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With Foursquare, life is a virtual game

by admin on June 6, 2010   |   No Comments

With Foursquare, life is a virtual game

New York (CNN) — Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, spray-painted on the sidewalk.
It looked like something out of Nintendo’s “Super Mario Bros.,” which Crowley grew up playing. He stomped on the mushroom as he ran by and [...]

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Google reveals new service for ‘multi-million channel’ TV

by admin on May 21, 2010   |   No Comments

Google reveals new service for ‘multi-million channel’ TV

(CNN) — Saying it will “change the future of television,” Google on Thursday rolled out Google TV — the internet giant’s venture into web-TV integration.
The application, run by Google’s Android operating system, lets users search for content from their television, DVR and the web.
“Here we are folks — [...]

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HP developing a ‘Dick Tracy’ wristwatch

by admin on May 21, 2010   |   No Comments

HP developing a ‘Dick Tracy’ wristwatch

Palo Alto, California (CNN) — Hewlett-Packard says it’s developing a next-generation wristwatch for the U.S. military.
The printing and computer company says the watch will have a flexible display that shows maps and other strategic information to soldiers in remote combat fields. The watch’s screen will be made of plastic and [...]

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Togetherville: A social network for kids

by admin on May 21, 2010   |   No Comments

Togetherville: new social network for children

(Wired) — One of the challenges for the newest generation is how to gain fluency in online networking without being able to draw on large, diverse social networks of their own. On Tuesday, Togetherville announced the open beta launch of a new online community for kids and their caretakers. The [...]

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Google offers free fonts for the Web

by admin on May 21, 2010   |   No Comments

Google’s new tool free fonts for web

CNET) — In an attempt to move beyond drab typography on the Web, Google on Wednesday released 18 freely usable fonts and an open-source tool designed to smooth over browser issues in displaying downloaded fonts.
A number of Web designers — if not all readers — are excited that newer [...]

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Google: A new consumer electronics power broker

by admin on May 21, 2010   |   1 Comment

Google: the new consumer electronics and power broker, Google TV
 
Six tech industry CEOs don’t often appear in the same place at the same time. Google, the dominant search company of our time, has clout in consumer electronics as well. 
(Credit: James Martin/CNET)
 
SAN FRANCISCO–Could the long-awaited marriage of the television and the Web be blessed by a [...]

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Google giving up on Nexus One’s online store

by admin on May 15, 2010   |   No Comments

Google to abandon Nexus one store on the Internet

Google rolled out the Nexus One with fanfare in January, but sales at Web-only store never took off.
 

(CNN) — Google’s Nexus One smartphone will start being sold in brick-and-mortar stores, said the company Friday in acknowledging that its experiment with Web-only sales has been a failure.
“[A]s [...]

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BP tussles with latest bid to contain oil spill

by admin on May 15, 2010   |   No Comments

BP tussles with latest bid to contain oil spill
 
  
 
Pressing ahead after another setback, British energy giant BP said it hoped to complete its latest effort to contain the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill late on Saturday, while the company’s chief executive appeared to dismiss the disaster as “tiny.” 
The accident at the offshore oil rig [...]

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Will electric cars spread like cell phones or washing machines?

by admin on May 15, 2010   |   No Comments

The proliferation of electric cars such as the spread of mobile phones or washing machines?
Electric vehicles designed for everyday driving are coming out in a matter of months. But the industry continues to play a giant guessing game over how consumers will take to them.
Deloitte Consulting on Thursday released results of a consumer survey on [...]

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Adobe fights Apple with pro-Flash ad campaign

by admin on May 15, 2010   |   No Comments

Adobe fights Apple with pro-Flash ad campaign

Adobe’s new campaign includes this ad. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Adobe Systems)
Adobe Systems may not have a chief executive with Steve Jobs’ high profile, but it does have money. And on Thursday it began spending some of it on an effort to rebut the Apple CEO’s criticisms of Adobe’s Flash [...]

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