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Nearby on Your Phone « Flickr Blog
jm: "Use this to explore your neighborhood, or find the best places to photograph local landmarks from. Reload the page as you walk around a city, and see the things that have happened there in the past. You’ll see a place through the eyes of the flickrverse."
Inside Google Book Search: New Features on Google Books
jm: enhancements to google books
Thomas verdict: willful infringement, $1.92 million penalty - Ars Technica
jm: "A new lawyer, a new jury, and a new trial were not enough to save Jammie Thomas-Rasset. In a repeat of the verdict from her first federal trial, Thomas-Rasset was found liable for willfully infringing all 24 copyrights controlled by the four major record labels at issue in the case. The jury awarded the labels damages totaling a whopping $1.92 million.
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A new lawyer, a new jury, and a new trial were not enough to save Jammie Thomas-Rasset. In a repeat of the verdict from her first federal trial, Thomas-Rasset was found liable for willfully infringing all 24 copyrights controlled by the four major record labels at issue in the case. The jury awarded the labels damages totaling a whopping $1.92 million. As the dollar amount was read in court, Thomas-Rasset gasped and her eyes widened
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The recording industry lawyers, though clearly pleased, had no desire to showboat this one. The massive damage award, which increased from $9,250 per song in the first trial to $80,000, might sounds like a "win," but will probably stoke grassroots anger against the industry's campaign... if the music business tries to collect. There are hints that it might not.
AT&T Offers Its Favorite Subscribers A Cheaper Upgrade To iPhone 3G S (AAPL, T)
jm: iphone upgrades for existing customers ... clear as mud?
US broadband report: more popular, more expensive - Ars Technica
jm: "Broadband adoption is up for everyone in 2009, but it also costs more—especially if you've only got one broadband ISP serving your area. The latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project shows that Americans are willing to cut down on many services during this economic slowdown, but not their Internet connections."
Bing Continues to Show Growth in Search Activity, According to comScore - comScore, Inc
jm: "Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, during the second week of its public launch. The results show that Microsoft has continued to increase its position in the search market following the initial week of Bing’s debut."
Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”
jm: "I wrote earlier that it was probably driving Google crazy to see people “amazed” that Bing is doing stuff that Google itself has long offered. Now Google’s fighting back. The first shot? A new Explore Google Search page."
Review: Apple iPhone 3G S and iPhone OS 3.0 | Walt Mossberg | Personal Technology | AllThingsD
jm: "In my tests, both the new phone and the new operating system performed well, with a few small exceptions. I believe the two strengthen the iPhone platform, make it likely the iPhone will continue to attract scads of apps, and are good for consumers.
But I also regard these changes as more evolutionary than revolutionary, and I don’t think this latest iPhone is as compelling an upgrade for the average user as the 3G model was last year for owners of the original 2007 iPhone."
iPhone 3.0 Software Walkthrough | The iPhone Blog
jm: Phone 3.0 software offers a host of new features (100 according to Apple). However, not all of these are available on every hardware generation. Here’s a list of the differences, and we’ll mention them again, as appropriate, below.
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iPhone 3.0 software offers a host of new features (100 according to Apple). However, not all of these are available on every hardware generation. Here’s a list of the differences, and we’ll mention them again, as appropriate, below.
Firefox 3.5 'Web upgrade' planned for end of June | Webware - CNET
jm: Firefox 3.5 comes with a spate of new features--5,000 total, according to Mozilla. Among the major ones: built-in video; local storage to enable richer Web applications that can work even with no network connection; a private browsing mode; geolocation to aid Web pages that can benefit from knowing a user's location; and faster performance loading pages and executing Web-based JavaScript programs.
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Firefox 3.5 comes with a spate of new features--5,000 total, according to Mozilla. Among the major ones: built-in video; local storage to enable richer Web applications that can work even with no network connection; a private browsing mode; geolocation to aid Web pages that can benefit from knowing a user's location; and faster performance loading pages and executing Web-based JavaScript programs.
Toshiba mini NB205 - Review of the Toshiba mini NB205
jm: Toshiba’s entry into the U.S. netbook market soars past the competition with a stunning design, stellar keyboard, and the longest battery life of any netbook to date.
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Toshiba’s entry into the U.S. netbook market soars past the competition with a stunning design, stellar keyboard, and the longest battery life of any netbook to date.
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet | Apple - CNET News
jm: apple touchscreen?
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Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its Worldwide Developers Conference last week.
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off | Webware - CNET
jm: better ways to get your tweet on
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There's a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client, 0.26, launching tonight, following the earlier release today of a preview of Seesmic Desktop 0.3. Both updated Twitter clients look like significant improvements from their previous versions. Tweetdeck is also getting an
iPhone app.
Microsoft asking $45-55 for Windows 7 Starter? - Ars Technica
jm: pricing for windows 7 on netbooks
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The current price of Windows XP OEM version is only around US$25-30, but the latest quotes from Microsoft for the netbook version of Windows 7 is around US$45-55 and therefore first-tier vendors are unable to transfer the cost to the netbooks' sales price due to the fierce competition. The first-tier notebook vendors are still negotiating with Microsoft hoping to bring the price down.
Psychological Profiling Via Twitter | Dan Zarrella
jm: doing some data analysis on twitter
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Communication is a window into a person’s mind, and the way a person talks can tell you a lot about how they think. Linguists have developed two methods to decoding the written word into a meaningful profile of a person’s cognitive processes.
ASUS Eee PC T91 shipping in US this week - SlashGear
jm: more convertable netbooks ... so why buy a kindle?
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The ASUS Eee PC T91 has made its official debut on the company’s US website, and according to one dealer it’s apparently set to hit stores this week. The 8.9-inch convertible touchscreen netbook is already available in the UK, with Intel’s Z520 1.33GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and a 16GB SSD.
Hunch: Your “Personal Decision Maker”
jm: From that initial question a user is taken through a decision tree that at each step asks a question. Each answer provided may lead down a different path. Users can go back or skip questions during the process.
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But Hunch is best experienced rather than described in the abstract. It’s a tool or process that starts with a need or question.
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From that initial question a user is taken through a decision tree that at each step asks a question. Each answer provided may lead down a different path. Users can go back or skip questions during the process.
Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
jm: kindle / amazon to open up (sort of)
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In the future, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader will display more book formats beyond its own. And you should also expect to see Kindle books on a lot more devices.
Opera Unite reinvents the Web
jm: bridging your desktop to the cloud (UPDATE)
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Current Opera Unite services are as follows:
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