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July 2, 2009
gdgt (like “gadget” — or g-d-g-t) is a new kind of technology site — a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. It’s a place for you to engage with your devices and hang out with people who are as […]
July 1, 2009
Over the last few years, Pingdom has established itself as a well-regarded uptime monitoring service, but until now, its services were only available to paying customers. Today, however, Pingdom launched a free version of its service. The free service offers all the features of Pingdom’s paid accounts, though users are limited to monitoring just one website or server. […]
July 1, 2009
The Pogoplug connects your external hard drive to the Internet so you can easily share and access your files from anywhere. So forget about expensive NAS systems, configuring your firewall and router… buy this box, plug your USB Hard Disk and access to it via web from anywere! You have even an iPhone app 😉
July 1, 2009
Now businesses can run Microsoft Outlook on Google Apps instead of Microsoft Exchange, so they can achieve the cost savings, security and reliability of Google Apps while employees use the interface they prefer for email, contacts and calendar. Not Quite Gears “Although we use the same protocol as gears, we don’t use gears per se,” […]
June 30, 2009
NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and industry (METI) released the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to the worldwide public on June 29, 2009. It covers 99% of the earth’s surface and it is available for downloads. The GDEM was created by processing and stereo-correlating the […]
June 30, 2009
Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of 7.8 million dollars. This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the […]
June 28, 2009
The new CompactFlash adapter from Photofast can hold four 16GB microSD cards running in RAID. This makes the slower microSD format as fast as CompactFlash by striping data across all four microSD cards at once. For those that don’t need 64GB of storage, the CR-7100 will hold one 16GB microSD, while the CR-7000 holds one […]
June 27, 2009
We have talked about augmented reality in the past. It is the fact of adding layers of information into a real image. The most immediate application would be with new phones. Using the camera, gps, compass and Internet to add a layer to what you see with information or actionable interactions. Here you have some […]
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson has died of a heart attack at the age of 50. He was unique, a legend. We will miss him.