Tailrank: Top News for Today in Technology
Tailrank: Top News for Today in Technology
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Creepy bobblehead iPhone dock may fire you in an elevator
If you have an infatuation with Steve Jobs and an iPhone, have we the hand-rafted product for you! Read More...
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The Semantic Desktop? SDS Brings Semantics To Excel
When you hear the word "semantic" you likely think of the semantic web - the supposed next iteration of the World Wide Web that features structured data and specific protocols that aim to bring about an "intelligent" web. ...
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Lehman's Online U.S. Advertising Forecast: Another $20 Billion In Growth By 2012 And Online Video T...
I was (digitally) leafing through the latest Lehman Brothers Internet Data Book for August this morning, and came across these forecasts for total U.S. Internet online ad spending and online video ad spending. ...
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Blinkx Re-Launches Destination Site for Full-Length Television Shows
Blinkx, the video search engine based on speech-to-text technology, offers both a white label solution for video publishers as well as a consumer destination. The destination has grown in popularity from under 500,000 to more than 3. ...
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What's wrong with this picture of PS3 promotional bliss
What's wrong with this picture of PS3 promotional bliss? This is great it's like Sony admitting their system is really no better than the 360--just a bigger hole in your wallet (ok so it has blu-ray big deal. Mind you, the Wii and Xbox 360 are doing very well around here.
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COLOSSAL MP3 Player stays true to its name
It's quite likely that the COLOSSAL MP3 Player has somehow managed to stay largely hidden from view for some time now, but it is apparently popping up in a number of locations and begging to be purchased as the ultimate tech gag gift. Apparently, these things come in a number of hues, check in at ab ...
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Yahoo board sets eyes on Chapple and Biondi
The Internet company had agreed to select two candidates from a pool that included Icahn's former slate of dissident directors. Icahn was also appointed to Yahoo's board as part of the proxy battle-ending agreement. Although Yahoo will be drawing its new directors from Icahn's former proxy slate, it ...
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Identi.ca and the Power of Microbranded Communities
Today I began imagining how others could begin utilizing this technology - essentially it is a technology built to allow other similar systems built on the same technology to talk with each other. He's developing a standard, along with software that adopts that standard so that you, too can build so ...
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Old marketing with new tools
Remember hand-written thank you notes? Then they became xeroxed form letters. And then mail-merged form letters. And then Amazon order confirmations by email. We tend to use new tools to do less. ...
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IBM and the Twittersphere
This was one of those comments you start to write on someone else's blog entry, which morphed into a post all of its own. As an IBMer who Twitters, I'm pretty astonished that the company hit this list of "brands that suck on Twitter" in common with Adam, Ed and Ryan's comments on the post (whi ...
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Elephantine BlackBerry Bold promo kit arrives for Rogers
Filed under: Cellphones We understand the need to catch eyes these days, and while Rogers will certainly not be the first nor last to promote a new piece of kit with an obscenely large version of said kit , this one just takes brobdingnagian marketing to a new plateau. ...
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Serena and Venus Williams advance in Olympic tennis
Venus Williams, left, defeated Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 6-3, 6-2. The Williams sisters win their matches, and Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal also advance. "When I lost the first set," Serena said, "I just focused on a third set, on getting there.
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Venture firm EDF moves to silence entrepreneur at TheFunded
TheFunded , a site that lets entrepreneurs rate venture capitalists, continues to stir things up. EDF Ventures , a mid-sized venture capital fund in Ann Arbor, Michigan which has been reviewed negatively by several people at the site, has subpoenaed some records from TheFunded in a court actio ...
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Critical Vulnerability Discovered in uTorrent
A vulnerability described as 'critical' has been discovered in versions of uTorrent and the official BitTorrent client. The 'buffer overflow' vulnerability can be exploited to compromise a user's computer for the execution of arbitrary code. ...
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Making a Solar Cell Component without Using Fossil Fuels
Making a Solar Cell Component without Using Fossil Fuels
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Don't shut down that virtual machine
5 Update 2, in enterprise configurations have found that it will not power on after being turned off. The hypervisor refuses to start when the date is August 12, with customers around the world discovering the problem as midnight was passed in their time zones. Keep virtual machines going until we r ...
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Two Bugs in Braid
There are (at least) two bugs in the current version of Braid available on Xbox Live; I am talking to Microsoft about how to fix them. The first bug is that, if you play the game on a different console than the one you bought it on, the game may get confused and think it is the free demo instead of ...
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Space Siege Interview
August 12, 2008 - By 2047, the deterioration of Earth's atmosphere had become so severe that its leading governments focused their scientific efforts on finding ways to live elsewhere. However, it didn't get away completely; an attached enemy boarding pod put its fate in dire peril. He is trained ...
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Does Good Tech Need PR?
Behind the scenes of many tech blogs these days, there's a rat race for attention, with PR agents struggling to overcome the noise of feeds, news sites and other agents in order to get coverage for their clients. ...
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