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 | Stories: Moblin v2.0 beta for Netbooks and Nettops - It's here... |
 The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0
beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release,
developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the
visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based
netbooks. The Moblin v2.0 user experience has been designed from the
ground up to provide unique ways to engage with the internet, aggregate
your social networking activity, and enjoy your media content. The new
user experience and core applications were developed using the Clutter
animation framework, leveraging heavily from GL and the physics engine.
Experience it for yourself. Download the Moblin v2.0 Netbook beta images and take it for a test drive. View the user experience video, take a look at the screen shots, or view the preliminary user guide. For a streamlined directory of where to get started with Moblin beta, check out the quick start guide.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, July 02 @ GMT Daylight Time (1 reads)
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| Stories: Mozilla Advances the Web with Firefox 3.5 |
Major update to browser delivers significant performance
improvements, privacy enhancements, support for new Web standards, and
greater customization options
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 30, 2009 – Mozilla, a public-benefit
organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the
Internet, today released Firefox® 3.5, a major update to its popular,
free and open source Web browser. Coming one year after the launch of
the critically acclaimed Firefox 3, Firefox 3.5 introduces cutting-edge
features, as well as new support for a wide variety of Web standards.
Firefox 3.5 is the best performing browser Mozilla has ever released
and delivers radically improved JavaScript performance, a new Private
Browsing mode, native support for open video and audio, and Location
Aware Browsing. The newest version of Firefox is more than two times
faster than Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 on complex
websites. With extensive under-the-hood work to support new
technologies, Firefox 3.5 is the most powerful and complete modern
browser and helps upgrade the Web experience.
Get it here...
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 30 @ GMT Daylight Time (2 reads)
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| Stories: Who Needs Clip Art? OffiSync 2.0 Integrates Google Image Search Into Microsoft O |
Last month we wrote about OffiSync ,
a powerful plugin that directly ties Microsoft Office to Google Docs,
allowing you to save your desktop files to the cloud automatically.
Since launch the plugin has fared quite well, with over 50,000
downloads. And today it’s releasing a new version that could prove
immensely useful for those of you that frequently use Office.
The biggest addition to the plugin is integrated text and image
search. While Office comes with a directory of clip art, it leaves
something to leave desired — I almost always find myself just going
straight to Google Image search. Now, using OffiSync, you can search
Google Images directly from within Office. The plugin supports advanced
searches, like sorting by color, size, and usage rights. Once you’ve
found an image you like, simply hit ‘Insert’ and the picture will
appear wherever your text cursor was. There’s also an integrated
browser: just navigate to the page you’d like to quote, highlight the
text, and hit Insert.
Of course, you could accomplish the same thing by opening up your
browser and copy/pasting an image or piece of text into your Office
document, but this streamlines things and should also automatically
deal with any formatting issues.
My biggest gripe with the plugin is the way it handles attribution. Or,
rather, the way it doesn’t. When you choose to import and image or
piece of text, a popup appears reminding you that the content may be
subject to copyright. But there’s currently no way to automatically
generate a bibliography or footnote for the content, which means you’ll
have to do it manually. It’s not a deal-breaker by any means
(plagiarists would just disable the feature anyway), but having to
manually keep track of that information can certainly become a hassle.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 30 @ GMT Daylight Time (2 reads)
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| Stories: Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now |
URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly
has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as “Bit.ly
Now” internally, which will define the next stage of the company’s
growth. The company confirmed these plans to us today. The services
will include both a destination website as well as a distributed
service via expansions to the Bit.ly API.
The core Bit.ly service, which lets users shorten web URLs into
something suitable for Twitter and other services with limits on
characters per post, has continued to grow quickly. 7 million URLs are
shortened via the service each day, the company says, and 2-3 million
of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs
are clicked on 150 million times per week across a wide range of
services - Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging, email, etc. Twitter
itself now uses Bit.ly for URl shortening, and the service has quickly taken the lead in their market.
