The startup, staffed by Netscape veterans with a .75 million Series A venture capital round, on Wednesday is unveiling a service that lets Web publishers apply tags to photos on their sites—they literally look like tiny yellow-and-blue price tags. Hover your cursor over one of them, and a box appears that lists the product, such as…
snydeq writes “Unused PCs — computers that are powered on but not in use — are expected to emit approximately 20 million tons of CO2 this year, roughly equivalent to the impact of 4 million cars, according to report by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy. All told, U.S. organizations will waste .8 billion to power 108 million unused machines this year. The notion that power used turning on PCs negates any benefits of turning them off has been discussed recently as one of five PC power myths. By turning off unused machines and practicing proper PC power management, companies stand to save more than per desktop PC per year.”
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It’s lurking in millions of PCs around the world. It’s incredibly sophisticated and resilient, with built-in p2p and digital code-signing technology. It revels in killing security software. On April 1, the Conficker worm will activate.
“Developing and releasing Linux clients for Google services in parallelwith Windows client releases should be possible. C’mon, Google — isit any wonder there’s a perception that Linux ‘is not ready for thedesktop’ when companies like you shout out praise about open standardsand then fail to prioritize support for …” (Linux)
A Japanese humanoid robot made its debut this week at a fashion show, although news reports noted that its smooth walk still didn’t measure up to the stride of a human supermodel. HRP-4C represents just the latest robot attempting to achieve bipedal walking, which remains a distinctly human feature in comparison to most animals…
This is a compelling mashup that combines Yahoo Pipes with Google Maps in order to go through Craiglist and show you only ads that come from your local Craiglist community.
You can do a lot with the phone while “drinking juice out of the carton” but is it worth the money?
Forget copy-and-paste. The real seed of innovation planted in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 upgrade is the OS’s ability to interact with special accessories via Bluetooth and the dock connector.
In the first part of “Utilize Your Mac SMS” series, we discussed a SMS-based application to prevent Macbook theft. Now we will discuss other cool applications utilizing the Sudden Motion Sensor feature of Mac laptops.
pregnantfridge writes “In the ongoing conflict between PRS for Music and YouTube over the takedown of all music related content in the UK, PRS for Music have created a new site, fairplayforcreators.com , exposing the views of the music writers impacted by the YouTube decision. I am not certain if these views have been editorially compromised but by reading a few pages, its clear to me that Music writers represented by PRS for Music are largely clueless about what the Internet and YouTube means to the music industry. Kind of explains why the music industry is in as much decline — and also why so much litigation takes place on the music writers behalf.”
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