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Today’s Top Posts: Acer AspireOne quick look Tiny dragonfly will deliver doses of fun, poison Nokia N96 on sale this September (in UK, at least) Rumor: Apple coming out with ‘MacBook Touch

What Role Did The Web Play In Capturing Karadzic?

News broke out across the world yesterday that Bosnian Serb war-time leader Radovan Karadzic had been captured after 12 years on the run. Karadzic had adorned the top of the Interpol most wanted list

Limited edition Gears of War 2 bundle announced, detailed

Announced today by Microsoft were details and images of the limited edition Gears of War 2 bundle. The bundle includes a 48-page hard cover book, “Beneath The Surface: An Inside Look at Gears of War

Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille

Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures

Panasonic ‘digital wall’ prototype

Here’s a gigantic wall display by Panasonic. It features picture in picture, music, movies, bouncing balls, e-mail, and a bunch of other stuff that you may or may not ever be able to afford. It’s

Yet Another Open Data Foundation?

Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others. The goal of the new foundation

Some kind of weird DirectX 11 news

More from Microsoft’s midweek games-related getaway, Gamefest 2008. There’s some basic info about DirectX 11. No new graphical tweaks or performance gains are mentioned in the information

New Open Data Foundation To Set Out Data Formats

Chris Saad, a co-founder of the Data Portability project has posted that tomorrow at OSCON a new Open Data Web Foundation will be announced by David Recordon and others. The goal of the new foundation

New Mysterious Mac Clone Retailer Takes Over From Psystar

A week ago we reported that Apple had finally filed suit against Mac clone maker Psystar. Apple claimed that Psystar was trading on the Apple brand and illegally releasing the Mac OS X operating syste

Panasonic’s prototype ‘Eco House’

Hey everyone, Doug Aamoth here in Tokyo checking in on Panasonic’s “Eco Ideas” initiative. Here’s a video tour of a prototype house containing various environmentally-friendly and technologica

Episodic Makes Flash Videos iPhone-Friendly

One of the most frustrating things about the iPhone is that it can’t handle Flash, which has become the standard for streaming video on the web. YouTube managed to work around this by transcodin

Top 10 Best Ever Hackers

The good computer hackers are similar to war veterans in that they spend hours talking about how great the scene used to be “back in the day”. I first heard similar stories way back in 199

Microsoft opens up the floodgates for indie development

Microsoft previously announced that they would open up their Xbox 360 online service to independent developers, and today they released a few important details.

Video: Hitachi explains Terabyte hard drive

Welcome to the Dawn of the Tera Era. Is this pure genius or absolute chaos?

Wall-E robot from Disney up for pre-order

The fact that Wall-E has raked in $184 million when it’s leading characters can only speak each other’s names is downright astounding. Don’t get me wrong, though. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie

GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog – One Less Independent Blog In The World

Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will remain in Houston and continu

Combine your keys with your multitool

This looks pretty awesome, but it’s difficult to say just how practical it is until you try it. I’m willing to do it, but first I need a nice Leatherman. The process looks surprisingly eas

Tidings from Microsoft's Gamefest 2008

The very exclusive Microsoft Gamefest conference is in full swing right now somewhere here in the Northwest, and they’ve dropped a couple of newsworthy items. First of all is the revision of the

3-D TV task force looks for a set of standards

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers have created the 3-D Home Display Formats Task Force to develop a standard for home viewing of 3D content. 3-D programming has recently been util

Biodegradable shoes, sounds great if they don't rot while you walk

I presume that the time scale on these Brooks Trance 8 runners biodegrading is along the lines of years (as opposed to decades) and not months. Wouldn’t want them sloughing off while you run. It
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