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Friday, September 3, 2010

Technology

Songbird 1.8 update brings broader device support, OS X syncing

Less than a minute ago - Download Squad
Filed under: Audio The Songbird team has released a significant update to their feature

Facebook Will Let You Kick Yourself Off Other Signed-In Devices [Facebook]

Less than a minute ago - Gizmodo
Similar to when AIM notifies you that you're still logged in on another computer, Facebook will go...

Epic Citadel shows the bright promise of iOS gaming's future

2 minutes ago - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Epic Games, creator of the Unreal 3 game engine, has been working on getting Unreal Engine 3 running in iOS for a while now. They showed off some o...

New Jersey transit looks to add WiFi to its rail lines and stations, New Yorkers to pretend they didn't hear that

3 minutes ago - Engadget
A New Jersey Transit spokesperson has announced that its seeking a company to install WiFi on its rail lines and at its train stations. The installat...

How to Hack Nike+ for Automatic Foursquare Check-ins

3 minutes ago - Read Write Web
Have you ever wanted to walk into a building and be automatically checked into Foursquare, without any action on your part? That's the promise of an i...

Ping under fire from spammers, says security firm

3 minutes ago - MacNN
Despite being active for just a few days, Apple's Ping social network is already being invaded by spammers, says a Sophos security analyst. Some prof...

While lazy Adobe dithers and whines, others embrace Apple’s revolutionary iPad (with video)

7 minutes ago - MacDailyNews
While lazy Adobe dithers, whines, and falls farther behind, other companies embrace Apple's revolutionary iPad

Ping: A Social Network Inside a Walled Garden

8 minutes ago - TheAppleBlog
Whether by design or accident, Ping's lack of integration with other social networks, or even with the web itself, is now its most compelling feature...

Puppy-Throwing Girl Caught in Bosnia [Update]

14 minutes ago - Valleywag
Bosnian police say they've identified the teen filmed throwing puppies in a river. (She now faces a...

Viral Video: It's Co-nan! [BoomTown]

15 minutes ago - All Things Digital
Earlier this year, the travails of late

Apple Reportedly Looking to Push Monthly iPad Production to 3 Million

16 minutes ago - Mac Rumors
According to a new research note from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, Apple's manufacturing partners are now pushing out two million iPads per mo...

Here's Twitter's Big Problem: It's Not Going Mainstream

17 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
The last few months have begun to confirm a conviction we've long held about Twitter

Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users

17 minutes ago - Mashable!
Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million re...

Twitter mobile users up over 60 percent since April

20 minutes ago - Macworld
Twitter's mobile use is up more than 60 percent since the release of several official mobile applications

How to Succeed Like Apple

22 minutes ago - Cult of Mac
Why does Apple dominate all aspects of the digital music market — hardware, software and content deals? For example, more than two

No Nudity in Apple Apps? Try Apple II Strip Poker Game

22 minutes ago - Cult of Mac
Steve Jobs’ quest for porn

Report: iOS ‘Totally Dominates the Web’ and Android

22 minutes ago - Cult of Mac
Apple’s mobile platform, iOS, is the third most

Elephants Are Terrified By Ants [Science]

28 minutes ago - Gizmodo
The legend is that a mouse can freak out elephants, but the truth is that their worst enemy is much...

R2-D2 Droid 2 Comes With Themed Dock [Android]

28 minutes ago - Gizmodo
A collection of new images of the R2

Apple's iOS tops Linux to become third largest browsing platform

30 minutes ago - Apple Insider
Apple's iOS mobile operating system rocketed past the open source Linux this summer to become the third most popular Web browsing platform on the Inte...

Ping, Apple's music social network, already plagued with spammers

30 minutes ago - Apple Insider
Spammers have wasted no time in flocking to Apple's new music

Apple now building 2M iPads per month to meet demand

30 minutes ago - Apple Insider
Apple has doubled its monthly output capacity of the iPad and is now manufacturing 2 million per month to meet strong consumer demand, but the company...

Steve Jobs Isn't On Ping... But These Apple Execs Are (AAPL)

31 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
Here's a weird hitch in Apple's music based social network, Ping: Steve Jobs isn't available to follow. Steve Jobs was initially a Ping user, but then...

