1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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2. Betty White to Rue McClanhan: 'Hurry Up and Die!'  permalink

Betty White to Rue McClanhan: 'Hurry Up and Die!'
Worldofwonder.net

That's what Lady Bunny says that PETA's Dan Matthews said that Rue said that Betty said to her. Rue, of course, is still recuperating in the hospital after her November stroke, but was "tickled" when she received a card from Betty saying words to the effect of "Dear Rue, I hope you hurry up and die so I can be the last Golden Girl ...

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3. “American Psycho Musical  permalink

“American Psycho Musical
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The producers of HBO’s Big Love and the composers who brought us “Spring Awakening are bringing Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho to the New York stage.

4. IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets  permalink

IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
Michael Wolf / GigaOM

When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]

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IPad Prognostications: What Apple Fans Want in a Web Tablet IPad Camera rumor becoming a reality? We think so.   —  Upon opening them up and getting our hands on some of these rare items, we immediately noticed what appears to be a “spot” for a camera within the iPad frame.

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IPad Prognostications: What Apple Fans Want in a Web Tablet Steve Jobs: iPad to offer Word support, $10 e-books, 6 days of music   —  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs revealed after Wednesday's iPad unveiling that the device will offer "the same" prices on e-books as Amazon's Kindle, the Pages app can export documents in Microsoft Word format, and it will offer nearly 6 days of continuous music playback.

5. Ellen Pompeo Baby Daughter Photo Revealed On “Ellen”  permalink

Ellen Pompeo Baby Daughter Photo Revealed On “Ellen”
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Grey’s Anatomy’s Ellen Pompeo showed off the first public picture of infant daughter Stella Luna – cradled by proud papa Chris Ivery — on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday.

6. Katie “Jordan” Price Married Alex Reid  permalink

Katie “Jordan” Price Married Alex Reid
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British model Katie Price has wed boyfriend Alex Reid….less than a year after ending her Posh n’ Becks-like marriage to ex-husband Peter Andre.

7. Android mini collectibles  permalink

Android mini collectibles
Blog.dyzplastic.com

New from artist Andrew Bell and Google’s Android™ platform comes Android mini collectibles series 01! Andrew, an avid Android user himself, teamed up with some friends at Google to bring their little green mascot to life. Series 1 features 12 different designs in blind-boxed cases of 16. Pick up a few and try your luck, or grab a ...

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Dyzplastic's authorized Android figurines not upgradeable, but guaranteed not to crash China Mobile’s OMS 2.0 Android OS supports Windows Mobile APIs. What’s that?   —  Android has had many different versions after it was created in 2008. As a result, OMS has been upgrading itself since its release, trying to catch up the pace of Android.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch
Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action   —  As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

8. Gateway's FX series desktops revamped, SX / DX series find solace in Core i3 and i5  permalink

Gateway's FX series desktops revamped, SX / DX series find solace in Core i3 and i5
Ross Miller / Engadget

In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...

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IMBA Trail Professionals Creating 'Gateway Trail' Systems Across the Nation in 2010   —  Working in locations across the United States, IMBA Trail Solutions staff is helping shape the next generation of trails. A variety of innovative projects, including the youth- and family-friendly trails systems IMBA calls "Gateway Trails," are scheduled for completion in 2010.

9. Five customized Automator services to help save you time  permalink

Five customized Automator services to help save you time
Sang Tang / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)

Filed under: Software , How-tos , Productivity One gem in Mac OS X that sometimes gets glanced over is the Services menu. Lots of readers may not know yet that Snow Leopard brought with it the ability to create your own customized service in Automator -- in other words, you can get additional selections on a contextual menu when right-clicking ...

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Five customized Automator services to help save you time Need a lift? Local company offers bike towing service   —  I like the bike-themed website.(Screen grab from RobsRoadsideService.com) People in the greater Portland area now have another option for bicycle roadside assistance. Rob Unger, owner of Gresham-based Rob’s Roadside Service, got in touch recently to tell us he now offers “bicycle towing.” Says Mr. Unger: “We offer bike ...

Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Five customized Automator services to help save you time Dick Durbin presses Apple on human rights in China   —  Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Technology relations with China and their human rights situation is turning into a hot-button issue lately, especially given Google's recent troubles with that country . Now, my old senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, has decided to raise the level of scrutiny, calling for a list of 30 companies, including ...

10. Nikon kicks out new Coolpix S- and L-series cams  permalink

Nikon kicks out new Coolpix S- and L-series cams
Nilay Patel / Engadget

Keeping with the pre-PMA announcements , Nikon also launched the S and L series of cams just now -- the S stands for "Style," and L stands for "Life." The Ls are the low-end of the bunch -- Life is apparently cheaper than Style -- and you've got two choices: the $280 L110 superzoom, which has a 15x optical zoom lens in front of a 12.3 megapixel ...