The magic behind Bit.ly are the stats that the service makes available on the underlying domains being clicked. Investor John Borthwick explained it all to investors in an email we obtained earlier this month:
bit.ly has been on a tear since we launched it last
summer — let me sketch out what it is, why its useful and offer some
data points on progress. bit.ly is on its surface a link or URL
shortener, helping people take long and unwieldy links and make them
short and easy to share via email, Twitter, Facebook etc. But once you
shorten a link with bit.ly the fun begins. You can put a simple “+” on
the end of any bit.ly link and see, real time, the pace at which that
link is getting shared and clicked on as it moves around these social
distribution networks.
Bit.ly Now will take all of this deep (and wide) data on popular
real time URLs and turn it into a service. That’s where the inevitable
clash with Digg comes in.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 30 @ GMT Daylight Time (6 reads)
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| Stories: Ricoh Launches Visual Online Storage Service quanp |
If you’re like me, you always try to avoid storing or backing up files,
even those that are important to you. It’s too boring, time-consuming
and cumbersome to remember doing it regularly.
This is where a new service called quanp
(short for “quantum paper” and pronounced “kwan-puh”), launched today
in beta, comes in. Developed by Japanese technology giant Ricoh, quanp wants to become your online center for collecting and organizing all of your personal “digital life memories”.
Dropbox
and many other services basically do the same, but the idea behind
quanp is to turn storing and sharing pictures, music, videos, PDFs etc.
online into a more enjoyable experience by making it more “visual”. The
service is currently free and as Ricoh says, mainly aimed at US
residents for the time being (in Japan,
quanp is available in free and paid versions since March). The US
version is being managed by a Ricoh office based out of Cupertino in
California.
The structure of the quanp site is a tad confusing, but you basically get a suite of three tools:
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, June 30 @ GMT Daylight Time (3 reads)
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| Stories: Comcast Rolling Out WiMax Service |
The cable company will be reselling Clearwire's 4G service starting this week in Portland, Ore.
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) is rolling out its nationwide WiMax service, and Portland, Ore., will be the first city to get access to the cable company's 4G service Tuesday.
The company is dubbing its service High-Speed
2go, and it will be reselling WiMax from Clearwire's 4G network.
Comcast is offering the service as a wireless
data card for laptops or computers, and the "Metro" service will be a
4G-only device. The company's "Nationwide" service will be a dual-mode
data stick that can switch between WiMax andSprint (NYSE: S)'s EV-DO 3G network.
"Innovation through mobility is one of many
advances Comcast is providing consumers in the area of entertainment,
information, and communications," said Cathy Avgiris, senior VP for
Comcast's wireless services, in a statement. "In today's world,
consumers don't want to be disconnected for even a minute and now
Comcast provides wired and wireless access -- a combination consumers
won't want to live without."
The move gives Comcast the ability to offer a
"quadruple play" with home Internet, mobile broadband, television
service, and home voice calling. This is becoming increasingly
important for cable providers as companies like AT&T and Verizon
encroach on their turf with IPTV services like U-Verse and FiOS.
Portland will be the first market to get Comcast's WiMax service, but
it is expected to be offered in cities like Atlanta, Chicago,
Philadelphia, and other major markets by the end of the year.
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Posted by admin on Monday, June 29 @ GMT Daylight Time (5 reads)
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| Stories: SharesPost Report: Facebook Worth $4-6 Billion. So Much For That $10B Valuation |
They may be mysterious and perhaps even a bit shady, but secondary
equity markets, which allow employees to sell off their shares to other
buyers, are quickly heating up. Because of the rarity of IPOs and
acquisitions in the startup world these days, early employees and
founders are becoming increasingly anxious to convert some of their
shares into cash (one need look no further than reports of employees selling Facebook stock at relatively low prices for proof).
Unfortunately, because these markets are trading shares of private
companies, buyers and sellers are often left in the dark as to the
worth of their stock. SharesPost,
a private equity market that’s currently operating in public beta, is
looking to help: the site has launched a publication platform for
analyst reports meant to complement its equity market. And it’s
offering a free two month membership to TechCrunch readers, which you
can sign up for here.
