The broadband industry and some politicians have reacted strongly to an FCC effort to have an open dialogue. In response to a Thursday vote by the FCC to open a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) period to consider the options for reclassifying how broadband service is governed, some broadband providers..
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The Broadband Providers Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks
News Analysis: There are strong indications that Motorola will introduce the Droid X the week of June 21. Exactly what it has planned for the device is unknown, but if it wants it to be a success, it will need to find the sweet spot between functionality and price. That’s the only way it will..
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10 Things Motorola Must Do to Make the Droid X a Success
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s D8 conference interview with Steve Jobs has been posted in its entirety on iTunes for your higher quality, uninterrupted viewing and/or listening pleasure. It’s quite a good interview and we get to see Jobs excited, pensive, and — to quote him — pi$$ed off. A few of the points I found most interesting, after the break.
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Complete Steve Jobs D8 interview now on iTunes
Here’s an interesting little tidbit from Japan’s financial newspaper Nikkei . According to an article translated by andriasang — who also provided information this morning on a wireless ebook reader — Nintendo’s 3DS will be able to copy multiple games to internal memory and selected from…
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Nintendo 3DS to allow for game installs?
Ron Newman’s fantastic page on DIY room-temperature anodizing of aluminum parts was last revised in 2007, and looks like it may be significantly older than that. Ron’s selling a how-to book, now, and a bunch of anodizing supplies, from the same page, but to me it looks like there’s more than enough free info there already for a savvy person to figure it out for him- or herself
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How-To: Anodize aluminum
This month’s theme is Physical Science and Mechanics , which makes it the ideal time to chat with the multi-talented members of Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.), “a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as ‘kinetic’.
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Applied Kinetic Arts: Jeremy Mayer interview
(Credit: CNET) Probably like many people reading this blog post, I experienced firsthand the trouble Apple and AT&T had with the overwhelming number of preorders for the iPhone 4 on Tuesday. I thought I was being smart by deciding to skip the long lines and get the iPhone 4 delivered to my house, but I ended up getting nothing but errors after only the first few steps into the process. After several attempts, I decided to wait a couple of days before trying again and ended up buying the black 32GB model through Apple on Thursday
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Start your streak and swing to win: iPhone apps of the week
One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology. VP8, combined with the Vorbis audio technology, form the WebM codec with which Google is trying to unfetter Web video from the patent and royalty encumbrances of rival codec H.264
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Google opens up VP8 for Web video tweaks
Instructables jamilks converted this old mini fridge into a food dehydrator , great for fruits, herbs, and other healthy snacks! A food dehydrator needs to be warm and breezy, and this how-to uses an old computer fan and hot plate to get the job done. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!
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Mini fridge food dehydrator
CNET News Poll Imagining iTunes 10 Which of these features will we see in iTunes 10? Syncing libraries across multiple computers Music stored “in the cloud” TV show or channel subscription service Podcast recorder and editor iChat-like function for video chatting with new iPhones Karaoke! Vocals stripped, lyrics shown Option to play vuvuzela over all tracks View results This week, Apple dropped iTunes 9.2 on us
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Friday Poll: What will iTunes 10 bring?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) Chief Financial Officer Mark Bierley is taking on the additional role of chief operating officer, the latest change to the U.S. bookseller’s upper management ranks.Bierley, who joined Borders in 1996 and became CFO last year, will oversee Borders’… Street Insider – Borders Group (BGP) Appoints Mark Bierley as COO, Roz Thompson SVP of HR for Borders Group RTTNews.com – Borders Group Names CFO Mark Bierley To Addl.
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Borders CFO takes chief operating officer job (Reuters)
(Credit: Apple) Apple made some changes to its MobileMe service Friday. The MobileMe Mail service that was in beta for a little over a month is now available to all members. Mail at me.com now has widescreen and compact views, mail organization rules, single-click archiving, a formatting toolbar, SSL protection, and better junk mail protection
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Apple revamps MobileMe e-mail
Former Goa minister Mickky Pacheco’s bail plea in the case relating to his 28-year-old alleged lover’s death, could not be heard on Friday as a Bombay High Court judge recused himself from the hearing. In his bail application before the Panaji bench of the high court, the former tourism minister says that it is a “witch hunt” against him because of his “frank and forthright” comments on scams in departments directly governed by the chief minister and the home minister. Pacheco, who is ‘on the run’ along with his key aide Lyndon Monteiro, has said that he would be subjected to “third degree” treatment if he was arrested by the police
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Judge recuses himself from Pacheco’s bail plea in Goa
Evil Mad Science Laboratories is having a clock contest ! Windell writes: There are probably thousands of cool ways to build clocks based around an LED matrix, and we’ve seen some neat analog and digital clocks based on our Peggy 2 kit. But we’ve also come up with a few dozen other cool ways to show the time, and realized that we’ve only scratched the surface. So today, we’re announcing a Clock Concept Contest: Show us your coolest idea about how to build a Peggy clock, and you could win one! How to enter First, come up with a cool idea.
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Peggy 2 clock concept contest from EMSL
June 18 (Bloomberg) — Walgreen Co. and CVS Caremark Corp., the largest U.S. drugstore chains, agreed to allow pharmacy- benefits customers to keep filling prescriptions at Walgreen’s locations, ending an 11-day dispute.
