New Hotmail (with many new feature s) is being rolled out as I write this – Many users are quite impressed with the new look hotmail. My hotmail account had been dormant for past 7 years, and I logged into it just to see why everyone is raving about it – I have to say I came back un-impressed. For me, Hotmail was too sluggish in its loading of mails as well as other features
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Third party Gadgets now in Gmail / Apps – New Hotmail lags far behind !
Make stuff and show it off at the Maker Faire 2 SF Gate… The idea for building from scratch a fire-breathing dragon named Saphira came about over dinner one night at home in San Rafael before Christmas. Now the 8-foot-high steel animatronic character is about to make its debut this weekend at a fair in San Mateo.
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Make stuff and show it off at the Maker Faire
It seems Yahoo continues its focus on bringing great content ability on board for its readers. We had blogged about how they roped in mainline journalists for many of their online news properties. Now Yahoo has gone ahead and taken a step further in bringing in a host of freelance writers on board as well but this time via an acquisition
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Yahoo Increases Focus On Content – Buys Associated Content For 100 Mil $
Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area , taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall , brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction ‘s Alex Biem. The Wall has been on display at various events, like the 2010 Winter Olympics, and we’re stoked it’s making its way to the Faire
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Maker Faire: Digital Graffiti Wall
Big improvements in Target’s credit card segment, along with strong consumer spending patterns, led the big-box retailer to top expectations, yet its shares weren’t able to fend off the broader market’s continued concerns about Europe’s future. Despite surprisingly strong results, shares of…
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Target Earnings Exceed Aim
Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder By Laura Rich Apparently in need of a good road-trip stretch, AJ the Ford Fiesta checked into Yo Momma Yoga. “It was an auto-check-in,” explained T.J
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American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder
A white plastic “cube” * that is slightly bigger than a thumb tip protrudes from the top of an Android phone. A thin slit runs through it; peek inside and you can make out the interior metal nub capable of reading any credit card that swoops through it. This is Square , an accessory to the recently released Android version of an iPhone app (hands-on) that’s aiming to revolutionize personal mobile payments the way that PayPal first simplified payments online
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Start your own business with Square for Android
Make: Online reader Baz from Dublin, ireland, sent us this rad video of a low-tech robot lawn mower. He writes: Self-propelled lawn mower guided by wrapping a string around a couple of posts so it mows a spiral of lawn. Quite hacky, but interesting idea! In the MAKE offices we’ve been trying to guess what happens at the end
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Low-tech R/C lawn mower
While we get all our ducks in a row at the fairgrounds for Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, you might be interested to check out the master schedule of talks, shows, and demos going on throughout the weekend. The locations for all makers are also live on the Maker Faire site, so get to planning your visit! You can also download the Maker Faire Guide PDF . Dale Dougherty fills us in: We have several different stages with different styles of presentations and performances
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Maker Faire schedules and map
An anonymous blogger critical of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett plans to challenge a grand jury subpoena ordering Twitter to reveal the blogger’s identity. “It doesn’t really matter why we are criticizing him,” said ”Signor Ferrari,” one of the two Twitter users targeted in the subpoena from Corbett, who won the Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday. ”It’s our First Amendment right to criticize him no matter who we are,” Signor Ferrari said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Signor Ferrari uses that pen name on the CasablancaPA blog
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Tries to Unmask Twitter Critics
Polish engineering student mb1988mb1988 and two friends built this homebrew pulse oximeter . It measures oxygen saturation in a patient by shining two wavelengths of light (infrared and red) through their finger, and recording the changes in light transmission over time. To power it all, they are using an 68HC908AB32 processor
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DIY Pulse Oximeter
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Discount retailer Target Corp (TGT.N) and warehouse club operator BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc (BJ.N) posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings as consumers began to spend on more than just necessities. Target cited sales of more profitable items like apparel, while BJ’s saw a..
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Target, BJ’s have pickup in consumer spending
In case you missed the announcement tucked at the end of Dale’s Maker Faire preview post yesterday, I’m here to tell you the OK Go will be performing an acoustic set on the Solar Stage at Maker Faire Bay Area on Sunday at 5pm. They’re thinking of it as a teaser to their headlining show at the Filmore later next week in SF
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OK Go to play Maker Faire Sunday
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this excellent tea caddy variable capacitor ( translation ), which uses a homemade capacitor to turn a little plastic container into a volume control. Nice hack! More: MAKE presents: The Capacitor DIY electronic inclinometer: Measure tilt using water! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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DIY Volume knob built using a tea caddy and tinfoil
We are super excited to announce that Chris Moss has just joined us as Global Chief Marketing Officer. Chris has earned himself a phenomenal reputation in the industry as a brand galvaniser. He’s created three billion-dollar brands including Virgin Atlantic, which he joined when it had only one route and one aircraft and transformed into an award winning airline; Orange (which he rebranded from Microtel) and 118118, where he was behind the famous moustached running duo.
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Truphone appoints new Chief Marketing Officer
Ayman Shamma not only made a steel pan drum application for his iPad, but he also made some conductive fabric mallets with which to drum. Great work! More: Collin’s Lab: DIY iPad Stylus Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this!
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iPad steel drum with conductive mallets
If you are the kinds who hasn’t had enough of ploughing fields and being a don in the virtual world then this piece of news is just for you. Facebook and Zynga (the company that made us farmers through Farmville) have announced a five-year strategic relationship As per this strategic tie up one can expect to see more social gaming on Facebook and introduction of the Facebook Credits system in Zynga’s games.
