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Dental researchers replace drill with “cold plasma” jets
There’s little less pleasant in life than a dentist drilling into your tooth. A grinding, whirring corkscrew rotating at the speed of several miles per minute bores into the sensitive exposed nubs of your skeleton… and for what? To remove bacteria feeding in your tooth. It’s not id...
 
Dante’s Inferno sneaks ASCII art into Digg.com source code
Electronic Arts’ Dante’s Inferno is a fun little God of War clone that doesn’t do anything new — short of cramming in a lot of gratuitously topless girls and equally gratuitou...
 
ThinkGeek starts selling heat-changing arcade mugs
ThinkGeek, home to some very cool geeky gadgets, has added a new range of mugs for those who like arcade games and hot drinks. Rather than having a set design on the side of your coffee mug these arc...
 
Barnes & Noble’s nook available before Valentine’s Day
Instead of flowers Barnes & Noble is hoping that loved ones will get a nook this year. The nook is Barnes & Noble’s e-reader which competes directly with Amazon’s Kindle. The popu...
 
Review: Synology DS210j network-attached storage device
The 2-disk NAS is just about the perfect tool for home storage. It’s affordable, small, doesn’t use much power, makes hardly any noise, has redundant storage, and (depending on the model y...
 
Google enters fashion, sells necklaces, T-shirts, and scarfs inspired by itself
If you’ve been dreaming about wearing Google-inspired T-shirts, scarfs, and necklaces, now you can -  the search firm has begun selling a limited edition fashion pieces influenced by its omnipre...
 
Firefox 3.6 will be the end of the line for Mac OS X Tiger users, Mozilla says
Nearly one quarter of Mozilla’s Mac OS X users could be left in the dark should the nonprofit developer stop supporting the aging Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It looks like Firefox 3.6 could be the end...
 
iPad interest dropping after announcement
Whatever excitement was generated when Apple announced its iPad is beginning to wear off according to surveys by the consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo. As part of the surveys the shopping sit...
 
Google airs first-ever Super Bowl commercial
Folks watching the Super Bowl yesterday may have spotted a Google advertisement, the search firm’s first-ever commercial to air during the Super Bowl. Aptly named “Parisian Love,” th...
 
Can’t connect your iPod to your Ford SYNC car? Reboot!
There’s is an old saying: if something is wrong with your Microsoft computer, simply reboot. A few days ago I came to learn that this advice applies to some vehicles as well. I recently purchas...
 
Illustration shows the State of the Internet for 2009
The Internet is a very large and busy place connecting people, organizations, and countries every day. With that kind of mass communication around the globe it is no wonder that the Internet makes our...
 
Dunkin’ Donuts Wants You to Create Its Next Donut (Mashable)
Last year Dunkin’ Donuts’ “ Create Dunkin’s Next Donut ” contest was a huge success, generating more than 130,000 donut submissions and 174,000 votes. In celebration of its 60th birthday, Dunkin’ Donu...
 
How to Choose the Right Category in Google’s Local Listings (Small Business SEM)
One of the most important things a small business can do with its listing in the Google Local Business Center is choose the right category(ies). In fact, “Associating LBL w/Proper Categories” scored v...
 
Flixster continues rapid growth with new $12.5M (VentureBeat)
A little over a month after it gobbled up primary competitor Rotten Tomatoes, Flixster, a social-networking site for movie enthusiasts, has landed $12.5 million in a new round of equity and common sto...
 
Gmail to Get Social News Feed: Report (GigaOM)
Google reportedly plans to add a stream of recent status messages and media from users' contacts to Gmail. It's a good idea, following Google's stated goal of combining social features across its prod...
 
Onion Ring More Popular Than Justin Bieber in Latest Facebook Meme (Mashable)
Forget doppelgangers and Urban Dictionary definitions , the newest Facebook meme is, undoubtedly, “Can this [Insert random thing] Get More Fans Than [Insert Famous Person]?” The latest victim? Pop sin...
 
Flixster Gets A Thumbs Up From Investors, Raises $12.5 Million (TechCrunch)
Movie ratings site Flixster raised $12.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing . The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008. The new round brings the com...
 
Google To Unveil Broad New Social Product Tomorrow (TechCrunch)
Google is planning to unveil a broad new social product on Tuesday that will integrate with at least two existing Google products. Some details emerged earlier today on the Wall Street Journal ("a new...
 
More Authors Signing Exclusive Kindle Deals (GigaOM)
A growing number of authors are signing exclusive e-book deals with Amazon for the Kindle, attracted in part by the higher royalty rates the electronic retailer is offering. In the latest deal, author...
 
Bandize: Manage Your Band Like a Business (Mashable)
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . Th...
 
