. Amazon has said in the past that it pushes more Read More...

International CTIA Wireless Convention In Las Vegas Next Week

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0100

Next week, the wireless industry convention, International CTIA Wireless, will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. The convention is the "premier wireless event representing a $1 trillion global marketplace that brings together the wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web computing and data industries." The show is 3 days (MaRead More...

Amazon Releases Kindle for Mac

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:53:34 +0100

Amazon announced on Thursday the release of Kindle for the Mac, a free application that allows Mac users to read Kindle Books on their computer. The application is now available in over 100 countries and currently there are over 450,000 book options offered by Kindle. With the addition of the Mac app, readers can now Read More...

Buy Out Potential: Palm to Rise From the Ashes?

seevans@clarku.edu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:26:33 +0100

There may yet be some light shining through the darkness of Palm inc’s inevitable financial fall. According to some analysts the time is ripe for Palm to be bought out by one of the other contenders in the OS war. In doing so, whatever company bought them, would not only be adding the modest library oRead More...

OS War: More Casualties to Come?

seevans@clarku.edu — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:58:27 +0100

The plummet of Palm is certainly unfortunate, but it was inevitable. The bigger problem is that the same exact pattern of downfall can, and likely has to happen to the more competitors in the cell-phone operating system game. If you look at why they fell, it becomes obvious that more mobile OS producers could reach the same fate. ObvioRead More...

A Green Way to Spruce Up Your Green Home

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0100

Now that you have your nice recycled home, and your relaxing recycled boat, don’t you need to do some landscaping to spruce up the exterior of your humble abode? The innovators at Recycled Aggregate Materials Company (RAMCO) have developed an eco-friendly landscaping alternative called GreenRock. The GreenRock product looks like rocks that you would puRead More...

Mobile OS Warfare: The First Casualty

seevans@clarku.edu — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:27:28 +0100

As we all know, every tech company out there has been throwing their contender into the OS war. It seems that they’ve learned from the 90’s that he who makes the premier software, rules any given software revolution. It seems, though, that one major player has recently been knocked out of the race in a big way. Today, Palm inc’s stock pRead More...

Communication Arts Photography Competition: Only One More Week to Enter

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:25 +0100

For over 50 years Communication Arts has been publishing the best in visual communications from across the globe. To date it is the largest creative magazine in the world in highlighting graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography and interactive design. Entries after the March 26th deadline will be acceptedRead More...

SXSW 2010: Rhapsody to Release Mobile Version

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0100

Mobile apps seem to be among the biggest reveals at this year’s SXSW Conference. Earlier we told you about MOG releasing the mobile version of their music service for your iPhone and Android and about the mini social network app LoKast. Rhapsody is following trend by announcing their new iPhone app that, like MOG, allows you to store music dirRead More...

A Nice Recycled Boat To Go With Your Nice Recycled Home

kristajayerobs@yahoo.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0100

After saving all that money on your environmentally friendly recycled home, why not splurge and buy yourself some nice, relaxing, recycled time on the water? Well, perhaps it’s not for sale yet, but you can view it in San Francisco until the end of the month! Environmentalist David de Rothschild created the Plastiki, his 60-foot CataRead More...

Google Buzz Becomes Even More Android Friendly

jonathonknepper@gmail.com — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:36:16 +0100

Google has announced a Google Buzz widget for Android. The new widget works with Android running 1.6+, when before Buzz Mobile worked only with Android 2.0+. Google Buzz Mobile was released in Feburary, and has a bunch of great features including integration with Google Maps to show Buzz around your area (or the area of your choice).

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