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Nikon kicks out new Coolpix S- and L-series cams Nikon Coolpix P100 joins the superzoom party at 26x   —  Nikon just fired off its first pre-PMA camera announcement with the new Coolpix P100 superzoom, which packs a five-way stabilized 26x optical zoom lens in front of a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor with ISO 3200 sensitivity, Backside Illumination and Active D-Lighting. Yeah, it's not quite the 30x zoom from the new Olympus SP-800UX , but the lens can ...

11. Ovi Maps Racing by Nokia now in Ovi Store  permalink

Ovi Maps Racing by Nokia now in Ovi Store
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February 2, 2010 - NokiaPressServices, Tags: location-based, mobile game, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia N97 mini, Ovi Maps With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block. 

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Nokia's Ovi Maps Racing now available, makes the world your course Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?   —  Nokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets?

12. Apple Granted Patent for Next Generation Apple TV Technology  permalink

Apple Granted Patent for Next Generation Apple TV Technology
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The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of seven newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The most notable patent covered in this report relates to possible next generation technology that Apple could employ in either in their Apple TV console or an HDTV unit itself - over time. Other patents granted to Apple today ...

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Patent hints at next generation Apple TV Apple forces Stanza to nix USB book sharing   —  Filed under: iTunes , iPhone , App Store Those who enjoy USB book sharing their ePub and eReader files in the current version of Stanza [ iTunes link ] will want to avoid the 2.1 version of the software, currently being distributed in the App Store. The update notes reveal that Apple apparently ordered Lexcycle to remove the USB sharing ability. ...

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Patent hints at next generation Apple TV Auteur Innovation   —  To heck with crowdsourcing -- Steve Jobs believes that "the economics of elitism trumps the wisdom of the crowd," reports Steve Lohr in the New York Times (1/31/10). Mr. Jobs subscribes to what John Kao , an innovation consultant, calls the "auteur model of innovation." That's when "there is a tight connection between ...

13. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

14. Treadmill or the Train…  permalink

Treadmill or the Train…
Thinksulting / Life Beyond Code

Photo Courtesy: Ducatirider on Flickr No, this post has nothing to do with fitness and traveling. It is about the confusion that occurs when you copy something blindly. I will take the social media example. There is a tendency here to follow what the most successful people are doing. The general assumptions people make to convince themselves to ...

15. Social Media Enthusiasts – Let’s Look at the Big Picture  permalink

Social Media Enthusiasts – Let’s Look at the Big Picture
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It’s the dawning of a new age. 32.4%* (or perhaps more) of the people  using the Internet are “social media experts”. They promise you riches  beyond your wild dreams, so long as you open a Twitter and Facebook  account.

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16. Novo Sistema Do Empreendedor Individual Deve Ser Lançado No Brasil Em Fevereiro  permalink

MasterMoney / Business Opportunities Brasil

Paranashop: A partir de 08 de fevereiro, informais de todo o país poderão aderir ao Programa Empreendedor Individual. A abrangência nacional ao programa, que atualmente está em funcionamento em nove estados, será possível pelas mudanças no sistema de cadastro, mais simplificado e com menos burocracia. O Empreendedor Individual iniciou no mê

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17. WPtogo is now WordPress Android  permalink

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We’ve just released WordPress for Android 1.0 which is a continuation of the WpToGo development now under an official WordPress banner, and of course as Free Software. Congrats to Dan and the team on making this happen. Mobile stuff is really starting to come together for WordPress. I’ve been playing with this on my Nexus One for ...

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WordPress for Android 1.0 Release   —  WordPress for Android 1.0 Release: The Open Source WordPress for Android application is now available for download. This is in addition to the WordPress for iPhone and WordPress for BlackBerry applications that are already available. It is built on top of the wpToGo application which has been taken over by the WordPress team and released

18. Diagnosis: FAIL. Poorly Designed Tech Infects Health-Care Industry  permalink

Diagnosis: FAIL. Poorly Designed Tech Infects Health-Care Industry
Suzanne LaBarre / Fast Company

A medical devices manufacturer might spend millions of dollars over several years improving an old hospital standby--a bedside monitor, say, which measures blood pressure, heart rate, or blood-oxygen levels, and which sounds an alarm when a patient's vitals go awry. The manufacturer might program the gadget to distinguish between real alarms, ...

19. Exclusive Video: Dr. Pepper's Super Bowl Ad Features Kiss and...MiniKiss!  permalink

Exclusive Video: Dr. Pepper's Super Bowl Ad Features Kiss and...MiniKiss!
Alissa Walker / Fast Company

This exclusive peek of Dr. Pepper's first-ever Super Bowl spot features the painted faces of rock band Kiss as well as their diminutive doppelgangers, MiniKiss. Agency Deutsch wanted to emphasize Dr. Pepper's "little kiss" of cherry. According to Dr. Pepper, the bands have met before, but this was their first offical performance. Look for the ...

20. Street Scenes of Munich:  permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
Omis.me

Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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