1. GE, Comcast Complete Deal Over NBC Universal: Source 12 hours ago permalinkIn the popular holiday song "The 12 Days of Christmas," the cost of gifts - from the 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree - is quite pricey.
2. Google and paid content 11 hours ago permalinkAs newspapers consider charging for access to their online content, some publishers have asked: Should we put up pay walls or keep our articles in Google News and Google Search? In fact, they can do both - the two aren't mutually exclusive. There are a few ways we work with publishers to make their subscription content discoverable. Today we're ...
3. Review: So You Think You Can Dance - Top 10 Perform 1 hour ago permalink(S06E19) What an amazing and jam-packed night of dance. With ten couple dances and ten solos, it was wall-to-wall performances. Amazingly, almost every single one of the performances was excellent. Honestly, I am so impressed with this entire Top 10, I can't say enough good things about them. Sonya Tayeh finally blew me away as a choreographer. ...
4. McAfee lists the most dangerous Web domains 44 minutes ago permalinkMcAfee is releasing a list today that shows which international Web domains are the most perilous. The anti-virus software developer analyzed more than 27 million country and generic Web domains for browser exploits, phishing, excessive pop-ups and malicious downloading. The study found that Cameroon (.cm)�has the riskiest Web domain, with 36.7% ... 5. Accel Partners 44 minutes ago permalinkAccel Partners is a global venture capital firm with offices located in Silicon Valley, London, and India. They typically make multi-stage investments in internet technology companies.
6. SD Memory Cards Hit 300MBps with Serial Transfer, New Pin 1 hour ago permalinkThe next-generation Secure Digital (SD) memory card standard, SD Specification Version 4.00 (provisional name), is slated for completion in spring 2010, and may well feature a new dedicated pin for high-speed data transfer (Table 1). The plan is to use low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) to boost the max data transfer rate on the read read/ ...
7. Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders? 2 hours ago permalinkIf you enjoy the decimation of an industry as much as Google does then you're going to love the latest rumor sourced from DigiTimes ' manufacturing moles. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, personal navigation device R&D teams at the manufacturing powerhouses of Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai) and Wistron have been shifted to other devices in the ... 8. Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes After Dev Shows Craig His New Mashup 3 hours ago permalinkDevelopers take note: if you've got a mashup built off of Craigslist's data, don't even think about showing it to anyone who works there. At least, that's the lesson learned by developer Romy Maxwell, who says that Craigslist has blocked both his mashup and every single project built on Yahoo Pipes a few days after a friendly Email exchange he ...
9. VIZIO had a better weekend than you, less tequila 5 hours ago permalinkNow that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
10. FTC Guidelines on Blogger Disclosure, Have You Done Something About it? 2 hours ago permalinkJust a gentle reminder to everyone, especially if you do product reviews on your blogs that today, FTC’s new regulation covering blogger disclosure takes into effect. If you haven’t done so yet, it’s either you’re playing hardball or you’re not a celebrity blogger or endorser popular enough for the FTC notice ... 11. WebOS 1.3.2 out for Palm Pixi while Pre looks on with jealousy 2 hours ago permalinkLooks like Palm's first Pixi update has an air of exclusivity to it. WebOS 1.3.2 is being released to the somewhat washed, non-slider masses, while Pre owners are so far left toying with 1.3.1 . Not a huge loss, it seems, as no one is yet certain what this update does. Still, if you got a Pixi, look for the over-the-air warning lights to go on. [ ... 12. TerreStar Genus satphone gets beamed into an FCC lab 2 hours ago permalinkThat projected Q1 2010 availability window for AT&T's first dual-mode satphone (and first satphone, period, for that matter) is looking pretty dang obtainable now that Elektrobit -- the device's manufacturer -- has secured FCC approval. As you can tell from the laboratory mugshot here, TerreStar's Genus is a pretty unassuming-looking Windows ... 13. Jack Dorsey on Square, How it Works & Why it Disrupts 3 hours ago permalinkIn February 2009, Jim McKelvey, who’d left the technology business and became a glass blower, lost an order because he couldn’t accept a credit card from a customer who wanted to buy his creation. He called his friend and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. The two talked [...] 14. Put your Flip videos on the big screen 4 hours ago permalinkFlipshare TV is a system that wirelessly streams Flip video clips to a TV screen. Updated software will send video to iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Android phones. Originally posted at Circuit Breaker 15. Bill Lawrence 5 hours ago permalinkBill Lawrence has always been one the hardest working men in television, but these days he’s on the verge of running himself ragged: not only is his new series, “Cougar Town,” picking up steam, but his beloved “Scrubs” is returning for a new season. Yes, that’s right: it used to be that we were hearing a death knell for the series ...
16. Italian police prang crime fighting Lamborghini 5 hours ago permalinkCareless driver writes off Italian police’s prized Lamborghini – Guardian — This would never have happened to Hasslehoff. When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals. A team of elite ... 17. Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo 5 hours ago permalinkAravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27 million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investors participating. In addition, Cisco's web meeting and collaboration platform, WebEx, will be integrated with Aravo's Supplier Information Management (SIM) to facilitate real-time collaboration between buyers and ... 18. Amazon Cyber Monday Traffic Jumps By 44 Percent 7 hours ago permalinkCyber Monday data traffic data has officially arrived and it should come as no surprise that Amazon was the top visited retail website, according to Experian Hitwise . In fact, Amazon accounted for 15.53 percent of all Cyber Monday traffic to the top 500 retail sites, and saw a whopping 44 percent increase in visits when compared to 2008 traffic.
19. Salon enters the world of e-commerce with 'curated' stuff 7 hours ago permalinkWant your very own 7-inch by 7-inch indoor lawn? Now you can get it from Salon.com. Credit: Salon.com. The pioneering online magazine Salon, which debuted in 1995, opened its first e-commerce venture this week. Salon Store offers readers of the famously liberal site the opportunity to buy selected books, gadgets, household items and novelties. ... 20. Charles Gibson to sign off Dec. 18 7 hours ago permalinkABC announced Gibson's departure date on Tuesday. The anchor, who has been at the helm of "World News" (formerly known as "World News Tonight") since May 2006, announced his intentions to depart in September.
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