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Facebook – Zynga Tie Up For 5 Years – Expect Social Gaming To Grow!
Smartphone sales have continued to explode with analyst firm Gartner reporting an almost 50% increase in the first quarter of 2010. Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, also states that.. “Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year.” Microsoft took a beating, with Android outperforming the Windows Mobile OS and pushing it into fourth place for the first time.
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Android knocks WinMo into fourth place according to stats
Mining industries in Goa are mulling the possibility of setting up a network of conveyor belts to transport ore from the mining pits to the port from where it is exported, an industry insider said Wednesday. Secretary of the Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) Glen Kalavampara said a string of conveyor belts may be the answer to increasing pollution and accidents, which occur as a result of transporting ore by trucks from extraction sites in the hinterland to shipping points along the coast.
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Goa industry mulls conveyor belts to transport ore
Auction for 3G licence ended Today with bids reaching Rs 16,751 crore which means that the total revenue for government is pegged at Rs 67,719 crore. We have expressed our concerns earlier on how this could mean a higher cost to be paid by the end subscriber for availing 3G services. Delhi vs Mumbai Battle The delhi vs Mumbai battle for the most valuable circle was finally won by Delhi even though Mumbai lead the race for most of the 34 days that the auction was ongoing.
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3G Auction Ends (Finally!) – Government Grosses 67,719 Crore!
Sprint Hero owners can now at last get their hands on the highly anticipated Android 2.1 update . It’s available from the support site and gives enhanced corporate email support, HTC Sense improvements, better camera quality and all the Android 2.1 improvements (faster, more screen size support, improved Google Maps, Exchange support, live wallpapers and much more).
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Android 2.1 arrives for Sprint Hero
New York-based BREAKFAST fitted a BlimpDuino with on-board video and wireless control system and took it out for a spin at a party to interact with the crowd. Everybody’s favorite controller du jour, an iPad, was employed to orient the dirigible and act as a augmented display medium. [Thanks, Zolty !] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this!
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iPad controlled video blimp
The LG Panther is really the only Windows Phone 7 handset we’ve had a good look at since the OS was debuted at Mobile World Congress in February, and here it is again. This picture improves slightly on what we were treated to on video at the beginning of March, and gives a better impression of the size and construction of the phone. We already know the phone will have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but here we can see the Windows key clearly in the centre, with the back and search keys alongside
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LG Panther Gets Caught on Camera Again
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship and her crew arrived in San Mateo, Earth today, on the 17th day of the 5th month in the year 2010. After an uneventful 12-hour trans-galactic journey across the western reaches of the Sobay Nebula, our sturdy and resilient little ship finally settled down on the grassy planetary landscape that will soon be densely populated by the rare and interesting Humanus Makeriferous Species
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The Road to Maker Faire: Greetings Earthlings!
India can be credited (in part) for the phenomenal growth in email services across the world. After all Hotmail which technically was the first hot email client that went viral across the web was started by an Indian in Sabeer Bhatia. Later it was acquired by Microsoft and since then it has become a part of a really large company which is slightly slow with innovative features
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Microsoft Announces New Improved Hotmail – Too Little Too Late?
We had blogged about the size zero facebook announcement and the fact that this would be useful in penetrating Indian markets which have a high mobile userbase. This is exactly what has happened with this latest announcement by Reliance Communications. RCom has announced that Facebook Zero shall be available to all its mobile subscribers for free! That means there will be no data charges charged to he users to access this site and go through ones facebook updates.
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RCom Gets You Facebook Access For Free!
Let’s start this piece by saying it is meant to be constructive and that people who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Unlike many writers, I am also the CEO of a media company which means I get involved in lots of product launches myself – sometimes they are from my company TMC and sometimes they are with partners or even vendors in the industry who use our services to help them launch. Over the years, I have failed in some of my launches – and I feel what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and in an effort to utilize my collective experience to help others, I figured I would write about some of the areas where Google and Microsoft have tried to change telecom and failed
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Google and Microsoft Telecom Failures: Lessons Learned
When it comes to enabling technology, Google’s new mantra is its better to be needed than liked I first met the company called Global IP Sound around 2002 at TMC’s ITEXPO and Pulvermedia’s VON expos. What differentiated the company tome at first was the company’s ability to power wireless VoIP calls over PDAs – specifically Compaq iPAQs via a low-bandwidth codec. As you can imagine, at the time, the codec needed to not only be low-bandwidth due to the slow wireless connections but also had to be super-optimized because processors in PDAs at the time were not powerful.
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Google Buys GIPS – Here’s Why
Sparked by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android devices, global shipments of cell phone motion sensors, such as accelerometers, compasses, gyroscopes and pressure sensors, are expected to see a fivefold increase by 2014, a recent research by iSuppli Corp. reveals. According to the industry analyst firm, driven by growing consumer demand for smartphones and feature phones with support for motion command and navigation applications, motion sensor adoption is set to reach 2.2 billion units in 2014, up from 435.9 million in 2009.
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Motion Sensors to Prevail over Cell Phone Market
Aircel the 36 million subscriber base strong telco has tied up with and ibibo.com to introduce Social Gaming to Mobile Customers in India. One of Ibibo’s online games called the “Great Indian Parking wars” is now made available on the Aircel Pocket Internet. Aircel plans to soon expand the catalogue of games in the future
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Aircel Brings Ibibo’s Social Games To Its Users