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Webcycle provides pedal-powered internet, reason to dodge browser-enlarging Flash sites

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:16:08 +0000

Need an excuse to get some cardio into your life? Can’t live without ye old internet? Thanks to Matt Grey and Tom Scott, the answer to your weight loss woes is pictured above.

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Wi-Fi TV Concept

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:50:39 +0000

WiFi Tv is basically a handheld internet television designed to access on-demand TV services available on the internet. TV shows and films can be streamed from the internet to the 6-inch touchscreen display. There are two slide-out speakers that provide a comfortable hand position.

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Rogers to introduce 3.5G embedded HP Mini 110 tomorrow, $299.99 on contract

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:56:25 +0000

Well lookie what we have here. One of our ninjas just hit us with the skinny on a big announcement from up North scheduled to hit the wire tomorrow. How does a 7.2Mbps HSPA embedded netbook for $299.99 CAD with a 2-contract sound?

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Pandora resolves royalty dispute; policy changes coming

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:04:17 +0000

First and foremost, Internet radio lovers have some serious cause for celebration as Pandora announces a somewhat workable resolution to the ongoing royalty dispute that nearly drove the company into the ground . By somewhat workable , we mean it’ll keep them in business but it’s still paying the highest royalty rate in radio. What does this mean for Pandora users?

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Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher

admin — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:50:30 +0000

What’s creepier than automatically informing Twitter every time your unborn child kicks his mother’s womb ? Giving all your Twitter followers a live feed of your heartbeat, including canned messages to announce your death in case you cease pumping Cheeto-infused blood through your goth-nerdy veins. This Japanese DIY project has open source schematics and is designed to bypass a PC and send the news of your heart hiccups directly the the internet.

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Google Wave: Our First Hands-On Impressions

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:59:32 +0000

When Google Wave made its public debut last week, it created quite a stir, but without being able to get a hands-on look at the product, it was quite hard to really grasp the implications of what Google was trying to do. Today, we got access to Wave, and after testing it for a while, we can confidently say that Google is indeed on to something. The developer sandbox version we have access to is still a bit rough around the edges, and quite a few functions are still unavailable. Sponsor Just a Preview – Lots More to Come During our test this afternoon, we also got to chat with Jens and Lars Rasmussen, who gave the first official demo last week, and he stressed that the team is currently fully focused on getting the developer preview for third-party developers right, so everything we say here about the UI is still in flux and will definitely change before the final release.

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Bing Brings Mobile Service To Life, Almost

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:02:09 +0000

It feels like just yesterday that Microsoft had blessed the internet with its new search engine, Bing, and as of today we mobile addicts have access to this service on our phones. If you head over to m.bing.com on your handheld, you’ll find yourself on a lite version of this Bing’s titan service. So does this compete with the Google’s mobile service? Not just yet, and it seems that Microsoft has omitted all those fancy features that has made Bing a near-overnight success.

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Netbook OS Jolicloud Prepares For Launch: Exclusive Screenshots To Whet Your Appetite

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:08:03 +0000

Jolicloud , the custom OS designed and built specifically for netbooks, is quietly launching later this month in private alpha for a select number of early testers and people who put themselves on the waiting list. I had a long chat with founder Tariq Krim (of Netvibes fame) about the current status of Jolicloud and came away pretty impressed. You’ll need patience before you can give it a whirl, but the good news is that we got hold of some exclusive screenshots of the operating system in action so you can see how spectacular it ( still ) looks, at least. First, the skinny about the project.

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Is Google Getting Ready to Enter the EBook Market?

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:45:46 +0000

According to a report in the New York Times this morning, Google is getting ready to enter the eBook market by providing publishers with an infrastructure for direct-to-consumer sales. The Times reports that Google discussed this initiative with publishers at last weekend’s BookExpo in New York. According to the times, Google is mostly interested in creating an architecture that would enable publishers to do direct-to-consumer sales (with the checkout handled by Google Checkout, we assume), but there is also no reason to believe that this initiative could not include some kind of electronic store, maybe on top of Google’s controversial Google Books service. Sponsor Competition for Amazon Publishers will probably be happy to see more competition for Amazon, which, at $9.99, is holding the price for eBooks artificially low by subsidizing the price, and which uses the cheap price of books as a way to sell more of its Kindle eBook readers.

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ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 30 May 2009

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:20:28 +0000

Time once again for the ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, our weekly roundup of upcoming social Web events. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans. Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us .

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