Win A Mentoring Session With Founders Of Digg, Flickr, Mint, Ning, Slide Or Zynga (TechCrunch)
Are you a budding Web entrepreneur who would like some pointers or advice from seasoned company founders? MayField Fund and First Round Capital are sponsoring a raffle to give away mentoring sessions ...
 
Can You See Me Now?: Verizon Prevents Internet Access To 4chan, Trolls Pissed (Geekologie)
Verizon , in an act of big-brotherdom , has decided to prevent access to 4chan, the sparkling gem of the internet . I've got the feeling this isn't going to end well . Over the past 72 hours, we've be...
 
Google Knocks $200 Off Nexus One "Equipment Recovery Fee" [Google] (Gizmodo)
It will no longer cost you more to cancel a Nexus One contract than it does to buy a Nexus One. But Google's still going to impose a $150 "equipment recovery fee" on top of T-Mobile's $200 ETF. The ch...
 
Apple Surveying iPhone Developers’ Happiness With The App Store (TechCrunch)
Last year, there was no shortage of developers who were complaining about Apple's App Store. The situation got so heated that no less than Apple senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, P...
 
Free Music Monday: 10 Free Downloads for Your Collection (Mashable)
In this week’s Free Music Monday we offer you 10 free downloadable MP3s (or the occasional full album) for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven’t checked out Free Music Monday before, we’re ...
 
5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media (Mashable)
The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, an...
 
Winter Weather Storm Watch Gets Streamlined On New Accuweather Site (TechCrunch)
With the East Coast and Midwest awaiting a monster snowstorm, popular weather forecasting site Accuweather, is rolling out a timely relaunch of its site. The site, which provides up-to-date local info...
 
Barnes & Noble Nook on Shelves Wednesday (Mashable)
While the Nook — Barnes & Noble’s $259 e-reader and Kindle rival — has been available for purchase online since November, it has yet to be sold in the company’s brick-and-mortar stores. Come Wednesday...
 
Motorola Droid gets Android 2.1 and multitouch this week
Droid owners are in for a treat this week. Not only are their handsets being upgraded to Android 2.1, they will also be getting multitouch support. The announcement comes exactly a week after the Goo...
 
Berlin Group pranks Google ‘Street View’ vehicle with GPS tracker
No matter which side of the fence you are on in regards to the invasion of privacy issue with Google Maps “Street View”, you have to give some credit to a group who recently turned Google...
 
Google Nexus One “equipment recovery fee” cut to $150 from $350 (SlashGear)
Now you can cancel a Nexus One contract for less than the price of buying a Nexus One itself. However, Google’s still keeping its “equipment recovery fee intact, although in a less draconian form of $...
 
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Give Me Your Internet Marketing Services For Free!
By Kathleen Gage Recently I had the good fortune of having dinner with my sister who is visiting from California. Over sushi we talked about how grateful we each are for our businesses. Lorraine is a ...
 
Global warming goof of the day (Don Surber)
Science Daily: “ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2010) — Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS — CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian c...
 
Planet Google (The Big Picture)
Via Visual Economics, we learn Its Google’s planet — we just live on it: > http://www.visualeconomics.com/2010-02-03-planet-google-from-philosophies-to-market-shares/Source : The Big Picture (subscrib...
 
The Next Web’s Weekly Recap: Battle Over Mobile, Facebook Turns 6 and Twitter Attack (The Next Web)
Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap! This week saw a couple of big deals involving Monster and Yahoo as well as UStream. It also saw the battle over mobile heat up. Android’s platform is gaining fe...
 
Recap Of The Davos Tech Exec Interviews (TechCrunch)
Here's a recap of all of the interviews and other videos of technology executives who attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week:Source : TechCrunch (subscribe)Explore : Intern...
 
FlatFrog, Multi-Touch Display Startup, Raises $18m To Challenge Surface (TechCrunch)
Everyone with eyes in their head can see the bright future of multi-touch displays, but the huge variety of technologies out there makes it hard to place a bet. Will capacitive film rule? Or will it b...
 
Google workong on smartphone software to automatically translate foreign languages into your native
Check your calendar, friends, for the first time in a long time I was just wowed by a tech story. Google says it's working on smartphone software that would automatically translate foreign languages i...
 
Pepsi Has Already Won by Avoiding The Superbowl (GigaOM)
For the first time in 23 years, Pepsico isn't spending millions on a Superbowl ad, but instead is funding a series of social-media powered community renewal projects to the tune of $20 million, a camp...
 
The Best Google Commercial You're Never Going to See Air [VideUhOh] (Gawker)
Slow clap for Slate V, who put together the following theoretical Google "commercial" that's ostensibly—at the least—just a concept, and at best, a successful meme. Truth be told, though,...Source : G...
 
