Nokia unveils Nokia N97 qwerty phone, written 2 days ago, Just announced today, the Nokia N97 series phone comes with a full touch screen display and a qwerty keyboard that slides under the panel. It’s obviously a direct competitor to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. It’s got a pretty impressive se...

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Microsoft hires former top Yahoo search exec to head online services, written 2 hours ago, Microsoft today confirmed that Qi Lu, a former search and advertising executive at Yahoo, will join Microsoft as president of the online services group. Lu left Yahoo in August 2008 -- one of several Yahoo ex...

Live Mesh: Service Update (December 4, 2008), written 7 hours ago, Live Mesh will be updated today affecting the Live Desktop, Live Mesh for Mac and Live Mesh for Mobile. An update for the Windows software will follow next week. The update exists of server-side performance and reliability enhance...

Marchex Lays Off 10%, written 4 hours ago, Marchex latest domain company to announce layoffs. Domain name and local advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) has laid off 10% of its workforce, reports The Pugent Sound Business Journal. About 35 people are losing their jobs, although some of those...

A Backup SMTP Port?, written 6 hours ago, This morning my outgoing mail abruptly refused to go out. Any of it. My housemate’s mail, too. Now, given that I have at least 8 separate e-mail accounts (I own four domains and co-own a fifth, as well as having e-mail through the Ur-Guru’s servers an...

Amazon.co.uk offers DRM-free MP3s, written 16 hours ago, Finally! The DRM-free revolution has crossed the Atlantic, and Amazon's UK site will now offer files without pesky technological protection measures in their brand new MP3 store. iTunes began the revolution with the inception of the iTunes Pl...

Aluratek's USB Internet Radio Jukebox, written 2 weeks ago, Eastern Region Public Media's Executive Director, Georgette Bronfman, was (if you'll excuse the expression) flashing around Aluratek's tiny "internet radio" in a thumb drive at the NPR board meeting last week.  I had to get one, ...

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AT&T Plans to Cut 12,000 Jobs, written 16 hours ago, AT&T said Thursday that it was cutting 12,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force, because of the economic downturn. The company said the job cuts would take place in December and throughout 2009.

Heartland, a walk into the art scene of the U.S ?Third Coast?, written 1 month ago, As i mentioned a couple of days ago, the Heartland exhibition on view until January 25 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) is one of the best shows i've visited this year. Heartland roughly follows the Mi...

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SHIFT: Movie studios are protecting themselves to death, written 8 hours ago, Times are tough. With financial resources dwindling by the minute, the movie-viewing public recoils in horror as Hollywood asks them to pay $39.99 for a film on Blu-ray disc. But there are ways to watch those flicks that a...

Because They Have Tabasco in Them, written 14 hours ago, Kids and animals: a sure-fire way straight to the heart of anyone lucky enough to have one (a heart, that is). Fabulous NTEN member David Neff just alerted me to the winners of their second annual Great American Smokeout Video Contest.Â...

Life Takers (DEATH) Gives Higher Priority To GOOd 1s.. Why SO?????, written 3 weeks ago, People are of different kinds. Some are bad , some are good and some are different. But its always the good people who face many problems , suffer and die before they pass halfway through life than the bad ones ...

About the Lack of Updates…, written 1 week ago, My laptop unexpectedly took a huge, stinky dump not long after my desktop bit the dust. There won’t be any more updates until I can afford to fix my ish, or unless someone is willing to help out in a non-half-assed way. Sorry. Thanks to everyone wh...

Device Driver Backup, written 7 hours ago, Driver Backup 2 (via Download Squad) is a portable open source software that can be used to backup and restore the drivers of a computer system. The backup software automatically scans the computer system after start and displays the discovered devices and ...

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Amazon Does It Right, written 1 week ago, Amazon is one of the few web sites that really has their act together. In the Fall of 1995, I made a presentation to a group of CEOs about the Internet. I showed them various web sites that I was fascinated with at the time, mostly related to engineering, sc...

SnorePro Promises to Stop Snoring, written 6 hours ago, We'll level with you: the Snore Pro sets off a few snake oil alarms -- it does, after all, claim to fix a problem that has been seemingly incurable from time immemorial. The device (which is not exactly cool looking) apparently has a two-pronge...