Aug
31
AT&T now offering Motorola RAZR 2 V9
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Filed under: Cellphones
What a refreshing change of pace! AT&T actually beat its estimate of “early September” for its variant of the Motorola RAZR 2, the V9 — albeit in a rather bizarre shade, “mahogany” (where we come from, that’s called purple, but whatevs). Though it’s not showing up on AT&T’s online store just yet, it’s [...]
Aug
31
New Search Marketing Standard Issue Out: International Search Markets
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The new Search Marketing Standard Magazine issue is out for fall 07. It’s main topic: International search markets, UK, Italy, Germany, Russia and China and guess who wrote the article about Germany?
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Aug
31
Sony Rolly: slowed down and blowed up
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Filed under: Portable Audio
Ok inspectors Engadget, here’s Sony’s Rolly back for an encore. We went frame-by-frame through our higher quality copy of the video to try and understand our little friend just a wee bit better. From what we can tell, this thing really moves. At first we thought maybe, just maybe we were looking [...]
Aug
31
Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week
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This news has been simmering for a while. When Ross Levinsohn resigned as the President of Fox Interactive Media late last year it was rumored that he intended to raise a large fund to acquire Internet startups. He soon partnered with Jonathan Miller, the former Chairman and CEO of America Online and the two have [...]
Aug
31
Wikipedia attracted a lot of attention earlier this week when Nikola Smolenski calculated how much paper it would take to print out the English entries in Wikipedia. Smolenski calculated that as of last September, Wikipedia’s English index of informative/controversial articles would fill about 750 400 page volumes. Under the assumption of a 6MB volume, the [...]
Aug
31
Filed under: GPS
Panasonic expanded its Strada line of GPS navigation/entertainment units at IFA this week, rolling out its new CN-GP50N aimed squarely at the European market. Filling out the face of this unit is a 5-inch QVGA touchscreen, which should give you a decent view of the 37 pre-loaded maps of European countries, as well [...]
Aug
31
A few weeks ago, we wrote about American Airlines was suing Google for trademark infringement due to keyword ads on Google using the phrase “American Airlines” that pointed visitors to competing airline sites or sites that sold American Airlines tickets alongside those of competitors. The history of similar cases suggests that American Airlines [...]
Aug
31
Gadgets.BoingBoing.net: here’s a roundup of recent goodies
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In the Year 2000: Gargantuan, Trans-Oceanic Ground Effect Wingship
Kokoro Scan: Finally, a Game That Will Cause Actual Real Life Violence
Fashion & Technology Student Projects from Malmö U
Marines Using Biometric Scanning to Cordon Fallujah
GM Dashboard and Key Fob Concepts
FUTR WRLD: Tomorrow’s Retro-Future Today
Ashley Wood’s “Bertie” Robot Sculpture
“Stunning Ring” Conceals Pepper Spray
Philips Power2Go: Wall Warts with Batteries
Ultimate [...]
Aug
31
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Search in Pictures: Search Engine Fun, Yahoo Giant & The Google Dance In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine [...]
Aug
31
The United Nations today sent about 10,000 text messages to help inform Iraqi refugees in Syria, via their cellphones, that an international food distribution for them will start tomorrow. Snip from Bloomberg item:
The UN Refugee Agency and the World Food Program will initially distribute enough rations to [...]
Aug
31
Scott Beale says,
Many people are very upset about Tuesday?s premature burning of Burning Man, but others consider it to be the ultimate Burning Man prank. For years the joke on the Playa was to set the man on fire early and in the mid 90?s Bigrig Industries [...]
Aug
31
Filed under: Gaming
El rei de la casa, meaning “the king of the house” in Spanish, is a video game exhibition being shown in Barcelona, Spain. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the internet and all its evils(C), and what better way to dispel these daily falsehoods than by [...]
Aug
31
We are hosting a party next week on Thursday, September 6 to support the Seedcamp event in central London and to announce some TechCrunch UK news.
Most of the spots are reserved for Seedcamp attendees, but we are opening up 100 tickets to the public as well. To discourage no shows, we are charging a ?10 [...]
Aug
31
Like some sort of GPS-delivering Santa, Magellan has announced the upcoming release of seven new GPS units—all set to be available between September and October. In the 4200 series, the Maestro…
Yuri Baranovsky
Aug
31
A shot of the new LG VX10000 was recently posted in the forums, revealing what could be the successor to Verizon’s enV branded phone. Other than a slightly sleeker design and what appears to be a…
Chris Mascari