12% of Super Bowl Viewers Use Web During the Game (Mashable)
12% of those watching the Super Bowl last year also kept one eye on the web, according to analytics firm Nielsen. The average time spent online was 24 minutes. What’s most remarkable about the stats i...
 
Possible Google Superbowl Ad: Parisian Love ([Geeks are Sexy])
Even though Google’s true business as always been about advertising, the company mostly stayed away from the biggest ad medium of them all, television. However, it seems that the search giant will be ...
 
Ashton Kutcher Pays Homage To Twitter With Tooter (TechCrunch)
We all know that Ashton Kutcher is a fan of Twitter. Last year, Kutcher raced CNN to a million Twitter followers (Kutcher won ). Kutcher hosted Saturday Night Live yesterday night, and as a web exclus...
 
VeriFone Going After Square Hard. Ads In NYC Taxis Already. (TechCrunch)
When the mobile payment service Square launched in December, VeriFone rushed to get its own version on the market. A couple weeks ago, they accomplished that with the launch of PayWARE Mobile . Now th...
 
ESPN Spoils Super Bowl: Saints Win! (The Sporting Blog)
Our friends at SB Nation , BlackSportsOnline , and Pro Football Talk have been all over this story for a day or so, but it bears repeating: ESPN already knows who's winning the Super Bowl. And it's th...
 
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke, Beyond the Echo Chamber (Firedoglake)
Anyone interested in how progressives are using the Internet as a vehicle for political and social action should pick up Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke’s accessible, provocative book, Beyond the Ec...
 
Daily scoreboard: Super Bowl Sunday (Don Surber)
1. The Associated Press: “SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Costa Ricans appear likely to elect their first woman president Sunday as Central America’s most politically and economically stable country chooses be...
 
SAP's CEO Resigns: Delays in Launching Online Business Software Cited as One Reason for Downfall (Re
SAP's CEO Léo Apotheker resigned today. SAP will return to a co-CEO structure, replaced by Bill McDermott, head of field organisation, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development. The particul...
 
An Extremely Brief History of Superbowl Commercials vs. Random Football Facts! (Search Engine Watch
In abount an hour, you'll get a chance to vote for your favorite Super Bowl 2010 commercials at YouTube's AdBlitz Channel . But you can vote for the best pre-game YouTube videos now. Click to read the...
 
Analysis of an apology: Toyota, a Japanese thing? (Cnet)
Is the apology of Toyota's President Akio Toyoda really uniquely Japanese?Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : Information Technology, TelecommunicationRead Full Article ...
 
The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW
The People vs. George Lucas To Premiere At SXSW
skatepark builder writes "David Prowse, the 74-year-old actor who has enjoyed a long and varied career filled with roles such as Darth Vader (Star Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI), is starting 2010 off wi...
 
Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians
Paypal Reverses Payments Made To Indians
bhagwad writes "Beginning January 28, Paypal has been reversing the payments made to any Indian provider of services. In addition, Indian users have been unable to withdraw their money to their bank a...
 
Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking?
Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking?
theodp writes "While waiting to see if the iPad is a game-changer, this CS student continues to take class notes with pen and paper while her fellow students embrace netbooks and notebooks. Why? In ad...
 
White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos
White House Claims Copyright On Flickr Photos
Hugh Pickens writes "US government policy is that photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are not subject to copyright in the US. But Kathy Gill writes that after or...
 
Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta
Restructured Ruby on Rails 3.0 Hits Beta
Curlsman informs us that the first beta of Ruby on Rails 3.0 has been released ( release notes here). Rails founder David Heinemeier Hansson blogged that RoR 3.0 "feels lighter, more agile, and easier...
 
Turn waste office paper into toilet paper
Turn waste office paper into toilet paper
While many environmentalists hope that we can eventually have a paperless office, one company in Japan has developed a machine that shreds paper and then converts the waste into readily usable toilet ...
 
World record 1 megajoule laser shot hits target
World record 1 megajoule laser shot hits target
In their quest to be the first to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction using lasers scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have delivered more...
 
Has the human gekko's time finally come?
Has the human gekko's time finally come?
Researchers at Cornell University have created a palm-sized device that uses water tension as a switchable adhesive bond and can support many times its own weight. The device could usher in a whole ne...
 
Tilting 'bullet-proof’ 150mph 3-wheel EV … Urban Jet or urban myth?
Tilting 'bullet-proof’ 150mph 3-wheel EV … Urban Jet or urban myth?
The race to produce a narrow, tilting, hybrid motorcycle/car/EV continues with another boutique manufacturer throwing its hat into the ring. This time, its Cherban who has released plans of its concep...
 
Project Natal to ship in 2010
Project Natal to ship in 2010
Microsoft has announced that its controller-less accessory for the Xbox 360, dubbed Project Natal, will ship by the end of 2010. Unveiled in June 2009, Project Natal is the Redmond company’s att...
 
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