August last year we reviewed the free, real-time traffic app Waze, which was only available on the iPhone at the time. Today, Waze Beta is now available for download on the BlackBerry.
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Waze App Comes To The Blackberry [Free Crowd-sourced Traffic Navigation App In Real-time]
Don’t miss NYU’s ITP spring show 2010 : ITP’s graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars. ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible.
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ITP spring show at NYU
TomTom today releases Darth Vader on its GPS navigation systems as the first installment for its Star Wars voices promotion. Now you can have the voice of Darth Vader lead you to the dark side, the supermarket, your friend’s house or any destination where you need directions. (more…) Related posts on TFTS: TomTom XL & XXL GPS Models Now Come With Free Lifetime Map & Traffic Updates [Lifetime Maps & Traffic Updates Come To The TomTom XL & XXL Model GPS Units] Star Pocket Gadget – The Constellations at Your Fingertips DynaVox Xpress Handheld Communication Device [5-in Touchscreen Display, 1.5-lbs, Wi-Fi Connectivity, Bluetooth]
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Let Darth Vader Guide You To Your Next Destination [TomTom Releases Star Wars Voices: C-3PO, Yoda & Han Solo Voices Yet To Come]
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 5 May 2010 at 03:23:00 18 of 21 pass latest round of spam tests VirusBulletin has posted the results of its latest round of anti-spam tests. The security publication said that of the 21 products tested as part of its May VB Spam report,…
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VB tests bring good news for anti-spam vendors
Panasonic has announced its upgrades to the semi-rugged CF-52 and the business-rugged CF-T8 Toughbooks. You would probably want a Toughbook if your laptop is being constantly dropped or you have a fear of it getting run over by a car
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Panasonic Announces Two Upgraded Toughbooks [Toughbooks CF-T8 & CF-52 Now Available, Both Durable & Light]
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres created a parody to Apple’s iPhone commercial where she makes using the iPhone 3GS look quite difficult. Everyone saw the humor in the skit, everyone except Apple who made Ellen apologize today for making her parody.
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Apple Makes Ellen DeGeneres Apologize Over iPhone Commercial Parody [When Did Apple Start Losing Its Humor?]
ABC has agreed to expand the Lost series finale by an extra half-hour, meaning the May 23 final episode will now run from 9 to 11:30 p.m. Freaks who actually care about things happening in the real world will be out of luck, as the local news will be cut, with Jimmy Kimmel’s Aloha to Lost post-finale special airing at 11:30
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Lost Series Finale Gains 30 Minutes
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 5 May 2010 at 02:19:00 Appliances designed to ease on-premise and cloud integration IBM has released a line of network appliances designed to take advantage of its recent acquisition of Cast Iron Systems….
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IBM updates WebSphere line after Cast Iron buy
A few days ago, we told you about how the Google-AdMob deal was facing some extra scrutiny from the US Federal Trade Commission. While the US FTC normally investigates all acquisitions of this sort, they’re said to be specially interested in this merger.
I just love checking out other people’s workshops for those little flashes of inspiration. Make: Online reader Kaas of Ashland, WI wrote in with some excellent tactics for storing hardware. First, she uses chocolate milk containers to store screws and then tapes an example onto the outside of each one so she know’s what’s inside — no labels necessary
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Make: Time & Space: More workshop organization ideas
Android’s fragmentation issues are probably the most common complaint regarding Google’s open source Android OS (aside from “it’s not an iPhone”). AndroidCentral has come out with some new numbers regarding how many users are running which version of Android, and the platform is evenly divided.
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Android Fragmentation Split Evenly [Third-party Reports Android User Base Is Pretty Much Split Between Three Versions, Though 2.1 Is Growing]
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 23:51:00 Three sites currently offline as investigation continues At least three US Treasury department web sites have fallen victim to a code injection attack using iFrames.
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US Treasury web sites hacked using iFrame
Today at one of the hottest conferences around, the Book Industry Study Group (sarcasm), a Google manager, Chris Palma, announced at a panel that Google was going to begin selling digital books. The panel was dubbed “The book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing In the Cloud?” Google Books has toyed with the idea for a while as it allowed searching for books and provided some open-source books, but now, they’re going directly into selling them. (more…) Related posts on TFTS: Copia eBook Reader Platform To Compete With Amazon [Copia To Focus On Social Networking, Multiple Readers] iPhone OS 4.0 iBooks Application for iPhone Unveiled [eBooks to be Available on iPhone & iPod touch too Thanks to New iPhone iBooks App] Scribd.com To Take On Amazon [Scribd CEO Confrims Document Sharing Site Will Sell eBooks To Kindle Users] Google Introducing Google Apps Marketplace [Google Expanding To Offer "App Store" Experience To Web Apps, Iteration On Android Marketplace] Apple’s iPad & Other eReaders/Tablets to Bring the End of Publishing Unless They Don’t [Are Publishers Really Scared of eBook Readers Like the iPad & the Kindle?] Google Explains Google Nexus One Sales Failure & Upcoming Mobile Strategy [Google Not Interested in Nexus One Sales, Money or Fame; Likes Android Market & Baseball Instead] © TFTS – Technology, Gadgets & Curiosities , 2010
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Google Launching Bookstore This Summer [Google Gets Into Amazon, iBooks Game With eBook Store, For Android?]
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 22:04:00 Search firm takes on Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Apple Google is planning to launch its Editions e-book service this summer, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal. Chris Palma, manager for strategic development at Google, is quoted as…
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Google Editions e-book store to launch in June
OK, so, Gareth may not like it, but this video of Honda’s prototype U3-X omni-wheeled personal vehicle my brother just sent me is rather more persuasive than the shaky hand-cam footage of nervous American riders Gar posted back in 2009. Although I agree the butt-pads are kind of creepy
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Honda’s answer to Segway looks a lot like Serge
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 4 May 2010 at 21:56:00 Mobile sales halted after espionage and sabotage claims The Indian government has banned local firms from buying Chinese mobile networking hardware after fears of a plague of embedded malware….
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India bans Chinese networking kit over security fears
You might expect a smaller manufacturer like Eurocom to accidentally leak unannounced computer parts, but not a Triple-A manufacturer like Acer. The Taiwanese tech giant has broken the NDA regarding some triple-core processors from AMD coming soon to their mobile computers. (more…) Related posts on TFTS:
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Acer Leaks Mobile AMD Three-Core Processors [New Acer Laptop Listings Reveal Tri-Core Phenom X3 Chips Coming To Notebooks]
Looks like Sony now offers extended warranties for the PS3 and PSP . It’s not free, of course, but it’s not like the prices outrageous either, with prices ranging from $30 to $60. Not too much to digest here: a one-year PSP warranty is $30, while a two-year warranty is $40
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Sony offers extended warranties for PS3, PSP
I’m building an Arduino-controlled Nerf sentry gun. Rather than build it and present the finished project all at once, I’m going to chronicle the build here on Make: Online. The first step was to add wiring and a two-wire connector to control the trigger circuit.
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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: wiring the trigger
Good news! Bret Michaels was released from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix today and is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a brain hemorrhage a few weeks back . [ WP ] Read more posts by Amos Barshad Filed Under: bret micheals , music , tv
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Bret Michaels Is Out of the Hospital