30 day challenge begins: biking to work
The overwhelming winner in my 30 day poll was “Bike to work” so that’s what I’m doing during the month of July. In the third week of July I’ll be out in Boston to speak at SIGIR, but any time I’m heading into the Googleplex during July, I’m planning to bike there.
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AAXA release tiny P1 pico projector
Projectors are getting smaller to the point where they can be held in the hand and are not much bigger than a mobile phone. These so-called pico projectors offer the ultimate in portability while still remaining capable of producing a good size and quality projection.
AAXA has this week released its latest pico projector called the [...]
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AT&T receives accredidation from every BBB in U.S.
AT&T now has a new distinction it’s happy to beat its chest about. The company has become the first wireless carrier to receive accreditation from every Better Business Bureau (BBB) in the U.S. The BBB works by fostering an ethical marketplace which allows buyers and sellers to trust each other. The BBB was first founded [...]
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Intel outlines Fall IDF at San Francisco
Intel announced formal plans for when they’ll be showcasing their greatest products from 2009, along with demos of products on the roadmap for 2010 and beyond.
The three-day Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) event will take place September 22, 23 and 24th at San Francisco’s downtown Moscone Center West. This is Intel’s 12th year putting [...]
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Red Faction Guerrilla gets more guerrillas with coming downloads
Volition has announced that its blow-anything-up FPS Red Faction: Guerrilla will join the club of games getting downloadable content post-release.
The studio announced that three packs will come out, the first being “Demons of the Badlands,” a single-player expansion featuring a ”mission arc that takes place in an entirely new Mars landscape outside of the existing expansive [...]
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Wii Sports Resort first week sales break 350,000 across Japan
The follow-up to Wii Sports was always going to be popular, but you don’t know until the game goes on sale, especially in its home territory, just how popular.
Wii Sports Resort was released on June 25th across Japan and has already stacked up 353,827 sales according to Famitsu magazine publisher Enterbrain. That certainly classes [...]
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Funny spam email, June 2009
I enjoy posting some of the funny emails that I get. This one made me laugh:
You don
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Verizon Wireless to launch BlackBerry Tour July 12th
Last month, RIM announced the launch of a new handset model called the BlackBerry tour. The 3G smartphone was expected to be available to CDMA customers in North America. Well, now we know which customers will be first to get their hands on it.
Verizon Wireless has announced that it will begin offering the 3G BlackBerry [...]
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Transforming robots to fit IMAX was a challenge for ILM
Devastator and Optimus Prime, two of the most complicated robots to star in IMAX sequences were created by Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Devastator, a gigantic Decepticon robot, is made up of 52,632 parts and nearly 12 million polygons. It is the largest model ILM has ever constructed.
Optimus fights [...]
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Comcast begins release of High-Speed 2go 4G wireless data service
Comcast is not just a television cable provider anymore. In addition to offering video, phone, and broadband Internet services the company has now announced the roll-out of its high-speed wireless data services. The new service will be branded as Comcast High-Speed 2go and is a 4G wireless network provided by Clearwire.
Comcast High-Speed 2go will be [...]
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China caves: No mandatory Internet and porn filtering (for now)
Following world wide public outcries over the couple of weeks, including even death threats to software developers, China has given in to public pressure and agreed to not require its mandatory Internet and pornography filters on all new PCs being sold July 1 or after.
The delay, while a definite victory for free-speech advocates, is not [...]
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Microsoft under fire: Cisco may also offer alternative to Office
It seems Microsoft is being attacked from all sides these days. Doesn’t anybody want to deal with Steve Ballmer (now that Bill Gates has officially left the company)?
Cisco’s Senior VP Doug Dennerline announced today that the company may develop a service allowing business users the ability to create documents through their WebEx meeting and collaboration [...]
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USB flash drives can hide in the strangest places
Gadget4all is displaying their latest gadgets. If you don
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Weekly Nintendo Downloads: Don
It’s a week for aquatic fun and sudoku at Nintendo, as the weekly haul of downloadable games celebrates summer with water gun fights, fishing and travel favorite sudoku.
Headlining is Water Warfare, a Wii squirt-gun FPS with randomly generated levels and 8-player online multiplayer from perennial WiiWare maker Hudson. Also appearing are Reel Fishing Challenge, a [...]
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id Software pins Quake series for iPhone
id Software founder John Carmack is known best for his graphical work on high-end PCs, but as a programmer he has just as much admiration for small platforms, like mobile devices. It’s little surprise, then, that he’s confirmed that house that Wolfenstein and Doom built will put its biggest hits, the Quake series, on the [...]
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