As a teaser for what’s available on the platform, the site has shared
two valuation reports on some of the world’s biggest social networks:
Facebook and LinkedIn. You’ll want to check out the full reports here and here to read the full analysis and methodology (you may have to register).
Facebook
The report concludes that Facebook has an approximate valuation of
between $3.1 billion and $6 billion, using three different methods of
analysis. This is in line with the recent price we’ve been hearing on the secondary market, which pegged the valuation at around $3 billion. But it’s well short of the $10 billion valuation Facebook earned with its most recent funding round.
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Posted by admin on Monday, June 29 @ GMT Daylight Time (4 reads)
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| Stories: Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites |
Last week, Michael Jackson’s death caused sites to fail left and right. Today, it’s a very different problem. The hosting service Rackspace has been completely down for the past 30 minutes or so. Don’t believe us, just listen to Justin Timberlake or Michelle Malkin, both of which have sites on the service and took to Twitter to complain.
Apparently, it’s an entire network outage and so the usually very
responsive Rackspace team cannot even respond to emails or tweet
(though I’m sure we’ll be seeing some updates from smartphones
shortly). Along with sites like Timberlake’s and Malkin’s, the popular
event site, EventBrite, is apparently down as well.
Update: Here’s the status from Rackspace via Twitter: “We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center. No details yet. Will update as we get more information.”
Update 2: It looks like a lot of the sites on Rackspace are finally coming back up — including Rackspace’s own site. Downtime looks to have been about an hour. And here’s the all-clear from Rackspace itself: “All power is restored to the DFW data center - all devices affected are starting to come on-line. Details to follow.”
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Posted by admin on Monday, June 29 @ GMT Daylight Time (4 reads)
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| Stories: iPhone 3GS Is Jailbreakable. Does it Matter? |
The hack masters at the iPhone Dev Team earlier today announced the iPhone 3GS
is officially jailbreakable. The news comes less than a week after
Apple released the latest iteration of its wonder gadget featuring new
toys like video capability and a digital compass. The Dev Team said
that while the iPhone 3GS jailbreak poses some extra technical
difficulties, the new phone is susceptible to the same jailbreak and unlock techniques used on earlier iPhone models.
Has Apple Addressed the Issues?
But does jailbreaking the iPhone matter
anymore? PC World's David Murphy last month wondered just that, and
pointed out that the iPhone 3GS's expanded feature list -- including
tethering, video capture, and copy-and-paste -- eliminates a lot of
good reasons to jailbreak your iPhone. Of course, there's one big,
unsolvable problem that Apple hasn't dealt with yet: Overwhelming customer dissatisfaction with AT&T,
the iPhone's exclusive U.S. carrier. But is switching carriers a good
enough reason to risk your device warranty with a software jailbreak?
It just might be.
Jailbreak Interest
Over the last 30 days, the top ten iPhone-related Google searches in the U.S. do not include any references to jailbreaking. However, the United States is one of the top ten countries in the world searching for the keywords "iPhone" and "jailbreak."
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Posted by admin on Friday, June 26 @ GMT Daylight Time (8 reads)
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| Stories: Google Voice takes a step toward launch |
Google hasn't yet launched Google Voice publicly, but it did take a
step in that direction on Thursday by starting to extend invitations to
those who signed up on a waiting list for the Net-augmented telephone service.
Google Voice, based on technology from a start-up called GrandCentral that Google acquired in 2007, offers users a new phone number that can simplify reaching that user
When a person calls the Google Voice number, the user's home, work, and
mobile phones all can ring simultaneously. The user can set up the
service so specific phones ring for different callers or groups of
callers, or so some callers go straight to voice mail. Google
transcribes voice mails after they're left, too, e-mailing it to the
Google Voice user or letting them read and listen to the message
through a Gmail-like interface.
"We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond
former GrandCentral users. If you requested an invitation on the Google
Voice site or previously on GrandCentral, keep your eye out for an
invite e-mail," Google said in a blog post.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, June 25 @ GMT Daylight Time (9 reads)
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