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Photoshop Express now Flickrs

31 Jul 2010

Those announcements probably didn’t feel Flash-y enough for the company, though, so Adobe simultaneously announced an embeddable player for virally marketing Photoshop Express posting your photos to home pages and blogs in glitzy slide shows. Given the relative simplicity of the application and broad appeal of photo sharing, this capability also sounds like a natural [...]

MySpace to engage Google Gears

29 Jul 2010

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Dan Farber/CNET)
DeWolfe was fielding a few questions in an interview at the TechCrunch50 event in San Francisco with co-host Mike Arrington, who started off the interrogation by asking DeWolfe if he was dating Paris Hilton. The gentlemanly DeWolfe declined to answer the question.
Michael Arrington talks with MySpace's Chris DeWolfe at the TechCrunch50 conference in [...]

Microsoft’s data centers growing by the truckload

29 Jul 2010

Starting with a Chicago-area facility due to open later this year, Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up to power, networking, and air conditioning.

A conceptual rendering of the planned data center [...]

Nvidia CEO goes on Intel rant

29 Jul 2010

Huang also attacked Intel’s marketing machine. “Just because they have this enormous marketing budget. Just because they have platforms everywhere in the world. It doesn’t make it right. To take on smaller companies. It’s just not right.”
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Nvidia)
(Note: A contrarian take on the graphics market states that Nvidia remains the #1 graphics supplier because [...]

Supreme Court grants victory to Quanta in patent c

29 Jul 2010

The Supreme Court rejected that argument holding first that method claims were not immune from the doctrine of patent exhaustion. According to the Supreme Court, a method can be “embodied” in a product that is designed to practice that method. Thus, the authorized sale of the product embodying the method can exhaust patent rights covering [...]

Finding distinction in ‘infrastructure as a servic

29 Jul 2010

What Randy is arguing, however, is that there is a clear distinction between the service ecosystem approach of Amazon Web Services (which he calls an infrastructure Web service) and a more utilitarian infrastructure-focused cloud service such as the ones many of the hosting companies-turned-cloud providers have produced, including GoGrid, Flexiscale, and Rackspace CloudServers. He calls [...]

Start-ups in a funding crisis So here’s a proposa

29 Jul 2010

•  What should the revenue split be?
•  With the auto industry on the verge of collapse, there’s pressure to come up with another multibillion dollar bailout.
The idea was to jointly leverage resources and share risks in a bid to resolve common manufacturing problems. Seven years later, U.S. firms were again enjoying [...]

CNET News Daily Podcast Dell hops on Netbook band

29 Jul 2010

Listen now:
Dell plays defense with Mini 9 Netbook

Also, Spore is finally hitting North America, and GameSpot has an in-depth review.
A year after Asus kicked off the low-cost notebook craze with its Eee PC, Dell, the second-biggest PC maker in the world, is ready with an answer: the Inspiron Mini 9. CNET News reporter [...]

Got a lead foot Try ‘Kiwi’ device to save gas

27 Jul 2010

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PLX Devices)

The PLX Kiwi plugs into a car's diagnostic port to give a read-out of current and historical info.

The PLX Kiwi shows off feedback on how you’re doing in that regard and gives you a “kiwi score.” It’s also programmed with 20 increasingly difficult challenges to optimize your score.

Perhaps we’ll all be learning green driving [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica to allow user edits

23 Jul 2010

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Cauz also told the Herald that the big reason for the change is to improve Britannica’s search engine optimization and dethrone Wikipedia from its current dominance on Google.com and other search engines. These edits will also trickle down into the print edition, benefiting those who purchase its 30-plus volume set.
In an interview with [...]