But it’s not just individuals: dozens of cities and 829 world landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramids of Giza, will be dark for one hour as well.
Started in Australia two years ago, the event is mushrooming thanks in part to the Internet and social media.
One day before the start of the event [...]
I did find the new version of the software somewhat more responsive, though data transfer speeds still impose a fair amount of waiting.
Update 1:56 p.m. PDT: The Google Mobile blog now has some details and an explanatory video.
The new features work on BlackBerrys with color screens and on mobile devices with Java abilities. Sorry,
iPhone users. [...]
Spectra is the service’s new headline viewer. You select the categories you want to see, and it throws them up in an orbiting view for you. Each category has a color associated with it, which presumably gives you some subliminal clue as to where each headline fits in your consciousness. Unfortunately, you cannot select the [...]
The 10 nonprofits receiving donations from the I’m Initiative are the American Red Cross, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Humane Society of the United States, the National AIDS Fund, the National MS Society, NineMillion.org, the Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and UNICEF. Windows Live Messenger users who want [...]
TwitterFone also posts the audio of the messages it transcribes, which makes it a bit like Twittergram.
I tried it and found voice recognition surprisingly good. It got my name wrong, but I’ve been called worse. I suspect that TwitterFone is using human-assisted voice recognition (see ReQall), which would not be an untenable strategy if [...]
That said, I can’t imagine that Microsoft would want to have any more reasons out there for people not to use its search technology.
I was hoping that Microsoft might clear up the matter, but its response was “no comment.” (It said it’s possible that it’ll have more to say, and I will post more when [...]
Icahn wants to know what’s up with Yahoo’s ridiculously expensive new severance plan. So do a lot of other people. From the outside looking in, it sure looks like a poison pill. You dislike that description? OK, let’s instead call it a stupendously silly employee entitlement designed to repel any potential acquirer of sound mind. [...]
And if that bugs you, well, you only have yourself–actually your eyeballs–to blame.
And while HP’s operating results have been strong in recent quarters, its tech support appears to be subpar. And since that makes HP neither a winner nor a loser–it seems to fall somewhere in the middle–that means no eyeballs. So HP gets [...]
Our site was taken down this morning as a result of extremely heavy traffic due to the Google glitch, which led many users to seek additional information. As StopBadware.org is mentioned on the Google warning page that users see when they click on a search result that Google has flagged as bad, many people associated [...]
We’ve all heard it by now. Live streams of Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration broke records for the Web, with about 7.7 million streams flowing concurrently at its peak. Which, of course, makes us wonder: what will set a new record?
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