Shazam Launches Major Updates To iPhone app, Now On 20m Users

31 minutes ago - TechCrunch
Music identification app Shazam has announced big feature updates to its iPhone and iPod touch music discovery apps. There are now customised settin...

comScore: Time Spent Watching Live Web Video Up 650 Percent

31 minutes ago - TechCrunch
comScore has just released some telling stats about the massive growth of live streaming video over the web. According to the analytics company, over...

Apps: Money, SMARTReporter, JABMenu

31 minutes ago - MacNN
Apple

Qi wireless power gets BlackBerry/iPhone add-ons, more power

31 minutes ago - MacNN
The Wireless Power Consortium said that its Qi format was ready to be built into hardware. Following earlier approval, Energizer is developing a wire...

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Evil Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy

44 minutes ago - Wired
A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt driving an ice cream truck is being displayed on a Times Square jumbotron and on YouTube. The video was...

iHome teases first AirPlay-compatible portable speaker dock

44 minutes ago - Engadget
No surprise that iHome is first out of the gate with a speaker dock that's compatible with Apple's newly

Soon To Be Viral Video Of "Obnoxious" Dude And Old Guy Brawling At The US Open

45 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
Boy do we love John Koblin's annual US Open blog: During the second

The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, July 2010

45 minutes ago - Mashable!
Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top 10 most popular web video series, and we share those results with you and provide...

Former UK PM Joins Web Foundation – But He Really Should Join Twitter

45 minutes ago - TechCrunch
Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year's election, is forming the Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, and has accepted three pro

Android’s Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Dropping

45 minutes ago - TechCrunch
Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it’s preparing t...

Shazam 3.0 gets more content, iOS 4 support

48 minutes ago - Macworld
A major upgrade to this music discovery app brings more media, like artist biographies and videos from YouTube, as well as support for multitasking an...

Steve Jobs, Apple will be honored at the Vision Awards in Beverly Hills

48 minutes ago - 9 To 5 Mac
This morning we discovered in a local Beverly Hills Newspaper (The Courier) that Apple and Steve Jobs will be honored at the Visions Awards in Beverl...

Apple.com posts online preview of iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

49 minutes ago - MacDailyNews
Apple has posed an online preview of iOS 4.2 for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

Studio holdouts fear Apple’s 99-cent TV show rentals

49 minutes ago - MacDailyNews
Don't look for rival studios to join Disney and News Corp. for Apple's announced 99

Kill for an iPod? Here’s What the Judge May Give You

49 minutes ago - Cult of Mac
In the latest in a long string of murders over iPods, a 16

Painting a Building With Your Smartphone [Interactivity]

56 minutes ago - Gizmodo
If you happen to find yourself at the ARS Electronica Center in Linz, Austria thinking, "that faca...

Dushare Is a Peer-to-Peer One Click File Sharing Solution [File Sharing]

58 minutes ago - Lifehacker
You want to transfer a file to a friend but IM transfer has failed, it's too big for email, or some...

Apple awarded new patents

58 minutes ago - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
This past week, Apple had a host of new patents officially approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. From streamlining the way images are render...

Stealth's rugged USB keyboard is extremely tough, extremely pricey

58 minutes ago - Engadget
There are no hard and fast rules in the gadget game, but there is one bit of wisdom we generally stand by: everything benefits by being ruggedized. S...

iPad Owners Are So Desperate For A Facebook App That They're Paying For Bootlegs (AAPL)

58 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
A bootleg Facebook iPad app is selling so many copies right now

Back From The Dead! Google Keeping Wave Around As "Wave In A Box" (GOOG)

58 minutes ago - Silicon Alley Insider
Earlier this month, Google surprised no one when it announced that development of Wave

Plex Inks A Deal With LG, Could Be The Start Of Something Huge For Both Companies

58 minutes ago - TechCrunch
Plex is about to get big. The offshoot of the XBMC project just announced that LG will be using its media platform in upcoming Netcast HDTVs and Blu

Mashable Giveaway: Win A SANYO Dual HD Camera

58 minutes ago - Mashable!
We’ve partnered with SANYO to give away 20 newly released SANYO Dual HD PD2 cameras. From today until next Friday, we’ll be giving two rea...

AKG teams with Quincy Jones for Harman headphones

59 minutes ago - MacNN
Harmon has partnered with music legend Quincy Jones for the new Quincy Jones Signature Line. Three headsets will be produced under the AKG brand. The...

 

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