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CVS Caremark, Walgreen Reach Agreement on Drug Plans (Update2)
Just when you thought there was nothing else to know about the Apple iPhone 4 , along comes some more information! We’re talking about confirmation of the memory capacity of the new phone, something which Steve Jobs glossed over during his keynote speech at WWDC earlier this month. It’s not the first time either, as he completely forgot the same thing about the iPad and the 3GS too, however while customers don’t really need to know, developers do and that’s where the information has been found. The iPhone 4 will have a grand total of 512MB of RAM, which is double the amount powering the 3GS and the iPad. Why is this the case? Well, one can hazard a guess that iOS 4’s multi-tasking feature will need a fair bit to keep going, but since this is also coming to the iPad – which has 256MB – we would guess that the HD video and iMovie video editing will be eagerly tucking into the extra amount.
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Double the RAM of the iPad for the iPhone 4
If you’re an avid DAP reader you’ll already know about Twitter’s dominance in the mobile market. The company has experience a 347% rise in mobile tweets in the past year, and we can see why
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This ia a guest post by Justin Davies, founder of NinetyTen , a UK-based consultancy providing mobile community and location aware solutions to companies. Davies also founded the now defunct BuddyPing , an early mobile social networking community based on the realtime location of users
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Guest post: Location-Based Services – it’s game on!
Nokia has recently announced the release of its latest smartphone N8 hosting its improved Symbian 3 software. The phone will be available globally, including India, from September onward and is priced at 370 euros (Rs 21,019). While this announcement was much awaited, many analysts have met it with an admonition that it maybe a little too late
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Smartphone Wars: Nokia Stumbles
Oh dear. Emblaze, lover of capitalised names, may not be releasing their interesting First ELSE mobile phone after all. We first covered the ELSE late last year and loved their flashy website and equally flashy new operating system, then took another look in February this year when they made an appearance at Mobile World Congress. It was here they re-iterated their intention of bringing out the phone during Q2 and that talks were under way with networks, but since then, nothing. With Q3 2010 a couple of weeks away, Engadget has published some worrying news. A contact in the industry has said their conversations with operators didn’t bear fruit and that the OS is still not complete, making any kind of release unlikely at present. Also, a call made to their offices saw them transferred to a lawyer’s voicemail at the mention of First ELSE – not something that could be considered a good sign.
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First ELSE Could Turn Out to have Nothing ELSE
A very interesting survey has been recently completed by Indiabiz News & Research Services (INRS). The survey was conducted with the aim of tracking the emerging social media behavior in the youth. 350 respondents were questioned across the 4 Indian metropolitans Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore.
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30% Indians Access Social Media Via Mobiles: Social Media Survey
Ever uploaded a video on Youtube and realized you had made some mistakes and wanted to edit out a few things? Earlier you had to edit it using the basic features of software like Windows Movie Maker and re upload it. But fret no more! Youtube has introduced an online video editor which allows you to do just that and something more
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Now Edit Youtube Videos Online Via Online Editor
Facebook has added a new feature to its already existing and extremely popular website. It has extended its extremely popular, albeit somewhat controversial ‘ like ‘ feature to comments too. The ability to comment on news feed was introduced in 2008, with the like feature introduced a year later
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Facebook Rolls Out Like Comment Feature
Via Hizook comes this QuadDrive Roomba robot from the University of Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab (NimbRo@Home) . Check out the (German-language) video to see how the Roomabs move in unison via four servos connect to the base of the bot. And as Hizook points out, built on four Roombas, this is a bot that cleans as it goes! And the resulting humanoid doesn’t look anything like a creepy character from Clockwork Orange
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Humanoid with quad-Roomba drive
Add your image to the last shuttle missions – NASA Face in Space, via BoJ … NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow these steps: First…Select the Participate button at the bottom of this page and upload your image/name, which will be flown aboard the space shuttle.
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Add your image to the last shuttle missions – NASA Face in Space
Image via Wikipedia HDFC Asset Management Company’s Assistant Vice President–Equities Mr Nilesh Kapadia, has been banned by SEBI from buying, selling or dealing in securities, directly or indirectly, or being associated with any intermediary or any entity registered with SEBI . A SEBI order issued on Thursday also asked the AMC to not utilise the services of Mr Kapadia. The AMC has also been asked by SEBI to set up an investigation committee to examine the dealings by Mr Kapadia
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HDFC MF Asst. V.P banned by SEBI
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them. And, in the spirit of the times, we pay close attention to tools that you can get on the cheap, make yourself, or refurbish.
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Toolbox: Show us your screwdrivers
This video shows a clever modification to the Thingamagoop: a lightproof cardboard enclosure with a cardboard strip to control the amount of light reaching the photocell. You control the synthesizer’s pitch by moving the cardboard strip. Maker Pete Ashton posits: In theory a pianola-style score could be written on a long strip.
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Thingamagoop pianola concept
Kroger surprised the Street with better-than-expected profits Thursday, but investors will want to know more about how the company plans to manage continued pressure from Wal-Mart. Sales during the grocery chain’s first quarter rose 8.7% to $24.8 billion, from $22.8 billion.
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Kroger’s Strong Earnings Feed A Rally For Grocers
These “Kozo” handmade iron-pipe lamps from Israeli group Demo Design Clinic first appeared on my radar back in early 2009 when Boing Boing blogged about their original model, the kozo1 , pictured top left. They were a runaway success, and Kozo has since added many more models. They’ve got a clever trick for building the switch into a faucet handle to match the spot-on DIY aesthetics of the lamp itself
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Beautiful plumbing pipe lamps